by Scott Johnson
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 12:51 PM MDT
The 7 inch form factor for the tablet PC was largely understated up until the Kindle Fire’s release last year. There were the expensive high end Android offerings from Samsung, Dell, Acer, Toshiba and HTC as well as the Blackberry Playbook. The inexpensive end was headlined by the Kindle Fire, Barnes and Noble Nook and Lenovo. Sales were underwhelming, until the Kindle Fire caught everyone’s attention and
by Robert Herron
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 12:30 PM MDT
We ain't no ways tired! We are now prepared to tell you about two more Round Two markets in Sprint's Network Vision/LTE deployment plans for 2012...
Orange County and Raleigh/Durham!
The Sprint Orange County market includes all of Orange County, California and the Raleigh/Durham market is the whole eastern third of the state of North Carolina, except for the coastal areas.
Sprint's Network Vi
by Scott Johnson
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 2:00 AM MDT
Most of us have at least heard of NFC, the Google Wallet app, or the capability to use our NFC enabled phone as a wireless payment system, but do we know the power and uses of Near Field Communication? NFC has endured a slow start, with very few devices that contain the communication chip, but Sprint seems to be giving it a boost by including NFC on all its LTE handsets. Sprint’s director of consumer product
by Jeff Foster
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Monday, March 12, 2012 - 11:00 AM MDT
Linux’s biggest success story for the end-user is Android. Some analysts have predicted that Android could become the number one OS for smart phones in the world. Others have speculated that the iPhone and iOS will be Androids downfall. I don’t think so. I think the iPhone is a great phone and Apple has done well in establishing a market for it, and with it, a rabid consumer base. However, you will likely n
by Robert Herron
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Monday, March 12, 2012 - 3:00 AM MDT
Just itchin' for some more Network Vision announcements? We are now prepared to tell you about two more Round Two markets in Sprint's Network Vision/LTE deployment plans for 2012. San Diego and Northern Jersey! The Sprint San Diego Metro market includes most of San Diego and Imperial Counties and the Northern Jersey market is the whole northern third of the state of New Jersey.
Sprint's Network Vision ve
by Robert Herron
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 5:05 PM MST
Today, Sprint 4G Rollout Updates is prepared to tell you about another Round Two market in Sprint's Network Vision/LTE deployment plans for 2012. Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. More specifically, Sprint's PR/VI market.
Sprint's schedule calls for this market to be a Round Two market. But is it actually a Second Round market? Sprint's original deployment plan from last year had the Puerto Rico mar
by Andrew J. Shepherd
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Friday, March 9, 2012 - 1:15 PM MST
Sprint may soon be gaining some clarity regarding its Network Vision plans to deploy CDMA1X Advanced to replace Nextel iDEN in its rebanded SMR 800 MHz spectrum. The FCC today announced a proposed rulemaking that would explicitly allow SMR 800 MHz licensees (e.g. Sprint, SouthernLINC, and a few others) to utilize greater than 25 kHz channel spacing.
Currently, Part 90 SMR 800 MHz rules and regulations
by Robert Herron
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Friday, March 8, 2012 - 5:01 AM MST
Ready for some more announcements? We are now prepared to tell you about two more Round Two markets in Sprint's Network Vision/LTE deployment plans for 2012. Philadelphia and Southern Connecticut! The Sprint Philadelphia Metro market includes most of Southeast Pennsylvania and the Southern Connecticut market is the whole western third, and southwestern corner of the state.
Sprint's Network Vision vendor A
by Jeff Foster
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 4:30 PM MST
Hearken back to April 2010 when Sprint announced the HTC EVO 4G and thus, became the first carrier to introduce a 4G device. Oh, the excitement! It was 4G WiMax, but who cared? Not many thought LTE would be such an overwhelmingly dominant 4G technology so quickly in the future. Of course, we later learned that WiMax didn’t pan out in America in the way Sprint had hoped.
LTE has now become the glo
by Robert Herron
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 1:00 PM MST
Suffer from indoor coverage issues? Need a personal Sprint femtocell to supplant your indoor Sprint coverage? Enter in the Sprint Airave Access Point.
Sprint is running a new pilot program. Telesales will be letting new customers know they can get a free Airave if they have indoor coverage issues. Customers will be directed to sprint.com/airaveaccesspoint to order. Sprint has created a special team to
by Robert Herron
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 2:01 PM MST
Ready for some more announcements? We are now prepared to tell you about two more Round Two markets in Sprint's Network Vision/LTE deployment plans for 2012. Music City and the Big Easy! The Nashville market engulfs all of Eastern Tennessee and the New Orleans market is the whole eastern section of Louisiana.
Sprint's Network Vision vendor Ericsson will likely begin Network Vision and LTE deployment in
by Robert Herron
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - 7:46 PM MST
Exciting breaking news from the S4GRU.com News Desk. Yesterday, I received a tip that Network Vision/LTE Deployment was under way in a market that S4GRU had not yet announced (although we were just about to). An unnamed S4GRU Reader contacted me and said they had witnessed Network Vision work under way in the Freehold area of Central New Jersey. Better yet, he talked with an engineer at one of the sites and
by Robert Herron
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Monday, March 5, 2012 - 12:01 AM MST
Today, Sprint 4G Rollout Updates is prepared to tell you about two relatively early Round Two markets in Sprint's Network Vision/LTE deployment plans for 2012. Austin and Charlotte. Encompassing large sections of Central Texas and Western North Carolina.
Sprint's Network Vision vendor Ericsson will likely begin Network Vision and LTE deployment in the Austin market and Alcatel/Lucent in the Charlotte mark
by Robert Herron
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Saturday, March 3, 2012 - 5:49 PM MST
Today, Sprint 4G Rollout Updates is prepared to tell you about another Round Two market in Sprint's Network Vision/LTE deployment plans for 2012. Portland, Oregon. More specifically, Sprint's Oregon/SW Washington market.
Sprint's Network Vision vendor Samsung will likely begin Network Vision and LTE deployment in the Oregon/SW Washington market in 2012. This is not an imminent start in the next few week
by Robert Herron
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Friday, March 2, 2012 - 9:31 AM MST
Today, Sprint 4G Rollout Updates is prepared to tell you about two more Round Two markets in Sprint's Network Vision/LTE deployment plans for 2012. West Washington and West Michigan. But please Detroiters, don't flood my inbox with your angry hate letters. I didn't pick it!!! And don't fret, I see Detroit coming up on my To Do List.
Sprint's Network Vision vendor Samsung will likely begin Network Vision
by Robert Herron Sprint 4G Rollout Updates Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 5:37 PM MST
Clearwire. Clearwire. Clearwire! Clearwire!!! And Dan Hesse wakes up.
Clearwire has often been the bain of Sprint’s existence. Once hopeful adopted child. Then run amok with its own plans, disregarding everything its Daddy taught them. And then prodigal child returning home. And now Clearwire is out of wireless rehab with its new CEO Eric Prusch and trying to get things turned around. And its f
by Robert Herron
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 12:28 PM MST
Did you hear? Sprint is claiming that the 3G Network is now enhanced in Atlanta! Does that mean Network Vision upgrades are complete and live on PCS 1900? What are they saying here? Their press release is vague and going to mislead many people!
Sprint is just championing temporary upgrades that have been completed. The band-aid fixes that were shown on network.sprint.com for the past four months
by Robert Herron
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 3:00 AM MST
Will Dionne Warwick be invited to Sprint's Launch Party in San Jose? Who knows? But Sprint 4G Rollout Updates can tell you that the first market in the Second Round of Network Vision/LTE Deployment in 2012 is Sprint's South Bay market. Which is in the heart of the Silicon Valley. We can definitely see why this is a priority to Sprint.
Sammy wants to bring some LTE Tech to California's Tech Capital
by Jeff Foster
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 6:44 AM MST
Everyone’s heard about Androids fragmented ecosystem, well we’re about to get some more. Jelly Bean, the new Android version 5.0 is coming, and soon. Some rumors suggest that Google’s next update may be coming out as soon as this summer.
The first word about Jelly Bean was back in September 2011. There was just the announcement of the name and little else. In fact, so little information was released t
by Robert Herron
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Monday, February 27, 2012 - 7:01 PM MST
"Ladies and Gentlemen - We got him!"
That is assuming Network Vision sites are masculine. What you all have been waiting for. Real, true, bona fide Network Vision site photos! S4GRU Member runagun drove out to Marengo, Illinois in the Sprint Chicago market to check out some Network Vision action for himself. He had been seeing the reports on S4GRU.com about Network Vision in his area, and maybe even
by Robert Herron
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Monday, February 27, 2012 - 6:01 PM MST
Our beloved Sprint today announced that it is putting up for sale $2 Billion in notes to help pay its struggling partner in crime, Clearwire. Sprint also plans to refinance some other debts coming due and pay additional unnamed network upgrades with the proceeds.
Sprint only recently raised $4 billion in the debt markets in early December to pay for up front Network Vision costs and to help pay some Cle
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by Robert Herron
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Monday, February 27, 2012 - 11:49 AM MST
Sprint has issued a Press Release that Señor Hesse will be speaking at MWC (Mobile World Congress) in Barcelona, España this week. You think he is going to break with some exciting Network Vision news? Or will it only be things we have already covered at S4GRU.com?
Either way, MWC is largely a GSM event, so for Dan Hesse to show up and speak is kind of a big deal. He's a cookin'
by Robert Herron
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Monday, February 27, 2012 - 9:59 AM MST
Great rejoicing begins in the City of Angels! Now Sprint 4G Rollout Updates and S4GRU.com are prepared to announce the next and final First Round Network Vision/LTE market Sprint is planning to start deployment during 2012.
Los Angeles!
Sprint's Network Vision vendor Alcatel/Lucent will begin to deploy Network Vision and LTE in the Sprint LA Metro market. We are announcing the Sprint markets that
by Jeff Foster
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Monday, February 27, 2012 - 2:21 AM MST
Earlier this year, both HTC and Samsung stated in reports that it will be slimming down its product lines in order to reduce expenses, concentrate on higher quality and to lessen the effects of diluting similar product lines. Samsung has hinted that the Galaxy S lll will be launched simultaneously in many markets, and would eliminate the U.S. carriers from individual looks and independent features. Now HTC h
by Robert Herron
Sprint 4G Rollout Updates
Friday, February 24, 2012 - 5:59 AM MST
OK, a pattern is emerging. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning we are releasing the next Network Vision/LTE market Sprint is planning to start deployment during 2012. And today is Friday, so that means we will announce a new market name...
New York City!
Yes, the Big Apple. Sprint's Network Vision vendor Alcatel/Lucent will begin to deploy its Hail Mary Network Vision and LTE in the Sprint
Normally the licenses with the overlapping geographic service areas "split the football" by straight line of the intersection area of the two radius circle areas for just the shared frequencies. However private deals between the parties are also possible, and have been encouraged by the FCC in some situations when the service areas overlap by more than 50%. The special conditions section on the admin page of the NW Spectrum leases can be said to support this: "This spectrum lease does not incl
My only question is what happens when EBS licenses overlap? Do we know how it's determined who uses what and where? For example in NYC, NW Spectrum (NextWave) has two leases that apply to 2624-2640.5MHz covering all of NYC but T-Mobile also leases that same slice of EBS from someone else that covers most of NYC, but not all.
Check it out here:
NW Spectrum: https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/leaseMap.jsp?licKey=4113406&parentKey=null
NW Spectrum: https://wireless2.fc
Have you seen any good speeds on b13 last time I tested it it was super slow only b25 and b41 got some speed and I wasn't in a urban area so it shouldn't be as congested but each time I connected to b13 the speedtest wouldn't run