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Kinda weird too considering you can run GSM in the HSPA guard bands without a large degradation of HSPA performance.

Typically HSPA is 5mhz+5mhz FDMA, but the carrier is only 3.6mhz+3.6mhz and can be slimmed to 4.2mhzx4.2mhz on Ericsson equipment. NSN equipment can go as low as 3.8x3.8.

In a slim HSPA situation you can run multiple 0.2x0.2 GSM channels.

LTE I've seen all over deployed in 5mhzx5mhz, but I've never seen the 3mhzx3mhz or 1.4mhzx1.4mhz configurations in the wild (they would overload easy).



Best i can tell, it is for cost reasons.

Non-phone GSM devices are widely operated because of low cost and low data speed needs (most of them just ping a SMS in some direction or other).

UMTS deployments are more likely to be for bandwidth needs, and thus more likely to have moved to LTE setups already.


Sprint has 3x3 deployed on band 26 in some boundary areas of the ibez. There have been some sites spotted in Columbus, Ohio along the ibez boundary that are 3x3 instead of the 5x5 Sprint has deployed everywhere else that's not within 100 km of Canada or Mexico.




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