cooltech6597

Hopefully this indicates T-Mobile hasn't completely abandoned mmwave and/or small cells? But then again this is the loop, so take that as you will. Hopefully now that most macro activity is done (besides rural colo/builds), they will start working on small cells.

Some are, the Sprint convert site with ul-ca maxes at 700mbps, so I don't believe all sites with ul-ca are multi-gig.

I'm starting to find FDD+TDD UL sites. It seems to be enabled on a per-site basis, rather than market wide from my testing. So far I've found one in my immediate area, which is a site T-Mobile used to have a low 12/66 rack, and moved up to a higher Sprint rack (while adding n41 and the usual bands) within the last week. I've also found a few UL CA enabled sites along US-23 when I was going up to Ann Arbor today. Uploads peaked at 135mbps, which isn't exactly as fast as I had expected, but that's expected given I can't figure out how to enable 256QAM NR upload on my S24 (I could on my S21).

Took a trip down to Columbus this week and they seem to have just turned up the spectrum in some of the rural counties I passed on the way down in the past few days. This Sprint convert near North Baltimore, OH used to be 50+30mhz n41 on Thursday, but on my way back yesterday it had been converted to 100+80mhz s I also enabled UL MIMO according to a guide on https://band.radio, and it seems to be working according to AirScreen, however, it doesn't show 256QAM UL being active on n41 which is strange. I didn't do much testing with AirScreen outside my hotel in downtown Columbus, so I'm not sure if 256QAM UL is just disabled on the phone or market wide or something. Also, it seems like the Sprint DAS in the convention center has been shut down. Even though T-Mobile SA works OK in the convention halls during events, the upload gets congested really quickly so sending pictures/videos take forever. AT&T has a DAS throughout the whole convention center with n5 on it so they work really well in the convention center. The VZ DAS seemed to get overloaded really quickly, I ended up having to hotspot to my friends on VZ since they couldn't even send an imessage.

Don't know if this is a T-Mobile or phone issue, but if my phone uses SA and chooses n41 as the PCC, n25 or n71 don't get aggregated so it's 2ca n41 only. If the PCC is n25 or n71, it will use the full 4ca combo. Not sure what's up with that.

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I was wondering why they didn't do the testing with 2xn77 as well... especially since their report for 4ca last March shows 3.3gbps with 225mhz, so the latest report only increased by 20mhz in total bandwith. If they tested with 60mhz of additional n77 they would have probably been able to get close to 4gbps.

In certain markets 190mhz makes sense... Tmo has a lot of n41 sites with greater than gigabit backhaul on it in my market, with little market share in most areas (b12/66 sites can still do 80mbps at noon). Given the meh density here it would make sense for them to widen to 180mhz so edge cell performace is a lot better as well.

Interesting they got slower... not much 10gig sites in Cinci?

Ultra Ultra Capacity?!??!?!?!? https://galtronics.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/GP5124-07276-Datasheet_R3.pdf

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1HbGFtjv6cblda17OCE7k_73928zncy0&usp=sharing Finally got around to updating the Gig+ map

Looks like the Anna, OH new T-Mobile colocation is online! I've been noticing more and more new colocations/tower adds recently... definitely an exciting time for T-mo

Images load fine for me, but I reuploaded them here https://imgur.com/a/QSjpFFI just in case. I go down to Red River Gorge every year and service is rough there. Need some new sites down there as well

Picture of that site pulled from the American Tower site locator map

Looks like new T-Mobile colocation on an American Tower site has come online in the past month or so near Eubank, KY! Previously a very very dead spot for both Tmo and Sprint