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Network Vision/LTE - Albuquerque market (including El Paso, Las Cruces, Santa Fe, Los Alamos, Roswell)


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So for all of you who work right near me... I just got a ping of 168 and download speeds of 1.74 mbps at work. This is by far the fastest speeds I've gotten here at work on 3g.

 

Sorry guy, can't test this anymore.  I very recently found out after my last post that my GFs work is a total deadzone so not seeing a point in paying for a line that doesn't work 8-10 hours a day, I jumped to T-Mobile.

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Sorry guy, can't test this anymore. I very recently found out after my last post that my GFs work is a total deadzone so not seeing a point in paying for a line that doesn't work 8-10 hours a day, I jumped to T-Mobile.

Tmo is fantastic in ABQ and Santa Fe...in the city limits. It's all 2G EDGE everywhere else. :td:

 

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The TorC site hasn't been accepted yet. So they may have it hooked up to legacy backhaul while checking if the equipment is operational and forgot to take it down.

 

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So what is the deal with the accepted site in cruces losing LTE?

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So what is the deal with the accepted site in cruces losing LTE?

Happens all the time in unlaunched markets.

 

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But isn't Sprint basically 2G everywhere in NM?

absolutely not. Sprint has quite a bit of 3g and with NV almost every site, rural or not, will have 3g and 4g, even if it only has 2g right now.

 

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But isn't Sprint basically 2G everywhere in NM?

Every Sprint site in New Mexico has 3G EVDO/EHRPD. And the ones outside the city where Tmo only has 2G work great. Typically 1-2.5Mbps.

 

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I've only been getting mostly sub 1 Mbps on Sprint in the city...

Just ran a test here at work and got .21 mbps down and .05 up...

That is because you are on a legacy tower that likely had insufficient backhaul in place. Once we start seeing lte turned on you will also see over 1mbps 3g speeds all over town pretty consistently.

 

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That is because you are on a legacy tower that likely had insufficient backhaul in place. Once we start seeing lte turned on you will also see over 1mbps 3g speeds all over town pretty consistently.

 

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Speaking of which... I was driving by Jefferson/Paseo today after lunch and once again must have been on that updated GMO 3G tower by balloon fiesta and got speeds of about 1.5 Mbps... can't wait to see that at least those speeds citywide! 

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Speaking of which... I was driving by Jefferson/Paseo today after lunch and once again must have been on that updated GMO 3G tower by balloon fiesta and got speeds of about 1.5 Mbps... can't wait to see that at least those speeds citywide!

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Im starting to decide if i should stay with Sprint, or switch to T-Mobile

like it has been said on here before, T-Mobile is good in the New Mexico metro areas but unusable (data wise) outside of them. Sprint is hitting a few speed bumps, but once tri band lte is deployed it will be amazing! And plus you can now buy a tri band phone, so in essence, you can future proof yourself.

 

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I'm starting to think that inspectors who accept sites have left our state and are not returning until ABQ proper catches up with backhaul so they can justify their presence beyond a few sites.

 

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Has anyone been to the west side to see if any of their towers have begun work? I think last I looked, I only saw one tower in progress west of the river.

I have a route I am going to do on Sunday to my parents house. I will pick up most along 528 and rio rancho.

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I'm starting to think that inspectors who accept sites have left our state and are not returning until ABQ proper catches up with backhaul so they can justify their presence beyond a few sites.

 

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I seem to want to agree with you. However, most of the sites i have been too in abq have no sign of backhaul at all.  This was all within the last three or four weeks that I have been visiting. I do hope this changes. 

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I seem to want to agree with you. However, most of the sites i have been too in abq have no sign of backhaul at all.  This was all within the last three or four weeks that I have been visiting. I do hope this changes. 

I would hope that Sprint gets all the towers ready to go before the winter and then centurylink can bring backhaul to all the sites.

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I would hope that Sprint gets all the towers ready to go before the winter and then centurylink can bring backhaul to all the sites.

Me too. I can only tell customers "in the coming months" for so long. 

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I'd love to know exactly what the backhaul install process truly entails.  Is it just them plugging a few things in?  Is it running all sorts of fiber down miles and miles of underground duct work?  What exactly is taking so long?  

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Has anyone been to the west side to see if any of their towers have begun work? I think last I looked, I only saw one tower in progress west of the river.

I live on the westside, but I don't ever seen any trucks around from my point of view.

 

Another wave of acceptances and not one acceptance in the ABQ Market. hmmm... I am starting to get scared the ABQ will be the last possible place for LTE.

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