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50atomic

Next Round of Full PCS LTE 1900 Refarms

Affected locations and customers

The next network upgrades scheduled are for the following markets:

November 1 [2017]

  • Central PA: Scranton, Wilkes-Bare, Hazleton, PA

  • Dallas, TX (Moved to November 1 due to Hurricane Harvey)

  • Jacksonville, FL

  • Las Vegas, NV

  • Trenton, NJ

August 15 [2017]

  • Atlanta, GA (includes Augusta and Gainesville)

  • Bakersfield, CA

  • Detroit, MI

  • Miami, FL (Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island)

  • Orlando, FL

  • Port St. Lucie, FL

  • Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA

  • Seattle, WA

  • Tampa, FL

  • Ventura, CA

https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-31961

Posted Oct 5, 2017, 6:14 PM UTC · edited

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sebrandon1Living on the EDGE•

Nice! Las Vegas definitely needs that capacity.

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scm02Verizon/T-Mo/Sprint Customer•

Wonder why Dallas was moved because of Harvey... that doesn’t make a lot of sense given the fact they had no impacts from the storm...

Also, doesn’t that bring Dallas to 20x20 MHz LTE on both PCS and AWS?

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50atomicOP•

Regional resources. PCS not contiguous 15/5

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dmaxelBleeding Magenta•

PCS had already been at 15 for a while now in Dallas. So I'm guessing the other 5 are being converted now too?

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4ndr0med4Recovering Sprint Victim•

I'm surprised Trenton didn't get it earlier.

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anothercookie90I like big butts and I cannot lie•

We have so much spectrum for band 2 in Northern California and rarely if ever see any band 2 LTE, hope they transition us soon.

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TMUSinwesternIL•

All of those places with the Nov 1 PCS shutdown have 25x25 AWS so HSPA will remain on AWS.

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curtise35•

I live in a city that also has 25+25 AWS. T-Mo moved HSPA to that extra 5Mhz quietly without announcing us as part of the refarm. The fact that they're announcing these cities as part of the refarm makes me wonder if you're incorrect. These announcements specifically mean H+ is going dark right?

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andynaijaMetroPCS Customer•

These announcements are for markets where UMTS/HSPA on PCS 1900 will be shut down. According to u/sgteq

They keep AWS UMTS instead of PCS if AWS-1 spectrum holdings are greater than 20 MHz

https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/727o80/question_about_lte_calling/dnghmkr/

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andynaijaMetroPCS Customer•

How are you sure about that? Because I have a feeling you might be incorrect.

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TMUSinwesternIL•

I'm just basing this on past announcements - all the places with 25x25 AWS had 5x5 AWS UMTS after the shutdown. For example, T-Mobile announced PCS HSPA shutdown in New York City. UMTS remained on AWS; only PCS UMTS got shut down

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mduellBleeding Magenta•

Listing them in opposite order is confusing, makes it unclear what year you're talking about.

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50atomicOP•

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Berzerker7Data Strong•

Atlanta, GA (includes Augusta and Gainesville)

Is this still rolling out? Just today in the upper Alpharetta Area I was on EDGE in a parking lot.

Quickly got off of it into LTE, but it doesn't look like it's fully accomplished yet.

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xtremeph•

20x20 was already rolled out. Closer to Cumming not all sites have been upgraded due to less congestion I would assume. A site closes to my home sees excellent B4 LTE speeds but doesn't broadcast any B2 LTE.

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Berzerker7Data Strong•

Maybe if I file a ticket...my office isn't that high up but has trouble with LTE indoors. There has to be at least some B2 EDGE still since I was just on it today.

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TMUSinwesternIL•

Edge propagates better than LTE that's why you sometimes fallback to E. PCS GSM will still be around even if PCS LTE is present. They are not shutting down Edge; they are just pushing it into the guard bands to free up more spectrum for LTE

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helloyournameis•

Awesome I work in Hazleton PA and have no signal

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Digimon1751•

This won’t improve coverage. It will improve capacity.

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helloyournameis•

oh

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va44•

So this is already spectrum owned by T-Mobile that was 2g and T-Mobile is regarding it for LTE is that right.

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DCinSEAtown•

Refarming to LTE, correct.

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va44•

Thank you

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andynaijaMetroPCS Customer•

Well 2G is still going to be available, but band 2 HSPA is being shut down so the spectrum can be reused for LTE.

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mail323•

August 2018? I still get crappy AWS coverage everywhere I go.

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andynaijaMetroPCS Customer•

Show me where you see August 2018 because I definitely don't see that anywhere.

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mail323•

Post has been edited, it used to just say "August"

Anyways I contacted T-Mobile and they claim the "August" upgrades haven't been completed yet.

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va44•

Ah thanks for the info.

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