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  1. milan03
    This is absolutely true. I know a few subcontractors that have been working on T-Mobile sites in NYC for more than a year, getting offers to work on NV sites in Denver, San Francisco, Michigan and Ohio areas.
  2. milan03
    It doesn't really matter who's gonna destroy who, and who will be in a better position in three years, to most customers it matters what their experience is like today. That's it. If user experience starts degrading in three years, they'll start leaving T-Mobile, and look for a carrier that suits them better. But unless you're a prophet and know what'll happen, I suggests not to worry too much. Just enjoy.
  3. milan03
    You revived it yourself.
  4. milan03
    4x2 MIMO is very beneficial as you're having two spatially separated dual-polarized antennas, essentially doubling the capacity at the eNodeB, sending 4 streams, still allowing UE to leverage spatial multiplexing on 2 downlink streams. This improves robustness of the connection and user experience overall. Clear benefit is cell edge performance. This is also very useful for better use of TM4 or Closed Loop Spatial Multiplexing which also slightly improves the overall throughput. Peak rates should be the same, but overall airlink quality should improve. As Neal said earlier, this is half step to 4x4 MIMO which no UE support until we start seeing Category 5 baseband chipsets by the end of 2014 and into 2015. That will effectively double the peak throughput of 20Mhz FDD from 150Mbps to 300Mbps.
  5. milan03
    The latest marketing term that annoys the crap out of me seems to be "Dual LTE MIMO" that I'm seeing on Moto X leaks, and Ubuntu EDGE. According to the leaks it "increases the speeds"... wow... Not only that Category 3 and 4 baseband chipsets can't process more than 2x2 MIMO with spatial multiplexing, but also pretty much every phone since HTC Thunderbolt had at least 2 separate LTE antennas, which Release 8 mandates.
  6. milan03
    LTE-A isn't a single feature or a switch that you turn on and instantly get 1Gbps peak rates. It's many tools in the toolbox combined to provide a better network experience. Snapdragon 800 for instance supports one of the tools, Carrier Aggregation, and aggregates two separate non contiguous LTE bands doubling the throughput. That said, it only supports up to two 10Mhz Downlink channels so you're effectively achieving peak rates of a single 20Mhz LTE downlink channel. Verizon for instance can achieve the same peak throughput without Carreir Aggregation since they have contiguous 40Mhz of AWS in many markets east of Mississippi. Because of that, they don't need to rush with CA as much as lets say AT&T. Besides, battery life will certainly be shorter on CA devices. See my point?
  7. milan03
    Even if it was, you'd need to wait for Cat 5 UE in order to utilize it. Cat 3, 4 chipsets support 2x2 only. Sent from my GT-I9505G using Tapatalk 4 Beta
  8. milan03
    He already got smoked by my speeds so he can stfu now
  9. milan03
    Correct.
  10. milan03
    It was actually a macro on the roof top.
  11. milan03
    Yup 150Mbps coming in 2015. Dallas should have 2x20Mhz this year! Also verizon should have 2x20Mhz in a lot of places this year.
  12. milan03
    It's not the same as that Press event a few weeks ago. This is outdoors, running on E + lower F block that T-Mobile owns. Clearly, they've cannibalized their HSPA+42 down to HSPA+21 in order for this to work, but the network performance is stellar. It's only a single site at the west side highway, and radius is one block. Once you're out of the bubble, you're back to 5Mhz LTE and back to HSPA+42.
  13. milan03
    Today I've visited T-Mobile's 2x10Mhz test site in NYC, and it looks good to me
  14. milan03
    In order to achieve that kind of efficiency, you'd need to implement higher order MIMO. LTE-A isn't a magic switch that will increase that spectral efficiency by default.
  15. milan03
    Found this : at 07:42 mark according to Ray Neville total number of T-Mobile cell sites is ~52,000, and they're modernizing 2/3 of that which is about 37,000. The number includes macros and DAS. Doesn't include MetroPCS sites.
  16. milan03
    Not sure if that ad will help them much after their "Next" strategy...
  17. milan03
    In NYC it's finally without that annoying 30Mbps rate limit.
  18. milan03
    That's that other event from March. It happened shortly after a few of us started posting pre-launch screens and videos of T-Mobile's 5Mhz FDD with pretty poor peak rates, most likely due to heavy OCNS testing. Within days they've assembled the presser in Midtown East, ran 10Mhz indoor LTE to "showcase" T-Mobile's upcoming network in NYC. I think it was Verge, Engadget, LaptopMag and Cnet only. They basically sat them around the table and let them test... At that time, LTE wasn't live anywhere in Manhattan, was hard for them to confirm anything. That said, I was already finding my way onto that network by manually scanning and forcing my way in, but it was clearly 5Mhz network. But this time, we've confirmed that they're totally running it in A block (10Mhz), while their actual network is in E block (5Mhz).
  19. milan03
    Close, it was at the Skylight West on West 36th Street http://skylightnyc.com. Remember that other presser they've had at the Midtown East back in march, they also ran 2x10Mhz, I'm suspecting now A block as well. That time they had dumb reporters that never thought about running ServiceMode, so I can't confirm on that one. It's so deceiving since they're all about the "customers", but no customers get 2x10Mhz LTE in that same New York City.
  20. milan03
    Exactly. A few tech journalists are talking to Verizon about this. It's already been escalated to Verizon's engineering team. I can't wait to hear more about this. If Verizon never knew about this, this could be subject to huge FCC sanctions, and a serious federal offense.
  21. milan03
    And how about T-Mobile using Verizon's A Block during the press event in NYC, boosting the indoor network to 2x10Mhz, while on the streets of NYC you get sub 30Mbps on an unloaded network?! John Legere tweeting himself 67Mbps at the event: https://twitter.com/john_legere/status/354971407375011841 How deceiving is that!
  22. milan03
    I know, that's not the new (Blue) GSM model I'm talking about. It's only available through MetroPCS retail stores in Boston, Hartford, Vegas and Dallas for now. It's soon to be available nationwide.
  23. milan03
    No. MetroPCS GSM/WCDMA/LTE GS3 is also $399.
  24. milan03
    They're already selling T-Mo GSM version in Hartford, Vegas, Dallas officially, my local store already has it in stock, but not allowed to sell until the 14th. So it's coming.
  25. milan03
    No idea, but that S3 sounds awfully good to me
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