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1 hour ago, Trip said:

Confirmed, I'm back to Sprint-primary behavior.

- Trip

Good to know. I couldn't figure out why my phone was acting so sluggish until I checked SCP only to discover my Galaxy Note 10+ is now stuck on band 66. No, thank you. I get 130 mbps down using 3xCA on band 41 with Sprint here in my apartment.  I'll be turning off all TMO bands on this phone immediately.  

On 8/27/2020 at 8:21 AM, bbostwick8 said:

Sprints website no longer exists. Probably best just to wait for a bit unless the phone is hardly working. Even then I’d search some used listings for one before I’d get in the mess of TMobile/Sprint services. Anything you get from a store (unless you’re in a shentel Sprint market) is going to be TMobile based and if their network sucks in your area you’re stuck.


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I was just on Sprint's website 5 minutes ago. Definitely still very much exists. 

22 hours ago, runagun said:

I wonder if they did anything with hpue. Is it still enabled?

Ya know what? I forgot all about HPUE.  I don't recall if there were any solid metrics published that supported it actually making a substantial difference but if anyone can point me in that direction that would be great. Curious to see if it had any real effect and, if so, to what extent.

9 hours ago, S4GRU said:

I could never live without fast food as long as fried chicken is considered fast food.

Robert

Ok that's the one exception. This Kentucky boy can definitely throw down with some fried chicken! 

9 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:

The vast majority of people won't know that, they'll just know their network keeps getting worse as Sprint sites are taken offline, so I really hope the T-Mobile network team is taking that into account as they decommission sites. They're not really offering any good incentives for people to upgrade to new devices at the moment (that I'm aware of) so it's not going to go well if they start making the Sprint network worse before giving people a way to get on the T-Mobile network without scrapping their plans.

True

5 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:

Unless you have a Samsung Galaxy S20(+, Ultra), Galaxy A71 or LG V60, you only get access to T-Mobile roaming. That means if there is even a hint of Sprint signal, you are stuck on that. So if several of the infill or capacity sites are decommissioned, suddenly you're stuck on crowded B26 or 3G instead of B41 or CA B25. Not good.

Yeah... most of us can't do that easily.

Samsung  phones are extremely widespread.  For others I am assuming it requires root access. But MSL =000000 and that's the simple key if you're on Samsung.  One of the many reasons I have always been with them. 

1 hour ago, bigsnake49 said:

That assumes that hey move over band 26 or replace it by band 12 or b71 (if you have a compatible phone) they move over band 25 spectrum and possibly add another RRH and move over B41 panels/RRHs or replace them with T-Mobile compatible panels/RRHs with b41/n41 MMIMO and give you access to them via a SIM swap or something. Roaming is not working real well right now since you have to lose coverage before it will switch you over.

Just turn off Sprint bands on your phone. 

I don't eat fast food. In fact, calling it "food" is a tremendous but laughable error.  Yuck. No, put the money elsewhere. 

9 hours ago, bigsnake49 said:

And there goes T-Mobile spectrum advantage between that, CBRS and C-Band. 

And TMobile has quite the temporal leg up on deploying said mid band, pre-existing spectrum with an already well seeded device portfolio that can take advantage of their 2.5 mid band spectrum. Will the other 2 eventually catch up? Probably. Money does talk, after all. But not before TMO enjoys its solitary vacation for 18 to 24 monts!

When on band 66 texts seem to hang for several minutes or not go through at all. 

5 hours ago, Bennyjet29 said:

I must say it feels awesome knowing that I no longer have dead spots along the NYS Thruway I-90!


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Musical taste aside...I'm glad for you. 😏

Oh wow that is sketch AF.  I was planning on using my Galaxy forever benefit to grab the note 20 ultra.  Mainly I actually want it for wireless Dex ability. That would be a game changer for me as I hate cords and I already have a bt keyboard and mouse. I really do use it as a computer and it's actually ok but wireless would make it a whole lot better. 

But I'm assuming wireless Dex support will come to my note 10 + this fall if history is any indication.  If that's true, y'all can keep the damn thing and I'll keep mine. Lol

7 hours ago, Paynefanbro said:

I don't think it's T-Mobile trying to pull the wool over people's eyes with this announcement. However, I do think that this announcement shows us that carriers have inconsistent definitions for what a customer or connection is.

AT&T counts a connection as virtually anything with a SIM card in it (this includes things like branded AT&T customers, Cricket Wireless, OnStar, IoT devices, and other resellers) while T-Mobile is only counting prepaid and postpaid customers from the brands that they own specifically (T-Mobile, Sprint, MetroPCS).

That said, all of this seems like semantics because even if you go by AT&T's definition of connections T-Mobile is only 1.3 million "connections" behind AT&T which means that if both AT&T and T-Mobile continue at their current pace, in roughly 3 to 6 months they'll likely surpass AT&T.

That's an extreme version of what I said.  Generally TMO is, in my mind, a relatively rock solid, customer centric company. I never said they were trying to "pull the wool" over anyone's eyes. That would imply malice.  They weren't doing that but I thought I was extremely clear in stating that all companies seek to paint themselves in the absolute most positive light from the same set of data that others might draw a different conclusion from.  Such is the nature of these things.  It has always been thus and it likely always shall.  That statement is 100% true.  Sprint was a master at this, if you'll recall.

Like I suspected, TMobile definitely does not have nearly as many "connections" as ATT.  As all companies do, they are cherry picking certain data and presenting the numbers in a way that paints a rosier (more magenta??) picture than reality might otherwise suggest.  Do they have more postpaid customers? Apparently but barely. But ATT has far more customers and connected devices when using the term "connections" and that is a much clearer picture of the actual situation.  I'm all for TMobile but don't misunderstand the data.  

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21357737/t-mobile-att-bigger-number-2-wireless-carrier-earnings

5 minutes ago, PhillipJames89 said:

Maybe New-Tmobile don’t want you 😝

Probably not. Explains my non-existent dating life as well! 

Ok so when I go into Google and start to type in "Sprint" it indicates an "auto forward page." But when I finish typing out "sprint.com" and tap on it, I'm still taken to the same Sprint page I went to all summer long. Nothing has changed. 

I don't get redirected. That's my point.

4 minutes ago, dro1984 said:

Me too  ...  Sprint.com still goes to Sprint for me.      No biggie... don't really care.    

Yeah I don't get it. Nothing has changed. 

17 hours ago, PhillipJames89 said:

Try clearing your cache. I had to do that lol

Still the same as it's been all summer.  Screenshot attached. That has  been the same Sprint landing page for months. 

6 hours ago, clbowens said:

When I go to sprint.com, I get routed to tmobile.com now

I don't at all though I've heard others do. I still don't.

2 hours ago, mdob07 said:

One thing I hope T-Mobile has or will add is DAS at areas of large gatherings, sports venues, expo centers, etc. Sprint has B41 inside the KFC Yum Center but every time I was in there it would be completely unusable. Sprint did not have any kind of DAS inside Rupp Arena or Bridgestone arena when I was in those earlier this year. In both of those my Sprint phone was completely unusable while AT&T and Verizon were fine on the DAS. I switched my Sprint line to T-Mobile after the pandemic had started so I haven't been out to any games or large events yet to compare how T-Mobile performs. 

Rupp is going thru some upgrades in and around the complex. Maybe they'll add a DAS as part of that process but I wouldn't hold my breath. 

That said my comment regarding widespread band 41 coverage didn't pertain to large indoor venues but to the region at large.  I found band 41 coverage quite good in both Lexington proper as well as Louisville and Nashville.

5 hours ago, greenbastard said:

The fact is that there are more neglected areas than good areas. New York, Las Vegas, KC, Denver were good markets. Everywhere else? Swiss cheese coverage with overloaded B26.

That simply isn't true by any stretch of the imagination.  Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans, Philly, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Cincinnati, Columbus, Louisville, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Seattle, Dallas, Kansas City, Charlotte ...there are many, many more examples all over the country of great legacy Sprint markets.  Every carrier struggles here and there but to say that band 41 wasn't well and widely deployed in many, many metros across the country is simply untrue. Facts are facts. 

3 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:

Never a good idea to broad brush the whole network. We know your area struggled, but there were many markets where B41 was essentially ubiquitous, and had excellent capacity and speed. Essentially everywhere I went in KC I was on B41, and rarely struggled with speed. Same with Denver when I visited. Others clearly had similar experiences in other markets.

This

22 minutes ago, greenbastard said:

It wasn't horrible spectrum. It was just horribly deployed. Sprint needed a more dense network to make it work, but they never added towers. They really wasted most of that spectrum and never got good use out of it.

Every step Sprint made was the wrong one with the EBS/BRS band. Opting for mini macros in some places was a half-assed attempt at adding capacity. They should have just spent money on better performing 8x8 radios/panels that had more robust coverage and performance. Also, Small Cells wasted 40 Mhz of spectrum because Sprint didn't want to pay for proper backhaul. And the plan to go all in on small cells was a joke. Thinking that macro towers weren't needed was just a huge swing and a miss.

Sprint did everything they could to cut corners, and it showed by the Swiss cheese coverage of B41.

Eh band 41 is all I'm ever on in most major and even minor cities and I travel a LOT.  Calling Sprint band 41 coverage "Swiss cheese" in nature is woefully incorrect. They did a fantastic job with that, coast to coast, covering the vast majority of locations where Americans live, work and play. I'd argue that they even exceeded their own expectations substantially. To top it off, it's lightning fast.  Fantastic spectrum that was underrated off the rip but that blew us all away once deployed. TMO will only make it better. At least that's my hope. But, hell, it was largely fantastic before!

8 minutes ago, dkyeager said:

Sounds like you have become quite desperate during this pandemic. Lol

Social distancing. I'm sure you understand. 😂