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"Two if by LTE!!!" declares Sprint 4G Rollout Updates as Boston is named as a Network Vision/LTE city for 2012

Posted by S4GRU, in Author: Robert Herron 20 February 2012 · 8,621 views

Sprint Network Vision LTE A/L Alcatel/Lucent Boston Massachusetts Exclusive
"Two if by LTE!!!" declares Sprint 4G Rollout Updates as Boston is named as a Network Vision/LTE city for 2012 by Robert Herron
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Monday, February 20, 2012 - 1:33 AM MST

OK, Sprint 4G Rollout Updates is prepared to name the second city that Sprint's Network Vision vendor Alcatel/Lucent is deploying during 2012...Boston, Massachusetts. Bean Town, and soon to be LTE Town for Sprint. On Friday, we announced that Sprint is working on Network Vision/LTE Deployment in the San Francisco Bay Market. And now we can tell you that the Sprint Boston market is also about to begin work.

Sprint's Boston market is essentially the entire state of Massachusetts and includes 940 sites to be converted to Network Vision. Alcatel/Lucent is preparing for mobilization and work should begin soon. The entire market will take approximately 7 months to complete, wrapping up before years end. But in the interim, the market will be brought online one site at a time, tower by tower. So there will be some usable locations in Greater Bostonia by the time LTE devices start to be sold in the next few months.

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S4GRU currently does not have many more details about the rollout in Boston at this time. Hopefully in the not too distant future, we can provide a neighborhood by neighborhood analysis of this deployment like we have been able to do in Chicago.

Sprint 4G Rollout Updates can bring you this information about 2012 deployment markets because we have received extensive Network Vision engineering information from inside sources. We have information on all of Sprint's 97 markets nationwide. With this information we are able to reasonably conclude how and when Sprint intends to deploy Network Vision and LTE in every market in the country. The information is not a neat and orderly list, showing markets in deployment order from 1 to 97. If it were only so easy!

We will continue to scour through the data and gather deployment information for your use. It is our intent to provide at a minimum, all the Sprint markets that will likely begin Network Vision/LTE upgrades in 2012. And we intend to do so in a series of articles over the next few weeks. We will not likely announce communities slated for 2013, because the dates we hold for 2013 markets appear tentative and subject to change. With the many variables between now and 2013, Sprint could make significant shifts in deployment plans. Based on dynamic need change, funding, market permitting difficulties, etc.

With the release of Boston today, that brings the total of Network Vision markets announced to nine. Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Baltimore and Kansas City as announced by Sprint. Chicago, San Francisco and Boston announced by Sprint 4G Rollout Updates.

Stay tuned to Sprint 4G Rollout Updates. On Wednesday we will be announcing another Network Vision/LTE market that Alcatel/Lucent will be working to bring online for Sprint in 2012. Check in at S4GRU.com for all the latest updates! Become a member today. Membership is free and easy.

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Information about the source: The information for the Boston deployment and all of our Network Vision information has been obtained by several internal sources close to the Network Vision program who choose to remain anonymous. The documents will not be released to protect source anonymity.

EDITED 3/5/2012: To include market map.





S4GRU
Feb 21 2012 11:09 AM

Rawvega, on 21 February 2012 - 11:05 AM, said:

Puerto Rico and the USVI should get a significant benefit from Network Vision if the cell site density is truly that low. The addition of 800MHz CDMA will be huge. One good thing is since Nextel never bothered to build out at all in P.R. and the USVI, hopefully that SMR spectrum can be put to full and immediate use and not have to be shared with any iDEN users.

That's a great point. There is nothing stopping Samsung and Sprint from a full 800 deployment now in this market.

Kevster1321
Feb 21 2012 11:51 AM
In PR don't they use nextel type service i swear i saw some people use them.

ericdabbs
Feb 21 2012 12:16 PM
I wonder how much of a difference is made in voice coverage between

1xCDMA2000 on 1900 Mhz (what is used currently)
AND
1xA on 800 Mhz with Sprint opting to use the full 70% increased coverage configuration with the same amount of users.

I wish I could see what that map could look like.

xcharles718
Feb 21 2012 02:27 PM

ericdabbs, on 21 February 2012 - 12:16 PM, said:

I wonder how much of a difference is made in voice coverage between1xCDMA2000 on 1900 Mhz (what is used currently)AND1xA on 800 Mhz with Sprint opting to use the full 70% increased coverage configuration with the same amount of users.I wish I could see what that map could look like.
I thought that they were going to go with minimum spectrum used instead of max out on coverage configuration since 800MHz already provide a big coverage gain compared to 1900MHz.

ericdabbs
Feb 21 2012 02:47 PM

xcharles718, on 21 February 2012 - 02:27 PM, said:

I thought that they were going to go with minimum spectrum used instead of max out on coverage configuration since 800MHz already provide a big coverage gain compared to 1900MHz.

What do you mean by using the minimum spectrum? You mean max out on capacity but keep the same coverage at 800 Mhz?

cmg1
Feb 21 2012 09:51 PM
All I want is for my Sprint 3G to be as fast as T-Mobile Edge was in San Diego (it hasn't been for several months). Well, not really, I also want 3G to go at 3G speed, and, well... 4G. I can't believe I gave up T-Mobile for this last March!

leozno1
Feb 22 2012 09:34 AM

ericdabbs, on 21 February 2012 - 12:16 PM, said:

I wonder how much of a difference is made in voice coverage between1xCDMA2000 on 1900 Mhz (what is used currently)AND1xA on 800 Mhz with Sprint opting to use the full 70% increased coverage configuration with the same amount of users.I wish I could see what that map could look like.

http://www.androidpo...-drop-your-jaw/

This was posted on Android Police about 2 months ago. It looks very promising indeed, lets hope this isn't just computer effects and an actual reality.

leozno1
Feb 22 2012 09:51 AM
York is considered to be in the Central PA area because Philadelphia is about an hour and a half away from here. But we are only about 25 miles south of Harrisburg PA, so hopefully one of your future updates includes the central PA area =)

S4GRU
Feb 22 2012 10:40 AM
Artem at Android Police posted that after our article: http://s4gru.com/ind...-webinar-today/

I have a really good rapport with Artem. I wouldn't quite say we collaborate, but he retweets our stuff and covers our articles on occasion, and we do the same back.

leozno1
Feb 22 2012 11:27 AM

S4GRU, on 22 February 2012 - 10:40 AM, said:

Artem at Android Police posted that after our article: http://s4gru.com/ind...-webinar-today/I have a really good rapport with Artem. I wouldn't quite say we collaborate, but he retweets our stuff and covers our articles on occasion, and we do the same back.

Oh I had no idea. I didn't discover s4gru until about a month ago and it was EXACTLY what I was looking for.

I would say that you should try to make your website easier through google. Because even with very specific google searches this site is hard to find. I had been looking for any details I could about Network Vision updates for over a year and was only able to find small articles and occasional updates but this website exactly what I was looking for.

I wish I knew what kind of 3G speeds we are going to see with Network Vision tho.

Keep up the great work and keep the updates rolling!

S4GRU
Feb 22 2012 02:22 PM

leozno1, on 22 February 2012 - 11:27 AM, said:

Oh I had no idea. I didn't discover s4gru until about a month ago and it was EXACTLY what I was looking for.I would say that you should try to make your website easier through google. Because even with very specific google searches this site is hard to find. I had been looking for any details I could about Network Vision updates for over a year and was only able to find small articles and occasional updates but this website exactly what I was looking for. I wish I knew what kind of 3G speeds we are going to see with Network Vision tho.Keep up the great work and keep the updates rolling!

It used to be much easier to find on Google, but with the migration to the new site, we have slipped quite a bit in search rankings. Hopefully we will recover and get back up to the top of Google soon!!!
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