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Sure, but if you use b41 for backhaul wouldn't you need dedicated antennas to beam the signal from one tower to the other? Or can you do that with the existing panels and not degrade the b41 signal that's being used for cell reception? The original tower that's providing the backhaul, whether it's microwave or b41, would need enough/faster backhaul to provide for multiple towers so the backhaul cost itself wouldn't be different between b41 or microwave would it?
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Is that much of an advantage vs just using microwave?
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PCMag's Fastest Mobile Network and RootMetrics both have Verizon as fastest. Ookla has T-Mobile edging out Verizon but that's with T-Mobile doing everything they can to look good with Ookla tests: Put in their own servers for T-Mobile users - sometimes changing to a faster server gives you better results Whitelisting Speedtest app - people that have used up their data allotment still get full speeds when testing, while that's not true with other carriers. Zero rating Speedtest app - someone that has limited data on another carrier's plan isn't going to run speedtests everywhere they can to see if they can get 100+Mbps results because that's a huge waste of data. More than likely they'll only run it when data isn't loading to see if there's an issue. No going around NY rooftops at midnight right and testing right beside a panel to see what a network is capable of.
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Are people lining up to sign up for Tidal High Fidelity (which is $20/month)? Are they even signing up for Tidal? The big players are Spotify, Apple Music, and maybe Google Play music. Their high quality streaming tops up at 320Kbps, so the 500Kbps is plenty of headroom.
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There's already a tower there, but I believe Sprint is being added to it. Another S4GRU member gave me the address for this location as a new macro about a month ago when I asked him about small cells in the area. He just didn't know when it would happen.
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Have the dozens of people that are on Tidal High Fidelity subscription while using the Sprint network made complaints yet regarding the 500Kbps throttled music speeds? On another note it looks like a new Sprint macrotower is being worked on/added that covers my house. Currently I'm in between 2 towers that are both over 2 miles away and speeds have slowed down over the last year (area has grown with new businesses and apartments) so a new tower less than half a mile away is a welcome addition.
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I don't think that many people care about the music streaming limits or game limits otherwise you would see an uproar and backlash. I've only seen one person bring those 2 points up across the websites I visit. The music streaming limits are fine for high quality streaming from everyone but Tidal's high fidelity service (which is pricier at $19.95/month). Tidal's paying user base is much smaller than Spotify, Apple Music, or Google Play Music, and the people paying for high fidelity even smaller.
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AT&T and T-Mobile also already have carrier aggregation.
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Won't happen as long as Rootmetrics weighs uploads as high as they do.
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The problem with RootMetric's NY report is it covers more than just NYC. It's NY and the tri state area.
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With Apple your 'stuck' with Apple Maps as the default. On Android you can choose Google Maps, Waze, or even Here maps (was owned by Nokia) as default. Here maps is supposed to have the best offline maps.
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Has anyone been to Reliant stadium recently for Texans games? Reliant has been a black hole for all carriers, but this year the das should be completed as the Super Bowl is in Houston this year. That should be a big boost for all carriers.
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The throttled video doesn't start until November. At that time supposedly you can pay extra to keep HD streaming.
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This is the big one. You would think with T-Mobile boasting about covering 311 million(?) people that road testing should be an advantage vs Sprint.
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Cue T-Mobile reddit discrediting Rootmetrics. T-Mobile fans are also blaming the 4th place finish and reliability on VoLTE and saying how it's unfair, yet last half year report they were claiming bias because VoLTE wasn't turned on for T-Mobile.
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I thought VoLTE handoff to cdma is problematic and that's why Verizon never introduced it, and the same reason why Sprint is waiting to densify before I'm poo implementing VoLTE.
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Is this officially announced somewhere?
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Boost would be very attractive if they had better byod options. Unlocked iPhones, Nexus devices, Motorolas, etc, and even the new Axon 7 should all be compatible with Boost. Right now it's only unlocked iPhones that can be used.
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Send a pm to lilotimz - I asked about some areas and he was able to tell me if there was a small cell planned.
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Clear towers give me uploads of about 300Kbs at -110dBm signal, while at the same signal strength Sprint b41 will give me 2-3.5Mbs uploads.
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It's a step above McDonald's and Jack in the Box, but they're definitely overrated. It's about equal to Whataburger here in Texas except no one here goes around and says it's the best thing ever.
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That makes a lot of sense. Are there any current plans to do similar upgrades that AT&T and Verizon to improve b25 and b26 reception? Or is all the focus currently on identifying with b41?
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US Cellular completes LTE deployment, starts implementing roaming
avb replied to bigsnake49's topic in General Topics
It's good to see LTE roaming working, but at the same time it does sound like it's a battery killer. Still better than nothing. -
Was WiMax ever standardized for wider channels than 10 MHz? I remember back in the day speeds were 3-10Mbs down and 1.5Mbs up (why were uploads capped?). Speeds were usable especially since 3g speeds became almost unusable during the HTC Evo days. The hotspot like performance I figured was due to the poor coverage. Back then I remember Clear wasting money trying to build their own retail presence instead of pouring more money into the network.
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2xCA wasn't updated quickly in New York - it didn't happen until this past spring. Granted, that was because the Clear network had to be shutdown first. But that's also partly because Wimax wasted so much spectrum with the number of channels it used. I'm not sure if that's a deployment issue or technical issue.
