JonnygATL

You see what I did there? That's no typo my friend. It's a joke.

Is it? I'll have to revisit it tomorrow. I have some coworkers in from L.A. that I'm currently entertaining. This Bombay Sapphire may be going to my brain.

I don't know why everyone hates him so much. Personally I get a kick out of him being on every comment section of any and every article about Sprint or T-mobile. He's just as entertaining as Legere. Sometimes he even makes since.

**sense.

Oh. Does anyone know if the i5S supports 800mhz? On the website it says B26 is supported but idk considering that I haven't been able to pick it up.

Yeah. Band 26 absolutely permeates this city (Atlanta). I pretty much only see band 41 or 26 (indoors). I rarely ever see 25.

We will post our findings soon enough and there will be plenty of questions and answers.

 

Sent from my Nexus 5

Um..

#intrigued

There are Nokia 8T8R equipment all over the place in most ERC / Nokia markets.

 

Atlanta would be a prime example of this.

That percentage seems almost impossibly high -- 40 million people are not paying subsidized plan prices and full freight $700 for their iPhones.  Are you sure that statistic did not come from Collette Reardon?

 

 

 

AJ

My favorite SNL character of the past two decades, just ahead of Kristen Wiig's "Penelope" or, perhaps, the surprise lady.

John of Bellevue does not scuba dive.  He walks on water.

 

 

AJ

He doesn't always walk on water. But when He does, He carries a T-Mobile, band 12 equipped cell phone.

Sprint uses 20 MHz TDD carriers which are about equal to 10x10 FDD carriers.

Sent from my Nexus 5

To clarify, when I said "gives far greater capacity," I was referring to vs. Sprint's own 5mhz carriers on bands 25 and 26.

I would assume it's probably because Sprint uses 5x5mhz for bandwidth while Att and Verizon use 10x10mhz.

 

Precisely, and with band 41, Sprint uses a 20x20 configuration, which gives far greater capacity and, generally, speeds. And that's without carrier aggregation initially. So things will only get better and better.

Yes, please!

What is the advantage in having this Apple watch when your phone does the same thing (mostly)? A cell phone on my wrist? Just doesn't seem like something I would ever even at all want, let alone need. But...I'm open to being wrong. I'm curious..do you really find it useful? Do you enjoy it? I wanna know!

thanks I think.... who is he or she?

 

It wasn't a compliment.

Blame Canada!

The better question is, is awsum gam3r Rukin1, considering zip code 46808 is Fort Wayne. Hmm...

That's precisely what AJ was saying.

No band 41 in Lexington?  Are you saying that Sprint's LTE deployment there is one and done?

 

AJ

I didn't understand what you meant.

Toronto is amazing - my favorite North American city, by far.

When do you think...ballpark educated guess, of course...that band 41 may begin to appear in Lexington? I was there last week and they really need it badly downtown and on the UK campus.

Somewhere has to be last. And I think most Americans would be OK with Alabama and Eastern KY to be last. Right, wrong or indifferent. I also have a feeling it will largely be folks from Alabama and Kentucky who would disagree.

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Understood. But metro Birmingham is over 1 million people. The Lexington, KY metro? Just under half a million. So these aren't one horse towns. Granted, most of Lexington has bands 25 and 26 enabled, with just the far flung significantly smaller towns awaiting fiber backhaul to enable LTE. And I think Alabama had some sort of issue with LTE on 800 that caused a huge delay. Right, Robert? What were the details on that?

I could have wrote the same exact sentence...

And this makes 5 (e-mail push notification).

I have to concur with JossMan. S4GRU is a very valuable resource for me, and one of my first visits every morning!

Well, it's now noon and I've already logged in 4 times. No kidding. So, thank you guys (Robert, AJ, et all) for my now 3 year addiction. : o )

That may be intentional.  For various reasons, many would prefer to forget Detroit.

 

AJ

I heartily second this. *raises paw in the air, waves it about*

Spend an hour on FierceWireless and you'll see the usual suspects doing the same thing.

And that's precisely the problem. "The usual suspects."

#basic

It was probably Fabian.

On the first page of comments of this article: http://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/special-reports/3g4g-wireless-network-latency-how-did-verizon-att-sprint-and-t-mobile-compa?confirmation=123

Yeah, I read that as well.  He/she/it is usually batsh@t crazy but, I do have to admit (with great disdain) that he/she/it has had some pretty valid points lately, both for and against Sprint.  

 

My stance?  Both companies have done absolutely remarkable things network-wise in the past few years.  I certainly am man enough to give credit where credit is due.  T-mobile, however, is riding atop a phenomenal marketing campaign.  Their brand has gone from tarnished and tired to consumer centric and quite desired.  An awesome business case study, to be sure.

 

Sprint can do the same if their marketing team can correctly and memorably relay the message of how far the Sprint network has truly come and where it's going. 

 

When I stumbled across this site in early 2012 I was fuming mad at Sprint.  I was living near Emory University here in Atlanta and was shocked to not be able to even get a usable 3G signal on the campus of one of the South's leading educational institutions nestled in the geographic middle of the nation's 9th largest metropolitan area.  It was truly shocking.  This site allowed me to see the light at the end of the tunnel, however and the distance Sprint has come is truly mind-boggling.  The biggest take away, at least for me, isn't the ubiquitous 4G LTE I find essentially everywhere I go, it's not the quantum leap in download speeds from sub-dial up to now consistently over 15 mbps...it's not even the rapidly growing of band 41 coverage with its speeds of over 40 mbps.  No, what really stands out to me is that I HAVEN'T ROAMED IN OVER 18 MONTHS, EVEN UNDERGROUND IN PARKING GARAGES AND DEEP IN THE BOWELS OF LARGE BUILDINGS.  800 SMR has completely changed the nature of the core sprint network.  Being able to make and receive calls and texts in virtually any situation I've come across and not having to roam has been the biggest positive change to Sprint's network since upgrading from 2G to 3G. 

 

Most readers of fiercewireless, Fabian included, would never express that, largely because T mobile has only recently acquired any low band spectrum at all...and it certianly isn't nationwide.

 

That's my dos centavos for the day.  ...as you were.  

Have you asked the Target Lady?

 

 

AJ

Kristen Wiig is my favorite SNL performer in recent memory.  Hands down...though hers are decidedly up in this photo.