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Nah I know it's the tower I'm connect to because I use the LTE ddiscovery App on my phone and when I'm on the genito side of Brandermill it connects to that tower and when I'm in the front of brandermill I use the tower on Bailey Bridge Road those are the only 2 I use both been thru Network Vision but trust me I know which tower I'm connected to I got a shared unfinished no antenna AT&T&TMobile tower behind my neighbors house deep in the woods, I can also spot the glowing big red tower from Verizon from the front of my yard.

If you're getting 2 bars sitting under the tower, than it's likely not the site you are getting LTE from.

I don't believe that Sprint has given any official timeline for your area. If you got that date from a call with a representative, disregard it. Very few CSRs have access to the information needed to make that kind of a statement, and even fewer know what it means.

Tri-band devices send/receive texts through LTE, so that would not affect your data browsing. However, if SvLTE is that important to you during calls, you are out of luck until VoLTE matures. Or you'll need to move to Verizon. Otherwise, SvLTE is a thing of the past. I can count on one hand the times I've felt I needed SvLTE lately. I'll give you a hint. It starts with z.

Finally, it sounds like you haven't checked out the site rules. Please take a moment to read those, and possibly the FaQ pages. I think that will help you better understand what is occurring in your market currently.

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Nah I know it's the tower I'm connect to because I use the LTE ddiscovery App on my phone and when I'm on the genito side of Brandermill it connects to that tower and when I'm in the front of brandermill I use the tower on Bailey Bridge Road those are the only 2 I use both been thru Network Vision but trust me I know which tower I'm connected to I got a shared unfinished no antenna AT&T&TMobile tower behind my neighbors house deep in the woods, I can also spot the glowing big red tower from Verizon from the front of my yard.

The app points to your 1x connection, not your LTE connection. LTE does not broadcast a location.

 

I maintain you are not connecting to the site that you think you are.

 

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Even though it's way north of richmond I'm glad and excited to see a tower on 800 in the richmond market. I hope they make it to chesterfield soon so I can ditch my airaive. All the trees and lack of towers really takes a toll on the signal.

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Even though it's way north of richmond I'm glad and excited to see a tower on 800 in the richmond market. I hope they make it to chesterfield soon so I can ditch my airaive. All the trees and lack of towers really takes a toll on the signal.

 

It's great when it works. But keep in mind it still holds on to the 1900 all the way to 106-110 dbm., which is un-usable. It bounces between in my office which makes me loose calls. But when you latch onto it and have it (deeper in the building) it's great!!

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Even though it's way north of richmond I'm glad and excited to see a tower on 800 in the richmond market. I hope they make it to chesterfield soon so I can ditch my airaive. All the trees and lack of towers really takes a toll on the signal.

 

We should see some in Chesterfield soon.  My phone keeps hitting 1x800 in more places.  I know on hull street rd there are some as well as along Powhite.  

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Starting to get a real good 1x800 signal LTE acts like it can pop up on my house but still only from the front porch. I'm just anticipating the full launch. So they can turn the towers to full capacity.

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I'm headed to Marion, VA in the middle of October and again at the end of October. It sure would be nice for Ericsson to upgrade the remaining two (of 4) towers there that are in the Southern VA market. I know asking for LTE would probably be too much but at least 3G converted to NV standards would be nice, and some 1x800 would even be great too. 

 

I know it's been mentioned before but it's really weird how those four towers are there all by themselves in the southern VA market. They also have Ericsson as their OEM and not ALU like the rest of the Southern VA market. 

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Well, now here's a nice little surprise at the office in downtown. Sorry about the giant photo. Couldn't figure out how to shrink it in tapatalk.  

 

 

 

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I picked that up this morning also from the tower off 7th street. 

 

I also bumped into b26 in glen allen. 

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Interesting that B26 is popping up all over. I am currently in the middle of my first trip to our Short Pump offices since my summer break and have noticed a definite uptick in voice/text 800. Previously, were my phone would fight for a non-working (voice/text would rarely work) 1900 signal on campus, now easily drops on 800 and works splendidly. Sure it isn't everyone's desired LTE, but anything is an improvement over the legacy network.

 

I am very close to recommending Sprint to local coworkers!

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And here's another one from this morning. I was at intersection of Hull Street and Belt Blvd.

 

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That's from the Tower on w49th street. 

 

Sprint made some tuning changes to it over the past month. Voice on the 800 also. 

The tower on Chalfont drive is just ?????

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So all this 800 goodness they just flipped on does that mean it's all operational or is there further tuning and tweaking to be done? I hope I can finally get rid of the crappy airave

 

So all this 800 goodness they just flipped on does that mean it's all operational or is there further tuning and tweaking to be done? I hope I can finally get rid of the crappy airave

Hold on to that AiRave

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