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New site is live on 88 and northern blvd

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A new macro site or a new sprint converted band 41 8t8r site?

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I guess is sprint, when i run the same test on clear site comes out network boost

 

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Yeah is a sprint site i just saw it on the signal check app says sprint 41(2)

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I picked up a 2nd Clear Carrier in Queens today along the Cross Island Parkway near Belmont Park. I noticed kind of late and was only able to snap a screenshot of SignalCheck Pro

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I went to see The Color Purple today and it was great! But besides that I managed to pull 8 down 5 up in a parking lot a block away from Times Square on Band 41.

 

If that isn't a challenging network situation I don't know what is.

 

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This morning I saw the second carrier in Woodside broadcasting from some legacy Clearwire sites, which was awesome to see.

 

Speeds north of 40mbps while waiting for the 7 train.

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i hope sprint gets all the second carriers sorted out before rootmetrics comes to town for Q1 2016 report. I think they can really be #1 this quarter if they play there cards right. If not defiantly by Q2 2016. In my opinion the only thing potentially stopping them from achieving this is that rootmetrics also includes the surrounding areas where B41 isn't as dense as NYC and the boroughs. Hopefully increased deployment should increase soon with the weather warming up.

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As an occasional visitor to NYC, I was really impressed with the availability of signal in the subway this past weekend!

Every time I'm in the subway I am impressed by this. Although I think its only 5x5 B25 (there might be B26) I'm always hitting 10-15mbps. I just wish they had service in the east river tunnel for LIRR commuters. I believe only Verizon has service there. Sprint roams on 1x but now its roams on EDVO but I can never get the data to work. Im pretty sure ATT doesn't have service and of course T-mobile doesn't and they wouldn't be able to roam on ATT anyway. The main terminal of Penn Station has great 3G just waiting for that LTE upgrade. 

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Every time I'm in the subway I am impressed by this. Although I think its only 5x5 B25 (there might be B26) I'm always hitting 10-15mbps. I just wish they had service in the east river tunnel for LIRR commuters. I believe only Verizon has service there. Sprint roams on 1x but now its roams on EDVO but I can never get the data to work. Im pretty sure ATT doesn't have service and of course T-mobile doesn't and they wouldn't be able to roam on ATT anyway. The main terminal of Penn Station has great 3G just waiting for that LTE upgrade.

There some spots in San Diego that I roam on Verizon EDVO and no data. Something in comon. I am wondering why no data.

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As an occasional visitor to NYC, I was really impressed with the availability of signal in the subway this past weekend!

 

Yep, Sprint has more stations on-air than any other carrier.

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Lots of places in the Queens area are covered with CA now. Specifically the Flushing/Bayside areas. Last week, I noticed CA was on near Union Street and 32nd Avenue so I did a speedtest and got 151.14Mbps / 14.89Mbps / 27ms. Amazing what the WiMAX shutdown does for us.

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Lots of places in the Queens area are covered with CA now. Specifically the Flushing/Bayside areas. Last week, I noticed CA was on near Union Street and 32nd Avenue so I did a speedtest and got 151.14Mbps / 14.89Mbps / 27ms. Amazing what the WiMAX shutdown does for us.

Thats awesome! Can you post screen shot, never seen over 145..
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Speaking of Flushing areas, was there ever a resolution to the citation issued to Jian Chang by the FCC for interfering with Sprints' signal in the area. (Possibly using a jammer of some sort).

 

Refresher link at Fierce Wireless

 

TS

 

That's a good question, can't find anything on it.

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Looks like my home sites has finally been optimized!! 

 

My phone would drop to B26 for no apparent reason, but after a couple of sprint zone reports and a few tweets things are awesome!

 

If your having an issue, I urge people to report them so Sprint can do their part and optimize accordingly. Having 3 bands on air really does make things a bit tougher to optimize properly.

 

These were taken in places where I would normally drop to B26(sub 500k speeds)

 

Im one happy camper!

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Sprint is taking a risk and advertising some of the fastest average LTE speed in the country now. For LTE Plus, they now say you can average 12-30 Mbps. I feel like this is an accurate assessment considering that now when I'm out and about in NYC I hardly drop below 20 Mbps anymore, even on a non-CA device. They probably got these numbers from the Nielsen data that everyone loves to bash so often. Also I find the new map to be pretty accurate now despite the weird color gradient. 

 

Thoughts?

 

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Sprint is taking a risk and advertising some of the fastest average LTE speed in the country now. For LTE Plus, they now say you can average 12-30 Mbps. I feel like this is an accurate assessment considering that now when I'm out and about in NYC I hardly drop below 20 Mbps anymore, even on a non-CA device. They probably got these numbers from the Nielsen data that everyone loves to bash so often. Also I find the new map to be pretty accurate now despite the weird color gradient. 

 

Thoughts?

 

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Thats actually pretty great that they differentiate between the technology and their speeds, instead of an average national speed across the board.

 

These numbers seem like they are underestimating, which is great.

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