Jump to content

Network Vision/LTE - Jacksonville Market (including Gainesville/St. Augustine/Ocala)


Syph3r

Recommended Posts

Looks like Sprint added a new b25/b26 site near the River City Marketplace near the airport. This shopping center has always had capacity problems. I'm happy to see that Sprint is still focusing on their customer experience. Hopefully they will add b41 at some point.

 

Edit- I don't believe the site is a Sprint site.

 

Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Looks like Sprint added a new b25/b26 site near the River City Marketplace near the airport. This shopping center has always had capacity problems. I'm happy to see that Sprint is still focusing on their customer experience. Hopefully they will add b41 at some point.

 

Edit- I don't believe the site is a Sprint site.

 

Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk

The site that I saw seems to be a T-Mobile band 12 site. The site has Ericsson AIR panels only. Some other band 12 sites I've been has 1 band 12 panels and 2 AWS panels.
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

The site that I saw seems to be a T-Mobile band 12 site. The site has Ericsson AIR panels only. Some other band 12 sites I've been has 1 band 12 panels and 2 AWS panels.

I think I connected to a B12 site downtown briefly, but it could have been a false-positive (going by SignalCheck Pro). According to Neville, Jax should be lit up sometime in Fall with B12.
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I think I connected to a B12 site downtown briefly, but it could have been a false-positive (going by SignalCheck Pro). According to Neville, Jax should be lit up sometime in Fall with B12.

I don't think it was a false positive. Next time I'm near the site I mentioned I'm going to see if my daughter has a band 12 device and if it will connect. They were definitely Ericsson AIR panels.
  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I know I post this every year or twice a year but...... Sprint needs to model every market in Florida at least after the Orlando FL market. Coming down i95 from Daytona Beach on to i4 west. I've held on to band 41 about 80+% of the time. This market is blanketed in multiple band 41 and 25 carriers. Seems like Sprint is focused on major markets which is cool but they need to show the smaller markets some love too.

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I know I post this every year or twice a year but...... Sprint needs to model every market in Florida at least after the Orlando FL market. Coming down i95 from Daytona Beach on to i4 west. I've held on to band 41 about 80+% of the time. This market is blanketed in multiple band 41 and 25 carriers. Seems like Sprint is focused on major markets which is cool but they need to show the smaller markets some love too.

Ive seen smaller markets with band 41. I don't know what Sprints game plan is but the Jacksonville/st augustine/Ocala/Gainesville/Tallahassee/Lake City market on a whole is clearly low priority for some reason.
  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Ive seen smaller markets with band 41. I don't know what Sprints game plan is but the Jacksonville/st augustine/Ocala/Gainesville/Tallahassee/Lake City market on a whole is clearly low priority for some reason.

It is probably due to funding. We haven't seen much activities in San Diego this entire year too. I can say 30%-40% I am on B41.

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

It is probably due to funding. We haven't seen much activities in San Diego this entire year too. I can say 30%-40% I am on B41.

Where i live there are still lte holes.....but i have seen some progress

 

Sent from my LGLS775 using Tapatalk

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...

How come when Tmobile says 231 million people are covered in wideband I have a hard time finding a tower that doesn't have a 15×15 or 20×20 but when Sprint claims 250 markets or 70% of customers I can still go 100 miles and not see any 2.5 equipment? Makes me think they are flat out liars. Tmobile are liars about there coverage too. 312 million? Yeah right.

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Looks like Sprint's data speeds went down in this half of testing.

http://rootmetrics.com/en-US/rootscore/map/metro/jacksonville-fl/2016/2H

 

It does look like Sprint's call dropped/blocked improved though.  Wonder if that has anything to do with the change in the amount of customers on the network in the area.

 

EDIT: T-Mobile's call performance went down quite a bit.  Looks like they need B12 to offset these issues. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

According to the sites "Data performance" tab Sprint's download speeds went up from 5.2 to 5.9 not sure why their numbers would go down unless they changed their secret curve.

I first read that to say, "unless they changed their secret sauce." I had to do a double take.

 

[emoji38]

 

I must be hungry.

 

Using Tapatalk on Note 8.0

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

How come when Tmobile says 231 million people are covered in wideband I have a hard time finding a tower that doesn't have a 15×15 or 20×20 but when Sprint claims 250 markets or 70% of customers I can still go 100 miles and not see any 2.5 equipment? Makes me think they are flat out liars. Tmobile are liars about there coverage too. 312 million? Yeah right.

 

This is a pattern of logic with you -- the "I don't see it, so it must not be true" argument.  That is highly flawed reasoning, and you should stop using it.

 

AJ

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Looks like Sprint's data speeds went down in this half of testing.

http://rootmetrics.com/en-US/rootscore/map/metro/jacksonville-fl/2016/2H

 

It does look like Sprint's call dropped/blocked improved though.  Wonder if that has anything to do with the change in the amount of customers on the network in the area.

 

I highly doubt that you have market share figures for Jacksonville.  But you appear to assume that Sprint has lost a significant number of subs in the market.  Is that because you, your brother Terrell, and your other brother Terrell see it that way?

 

AJ

Link to comment
Share on other sites

There's been quite a few WCS permits posted too, at least for St Johns cty.

http://webapp.sjcfl.us/Applications/WATSWebX/Permit/BLPermit.aspx?PermitNo=11607674&PopUp=1

http://webapp.sjcfl.us/Applications/WATSWebX/Permit/BLPermit.aspx?PermitNo=11607569&PopUp=1

 

Note these are AT&T but still interesting, considering a lot of devices don't have support for B66 yet.

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

There's been quite a few WCS permits posted too, at least for St Johns cty.

http://webapp.sjcfl.us/Applications/WATSWebX/Permit/BLPermit.aspx?PermitNo=11607674&PopUp=1

http://webapp.sjcfl.us/Applications/WATSWebX/Permit/BLPermit.aspx?PermitNo=11607569&PopUp=1

 

Note these are AT&T but still interesting, considering a lot of devices don't have support for B66 yet.

WCS is band 30 for ATT which as been in deployment for quite a while.
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

At the UGA vs FLA game in Jacksonville, everyone at the tailgate had Verizon, ATT, or T-Mobile and they all complained about not being able to use social media because of the service while my iPhone 6s on sprint worked fantastic. Not sayin much here but this was my first time being able to laugh at all my friends with Verizon or ATT while being able to show them how good Sprint is these days. They all needed my phone to check scores or post pictures on social media.

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.


  • large.unreadcontent.png.6ef00db54e758d06

  • gallery_1_23_9202.png

  • Similar Content

  • Posts

    • Excuse my rookie comments here, but after enabling *#73#, it seems that the rainbow sim V2? requires n70 (I turned it off along with n71 - was hoping to track n66) to be available else it switches to T-Mobile.  So this confirms my suspicion that you need to be close to a site to get on Dish.  Have no idea why they don't just use plmn. To test, I put it into a s21 ultra, rebooted twice, came up on T-Mobile (no n70 on s21).  Tried to manually register on 313340, but it did not connect (tried twice). I am on factory unlocked firmware but used a s22 hack to get *#73# working.  Tried what you were suggesting with a T-Mobile sim partially installed, but that was very unstable with Dish ( I think they had figured that one out).  [edit: and now I see Boost sent me a successful device swap notice which says I can now begin to use my new device.  Sigh.  Will try again later and wait for this message - too impatient.]
    • Hopefully this indicates T-Mobile hasn't completely abandoned mmwave and/or small cells? But then again this is the loop, so take that as you will. Hopefully now that most macro activity is done (besides rural colo/builds), they will start working on small cells.   
    • This has been approved.. https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/fcc-approves-t-mobiles-deal-to-purchase-mint-mobile/  
    • In the conference call they had two question on additional spectrum. One was the 800 spectrum. They are not certain what will happen, thus have not really put it into their plans either way (sale or no sale). They do have a reserve level. Nationwide 800Mhz is seen as great for new technologies which I presume is IOT or 5g slices.  T-Mobile did not bite on use of their c-band or DOD.  mmWave rapidly approaching deadlines not mentioned at all. FWA brushes on this as it deals with underutilized spectrum on a sector by sector basis.  They are willing to take more money to allow FWA to be mobile (think RV or camping). Unsure if this represents a higher priority, for example, FWA Mobile in RVs in Walmart parking lots working where mobile phones need all the capacity. In terms of FWA capacity, their offload strategy is fiber through joint ventures where T-Mobile does the marketing, sales, and customer support while the fiber company does the network planning and installation.  50%-50% financial split not being consolidated into their books. I think discussion of other spectrum would have diluted the fiber joint venture discussion. They do have a fund which one use is to purchase new spectrum. Sale of the 800Mhz would go into this. It should be noted that they continue to buy 2.5Ghz spectrum from schools etc to replace leases. They will have a conference this fall  to update their overall strategies. Other notes from the call are 75% of the phones on the network are 5g. About 85% of their sites have n41, n25, and n71, 90% 5g.  93% of traffic is on midband.  SA is also adding to their performance advantage, which they figure is still ahead of other carriers by two years. It took two weeks to put the auction 108 spectrum to use at their existing sites. Mention was also made that their site spacing was designed for midrange thus no gaps in n41 coverage, while competitors was designed for lowband thus toggles back and forth for n77 also with its shorter range.  
    • The manual network selection sounds like it isn't always scanning NR, hence Dish not showing up. Your easiest way to force Dish is going to be forcing the phone into NR-only mode (*#*#4636#*#* menu?), since rainbow sims don't support SA on T-Mobile.
  • Recently Browsing

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...