Network Vision/LTE - West Michigan Market (Grand Rapids/Lansing/Kalamazoo)

[Dkoellerwx]

21 hours ago, Hatstrow said:

Not entirely sure what kind of changes they are doing on the sector, but they have installed some smaller antennas on the sector (bottom is T-Mobile).

Yep those are B/n41 antennas!

[cooltech6597]

Took a trip up to Sleeping Bear Dunes, and T-Mo has converted Sprint enb 729389 to T-Mo 122073, which gives the dunes native coverage. The site has n41 40mhz but seems to be backhaul capped (screenshots below). It's probably not very well optimized either because there's a large area of no service in between sectors. There are like 6 new Sprint conversions along US 10 between Midland and Clare, all with n41.

[Hatstrow]

On 4/19/2022 at 10:01 PM, Dkoellerwx said:

Yep those are B/n41 antennas!

Oh, nice! I didn't realize that. I do know they have designated this tower and the other one in Athens as an Ultra Capacity site. The one in Union City, it doesn't appear that they have turned on n41 frequency yet as I have yet to see that band show up on the Field Test app on my iPhone. I do believe they are working on adding more capacity to this site or they don't have the needed backhaul going to this site as the highest I ever see from this tower is around 70 Mbps download and 30-40 Mbps upload. Which is still really good from what we did have before. Would be awesome to see speeds towards 200 Mbps or higher, like most of the other Ultra Capacity sites around this area. 

[PedroDaGr8]

11 hours ago, Hatstrow said:

 I have yet to see that band show up on the Field Test app on my iPhone.

As I am sure you know, the Field Test app on iPhone is FAR from reliable. If iPhone works the same as Android, if you see 5GUC in your notification bar then you are connected to n41.