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B41 is now live in Bolivar! The B41 footprint expansion is happening! Keep your eyes peeled, even in places you may not expect.

Also on Highway 13, B41 is live in Collins, Lowry City, and Clinton. Those are the KS market, but more evidence of B41 expansion.

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B41 is now live in Bolivar! The B41 footprint expansion is happening! Keep your eyes peeled, even in places you may not expect.

Also on Highway 13, B41 is live in Collins, Lowry City, and Clinton. Those are the KS market, but more evidence of B41 expansion.

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Those Collins and Lowry City towers won't be saturated any time soon! >:)

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On 2/24/2018 at 9:33 PM, Grabber5.0 said:

Those Collins and Lowry City towers won't be saturated any time soon! >:)

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Hit 110+ Mbps on both. Granted it was 1am-ish. But yeah, probably not going to see a whole lot of traffic on those, other than the highway.

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First MIMO permit application in Springfield. Based on this I would assume MIMO work is also ongoing in Kansas City and in St. Louis!

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Description: SPRINT MIMO-ADD 3 ANTENNAS & ASSOCAITED EQUIPMENT FOR SPRINT

https://www1.springfieldmo.gov/permitstatus/PRJDetails.aspx?no=PRJ2018-01395

Thanks to @Rickie546 for pointing it out.

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On 10/14/2018 at 8:23 PM, Cardsfan96 said:

Has sprint made band 25 10x10 in more rural areas? I took a Speedtest between bowling green and eolia on hwy 61 and got 60 down 11 up on band 25. 

Thus far I have not seen a single site in the Kansas or Missouri market that has been widened to 10x10. I'm not sure why, they have the spectrum and LTE coverage is up enough that they should be able to trim 1x and EVDO if they haven't already.

On 10/15/2018 at 4:24 PM, Cardsfan96 said:

Have they done this all over this market or only in certain areas?

B25 2xCA is live on every site that has a 2nd B25 carrier. 

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On 1/22/2019 at 7:20 PM, Cardsfan96 said:

Seeing all the tweets from John Saw about all the Massive MIMO upgrades in all these cities, it has me curious if any of that is going on in this market? Is sprint  aggressively doing upgrades in our market?

M-MIMO installs have started in KC so I'd imagine they're doing them in STL as well. Before I left in October Springfield had at least one site permitted for M-MIMO. 

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