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When is SouthWest Austin going to have LTE????!!!!! My iPhone 5 3G is super slow!! Drains my battery too and yes LTE is turned off for now but battery still drains super fast! Please let Austinites know when they can have LTE!! San Antonio Houston and Dallas have it why not Austin yet?

 

Also, if you read our forums, you would see that there are several live LTE sites in the Austin area. We have several members tracking the progress. Also, turning off LTE will not save your battery at all. It is not like WiMax. Your battery burn rate will be the same with LTE on or off.

 

If your iPhone 5 is going through battery really fast, you either have a really poor 3G signal, or your device is defective.

 

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Curious to know if there is any update on the Charlotte/Mooresville market. If the launch date is on schedule, perhaps ahead or behind schedule and if there is a solid launch date yet. Thanks.

 

We won't know for certain until we get the first list of accepted sites from Sprint. Hopefully we will get this info in the next week or so.

 

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Ok great. Will these be posted on the wall as the list is available? Thanks again Robert.

 

We have a thread in our Sponsor section that gets updated every week called NV Sites Complete. In it we show all the sites Sprint has accepted from Ericsson, Alcatel Lucent and Samsung that week. It is the best place to get the latest updates. For more information about becoming a S4GRU Sponsor and to get access to all of our great Sponsor content, read this thread: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/1195-information-about-s4gru-sponsorship-levels-and-how-to-become-a-sponsor/

 

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The August Map thread is way outdated. It's now closed. We are considering an October map soon.

 

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