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They are starting the ABQ market with the site next to my house. I just ran into subcontractors for Ericsson who are starting to upgrade my site in El Valle de Arroyo Seco, New Mexico. Unbelievable!!!

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OK. I've now uploaded pics. I talked with the guys there. They are electricians hired by SBA. SBA is subcontracted to Ericsson. They are here to install the RRU's only today. My site here did no

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Also, here's a quick speed test while I stopped to pick my dinner up @ Uptown     Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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it sucks that ABQ still doesnt have LTE, as small town as clovis is I am very suprised that we have LTE First. It been expanding all over clovis and now cannon AFB is even getting LTE.

heck even portales has LTE Now, pretty sad :o . Centrylink must be taking its time over there or something, those backhaul do suck

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Clovis and Portales have LTE because the backhaul there was done by Plateau. El Paso has LTE because the backhaul there is ATT. Most of the rest of New Mexico has their backhaul by CenturyLink or Windstream. That pretty much answers what is taking so long. CL and WS are some of the worst ILEC's in the country. Painful to watch.

 

I was always told ABQ was going to be one of the last markets. All my comments in 2012 were about how ABQ would be at the end of NV. And then when work started last December with GMO sites and then late Spring with full build sites, I thought we may actually be ahead of schedule.

 

However, my fellow New Mexicans are now in limbo land waiting on these two inept phone companies to deliver a usable high speed connection to Sprint sites. I really believe you'll have something in the ABQ area in 30 days or so. But I also would have believed that 30 days ago too. And the 30 days before that. :td:

 

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Clovis and Portales have LTE because the backhaul there was done by Plateau. El Paso has LTE because the backhaul there is ATT. Most of the rest of New Mexico has their backhaul by CenturyLink or Windstream. That pretty much answers what is taking so long. CL and WS are some of the worst ILEC's in the country. Painful to watch.

 

I was always told ABQ was going to be one of the last markets. All my comments in 2012 were about how ABQ would be at the end of NV. And then when work started last December with GMO sites and then late Spring with full build sites, I thought we may actually be ahead of schedule.

 

However, my fellow New Mexicans are now in limbo land waiting on these two inept phone companies to deliver a usable high speed connection to Sprint sites. I really believe you'll have something in the ABQ area in 30 days or so. But I also would have believed that 30 days ago too. And the 30 days before that. :td:

 

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So let's hope for the next 3-6 months... <_<

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I've been experiencing some major issues this morning, unlike any to date.  I am right near a tower and my signal will drop ehrpd connection then gain it back, then lose 1x connection, then lose both, then no connection.  I have a feeling some work may be taking place.  There was no crew at the tower I was having issues with, but maybe it's integration?  This is the tower at Yale and Cesar Chavez

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Att started on a full tower build down the street from my house about 2 weeks or less ago. And they are almost completely finished. So I domt understand what the hold up is if the other carriers can complete full builds in less than 3 weeks .

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Att started on a full tower build down the street from my house about 2 weeks or less ago. And they are almost completely finished. So I domt understand what the hold up is if the other carriers can complete full builds in less than 3 weeks .

 

for the towers around ABQ, many are already upgraded and waiting on backhaul. If they turned on LTE now, Downtown, Uptown, Nob Hill and most of the Heights would have a pretty decent blanket of LTE.  That being said, it is NOT sprint or contractors. It is all Centurylink.  They have not provided the backhaul Sprint needs for the LTE. 

 

Go look at most of the Verizon LTE towers and most have microwave backhaul.  I think they ran into the same thing and said F it and started putting up microwave.  Also, ATT has a very limited LTE coverage in ABQ. I assume it is due to the same issues.

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for the towers around ABQ, many are already upgraded and waiting on backhaul. If they turned on LTE now, Downtown, Uptown, Nob Hill and most of the Heights would have a pretty decent blanket of LTE. That being said, it is NOT sprint or contractors. It is all Centurylink. They have not provided the backhaul Sprint needs for the LTE.

 

Go look at most of the Verizon LTE towers and most have microwave backhaul. I think they ran into the same thing and said F it and started putting up microwave. Also, ATT has a very limited LTE coverage in ABQ. I assume it is due to the same issues.

I have ATT LTE also. Not only is the ATT LTE spotty, but in some places it's pathetic. I could get 50Mbps in Algodones on ATT LTE, but at Uptown ABQ it would run around 1Mbps on ATT LTE. Ouch!

 

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for the towers around ABQ, many are already upgraded and waiting on backhaul. If they turned on LTE now, Downtown, Uptown, Nob Hill and most of the Heights would have a pretty decent blanket of LTE.  That being said, it is NOT sprint or contractors. It is all Centurylink.  They have not provided the backhaul Sprint needs for the LTE. 

 

Go look at most of the Verizon LTE towers and most have microwave backhaul.  I think they ran into the same thing and said F it and started putting up microwave.  Also, ATT has a very limited LTE coverage in ABQ. I assume it is due to the same issues.

See.. here's where I wonder why Sprint stuck with CL. At our offices we decided to put in fiber and while we looked at CL, we decided to go with TW Telecomm. Centurylink is definitely not the only fiber provider in ABQ... so why is Sprint putting up with them?!  :blink:

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See.. here's where I wonder why Sprint stuck with CL. At our offices we decided to put in fiber and while we looked at CL, we decided to go with TW Telecomm. Centurylink is definitely not the only fiber provider in ABQ... so why is Sprint putting up with them?!  :blink:

Good question...

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Ive seen guys from Mastec around ABQ, I heard they are a big company that supplies alot of different things involing telecommunications and power grid building, fiber and much more. Sprint should have went with those guys, maybe we would have been seeing LTE alot sooner. Lets just hope for an early Christmas present and see some LTE for the loyal customers in Albuquerque and santa fe before the new year.

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I need to find the person who's in charge of the contract and slap him! Anyone else want to join?

I'm down haha.  I'm sure CL got the contract due to the price the bid.  Also, there may be a maintenance aspect to the contract that came along with the bid for backhaul that a smaller company may not be able to fulfill.

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I just did a speed test up off of 90th and sunset gardens and got a weird results. https://db.tt/6yGpLD2d

I went by there tonight and didn't pick up 4g or 3g speeds that indicate fiber backhaul.  I guess either you had a glitch on the test or they were testing today and you got lucky to pick it up while they were.  Is there any way you can go by the towers to see if they are NV complete?

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