Sprint Tri-Band LTE Phone Discussion Thread aka Sprint Spark

Coorsleftfield, how does that work? I check the boxes on roaming, but after perhaps 30 minutes I look at the boxes and they are unchecked. When the boxes are checked I don't get much better coverage or speeds than if I was on Sprint. I have a Verizon LG 8.3 and it will get 15G (about 4 miles from tower) and setting right next to it my roaming Sprint LG2 will get about .5. There is a stretch of road I travel that signal will cut out on non-roaming Sprint, but will provide continuous Spotify when set to roaming. My phone will not go to LTE unless I reboot it. I am beginning to wonder if my phone is broke.
 
I can't believe this I just received my Boost Mobile Moto G 2 days ago and I swear where ever I go in my town I always have 6 full bars of signal!!! That is unbelievable compared to Verizon's and AT&T's signals!!! And this is Sprint!!!

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Look and this is in my house anywhere!!!!

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I'm referring to speeds so fast that it'll break your neck when you turn your Nexus 6 on.

Ah.
Band 26 is plentiful which is good for normal everyday use.
I am starting to see some Spark-type Band 41 here and there.
It comes and it goes. Trying to do a SpeedTest when I see it but I am not able to move fast enough I guess.
Getting low 30s Mbps upload and around 8-10 Mbps download speeds which is cool.
Just gotta be patient for some Band 41 love.

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I've been seeing B41 at my house in the eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh and also Downtown.

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Re: Official Sprint Tri-Band LTE Phone Discussion Thread aka Sprint Spark

if you look at that way, you need to apply the same logic to Paul.... Chicago solid on B41 for Sprint, but his phone doesn't support it and he refuses to upgrade, so he doesn't get the benefit of all that LTE goodness..

Also Verizon AWS is NOT everywhere that 700 LTE is in NYC. Verizon network isn't even spaced properly for AWS to relieve a significant load off of 700 mhz. AWS is more-less preforming as HotSpot right now in the various sections its available, it's not blanketing NYC. B41 while still having holes, is well on a it's way to Blanketing the 5 boroughs. If you have a tri-band Phone in NYC you should never drop to 1900 or 800 LTE until deep inside buildings.



B41 (2.5) will be the primary band in the cities... B41 brings both Capacity and Speed to the table. If you look at the priority settings in your phone's engineering screens you will see that B41 is the primary band...then you fall to B25 (1900) then finally band 26 (800) so in an area that is saturated with B41 a person should never need to fall to B25 or B26.

It's band 41 that's going to give you your Sprint Spark (50+ Mbps down).... Neither B25 or B26 will achieve this with a 5x5 config even if on an Unloaded tower.



In the Mega Cities - there is a VERY BIG difference in having a Spark (Tri-band LTE) phone and a Single band device... In the Mega Cities where B41 (Spark) is launched, people are getting consistent ~50Mbps+ Down speeds.... In these same cities, with a 1900-Only LTE phone people are seeing the Congestion set in and are subject to <2Mbps Down during Peak Times. B41 has a Ton more spectrum available to it than either 1900 or 800 will have. Plus the Old Clearwire towers already have the Backhaul in place thanks to WiMax.

Understand Sprint has more spectrum in B41 (2.5 mhz) than all 4 wireless carriers have lower band spectrum combined.... That's A LOT of Spectrum, almost too much for Sprint to ever use with only ~55m Subs. No Doubt B41 is where Sprint will shine after all other carriers networks have slowed due to Congestion and demand for more Data grows. Which is why TMO is doomed giving away the store as it has been doing, their only plan for the future is to get Brought quickly, before **** hits the fan and Wall Street reacts. They know they can't maintain a Quality of Network while having all the Data Hogs jump on to it bringing down the speeds while it gives away the store and pay people to leave their current carrier.

Like Verizon congestion problems, TMO degenerate of Service will be felt first in the Mega-Cities (NYC, LA, CHI, SF) and the Tech-Blogs like AC will be reporting it as headline news, that will be the signal of the beginning of the end of Data Gravy Train that was TMO.
Bro why u steady mentioning T-mobile getting sold? We are actually gaining customers and LTE. And we have our own spark plan called wideband LTE.

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Bro why u steady mentioning T-mobile getting sold? We are actually gaining customers and LTE. And we have our own spark plan called wideband LTE.

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Since Deutche Telkom has had that company for sale for years with deals agreed upon with both AT&T and Sprint.

it's not if but when they are going to finally be able to sell it with the Fed's approval.
 
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Bro why u steady mentioning T-mobile getting sold? We are actually gaining customers and LTE. And we have our own spark plan called wideband LTE.

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Too have a Spark like network you have to have LTE-TDD, for which T-Mobile does not have at the moment, and doesn't have the money to start. Just because in some areas they might be able to do a 20mhz channel in which they would need 40mhz of spectrum for that one channel up and down will be few and far between.
 
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Too have a Spark like network you have to have LTE-TDD, for which T-Mobile does not have at the moment, and doesn't have the money to start. Just because in some areas they might be able to do a 20mhz channel in which they would need 40mhz of spectrum for that one channel up and down will be few and far between.
Look up wideband LTE fam. Google is your friend.

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Since Deutche Telkom has had that company for sale for years with deals agreed upon with both AT&T and Sprint.

it's not if but when they are going to finally be able to sell it with the Fed's approval.
That was years ago and did that deal go thru? Imho if the fcc denied att. They will deny softbank also. Besides like I said T-Mobile has gained subs.

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GreenGhost you need to look up the difference between TDD and FDD, for which T-Mobile is only using FDD.
 
I know the difference bro lol. But we are using multiple bands just like sprint regardless of tdd and fdd.

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My nexus reaches 40mb down in Chicago just using band 4.

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See what your are not getting is that our band 41 lte is TDD and uses the band more efficiently than FDD. As in doesn't require a download/upload channel arrangement.
 

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GreenGhost you have fdd which means you are using say a 20mhz channel for download plus using a 20 MHz channel for upload to, under tdd you are using one 20mhz channel for both upload and download just like you do on Wi-Fi. Which means say you have 40 MHz of spectrum to use. On tdd you would have 2 channels of lte instead of 1 channel on fdd.
 
I know that also bro. I never said fdd was better than tdd. I said wideband LTE was similar to spark in using 3 LTE bands efficiently.

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