Well I could tell you what to look out for but you'd have to acutely aware of the look of the site from as far back as 6 months ago vs. now. The telltale signs are the addition of pre-5G architecture that being a few radio units from the Ericsson ERS portfolio and a gradual phasing out of the WCDMA RRUs which are all now pretty much gone except for those running GSM and UMTS 850 and the single 1900 MHz UMTS carrier. Everything else on the tower is solely LTE. On the Sov. Centre tower, there are additional tower mounts for LTE700 antennas or they may have already been integrated into the 4 & 6 input antennas. In addition, I think they've done improvements on the modulation schemes moving the network closer to the reality of Gigabit LTE. If they are truly using 256QAM on the downlink and 64QAM on the downlink (which I am certain given the upload peaked at 60 Mbit/s), a Galaxy S8/S9 should touch near 600 Mbit/s
To be very frank, the speed at which FLOW has been evolving their LTE network is breakneck but the continuing good performance of the Jamaican business unit has encouraged the continuation of these investments.
But again, don't see Band 12 as a speed bump in the order that Band 2 is... What Band 12 is really for is VoLTE, good edge of cell performance and rural coverage as the company actively migrates customers to LTE from 3G and, soon to be sunset, 2G.
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I have no idea where my cell site is, but seeing that Flow has plans to offer LTE wireless broadband. I assume that LTE A will be comprehensive across most of Kingston and St Andrew. Band 12 for VoLTE and rural deployment makes more sense, with these massive speeds. Must come revised data plans to complement, those blazing fast speeds don't joke when it come to depleting data plans.
So Old Harbour, Saint Catherine now getting LTE Signals from Band 12.
They need to increase the signal strength, that may be the reason why i'm getting such horrible uploads and downloads.
Giving them some more time.
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Anyone else having issues with Flow data?. Specifically LTE?. A message keeps coming on my phone saying I have no data service. It comes up frequently I'm the early hours of morning and late night.
Its happening more frequently now, and in the early evening time in my area. Don't know if anyone else is experiencing this.
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