bigsnake49

They hold both A&B here and I have not seen my phone go to band 5 yet. Just 17 and PCS (band 2). Maybe I should have signal pro log it for a day.

As Ergen just announced, Dish is unlikely to build its own network but they have filed to participate in the 600MHz auction. Also that he thinks the spectrum is more likely to be used for greenfield 5G deployments. http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/dishs-ergen-our-spectrum-could-be-used-5g-were-unlikely-build-out-new-netwo/2016-02-19

ATT has been busy refarming PCS. I have not seen evidence of them reforming their CLR holdings yet. That does not mean it's not happening.

Cell's edge performance higher on the wider channels.

According to industry analysts Dish's spectrum is now valued at $.80 MHz/POP. About 1/3 of what they paid for in the AWS-3 auction. The lack of interest from the other carriers, densification, small cells, refarming from other technologies give carriers plenty of headroom. I think that their best bet is to let Sprint host their spectrum. http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/dishs-tv-business-struggles-companys-spectrum-valued-just-080mhz-pop/2016-02-18

Sprint definitely needs to densify their network. They neglected that part for the last 10 years and now they have had to scramble. T-Mobile has been densifying slowly but surely. All carriers have to densify because of LTE's reduced reach vs CDMA. It's just that Sprint has to do it all at once. VOLTE has had about 3 to 4 times the number of dropped calls. Is it because of sites being too far away from each other for LTE (weak signal), or handover problems?

So, will it be better to eventually have 2x10x10 or one 5x5 and one 15x15?

A pittance compared to the Big 2. Better than Sprint for sure but...when are they going to make some real money? They better do it quickly before 5G comes around, because that will be another very expensive endeavor.

They're handled by fiber pretty much all the way. Only where there is no density and the place is not on a major highway are they handled by microwave.

Arsyn, just enjoy T-Mobile. Please stop these long-winded diatribes. Nobody wants to read them. Go to Tmonews. They might!

OK this is not a critique of Project fi since you can actually get Visual Voicemail to work, not without a bit of tweaking, but when I switch the SIM to AT&T I lose VV. Major deficiency of Android as far as I am concerned. You have to download a carrier specific VV to get it to work. WTF? Windows phone has it, iPhone has it, why not stock Android?

Or there might have been fewer Sprint subscribers at the stadium, consuming less data.

Band 66 is the first asymmetric paired band completed in 3GPP, and aligns with the recognition that consumer demand for downlink capacity is significantly greater than uplink. Band 66 pairs 70 MHz of uplink spectrum with 90 MHz of downlink spectrum including AWS-1 (1710-1755 MHz and 2110-2155 MHz), the recently auctioned AWS-3 paired spectrum (1755-1780 MHz and 2155-2180 MHz), and DISH’s upper AWS-4 spectrum (2180-2200 MHz) approved for use as downlink. In addition to the adoption of Band 66, 3GPP approved the completion of a feasibility study and the initiation of a Work Item for a new band, which includes DISH’s remaining AWS-4 spectrum and its H Block. The new band pairs 15 MHz of AWS-3 uplink (1695-1710 MHz) and 25 MHz of downlink comprised of DISH’s lower AWS-4 spectrum (2000-2020 MHz) and H Block (1995-2000 MHz). The FCC has granted DISH the flexibility to convert the lower portion of AWS-4 to downlink from its legacy uplink designation. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151210006299/en/3GPP-Band-Plan-Integrates-DISH-Spectrum As you can see, Band 66 is a super set of AWS-1, AWS and the AWS-4 downlink. It is a standardized band, not a boutique band. You're thinking of the new proposed band which is 1995-2020 as the downlink and 1695-1710 as the uplink. That will be a boutique band. I believe that band 66 will be an attractive band for Sprint. I have no idea why Dish bid and won H Block. They paid $1.53B for it and are not going to use the uplink. If Sprint had gotten it they could have paired with with the 1900 Mhz G Block for a nice 10x10 block.

I don't think they can compete on the cellphone/tablet space. The space is already crowded. They might go after the IoT crowd. Speaking of Dish, I still think that Sprint can do a spectrum swap with Dish to beef up Sprint's mid band holdings for Sprint's EBS. Then take the rest of their Dish's holdings and EBS and offer LTE home broadband hosted on Sprint's network.

With up to 4x20 CA across FDD and TDD, supports Category 6 speeds of up to 1 Gigabits. http://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/story/qualcomm-intros-gigabit-class-lte-modem-snapdragon-x16/2016-02-10

A pretty good critique of the FRP by Andrew Seybold: http://wirelessestimator.com/articles/2016/the-firstnet-request-for-proposal-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

I guarantee you that all carriers do that. OK, maybe not Verizon. I have first hand experience with AT&T traveling on I-10 from Florida to Sacramento last March and from Sacramento up to I-80 through Nevada, Utah and Wyoming to Cheyenne and down to Denver and then on 287 though Colorado and Texas. I-10 and I-80 are major east-west arteries and to have no coverage on one of the Big 2 for hundreds of miles is shameful.

I bet Root Metrics have a lot more detailed reports for the carriers. What you see published to the public are the summary reports.

Last time I checked, T-Mobile had 65,000 macro sites. That included duplicate T-Mobile/MetroPCS sites. I don't know how many duplicates there were that could be consolidated. I know that in my nearest tower, there is still a Metro level on the tower, it has not been taken down yet. Verizon had 55,000.

I used the Nexus 5x for AT&T/Sprint/T-Mobile. Just switched between the AT&T and the Fi SIMs.

I have not seen any LTE in the 850MHz band. Just WCDMA. They have actually densified their 1900Mhz and AWS network.

I have been experimenting with Sprint and T-Mobile using Google's fi project. Both of them are OK but not great in the Melbourne, FL area. Both of them have low spectrum in the area so coverage is pretty decent at least outdoors. Sprint is a little worse than T-Mobile. But I what I have noticed is that both networks are 3-6db worse than AT&T at the same place and the same time. AT&T's signal is also more steady. It does not wildly swing between good and bad.

I will definitely try it.

So, create a CSPAN like channel.

Actually, a study by the CEA, pegged the percentage at 9%. So Let's say 13-14% as the average.