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Ixian posted:They care a great deal for two reasons; one Google is a massive data-collection company and they want the stats on how often phones switch between networks, two (and more importantly) as an MNVO the deal they cut with T-Mobile and Sprint doesn't allow for exclusive access of one network over another. It's why they don't let you change manually (and took down a couple third party apps that did) and why you can't sign up for Fi unless you live in an area that has both. Well that and the fact that in major metro areas T-Mobile has a much better, much faster and also more expensive network to use. I would suspect in most cases that Fi devices heavily favor the worse Sprint network when it doesn't need bandwidth and the best signal, staying on T-Mobile all the time ruins the hedge on getting just good enough service on the worse Sprint network most of the time.
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Ranter posted:Interesting. Any data to confirm this notion that Google is favoring slower sprint networks over faster t-mobile? Android is open source after all, so hopefully we can just look at the aggregated data and confirm this. At least for the area the tests were conducted in. All costs the same why would they be angry that that your forced yourself on T-Mobile only coverage? Especially when it is well known that Sprint's network is both poo poo and cheaper than T-Mobile in major metros? They are punishing you for getting worse coverage on T-Mobile? Good enough is good enough, who cares about LTE data speeds when you are trying to push hundreds of thousands if not millions emails a day.
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