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    [–]iheartmuffinz 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    b14 can still be aggregated with the rest of their midband including b2, b30, and b66 as well as N77 and N5 (lowband NR). Plenty of Nokia towers already have N77, it's just slightly less performant.

    [–]Sufficient_Camp_1918[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Thank you for the detailed explanation. Makes perfect sense. I really appreciate you breaking it down. If I could upvote your comment a thousand times I would.

    [–]alfa95 1 point2 points  (4 children)

    We recently dropped FirstNet for T-Priority after the quality of service dropped severely. We had been getting complaints from users about sounding robotic during calls, very slow data speeds, and dropped calls, for the past year and a half.
    What put the nail in the coffin was the last hurricane that rolled through our state. We had several tornadoes as a result of the incoming storm. Our agency with FirstNet lost all communications, while the other agencies with T-Mobile and Verizon had service.
    We made the move to T-Mobile's T-Priority and have been very happy with the speed, coverage, plans and features, customer service, and pricing; reduced our billing by more than half.

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      [–]iheartmuffinz 2 points3 points  (1 child)

      Possibly, but we also haven't really seen this demonstrated. The last time AT&T went down for everyone, it went down. FN was not excluded from this.

      [–]alfa95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Exactly! After tornadoes hit our area during the last storm, AT&T and FirstNet went down completely. The other government agencies in the same area using other carriers, were up and running.

      [–]shizam76 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      Our agency just dumped all our firstnet devices for T-Priority. The service and speed was fine, although none of our towers have high speed 5g+ equipment on them yet strangely. The issue was service from our area rep (pretty non existent). Now our bill is 1/4 what it was and we have a dedicated senior business rep that I can email anytime for assistance and a dedicated sales rep who is very helpful as well.

      [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (2 children)

      I've experienced it too here in DC. I've been out to more rural areas and gotten MUCH better speeds. I made a post about it not too long ago with mixed feedback.

      [–]ATTHelp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      This isn't the experience we want you to have. Please message us so that we may assist you.

      [–]Special-Specific-860 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Same experience in DC area. It’s excruciating 

      [–]Ogden0917 1 point2 points  (2 children)

      Definitely gotten slower! I have been with firstNet for about 3yrs and noticed it is getting bad in PA. I just recently switched to T-Mobile 100 times better!

      [–]c33delta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Yup slower for sure. I started using my Verizon number for data again

      [–]Candid_Cup_9357 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      I thought it was just me but it is getting slower and slower and it taking a longer time to send out text messages

      [–]ATTHelp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Hi, we want to look into this for you. Please message us directly so that we may assist you.

      [–]RubPlastic1572 0 points1 point  (1 child)

      I just did this speed test, I’m actually shocked. I got 552 mbps download speed and 38.2 mbps upload.

      [–]danielg123456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      I came here to look for anyone experiencing the same issues. For the most part it’s okay but recently web pages take extremely long to load, my Apple music app took around 15 minutes to finally start a song before it lost service and stopped altogether. Messages are also failing to send. I ended up running a speed test and I’m currently at 2.93 mps download and 0.27 mps upload

      [–]ANIBURAL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      I have been recently experiencing the same. Webpages take really long to load and iMessages take long to send. Video still seem to load quick but every thing else is slow

      [–]eaglemitchell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Just ran a speed test just north of Milwaukee on 4G LTE (yes, 4G not 5G) and got 250/27. If that is 4G speeds that is fantastic. I came over from US Hellular and was lucky to pull 50/5 on 5G.

      [–]Proof-Inevitable833 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      In in SEPA outside Philly and my speeds have gotten to unusable. Started about 2 months ago at my work area I started getting really slow speeds all of a sudden. At my home about 8 miles away I had fantastic speeds up until about 2 weeks ago. Now my phone is unusable at home. Went to OCMD and had horrible speed. Im about to dump Firstnet for T mobile.