Tomas

I just keep sending in my monthly $10. Eventually I might even make it to the next level. Sent from Photon Q LTE - Tapatalk

I'm seeing eHRPD in Tacoma and surrounding suburbs (University Place, Lakewood, Puyallup, etc.) This week. Sent from Photon Q LTE - Tapatalk

Western Washington is starting to show eHRPD this week. Sent from Photon Q LTE - Tapatalk

My ex has worked for the federal government since the sixties (GSA), so I'm well acquainted with the Hatch Act... (Myself, I was military then Bell System, so it was never wise to discuss such things, either. On the sites I run I endeavor not to allow the site staff to show any political or religious face. Just works better.) Sent from Photon Q LTE - Tapatalk

I check my phone's details every night, and last night at this time I was seeing EVDO, tonight it's eHRPD. There have been a few random seeming changes in power and speed, to, indicating maybe someone is fiddling with things... Sent from Photon Q LTE - Tapatalk

Decent short info article from the good ol' Reg... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/07/sprint_us_cellular/ Sent from Photon Q LTE - Tapatalk

Been running the version you updated to for about two weeks (SOAK test). Some folks had some odd twinges, but for the most part it seemed pretty decent. Haven't seen any change in battery use, but glad I had device backed up - for some reason it lost 1022 files, including pics, at one point. Log scans turned up nothing unusual. Sent from Photon Q LTE - Tapatalk

It is not so much that the CDMA "DirectConnect" isn't allowed to do this by the carriers, but more simply that this is not allowed by FCC R&R, and the CDMA mobiles are not allowed to use the fixed base frequencies (and vice versa). This is as it should be, because of the totally different types of services authorized in the two bands. IIRC (been many years) one band (Specialized MobileRadio [sMR], an analog or digital trunked two-way radio service) is primarily for push-to-talk, point-to-point communication with or without fixed repeaters while the other (Personal Communications Service [PCS] an advanced cellular type system) is mobile telephone service intended for connection to the PSTN. That is obviously a vast oversimplification, and years old, but it would take vast changes to get actual PCS phones to work phone-to-phone without going through the towers and the rest of the system. They simply are not walkie-talkies that can in addition access the PSTN as iDEN units can through their fixed repeaters.

One thing that most folks beating the drum for other-than-iDen push-to-talk networks repeatedly seem to miss is the last-ditch performance when the towers fail: iDen devices can be used as point-to-point walkie-talkies even without the tower. None of the other types of service offer that. In any mission-critical communication system, the ability of folks at a site to maintain communication when everything external fails is very much a desired feature. This is one reason why emergency services or companies that work to restore utilities prefer iDen over anything else. They are walkie-talkies that can also make PSTN calls so long as the towers are working. They have their own built-in backup that NONE of the CDMA or GSM variants can match. BTW: Motorola still has a viable worldwide market in iDEN for this very reason... Sent from Photon Q LTE - Tapatalk

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Yeah, here locally there is rarely anything to identify the carrier, just an emergency number for some tower company. Sent from Photon Q LTE - Tapatalk

AT&T and T-Mob have opened up their services in the areas affected by Sandy for free roaming to anyone who can connect to their service, I have not seen a similar announcement from Verizon and Sprint. News Coverage.

That was a good documentary - I saw it too a few years ago. (I'd much rather have good documentaries than these "reality" shows that have little if anything to do with "reality." Sent from Photon Q LTE - Tapatalk

As I was reading about the lake winds and waves my mind started playing Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald as background... Really! Sent from Photon Q LTE - Tapatalk

I agree Python, so I will add... http://tijil.org/close.mp3 Sent from Photon Q LTE - Tapatalk

Hopefully the purchase will actually be by the holding company that is also buying an interest in Sprint...

Be my guest! It's just quickly hacked together fluff.

We aren't scheduled to start installation in the Seattle/Tacoma area until December, so even if they start next month, it will be an early start...

Having dealt with Craig, I feel this is good for Clearwire...

I'm just happy I didn't have to come up with the "U.S.T-MetroSpricketwire" logo yet...

Welcome to Spankwire...

Heck, I thought this was going to be a map of Sponsors... Really! (I don't know why, but thought it might be interesting to see how the Sponsors are spread out.)

Tapatalk here as several sites I use have it. I haven't tried the other... Sent from Photon Q LTE - Tapatalk

I miss having 1X indicated, but I do know I sometimes am using 1X 'cause neither WiFi nor 3G is shown, but I'm still moving data... Sent from Photon Q LTE - Tapatalk

Absolutely! Son san has an amazing "presence" and tends to dominate a group easily. Very dynamic leader is my impression.