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They are upgrading the entire network, not just cities. So they upgrade each site the moment it is ready. It is typically faster to have a rural site ready to upgrade than an urban site. Backhaul i

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Your complaints are rather pathetic. To complain right in the middle of active deployment is ridiculous. The speed in which Sprint and Samsung have converted sites in Puerto Rico is unprecedented. E

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Guys. Sprint is better than ever. No more drop calls for me from UPR to Toa Baja and vice versa. Very good LTE speed. UPR Río Piedras Campus have LTE everywhere and usable 3g if LTE isnt available. I'

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well...from what i heard..ill be getting lte first! in bovoni! :D..and i stillll have no service till the 17th!!...before all the rain...they shut my tower down to do the lte upgrade...but the rain came n screwed up the launch!!..i dont know if it still stands but thats what i heard..lol i been milkin them...my phone bill went from 101 to less than 25 bucks!!

I would think that the first tower to get 4g lte would be the tower on mountain top and from there backhaul will be microwaved to the other towers.

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Did St.Croix notice any outages before LTE or did it just appear at random?

 

Edit: Funny how St.Croix is bigger but has less towers than St.Thomas.

 

 

And the two islands have similar population sizes (at least according to Wikipedia) so yeah, that is kind of weird.

Well you have put into consideration that St. Croix has a lot more flat land than St. Thomas more mountainous geography.  Also, even though the population is about the same on both islands, St. Thomas gets a hell of a lot more tourist traffic than St. Croix could ever dream of so it would make sense for St. Thomas to have almost twice as many towers.

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Well I already knew about the need for more towers due to tourists(St.Thomas is the capital of course), but not the topography though. I've never been St.Croix, but I've always thought St.Croix had equal or more hills than St.Thomas.

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How would you rate Sprint's call/data quality after NV improvements in your area in the PR/VI market? I'll rate from 5/10 before to 8.5/10 after NV. I'm still with a iPhone 4S, and hopefully will get some LTE goodness this year.

 

 

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i personally before NV improvements i was rating sprint 8/10 in voice and 3/10 in data. but after NV things change a lot now i give them 10/10 in voice and 8/10 in data maybe i can rate better data if i have a phone with more RF power than the evo lte.

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I would give Sprint 4/10 prior NV rollout and 8/10 after NV. Since Sprint is using band 25 only (1900mhz pcs ) here in PR/VI it doesnt have that much building penetration. Of course that will change when they start implementing 800 smr and td-lte but the question is "when" will Puerto Rico get those

 

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Still waiting and watching to see when more sites will be accepted by sprint in st.croix. 

Can't remember what part of the island you said you were on but are you getting any decent 4g coverage? 

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