FirstNet & ATT Deal

El Rubio · Apr 13, 2017

I know there are a lot of first responders on this forum and am curious what you guys think of the recent Firstnet/AT&T deal that gives AT&T 20MHz of spectrum in the 700MHz band for 25 years. AT&T will build out a broadband network while being able to utilize the spectrum for regular customers. First responders will have priority usage and will gain over the top features like streaming video for example. Supposedly, actual first responder usage of this spectrum is around 1% of the time. This is where AT&T will make money by using the unused spectrum for regular customers. What makes it ideal is the frequency. AT&T already has carriers in 700MHz and the new spectrum can be aggregated with the current to deliver very wideband LTE channels increasing data rates. 700MHz is also prime real estate in wireless and outperforms higher frequencies in building/foliage penetration. Looks like a win/win to me.

DerpMeister · Apr 23, 2017

El Rubio said:
Looks like a win/win to me.

Until the damn thing does NOT reach the full strength... As my **** has not since getting it. They simply will not examine 900 feet more! AT&T SUCKS, the place has gotten too many people involved, I am in the process of dumping that firm... forever.

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icetraxx · Apr 23, 2017

I found it really interesting that ATT was down and is still pretty degraded since the great flood while verizon has been fine. I have both carriers on my person(work phone and personal phone) at all times and it is amazing to see how bad ATT sucks in the area compared to verizon.

JBP55 · Apr 23, 2017

DerpMeister said:
Until the damn thing does NOT reach the full strength... As my **** has not since getting it. They simply will not examine 900 feet more! AT&T SUCKS, the place has gotten too many people involved, I am in the process of dumping that firm... forever.

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Are you going with Verizon? My AT&T service has been terrible since the flood.

icetraxx · Apr 24, 2017

Yes. I am. My parents live in central and are on our plan. Sitting in their livingroom I will have 3 bars on verizon and 1 to 0 bars for ATT. That is just an example. I live in north Dehnam off Dunn. During and after the flood verizon was the only system working out here. What I heard is several ATT hubs went under.

BigP623 · Apr 24, 2017

Verizon is worth the money. I rarely have service issues anywhere I go in Louisiana, and I hit the woods in St. Helena parish very often, and even have 4G service when Im in the stand. Others in the same club as me have ATT and can only text if they are lucky when in the woods. A couple of them have invested in cheap Verizon phones with limited minutes/text/data just for emergency use in the woods.
But I had Alltel before Verizon purchased them so Im kind of partial to my plan as well...

sandman7925 · Apr 24, 2017

icetraxx said:
I found it really interesting that ATT was down and is still pretty degraded since the great flood while verizon has been fine. I have both carriers on my person(work phone and personal phone) at all times and it is amazing to see how bad ATT sucks in the area compared to verizon.

Yep. And has anyone forgot that after Katrina ATT started charging us more so they could build a network that would work during natural disasters. What a waste that was.

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