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That makes sense. The timing of the SS announcement seems a little bit odd in relation to the rumored/anticipated announcement of the N5. I currently have the EVO LTE and am wondering about upgrading.

I'm curious, with today's announcement of Sprint Spark and the first Tri-band phones being the S4 and S4 Mini coming Nov 8, One Mega, followed by an ota'd G2 in 2014, where does the Nexus 5 fit in?

I don't know if it is related or not, but lately my EVO LTE gets hung up trying to sync my Gmail and some of the other Google services.

This post kind of has me scratching my head. First, if you've done any reading around here you should realize "flaming" others is generally frowned upon.knee-jerk responses are not what S4GRU is about. That's one of the reasons i enjoy around here. Second, then pitting the EVO vs the iPhone, Android vs iOS, and Sprint vs T-Mobile, seems to be inviting flames. Third, what does EVO vs the iPhone and Android vs iOS, have to do with Sprint vs T-Mobile? Fourth, "Please convince me to stay! lol.", lol? Really? Finally, fifth, do your homework. Read up around here.

Oh I do understand that there is a difference between purple showing up on sensorly and that signal being usable. To some extent, at least here in Baton Rouge, this is an issue with the differences between phones. My EVO LTE is picks up a fraction of the LTE from our 2 active towers compared to Digiblur's Note2. However, it is pretty strong and not quite accurate language to say that "None of downtown has any LTE" when there clearly is LTE downtown just not usable by you. Not trying to pick a fight just clarifying language. If Sprint is claiming blanketed coverage of Austin then I agree that they are not doing themselves any favors in the PR department.

I haven't been to Austin to check out the LTE coverage, but how do reconcile this... With this...

I was by that site on Saturday and, yup, it looks just like that. Still not hooked up. In fact it looks just like this one on Sotile off of Highland behind Ruffino's: ( though this one doesn't have the other equipment either) In fact it also looks like the the Embassy Suites site on Constitution (I-10 frontage road). Empty orange conduit sticking up next to tthe little green telephone "pylon" next to the telephone pole in front of the Sprint site. I didn't bother to take a picture of that one.

Is this what you're looking for? http://dev.cuedee.se/sites/default/files/pdf_prod_page_990581.pdf

I went by the site behind Ruffinos on Highland this morning. No new panels or RRUs up that I could see, and the cabinets are inside a privacy fence inside a fenced business. But there was new orange conduit sticking up out of the ground next to the closest telephone pole. Looked like they were getting ready for new backhaul.

I've been out of town the past week. Saturday I went around by the Bluebonnet PO site, and as Dbrow's picture shows, nothing new. I was hoping there would be some thing new. When I left the office Monday morning to go to the airport, there was a cable contractor with a horizontal drilling rig getting ready to run conduit down the street (Linkwood Ct.) which would lead in the direction of the tower and there really isn't much on Linkwood other than a few businesses and a big apartment complex. I would have thought that the apartment complex would already have fiber installed. I know our office is already on Cox fiber. I've also seen a some cable contractor equipment parked over in front of the Embassy Suites area. I have no idea if it is really related to running backhaul for Sprint, but my mind would love to think that it is.

I was just playing around a bit with sensorly and google earth and noticed that: We have stray purple dots from Siegen to Central, a distance of about 14 miles north-south, and From downtown to Denham Springs, also a distance of about 14 miles, east-west. The Florida/Sherwood and Old Hammond/Flannery towers are relatively close together, about 2 miles apart. On my EVO LTE I was able to hold on to the 4G signal from about I-12 going north on Sherwood to Greenwell Springs at the Comite River, a distance of about 6 miles. Unfortunately I haven't had the opportunity to check my phone reception east to west. These are all crow-flying distances. So what does all this mean? Anecdotally, there are other phones out there (Note2, iPhone, others?) that can detect 4G LTE about twice as far from the tower as my EVO LTE, but when I was picking it up, it was usable. Others (digi or dbrow?) will have to say whether what they were picking up was usable. Anyway, that's my elementary analysis of the data at hand. Wouldn't it be nice to have data from more than just two towers?

I really wish I could say there was another tower active, but...that strip of purple really hasn't changed over the last week or so and I've been by it a number of times with no 4G to be found on my EVO LTE. There just seem to be a number of over-achieving phones out there picking up the two sites that we know to be active. This town is being covered with stray purple dots and stripes of 4G that isn't usable. My theory is that they have sites set to have the greatest coverage right now at the expense of usability until more sites come on line. It gives the appearance of greater activity.

Since the OP stated EVO 4G the assumption was it was an EVO 4G instead of an EVO 4G LTE. So for the EVO LTE, you're looking for unlimited.io

As Proverbs 11.14 says: Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety Check them all (htcevohacks, xda, and pocketables) out but you'll probably end up at revolutionary.io, which is what I used.

I strongly suspect that it is the Sherwood/Florida Blvd site. It seems they have just adjusted the two current towers to maximize coverage at the expense of usefulness and that certain phones will latch on to a much weaker signal. If it isn't either of the two known 4g sites, the only other possibility would be on the building at United Plaza.