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  1. avb
    Never liked that icon, but had it display only when on b41 at least it would have been somewhat useful.
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    What other top markets only have 10mhz of PCS spectrum? I know Houston is in that situation but hopefully we'll be blanketed in b41. *edit - correction as mentioned by WiWavelength: 20mhz PCS spectrum
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    I have to say I don't have any more faith in Marcelo.
  4. avb
    T-Mobile officially comments on unlocked phones and band 12. http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/t-mobile-all-band-12-lte-devices-our-network-must-support-volte-e911/2015-08-28 Unlocked phones such as the Moto G have band 12 disabled per T-Mobile request and now we know why.
  5. avb
    No. This just makes it easier for T-Mobile to set up roaming agreements with other carriers in the CCA.
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    Haven't had Franklins BBQ, but I thought Killen's BBQ is the best I've ever had.
  7. avb
    I thought the network decides which band you're on?
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    The "titty bar inside an elementary school" is all about convenience. Houston needs a real mass transit system. Everyone drives so rush hour sucks, and when it rains, actually when it just look like it might rain, traffic comes to a stand still. Still I'd rather be here than Kansas
  9. avb
    You should checkout the T-mobile section of reddit with all the complaints about not receiving sms/mms. It's been several months and there's new posts that come up daily.
  10. avb
    When B26 first launched I thought that made sense as there were a lot more single band phones and B25 was starting to get crowded, but at this point I don't think it's necessary. I hope there is some type of software at the network level that can do the load balancing instead of defaulting to {if triband = yes then skip B25}.
  11. avb
    That sounds like it'll kill your battery too. Maybe try contacting Sprint and letting them know so they can hopefully fix this.
  12. avb
    Agreed. Also, I'd imagine most of the airports do have a DAS system in place that's already built out, so it should be relatively quick to latch on to what's already there.
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    The load balancing is something I don't understand. In Houston I'm either on B41 or B26, but rarely on B25. Is there any chance Sprint has yet to implement a software update that will do a better job of load balancing? I remember when I was in New York back in October I would see my phone switch between all 3 bands. In my hotel, I was on B25, but during the day speeds were sub 1mb/s. Walk towards the bathroom and the phone loses B25 and switches to B26 like it's supposed to, and B26 in that situation would give me 8-12mb/s. That's another situation where load balancing between B25 and B26 should have worked better. Walking on the streets I saw B41 the majority of the time so that was nice. 3g is usable whenever I'm on it, but the nice thing in Houston is I'm rarely on it. I remember 3-4 years 3g was practically unusable, but now when I do speed tests I'll see 600kb/s - 2mb/s.
  14. avb
    Glad to see Houston is on the initial list (we always are), but they really need to add NYC for good will from the press.
  15. avb
    What is the point of your rate plan ideas? We get it you want cheaper rates, we all do, but if we're just going to come up with fantasy numbers I propose a plan that's $7/month (after taxes it's roughly $10) with unlimited minutes and 14gb of data. That's $0.50 per gb.
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    I believe Boost Mobile allows you to self throttle with their Smartstream option, but at least you have the option of streaming at better speeds. Does this mean watching Youtube will be worse on Sprint than Boost? smh http://www.boostmobile.com/enhancedstream/
  17. avb
    Still no. In fact if any other carrier decided to sell their PCS spectrum Sprint should jump on it.
  18. avb
    If Sprint works great in your area why wouldn't you take more data vs AT&T/Verizon?
  19. avb
    DT wants to get rid of T-Mobile altogether, so Comcast looks more attractive to them than Dish. Dish has spectrum it needs to deploy and if they lose T-Mobile they won't have much leverage when negotiating with other wireless carriers to build/host a network. Comcast and Dish are competitors so I don't think Comcast wants to help Dish with their build out requirements. I wonder how it will all play out.
  20. avb
    Interesting. Can Dish afford to get in a bidding war with Comcast? And even if they decide to do so and win, Comcast will drive up the price like when Dish drove up the price of Clearwire for Sprint.
  21. avb
    Looks like someone decided to divide by zero.
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    Wait a minute, you view that Dish has done very fast work, but you view it that way because you don't base it on their actions? Did you just seriously say that? Because if we view things on their actions, well... Dish is in a position where they have to scramble. They have all this spectrum, but build out requirements are looming, and they haven't done a single thing.
  23. avb
    Dish hasn't shown us anything yet. As of now they are a spectrum hoarder, and they have to get moving as their build out requirements are coming up soon.
  24. avb
    I agree. Look how long it took Sprint to start and complete NV 1.0, where as Dish had their spectrum deployed nationwide in such a short, wait, nevermind. Does Dish have a single tower up?
  25. avb
    Weren't there different power transmitting requirements for the H block? Therefore you couldn't combine with the G block to make a single 10x10 band?
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