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Metro PCS has 3G now!!!

I live in the port richey area in florida and woke up on monday and saw that my phone said 3G on it but, some times goes back to 1X. but, when it hits on 3G the speed is alot faster.
 
mneumar said:
I live in the port richey area in florida and woke up on monday and saw that my phone said 3G on it but, some times goes back to 1X. but, when it hits on 3G the speed is alot faster.
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nuttmeg said:
they might still be updating the towers near you.
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Metro is not going 3G with all their towers. They have publicly said they are only putting 3G in the busiest 20% of their cell sites in each market. It's to help with network management. LTE is their future. They ARE putting LTE on 100% of their cell sites.

So, you will NEVER see 3G everywhere in Metro's markets.

Here, go read this:

MetroPCS bringing EVDO support to around 20 percent of its towers
http://www.phonedog.com/2011/09/16/...o-support-to-around-20-percent-of-its-towers/

09/2011

Late last year saw MetroPCS launch its shiny new LTE network in addition to its existing 1xRTT coverage, leaving it with 2G and 4G networks but no 3G to speak of. That'll be changing soon, though, as MetroPCS CFO Braxton Carter has announced that his carrier plans to add 3G EVDO support to a little less than 20 percent of its towers. Exactly which markets will get access to MetroPCS EVDO isn't known
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Same info here:

MetroPCS adding EV-DO to around 20% of cell sites - FierceWireless
Flat-rater carrier MetroPCS is deploying EV-DO data service in a little less than 20 percent of its cell sites to augment its CDMA 1X data service that exists in all of its markets, CFO Braxton Carter said.
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http://www.fiercewireless.com/story...around-20-cell-sites/2011-09-15#ixzz1euzjeFAC
 
ChazzMatt said:
Metro is not going 3G with all their towers. They have publicly said they are only putting 3G in the busiest 20% of their cell sites in each market. It's to help with network management. LTE is their future. They ARE putting LTE on 100% of their cell sites.

So, you will NEVER see 3G everywhere in Metro's markets.

Here, go read this:

MetroPCS bringing EVDO support to around 20 percent of its towers
MetroPCS bringing EVDO support to 20 percent of its towers | PhoneDog

09/2011



Same info here:

MetroPCS adding EV-DO to around 20% of cell sites - FierceWireless


MetroPCS adding EV-DO to around 20% of cell sites - FierceWireless
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No one ever said they were covering 100% of their market. Also he lives Port Richey which is really close to Tampa which lot of the Tampa area has "3G"
 
ShinySide said:
No one ever said they were covering 100% of their market. Also he lives Port Richey which is really close to Tampa which lot of the Tampa area has "3G"
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That's exactly what the guy seemed to be saying.

The op complained he got 3G some of the time, and 1x some of the time. The 2nd guy said specifically: "they might still be updating the towers near you." -- which to me means "some cell sites around have 3G but soon they all will."

NO, the more real possibility is those towers will NEVER be updated, as Metro is only doing 20% of their cell sites. And I provided proof, not speculation.
 
Just to help with the math, at home my phone is switching back and forward from 1G to 3G (evo and metro network) keeping the phone on the same table :eek:
 
I would use the Speedtest.net or the FCC.


Compared to these the "testmy3g.com" or whatever is not accurate at all.
 
i noticed today that my phone updated by itself to prl 3026 did this happen to anyone else? it shows 3G but its pretty much slow and data connections is lost so idk
 
catnippy718 said:
i noticed today that my phone updated by itself to prl 3026 did this happen to anyone else? it shows 3G but its pretty much slow and data connections is lost so idk
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Yeahh over here im in queens ny and i just went crazy when i saw the 3G !!
my prl is 3026 too
but the thing is idk if my speed went up or not.. i never really use 1x
but i did a speed test now and got .8mbps
 
I currently have a Huawei Ascend with Cm7 Ascend-05212011 Android version 2.3.4
and Have been noticing 3g popping up here and there the last few days. I'm in Cocoa, Fl Since the Cm7 will not update the prl automatically I installed prl 3026 manually myself this morning. I was trying to figure out how to be able to choose Mobile Network type on this phone and stumbled on how by accident. I read entering this code on your dialer screen *#*#2846579#*#* will pull up hidden menus, so I tried that and nothing happened on my phone. I read further down for LG phone to enter *#*#4636#*#* on your dialer screen so I tried that and presto a screen popped up with 4 category's, Phone information, Battery information, Usage Statistics, and Wi-Fi information. Phone information is what you want to click on and you will have a ping test and scroll down and you will be given 9 options on preferred network type: also able to update or refresh your SMSC, turn radio on or off and toggle Dns check. Hope this help others searching for answers.
 
al57king said:
I currently have a Huawei Ascend with Cm7 Ascend-05212011 Android version 2.3.4
and Have been noticing 3g popping up here and there the last few days. I'm in Cocoa, Fl Since the Cm7 will not update the prl automatically I installed prl 3026 manually myself this morning. I was trying to figure out how to be able to choose Mobile Network type on this phone and stumbled on how by accident. I read entering this code on your dialer screen *#*#2846579#*#* will pull up hidden menus, so I tried that and nothing happened on my phone. I read further down for LG phone to enter *#*#4636#*#* on your dialer screen so I tried that and presto a screen popped up with 4 category's, Phone information, Battery information, Usage Statistics, and Wi-Fi information. Phone information is what you want to click on and you will have a ping test and scroll down and you will be given 9 options on preferred network type: also able to update or refresh your SMSC, turn radio on or off and toggle Dns check. Hope this help others searching for answers.
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*#*#4636#*#* is the only hidden menu you can pull up on CM7. And it will update the prl. Im not far from you in Palm Bay and have had it update on its own more then once but always ended up calling *228 to revert back to 3019 because I would end up having data issues on all the prls.
 
Thats good to know. Its too early yet to see if I will also have data issues and may have to revert back. Thanks to your reply I know how to now!
 
i was at work today and i notice the 3g icon it bounced couple of times to 1x on my indulge but it's been steady for a couple of hours now.
I just did an speed test i got the results but i dont know how if its good or bad
on 4g the phone is Ping: 139 ms, Download 1617 kbps, Upload 2037 kbps
and on 3g Ping 379 ms, download 125 kbps, upload 175 kbps
y ran a second test on 3g Ping 314 ms, download 212 kbps, upload 45 kbps
i dont know how to go back to 1x so i cant run a test in 1x.
 
I am so confused Because i just got the Upgrade to 2.2 And It stills says 1x... I Live In Nyc (The Bronx) And i just wanna know if i will be getting this 3G too?
 
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