Network Vision/LTE - Northern & Southern Connecticut Markets (includes all cities)

[dstar2002]

One other thing.....maybe I came across wrong, but I am not mad, nor really vocal at Sprint, to me it seemed like a better business move to have LTE going faster in this area, especially with the amount of "money" people in CT have, and of course the big hot spot casinos.

 

But, I can also see the point that the traveling market might not care as much, the money is in those that live in the region, not the ones passing through it.

 

 

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[pyroscott]

Well, to take a stab at "why". Maybe it is because Providence is the 39th most populous metropolitan statistical area in the US and already has a form of 4G in WiMax. If I was the one making the decisions, I would have them as a 3rd or 4th round market.

[S4GRU]

Interesting' date=' I knew CT was bad, but that bad? Jeeze.

 

So, I guess my next question is, how long has it been this way? Is this a new level of "junk" carriers have to wade in? We were nearly the first to get wimax, I had wimax on my evo less than 2 months after its release. Did they get a big jump on things here or were they just much easier to work with then?

 

So I guess that leads me to the next question, why wouldnt they have started permitting earlier? It seems like the muck of CT causes things to slow down, but when they started in Baltimore, Boston, NYC, the next ones on the list you saw were the major pieces connecting those sectors. I frankly am surprised Providence is so far behind as well. It too had wimax fast, infact, something tells me they might of been first nationwide.....

 

But either way, like I said in my post in the Mass thread, too much "Not in my backyard" syndrome to call this country free anymore.

 

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WiMax planning and deployment began in 2007/2008. Not in 2010 when the EVO came out. Clearwire had permitting and planning completed for 25 more markets than they ever even got to. For instance, Clearwire was prepared to fully deploy in San Diego and Phoenix before they ran out of money.

 

Sprint is deploying Network Vision as permits come available and backhaul is ready. They are not waiting for all the permitting to complete over an entire market like Clearwire did. If so, they wouldnt even be able to begin for another 9-12 months.

 

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[Kevster1321]

update of work/permits these sites will be geting 1 RRH cabinet and 1 fiber junction box

Ashford

Brooklyn

Canterbury

Chester

Columbia

Coventry

Durham

East Granby

East Hampton

Eastford

Glastonbury

Griswold

Haddam

Hebron

2 Killingworth

Marlborough

Middletown

2 Montville

North Stonington

Old Lyme

Plainfield

Portland

2 Preston

Stafford

Union

Willington

[Kevster1321]

update of towers getting worked on or have permits for

Branford replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 dual-band antennas

Branford replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 dual-band antennas

Colebrook replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 dual-band antennas

Guilford replace 3 CDMA antennas with 3 dual band antennas for LTE

Milford 9 existing CDMA antennas with 3 quad pole antennas for LTE

Milford repalce 6 of 9 CDMA antennas with 3 dual-band antennas

Naugatuck replace 4 existing CDMA antennas with 3 quad pole antennas for LTE

New Haven replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 dual-band antennas

New Milford replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 dual-band antennas

Newtown replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 dual-band antennas

Orange replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 dual-band antennas

Redding replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 dual-band antennas

Southbury replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 dual-band antennas

Trumbull replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 dual-band antennas

Westport replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 dual-band antennas

Woodbury replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 dual-band antennas

Woodbury replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 dual-band antennas

[jayemtee83]

progress, this is a good thing! I wonder, how long after the permit does it take to do the upgrade? Any word on hurricane sandy slowing down the upgrade process?

[DaQue]

Hmmm

 

"dual-band antennas", "dual band antennas for LTE", and "quad pole antennas for LTE" all the same?

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[Kevster1321]

I think all the same I guess it's who every puts in the data that day

[z250kid]

new milford-

replace 6 existing CDMA antennas with 3 quad pole antennas for LTE

 

Southbury-

replace 6 existing CDMA antennas with 3 quad pole antennas for LTE

 

Newtown- replace 6 existing CDMA antennas with 3 quad pole antennas for LTE

 

 

bethlehem- replace 12 existing antennas with 3 dual band antennas but also says 4G/LTE upgrade

 

also Trumble, woodbury. Will these towers be active in near future? Are they just doing one tower in every town. I saw 12 existing antennas with 3 dual band antennas but next to it says 4G/LTE upgrade. So is that true for all the dual ban replacments?

[Kevster1321]

These are towers that have permits/work being done now or soon to be starting. Some of these towns have more then one permit. for instance when I say Bethlehem I mean there is one tower in Bethlehem that does have a permit not all of the towers in the town. all of sprints new antennas are multi band LTE/PCS/SMR

[Kevster1321]

update on towers with permits or work being done

Ansonia replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 multi-band antennas

Cornwall replace 3 CDMA antennas with 3 multil-band antennas

Danbury replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 multi-band antennas

Greenwich replace 9 CDMA antennas with 3 multi-band antennas

2 in Harwinton replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 multi-band antennas

Madison replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 multi-band antennas

Milford replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 multi-band antennas

New Fairfield replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 multi-band antennas

New Milford replace 12 CDMA antennas with 3 multi-band antennas

Newtown replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 multi-band antennas

Orange replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 multi-band antennas

Seymour replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 multi-band antennas

Stamford replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 multi-band antennas

2 in Westport replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 multi-band antennas

Winchester replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 multi-band antennas

Winchester/Winsted replace 3 CDMA antennas and 3 of 9 iDEN antennas with 3 multi-band antennas

Woodbury replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 multi-band antennas

[Kevster1321]

update

Stafford install 1 RRH cabinet and 1 fiber junction box

Union install 1 RRH cabinet and 1 fiber junction box

[dstar2002]

In East Windsor this last week I saw two multi carrier towers getting work done. One by Eastern Communications which had a car size trailer carrying something up to the Site and the other had Northeast Tower workers up on the tower doing something with panels. One of the towers I was driving and couldn't see much, the other is up a hill on a private road, and you can't see the ground where that equipment would be, only the tower, so I don't know what they were doing, if anything.

 

Google seemed to tell me Eastern Community does Verizon work, so i doubt any of it was sprint unfortunately.

 

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[Kevster1321]

In East Windsor this last week I saw two multi carrier towers getting work done. One by Eastern Communications which had a car size trailer carrying something up to the Site and the other had Northeast Tower workers up on the tower doing something with panels. One of the towers I was driving and couldn't see much, the other is up a hill on a private road, and you can't see the ground where that equipment would be, only the tower, so I don't know what they were doing, if anything.

 

Google seemed to tell me Eastern Community does Verizon work, so i doubt any of it was sprint unfortunately.

 

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I can tell you that it is not Sprint but if you want to know what carrier is working on that tower let me know.

[dstar2002]

I remember reading this, but totally forgot about it until I was cleaning up my twitter account today.

 

http://www.governor.ct.gov/malloy/cwp/view.asp?Q=509224&A=4010

 

Damn you CT and your cell phone tower laws. This only appears to point to new towers though.

[Midnight_H3]

Just noticing all of my signal in pretty much all of ct. Switching to eHRDP from EVDO rev 2. From what I've been reading I guess that's a good thing.. I just got my galaxy s3 on an impulse buy and realized after it didn't support WIMAX. Really pissed me off actually...LOL

[Kevster1321]

update on tower permits or work being done

 

East Haven replace 3 CDMA and 6 iDEN antennas with 3 multi-band antennas

Madison replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 multi-band antennas

North Haven replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 multi-band antennas

Stamford replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 multi-band antennas

West Haven replace 6 CDMA antennas with 3 multi-band antennas

[mrradic]

Can't wait to see them go live!

[Midnight_H3]

x2

 

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[spontane74]

So I see that Southern CT has gotten a rollout date confirmed from Sprint for Q1 2013 wonder why Northern CT has not gotten one as of yet. Is there a map indicating what is considered Northern vs Southern. I am in Middletown and was wondering which market I would be in?

[S4GRU]

So I see that Southern CT has gotten a rollout date confirmed from Sprint for Q1 2013 wonder why Northern CT has not gotten one as of yet. Is there a map indicating what is considered Northern vs Southern. I am in Middletown and was wondering which market I would be in?

 

Click on the link:

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/gallery/image/156-nationwide-sprint-market-map-medium/

 

When you see the map, click on it to enlarge.

 

Where did you see an official Sprint rollout date of Q1-2013?

 

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[spontane74]

Click on the link:

http://s4gru.com/ind...ket-map-medium/

 

When you see the map, click on it to enlarge.

 

Where did you see an official Sprint rollout date of Q1-2013?

 

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I was reading a release on Sprint.com http://newsroom.sprint.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2482 that stated 2 Southern CT Sites will be deployed in coming months I assumed by Q1 2013. Thanks for the map I did see this but can distinctly tell which part of CT is Southern and Northern. Do you know if Middletown is in the Northern or Southern market?

[Kevster1321]

Do you know if Middletown is in the Northern or Southern market?

Middletown is in the northern CT market but Meriden is in the southern market you are on the north south borders.

[mrradic]

I noticed we have some completed towers! Exciting stuff, can't wait to see LTE start lighting up.

[The Root]

http://www.ct.gov/pura/site/default.asp

 

This is the department that regulates tower upgrades. They are who you want to call an show support for the tower upgrades. I got this link from a friend who is a state rep.