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    AT&T LTE and Network Discussion

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    So this is my 4 days in review. 

    Coverage: I've only been in town. Seems fine. About the same as T-Mo and Sprint. Verizon is better thanks to small cells on the university campus and a couple more sites around town. 

    Call performance: Much better than T-Mobile. No call problems so far, call quality doesn't seem to be very good.

    Data performance: So the definition of busy in "when the network is busy" is: if there's at least one other device using the same tower as you. I am deprioritized 24/7. Speeds are wildly inconsistent. When the network isn't being dumb the speeds are good. 40-90Mbps down and up to 12Mbps up. Pings are 110ms+ most of the time. 

     

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    4 hours ago, RAvirani said:

    My key takeaways:

    • Wireless service revenue of $5.2B
    • Net loss of $120M, but they cite over $2B of depreciation; depreciation is broken roughly into $1B on network equipment and $1B on leased devices
    • $589M expensed in interest this quarter
    • Sprint is $37B in debt currently, with ~$30B due by 2025
    • ARPA: $124.80, ARPU: $50.37
    • 1.98% postpaid churn, up from 1.87% from last quarter; 4.92% prepaid churn, down from 4.94% last quarter
    • 10th consecutive quarter of net additions
    • 20 million people covered by 5G now with "thousands" of massive-MIMO-equipped sites online
    • 37K small cells live, including both mini macros and strand mounts
    • Ookla is rating Sprint as the 2nd fast carrier behind AT&T with a 45% increase in downlink speeds YOY
    • 5G average downlink speeds are 215 Mbps

    Missed 200,000 postpaid adds. Went from 53.9 million lines to 54.1 million total lines.

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    AT&T LTE and Network Discussion

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    Submitted report. Got a message under "Upcoming improvements" (I guess them fixing the network counts as an upcoming improvement). The message says "We are currently experiencing a technical issue in this area and we are working hard to resolve it". Don't know if this is just the default response or what. We'll see what happens. 

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    AT&T LTE and Network Discussion

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    4 minutes ago, mdob07 said:

    What kind of speeds are you seeing when you're getting deprioritized?

    Anywhere from >1Mbps up to 50Mbps. Speeds are wildly inconsistent. Ping times are god awful. I think the best ping I've seen so far is 79ms. 90% of the time it's 110ms+. 

    6 minutes ago, mdob07 said:

    Also, all new sites are being built as LTE only.

    This site isn't new. It's been around for a while. 

    AT&T LTE and Network Discussion

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    I became a bad man and switched my work line from T-Mobile to my uncle's ATT account. I've made some interesting discoveries. Turns out that when they say "AT&T may temporarily slow data speeds if the network is busy", that means you're deprioritized 24/7. I've also found a site here in town that has no HSPA/HSPA+. It's LTE or nothing which I thought was odd. 

    Official Airave 4 LTE / Casa Pebble / Airave 3 LTE / S1000 Thread

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    3 minutes ago, USAFgunner said:

    I have opened up UDP ports 53, 67, 500, and 4500 on my router (Asus ROG GT-AX11000 router)

    You should not be opening any ports at all.

    3 minutes ago, USAFgunner said:

    all lights lock solid green except the LTE light which blinks red.

    The Airave 4 has the same spectrum requirements as the Magic Box. If you run your address through the Magic Box address checker and it says ineligible then you are also ineligible for an Airave 4.  

    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    35 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:

    Yeah in Duluth MN, you really don't want Sprint since they barely have B41 and not at least 10x10 B25, which they can do, it's not a good experience. Even uploading a photo fails, loading webpages it's very slow, I get that area is big att market but, I don't know why Sprint lacks upgrades there.

    I don't have any band 41. We have two non-contiguous 5x5 L1900 carriers and a 3x3 L800 carrier. You can get up to 55Mbps down and up to 18Mbps up on band 25 here. Band 26 is completely worthless for downloads though. 

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    Now I know you're all thinking "Brad this is terrible!". It is both terrible and not terrible. Let's compare Sprint's data against the July 2019 report to see what's improved. 

    4G Availability has improved quite a bit (OpenSignal is very urban-heavy on it's data though, 4G availability should be considered availability in urban environments only). On the July 2019 report it was 89.5. On the January 2020 report it's 92.5. That's a 3% increase!

    Sprint's scores on the video experience metric have also improved. On the July 2019 report, Sprint scored a 47.5. On the January 2020 report, they scored 55.5. OpenSignal had this to say:

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    Sprint may not have yet won an Opensignal award but the operator deserves to be recognized for its 16.8% jump in Video Experience from a Fair ranking of 47.5 in the July 2019 report to a Good ranking and a score of 55.5 points just six months later.

    We're going to break down the Download Speed Experience metric into 4G and 3G performance. Average 4G download speed on the July 2019 report was 21.1Mbps. Average 4G download speed on the January 2020 report is 25.9Mbps. That's a 4.8Mbps increase in average 4G download speed. Average 3G download speed on the July 2019 report was 1.3Mbps. Average 3G download speed on the January 2020 report was 1.4Mbps. The 3G speeds are what is dragging the overall download speed metric score down.

    Upload speed experience is going to focus on 4G speeds only. Sprint's average 4G upload speed on the July 2019 report was 2.6Mbps. Average 4G upload speed on the January 2020 was 3Mbps. A very small increase which shows that uploads still need a lot of work. 

    Latency experience will only focus on 4G. Sprint's average 4G latency on the July 2019 report was 55.1ms. Average 4G latency on the January 2020 report is 51.2ms. 

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