Network Vision/LTE - Oklahoma Market

[Mobilesolutions]

I have been seeing a whole lot of fiber flags along the roadways through Tulsa/BA this week 

[MacPCS]

Good, BA is a disaster in a lot of places.

[NuttyLemonz]

Finally got to stop and test one of the towers in the OKC area close up. Not bad I would say. 

 

 

[Mobilesolutions]

Good, BA is a disaster in a lot of places.

The 71st st corridor from Yale to Lynn Lane is useless by mid day. Yes BA is pretty bad in general.

One of the girlfriends friends just switched to Sprint from ATT, she thinks I'm the devil since I didn't tell her sprint is "awful"

 

*Per Robert's request                 

 

I'm definitely not the devil 

[S4GRU]

 

 

The 71st st corridor from yale to Lynn lane is useless by mid day. Yes BA is pretty bad in general.

 

One of the girlfriends friends just switched to Sprint from ATT, she thinks I'm the devil since I didn't tell her sprint is "awful"

Time to break out the emoticon...

 

 

Robert via Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

 

 

[Mobilesolutions]

Finally got to stop and test one of the towers in the OKC area close up. Not bad I would say. 

 

 

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That looks pretty good! 

[thetio]

Got a 4g signal at my house today in far west Edmond, almost at county line. Can't get it again but it was about 10 down. I mapped it on sensory I think. I am outing the county so I didn't think I would ever see it at home

 

sent from a pebble blue beast

 

 

[MarkyD311]

Looking like it **COULD BE** October for NV completion in Oklahoma.  Everybody hold on to your hats. 

 

 

Also, i have been seeing more and more little yellow flags along the roadways leading to Telco boxes. 

 

A colleague of mine is a project manager for Ericsson in the area, and has said Sept-Oct for completion in OKC.

[Mobilesolutions]

A colleague of mine is a project manager for Ericsson in the area, and has said Sept-Oct for completion in OKC.

Awesome, that's great confirmation.

[jacob89g]

My phone was showing 4g in Edmond on Danforth and Kelly today . I wasn't able to use it though it kept saying connection error.

[Serious]

My phone was showing 4g in Edmond on Danforth and Kelly today . I wasn't able to use it though it kept saying connection error.

 

 

It seems over the last few days all LTE towers I connect to are nearly unusable for some reason. Now at 4am they work fine. Strange how all the sudden they overloaded at the same time.

[S4GRU]

 

 

My phone was showing 4g in Edmond on Danforth and Kelly today . I wasn't able to use it though it kept saying connection error.

 

 

 

It seems over the last few days all LTE towers I connect to are nearly unusable for some reason. Now at 4am they work fine. Strange how all the sudden they overloaded at the same time.

Unlikely they are all overloaded at the same time. Most likely they were working on the market LTE core and thus affecting all the sites at the same time.

 

Robert from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

 

 

[thetio]

Unlikely they are all overloaded at the same time. Most likely they were working on the market LTE core and thus affecting all the sites at the same time.

 

Robert from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

I had connection last night in my house but at work at May/Memorial area, it will not connect to 4g.  I get really bad 3g speeds but I figure that is due to poor building penetration.  I hope they are turning LTE on and off.  It is really good when I have it. 

[Serious]

Unlikely they are all overloaded at the same time. Most likely they were working on the market LTE core and thus affecting all the sites at the same time.

 

Robert from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

 

 

 

I noticed that during the daytime the SNR is really low and at night it goes way up as so do the day speeds. These are towers where the RSRP can be -90dBm with an SNR of only 3-10 sometimes. At night the SNR gets above 20.What does this mean?

 

During the day in OKC LTE is slower than EVDO.

[MarkyD311]

looks like the cell site near my place in Yukon (SW 15th and Mustang Rd) has NV equipment now and is broadcasting LTE.

[pitch007]

The purple on Sensorly down by Newcastle Casino was me last night.  I was shocked to see the 4G icon when I got off the highway.  I had full bars in the parking lot and I also got a 4G signal inside in some places.

[MarkyD311]

Ran into a crew putting up NV equipment on the cell site that serves Chesapeake campus today (I-44 and Western). 

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[gr8nuguy]

Ran into a crew putting up NV equipment on the cell site that serves Chesapeake campus today (I-44 and Western). (OK57XC001)

 

Thats awesome, capture any pictures?

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[MarkyD311]

Thats awesome, capture any pictures?

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Nope, was in a big hurry. Will get out there this weekend to snap some pics. The antennas and RRUs are up, but not connected (wires are hanging down from them)

[digiblur]

The purple on Sensorly down by Newcastle Casino was me last night.  I was shocked to see the 4G icon when I got off the highway.  I had full bars in the parking lot and I also got a 4G signal inside in some places.

 

The only time the bars mean your 4G LTE connection are on Iphones and CyanogenMod based ROMs on Android.  Your "bars" are the 1X voice/sms connection.

[pitch007]

Ran into a crew putting up NV equipment on the cell site that serves Chesapeake campus today (I-44 and Western). 

 

Sweet.  I work there so I can't wait to see if I have it in my building.

[MarkyD311]

 

Sweet. I work there so I can't wait to see if I have it in my building.

 

 

Best I could do with a cell phone, but notice the 4 RRUs behind all the new antennas:

 

 

I'm not fully versed on how Sprint is doing these sites, but I was under the assumption that all the antennas would be replaced. They added new ones with RRUs, but left what appears to be the legacy ones on the Sprint rack as well (top rack is Nextel, I'm not talking about those). Do they come back later and hook up the old antennas to the new equipment, or how does that work? 

[WiWavelength]

I'm not fully versed on how Sprint is doing these sites, but I was under the assumption that all the antennas would be replaced. They added new ones with RRUs, but left what appears to be the legacy ones on the Sprint rack as well (top rack is Nextel, I'm not talking about those). Do they come back later and hook up the old antennas to the new equipment, or how does that work? And am I correct in assuming this is why so many of the sites in the area are "4G only" at this point in time?

 

Different crews are responsible for Network Vision installation and legacy deinstallation.

 

AJ

[MarkyD311]

Different crews are responsible for Network Vision installation and legacy deinstallation.

 

AJ

 

I see. In a situation like my pic above, there are two legacy and one NV antenna on each sector. Surely they won't just have a single NV antenna on each sector, will they? When the legacy stuff comes down, will more NV stuff go up?

[WiWavelength]

I see. In a situation like my pic above, there are two legacy and one NV antenna on each sector. Surely they won't just have a single NV antenna on each sector, will they? When the legacy stuff comes down, will more NV stuff go up?

 

Nope.  One dual band Network Vision panel per sector is enough in nearly all cases.  Only if the number of CDMA1X/EV-DO/LTE carriers exceeds the output capacity of the panel does a sector require a second panel alongside the first.

 

Thus, any additional panels that go up in the next few years will typically be for subsequent bands, such as BRS/EBS 2600 MHz, PCS/AWS-2 1900 MHz, etc.  Sprint is well positioned to take on additional bands, if necessary, for native or hosted network coverage.  The other big three operators are hamstrung by frequently full racks that will require swapping out panels to make room.

 

AJ