Shentel / Sprint LTE - (was ntelos - West & N&W Virginia)

[GBtopgear]

Well it looks like nTelos is selling its towers in the western market.

This looks like they may be setting themselves up for a buyout now since they're also dumping the eastern market. Sorry for the non hyper-linked URL it refused to redirect to the correct page...

 

*Edited for your reading pleasure

 

streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/NTELOS+Holding+(NTLS)+Enters+$41M+Towers+Sale+Agreement%3B+Offers+Prelim.+Q4+Sub+Metrics/10174649.html

Edited January 20, 2015 by GBtopgear

[Jones]

Well it looks like nTelos is selling its towers in the western market.

This looks like they may be setting themselves up for a buyout now since they're also dumping the eastern market. Sorry for the non hyper-linked 

 

Interesting way to raise capital for NV upgrades. I hope nTelos is proactively ordering backhaul so that when they eventually replace cabinets/panels/rrus they will be able to fire up LTE right away. I was in Chestnut Ridge park in Morgantown last weekend and while 1x on 1900 was ok it did fall off pretty quickly once we got into the woods. 1x 800 would've fixed that.

[Cubbiefan82]

Interesting way to raise capital for NV upgrades. I hope nTelos is proactively ordering backhaul so that when they eventually replace cabinets/panels/rrus they will be able to fire up LTE right away. I was in Chestnut Ridge park in Morgantown last weekend and while 1x on 1900 was ok it did fall off pretty quickly once we got into the woods. 1x 800 would've fixed that.

It is the new thing now, to sell your towers to a tower company and then the tower company leases them back to the company. I am not surprised at them doing this, and I am happy they are doing it. It means that they are taking some steps to funding network vision. I agree with the backhaul thing, I hope sprint taught them a few lessons about that. That was the biggest fail of network vision upgrades

[GBtopgear]

It is the new thing now, to sell your towers to a tower company and then the tower company leases them back to the company. I am not surprised at them doing this, and I am happy they are doing it. It means that they are taking some steps to funding network vision. I agree with the backhaul thing, I hope sprint taught them a few lessons about that. That was the biggest fail of network vision upgrades

Hopefully all the towers have increased backhaul once the 4G arrives (for sprint users) since the nTelos only 4G only gets between 5-10Mbps according to rootmetrics.

[bretton88]

Hopefully all the towers have increased backhaul once the 4G arrives (for sprint users) since the nTelos only 4G only gets between 5-10Mbps according to rootmetrics.

That sounds like normal LTE conditions under normal loading. Not sure how this is bad.

[bbostwick8]

Don't want to get anyone's hopes up or make any kind of indication, but I recently spoke with a Shentel executive about the whole nTelos buyout and if Shentel would possibly pick up the markets that were left. All he could say is that it would not be out of the question if the price was right. I asked if there was any discussion about it, he just smiled and said nothing.

Edited January 20, 2015 by bbostwick8

[davidtm]

All of us in nTelos land are all about keeping our hopes up! ;-)

 

Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 4.9.5 :-D

[lou99/maximus1987]

All of us in nTelos land are all about keeping our hopes up! ;-)

 

Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 4.9.5 :-D

If att offers lte tgere why not move to cricket?

[dkyeager]

Well it looks like nTelos is selling its towers in the western market.

This looks like they may be setting themselves up for a buyout now since they're also dumping the eastern market. Sorry for the non hyper-linked URL it refused to redirect to the correct page...

 

*Edited for your reading pleasure

 

streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/NTELOS+Holding+(NTLS)+Enters+$41M+Towers+Sale+Agreement%3B+Offers+Prelim.+Q4+Sub+Metrics/10174649.html

 

Based on the small number compared to their overall site count, I assume Ntelos was unable unload their sites that use wooden poles.  You could not typically add another carrier to a wooden pole site without building a metal tower first.

[Jones]

I like those wooden pole sites. Having service in the middle of nowhere makes me feel a little safer in case a bear, or a hillbilly were to attack.

[GBtopgear]

Based on the small number compared to their overall site count, I assume Ntelos was unable unload their sites that use wooden poles. You could not typically add another carrier to a wooden pole site without building a metal tower first.

Also have to count the sites that they are on but dont own. Really all of these actions including the eastern market sell definitely make it easier for someone like Sprint/Shentel to buy them out on the cheap.

Hope/speculation and sensorly are all we got out here in nTelos land [emoji3]

[Trip]

I'm working on redoing the nTelos tower map I put together in the Sponsor section to include data on tower owners and the like, where such information is available.  You would be surprised just how many of their sites are on wooden poles. 

 

I also think nTelos must have previously sold towers to Crown Castle because just about any tower in the nTelos region with a registration that says "CROWN CASTLE" in all caps like that has nTelos on it.

 

- Trip

[WiWavelength]

I like those wooden pole sites. Having service in the middle of nowhere makes me feel a little safer in case a bear, or a hillbilly were to attack.

 

If a hillbilly were to tell you to "squeal like a pig" or that you had a "pretty mouth," you would fare better with a bow and arrow than with a cellphone.

 

AJ

[Fraydog]

If a hillbilly were to tell you to "squeal like a pig" or that you had a "pretty mouth," you would fare better with a bow and arrow than with a cellphone.

In that case I would want more than just a bow and arrow. LOL

[WiWavelength]

In that case I would want more than just a bow and arrow. LOL

 

You miss the cultural reference.  A bow and arrow can provide "Deliverance" from hillbilly sodomy.

 

AJ

[Fraydog]

You miss the cultural reference. A bow and arrow can provide "Deliverance" from hillbilly sodomy.

 

AJ

Oh I got the reference, I just wouldn't want anything left to chance.

[dkyeager]

 

 

There are wooden pole sites in the Columbus Market with B41, so they can provide good service.

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/97q39j10nhwvmrz/IMG_9554%20cropped.jpg?dl=0

Edited January 21, 2015 by dkyeager

[Paynefanbro]

 

There are wooden pole sits in the Columbus Market with B41.

 

 

Wooden pole sits don't sound very comfortable at all.

[cdk]

Wooden pole sits don't sound very comfortable at all.

 

[bcltoys]

Biodegradable cell site's

[WiWavelength]

Oh I got the reference, I just wouldn't want anything left to chance.

 

If it is good enough for Burt Reynolds, then it is good enough for me...

 

 

AJ

[nandjreed]

I looked at my phone at 9:35 and it had LTE on it I tried to use it but didn't connect. It is not back to 3G in Roanoke Downtown

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[dethalis]

LTE is in roanoke, va far as I can tell..

 

See my signal checker.. This was off plantation road

Edited January 22, 2015 by dethalis

[nandjreed]

Did it come and go or is it still up?

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[dethalis]

Still up... Had to airplane mode on and off after entering and leaving a building... I am using a moto x btw