Network Vision/LTE - Orange County Market (Anaheim/Santa Ana/Irvine/Huntington Beach)

[jasonsteele]

I can confirm Clear B41 is back up at my home site in Fullerton. The speed test was taken connected to my Zing hotspot.

 

 

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[trojanman05]

I can confirm Clear B41 is back up at my home site in Fullerton. The speed test was taken connected to my Zing hotspot.

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Ya, appears Clear B41 is working again. Picked it up at union station downtown around 430, and currently picking it up during my commute on the train thru OC. Currently on it right now just past the Fullerton station.

[jasonsteele]

Ya, appears Clear B41 is working again. Picked it up at union station downtown around 430, and currently picking it up during my commute on the train thru OC. Currently on it right now just past the Fullerton station.

Just goes to show how much B41 means to the overall quality of Sprint's network, and how much the additional Clear towers complement what's existing. I spent 30 minutes today with a representative explaining what was happening the best I could before she could confirm there was a problem, in the end she was very helpful.

 

 

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[trojanman05]

Just goes to show how much B41 means to the overall quality of Sprint's network, and how much the additional Clear towers complement what's existing. I spent 30 minutes today with a representative explaining what was happening the best I could before she could confirm there was a problem, in the end she was very helpful.

 

 

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Agree 100% with how helpful B41 is and the additional Clear towers. I've been doing this commute on the train to downtown for a couple years now, and once they turned on the Clear towers, it really helped. The spacing of Sprint towers isn't too great along the tracks, but once the Clear towers were turned on (with many along the tracks), it was like night and day. Now, it's very rare for me to drop to 3G the entire ride...and the entire ride consists of B25 and both 8T8R B41 and Clear B41.

 

I will say that 8T8R is becoming very prevalent along the route the past couple of months, so that's exciting. It also shows how great B41 unloads B25, because when I'm on B25, it's still very usable. When the Clear towers were down the past few days, B25 was so slow it was to the point where it was pretty much unusable...especially downtown LA. With the OC Clear towers fixed, hopefully that means the downtown LA ones were, because they definitely weren't when I left my office at 4 this afternoon.

[HTCandroid]

I think Robert said Southern CA, not Southern OC. As far as I know, Tustin and Irvine are ok.

 

 

Yes, I said Southern CA.

 

 

You're both right, my mistake. Read it too quickly.

[itsrobert]

Mrs Knotts Fried Chicken Restaurant Buena Park, CA

 

[jasonsteele]

Mrs Knotts Fried Chicken Restaurant Buena Park, CA

Not too shabby considering there are probably at least a thousand people there

 

 

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[S4GRU]

Did someone mention fried chicken??? *drool*

 

 

And when are we going to get fried chicken Doritos???

[gsd10]

@ Space Mountain

[Mikeclar]

Disneyland is a tough one for sure!

[nexuss4g]

Disneyland is a tough one for sure!

 

 

I agree, I'm always on 3G. 

[ggee6688]

Anybody know why there isnt any 800mhz in the LA/OC areas. All of the towers say not scheduled. Is there also a law limiting tower height in OC?

[lilotimz]

Anybody know why there isnt any 800mhz in the LA/OC areas. All of the towers say not scheduled. Is there also a law limiting tower height in OC?

 

 

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/6155-sprint-800-mhz-rebanding-project-nearing-completion/?p=338977

 

TLDR: San Bernardino County Public Safety Rebanding

[nomoresoupforyou]

According to the 800 TA site, there was an implementation planning session for Southern California held on April 21st. I was hoping they would post something after the conclusion of the meeting to give us some additional clues, but I can't find anything.

[ggee6688]

There is ethernet to all the towers I looked at. Whether its an actual GE1 or multiple muxed T1s, I couldnt tell ya. I would also assume they would just have to provision the BTS.

[JosefTor]

Possible Sprint activity at the mobile station at the corner of Aliso Creek Road and Aliso Viejo Parkway. There are scaffolding on the antennas.

 

This is strange though as the B41 antennas got installed months ago but weren't turned on. Hopefully this time they finish the job.

[nomoresoupforyou]

I'm in Ohio for the next couple weeks and the network here is an absolute DREAM. Every phone call is perfect and I only lose band 26 when I'm deep inside large buildings. Can't wait until OC catches up.

[bigmachine]

Chunkyrice broke this news in the LA Metro thread:

 

Looks like San Bernardino Rebanding is delayed slightly.

 

https://www.fcc.gov/document/county-san-bernardino-california-and-nextel-communications-inc

[JosefTor]

Chunkyrice broke this news in the LA Metro thread:

 

Looks like San Bernardino Rebanding is delayed slightly.

 

https://www.fcc.gov/document/county-san-bernardino-california-and-nextel-communications-inc

I still don't know if the delay is simply to have an executed cost agreement or if this is also the day that rebanding will be completed.

[nomoresoupforyou]

I still don't know if the delay is simply to have an executed cost agreement or if this is also the day that rebanding will be completed.

 

From the FCC document:

 

"have resolved all disputed issues and are in pre-contract agreement"

 

I'm interpreting this to mean that at the time of writing (May), they hadn't started purchasing/retuning any equipment yet. I'm doubtful that 3 months is enough time to purchase, deploy, and tune all the equipment.

[nomoresoupforyou]

Anyone else having problems with LTE for the past week? Seems like I can't connect unless I'm practically line of sight to the towers. Strangely enough, I'm connected to EVDO right now, not eHRPD.

[ITK79]

I have noticed this over the last few days. I thought it might be my phone.

[itsrobert]

Yes.

[JosefTor]

Yes.

I'm writing sprint support but where I used to have LTE my whole trip, now I drop on 7 places! At times my signal will actually go away. The other times I just stay on 3g. I really hope they aren't deactivating clear towers.

[HTCandroid]

My nexus 6 has been screwy with texting. They are delayed and often out of order. It seems like it I'm getting texts in batches. Sometimes I have to wait 10 minutes and then I get flooded with messages from multiple people all at once.