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Sprint is really slow on upgrading fresno .. I have a buddy who works for t mobile and he says he knows a few people who are doing sprint upgrades and they are having issues with landlords getting to the sites and getting enough equipment to work on the sites .. That there currently on back order ...

Can you please ask your friend if tmobile is adding backhaul to their reedley site? When I had them their supposed 3g was slow as dialup. 

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Exeter does. The farmersville site does not, last I checked.

 

That's just two sites, though. Fresno has like 20.

 

55* in the Fresno cluster. 

 

Yes, I counted. 

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Lol, it doesn't always feel like there's that many.

 

Now it's a race between Sacto and Fresno...

 

Fresno will beat greater sacramento MTA as we do have 4x more sites than fresno up here (200ish iirc) and are way behind. 

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Fresno looks to be a quick build and cluster launch coming in the very super near future. Oh how exciting!

 

 

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Lots of activity this morning!

 

 

 

 

Fresno: Ashlan and Ceder

 

Also several trucks at Clovis ave and Dakota (sorry no time to stop and get photos). Hopefully getting closer .... 

 

If you're not careful, you're going to run into me lurking on that site. They put the RRUs in today:

 

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Another Fresno site in progress:

 

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Couldn't stop close to this one, so I had to take the pic while in motion. There were at least three CBA trucks at this site. It looks like the new base hardware is in place, but I didn't get much of a window to look into the enclosure.

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Been following this site for a long time as I wait for LTE to finally drop in Fresno. Happy to hear that we might  get to see some LTE FINALLY. Quick question about the towers. How far do these towers send out the LTE signal. I work on Ventura and Santa Fe here in Fresno by the train station, and I get HORRIBLE 3G signal out here. I just want to know if I'm getting excited about LTE for nothing, seeing that I spend most of my day here on this side of town. Will I get to enjoy the future awesomeness of LTE?? :D Thanks for any info on this.

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Been following this site for a long time as I wait for LTE to finally drop in Fresno. Happy to hear that we might  get to see some LTE FINALLY. Quick question about the towers. How far do these towers send out the LTE signal. I work on Ventura and Santa Fe here in Fresno by the train station, and I get HORRIBLE 3G signal out here. I just want to know if I'm getting excited about LTE for nothing, seeing that I spend most of my day here on this side of town. Will I get to enjoy the future awesomeness of LTE?? :D Thanks for any info on this.

 

How far the signal goes is unique to each site and how it's set up. PCS LTE will roughly cover the current EVDO footprint, and SMR LTE will expand on that a little bit. If you have, or upgrade to, a tri-band device, you will be set. 

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Been following this site for a long time as I wait for LTE to finally drop in Fresno. Happy to hear that we might  get to see some LTE FINALLY. Quick question about the towers. How far do these towers send out the LTE signal. I work on Ventura and Santa Fe here in Fresno by the train station, and I get HORRIBLE 3G signal out here. I just want to know if I'm getting excited about LTE for nothing, seeing that I spend most of my day here on this side of town. Will I get to enjoy the future awesomeness of LTE?? :D Thanks for any info on this.

 

If you get a crappy signal now, you're not going to see much of an improvement until 1x 800 and LTE 800 are deployed. LTE 1900 might reach your location, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Unfortunately, the downtown sites are structure-mounted, so their deployment cycle will likely be longer than the standard pole-mounted sites.

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