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I just got over 70+ Mbps in Sarasota. My first time on b41 in the swfl area.

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I was driving north today on I-75, just south of exit 228 (the I-275/I-75) junction near Ellenton and saw some tower dogs near mile marker 227.5 on the east side of the road. They had one set of Spri

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Sprint never removed your area from any list. Sprint isn't keeping a running list of announcements. Each announcement only names additional cities.   Work is progressing in your area. In fact, I

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my house is right in the middle of two sprint towers that have not been turned on yet...

Mine is too, but the one on pine island is not quite close enough for me to pick it up at home. I'm waiting for the one near oasis to turn on then I'll be able to have lte at home.

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Mine is too, but the one on pine island is not quite close enough for me to pick it up at home. I'm waiting for the one near oasis to turn on then I'll be able to have lte at home.

hopefully you will get a better signal than me. I'm connected at home always, only issue, -114dBm or higher so its unusable. :-/

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Noticed 4g in Sarasota on Clark Road Near Swift last week. Any word on this area?

Thanks,

Probably the new Sprint site I noticed yesterday on the water tower at Gulf Gate. each sector has 4 RRUs instead of 3.

 

can someone please remind me of the difference in that setup? all the other NV installs I've seen have only 3 RRUs per sector.

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Noticed 4g in Sarasota on Clark Road Near Swift last week. Any word on this area?
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Probably the new Sprint site I noticed yesterday on the water tower at Gulf Gate. each sector has 4 RRUs instead of 3.

can someone please remind me of the difference in that setup? all the other NV installs I've seen have only 3 RRUs per sector.

 

 

Drove by there yesterday and today and did not pick up any 4g. Must still be in the process of upgrading.

 

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Any news on the north port , Venice and Sarasota area? No improvement in a long time.

There is a crew working in the Englewood and north port area. I watched them hang equipment on the tower by wal mart in englewood and that big tower on 41 and river road. There still working, just not that fast. Englewood has lte all over now.

Venice though, is still not seeing anything from what I can tell. I have been to three towers that I am pretty sure are Sprint and nothing is going on.

 

 

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There is a crew working in the Englewood and north port area. I watched them hang equipment on the tower by wal mart in englewood and that big tower on 41 and river road. There still working, just not that fast. Englewood has lte all over now.

Venice though, is still not seeing anything from what I can tell. I have been to three towers that I am pretty sure are Sprint and nothing is going on.

 

 

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I actually I saw some workers on that tower on river road. Just wasn't sure if it was sprint or not. The port charlotte area and throughout rotonda, Englewood and even into south gulf cove have lte ( which is great). It's just been bad from the middle of north port and pretty much all of Venice. Hopefully they can pick up the pace some. I've mapped lte on sensory like 8 month ago in parts of Venice but haven't picked anything up in forever. I have the nexus 5 and have been trying out the tmobile service, with the 30 plan and it has me slightly tempted to jump ship..
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I actually I saw some workers on that tower on river road. Just wasn't sure if it was sprint or not. The port charlotte area and throughout rotonda, Englewood and even into south gulf cove have lte ( which is great). It's just been bad from the middle of north port and pretty much all of Venice. Hopefully they can pick up the pace some. I've mapped lte on sensory like 8 month ago in parts of Venice but haven't picked anything up in forever. I have the nexus 5 and have been trying out the tmobile service, with the 30 plan and it has me slightly tempted to jump ship..

Venice area service for sprint is the worst in the whole state from my experience. I dread going there and needing to use my phone.

I have looked for permits for tower work in venice. There are none. None even pending.

 

I will be getting my Nexus 5 in about a week from google I hope. Says it will ship soon.

 

Can you tell me more about how T-Mobile is working around here. I travel all the areas you seem to be around. I am going to pick up a T-Mobile sim also and give it a go.

 

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Venice area service for sprint is the worst in the whole state from my experience. I dread going there and needing to use my phone.

I have looked for permits for tower work in venice. There are none. None even pending.

 

I will be getting my Nexus 5 in about a week from google I hope. Says it will ship soon.

 

Can you tell me more about how T-Mobile is working around here. I travel all the areas you seem to be around. I am going to pick up a T-Mobile sim also and give it a go.

 

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I own a pool route so I'm all over the place, from punta gorda to laurel rd. The funny thing is where sprint was good with lte so was tmobile (lte and hspa). So pretty much charlotte county and punta was good with tmobile with good speeds and no loss of signal. North port and Venice area was not good with data speeds at all (mostly unnder 1mb). It's very comparable to sprints footprint in our area but the only difference I noticed so far is if I'm in one of the worse parts of tmibile area I can still use data, slower but actually still functions. If I was in a bad area of sprint the phone would basically be useless for any data. I think I've seen edge one time on the phone and it was only for a second. The major difference was I just went to bush gardens and the entire ride up 75 was pretty much great on tmobile (lots of lte). About a month ago I went to Orlando and couldn't even watch a YouTube clip pretty much anywhere on 75 with my htc one on sprint . Lmk if you have any other questions also.
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I own a pool route so I'm all over the place, from punta gorda to laurel rd. The funny thing is where sprint was good with lte so was tmobile (lte and hspa). So pretty much charlotte county and punta was good with tmobile with good speeds and no loss of signal. North port and Venice area was not good with data speeds at all (mostly unnder 1mb). It's very comparable to sprints footprint in our area but the only difference I noticed so far is if I'm in one of the worse parts of tmibile area I can still use data, slower but actually still functions. If I was in a bad area of sprint the phone would basically be useless for any data. I think I've seen edge one time on the phone and it was only for a second. The major difference was I just went to bush gardens and the entire ride up 75 was pretty much great on tmobile (lots of lte). About a month ago I went to Orlando and couldn't even watch a YouTube clip pretty much anywhere on 75 with my htc one on sprint . Lmk if you have any other questions also.

Thanks. You are a sponsor. I have a lot more info I can share with you just not in this forum. I have a map made of all the towers I have been to but I used the sponsor maps to locate them.

 

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Noticed 4g in Sarasota on Clark Road Near Swift last week.  Any word on this area?

Thanks,

 

this area appears to be up and running... was in the sprint store near stickney point and 41 by chili's. agent said that they are beta testing the area. they have had it up and running for a week or so.  have pretty good 4g for a good portion of clark road as well.

 

:-)

 

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I thought it's about time to dust off this thread so, today I saw a crew working on the tower off of veterans parkway today, in Cape Coral. Hopefully it won't take to long to flip the switch.

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Yeah it has been awhile and Bradenton still is really bad when you drive out hwy 70 east. There are a lot of bad sports in west bradenton also with roaming coming in. in fact the best area for data is near my house lol where i do not really need it since i use wifi. But overall Bradenton has seemed to gotten worse than better.

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I thought it's about time to dust off this thread so, today I saw a crew working on the tower off of veterans parkway today, in Cape Coral. Hopefully it won't take to long to flip the switch.

vets and country club? please say yes.

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