Network Vision/LTE - Hawaii Market (including Honolulu, Oahu and all Hawaiian Islands)

[bbspot]

The first 2.5 permit just got approved.  Hopefully ALU has equipment available.

I put the location in my map in the  sponsors section.

[808Bill]

The first 2.5 permit just got approved. Hopefully ALU has equipment available.

I put the location in my map in the sponsors section.

Great. It's nice to see the network improvements finally fall into place.

 

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[bbspot]

Great. It's nice to see the network improvements finally fall into place.

 

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How is service on Oahu now?

 

Any reports of 800 CDMA or LTE?

[808Bill]

How is service on Oahu now?

 

Any reports of 800 CDMA or LTE?

Plenty of LTE coverage. It's pretty well mapped on Sensorly. I haven't seen any reports of 800 CDMA.

 

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[sprintrundontwalk]

Plenty of LTE coverage. It's pretty well mapped on Sensorly. I haven't seen any reports of 800 CDMA.

 

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I have 1.26 Mbps Down and 3.33 Mbps Up.  That's a *lot* better than previous days of 0.76 Mbps Down and 1.03 Mbps up.  This is near Kapiolani and Cooke st.  I would say the coverage still bad...

 

[Paynefanbro]

I have 1.26 Mbps Down and 3.33 Mbps Up.  That's a *lot* better than previous days of 0.76 Mbps Down and 1.03 Mbps up.  This is near Kapiolani and Cooke st.  I would say the coverage still bad...

 

 

Coverage or speeds? Those are two different things.

[bbspot]

I have 1.26 Mbps Down and 3.33 Mbps Up.  That's a *lot* better than previous days of 0.76 Mbps Down and 1.03 Mbps up.  This is near Kapiolani and Cooke st.  I would say the coverage still bad...

 

 

I really don't know how you guys survived such bad service.  I would've changed providers a long time ago.

 

Fortunately those days are gone.

 

It seems that UH campus is covered with LTE.

[GrappleFu]

 

It seems that UH campus is covered with LTE.

 

Coverage on campus outdoors is alright. Take 5 steps indoors and there no LTE signal. I think I've seen the Hamilton Library tower got LTE accepted this week so hopefully it'll be better.

[Nacron]

Haven't checked network.sprint.com in a long time, a ton more sites lit up, punahou, two by hilton hawaiian village, almost all downtown, like like hwy, ewa villages, maili.  The only place I drop to 3g on my commute is red hill by kaiser permanente.

[Dkoellerwx]

I have 1.26 Mbps Down and 3.33 Mbps Up.  That's a *lot* better than previous days of 0.76 Mbps Down and 1.03 Mbps up.  This is near Kapiolani and Cooke st.  I would say the coverage still bad...

There are still a lot of sites that don't have LTE yet, so there is still room for improvement. Once 8T8Rs arrive, you should see a lot of improvement so long as you have a tri-band device.

[bbspot]

There are still a lot of sites that don't have LTE yet, so there is still room for improvement. Once 8T8Rs arrive, you should see a lot of improvement so long as you have a tri-band device.

 

They really should be launching 800mhz.  Wonder what the hold up is.

[Dkoellerwx]

They really should be launching 800mhz.  Wonder what the hold up is.

I don't know on that. There may be another holder that hasn't cleared out of the spectrum yet, like the problems we've seen in the south Florida, southern California/Las Vegas areas.

[808Bill]

Looks like Hilo just got new LTE towers. Nothing on Sensorly yet.

 

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[808Bill]

And it looks like the Garden Isle has some LTE love in Lihue. Nothing on Sensorly yet.

 

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[skinnyguy]

Ugh.  Maui is stagnant.

[Nacron]

Anyone notice the voice quality is degrading? Used to have very clear call quality at work now it's very choppy

 

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[sprintrundontwalk]

 

Anyone notice the voice quality is degrading? Used to have very clear call quality at work now it's very choppy

 

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I second that. Voice is choppy, hard to hear. Not sure what they are doing to the voice side of the network...

[GrappleFu]

Over the past few days while at home (no LTE), I have noticed that I will bounce between eHRPD and EVDO every few minutes. Not sure if its related but during this period I will not get incoming calls and text are super delayed. Only remedy is to put it into CDMA mode and everything works fine again

[bbspot]

hopefully they are rolling out 800 voice????

[GrappleFu]

hopefully they are rolling out 800 voice????

 

Last night LTE Discovery showed I was connected to 1x800. But it also showed I was connected to LTE which I wasn't. My GPS wasn't on but this was at 21.397137, -157.967902

 

 

[lilotimz]

Looks like you guys are getting the first signs of 1x800 being deployed. 1x800 voice quality was terrible at the beginning when they first started activating it but it has since been smoothed out as the deployment accelerated and then wrapped up.

[Nacron]

Looks like you guys are getting the first signs of 1x800 being deployed. 1x800 voice quality was terrible at the beginning when they first started activating it but it has since been smoothed out as the deployment accelerated and then wrapped up.

What does this mean for those without spark antenna?

 

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[lilotimz]

What does this mean for those without spark antenna?

 

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1x800 can be used by basically almost every phone released in the past 3 years. Nothing to do with "Spark" which denotes the Band 41 TDD-LTE deployment. 

[bbspot]

Another two 8T8 building permits got issued.  Marked it on my map.  Both sites already have LTE, so hopefully it will come online quickly.

[bbspot]

Maui cluster launched. Maybe we will see LTE in a few weeks.