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mttmks Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 Even so, it's great to know that LTE is finally coming to our neck of the woods. Hopefully it doesn't take too long. I'd like to be able to actually use my phone outside the house to do more than make phone calls.According to a relative, she was told about the same date. Apparently, the reps that work in the area recieved emails regarding the rollout. I live right next to the tower in progress in Midland. WIll post whatever I find. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S4GRU Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 Even so, it's great to know that LTE is finally coming to our neck of the woods. Hopefully it doesn't take too long. I'd like to be able to actually use my phone outside the house to do more than make phone calls. According to a relative, she was told about the same date. Apparently, the reps that work in the area recieved emails regarding the rollout. I live right next to the tower in progress in Midland. WIll post whatever I find. I think the confusion with the reps is they are confusing work starting with LTE being ready. Since I have access to Sprint site databases, and not one LTE site has been completed to date anywhere in the West Texas market, I know it's going to be a while until full coverage or completion. It typically takes 6-12 months for full coverage to appear over a market. Since West Texas is not a huge market in number of sites, it may be like 6-8 months. They just started in West Texas in April. You will likely have a few sites live in the next 30-45 days in this market. Full coverage between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and market completion middle of next year. Robert via Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mttmks Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 Even so, it's great to know that LTE is finally coming to our neck of the woods. Hopefully it doesn't take too long. I'd like to be able to actually use my phone outside the house to do more than make phone calls. According to a relative, she was told about the same date. Apparently, the reps that work in the area recieved emails regarding the rollout. I live right next to the tower in progress in Midland. WIll post whatever I find. I think the confusion with the reps is they are confusing work starting with LTE being ready. Since I have access to Sprint site databases, and not one LTE site has been completed to date anywhere in the West Texas market, I know it's going to be a while until full coverage or completion. It typically takes 6-12 months for full coverage to appear over a market. Since West Texas is not a huge market in number of sites, it may be like 6-8 months. They just started in West Texas in April. You will likely have a few sites live in the next 30-45 days in this market. Full coverage between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and market completion middle of next year. Robert via Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta Well any progress is good for me. I'm not expecting a fast and painless process. We may not have a huge subscriber market, but we are huge geographically and have dozens of small towns that would look good on corporate PowerPoints. Mostly my impatience comes from being in one of the first markets for WiMax. I didn't have to wait over a year to get faster speeds. I got spoiled. Even if we only see increased CDMA speeds out of this for a few months until we see LTE, I would be much happier. On the plus side, I love learning everything I can from this site, and feel much more empowered knowing the spectrum side along with the technical and marketing sides of the smartphone market. Sprint is doing the right things, it may not be the easiest way of going about it, but it will pay off in the very near future. Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mttmks Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 Grabbed some pics of a crew working on tower DA04AL047. Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt2k12 Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 Grabbed some pics of a crew working on tower DA04AL047. Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk 2 Nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kckid Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 I'm glad to see San Angelo is 3g accepted on multiple towers. I'm crossing my fingers that there will be some lte by Thanksgiving when I visit there again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LncGmz Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Because it is on this map: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/517-nv-sites-complete/ Robert via Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta How can we view the map? It requires a password. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilotimz Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 How can we view the map? It requires a password. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/1195-information-about-s4gru-sponsorship-levels-and-how-to-become-a-sponsor/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J3ST3R Posted June 9, 2013 Share Posted June 9, 2013 Service has been down ( data works but unable to call or text ) here in Big Spring for about three days. Could they be working on towers? Haven't had a chance to drive by any of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mttmks Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Found these panels at tower DA04AL048. Also have seen crews working on said tower. Att is supposed to be upgrading towers here as well. Their online maps even show LTE in our area, but it's not live. Keeping my fingers crossed for it being Sprint. Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilotimz Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Found these panels at tower DA04AL048. Also have seen crews working on said tower. Att is supposed to be upgrading towers here as well. Their online maps even show LTE in our area, but it's not live. Keeping my fingers crossed for it being Sprint. Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk 2 Ever see an ATT site with 3 RRU's? Nope? Thought so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mttmks Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Ever see an ATT site with 3 RRU's? Nope? Thought so. Well I was more concerned with getting the pic and showing the experts here than what was in the image. I figured it might've been ATT since our maps don't show this tower in progress. I don't know how you saw that, but that's a great sign!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilotimz Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Well I was more concerned with getting the pic and showing the experts here than what was in the image. I figured it might've been ATT since our maps don't show this tower in progress. I don't know how you saw that, but that's a great sign!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mttmks Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Well I was more concerned with getting the pic and showing the experts here than what was in the image. I figured it might've been ATT since our maps don't show this tower in progress. I don't know how you saw that, but that's a great sign!! Now I see it!! I think I need to pay a visit to my eye doctor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S4GRU Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Now I see it!! I think I need to pay a visit to my eye doctor. Looks like a Sprint/Ericsson set up to me. Congrats on the find. Robert via Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mttmks Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Looks like a Sprint/Ericsson set up to me. Congrats on the find. Robert via Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta Yay! I contributed!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBritton Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 They are working on towers on highway 287 between Vernon and Amarillo and along interstate 40 including where I live here in Clarendon Sent from my SPH-L300 using Tapatalk 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBritton Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Update from here in Clarendon, Texas: They are installing fiber lines all up and down highway 287 and at the tower site here in town they laid fiber line several months ago. It's looking good guys Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LncGmz Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 I'm here in San Angelo and its 2:57 a.m. and 4G is on and its working strong. Fastest DL speed I saw shot up to 28 Megs... I'm sure they still have a long way to go, but this is a good sign for all of west Texas 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBritton Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 I'm here in San Angelo and its 2:57 a.m. and 4G is on and its working strong. Fastest DL speed I saw shot up to 28 Megs... I'm sure they still have a long way to go, but this is a good sign for all of west Texas Thanks for the update! Wow! Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kckid Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 So excited that San Angelo has its first LTE cell site. Now when I go see mom, my phone network won't be so painful. I've been keeping my eye on the map waiting for it to happen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBritton Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 Users in Lubbock are reporting spotty Sprint LTE service!! Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinpetersUBC Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Abilene has one tower that I have found that just turned LTE on in the downtown area. I got up to 15mbs download and 3mbs upload. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBritton Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 (edited) Sorry to post so much but great news.... Amarillo has LTE!! Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2 Edited July 5, 2013 by TheBritton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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