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Sprint LTE is now discoverable in the DFW, Houston, San Antonio & Austin markets


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by Robert Herron
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Saturday, July 14, 2012 - 8:46 AM MDT

 

It's been quite a beehive of activity around the S4GRU forums as members proclaim that 4G icons are appearing live in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex, Houston, San Antonio and in isolated spots around the Austin market (most notably around Waco). 4G LTE is appearing in these markets.

I have now received confirmation from sources within Sprint, that they have indeed stopped blocking LTE connections in the DFW, Houston, San Antontio and Austin markets. LTE is now discoverable for Sprint LTE devices in these locations where LTE sites have been completed. Every fully configured and signed off LTE site in these markets is now live.

Currently, this leaves only th Atlanta market to be lit up of the July 15th announced cities. Our sources do not know when that is yet, but feel like it may even still be later today. There is a flurry of activity occurring. There have also been reports of some LTE sites appearing in the Chicago market by S4GRU members. But these are very scattered and inconsistent.

Please note that the live LTE sites in the Austin market is very limited. Mostly around Waco. But there are a very few isolated sites live in the Austin metro area. We are awaiting details on locations.

 

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Live DFW LTE sites as of the last S4GRU update. There are more sites live at this time than what we are reporting. But more coverage will be added weekly.

 

 

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Live Houston LTE sites as of the last S4GRU update. There are more sites live at this time than what we are reporting. But more coverage will be added weekly.

 

 

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Live San Antonio LTE sites as of the last S4GRU update. There are more sites live at this time than what we are reporting. But more coverage will be added weekly.

 

 

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Live Waco LTE sites as of the last S4GRU update. There are more sites live at this time than what we are reporting, even a few around the City of Austin. But more coverage will be added weekly.

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Here is what I got from zip code 75039. After I ran the test the 4G/LTE signal went away. I managed to take a screen picture. Not bad for my 1st run. This was from my job working from the 9th floor crossing highway 161 and 114

 

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Once you post something is there a way to delete the post ? I added threee posts for no reason

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Hmm.. I drove from West Houston to South Houston today through downtown... not a single LTE connection on my Galaxy Nexus LTE (with LTE enabled)

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Im also in Dallas, no 4G LTE signal anywhere, and my friends with LTE phones also saying the same, nothing...what gives? are they just rolling this out area by area? or please give more info here on what to realistically expect, I doubt they are just gonna "flip a switch".

there are signals in the richardson/plano area but they dont last long.

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I'm in Houston w/ HTC EVO LTE....drove almost entire 610 loop today as well as 59 from 610 to Downtown....no 4G signal anywhere....only brief (~1 sec) notice of 4G icon upon a reboot but immediately back to 3G - from which the speeds are horrible. Hoping for some solid 4G coverage this week.

 

Missing at least WIMAX 4G from the original EVO.....

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Hey i live in Kansas City and i was downtown, and near the plaza and my lte didn't work. I have LTE/CDMA mode on, and it still won't work. Is there something i need to do? I will be at the airport tonight waiting for my friend to come in and i need something to pass the time...is there something that i need to do for it to work?

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North Houston is now live with 4G LTE. They were having problems caused by the flooding from the last week of rain according to my sources. My home tower is at 57 ms ping with 31mb down and 18mb up on testing in the best signal area.

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So Waco has 20 sites and Austin has 9 (spread out over a larger area)?

 

No LTE live in SW Austin yet, but the towers down here just switched to eHRPD today, so moving the right direction.

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Have been reading the site for a couple of months. Since I dumped T-mob after 11 years to switch to Sprint. Went thru the whole HTC EVO 4g LTE crisis, got my phone, and have been anxiously waiting...

Did all of my updates, rebooted, etc...

I live in Downtown Fort Worth, and there has not even been a Blip.

Still waiting.

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How certain are you that your are on the same site at both locations?Robert

I was using netmonitor to locate the towers. It is the closest tower to both locations. The Forum is basicly under it and my house is approx maybe 3/4 miles away. I did drive up to the tower and on the Forum side I had LTE, I then went to the other side and I had 3g. I dont know what to make of it.

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Pat8635 said:

If you look closely at the map. It looks like all the LTE towers are INSIDE 1604 and then one up at 3009. Rock_paper_... if you are down that hill at all or behind those apartments, that would explain it.

 

 

 

The tower Im refering to is the big blue water tower behind Home Depot. It is almost right on top of the apartments that you speak of. My house is not that close, maybe 3/4 miles away or so. Near the Jehovehs Witness Church on Forum Rd.

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HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM!

From Sugar Land to downtown and now back to my office in SW Houston and have yet to see 4G on my EVO 4G LTE (7/16/12). I saw a 4G signal for about less than a minute near the Galleria late yesterday but then it was gone... For almost 2 weeks now ive been struggling with the 3G speed anticipating the July 15 date which has now come and gone. I should have waited to buy this phone and stuck with my original EVO 4G WiMax that worked great. Sprint continues to have the slowest speed of the top 3 carriers, Verizon, ATT, Sprint... Unfortunately, Sprints 3G is half the speed of other carriers' 3G and its making it difficult to stay with sprint. I understand they have no data cap but im debating on switching even though ive been a Sprint user of over 13 years. This slow speed is killing me! I give it 2 more days before i cancel Sprint service and return this phone before i hit the 14th day trial

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Robert, any word on the location of those towers inside of the austin metro? I am basically smack dab in the middle of town (78704) and haven't seen anything yet. (I am on CDMA -ehrpd though)

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ALL: Most people have to cycle CDMA only/CDMA-LTE mode to get the LTE to appear. If the LTE signal is not strong enough, your device ignores it. People are still have problems keeping LTE connected to if their signal is not strong enough. Devices keep moving over to a stronger 3G signal. There are lots of bugs still to work out.

 

AUSTINers: I am awaiting the couple of Austin locations that are supposed to be live from our source. We did have someone email me and say that they got a signal at a Kroger store in the Austin area. I emailed him back to find out which one. I will post any info I have when I get it.

 

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ALL: Most people have to cycle CDMA only/CDMA-LTE mode to get the LTE to appear. If the LTE signal is not strong enough, your device ignores it. People are still have problems keeping LTE connected to if their signal is not strong enough. Devices keep moving over to a stronger 3G signal. There are lots of bugs still to work out.AUSTINers: I am awaiting the couple of Austin locations that are supposed to be live from our source. We did have someone email me and say that they got a signal at a Kroger store in the Austin area. I emailed him back to find out which one. I will post any info I have when I get it.Robert

 

S4GRU ... I contacted Sprint about my LTE issue and was told there were no known issues in my area and sent a trouble ticket 19179492-120716. He had me reset my phone, cycle it and even switch cdma only/LTE but still have no LTE. On top of that, the 3G speed is so bad now. I am exactly 1.2 miles from the LTE tower here at work and 400 yards from the tower at home. My 3G test pings at 1275ms, DL 67KBps, UL 33Kbps... Do you know of any hardware incompatibilities on the EVO LTE? Any suggestions?

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ALL: Most people have to cycle CDMA only/CDMA-LTE mode to get the LTE to appear. If the LTE signal is not strong enough, your device ignores it. People are still have problems keeping LTE connected to if their signal is not strong enough. Devices keep moving over to a stronger 3G signal. There are lots of bugs still to work out.AUSTINers: I am awaiting the couple of Austin locations that are supposed to be live from our source. We did have someone email me and say that they got a signal at a Kroger store in the Austin area. I emailed him back to find out which one. I will post any info I have when I get it.Robert

 

There are no Kroger stores in Austin. They're in Houston, DFW, and Bryan/College Station.

 

Someone else tweeted about testing LTE in Austin--I asked where in town, and he gave a San Antonio location (1604).

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I started seeing the LTE icon pop up when I was downtown on Friday night. Pretty decent speeds so far. :-) But while at work today, it's basically been 3G...and for a minute or so, instead of the LTE icon, I'm seeing a 4G icon. :-\ Why is it 2 different icons for the same service?

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No LTE live in SW Austin yet, but the towers down here just switched to eHRPD today, so moving the right direction.

 

There is supposedly an LTE tower at MLK and 35 but I didn't get a signal off it either when I drove by nor at work 7 blocks South and 2 blocks West. Having said that, although this thread says that LTE is supposedly discoverable in limited locations in Austin Metro, the coverage map (current per 7/15) doesn't show any completed sites in Austin Metro: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/517-nv-sites-complete/

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Still nothing in Fort Worth. I drove the city & didn't get anything at all. I work in Hurst, which is supposed to have good LTE coverage. Signal is so bad that I am 3G roaming with no bars. This is terrible. I really need phone service at work. Went to the Sprint store on Camp Bowie this evening. My guy there said that there had been about 30 people in there today asking about LTE. He has the EVO 4g LTE, (as I do), and had not gotten anything either. Said that they were told that it was taking awhile to get the towers up & running. If I didn't have anything in 2 weeks, to come back and they would check my phone out.

WTF???

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