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15 hours ago, derrph said:

Folks were mad over not getting a free chicken sandwich.


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Lol I legit absolutely do not get this chicken sandwich obsession. I mean....it's a chicken sandwich.  Unless it's performing sexual favors at zero cost, I'm not amazed. 

Also...spam calls?  Uh..ok. 

26 minutes ago, Mooeydj said:

https://www.tmonews.com/2020/07/t-mobile-tuesdays-popeyes-offer-pulled-technical-issue/

Ugh. So ratchet.

Nah. That makes zero sense. Day one as defined by New TMobile is August 2nd. That's been made clear on more than one occasion. How could this possibly not include that?  It would be absolutely impossible at this point. 

It's almost definitely related to retiring of the Sprint brand with some network news as well.  A clear cutoff needs to happen and we all know that day is August 2nd. Or have you forgotten? 

That said tomorrow is a great time to have an announcement about the pending major shift.  Makes total sense. 

Yikes

9 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:

Yep even if you have idiots on Reddit claiming they left TMO cause of their slow rollout of 2.5. as of it can go Nationwide in 3 months

 

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OMG are you kidding?  People are really that ignorant?  Wow.  Well I'm personally in it for the long haul.  I've been waiting too damn long to see the power of 2.5 unleashed nationwide and while Sprint did a surprisingly solid and admirable job of building out their network with extremely limited resources, I'm looking forward to seeing what a less restrictive budget and crafty network engineering can do.

 

 

You need to be concerned with TMobile going forward and not Sprint. That brand is obviously being killed so there is nothing to worry about. If rumor pans out, the Sprint brand will be all but retired on August 2nd.  You're a TMobile customer now. We all are. 

And to be quite frank mmwave is largely useless at this point and will remain as such for quite some time.  It's just too isolated and doesn't scale. The speeds TMO will get out of 2.5 are gonna be extremely impressive as it is.  I think TMobile will find that they don't even need mmwave as much as they were planning when 600 and 2.5 are perfectly capable of blanketing the nation in a very robust and speedy network. 

4 hours ago, dro1984 said:

Agreed.   It won't be easy.    But something has to budge... if the state commission insisted on 93% or more coverage with a certain threshold of minimum speed... hopefully the FCC will continue to address the NIMBY's.       I think some here, sadly, think this can all be done in a few weeks and there will be vast amounts of coverage everywhere.    Most former Sprint accounts  haven't even been moved over to the T-Mobile network yet, which still has to happen, only roaming has been unlocked.   Nothing has changed in my neighborhood.    In fact with all the talk and news articles of T-Mobile turning off Sprint's B41.... it's still on here and I can connect to it sometimes.    Lots of work that hasn't even begun yet.   

Here in Midtown Atlanta I noticed my phone was stuck (happily) on TMobile bands for about 5 to 7 days but it's been back on band 41 exclusively (Sprint coverage was THAT GOOD here) ever since.  No complaints here!

5 hours ago, bigsnake49 said:

The problem with covering rural Northern California is that they don't want new towers to be built because it will Martha natural beauty. I understand it but then if you want coverage you have to compromise. 

Right. You can't blink coverage into existence.  They want to have their invisible (quinoa) cake and, apparently, eat it, too.  No, Karen. Doesn't work like that!

So with "Day 1" rapidly approaching (8/1), what sort of branding changes is everyone anticipating? I'm assuming the websites will be merged more (perhaps all the way) completely. Also with the Note 20 "Unpacked" event taking place on 8/5, it seems more than likely that New TMO will use the launch and device as a showpiece for demonstrating the new combined network's capabilities. I see the Note 20 series as being the first true flagship phone that will be marketed as taking advantage of the combined company's broad and deep spectrum portfolio.  This should be interesting.  The Pixel 5 may or may not be just around the corner (conflicting rumors, Covid-19 related internal structure changes within Google, etc) but if it does materialize in October would be the second major Android device to trumpet new magenta's full power but at a much easier to digest price.  I look forward to the elimination of duplicitous branding and what shakes out this late summer and fall device wise and network wise!

1 hour ago, briank86 said:

I'm envisioning the others carriers raising their flutes to toast with champagne and sprint with coors banquet

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1 hour ago, Paynefanbro said:

I can only speak for NYC once again, but here it didn't work as well as Sprint's choice to put everything everywhere. T-Mobile's deployment method led to some neighborhoods being under-deployed while others have the "full experience". This is as opposed to Sprint where everywhere I went, I always knew that the site I was connected to had all 3 bands available. 

I also don't know if it's fair to say that Sprint didn't deploy based on data. It looks like they simply deployed where it made the most economic sense to invest heavily. That ended up being their largest markets. The unfortunate side effect of this is that if you aren't in a large market the network languished until work was completed in the bigger markets.

There are definitely pros and cons to both styles of deployment. Sprint's biggest issue to me is that they tried a Verizon and AT&T deployment style without Verizon or AT&T money.

Are you suggesting that Sprint was attempting to build a network with champagne taste but on a decidedly beer budget? 😂

All of this is so flipping cool.  I haven't been this excited since Sprint first started rolling out LTE here in Atlanta in June 2012. I feel like a kid in a candy store! #nerdtruth

54 minutes ago, nexgencpu said:

Those devices will default to TMobile (which of course means N71/N41 for 5G)at home first then roam on Sprint where Tmobile isn't available.

That makes sense. 

I'm kinda wondering the same thing. And marketing this on Sprint's website as a 5G phone makes no sense as Sprint's 5G network no longer exists. Am I missing something?

4 hours ago, greenbastard said:

5G coverage maps are actually gone from the Sprint site. I wonder if T-Mobile has started installing panels in Sprint's original 5G markets?

I would be hard pressed to imagine they haven't, given their outstanding track record.

I see from the June 2nd coverage map update that 5G coverage has been removed in Atlanta. Unsurprising but still nostalgically sad. 

Well I guess it isn't actually roaming anymore even if it shows as such as TMobile coverage is now native coverage provided your phone has the necessary bands to latch onto whatever technology those particular towers are broadcasting. 

3 minutes ago, ingenium said:

It's non ionizing. Worst case it would heat things up a bit. It's basically like a bright light.

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Omg I was kidding.  I'm not that absurd.  

26 minutes ago, ingenium said:

There was a Sprint site mounted literally right outside of my dorm freshman year, right next to my window. So maybe 1-2 feet from my bed (or however thick the concrete wall was). Needless to say, I had a good signal

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....and delayed onset cancer. Just kidding.....probably.

30 minutes ago, greenbastard said:

The infamous "Triband LTE network" that never got finished. 

That "spark" fizzled.  But now part of it can serve a bigger purpose. 

15 minutes ago, PhillipJames89 said:

Same. He better throw that shade! *2 snaps*

CORRECT. 

4 hours ago, RedSpark said:

🔥 🔥  🔥  🔥  🔥 

Saw's been waiting to say this his whole career... He's in his element now post-merger.

He probably has and I'm stoked for him that he can now roll with the big boys!

23 hours ago, xdfgf said:

Mine is mere curiosity. I'm willing to send it back, but dunno how to do it.

A well placed baseball bat. That may not exactly return it but it could provide a useful outlet for any pent up boredom and/or aggression due to Covid-19 quarantine.