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


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I was looking at a site where AT&T also has equipment. It took the state of Hawaii seven months to issue a permit. I don't expect work on towers to begin until early next year.. based on what we see now.

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Approximately 1/3rd of the ~150 sprint cell sites have had building permits applied or begun zoning stuff (step before building permit application) but due to the nature of the HI government, things are going pretty slow. It takes approximately 3-6 months (or more) to get a building permit issued and a vast majority of sites were applied in the febuary / march / april time frame.

So anytime now IAW 3-6 months As early as May - August or as late as August thru Nov for the permits to be issued?

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Is there any new permits issued?  The permits should be rolling out. But Hawaiian time is not cutting it any more.  Haven't had 4G since the Galaxy S3 can out. (Just over a Year.)  Since the S3 has no WIMAX on the phone.  Never did get WIMAX near my house.  Sprint 3G doesn't cover my house I have to have a Airrave at the house. 

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Is there any new permits issued? The permits should be rolling out. But Hawaiian time is not cutting it any more. Haven't had 4G since the Galaxy S3 can out. (Just over a Year.) Since the S3 has no WIMAX on the phone. Never did get WIMAX near my house. Sprint 3G doesn't cover my house I have to have a Airrave at the house.

 

Hawaii is supposed to be one of the last markets. It has been scheduled to start this summer. It appears that permits will start to be issued in the next month or so. Work will get started when that happens. However, the first LTE signals probably will not be live until Fall.

 

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Any one got ideas of when 3G will be upgraded?

 

Each site will probably get 3G accepted between 2 to 6 months after the permit is issued for that site. As of yet no permits have been issued for Honolulu.

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Each site will probably get 3G accepted between 2 to 6 months after the permit is issued for that site. As of yet no permits have been issued for Honolulu.

What about for the county of maui

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Markjcc,

I give you credit if your still on Sprint in without nv.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sent from my Coconut Wireless HTC One

its on prepaid VM, i got verizon but i would like to change for that sweet unlimited data but right now its not that promising as unlimited is '100kb'

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Here's something for ya poor fellows over there at those little islands.

 

 

 

 

Thanks for the post. I show 6 towers going Network Vision in 90 days in Hilo, HI. In Honolulu show we have started to rollout. There is 2 towers that I can see getting the update in 90 days as well. I apologize for the inconvenience over this, but we are really working on getting your islands up and running with Network Vision.

 

Victor

Sprint Social Care.

 

 

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Man. I really hope the build out starts soon. I am barely getting 100kbps at times with an average ping of 350 ms.

Well atleast people of maui are lucky they get around ~700Kbps - 200Kbps

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