Silenze Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 They were putting up new panels on the water tower in whitefish bay today. I will try and take a pic today. I don't know if sprint is on the water tower or the cell tower next to the water tower. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmark27 Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 Yesterday morning, at the tower right by my house in Fitchburg, WI (Near Seminole Hwy / PD), I saw a mess of trucks near the base and people on the tower. I was pretty excited and wanted to detour my run over there and ask a lot of questions, but its contained within a power station so you can't really get close to it at all. Does anyone know the name of the companies subcontracted in the Madison Area? Is there anyway to know this information? I believe this is one of Sprint's biggest towers in the Madison area. I'm hopeful that this means something is going in. They have already done "capacity", "speed" and "voice" upgrades about 6 months ago according to network.sprint.com. Now the tower is absent on that page so I'm assuming that we will start to see more with the current activity?? It could be unrelated at all. I still can't imagine a future where Sprint is good here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenze Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 something is definitly going on at the site in cedarburg in the back of the freeway park in ride here is a pic from my night raid of the big panel on the ground https://www.dropbox.com/s/vqb75liya4kmp35/night.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.phoneguy Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Yesterday morning, at the tower right by my house in Fitchburg, WI (Near Seminole Hwy / PD), I saw a mess of trucks near the base and people on the tower. I was pretty excited and wanted to detour my run over there and ask a lot of questions, but its contained within a power station so you can't really get close to it at all. Does anyone know the name of the companies subcontracted in the Madison Area? Is there anyway to know this information? I believe this is one of Sprint's biggest towers in the Madison area. I'm hopeful that this means something is going in. They have already done "capacity", "speed" and "voice" upgrades about 6 months ago according to network.sprint.com. Now the tower is absent on that page so I'm assuming that we will start to see more with the current activity?? It could be unrelated at all. I still can't imagine a future where Sprint is good here. Are you referring too the tower behind the Rocky rococo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.phoneguy Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Yesterday morning, at the tower right by my house in Fitchburg, WI (Near Seminole Hwy / PD), I saw a mess of trucks near the base and people on the tower. I was pretty excited and wanted to detour my run over there and ask a lot of questions, but its contained within a power station so you can't really get close to it at all. Does anyone know the name of the companies subcontracted in the Madison Area? Is there anyway to know this information? I believe this is one of Sprint's biggest towers in the Madison area. I'm hopeful that this means something is going in. They have already done "capacity", "speed" and "voice" upgrades about 6 months ago according to network.sprint.com. Now the tower is absent on that page so I'm assuming that we will start to see more with the current activity?? It could be unrelated at all. I still can't imagine a future where Sprint is good here. Or on the Amc theater side of Seminole? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmark27 Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Or on the Amc theater side of Seminole? Yes, right near AMC. Haven't checked this AM again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenze Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 here is a pic of the cedarburg site . you can see cables attached to the tower. and it looks like the south sector has been upgraded. https://www.dropbox.com/s/amhrbm0un931099/cedarburg.jpg here is a pick of the whitefishbay water tower. yesterday the north side panels were installed. today they were working on the east side. https://www.dropbox.com/s/cf36p10wkgai8et/whitefish.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.phoneguy Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 here is a pic of the cedarburg site . you can see cables attached to the tower. and it looks like the south sector has been upgraded. https://www.dropbox.com/s/amhrbm0un931099/cedarburg.jpg here is a pick of the whitefishbay water tower. yesterday the north side panels were installed. today they were working on the east side. https://www.dropbox.com/s/cf36p10wkgai8et/whitefish.jpg Let the good times roll! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.phoneguy Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Yes, right near AMC. Haven't checked this AM again. Any update on that town on PD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmark27 Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Any update on that town on PD? There was no activity there this am. I don't see any new equipment either. I'll try to send a pic if I get a good shot. Maybe someone can identify what might be the correct equipment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.phoneguy Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 There was no activity there this am. I don't see any new equipment either. I'll try to send a pic if I get a good shot. Maybe someone can identify what might be the correct equipment. Cool, thanks for the update! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calvin200 Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 This is site "Ml17xc186E" It is on Waterford between 6th and 13th St. This is a Sprint only tower. This is the second time I have seen a tower being connected to a telephone line underground (the other one was on the tower on 43rd and Loomis Rd basically by the north bound Loomis Road exit). Where in the process of updating a tower would work like this be done? Anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jswets Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 They were putting up new panels on the water tower in whitefish bay today. I will try and take a pic today. I don't know if sprint is on the water tower or the cell tower next to the water tower. I saw this last week when i drove by Bayshore mall. Clearly can see new panels on the tower. I flipped airplane mode hoping i would catch some LTE but my luck is obviously not that great. When im over in Whitefish Bay again i will try and grab some photos and test airplane mode again. We should be seeing our first LTE in the area "soon". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.phoneguy Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 I saw this last week when i drove by Bayshore mall. Clearly can see new panels on the tower. I flipped airplane mode hoping i would catch some LTE but my luck is obviously not that great. When im over in Whitefish Bay again i will try and grab some photos and test airplane mode again. We should be seeing our first LTE in the area "soon". That's great news! I was just thinking this thread has been quiet for the past week or so. Seems like the quiet before the storm that is LTE goodness. Glad Milwaukee is moving forward, just hope Madison isn't too far behind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calvin200 Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 Anyone? Anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenze Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 Fiber is installed whenever sprint can get it. It could b the first to go in or the last. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenze Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 They were working on the south side of the white fish bay water tower today. Lte is a ways away still in Milwaukee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.phoneguy Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 There was no activity there this am. I don't see any new equipment either. I'll try to send a pic if I get a good shot. Maybe someone can identify what might be the correct equipment. I drove past that tower yesterday. I didn't see any activity or new equipment, I did see a few pieces of heavy machinery sitting idol however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aackmann Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 I was in Chicago this last weekend with my Evo LTE and oh man, was it glorious! I just kept running speed test after speed test. I can't wait for that sweet sweet LTE goodness in Milwaukee. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommym65 Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 I was in Chicago this last weekend with my Evo LTE and oh man, was it glorious! I just kept running speed test after speed test. I can't wait for that sweet sweet LTE goodness in Milwaukee. Don't let AJ catch you!!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asnigro Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 So would you guys with knowledge of work being done on the towers and the "inside information" anticipate an LTE Milwaukee rollout earlier than what I was told yesterday on the phone by a Sprint CSR, "End of 2013, early 2014"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S4GRU Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 So would you guys with knowledge of work being done on the towers and the "inside information" anticipate an LTE Milwaukee rollout earlier than what I was told yesterday on the phone by a Sprint CSR, "End of 2013, early 2014"? As far as a launch goes, that's probably pretty accurate. Likely the very first LTE signals will go live sometime in May or June. But it will take at least 6 months of deployment for a market launch. Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jswets Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 As far as a launch goes, that's probably pretty accurate. Likely the very first LTE signals will go live sometime in May or June. But it will take at least 6 months of deployment for a market launch. Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD That is what i have been thinking. I'm guessing 1 or 2 crews are currently active in the area with the ramp up starting mid to late summer. It would be nice to have LTE or hell just decent 3G for Summerfest, at Miller Park, and the Wisconsin State Fair this summer. Crossing my fingers. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randp1 Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Glad to know it seems to be some progress in the area! Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.phoneguy Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 That is what i have been thinking. I'm guessing 1 or 2 crews are currently active in the area with the ramp up starting mid to late summer. It would be nice to have LTE or hell just decent 3G for Summerfest, at Miller Park, and the Wisconsin State Fair this summer. Crossing my fingers. I would love having lte available the next time I visit Miller Park. It would be nice streaming MLB tv over lte while enjoying a Brewers game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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