u/ArtisticComplaint3

First time I have ever seen T-Mobile use a carrier larger than 20x20 on FDD.

Alligator Alley on I-75

Seen it plenty on n261 NSA with 2 LTE carriers but this is the first time I've seen multiple NR carriers being used as the anchor for n261 on SA.

Spotted in Miami, FL (Ericsson Market)

I am currently indoors which is why the speeds seem slow.

Verizon only has 600 MHz of n261 in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale market.

Site has just recently been upgraded with x3 Ericsson AIR 6419-B77G with capabilities to do 2 40 MHz carriers of (3.45 GHz n77).

Unfortunately, the current configuration of this site only permits 2CA on Standalone. Previously this site was 80 MHz n77 + 15 MHz n5 but now it is only doing 80+40 MHz n77 on SA.

AT&T already had 1 Ericsson AIR 5331 per sector for 400 MHz n260 in addition to 1 Ericsson AIR 6449-B77D per sector for 80 MHz of 3.7 GHz n77.

25.76466° N, 80.19217° W

909 Brickell Plaza
Miami, FL 33131

I believe this site now has 2x 10x10 LTE carriers as it is now impossible to connect to n5 even if forced. This site does not utilize n66 DSS (still SA capable) like most of the small cells do. Some sites also have 10 MHz n2 on DSS but most do not.

Connecting to n77 NSA is also not allowed presumably to force traffic on n260 which is why the speeds seem lackluster.

As with every market, AT&T still prohibits 3CA of n77. Most upgraded sites in this market have 80 MHz C-Band SA+NSA, 40 MHz DoD SA, and 40 MHz DoD NSA.

n66 is widely deployed in Miami using DSS. AT&T previously had two non-continuous AWS blocks, one 15x15 and a separate 5x5. The amount of markets where AT&T doesn’t have at least one 20x20 block is absurd.

Just received this email

7027 Twin Hills Ave, Dallas

This site was upgraded with Ericsson AIR 6419s back in October 2025 for DoD (3.45 GHz). Until a few days ago DoD was offline and the backhaul was only 1-gig. It's finally been upgraded to 5 gigabit backhaul and 60 MHz of DoD is now online. I am now getting a 200-300% in speeds.

32.874667,-96.765007

First time I've ever seen mmWave be deployed inside an airport lounge.

Is this still an Ericsson AIR 1281 because it definitely is a newer looking casing?

Classic AT&T with their 1-gig backhaul and 800 MHz bandwidth.

AT&T is competing heavily in Dallas right now and you can legit get 1 gigabit symmetrical fiber for $15/month if you already have or get AT&T wireless service.

According to the FCC mandated Broadband Label (which is the Nutrition Label for Internet plans that breaks down the entire cost) the only fee is $0.47/month.

There’s no set date for the end of the promotional pricing if ever but as someone who’s already paying over $100/month for AT&T Fiber in addition to Wireless service, I’m jumping on this offer because it’s 100% unbeatable.

I’m literally cancelling my Internet and signing up as a new customer because AT&T is refusing to even price match anything close to new customer pricing. Jokes on them because they have to pay for a technician to come out and reinstall my internet service.

Other than overpaying for service, I’ve had literally zero issues with AT&T Fiber with the sole exception being the massive straight line winds that tore through Dallas in May 2024 and even then my internet was back up and running within a few hours before Oncor even got my power restored.

There’s no contracts so you can literally cancel anytime but since most everyone is paying likely more than this for internet it definitely may be looking into!

*Disclaimer: I am not an AT&T representative, employee, shareholder, salesperson, etc. and just figured sharing this will help save yall some money.

I’m guessing their strategy with this is to steal marketshare away from Spectrum and encourage people to bundle which will likely result in more loyal, long-term customers.

Popcorn has the PLMN 316 060. Hopefully they'll be issuing their own SIMs soon!

Never seen this before? Is this new?

60.155362,-1.147572

Inbound roaming from Google Fi onto O2 UK in Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK.

Wish more home carriers would use regional cloud cores for routing roaming traffic as it would greatly reduce latency.

Verizon and T-Mobile are absolutely terrible with routing roaming traffic back stateside. Verizon only typically routes traffic through Philadelphia, Dallas, Sunnyvale, Calif., and occasionally Chicago. T-Mobile almost exclusively routes traffic through Chicago, Dallas, and/or Southern California.

Looks like iOS 27 Beta 2 has a VoNR toggle for AT&T finally. I wonder if it actually works. I’m currently outside the U.S. Has anyone been able to see if it works?

Posted last week of the text I got when I arrived in the UK but they hadn’t updated the website yet. Well now it’s updated…

Next to Logan Airport. n2/n66 using DSS. AT&T is competing aggressively in the Northeast now.

Roaming on 3 UK. Believe it’s 140 MHz n78. My S26U won’t aggregate more than one NR channel so I wasn’t able to break 1 Gbps on it.

Mansion House Station

Roaming on 3 UK. Believe it’s 140 MHz n78. My S26U won’t aggregate more than one NR channel so I wasn’t able to break 1 Gbps on it.

Mansion House Station

This is definitely Status Elephant’s other account.

I’ve noticed while traveling in several countries including Costa Rica and more recently, the United Kingdom (pictured), that on my T-Mobile Go5G Next plan, videos and social media apps were taking forever to buffer despite having fast Ookla Speed Test results. I didn’t have this issue on Popcorn however.

I have 4K UHD streaming enabled on my T-Mobile postpaid line and it used to apply to roaming data but now it appears they’re throttling video streaming to 1.5 Mbps (2.5 Mbps is the throttle speed for T-Mobile domestically.)

I did side by side tests around the same time, on the exact same network (EE), at the same exact spot in London and noticed these stark results. I also noticed similar things in Costa Rica but I didn’t have enough evidence at the time to prove that wasn’t an isolated incident.

Also T-Mobile is DOUBLING their calling rates abroad effective June 25th from $0.25/min to $0.50/min. Everyone says “just use WhatsApp or FaceTime” well unfortunately it’s not really possible for a lot of people especially those including myself who regularly make/receive voice calls for work.

Google Fi throttles their streaming to 1.5 Mbps both domestically and abroad and also charges per-minute calling rates outside North America.

Really proud of Popcorn. It’s an amazing service and I can’t wait until they have a unified SIM card because it’ll be even more of a game changer!

2G x 3 = 6G right?

Too bad 3 turned off their UMTS or they’d also have 6G.

AT&T feeling threatened has responded with 6Ge.

/s