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  1. PedroDaGr8
    T-Mobile isn't joking about rolling out 5GUC to cover as many as possible. I was out in the middle of nowhere Washington this weekend to do some hiking in some of the interesting parts of the Columbia River Flood Basalts. I was surprised to see they had deployed n41 in a number of small rural towns like Othello (pop 7500) and Connell (pop 5500).
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    That explains a few locations on my local map.All of the inaccurate have a permit in place to upgrade the tower but it hasn't been done yet.
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    He's definitely lurking. He liked one of my posts from a couple weeks ago in the Western Washington Market thread.
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    Just tested it and it works fine for me. I'm on the TMobile locked S22U.
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    By the way, which frequency is this calculated with? I am wondering if they are optimizing some things for n41 since that is becoming their primary data channel.
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    Ohh, map versus satellite view. I sound have noticed that. I've been in and out of meetings all day and my brain is toast.
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    What does satellite mean in this context? Also, that is pretty bad when it comes to modulation.
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    T-Mobile has already pulled the Sprint equipment from the top of the Totem Lake Motel 6. We will see soon how bad things get signal-wise in that area.
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    I assume you mean Tmo equient and yeah I hope they do. That being said, I have little faith based on the Totem Lake area.
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    Got it here too!
  11. PedroDaGr8
    Have to say, T-Mobile has been keeping A LOT more sites than I expected.
  12. PedroDaGr8
    It is REALLY REALLY strange. Makes me wonder if there is some sort of show-stopper bug (much like what impacted the Pixels).
  13. PedroDaGr8
    For those who monitor permits, I just noticed that permits for Unicorporated King County (Starting second half of 2020) are now on MyBu8ldingPermit.
  14. PedroDaGr8
    If my region is any indication, they will. I can only think of a handful of towers near me which haven't been upgraded yet. Most are either in weird locations (like a basin), already covered by another tower, or in a NIMBY area.
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    Hopefully it doesn't have anything to do with the recent Samsung Hack
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    Per Rey:
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    A post over on Reddit notes that when TMobile has been deploying the new Erickson 4460 radios, they are deploying a separate antenna for B25/66 rather than use the mid-band ports on the larger multi-band antenna. They are curious why "...when T-Mobile deploys the Ericsson Radio 4460 (capable of B25 + B66), they often connect it to a separate mid-band antenna, and leave the mid-band ports on the low+mid-band array empty. In this case, they've connected it to a CommScope VV-65A-R1- that one is pretty common, in other cases, I've seen them use a (much older) RFS APX16. The reason I ask is because both the APX16 and the VV-65A-R1 are seemingly worse than the APXVAARRAPXVAARR24_43-U-NA20 (or APXVAALL24_43-U-NA20 on newer setups) in terms of gain, so there must be something else to this pattern. " It seems strange to use the Low+Mid and then not use the mid ports (rather than just use discrete low and mid antennas. Anyone have any ideas? Link to the Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/t4aosq/what_is_tmobile_doing_with_these_radio_4460s/?sort=confidence
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    Honestly, this one is in a horrible location. It is located in a low spot in the area meaning it would only appreciably serve the small area around it. Everything else is better served by one of the other two towers nearby. We will see, they have made MANY dumb decisions before.
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    It does. I can easily band lock on my T-Mobile S22.
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    I ordered through T-Mobile
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    Interesting, the tower by the Shell station located just south of 405/522 interchange just got the full upgrade. This dramatically improves capacity in the north Kingsgate area. Strangely though, the Sprint conversion across the 405 (just south of Cedar Park Christian School) is STILL not live. This site was fully converted months ago, way before the site by the Shell station, but isn't live. My guess is Tmo might have changed their mind about this site since it offers almost no benefit now that the other two nearby sites are live.
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    Per /u/revik2 (a verified Sprint Corporate Employee) over on Reddit: As for my opinions on the device so far. It seems like a solid incremental improvement over my Note20Ultra: The modem is clearly significantly better with my deivce showing a stronger signal and faster data speeds. These speeds get even a bit faster with n71/n41 aggregation . WiFi6 performance is about 100Mbit faster (400-600 rather than 200-400). The display is notably snappier with QHD/120Hz I wasn't expecting much improvement on the camera but rather surprisingly, the new 100x zoom is actually really damn usable. Edit: Another thing, the fingerprint reader is much much faster than on my old N20U. This is a HUGE improvent.
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    Just received my phone, time to start transferring everything and getting it setup.
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    Same here!
  25. PedroDaGr8
    Someone posted this over at Reddit, n41 small cell site plans for LA. Looks like they will be using the AIR 4435 for the B41/n41 portion. https://epicla.lacounty.gov/energov_prod/SelfService/#/plan/2a27f8d0-790f-49b2-807d-dc7bfb935370?tab=attachments
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