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We have enough spectrum in SC for 2 carriers. Why they will not update the software side, on equipment built in 2012 and installed in 2014 I have no idea.

Yeah. I don't know what Sprint 1900mhz holdings is there.

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AT&T also offers a connected car UDP. $20/mo. I signed up for two and built my own 'fixed wireless' with an LTE modem and some antennae; works great at home and I have another one for the car when traveling.

Mr Tim nailed it. It will be great in rural areas for years to come. I imagine the idea is to clear 5/10 FDD over the next year or two in the areas of expansion, like many smart folks here have said. Maybe in a year or so a 4x2 solution will be baseline for band 9000 here with some split sector and QAM wizardry. That will help keep data hungry rural users subsequently covered and able to stay connected. An example would be rural band 2/12 deployments aggregated to give a nice boost, granted rangetry and fadeonomics are forgiving, like user:IamMrFamous07 suggested. That is upwards of 50MHz of LTE in areas that have maybe 20 now; subject to their quick and needed refarming schedule.
 

Contributing to the longevity of this band is still penetration aspects, a couple other big companies like death star and comcast showed up, the holding company Dish bought some as well.

Glass Half full aspect; Also the possibility that a little further down the road into 2020/21 as a new waveform is beginning growth, this spectrum is fully cleared with incumbents repacked* The full 31 MHz would give you quite a capacity boost and would be affordable for suburban Five Gee build outs. Expect penetration aspect marketing in urban environments that could be leased or used to platform smart city applications, reliable connected cars, transit and public safety. Easily aggregated with LAA deployments possibly. I wouldn't even chip porcelain with bricks if they find a way to use a bit of white space in there.

Maybe it will be the 'anchor' LTE network needed for the next airlink to operate with, as has been described in early descriptions of Five Gee core and radio control signals?

This all depends on the current mobile environment where Dish just bought more for their 70MHz/pop 1Bsq/ft warehouse. Comcast is entering, and every one has a price if you read the news. So a buildout could halt if negotiations are entered. Like everyone else I hope it keeps up competitive pressures into the future most of all. 

I was thinking markets not states and I still view Myrtle Beach market as a NC market because it goes clear to New Bern, NC. I knew of your one site but wouldn't it be 2 since you have a seasonal cow at the beach.

 

My point is that the vast majority of sprint markets have more B41 sites than Shentel even if you through in SC/GA coast and the southern states of Ark, Miss, and AL. But Shentel is looked at as the genius at deployment while their deployment is just as slow (and slower on the national since sprint is focusing on the big cities most) and does not include more than 2xCA.

Facts, the folks sure say it is slow going there; heavier in shentel markets by quite a lead. It has been dead here obviously but they are still producing, as any metro thread will echo your point.

The COW was on for just over a week so that I interpreted as the best irl shitpost Sprint has given me to date. Most likely testing as it will be a small cell soon.

I try to cover North Myrtle south until Georgetown, west to Florence.

1 band 41 macro equipment installed or activated, of the 113 sites in my market.

Please list the markets that are tracked and <25%. The only ones I can think of are West PA(tracked-0),South Carolina(untracked-0), and Jacksonville(semi-tracked-12 or 3% but lots of Clearwire). Most markets are greater than 25% even Delaware that was complained about a few post up is only short by 6 sites of 25% and that is without half the data in Wilmington a major city in DE being tracked.

I am tracking in SC, 1 installation of 113 sites around Myrtle to Florence.

You guys should totally make a sponsor map.

http://www.fiercecable.com/broadcasting/fcc-waives-quiet-period-auction-rules-for-broadcasters

 

Whoa, Pai just said eff the quiet period rules. Gonna be interesting to see how the last rounds of this auction go now. 

 

Personally, I don't think Pai gives a care about T-Mobile and Sprint and this is just one way he is going to push them together. 

I believe this applies only to the TeeVee stations that were auctioning spectrum. I think they want to get to manufacturing newer hardware for their transition away from current channel placement.

the FCC has waived the quiet period rules that barred broadcasters from discussing auction activity with one another.

 

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 ...broadcasters’ assessments regarding main and auxiliary RF operations, structural analysis and possible interruption of collocated radio broadcasting have brought up questions of reimbursement timing, “since most manufacturers and services companies will require down payments to begin processing orders and scheduling service resources.”

 

“[ERI] asked the IATF to provide more transparency with regard to the expected processing times for cost reimbursement submissions and the availability of funds, particularly at the beginning of the transition,” Meleski wrote.

 

In Myrtle we have about ~47 sites online w bands 25/26 live and about ~12 3g GMO, and one band 41 install(Jan. 1) awaiting some attention. 800MHz work was recently concluded last fall with the site at the jetport MYR having moved. This covers about 100 klicks of coast from the NC line to just south of Georgetown and west along the 501 corridor to Florence with about 5 stragglers outside of that. Our first band 25 site went online a bit over two years ago. We are wrapping up Network Vision here hopefully soon. 

Sources: Premiere map, logs, Sensorly, extra 5k miles on my lease.

So I bought a spectrum analyzer and checked how bad congestion is around town B26 in Anderson is full at peak times confirmed with speed test down 0.23mbps fail on uploads on B25 also full (This is on Clemson Blvd area of Anderson North Anderson) speed test confirmed 0.10mbps and uploads fail 60% of times so 5Mhz is not cutting it around here and I have talked to a lot of people and they are unhappy with their service but here is the kicker T mobile has just cut on Band 12 in our area and running at 10Mhz in rural areas in Anderson 40Mhz speed tests in Anderson 73mbps down 10up on B12 rural 21mbps down 8 up this out blows AT&T and Verizon sometimes during congestion so kinda disappointed for Sprint atm in Anderson County area and the work that has been going on my tower has been Tmobile adding Band 12


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Cool what model did you get? I generally roll band 25 only here, 26 is a tar swamp. I built an antenna array at home that nets me a better signal, so my tests are not as bad, but that tells you the length folks go to get a signal. Tmo does not seem to have carrier aggregation live here yet but they run in the high teens generally on throughput. We have 20MHz FD of band 4 and 20MHz of band 5 here. I am unable to locate and Band 2 LTE with a few devices so I imagine that will take a bit to show up. ATT is steadier now that they added more macros and bands available for use, VZW has had Horry county covered in LTE since 2013, they added band 4 here a year or two back and are slowing down a bit, but they have been adding small cells recently and added many macros last year.

50$ a month; seems logging all your cell info and geostatistics wasn't enough?

Pay some one 50 bucks to teach you Linux and get these results at that point.

how can an app lock you on a band when it has always been the network that shuffles you around as needed?

Simple, use a command to turn off the modem's AT for certain frequencies. If it is configured not to accept certain connections it simply will connect to what it is allowed to.

No sight of Band 41 being turned on yet at the installed site. Band 25 was down again today, 3ree Gee only again. "Testing" maybe? 

No signs of small cell activity or new installs on my route covering 5th S gamma cell to hwys 17>544>501>701. Covered GMO's a couple weekends back w no updates.

I get 25/15 on an 850 GMO through the woods, to my cat6 router. No carrier aggregation network side here yet, but it sure is nice as the band 4 I receive sits at 10MHz FDD as well so this provides much better signal strength.

All the talk of low band being worthless baffles me. Folks who say that do not have one intermittent band 25 slice to work with, I am guessing.

Is that cause there's no B12 or they just wanted to block att?

 

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When TMO acquired SUNcom they picked up one 850CLR license.

They are hiring all over, there is a few ads down here as well along the southern coast. I can't find one here for any kind of engineering though, are you seeing activity in your neck of the woods?

Every time I've looked, there's never one on there. And when there is, it has some crazy plan attached to it.

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Interesting. Would I have to be on the more expensive plan to use the 6100D, or could I buy any of them and replace the device with the 6100D? Also, is calling in easier or just setting up an account and doing it online?

 

 

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I am unaware of varying any level's of service through Calyx. You should be able to replace it with any Sprint branded mobile broadband, 6100d is such a device so you should have no issues.

I would say difficulty is subjective. Phone skills versus setting up an account. I set up my account and then called in, I stumbled across the device section afterwords and used it to test compatibility of some modems I had. It seems pretty painless either way, all you have to lose is not trying. Hope this helps.

I explained this process to @calyx, as they were unaware CS was an option. After emailing them, email trolling mobile citizen and then tweeting at Sprintcare I just called in. I just did not enjoy the idea of a battery powered standby plugged in all day per Note 7. Picked one up on Ebay, called in and got it swapped. Apparently no one ever tried this before. I just followed the instructions in the crappy aircard GUI to call x number for assistance. Nick and the Calyx crew were pretty excited about this news.

Who knew? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If you buy one of these plans, can you swap out the device with another?

 

 

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Yes, call CS and have them change the device, or you can make a mysprint dot com account, with your calyx assigned number and do it online as you would any device ESN swap.

Did they remove the netgear 6100D as an option? I don't see it anymore.

Yup, about a year ago... right when I was about to get one myself and haven't been able to find one ANYWHERE since then. 

Ebay.

Radio service is down at the site of the band 41 install (pics in première) hopefully it is being integrated now.

Confirming band 41 upgrade tonight. It is 10 blocks away and not on, but I saw new antennae yesterday. I would go sooner but working in January is something we don't take for granted here. Pics in première map later.

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Confirming band 41 upgrade tonight. It is 10 blocks away and not on, but I saw new antennae yesterday. I would go sooner but working in January is something we don't take for granted here. Pics in première map later.

I made a few passes over the weekend and was unable to find new band 25. We cancelled pics today because it is nasty out and we are pretty beat from the weekend. @Sprintcare tells me work should be starting soon, and w the Mobilitie contract going up in N Myrtle, we are planning a route through there next weekend. I will post those findings here and pictures to the map when I get them.

No new developments yet that I could find. Happy new year everyone, have a great week.

Still waiting for first carrier.