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Robert is it possible Sprint would announce LTE in the Bronx and Manhattan before the other boro's?

 

If not then an official launch won't be anytime this year

 

Kinda shocking not to see LTE pop up anywhere else but those 2 places.

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Robert is it possible Sprint would announce LTE in the Bronx and Manhattan before the other boro's?

 

If not then an official launch won't be anytime this year

 

Kinda shocking not to see LTE pop up anywhere else but those 2 places.

 

Agreed. Why wouldn't it be few places within each boro's lighting up? All the sites that's been completed for 3G, shouldn't they also be done and ready for LTE?

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Robert is it possible Sprint would announce LTE in the Bronx and Manhattan before the other boro's?

 

If not then an official launch won't be anytime this year

 

Kinda shocking not to see LTE pop up anywhere else but those 2 places.

 

Maybe. However, the NYC market has suffered significant delays even before the hurricane. Now it is even worse. There is no imminent market launch, but service will continue growing every week.

 

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Its all psychological. Have you ever been driving home from somewhere and you have to pee but you can def hold it, and suddenly as soon as you open the door to your house you have to run to the bathroom or else you feel like you're gonna piss yourself. That's because you know you're so close. Hence the impatience with LTE.

Oh great now I have to get up again...

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Maybe. However, the NYC market has suffered significant delays even before the hurricane. Now it is even worse. There is no imminent market launch, but service will continue growing every week.

 

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Some places in the city are still without power, crazy!

The Bronx will be pretty much blanketed by early next year.

I wonder if my complaints to the FCC has anything to do with them prioritizing the Bronx lol.

But on a serious note having a good data connection changes the user experience dramatically and is so refreshing not to have constant drop outs and buffering.

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This is sweet.

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Remember Sprint only promeses 6-8 on the download, if the network is at peak performance that's 25 down. Basically what I am saying when a lot of people jump on 4G it will slow down. Can any tell me otherwise? Also what are Att and Verizon speeds like?

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Remember Sprint only promeses 6-8 on the download, if the network is at peak performance that's 25 down. Basically what I am saying when a lot of people jump on 4G it will slow down. Can any tell me otherwise? Also what are Att and Verizon speeds like?

maybe, 6-8 is still fast so it doesn't matter. I have LTE. Vzw and Att have the same speed if not faster.

 

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Remember Sprint only promeses 6-8 on the download, if the network is at peak performance that's 25 down. Basically what I am saying when a lot of people jump on 4G it will slow down. Can any tell me otherwise? Also what are Att and Verizon speeds like?

 

Yea it will slow down to 6-8 mpbs. And then once they launch LTE 800 it will go up. And then when they launch LTE 2500 the speeds will be much higher.

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Remember Sprint only promeses 6-8 on the download, if the network is at peak performance that's 25 down. Basically what I am saying when a lot of people jump on 4G it will slow down. Can any tell me otherwise? Also what are Att and Verizon speeds like?

 

Sprint doesn't promise any speed. They advertise 6-8 Mbps. They advertise that, not because of loads, but because LTE performance is signal strength dependent. The peak speeds are people with a strong signal. If you built a heat map of signal strength, most customers would have 6-8Mbps or greater. Some will have less, but they would be in building that hinders RF or at the edge of service.

 

I have a VZW LTE hotspot. My speeds have been dropping dramatically. My peak daytime speeds most days are now 4-6Mbps. So there is no guarantee of future performance if even VZW gets bogged down. But Sprint has half the customers of VZW, is building a denser network, and has more options to add more carriers for capacity than VZW has. All in all, I feel good that Sprint will be able to keep their LTE speeds up for a long time. Especially now with Softbank coming on board. They will not tolerate failure.

 

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Sprint doesn't promise any speed. They advertise 6-8 Mbps. They advertise that, not because of loads, but because LTE performance is signal strength dependent. The peak speeds are people with a strong signal. If you built a heat map of signal strength, most customers would have 6-8Mbps or greater. Some will have less, but they would be in building that hinders RF or at the edge of service.

 

I have a VZW LTE hotspot. My speeds have been dropping dramatically. My peak daytime speeds most days are now 4-6Mbps. So there is no guarantee of future performance if even VZW gets bogged down. But Sprint has half the customers of VZW, is building a denser network, and has more options to add more carriers for capacity than VZW has. All in all, I feel good that Sprint will be able to keep their LTE speeds up for a long time. Especially now with Softbank coming on board. They will not tolerate failure.

 

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Sprints network seems extremely promising, but I wonder how much effect will them leasing there network to other providers would it have on sprints own network on the long term.
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Sprints network seems extremely promising, but I wonder how much effect will them leasing there network to other providers would it have on sprints own network on the long term.

 

I also wondered the same thing and the fact that sprint is extending LTE to the prepaid subs also. Makes me wonder why I'm postpaid if I could go prepaid and get the same service minus the brand new phones and roaming.

 

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I also wondered the same thing and the fact that sprint is extending LTE to the prepaid subs also. Makes me wonder why I'm postpaid if I could go prepaid and get the same service minus the brand new phones and roaming.

 

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LTE extended to prepaid subs?? Like Virgin and Boost Mobile?? I don't think so. Virgin and Boost Mobile now have 4G phones for purchase but they are 4G WiMax phones NOT 4G LTE phones. Sprint may have some wholesale agreements for LTE but I don't know the details of any such agreements.

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LTE extended to prepaid subs?? Like Virgin and Boost Mobile?? I don't think so. Virgin and Boost Mobile now have 4G phones for purchase but they are 4G WiMax phones NOT 4G LTE phones. Sprint may have some wholesale agreements for LTE but I don't know the details of any such agreements.

Yup sprint will have 4G LTE on Virgin mobile and Boostmobile by the 1Q

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I also wondered the same thing and the fact that sprint is extending LTE to the prepaid subs also. Makes me wonder why I'm postpaid if I could go prepaid and get the same service minus the brand new phones and roaming.

 

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Sprint doesn't promise any speed. They advertise 6-8 Mbps. They advertise that, not because of loads, but because LTE performance is signal strength dependent. The peak speeds are people with a strong signal. If you built a heat map of signal strength, most customers would have 6-8Mbps or greater. Some will have less, but they would be in building that hinders RF or at the edge of service.

 

I have a VZW LTE hotspot. My speeds have been dropping dramatically. My peak daytime speeds most days are now 4-6Mbps. So there is no guarantee of future performance if even VZW gets bogged down. But Sprint has half the customers of VZW, is building a denser network, and has more options to add more carriers for capacity than VZW has. All in all, I feel good that Sprint will be able to keep their LTE speeds up for a long time. Especially now with Softbank coming on board. They will not tolerate failure.

 

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Robert you are actually correct, they are advertising it not promising, what was I thinking... Also Tybo I have always been wondering the same thing. If boost customers get the same service for less of regular sprint customers what's the point of being a Sprint customer? Also Boost customer have unlimited everything for less. While currently they don't have 4G LTE, what happens if they get it in the future? The only benefit I currently see is getting top tier phone's that boost doesn't offer. I hope Sprint does something to keep Sprint customer on priority! Also on the side note, I haven't been happy with my Sprint speed's but since I know a fix is coming I am extremely happy with my Sprint service. Can't wait till everyone is talking about how awesome Sprint LTE is :)

 

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Yup sprint will have 4G LTE on Virgin mobile and Boostmobile by the 1Q

 

You're right. Wow..I didn't expect Sprint to offer LTE service on its prepaid brands so soon. I was hoping/expecting that prepaid brands Virgin and Boost Mobile would start getting LTE phones in 2014. This way it gives more preference and encouraging those that are prepaid to switch to postpaid to get LTE.

 

Also if Sprint were to keep prepaid on 4G Wimax until 2014, it gives Clearwire a source of revenue throughout 2013 which they desperately need. It looks like Boost will offer the ZTE Aurora and the HTC Kingdom and Virgin will offer the Samsung Galaxy Victory. All the LTE phones are meh....and Sprint seems to be keeping all the high end smartphones on the Sprint brand so I am ok with that,

 

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/12/07/prepaid-4g-lte-smartphones-for-sprint-brands-coming-in-q1-2013/

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