FINALLY Minnesota! I'm so sick of 3G, I might as well use netzero

I'm not sure why, but 3G speeds in Oshkosh, WI have greatly improved over the past few days. Haven't heard of any work being done here yet, so I don't know what happened.

I have been getting 4G LTE on I95 from North Miami Dade to about the Ft. Lauderdale Airport. Today, I got the 4G LTE with weak signal in North Miami on Biscayne Blvd. This is the first time that I have received the signal east. I hope it means that they are getting close to launching the Miami Metro market with this service!!! Lots of people that live in the Tri County area and South Florida is a very large population center!!! Does anyone know of an official launch date for Miami, they had said it would happen before the end of 2012!!!

I don't see the Brownsville/Harlingen area listed in the South Texas Market. Will we receive 4g LTE when the McAllen area does?

I think if sprint has the towers up. They should turn them on even if they are still working on them to at least give someone's phone speed because 3g is so slow in my area I only get connection lost tap to retry on every website

I don't see the Brownsville/Harlingen area listed in the South Texas Market. Will we receive 4g LTE when the McAllen area does?

McAllen, Brownsville, Harlingen, Corpus Christi are all in Sprint's South Texas market. Once they start work in a market, they will not stop until the whole market is complete. Even though they are starting with McAllen area, they will likely also be in the large South Texas cities shortly after starting there. So your area may not be first, but work will likely start in your area in the next 90-120 days or so as well.

Robert

I think if sprint has the towers up. They should turn them on even if they are still working on them to at least give someone's phone speed because 3g is so slow in my area I only get connection lost tap to retry on every website

For the most part, they are now. In most cases now, when the site has everything it needs to operate 4G LTE, they will allow customers to connect to it.

Robert

Hi Robert, Do you have any updated news regarding the New Orleans market.

Hi Robert, Do you have any updated news regarding the New Orleans market.

Our members in the NOLA market have photographed work under way at some sites. So the work is beginning. It will probably be a few weeks before some sporadic testing signals start to appear. Launch will not be until Q1-2013. However, Sprint will likely leave on each site as they complete. So once they start going live, the coverage will just conintue to grow every week.

Robert

thanks!

still no seattle sigh

Any ETA's on the Minneapolis/St. Paul market?

Yesterday in the Star Tribune there was an interesting article about Clearwire being one of the first 4G providers in the Twin Cities area and Sprint is poised to acquire 50.8 percent of their business. Interesting.

The pertinent quote was ""We continue to work with Clearwire on identifying sites and timing of their LTE network build, which we will use to help with capacity on our LTE network," said Sprint spokeswoman Stephanie Vinge."

See the article here http://www.startribune.com/business/180641171.html

I also am curious on any ETA in the Twin Cities area.

I'm probably being lazy as I have to imagine this has been asked and answered, but what is the general reason for them to leave LTE off when they done all the upgrades in the course of doing 3G upgrades?

LTE is coming on in MN! Chanhassen is the first area to have it tuned on tonight.

I can confirm what Mooeydj is saying. I live in Eden Prairie (right next door to Chanhassen) and just turned off my Galaxy S3's wifi antennae and noticed I had a 4G signal. Ran a speed test and got 6.5 mbps download and 5.4 mbps upload speeds.

Chanhassen!?!?!?! Eden Prairie! So close! I'm in Bloomington. Time for a little drive!

I heard that Nashville will have LTE by like August. its almost December. I think by the time Sprint will have 4G LTE coverage Verizon and ATT will be deploying 5G or something lol.

They just keep adding cities for the media and news but no actions. Their website shows that they have done capacity upgrades in Nashville, TN area. Honestly since their so called capacity upgrades, my 3G coverage and speeds are worst. I regret signing a 2 year contract with them.

Had occasion to be in a Sprint store (Austin, TX) yesterday and found a couple of extremely apologetic CSR's to go with the ones I had talked to on the #2Talk line on Wednesday. The folks who have to meet the public are seriously concerned about the company's 'policy' of overstating the progress in rolling out 4G LTE. I also find it more than curious that the rollout here in our city, the home of AMD, Samsung, Intel, and IBM facilities and allegedly a tech-savvy place, is so slow in getting the latest and best. For Sprint to continue to push the Samsung GS3 as brazenly as they are doing while their front-line people have to field complaints about signal strength, etc., is ridiculous. Too, the rollout here seems to be from the more affluent to the less affluent areas of Travis County; the major exception being a 'bedroom' community named Dripping Springs! It is a conundrum wrapped in an enigma as to how Sprint/Ericsson makes the decisions about where to start and where to go next. I'm not sorry about pushing the button on purchasing an SGS3, as its faster operation almost makes up for the sacrifice of available signal strength. We actually have to have an Airave device in our home now, just to get acceptable strength level on 3G! Fortunately the WiFi makes up for that lack, but we can't get apps to download via WiFi, which puzzles everyone from Sprint techies to the local in-store CSR's. I don't regret having Sprint as my carrier, but their perpetual habit of stubbing their toes and getting ahead of themselves for what appear to be solely marketing gambits is way past frustrating. Thanks. I feel better now!

I heard that Nashville will have LTE by like August. its almost December. I think by the time Sprint will have 4G LTE coverage Verizon and ATT will be deploying 5G or something lol.They just keep adding cities for the media and news but no actions. Their website shows that they have done capacity upgrades in Nashville, TN area. Honestly since their so called capacity upgrades, my 3G coverage and speeds are worst. I regret signing a 2 year contract with them.

These announcements are just explaining cities that they are starting work in. It is absurd to say they cannot start work in other cities while they are also working in Nashville. They need to work in as many cities as possible.

The subcontractors working in Nashville aren't even working in other markets. Delaying other markets will not make things deploy faster in yours.

Robert

Had occasion to be in a Sprint store (Austin, TX) yesterday and found a couple of extremely apologetic CSR's to go with the ones I had talked to on the #2Talk line on Wednesday. The folks who have to meet the public are seriously concerned about the company's 'policy' of overstating the progress in rolling out 4G LTE. I also find it more than curious that the rollout here in our city, the home of AMD, Samsung, Intel, and IBM facilities and allegedly a tech-savvy place, is so slow in getting the latest and best. For Sprint to continue to push the Samsung GS3 as brazenly as they are doing while their front-line people have to field complaints about signal strength, etc., is ridiculous. Too, the rollout here seems to be from the more affluent to the less affluent areas of Travis County; the major exception being a 'bedroom' community named Dripping Springs! It is a conundrum wrapped in an enigma as to how Sprint/Ericsson makes the decisions about where to start and where to go next. I'm not sorry about pushing the button on purchasing an SGS3, as its faster operation almost makes up for the sacrifice of available signal strength. We actually have to have an Airave device in our home now, just to get acceptable strength level on 3G! Fortunately the WiFi makes up for that lack, but we can't get apps to download via WiFi, which puzzles everyone from Sprint techies to the local in-store CSR's. I don't regret having Sprint as my carrier, but their perpetual habit of stubbing their toes and getting ahead of themselves for what appear to be solely marketing gambits is way past frustrating. Thanks. I feel better now!

You may feel better, but after reading your comment, I do not. I don't feel your post is accurate on any of your points, except for your personal observations in your home.

First off, Sprint is not pushing the GS3 heavily as an LTE device. They don't even list LTE in the device name. Second, the GS3 is a solid device and is not encountering wide spread signal problems. I have no idea what you're talking about there.

Third, the deployment in Austin is going better than most markets. And there is widespread coverage over approximately 50% of the area and the coverage is growing every week. Please review the ever growing coverage on Sensorly: http://sensorly.com/fullscreen/map/4G/US/USA/Sprint/lte_310sprint#q=austin,texas

Fourth, Sprint is not overstating the progress of its LTE deployment. Other than a Press Release saying they are beginning LTE deployment in Austin over the next few months, what else have they said? They are clearly not overstating at all.

Fifth, deployment is not being scheduled in areas that Sprint, or anyone, thinks is the most worthy of LTE. This is a completely ignorant assumption. Sites are deployed in the order that they are ready. The moment a site has everything ready...backhaul, permitting and equipment delivered, then it begins. Regardless of its location. The date backhaul shows up and permitting are extremely variable dates that Sprint doesn't have any direct control over. But instead of waiting for all the sites in the market to be ready, they are sending crews out to a site immediately when conversion can begin. This will result in the market being completed sooner, though the duration from start to finish feels longer. But at least they are allowing people to connect to a site immediately upon completion. I live next to a VZW LTE site that went live today where the work was completed 9 months ago. But VZW waits until everything in the area is ready. If Sprint did that, Austin would not have gone live until April next year.

Please review our posting guidelines regarding negative comments. We are especially firm on inaccurate negative comments. Your post is completely meant to bash Sprint and has no value whatsoever to this community. Sprint complaints need to be directed at Sprint Customer Service channels. We neither desire, nor are able, to handle them.

Robert

Any ETA's on the Minneapolis/St. Paul market?

Some towers are up now in the Twin Cities as of late thursday the 29th of November or Friday the 30th. See Sensorly's maps for the locations:

http://www.sensorly....t/lte_310sprint

The cool thing is that friday it seemed to be pretty sparse coverage but more was showing all of the time over the weekend so if this keeps up we'll be in good shape in short order I'd say.

I actually drove over to Eden Prairie to try it out and had speeds nearing 30k downloads and 8 k uploads. Was pretty nice.

I was in the Blaine area of MN right by Blaine High School and speeds were around 12-22 Mbps up and 6-12 down. I am going out by Hugo today to see if I can get LTE on 35E off of 96.

Anecdotally my local Sprint provider indicated that LTE would be activating by March 2013 in the Minneapolis area so to actually have live LTE in multiple locations as soon as late November 2012 in this area shows they are being realistic about widespread deployment taking a while.

And the biggest problem I suspect is they can't upgrade every tower nationwide simultaneously - it's a big job.

I have not seen LTE or 4g anywhere in the twin cities however the 3g speed has gone from pathetic to not bad (speed test before around 100k now 800-1400k) it has made a huge differance I have noticed it mostly north west metro and not upgraded in saint paul yet I can tell the differance thanks sprint!