u/Lgamerday

Freedom 320ms Paging Cycle (Battery Drain)

Ever since switching to Freedom I’ve noticed worse battery life on my device (despite my old provider and Freedom being co-located on the same tower). It turns out Freedom is using a very aggressive paging cycle (320ms vs 1280ms).

The paging cycle is how often your phone’s modem will wake from idle to check for incoming calls, data, etc.

Rogers, Bell, and Telus all use 1280ms (industry standard). Freedom is using 320ms, meaning that your phone wakes from idle 4x as often. Does anyone have any insight into this topic? I realize it’s quite niche, but it almost seems like a misconfiguration of the network.

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u/Lgamerday — 1 day ago

▲ 34 r/cellmapper

I saw this unique site in Cookstown, ON. It’s a cell-on-wheels trailer, but the antennas are mounted to a hydro pole. The site has been here for over a year.

Interesting combination of permanent and temporary. It’s broadcasting b4/b7/b12/b66/n71 and is using microwave backhaul. I got a throughput of ~200 mbps on speed test (over LTE).

u/Lgamerday — 19 days ago