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B41 third carrier is live in Lansing     Sent from my XT1575 using Tapatalk

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Looks like we've got 10mhz b25 LTE in West Michigan.   Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

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Band 41 went live yesterday around 50th and US131, south of Grand Rapids.   Unless I'm forgetting someone elses post, this might be the first time Band 41 has been spotted inside the Grand Rapids me

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I went to Lansing this afternoon and was able to get 4G on 69 south of Charlotte most of the way into Lansing. I put it up on Sensorly.

 

Good work, thanks for getting that on the map

 

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I went to Lansing this afternoon and was able to get 4G on 69 south of Charlotte most of the way into Lansing. I put it up on Sensorly.

 

Just out of curiosity...Did your travels have you on 94 before you headed up to Lansing? I'm wondering how LTE signal is at the 69/94 interchange.

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I had an LTE connection today while leaving work downtown Lansing and maintained it westward on I-496 nearly until the Waverly Rd exit. Got a bit better than 7.5 mbps down. Good thing to look forward to, can't wait til I can get that at home.

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I had an LTE connection today while leaving work downtown Lansing and maintained it westward on I-496 nearly until the Waverly Rd exit. Got a bit better than 7.5 mbps down. Good thing to look forward to, can't wait til I can get that at home.

Yea thats from the tower on MLK and Holmes. I was downtown last week also and got the signal. It is nice to finally have it in the area. I just got it at my house in Potterville this weekend and my download speed is great than 20Mbps. Probably because I'm one of the only ones connected to it.

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Hey Guys-

 

Picked up some LTE on Rivertown parkway starting around 196 in Grandville. Went east and switched back to 3G before Ivanrest. after Ivanrest LTE came backup in Wyoming a bit on 44th st. before I got to Byron Center dr. And of course having an iPhone I couldn't Sensorly it

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Hey Guys-

 

Picked up some LTE on Rivertown parkway starting around 196 in Grandville. Went east and switched back to 3G before Ivanrest. after Ivanrest LTE came backup in Wyoming a bit on 44th st. before I got to Byron Center dr. And of course having an iPhone I couldn't Sensorly it

 

I was by Rivertown last night and had some really fast 3g speeds but didn't notice LTE. I didn't pay attention while driving around that area. I may be heading back there tonight and will try to run Sensorly, it looks like others have mapped a little bit new in that area in the last day or two.

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I took a drive up 131 last night and couldn't connect to LTE at W Main. I got off, went west a bit, then turned around and went back south.

 

The only active LTE tower that I am aware of in the Kalamazoo area is at D Ave and US-131 (just south of the MI DEQ buidling on the southwest side of the intersection). It is pretty amazing the reach of that tower, but it is on top of a nice hill. If you look carefully as you cross the H Ave bridge over US-131 you can see the tower 4 miles away. Clear line of sight always helps!

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Always get excited when I see a tech hanging from a tower, then I get disappointed when I figure out it is at&t... Saw Tech's hanging new panels on the lattice tower on Oakland between Cedar and Larch where you go under the railroad tracks. Double checked and it is not a Sprint tower. Looks like the other at&t panels I've seen in the area, they are very aggressively getting new hardware in their towers.

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We had some problems in Potterville over the weekend with our 4G. It was showing we had 4G but on Saturday you couldn't actually use data at all while being connected to 4G. You could see that no incoming data was coming in. Was really strange but started working again mid yesterday. No compliants, just found it a little odd that it would just stop working like that. Seems super fast though!

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We had some problems in Potterville over the weekend with our 4G. It was showing we had 4G but on Saturday you couldn't actually use data at all while being connected to 4G. You could see that no incoming data was coming in. Was really strange but started working again mid yesterday. No compliants, just found it a little odd that it would just stop working like that. Seems super fast though!

 

 

Might have been a backhaul issue or maybe they were hooking up the 3G upgrades, I think that site was accepted as LTE only.

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Crew working on the site in Charlotte at Island Hwy and I-69 as I drove by today. At 75mph, I was unable to see which operator was getting upgrades but Sprint is one of the four occupants of that site. Lansing area members might want to keep an eye on that.

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