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Woohoo! :banana:

I did a Google search in curiosity of Sprint possibly taking over the old USCC space on my town's water tower, and lo and behold I find some village board minutes telling me exactly what I wanted to see! The motion was granted in August but I have not yet noticed any work beginning. I hope they start soon, because as of today the existing USCC antennas are still present.

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Edit: I just drove by the water tower and noticed the old USCC equipment shelter appears to have been removed. Progress!! [emoji2]

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I was in rockford about month and half ago. I saw them testing the second carrier then, it was only on a handful of sites. They were using 41776 channel(same as they used in kansas, during the world series for the second carrier/channel)

I'm in Rockford right now(10AM Harrison st and Mulford Rd) less than 2 miles from the mall. LTE 41 is between -108, and -112 outside .speed test wasn't bad 26/27 for download and less than 2 for upload .as soon u get inside the building that's another story lol
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I'm in Rockford right now(10AM Harrison st and Mulford Rd) less than 2 miles from the mall. LTE 41 is between -108, and -112 outside .speed test wasn't bad 26/27 for download and less than 2 for upload .as soon u get inside the building that's another story lol

I talked to the owners of the mall once about doing WiFi throughout. They asked me how much I was willing to pay them. Hah. Right...
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Is anybody experience a voice and SMS outage right now? I am in Northwest IN. LTE is working fine.

There is no loss of 1x or EVDO signal.

Yeah same here, my family and I went out for dinner for my birthday and my sister couldn't get through to any of us. Luckily iMessage is working though

 

 

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Yeah same here, my family and I went out for dinner for my birthday and my sister couldn't get through to any of us. Luckily iMessage is working though

 

 

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Bad time to have an outage. At least data works.

 

And happy birthday!

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Just an update. Posts on sprints FB seem to indicate this is a regional outage not just Chicago area. Outside of IL and IN people in Iowa, Wisconsin and Ohio are complaining.

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2.9 magnitude earthquake also reported just west of Lake in the Hills. COINCIDENCE?!? [emoji13]

 

 

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Yeah, sorry about that. I won't let it happen again.
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Strange. I just tried it and it worked. It wouldn't surprise me though if the wifi calling service is quite busy now.

 

Edit: missed your most recent post. My bad.

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You really didn't have to go to that much trouble for kyle bday, a simple card or hot girl with big boobs. Yet a earthquake, show off :rolleyes:

Haters gunna hate, sorry not sorry. Enjoy your lack of phone calls due to my birthday quake, Chicagoland area! [emoji41]

 

 

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I am visiting family near Philadelphia, and had just bought 2 in-laws shiny new Sprint iPhones. Naturally,  tonight, to teach them how to use the new phones,  I tried calling my and my wife's phones,  which are provisioned in area 815. Total failure. We could call them FROM our phones,  but they could not call us. All 4 phones were in the same room. Oh, crud, I am thinking, I just made a huge $900 flub. Bad words were said. I tried reloading PRLs, rebooting, calling Sprint (got a recording saying there was a known issue), etc., etc. Then,  magically,  they began calling  perfectly. Then, I started seeing posts about the outage. My in-laws now question my sanity. [Well, so do I, but that belongs in another thread.] 

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