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I live in the Shentel market. I have seen calls switch from 1x1900 to 1x800 right in the middle of a call. I don't think I've ever seen it go the other direction but I assume it's possible. I often see it happen within the first 30 seconds of a call. This is when I have very good signal too, not just when I'm about to drop a call on 1x1900.

 

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Shentelians are lucky!   I have never experienced a hyper band handoff from 1900 to 800 during a call.   In my market my experience is that the call will drop on 1900 before ever being handed off to 800 even as of late.    Usually as quickly as i can redial the number my phone has acquired 1X 800 and the call will stay on 800 for the duration.    

 

Anyone know where this signal is coming from? Baffled.

 

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I realize this is quite an old post but I just finally came across it.    I was actually the one who mapped the area in question as this area is part of my daily commute.    The Sensorly data was accurate back in 2013 and you should check that area out on Sensorly now...   Band 26 has filled in the coverage quite nicely.    But to answer your question,  the signal mapped at that time was band 25 coming from the Cornell rd/Dawson Creek area.    A coworker and I mapped almost all of the initial Sensorly LTE data for Hillsboro and areas to the west.    

That's a tricky question. Think that depends on how early in NV1.0 that site was built or converted. The site near my house was reworked May 2013 and they did not pull another snake up the pole. However a site in town was upgraded later and had to have additional cabling pulled.

Well the sites in my area were mostly NV 1.0 complete between Feb and Aug 2013.   I ask the question because I have recently started to notice an additional panel mounted on the Sprint rack next to the NV 1.0 panels on a few of the sites around here.   I did a quick site visit to a couple sites and saw no new cables from the MMBS.    I need to revist with a pair of binoculars and a DSLR to confirm what this additional panel is.    Hoping for 8T8R!

Does an 8T8R installation at a previously completed NV 1.0 site require a new set of hybrid fiber cables to be run from the MMBS up the tower to the 8T8R RRU's?

I have Clearwire for my home ISP.   HughesNet is my only other option for high speed internet but one I will not entertain.    The local telco promised DSL in their entire footprint when our area was sold off by Verizon but they ran out of money and stopped upgrades 3 years ago.    I am no "power user" i only use around 10 gig a month on unlimited plan.    Its been fun but I have accepted the fact that the ride is over at the end of next year...    KnarfOH you should do the same.

Thank you to MrZorbatron, Dkoellerwx, and everyone else as I learned quite a bit about tri band network and device band selection behavior.   

Wifi calling works great on Galaxy S5.   Calls connect instantly, faster then when connected to the macro network.   Texts go thru instantly too.    Battery life is better on wifi calling too.   I made a 70 minute call on wifi and the battery only decreased by 5% during the call.    I guess I better plug my airave  back in for a while so I dont get a notice in the mail too...

I visited the Vegas strip 2 weeks ago and can attest to the variable service from Sprint.    I am not going to rant on that the service was terrible but they do still have some work that needs to be done there.    Most of the service problems I encountered were when I was outside on Las Vegas Blvd.    Most major hotel/casinos have some sort of DAS inside so signal was better when inside.   The strip with its tall buildings is definitely a challenging RF environment.     I should also mention that my friends AT&T Iphone 5s fared even worse, usually no data download speed at all and numerous dropped calls.   

Ah, but that is the generic Service Mode screen, not the Sprint specific Service Mode set of screens.  Try ##DEBUG# to open the latter.  Still, I am intrigued that the generic Service Mode screen is also present and accessible.

 

AJ

And just for reference the lock code on Samsung devices for the ##DEBUG# screen is 777468

  The *#0011# dialer code you list for Android is, as far as I know, only for Samsung handsets that are non Sprint variants.  So, it will not work with Sprint handsets.  

 

 

The *#0011# dialer code works on my Samsung Galaxy SIII (SPH-L710)

So this year our town decommissioned a big water tower. Not to long after as I live 2 blocks away I talked to the men that where hooking up equipment and they said they are installing att, Verizon putting panels up and had backhaul installed really fast. Question is why didn't sprint take up on doing this? It's on top of a huge hill in the center of town?

 

 

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Having a CDMA site at the highest point in town isn't always the best for RF planning as it can cause interference for the other sites in the cluster.

A few things to note:1) Sprint has enough spectrum to go around 2) These MVNOs are very valuable for poaching customers from other carriers. Ting for instance has the following breakdown: 30% Verizon 28% Sprint  21% AT&T 12% T-Mobile 9% Other.  Rather than think of MVNOs like competing carriers it would be more apt to think of them as low cost plans to draw in people who don't want/need unlimited data/minutes/texts or are adverse to signing contracts at a carrier. 

 

My personal view is that Sprint MVNOs are great (full disclosure, I currently have 2 lines on Ting). Why? There are plenty of customers seeking to pay less and if those subscribers are going to leave, which they absolutely will, you may as well steal subscribers from yourself. If Ting and other MVNOs didn't offer cheap Sprint network plans I would have moved to AT&T/Verizon or one of their MVNOs. I don't see myself signing a carrier contract unless my job starts paying for it or my data usage goes up considerably. My price to pay for this is unsubsidized phones and often a delay in the availability of new phones. That seems a fair trade off while segregating the availability of service does not. 

I will agree that MVNO's are good for Sprint financially and that Sprint has enough spectrum to go around.   But do they have enough CDMA 800 spectrum to host all these MVNO customers, all the people with custom PRLS to access SMR only and still have enough for everyone else?   Remember there is only enough spectrum for 1 CDMA 800 carrier nationwide.   

You misconstrue the Universal Service Fee. The purpose is not what it can do for you personally -- the purpose is what it can do for others and society as a whole.

 

AJ

Well AJ you are correct, instead of ranting I should have just stated that the UCF won't benefit me or others in my area. Our local telco was bought out years ago by Frontier with the promise of extending dsl throughout their rural footprint subsidized by the UCF. Needless to say those plans have been scraped as they have run out of money.

I too am a Clearwire home isp sub and have been for 3 years.    I am a rural customer, actually I am out of Clearwires service area and had to fib a little on my service address to sign up.    Unfortunately for me there is no other broadband option except for satellite which is an option I will not entertain,    The most data I have ever used is 8Gig in a month.    I use more data on my smart phone than I do at home each month.   So I guess my only option is to ride this out until I get the service cancellation notice from Clear/Sprint which will be the end of home internet access for me.   I should quit paying the universal connectivity fee since its doing nothing for me...   Very sad considering the big push for rural broadband and last mile connectivity.   

I personally don't think MVNO's should have access to 800 CDMA.   It should be reserved for all the loyal Sprint post paid customers.  We pay a little more every month to enjoy premium services like this.   

I still show CDMA PCS and the SID is still 4139. What is interesting is all of the BSID's that I am accustomed to seeing have all changed to a consistent 5 digit primarily starting with 52xxx.

What band class is listed on the debug screen?  Band 1 is 1900 and 10 is 800SMR

So what did they recommend doing to get it to work? Based on everything you've said, it should be working. The only other thing I could think of is your cable speed. What is the download and upload speeds do you get?

 

Edit: Did some research on your cable company and it appears they offer SLOW upload speeds that might be the reason your Airave isn't working properly. So as I mentioned before, we'll need to know what your cable internet plan is.

 

The Airave needs at least a 1.8+Mbps for the upload to work. Based on Suddenlink's internet plans, only the 30Mbps plan or the 50Mbps plan barely meet the requirement needed. If you have the 3Mbps or 15Mbps plan, those won't work since their upload speeds are 768kbps and 1.5Mbps respectively. As for the 30Mbps plan, it barely meets the Airave's requirements with a 2.0Mbps upload speed and still could cause issues if other's are using the connection for uploads, etc. The 50Mbps plan has a upload rate of 3.0Mbps.

 

Yikes.

I happen to be running my airave with Clear Wimax which airave team said wont work because of latency but it works just fine even with UL speeds of only 1Mb at best. Like everyone says call Sprint and have them send you a new unit.

My airave did the same thing when I first got it. I called sprint and they had not provisioned it yet. Sounds like yours is provisioned if its listed on your account. I had to unplug the power from mine a few times before all the lights finally went green.

Nice work! Thanks for helping with all that mapping. Now if you can help find that tower near the Sylvan area, we'll be in great shape, lol.

 

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I did post a screen shot of my LTE engineering screen while connected to LTE on the mystery Sylvan tower last Friday in the Washington/Oregon forum.

What part of Hillsboro? Just wondering because I got a tag of that last night and want to try and narrow it down.

 

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Check out sensorly for Hillsboro. A coworker and I have mapped most all of the live LTE areas to date.

I work for a national firm that has Sprint DAS and uses Nextel for PTT and Blackberry service. We were advised by Sprint/Nextel last summer that we would need to transition to CDMA devices by June 2013. It doesn't appear there is any hurry to switch us to CDMA, we haven't even started testing new devices yet even though iDEN goes dark June 30th.