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[WiWavelength]

Minnesota State University Moorhead

 

Moorhead U. With a name like that, it practically sells itself to college age males.

 

 

AJ

[imex99]

Columbus, Ohio: Livingston cabinets

 

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[digiblur]

Please post these in the report in progress sites thread.

 

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[imex99]

Please post these in the report in progress sites thread.

 

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Dang Tapatalk... Thought I was in that thread, could a mod move them sorry

 

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[Barshalen]

16 out of the 26 tower in Dover DE area are currently being upgraded. The tower by my work is finished, at least hardware wise. 4G is not turned on yet though. Does someone else have to come actually set up all the hardware maybe, or does Sprint wait until a good amount of towers are complete and turn them all on together?

Also, when doing the network vision upgrades, are they definitely removing/replacing/repurposing the iDen/Nextel hardware? My work uses Nextel, so I'd like to give them a heads up lol.

 

[S4GRU]

Does anyone know what "Northern Wisconsin" covers exactly? Something like Wausau? That is the only tower that I would consider "Northern Wisconsin."

 

The North Wisconsin market includes Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Wausau, Wisconsin Rapids, Stevens Point, etc. Western Wisconsin is in the Minnesota market. Southern Wisconsin is in the Milwaukee market.

 

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[S4GRU]

There are new network updates can you add to the list to be up to dated?

 

I was on vacation. I'm back now. One of our writers runs the calculations and numbers and provides them for me a couple of days after I post the weekly updates. I posted that last night, so he will likely have the numbers in the next few days.

 

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[S4GRU]

16 out of the 26 tower in Dover DE area are currently being upgraded. The tower by my work is finished, at least hardware wise. 4G is not turned on yet though. Does someone else have to come actually set up all the hardware maybe, or does Sprint wait until a good amount of towers are complete and turn them all on together?

Also, when doing the network vision upgrades, are they definitely removing/replacing/repurposing the iDen/Nextel hardware? My work uses Nextel, so I'd like to give them a heads up lol.

 

All the sites converted to date in the Delaware market have been GMO sites. Full build site work is just now getting under way. So it will still be awhile until LTE starts going live. If I were to guess, I'd say this summer.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

[supersanborn]

 

All the sites converted to date in the Delaware market have been GMO sites. Full build site work is just now getting under way. So it will still be awhile until LTE starts going live. If I were to guess, I'd say this summer.

 

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Out of curiosity, do you know if all of Las Vegas' work is GMO's at the moment? I'm going to be out there in August and it doesn't look like much has happened yet.

 

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[S4GRU]

 

Out of curiosity, do you know if all of Las Vegas' work is GMO's at the moment? I'm going to be out there in August and it doesn't look like much has happened yet.

 

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GMO sites largely finished up in the Vegas market back in Mid February. Only like 2 left. All the work done since then has been full build site conversions. Work has been steady, with approximately a dozen sites per week.

 

But this is an AL market. So it will be 3G only for a few more months before LTE starts going live on the completed towers. Maybe a soon as next month, but could be as late as July.

 

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[supersanborn]

GMO sites largely finished up in the Vegas market back in Mid February. Only like 2 left. All the work done since then has been full build site conversions. Work has been steady, with approximately a dozen sites per week.

 

But this is an AL market. So it will be 3G only for a few more months before LTE starts going live on the completed towers. Maybe a soon as next month, but could be as late as July.

 

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Thanks Robert! I'm just hoping that there is LTE around the Rio - gotta have my fast data for the Star Trek Convention :-D

[Barshalen]

 

 

All the sites converted to date in the Delaware market have been GMO sites. Full build site work is just now getting under way. So it will still be awhile until LTE starts going live. If I were to guess, I'd say this summer.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

 

The site by my work that they just completed is not a GMO. They put new RRUs (Alcatel Lucent) at the top of the tower (city water tower), and did work in the ground cabinet/building that involved sawing/drilling for a couple days. I do not know what the other sites are though.

[S4GRU]

 

The site by my work that they just completed is not a GMO. They put new RRUs (Alcatel Lucent) at the top of the tower (city water tower), and did work in the ground cabinet/building that involved sawing/drilling for a couple days. I do not know what the other sites are though.

 

That's great that full build site activity is now under way in your area. If A/L does Delaware like most of their other markets, it will take a few months of full build activity until LTE starts going live on the completed full build sites.

 

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[Barshalen]

 

 

That's great that full build site activity is now under way in your area. If A/L does Delaware like most of their other markets, it will take a few months of full build activity until LTE starts going live on the completed full build sites.

 

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Yeah, they just started and finished it last week, so it's a pretty fresh update lol. Thanks for the info. I'm just a very curious person though, so could you maybe explain what else they have to do before they go live with the LTE? Is it just so they have more initial coverage, do they have to work on the backbone network, or something else?

[S4GRU]

 

Yeah, they just started and finished it last week, so it's a pretty fresh update lol. Thanks for the info. I'm just a very curious person though, so could you maybe explain what else they have to do before they go live with the LTE? Is it just so they have more initial coverage, do they have to work on the backbone network, or something else?

 

With Alcatel Lucent, it's kind of a mystery. What we do know is that at A/L full build sites, they install all the new hardware all at once, CDMA 1900/800 and LTE 1900. And there have been recent unverified reports that they have started installing LTE 800 equipment too.

 

And the first 3-6 months they work on full build sites in a market, they install all the equipment, but only get the 3G side inspected and accepted. Then, after a certain point, they start going back to the sites accepted and start bringing up the LTE side.

 

Why do they do it this way? I'm not certain. But I guess that it's to keep their LTE techs consistently busy in a market. Let your crews do the physical work and get far ahead, let the Sprint backhaul vendors get those sites hooked up and ready and then bring in a crew who can then just bounce around tower after tower unabated, now that a few dozen are complete and ready to go.

 

But honestly, the exact details of what A/L does is a mystery. We know much more about what Samsung and Ericsson do.

 

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[supersanborn]

 

With Alcatel Lucent, it's kind of a mystery. What we do know is that at A/L full build sites, they install all the new hardware all at once, CDMA 1900/800 and LTE 1900. And there have been recent unverified reports that they have started installing LTE 800 equipment too.

 

And the first 3-6 months they work on full build sites in a market, they install all the equipment, but only get the 3G side inspected and accepted. Then, after a certain point, they start going back to the sites accepted and start bringing up the LTE side.

 

Why do they do it this way? I'm not certain. But I guess that it's to keep their LTE techs consistently busy in a market. Let your crews do the physical work and get far ahead, let the Sprint backhaul vendors get those sites hooked up and ready and then bring in a crew who can then just bounce around tower after tower unabated, now that a few dozen are complete and ready to go.

 

But honestly, the exact details of what A/L does is a mystery. We know much more about what Samsung and Ericsson do.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

 

It's probably frustrating to go so long with only 3G progress but likely awesome when nearly the whole market lights up all at once.

 

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[Barshalen]

Makes sense I guess lol. I'll keep you updated as much as I can on their progress. Thanks for the help and info!

[MacinJosh]

 

Thanks Robert! I'm just hoping that there is LTE around the Rio - gotta have my fast data for the Star Trek Convention :-D

 

I've been watching the tower by the Rio, but it's been 3 or 4 months since the permit was pulled and still no county inspection. I'll ask my tower watchers to check it out and see if anything new is up on that tower.

 

 

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[MacinJosh]

 

It's probably frustrating to go so long with only 3G progress but likely awesome when nearly the whole market lights up all at once.

 

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It appears that Alcatel Lucent is just working away before back haul is ready in the Vegas area. I haven't seen any permits pulled for any construction related to back haul enhancements at all for any of the full build sites in the Vegas area yet.

 

 

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[supersanborn]

It appears that Alcatel Lucent is just working away before back haul is ready in the Vegas area. I haven't seen any permits pulled for any construction related to back haul enhancements at all for any of the full build sites in the Vegas area yet.

 

 

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Gotcha...fingers crossed for August readiness!

[S4GRU]

The NV Market Running List has been updated. Austin just flew way up there. It may be the next market to complete after Puerto Rico and Chicago.

 

Robert

[supersanborn]

The NV Market Running List has been updated. Austin just flew way up there. It may be the next market to complete after Puerto Rico and Chicago.

 

Robert

 

Jealous that second round Orlando is being eclipsed by Third Round markets. Good ol Orlando lagging the competition....

 

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[S4GRU]

 

Jealous that second round Orlando is being eclipsed by Third Round markets. Good ol Orlando lagging the competition....

 

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Yes. But Orlando is a very large market. The largest in Florida.

 

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[supersanborn]

 

Yes. But Orlando is a very large market. The largest in Florida.

 

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Guess this is one of those cases where bigger isn't better eh? Oh well, I suppose Dan Hesse didn't feel like deploying to towers in the order I wanted

 

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[d_rail34]

I noticed that the Louisiana Market jumped up to 30% (New Orleans). Still curious as to whether or not they're gonna gradually move west from there, or start from the Beaumont/Port Arthur side and work easterly...??