gajan:

 

.. and just to clarify Spark VoLTE is live on all of our 4G network (all bands, all sectors, all carriers), as well as RCG sector/carriers.

 

When you say 'all carriers' are you referring to Skinny customers also have access to VoLTE?

matisyahu:

 

gajan:

 

.. and just to clarify Spark VoLTE is live on all of our 4G network (all bands, all sectors, all carriers), as well as RCG sector/carriers.

 

 

When you say 'all carriers' are you referring to Skinny customers also have access to VoLTE?

 

Pretty sure it's been answered a few times here now...

VoLTE is live on all carriers (being 4G Carriers)

As for MVNO's, Skinny Will come as detailed in other posts here.

Can't comment on other MNVO's ofcourse to be clear, Just repeating what's been said :)

Aucklandjafa: Saw this on spark’s Website - does this mean the 700mhz footprint restrictions will be lifted? Or is it a marketing ploy?

gajan:

Aucklandjafa: Saw this on spark’s Website - does this mean the 700mhz footprint restrictions will be lifted? Or is it a marketing ploy?

Each and every coverage layer is optimised to provide the best experience (speed, coverage, etc) for our customers. Specific optimisation varies site by site. No marketing ploys here.

BioNz: I'm on a s9plus with work Rom aND csc tnz have the option of enabling it but sadly doesn't work :(

Aucklandjafa:

gajan:

Aucklandjafa:

Saw this on spark’s Website - does this mean the 700mhz footprint restrictions will be lifted? Or is it a marketing ploy?

Each and every coverage layer is optimised to provide the best experience (speed, coverage, etc) for our customers. Specific optimisation varies site by site. No marketing ploys here.

Soooo, you can confirm now that VoLTE has been deployed the L700 band is no longer tuned down to match the footprint of the 3G850 band?

gajan: 

I’m not sure where the inference/reference to ’tuning down’ came from.

Comes from the assumptions based off the concept that 700 by metrics of wavelength will go further than 850 and the fact that LTE holds a stable service further an UTMS (Based on signal strength). (which is typically commented on by many experts around here)

Which on paper i totally get.. Yes it can do it, but should it? These days the metric is nolonger does it work but throughput etc!

To reiterate what gajan has said, the optimization folk are the experts in this and they do an amazing job.

One thing i've learnt from them is often they are often doing it as like a 4D Chess board, we as consumers though often look at it in terms of 1D - How far you can travel from the tower!

one of the problems with the w850 network is sadly its in the harmonic of old vhf tv signal boosters. so when a booster goes faulty as sadly it happens a bit its causing interference for several sites. and with 3 carriers of w850 available it may cause issues to one of them in a way that means that carrier becomes unusable. i think you will find with lte as its able to "cutup" the call and send it over different packets in different freq allocations the ability to have a better sounding better quality call is improved. by missing the small freq band that is being impacted by the interference.

and yes the guys in rf do an amazing job. having known a few of them for many years its always good to pick their brains from time to time. 

please note im just a pleb in the field and anything i have said is of my own person opinion