cyclone

Are we waiting for after the 2024 election with a refreshed Congress for T-Mobile to potentially be granted access to their winnings? Or do we have fingers crossed that this Congress will actually do work and re-instate FCC's powers?

I've been noticing random times when my phone will show a decent 5GUC connection, but I have zero data throughput (up or down). Usually have to do an airplane mode cycle to get things working again. My home internet will also do the same a couple times a day, but usually corrects itself after about 30-60 seconds.

T-Mobile wifi service for those rich enough to afford a ride on one of Elon's rockets?

16 hours ago, jreuschl said:

Interesting, this shouldn't be iPhone 13 specific in the future.

Went digging through the comments section and this will be available on the iPhone 12 line as well

https://twitter.com/TMobileHelp/status/1437857426363981826?s=20https://twitter.com/TMobileHelp/status/1437857426363981826?s=20

Went to a store today and found out that I am not allowed to do the trade-in offer and put the phone on my free Line On Us number. I would have to put the "financing" on a paying line or buy the phone outright -_-

Does the phone need to be tied to a line? I have an old phone sitting around, but it's an old TracPhone. I have a free line on my account standing by. Would I be able to get the Samsung phone and activate it on the standby line?

I hate to be pessimistic, but good luck fighting for a nearly decade old plan put together by a company that no longer exists. Just going to have to prepare for the inevitable...you're going to lose that plan eventually

1 hour ago, cyclone said:

Has anyone downloaded the iOS 14.5 beta to see if this has been enabled? This update is also bringing dual-SIM 5G

Reddit has answered my question...YES!!

On 1/20/2021 at 5:15 PM, Paynefanbro said:

Apple hasn’t pushed the update to iPhones in the U.S. to allow standalone 5G. So far they’ve only released that update in China. 

Has anyone downloaded the iOS 14.5 beta to see if this has been enabled? This update is also bringing dual-SIM 5G

Are these the chips provided under TNX? Are iPhone's given access? I have a 12 Pro and haven't seen SA 5G or even N41 in San Antonio or along the way from here to Dallas when I traveled for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

The iPhone Field Test Mode now has a section called Radio Access Technology in which is a field called kCTCellMonitorDeploymentType. Mine is currently populated with "5G NSA (1)" and I am connected to band 66

15 hours ago, BlueAngel said:

TNX gives you access to 5G SA which can make a huge difference.

Still waiting on an iPhone update to enable this?

14 hours ago, BlueAngel said:

Well yeah you get T-Mobile service now so you have access to all of their towers now.

I should have clarified that I was already on ROAMAHOME since late September. Wouldn't I already be accessing all of T-Mo's towers? So far I haven't noticed too much of a difference, but I also have only been in strong 5G signal areas

Went to a T-Mobile store today and did the TNX SIM swap. Ran into an issue with my phone not getting any service after getting the SIM swapped and confirmed in the system. The lady helping me had to call some support number to try and figure out why my phone showed to be activated on T-Mo, but "no service" was showing on my phone. After doing some digging, apparently Sprint had not been updating my devices the last few years. Was told that my "current" device was an iPhone 6s. Now, I've done annual upgrades since then and always activated through Sprint's website with no apparent issues. Could this be related to why I would get intermittent service problems over the past few years? I would get random signal drops or cycles as if I had put the phone in Airplane Mode.

On a side note, the lady also stated that TNX allowed me access to more towers than using a Sprint Tower...is that true? Just got this today, so haven't had much of a chance to test known areas with bad service. Will be doing PoGo Community Day this weekend and the two parks I hit are places where I normally switch to 3G to avoid data drops, so can test it out and update.

Probably just a nationwide release of T-Vision instead of a few metro areas as well as doing away with the required box fees

5 minutes ago, Cardsfan96 said:

That’s comforting... It doesn’t seem like you can get a straight answer. Not a great feeling when deciding if we should take advantage of the trade in on 2 iPhone 6, 1 iPhone 6s that is a little beat up but screen is replaced and a like new iPhone XS. A lot of money is up in the air.

Sprint's homepage discusses the trade-in deal and if you hover over the info radio at the end of the text, you'll see a popup with the following:

My concerns with using the iPhone 12 launch as a mass migration to the T-MO network are being forced to give up my current Sprint plan or being stuck with a CDMA iPhone variant yet forced to function on a GSM network. At work (and various places around town) I am unable to get a decent midband signal so when I make phone calls, they are VoLTE only and consistently choppy or simply drop being unable to use any GSM or fallback network

3 hours ago, Trip said:

Seeing the discussion above about ROAMAHOME, I looked into what it is and decided that it was very much like what I was experiencing.  So I went on chat this morning and asked to have it removed from my account.  I was first told that couldn't be done, so I just asked that if s/he couldn't authorize it, to please escalate me to a manager to authorize it.  I was redirected to Tech Support chat, and she took some time to review the chat, then I got the profile update screen, and now I can disable VoLTE again, which is VERY promising.  I'm currently in US Cellular roaming area, and will see if I'm back on Sprint when I get into town this morning.

- Trip

where in my account do I go to see? I have only been able to see T-MO bands since yesterday and I went looking around and don't see it mentioned anywhere

I just noticed my phone is not connecting to my magic box. Went to field test mode and saw my phone is bouncing between B66 and B2. My phone does still show Sprint at the top and I don't see anything about the addon to my services enabling the use of T-MO's network

Maybe because I already had the basic free version enabled?? I still get a notification about every other day telling me to open the app so that the database can be updated. Thought that was a premium feature, therefore something we should now all get. Just was wondering if anyone else was having this issue

So uh what was the point of saying we are getting free upgrades to the premium version of Call Screener if it's still going to be required that we open the app every other day for a data update? Wasn't background updates a premium feature?

8 minutes ago, dro1984 said:

Not sure I follow you?    If the site is "redundant" meaning there is a T-Mobile site there too or very near by, why would it cause problems?   We will all be on one network soon, ... some sooner than others.    

With network upgrades being 5G centric as well as Sprint subs being left off the T-Mo network unless no other Sprint signal can be found, will result in an even smaller footprint. Yes this is assuming that majority of the redundant sites torn down being that of Sprint's network. Until there is consistent network sharing, Sprint subs will be weaned off the network through 5G device upgrades or through leaving due to shrinking service.

1 hour ago, bigsnake49 said:

They have had about 3 years to plan and execute this.

While the planning and backend office has had plenty of time to work, the tower climbing companies have only just begun working. I will say from what I've seen, this extended period of time to plan the paperwork has only resulted in the distribution of outdated plans and short supply of required hardware. Call it a case of too much of a good thing having around 2 years to write up plans and prepare. Just know that work is ongoing and ramping up as best it can with several Corona guidance rules in place

Well it is a chicken sandwich and not a chicken strip 😝

Most sites are just listed as antenna upgrades so as to keep fees down and in most cases no permit is required because they are simply replacing like for like. This not only keeps pricing down, but speeds up processes with less paperwork/hoops to jump through

Been noticing weird anomalies around the northwest side of San Antonio over the past couple weeks. Started with my MB last week. Got to work to it disconnected and it was unable to connect until late afternoon. I've had it for well over a year if not two by now. I have come across areas where my signal just comes and goes with my phone dropping down like it was cycling through airplane mode. Last night I had dramatically reduced speeds at a usually fast location. I usually have 4 bars because I connect a block away, but i was down to 2 and speeds maxing out around 30Mbps all on a B41 connection. I usually hit between 150-200. Now I know there is a huge microwave backhaul layout here as well as several old clearwire only sites. Maybe they are getting thinned down or the backhaul is being messed with 🤷‍♂️