[1st-mile-nm] T-Mobile

[John Osmon]

I've got Moto G6 and have been playing with an app:
   Network Cell Info Lite  ($1.99 pro version)


On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 05:32:16PM -0700, Drew Einhorn wrote:
> I believe my relatively inexpensive moto g5s plus supports 700 MHz B12, but
> not 600 MHz B71. The nearest cell tower came online within the past year.
> But, my phone was never able to talk to it until today.
> 
> Is there a good app that reports on the frequency capabilities of the phone
> it's running on and the tower it's talking to?
> 
> I've found one called kimovil, but I believe it reports published specs not
> diagnostic data from the phone.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 4:36 PM Mimbres Communications <mimcom at sw-ei.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > T-Mobile has been upgrading sites to support Band 71 (600 MHz).  Only a
> > handful of phones manufactured in the past 18 months or so include support
> > for Band 71, but Band 12 (700 Mhz) is quite widely supported.  Despite
> > holding license for 700 in many locations, T-Mobile had not upgraded many
> > of their older, more rural sites.
> >
> > Several of those with which I am personally familiar had smaller panel
> > antennas for 1.9 GHz (PCS) and 2.1 GHz (AWS) installed.  These have been
> > (or are being) replaced by 8-foot high multi-band panels supporting 1.9,
> > 2.1, 700, and 600.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 4:21 PM Drew Einhorn <drew.einhorn at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I saw some news article about T-Mobile enabling new frequency bands
> >> nationally to support their 5G rollout next week. They grumbled about how
> >> it would only support a few high dollar phones that nobody has.
> >>
> >> But, it looks like it's having a significant effect on service for older
> >> LTE phones. I live in a rural area with poor service at best and mostly no
> >> service. I was at home listening to an audio stream via wifi -> cellphone
> >> -> bluetooth headset. I got in the car and drove to Albuquerque and the
> >> stream did not drop when I got out of wifi range. It appeared to
> >> successfully hand off to an LTE connection, ... without dropping the audio.
> >> There may have been signal loss covered by buffering on the phone.
> >>
> >> Y'all remember when LTE originated as a term to describe 3G pretending to
> >> be 4G? I'm sure we haven't seen the last of the marketing folks butchering
> >> the language.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Drew Einhorn
> >>
> >> On American Politics
> >>
> >> “If this were my country,” Odile said, wrinkling her nose, “I would not
> >> be angry.”
> >>
> >> “No?” Hollis asked.
> >>
> >> “I would drink all the time. Take pill. Anything.”
> >>          --- William Gibson, Spook Country, 2007.
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> -- 
> Drew Einhorn
> 
> On American Politics
> 
> “If this were my country,” Odile said, wrinkling her nose, “I would not be
> angry.”
> 
> “No?” Hollis asked.
> 
> “I would drink all the time. Take pill. Anything.”
>          --- William Gibson, Spook Country, 2007.

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