TMO lit up LTE yesterday for most of manhattan???

[Oyeve]

So, i know TMO has been mucking around with LTE in NYC and I was getting some low LTE connectivity around manhattan in small areas. This morning they must have lit up manhattan big time because I am getting 4 full bars of LTE on my S4 and its not crippled yet. Yielding 35mbps down and 15 up. I hope it stays this way. So far I have gotten full lte at home, LES, work (tribeca) and at my midtown location.

 

[bearxor]

Been getting LTE in just about every area that I get refarmed HSPA in Charlotte. Speeds aren't very impressive though, usually 15Mbps or under. But it's not launched yet, so I'll hold out hope.

 

[Oyeve]

LTE has been rock solid stable in Manhattan. Hoping it wont get too saturated like VZW's in NYC.

 

[Dari]

It's only a matter of time since MetroPCS will be riding those signals as well, in addition to the other MVNOs.

 

[cronos]

It's only a matter of time since MetroPCS will be riding those signals as well, in addition to the other MVNOs.

Do you know this for sure? I'd think they won't let MVNOs to use LTE, especially because their 4G is already pretty damn fast (I got consistently 10-12Mbps).

 

[Oyeve]

It's only a matter of time since MetroPCS will be riding those signals as well, in addition to the other MVNOs.

Possibly.

Anyone know what TMO will do with their 4G once their LTE is fully implemented? Would be nice if they kept the backbone so I can switch between the two. I have a meeting with a TMO rep this afternoon. Considering moving my users from VZW to TMO if the cost savings is right and if their network does well for business. I use TMO personally but i am not familiar with their business aspect.

 

[vshah]

tmo is lighting up LTE like crazy all over the country. reports are coming in from several cities not mentioned in their may/june roadmap.

I've been getting 30/10 in pittsburgh for the last few days.

i believe the plan is to keep their hspa going on 1900 as a fallback to lte, and eventually move some of their edge spectrum over to hspa as well for faster speeds in non-metro areas.

 

[Dari]

Do you know this for sure? I'd think they won't let MVNOs to use LTE, especially because their 4G is already pretty damn fast (I got consistently 10-12Mbps).

Well, it's all about marketing, right? So, if AT&T is letting their prepay service have LTE what makes you think TMO won't?

 

[vshah]

Well, it's all about marketing, right? So, if AT&T is letting their prepay service have LTE what makes you think TMO won't?

tmo prepaid has LTE. tmo MVNOs may or may not, depends on the contract between the mvno and tmobile.

 

[cronos]

Well, it's all about marketing, right? So, if AT&T is letting their prepay service have LTE what makes you think TMO won't?

GoPhone (who just got LTE) is AT&T's prepaid division. Their numerous MVNOs still don't get LTE.

 

[Dari]

tmo prepaid has LTE. tmo MVNOs may or may not, depends on the contract between the mvno and tmobile.

Not sure how popular MetroPCS is but it's prepaid and an MVNO that's owned by TMO...

 

[vshah]

Not sure how popular MetroPCS is but it's prepaid and an MVNO that's owned by TMO...

given that metropcs customers had LTE before i'd expect them to continue getting LTE.

 

[alangrift]

It's a pity that LTE phones don't actually work in different countries. But is the super cheap T-Mobile MVNO (simple) or something include LTE?

 

[isekii]

I'm getting amazing speed. I think most of North Jersey is lit up too with LTE.

 

[gmaster456]

My area is only covered with 2G according to their map.

 

[bearxor]

My area is only covered with 2G according to their map.

The maps on the site aren't that quick to update.

Check out airportal.de, it will show you if your area is being refarmed with 1900mhz HSPA. If it is, there's a good (great, almost guaranteed, really) chance you'll also be getting LTE.

But if you live in an area with no AWS HSPA coverage (that would be shown on their map), then you're probably out of luck.

 

[gmaster456]

The maps on the site aren't that quick to update.

Check out airportal.de, it will show you if your area is being refarmed with 1900mhz HSPA. If it is, there's a good (great, almost guaranteed, really) chance you'll also be getting LTE.

But if you live in an area with no AWS HSPA coverage (that would be shown on their map), then you're probably out of luck.

Yup. Still 2G :/

 

[ImDonly1]

FYI, I think t-mobile prepaid does do LTE. Their MVNOs are not offering LTE yet though.

ATT is offering LTE on gophone and their own AIO wireless, but not on their other MVNOs though.

 

[Chrono]

I'm around SGV/Inland/Orange County and I'm getting LTE albeit most of the time a weak signal but its latency and speed is still better than hspa+ at times.

 

[s44]

given that metropcs customers had LTE before i'd expect them to continue getting LTE.

They had "LTE" -- some pitifully narrow channel that gave them sub-HSPA speeds. And the fallback, at least in NYC, was straight to 1x. Every T-Mo connection will be faster.

Also, people call it GhettoPCS for a reason -- not that most/all subscribers are hoodlums, but it really is an outer borough thing. Metro subscribers aren't going to be the ones clogging midtown/downtown Manhattan bandwidth during office hours.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

Been getting LTE in just about every area that I get refarmed HSPA in Charlotte. Speeds aren't very impressive though, usually 15Mbps or under. But it's not launched yet, so I'll hold out hope.

thats impressive compared to verizon. speeds here in san francisco have gone down from as high as 35mbps a few years ago to around 5-6 mbps now. its gotten really bad

 

[basslover1]

Possibly.

Anyone know what TMO will do with their 4G once their LTE is fully implemented? Would be nice if they kept the backbone so I can switch between the two. I have a meeting with a TMO rep this afternoon. Considering moving my users from VZW to TMO if the cost savings is right and if their network does well for business. I use TMO personally but i am not familiar with their business aspect.

Their plan is to use their AWS spectrum (Currently HSPA+) for LTE and I believe in some areas LTE and HSPA+ concurrently on AWS. The spectrum that AT&T had to sell or allow them to roam on (whatever the deal was) is also going to be lit up for HSPA+ in available markets. Eventually their 2G/Edge will go away and will be replaced with regular 3G.

 

[alangrift]

Their plan is to use their AWS spectrum (Currently HSPA+) for LTE and I believe in some areas LTE and HSPA+ concurrently on AWS. The spectrum that AT&T had to sell or allow them to roam on (whatever the deal was) is also going to be lit up for HSPA+ in available markets. Eventually their 2G/Edge will go away and will be replaced with regular 3G.

I didn't even know that you had 2G/Edge over there. I thought it was pretty much 3G everywhere.

 

[daddy-o]

I'm on tmo prepaid, and LTE is up and running in northern NJ on my nexus 4.

Reception inside seems a LOT better.

 

[Bman123]

I haven't look at the map for LTE yet but in Akron Ohio I have LTE now, preety good speeds too. Fastest I've got was 27mbps download and 17mbps upload, ping was real low too like 34ms, way better ping then on hspa+ that's for damn sure.