Jump to content

Network Vision/LTE - Central and South Jersey Markets


mrradic

Recommended Posts

LTE lit up near the Piscataway library today.

thats awesome, I know they be been working I had great coverage by and in my house for 2 days then by my house stopped but other areas had it think they turned off one of the towers during work
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Rutgers has some pretty good coverage in NB/Piscataway. About half of Busch has coverage (the half along 18, before it turns into Hoes Ln), 18 between Busch and College Ave has full bars and large parts of College Ave are covered (Just about reaches the campus center bust stop). Someone already mapped a good portion on Sensorly, I mapped some more earlier today but it hasn't updated yet. 

 

Overall 3G is a lot better on Busch as well.

Edited by Zmanwithaplan
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Rutgers has some pretty good coverage in NB/Piscataway. About half of Busch has coverage (the half along 18, before it turns into Hoes Ln), 18 between Busch and College Ave has full bars and large parts of College Ave are covered (Just about reaches the campus center bust stop). Someone already mapped a good portion on Sensorly, I mapped some more earlier today but it hasn't updated yet. 

 

Overall 3G is a lot better on Busch as well.

 

You did the mapping?

 

Why didnt you do wimax mapping? 95% of it was me. :(

Link to comment
Share on other sites

You did the mapping?

 

Why didnt you do wimax mapping? 95% of it was me. :(

Just learned iphones can't map on sensorly :/ that explains why those maps haven't updated... Well Rutgers starts back up in a week, I'm sure someone will map it.

 

If it helps, those wimax maps look really nice! NB/Piscataway campus has some really good wimax coverage.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Just learned iphones can't map on sensorly :/ that explains why those maps haven't updated... Well Rutgers starts back up in a week, I'm sure someone will map it.

 

If it helps, those wimax maps look really nice! NB/Piscataway campus has some really good wimax coverage.

 

I wish my phone did the grey mapping in no service area.

 

The Busch student center is the end of coverage, anything north of that has none, but the map makes it unclear if theres no wimax or thats where I stopped mapping

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I just had LTE In Chesterfield, northern Burlington County.  I believe that this is far enough from Philadelphia that it it must be a South Jersey tower.  I mapped it on Sensorly.  Don't see it yet.  Tried to do a speedtest but wasn't able to get a network connection.  Probably testing of some sort.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I'm getting LTE (12.43mbps down/ 3.01mbps up) across the Bridgewater commons starting this morning 

That's good news. I was in Somerville last week and saw an Alcatel Lucent van in the parking lot across from the train station. The building there has a Sprint site on the roof I believe. Could mean nothing but I still got a little excited. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I just had LTE In Chesterfield, northern Burlington County.  I believe that this is far enough from Philadelphia that it it must be a South Jersey tower.  I mapped it on Sensorly.  Don't see it yet.  Tried to do a speedtest but wasn't able to get a network connection.  Probably testing of some sort.

It's actually a tower in the Central Jersey market...still no LTE love for South Jersey. Delaware just had it's first LTE accepted tower go live just this week though, so activity is happening all around. Hopefully LTE is only weeks away somewhere in SNJ...

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

It's actually a tower in the Central Jersey market...still no LTE love for South Jersey. Delaware just had it's first LTE accepted tower go live just this week though, so activity is happening all around. Hopefully LTE is only weeks away somewhere in SNJ...

Princeton and Trenton are considered to be in the Southern Jersey market according the this map and text. Chesterfield is well south of Trenton. Do you think the LTE signal might have come from Pennsylvania whose border is about 5 miles away?

 

 

(Alcatel Lucent has begun Network Vision/LTE deployments in the Southern Jersey market. The market includes Trenton, Camden, Atlantic City, Princeton, Cherry Hill, Vineland, Millville and Cape May. 302 sites total. Click on Map to Enlarge.

 

 

image.jpg

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Nope.  MReiser4670 is correct.  That Chesterfield site is considered a Central Jersey site.  If you see the northernmost part of the South Jersey market, the tower is just east of that cut-off point.  Any of the sites that are directly east of there are considered the Central Jersey market (even if they're south of Princeton or Trenton).

 

Not sure if I helped here.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Long Beach Island does have two LTE towers. Im a bit confused by the way they carve up the markets. If you look at a tower in say Cape May county the title of the tower is "Philadelphia/Mt Laurel" market.

 

I am a bit suprised by the lack of LTE this summer, but I chalk that up to the Dish/Softbank issues. I hope that now that issue is over, we will get a more definitive schedule. I live in North Wildwood, I never got Wimax, I don't have LTE yet, and during the summer I can only use my phone for text 80% of the time because of network congestion. ATT and Verizon have LTE here and do not have these issues. Sometimes being a Sprint customer feels like Charlie Brown, Lucy and the football, Im giving them until May to put in LTE. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I mapping LTE on Sensorly in a remote area below Allentown NJ. Found the tower which happend to be in someone's back yard. 4g signal was very inconsistent and didn't go too far. I hope there will be an improvement from this tower in the future.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Still no LTE at all around West Deptford down to Sicklerville via Rt. 42.  It was nice to see that accepted LTE site last week.  Was it the first of many?  Last week I struggled to stream TuneIn radio @ 32kbps (very intermittent even with 15 second buffering).  Today, the drive was only interrupted once, which is nice. 

 

Lee

West Deptford, NJ

HTC One

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.


  • large.unreadcontent.png.6ef00db54e758d06

  • gallery_1_23_9202.png

  • Posts

    • This has been approved.. https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/fcc-approves-t-mobiles-deal-to-purchase-mint-mobile/  
    • In the conference call they had two question on additional spectrum. One was the 800 spectrum. They are not certain what will happen, thus have not really put it into their plans either way (sale or no sale). They do have a reserve level. Nationwide 800Mhz is seen as great for new technologies which I presume is IOT or 5g slices.  T-Mobile did not bite on use of their c-band or DOD.  mmWave rapidly approaching deadlines not mentioned at all. FWA brushes on this as it deals with underutilized spectrum on a sector by sector basis.  They are willing to take more money to allow FWA to be mobile (think RV or camping). Unsure if this represents a higher priority, for example, FWA Mobile in RVs in Walmart parking lots working where mobile phones need all the capacity. In terms of FWA capacity, their offload strategy is fiber through joint ventures where T-Mobile does the marketing, sales, and customer support while the fiber company does the network planning and installation.  50%-50% financial split not being consolidated into their books. I think discussion of other spectrum would have diluted the fiber joint venture discussion. They do have a fund which one use is to purchase new spectrum. Sale of the 800Mhz would go into this. It should be noted that they continue to buy 2.5Ghz spectrum from schools etc to replace leases. They will have a conference this fall  to update their overall strategies. Other notes from the call are 75% of the phones on the network are 5g. About 85% of their sites have n41, n25, and n71, 90% 5g.  93% of traffic is on midband.  SA is also adding to their performance advantage, which they figure is still ahead of other carriers by two years. It took two weeks to put the auction 108 spectrum to use at their existing sites. Mention was also made that their site spacing was designed for midrange thus no gaps in n41 coverage, while competitors was designed for lowband thus toggles back and forth for n77 also with its shorter range.  
    • The manual network selection sounds like it isn't always scanning NR, hence Dish not showing up. Your easiest way to force Dish is going to be forcing the phone into NR-only mode (*#*#4636#*#* menu?), since rainbow sims don't support SA on T-Mobile.
    • "The company’s unique multi-layer approach to 5G, with dedicated standalone 5G deployed nationwide across 600MHz, 1.9GHz, and 2.5GHz delivers customers a consistently strong experience, with 85% of 5G traffic on sites with all three spectrum bands deployed." Meanwhile they are very close to a construction deadline June 1 for 850Mhz of mmWave in most of Ohio covering 27500-28350Mhz expiring 6/8/2028. No reported sightings.  Buildout notice issue sent by FCC in March 5, 2024 https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/letterPdf/LetterPdfController?licId=4019733&letterVersionId=178&autoLetterId=13060705&letterCode=CR&radioServiceCode=UU&op=LetterPdf&licSide=Y&archive=null&letterTo=L  No soecific permits seen in a quick check of Columbus. They also have an additional 200Mhz covering at 24350-25450 Mhz and 24950-25050Mhz with no buildout date expiring 12/11/2029.
    • T-Mobile Delivers Industry-Leading Customer, Service Revenue and Profitability Growth in Q1 2024, and Raises 2024 Guidance https://www.t-mobile.com/news/business/t-mobile-q1-2024-earnings — — — — — I find it funny that when they talk about their spectrum layers they're saying n71, n25, and n41. They're completely avoiding talking about mmWave.
  • Recently Browsing

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...