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Modernization speeds all over the place
Hi, We live in a rural area and rarely get over 2 bars of cell service on LTE with download speeds MAYBE as good as 15mbps. Recently, things got worse and our bars have been dropping to nothing, o...
As a note...in some areas where I am, service was roaming on Sprint, decently (+200Mbps on LTE B41). When T-Mobile went to 'modernize' the tower (i.e. replace old Sprint gear with T-Mobile gear), service dropped a few bars, but still showed 5G UC, however speeds were around 1 Mbps, with 75% packet loss. T-Mobile Advanced Technical support didn't have any knowledge.
3 weeks later, after the tower was 5G UC, and speeds are now ~1400Mbps.
In more rural locations (a few miles north), similarly roaming on Sprint, until they started rebuilding the site. Again, T-Mobile has no knowledge of their rebuild. Unlike the other Sprint site… T-Mobile native gives LTE 600, 3g or 2g service with 1 bar in 'good' outdoor locations, or .. No Service.
Again, 3 weeks later, its up and +1400Mbps. T-Mobile is now telling me that they're building a 'new site' which should be completed in 9 months 🙄
