Ronnie2012

That's pretty cool how that works. so its like having six 2.5 connections on a tower instead of 3 

Basically yes due to the fact a 20 mhz TDD-LTE carrier in Sprints configuration will top out at 80-90 mbps whereas Sprints 5x5 mhz FDD-LTE carrier tops out at ~37 mbps in the best of conditions. 

please correct me if im wrong. 8t8r is basically 8x8 mimo but no device can take advantage of that high order at the moment. so basically it splits it the antennas in half for 2 4x4 or 4x2? 

Nope. The articles are nice, but I get to involved in the comments so I really don't even read their articles at all anymore. Wonder if their site visits have decreased since the trolls, S. Ali, Fabian, jacky (the idiot), and Doug LTE, and any of the others have taken over the comment section of any article related to sprint.

YES! I cant even read the articles anymore as well cause the negativity draws me in. Those four really get under my skin. you hit the nail on the head with jacky

sorry if this has been asked but i was reading another topic and skimmed across an entry. Is it true that an 8t8r panel has double the capacity with a single 20mhz channel? 

 

Like I said earlier due to the coding of the app and your location the roam control app may not work for you. On the Galaxy S 3, the app force roams onto 850 signal which no carriers have in your area except AT&T (GSM, so no roaming). On other supported devices you can roam onto PCS 1900 signal as well as 850 so it would help.

 

The developer for roam control should figure out a way to get PCS roaming working on the GS3, that would help you out.

 

For some reason i thought Verizon had 850 every where but i notice there is a lot of locations where they do not. why does Verizon want to move away from PCS if they do not have Cellular in the locations where they have PCS?

LTE Advanced doesn't really increase spectrum efficiency. It's mostly network-optimization features and carrier aggregation.

so there is no difference between a 5x5 lte carrier and a 5x5 lte-A carrier ?

I used AntennaSearch.com in Baytown, Tx and the tower i live by is still owned by Sprint, the rest in my area are owned by Crown Castle. so maybe they did not sell all of them.

Does anyone know when Baytown will get upgraded? its right next to Houston and a very big populated area. but the last time i saw the map, areas past Baytown were getting upgraded like in the rural area by i10. this was in August.

Is there any progress in the Houston area. I live In Baytown which is about 30 - 40 minutes away from Downtown Houston and i'm back and forth between both cause of work. Baytown usually gets updated along with Houston, when Houston got 4g so did we. so i was wondering how long does it take engineers to upgrade the tower and how many do they do in a certain time period? I do notice a difference where i work with 3g speed ( 100 - 500kbs. still don't get over 600kbs but its better then 30kbs like before). Though i'm guessing that was just a quick fix update from what i see on https://network.sprint.com/ . So how will we know once Network Vision is in place?

Also. i know that Verizon and AT&T use 10x10s and the 700mhz frequencies which call for less towers and sprint is going to use 5x5s on the 1900mhz. I see people saying that its bad cause capacity and speed wont be as big or compare to Verizon and AT&T. But seeing how sprint already has so many towers that use the 1900mhz, capacity and speed shouldn't be an issue right? sorry i just recently started keeping up with technology and how networks work...