Except places like Kansas City. Good luck getting reliable data, at, say, the Starbucks across from the Sprint campus
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Except places like Kansas City. Good luck getting reliable data, at, say, the Starbucks across from the Sprint campus
Go home SPRINT you’re drunk again. Sprint needs to get LTE coverage everywhere before rolling anything else out.
There are a lot more videos on the dangers of 5g.
RT is more times than not closer to the truth of things than our corporate owned networks.
Apologies but what in my comment is contrary to Sprint's implementation being industry standard? There's certainly no claim that mmwave is a requirement.
They already did a lot of 5G experiments in rats and mice right here in the US. They all showed increased rates of tumors. Some experiments showed moderate, some showed slight, none showed decreased levels. I understand we won't fully know the effects on humans for a few more years but so far there is nothing indicating this is a very healthy move for our living bodies.
You said lower end of the spec... which is borderline saying “fake 5G”.
Please give me the economics of and business case for a nationwide deployment of millimeter wave.
Wait.
Complains about AT&T's fake 5G. Sues to make AT&T stop advertising fake 5G. Announces an offering of fake 5G.
Seems legit.
In bold above--you've made multiple statements heavily implying (or outright claiming) that Sprint's 5G service is somehow not actually 5G.
He literally called it 'fake 5G' in his first post in this thread.
Ah, the elusive "they"!
Did "they" place the rats and mice in a house near a tower? Or did they bombard them at close range, inches from a transmitter?
And how do you explain this?
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Oh, yes, first we are trolled by the Russians. And, next, it's the Canadians...
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RT is an unapologetic propaganda machine.
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If you believe RT, please PM me. I have great deals on river eco-cruises on the Volga.
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Lower end of the spec isn't borderline saying anything. It's saying lower end of the spec. Ironically, my original post did say fake 5G. My subsequent post, the one you responded to course corrected and admitted it was technically 5G. Slower, 2nd rate 5G imo, but 5G nonetheless.
I'll give you the business case for a nationwide deployment of mmwave as soon as you give me grandma's peanut butter cookie recipe. Both requests are equally relevant to our conversation.
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You were in such a rush to say fake 5G, and now you’re still adding a qualifier by saying “technically”. It’s 5G. No qualifiers.
You’re also deflecting here but that’s ok. Millimeter Wave isn’t the gatekeeper of 5G. You should actually look into what the economics are for a nationwide deployment of millimeter wave based on its propagation characteristics.
If you're going to quote out of context, at least pretend as if you followed along. I mean you highlighted text in my second quote that doesn't support your argument and completely ignored the text that literally says it's 5G. How's that work.
Yes he did. He also admitted it was 5G in his second post. But I'm guessing that escaped you. Which is the post that is tied to my query of ipplanman. But if you want to try to quote me out of order and out of context. By all means, be my guest.
The equipment Sprint is deploying can run 4G LTE and 5G NR at the same time on the same site, so they’re doing both.
https://news.samsung.com/us/samsung...tions-preparation-commercial-5g-service-roll/
All it takes is a card install/software upgrade and the site is enabled for 5G.
I just switched to Sprint after being with Verizon for the last decade. What a cold bucket of water that was, while I saved about $100/mo and got 2 free phones, the service quality reminds me of Verizon in the first year or so of 4G LTE.
Sprint needs to get their VoLTE roll-out done. I can't even talk and use the internet at the same time. Half the time my iPhone XR data connection isn't even active. I'm also in Austin, TX so not exactly the boonies.
Sprint needs to get their VoLTE roll-out done. I can't even talk and use the internet at the same time. Half the time my iPhone XR data connection isn't even active. I'm also in Austin, TX so not exactly the boonies.
I disagree. You can skip technology generations altogether. For example, former communist countries skipped cable TV (except for highly populated areas), and even traditional telephone lines. Whole countries went from virtually no telecommunication to mobile communication overnight. People had no telephone lines, and started using cell phones right away.
LTE can easily be skipped. Germany, where LTE adaptation is the worst in the developed world, is going to go directly to 5G, and they'll never notice LTE ever existed.
Yay, another story about how lovely new tech governments drool over will affect 0.2% of people for a few years, whilst no one forced these carriers to actually give you a decent basic signal..
Yeah it’s a pet hate, it’s 2019, we’ve had mobile devices for years and years now. Yet we still do not have decent coverage by all providers and in a lot of areas not by any! But instead like clockwork they waste millions and millions on faster speeds instead of their network coverage.
Yeah it’s a pet hate, it’s 2019, we’ve had mobile devices for years and years now. Yet we still do not have decent coverage by all providers and in a lot of areas not by any! But instead like clockwork they waste millions and millions on faster speeds instead of their network coverage.
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The “Massive MIMO” cell site equipment being installed/upgraded for this does 4G LTE and 5G NR at the same time.
https://twitter.com/SamsungNewsUS/status/1099991899417600002
5G Market Maps: https://twitter.com/saschasegan/status/1099984367642914816