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So Is Spark possibly active in Columbus? I finally picked up my S5 yesterday (Online easy pay) and The Star Icon has been present most of the time with the LTE icon, Everything I've found says this is a notification of being on spark... Speeds up a little bit over the S4 (10-15Mbps Dn avg), But that could simply be a tech boost... Thoughts? https://www.dropbox.com/s/wfpwmij73zf3por/Screenshot_2014-05-06-08-47-29.jpg (Sorry for the Link, Attachments are being goofy for me today)

Does Shentel even do wireless? Last I know they only did Cable/Broadband/Home Phone in the Shenandoah Valley area around Virginia.... EDIT: I guess they do... I just found this on their website: Pursuant to a management agreement with Sprint Nextel Communications, Inc., and its related parties (which we refer to collectively as “Sprint Nextel”), the Company is the exclusive personal communications service (“PCS”) Affiliate of Sprint Nextel providing mobility communications network products and services in the 1900 megahertz spectrum range in the four-state area extending from Harrisonburg, Virginia to Harrisburg, York and Altoona, Pennsylvania. The Company operates its PCS network under the Sprint Nextel radio spectrum license and Sprint brand. Also this LTE completion link: https://www.shentel.com/shentel/news/shentel-announces-completion-of-its-sprint-4g-lte-upgrade

Eastside 270 & main st (pretty sure that's the one since I'm only about 150 yards from the tower) just went lte... Getting -75db and 32 mbps down 6 up. Posting screens in the spreadsheet forum...

as of right now basically all the purple in Reynoldsburg, Whitehall, Gahanna, Bexley is band 41, So your iPhone won't see it... 1900 band isn't on yet in this area...

X800 transmitting at e main st & 270 as of midnight. Screen shot and details in the spreadsheet thread. Getting excellent download speeds on ehrpd too (2.5 down average, peak 2.9)

I was able to get an LTE Eng screen from signal at hamilton Rd, Doesn't seem to be that tower putting out the LTE, my guess is a pickerington new tower since it was so weak and it was quickly trumped by eHRPD from the actual Hamilton/270 Tower... I picked it up on the bridge and lost it when I hit the freeway, I did pick it up again at Home Depot on Brice and was able to get a 1.5mb/s down on a -115 LTE signal there... @ Home Depot Brice Rd Hamilton Rd on the bridge LTE Eng Screen while going down the ramp

They will be as far as I know, I did not mean to come across in a way that could be thought of as them stopping deployment. no I am saying deploying bands other than 1900 first is a bad move for sprint as their reps do claim LTE is available in certain areas but it is non 1900 band LTE but on the large majority of phones it is not accessible as it's not 1900 The columbus east side is a good example, there is LTE showing on sensorly along I-70/270 but it is Band 41 not 1900 so to a normal consumer who got a new phone 3-6 months ago that means their phone doesn't work and all they see is sprint sucks, not it's the wrong band... Eventually everything will work without issues but until then they risk angering more customers who simply "know" that their LTE phones don't work in areas that they see should have LTE according to maps and/or Reps...

LTE is a different ballgame than wimax... With Wimax, you bought a phone, and it worked when the service arrived in your area, no band issues, the 1st gen wimax device just worked as well as later Gen... LTE is at my home, and the home of many others with LTE devices that only use the 1900 band, sensorly shows it and sprint reps say it is available, but oops, not for a 1st or 2nd gen LTE device, only a 3rd Gen device. Sprint made the choice to sell LTE 1900 only phones first, And a it is almost certain that a majority of it's users who have upgraded recently have those devices with the promise of LTE as soon as purple lights up in their area. so for them a band 41 LTE signal is a false positive... Most of those customers are not currently able to upgrade without paying full price for a new device. So that is why I am ok with saying LTE essentially does not exist unless it is 1900 band LTE... Most consumers don't know about the difference between single and tri-band devices, they know they have an LTE phone that is top-tier from 2012 or 2013 that doesn't work where it is supposed to and all that does is make them dislike Sprint.... Not a recipe for a winning scenario... To normal consumers an LTE phone means that it should work anywhere LTE shows it is available. 3G and Wimax have nothing in common with this situation, all 3G phones or Wimax phones work where it says they do, not true with LTE ones. Just my 2 Cents though....

On another note about the speed of the rollout.... There is honestly no speed fast enough to be truly acceptable.... This is because their network is so far degraded and antiquated that it needs repaired last year, not in the near future... That being said so long as sprint is acting in good faith and being HONEST with customers about what is going on then things can be accepted despite the slow pace of the rollout...

And That's the problem right there.... There is plenty of LTE "IF" you have a Tri-Band Device manufactured in the last couple months.... But Most people upgraded to The 2012-13 series LTE devices since they killed off the Wimax ones.... All of those are 1900 LTE... And that means that LTE really doesn't really "exist" for the majority of devices as they can't access it.... To the standard user LTE is not there unless they can access it. The argument that it is there if you buy a new phone (when you own an LTE device) is not a valid argument for LTE progress.... In order to use the "it's there just not for your device" logic you might as well say LTE is everywhere in Columbus because verizon/att are providing it so just switch carriers and you'll get it.... Same logic... Ironically I just heard that same statement about there being tons of LTE in Columbus if you buy a new phone from a Sprint Rep at the 256/I-70 store just yesterday when responding to a customer's question about why they don't have LTE on their 3 month old S4 like they were "promised" when they joined sprint at that store location.... It's statements like that which give sprint the reputation of being a company that tells lies all the time... If you stand at my home I don't have any LTE... Because I have an S4... My daughters don't either... They have S3's... My Fiancee as of yesterday has LTE because she now has a G2... All while standing in the same spot... So just by that little example LTE really doesn't exist at my home as 3/4 of us don't have LTE access with all LTE capable devices...

He didn't say, He only mentioned the hilliard/Westerville buildings by name...

That's about my experience too, they were never great but the service was okay... I was getting 30-50 on D2 before TWC purchased them... Since then they have been out 3-4 times per month to "Fix" Problems and the CS is terrible... According to the Tech that building will be the main hub for the Columbus area taking main duties off of Westerville and Hilliard... But who knows with TWC, They really can't engineer their network to save their lives....

The cable network run by formerly insight (Now TWC) here in columbus is very poor, TWC has been upgrading the lines since they took over, but 90% of us customers who are stuck in the former insight area are maxed at the 20Mbps (Turbo) Tier... This is because the old Roadrunner equipment is only Diocis 2... Even TWC Business class has the slower speed caps when compared to the rest of the TWC service area. They are upgrading to Diocis 3 finally... If you are in the former insight area you do not have the option for 30 or 50 yet and won't until this "superhub" comes online....

I came across some information today, (Thanks to a Master Cable Tech out to fix my internet) I don't know if it is related to LTE turning on or not, but I do know Time Warner is handling some of the fiber to certain sites....In the former insight Cable area they are building a "superhub" at the old insight cable building on Livingston... It won't be completed until the end of January at the earliest, This could be one of the reasons that we aren't seeing completed sites in the insight communications area being lit up since the area is still not upgraded to Diocis 3 and they are waiting until the hub is up before lighting up... The back-haul terminus isn't ready yet.... On another note the old insight area will finally be able to get better internet speeds for residential once it goes live... Finally.... May or may not be related but I figured I'd share.... If you look at the old insight communications service area it is very similar in shape to the sensorly LTE blackhole on the eastside...

It's about time that tower has been bad for a few months... No data access even at -50 to -60db within 500-1000 feet of that tower.... It will probably end up like the 270/main st one though where they finish it but don't flip the switch so there is little to no improvement.... I cannot wait for a real east-side switch flip.... It's bad when you can't even check maps or waze to get around traffic...