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Used to be, now it works across all markets. It's "deployed," and should work between two devices anywhere in native Sprint coverage sites that have the new Network Vision equipment on them, barring any issues with the sites. EVRC-NW is indeed the HD voice codec.

If Chicago is any indication, pretty much when B25 is completely useless. My guess is they monitor load for specific markets to see if B25 is maxed out, and make a call on whether B26/B41 will alleviate it. From the sounds of it, even with all 3 bands chugging along, Chicago still has some dreadful B25 in places.

This must be very recent then. I was only roaming on 1x a few weeks ago in Verizon LTE but non-Sprint territory. Just did a PRL update and got 55020, it was on 55019 prior.

Now seems to be the right time to ask: Does another B25 carrier = another antenna? School me in the most basic terms if I am incorrect please!

How will SignalCheck Pro work on this phone? Think it'll display LTE bands properly?

Whoa, I never looked at it that closely before. That's terrible! But, I don't think these maps have been updated for Binghamton ever since NV happened, they don't even show LTE yet and the whole area is launched. Once the maps update, I'm assuming that won't say roaming anymore since we have NV gear everywhere and 1x800, so maybe they'd have luck getting an Airave then.

That area near downtown Binghamton has had absolutely terrible service, I agree. There is one site in the entire county that is still not NV upgraded, and it's on top of the state office building (I believe) downtown. It's still rocking the legacy gear, and has a date of "TBD" for upgrades according to Sprint. Once this is upgraded, hopefully by 2015, the Downtown Binghamton area shouldn't be as bad as it is now. Sprint was wrong saying there is no service though, I don't think there are any "dead" zones at all, especially not on their coverage map. It's just that indoor service is probably very bad around that area if I had to guess, with really bad 3G speeds due to this one site. Also, a few months ago, 1x800 wasn't turned on in this area, and it is now. Your parents might actually have usable 1x800 inside their home now - I believe it just got optimized. Then, once downtown is upgraded, 3G and LTE will be usable from their area.

I just realized there's no NFC, but then again, it's midrange. I really like using NFC to pay at Wegmans. Hrm. Also, where's the earpiece speaker on this thing? Through the glass?

Not that I've heard of.

http://www.sharpusa.com/ForHome/Mobile.aspx

If it's really only $240, I'll consider buying one for no reason prior to the iPhone 6 coming out. This Sharp really wouldn't be much of a downgrade from a Nexus 5 from a stats perspective, right? (I don't game, just heavy e-mail for work and SMS)

Complete.

I love the content in these threads the OP is creating, but should these South African LTE topics be moved out of the Sprint NV Deployment forum section, and into General?

At my old place of work, it was a few miles down the highway from where I am now. Ground mount NV conversion, 3G accepted, no LTE. I would hit 2.7Mbps all day on 3G and could do everything just fine. YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, you name it. It was probably very underutilized. And I would get these speeds with a -100 eHRPD signal too, pretty far away. The population covered by this site in Owego must be a whole lot more despite having tons more backhaul hooked up, for the 3G to be this bad. Maybe it's everyone on Boost and Virgin mobile clogging it up.

I've got no issues with LTE dropping - it drops to 3G when the signal degrades further indoors, the way it should be.

I haz it. Only in the outskirts of this building though. When I start walking down hallways, or to the cafeteria, it drops and the phone is somewhat unusable at times. I guess I'll consider myself lucky to even have these speeds at the moment - that sounds rough for you!

Gotcha - thanks for the insight. In that case, B26 will be our savior when they get their little white truck here and pop the carrier card in. And I guess I really won't care about 3G performance at that point since I'll barely be on it.

Yup, I'm out of range of any other sites. I can see the tower from my office.

I only drop to 3G when it makes sense - i.e. deep in the building or when I'm far away from the site. I usually have good B25 indoor coverage here though, sitting at -100dBm at my desk right now. If I manually force it to 3G outdoors, I get a -46 eHRPD signal! But the speed is still awful.

That's what's confusing me. Even if all of the users in Owego have an old single band LTE device, they'd still be on B25 LTE which has totally adequate numbers right now. Is it possible that this town is just full of 3G phones, or everyone is deep indoors and can't grab LTE? Maybe you're right and B26 will alleviate hundreds of the 3G campers indoors.

I connect to a single site in Owego, NY while at work, it is 3G/B25 LTE accepted. Speeds on 3G are dismal, usually .2-.5Mbps. However, LTE seems completely unused - I regularly get 28Mbps down and 8Mbps up on this site. Obviously, the backhaul is there. Will 3G ever improve on this site? Is this something a service ticket could fix, or can 3G be completely overloaded by other users despite having adequate backhaul?

Awesome!

Just a status update for the Endicott/Endwell/Binghamton area.... 1x800 seems to be popping up a lot more in my home in Endwell, however B26 LTE is still a few dBm weaker than B25 when it finds it. I wonder if 1x800 can be optimized separately from 800Mhz LTE? It sure seems like that's what happened. 1x800 used to be weaker than 1xRTT in my home, and now it is usually 10dBm stronger (as it should be) when it kicks in. So that seems complete now. In any case, the whole Binghamton/Vestal/Endicott area is very well covered by B25 LTE now since I think they're all optimized. Driving around I don't see 3G much anymore. And eCSFB seems to be fine, finally. Just waiting for that B26 optimization and the remaining 8T8R panels to be popped on to the sites, as I'm only aware of the Skye Island Dr. site in Endicott having them installed at this point.

September would be a good month for this. If Sprint activates 8T8R sites in a massive wave across the US, the iPhone 6 deployment (triband) will be buttery smooth and really take some load off of the B25/26 antennas when people upgrade from their old single and dual-band iPhones. Maybe that's the goal - I never thought I'd see 8T8R in Upstate NY Central this year but they've really gone nuts with it.

You will fit in quite well here.