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What are the in store payment options? Website shows as only full price with wording to visit store for other payment options

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To anyone reporting failing at 20% during the initialization phase, think about what this unit is and how it works and you'll be better able to understand the problem and how they are most likely not defective units. This is a box that acquires all info from a signal broadcasted from a macrocell (think of it like a satellite box). If your box is unable to acquire that signal, it will not receive any information. Receiving that fail at 20% is a likely indicator that your unit is simply not able to get signal from a nearby tower to set up the unit. Anthony stated in a previous post that his unit even advised him to try another location To anyone not able to get past that 20% milestone, you should try a new location. If you can't find a place for the unit where it acquires signal (or you're in a known lack of B41 or B25), then you might consider returning your unit.

As was stated, the Pixel is physically capable of B12 however T-Mobile doesn't have it listed as compatible on their own website https://www.t-mobile.com/optional-services/coverage-phones-700.html

All these acceptance calls/emails from people without B41 are a little discouraging when I'm in San Antonio with moderate to decent B41 available and I was denied guess I'll wait and try again later when they are more available

I'm restarting my phone at the moment. As of now I can't call, text, or get data unless I'm on wifi. My phone doesn't show that it's on WiFi-Connect, but after making and receiving test calls I can confirm that it is working. Once I switch off wifi, it all disconnects. After doing a reset, I am back to normal operations. That was weird

Anyone having service issues this morning? I'm showing a signal, but not able to make/receive calls, texts, or data. I've put my iPhone on wifi and it won't even switch over to WiFi-Connect

The article is speculating on the availability of gigabit LTE based on Apple choosing to source chips from both Qualcomm and Intel. One company has the technology currently available while the other does not. No lawsuits involved or battery performance testing. Just an assumption based on Apple's history of lowering the capabilities of one chip to not allow an unfair batch of iPhones. The article even discusses how minor an issue this is due to the lack of gigabit LTE networks and with Apple making yearly iPhone upgrades

Mixed with the continuous reminder on the current contingencies for carrier aggregation, your first point almost argues against the ability for carrier aggregation at all with your mention of a lack of contiguous spectrum. There are already locations that have valid 2CA and 3CA operating. The discussion was in regards to changing the configuration of components in those areas from 1 to 2. The scenario you set up is asserting that small cells are currently present. That is a perfect example of where this can NOT work, yes, but is also heavily dependent upon small cells being present and currently they seem to be an exception rather than the rule for several markets. Now each of my posts has stated this is all "theory" and "conceptual", yet instead of discussing the possibilities you have merely demonstrated why it is currently not capable in your example. Is this thread not "On path to gigabit LTE..."? Interestingly, I see you also edited your previous post to remove your suggestion to look up white papers on the coexistence of TDD. There has been a more recent one done by GTI that discuses the path towards dynamic TDD, found below. An advantage brought up that I've never thought of is how switching to a configuration highly favoring uploads (most likely at night) allows the site to lower its power consumption. http://lte-tdd.org/Resources/rep/2016-09-06/9424.html

Looking at the High Band Spectrum Depth map, Sprint owns 148-186MHz of high band spectrum in most major urban areas. Looking at the report I found on the study of "Coexistence of two time division duplex networks in the 2300-2400MHz band", using the same frequency separation practices, wouldn't Sprint be able to use some of the excess spectrum as guard bands to reduce the interference between a PCC (Config 1) and the SCC(s) (Config 2)? Using the current practices of the synchronous TDD-LTE system, each surrounding PCC would already be synchronized to each other and the SCC(s) would be synchronized as well to each other. This wouldn't need to be a nationwide concern as rural and most suburban settings could switch as a whole from Config 1 to Config 2 without introducing the asynchronous interference problems. I realize this is all conceptual and spectrum would need to be contiguous (as pointed out above), but with the current use of 3CA it's evident that there are cases of that existing. Assuming the spectrum puzzle pieces align allowing multiple CA, would this scenario not be a viable option? Also, would HPUE help mitigate some of the UE-UE interference due to a wider flexibility of power output? https://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-r/opb/rep/R-REP-M.2374-2015-PDF-E.pdf http://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/2017-how-much-low-mid-and-high-band-spectrum-do-verizon-at-t-t-mobile-sprint-and-dish-own

The keyword would be adjacent, right? Couldn't they in theory break them up to not be adjacent? They do own up to 120MHz able to be broken up into 20MHz chunks. Have Chunk A be PCC with Chunks C and E be SCC1 and SCC2. This would give them all a 20MHz gap inbetween Edited to ask additional question. Couldn't the secondaries actually go from Chunks C, D, E, and F since they would all be the same time configuration not needing to be guarded from interference?

D = Download S = Guard U = Upload

What are the odds of Softbank getting involved in this? http://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/globalstar-said-to-be-shopping-around-spectrum-worth-more-than-2b

Did this ever turn into anything?

At least for me, the issue seems to only affect incoming calls which would help rule out a general congestion issue as both incoming and outgoing calls would be affected

On occasion I will answer a call to hear very digital sounds/static or even a weird phenomenon where it sounds like every half second is cut out like I'm talking through some large industrial fan. Hang up and immediately redial out to them and no problem. This has only happened on incoming calls and it's happened from people on ATT, Verizon, and Virgin

Has anyone noticed that the Unlimited LTE, Talk, and Text in Canada and Mexico has disappeared from the Global Roaming page and the FAQs? Does this mean it's been removed altogether?

How is this different than the Unlimited Freedom plan that was already offered (after the promotional periods ends)? The pricing looks to still be the same, and still contingent on a $5 autopay discount. More or less, this appears to be all the redlines removed from the plan after the battle between Verizon/T-Mobile/Sprint changed HD streaming and mobile hotspot allowances. I was really hoping this would be Sprint's response to the tax/fees included move by T-Mobile.

They should stick to copy and pasted transcripts, that is some horrible grammar. As I and another have explained, this bill that you have is most likely your bill for the FULL CYCLE up to March 7th. You should then have a discounted bill (or be able to get it discounted if it's not) coming to you for the three days of March 8-10.

Monthly recurring charges as in your service plan? That you would be paying in advance? That would make you a pre-paid customer...in which you wouldn't have a monthly recurring charge...unless you kept pre-paying for the service month after month. I am pretty sure you would be able to get the bill cut down to only amount for the time it was used. This isn't a Sprint issue, this is a general Customer Service issue that is found in pretty much any retail industry

You are a post paid subscriber. This means just like a utility bill, you get billed for the usage AFTER that cycle has ended

I caught this along Bandera Rd near the entrance to OP Schnabel. It's the same earfcn that Rackhivee found on the east side. Y'all are saying this is just an added mini-macro and not a change out to the clearwire antennas? I will say I'm excited either way because I've gotten a Speedtest over 80mbps since these changes have been made. Now if we can get sprint to put antennas or small cells over six flags/la cantera Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Awesome! That could explain the erratic data connections too. It was really bad yesterday along Bandera. I'm hoping areas still using clearwire hardware will be among the first to get the 64T64R radios like used in New Orleans

I wasn't aware you could change your server on the speedtest app. I've noticed some good speed increases lately so maybe there's just some new installs or optimizing going on. Will keep a lookout through the week to see if it's persistent

Has anyone been having issues over the weekend with data connections stalling on the NW side? I've had texts randomly take up to 2 minutes to send or data sessions seem to buffer. I've even tried running speed tests that fail to initialize a ping test. I just started a new cycle on the 9th so I know it's not deprioritization.