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

[Galaxyguy]

How far are you from the closest Sprint Tower?

 

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[S4GRU]

Well, this was interesting today:

 

 

This is in the middle of nTelos-land, where I've seen only fleeting glimpses of "Sprint" on SCPro during a tower change. This was around maybe over a minute (long enough for me to catch a somewhat leisurely screenshot) after I noticed it at my desk. I was on CDMA Only at the time. When I switched over to CDMA/LTE (hoping for something even more dramatic!), it reverted to usual nTelos 1xRTT.

 

I'm dying of curiosity here!

 

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Where at??

 

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[davidtm]

Charlottesville, Preston Ave.

 

I'm sure this is some kind of glitch that I just happened to have caught with SCPro, and not some real network change that's happened.

 

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[davidtm]

How far are you from the closest Sprint Tower?

 

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Oh, at least 10 - 15 miles. I've never caught a stray Sprint signal ever before.

 

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[Trip]

I'm going to have to try to check on my phone later, but that SID matches the Sprint Culpeper area SID.  I feel like that BSID looks familiar too.

 

- Trip

[Dkoellerwx]

Oh, at least 10 - 15 miles. I've never caught a stray Sprint signal ever before.

 

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10-15 miles is close enough to pick up a weak 1x800 signal.

[Trip]

Looks familiar, but I don't have it in my log.

 

- Trip

[chamb]

Looks familiar, but I don't have it in my log.

 

- Trip

SID 22447 was used in the Richmond, Va area in the past.  I am not sure it still is.   It could be a "testing" SID too.  A -101 level on the 800 band tells me that the site is fairly far away.

[davidtm]

Is it possible that signal could have been picked up in the absence of the stronger usual signal? That is, the tower close by was offline or something due to work (upgrade??)

 

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[Trip]

I know 22447 is still used in Culpeper for 1X 800, as I see it when I pass through that area.

 

- Trip

[chamb]

Is it possible that signal could have been picked up in the absence of the stronger usual signal? That is, the tower close by was offline or something due to work (upgrade??)

 

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Yes, if a local site is off-line for any reason, your phone will find and use any weaker signal that may be around.

[davidtm]

Well, it looks like this tower:

Sprint Market: Southern Virginia

Site ID: RI72XC006

NV Complete: 3G/800

OEM: ALU

RF Switch: RIC-RICHMOND-MSC_1

Loc: 37.9958,-78.2818

Newadds:

Toycell:

 

is only about 13 or 14 mi east of my work. It's the closest Sprint tower to me.

 

Maybe this is what I received? I'm not able to decipher the ID data and correlate it with SCPro info.

 

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[EvanA]

Well, it looks like this tower:

Sprint Market: Southern Virginia

Site ID: RI72XC006

NV Complete: 3G/800

OEM: ALU

RF Switch: RIC-RICHMOND-MSC_1

Loc: 37.9958,-78.2818

Newadds:

Toycell:

 

is only about 13 or 14 mi east of my work. It's the closest Sprint tower to me.

 

Maybe this is what I received? I'm not able to decipher the ID data and correlate it with SCPro info.

 

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Unless the market has tracked BID for 1x there is no way to determine what site it was.

[dkyeager]

Unless the market has tracked BID for 1x there is no way to determine what site it was.

 

Agree.  It might be in the SCP CDMA log if you have logging turned on, but it looks like you did not have the signal for long enough /strong enough to get the base station longitude latitude, which is now offset in Sprint markets.

 

Under the right conditions I have seen these signal travel 30 miles on a regular basis.

 

This thread discussion is getting very close to needing to move to a sponsor thread to track such things as NID-SID-BID and for 1x1900 and 1x800 along with GCI for various types of GCI.  Then you will know where your signal is coming from and can track the roll-out progress.

[Trip]

The bigger issue is that nTelos itself, at this point, hasn't shown any direct evidence of lighting up anything for Sprint customers other than the existing 1X or EVDO roaming they've had for years.  Tracking roll-out progress on something that isn't rolling out yet seems a bit premature.

 

But my own SCP log is probably a good starting point for anyone who might want to do some tracking.  I'll be glad to send the spreadsheet from it to anyone who wants it.

 

- Trip

[dkyeager]

My sense is it will be soon since nTelos wants the increased Sprint revenue.

[davidtm]

Yeah, *soon*! :-)

 

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[nandjreed]

Hey guys I got a alert from stock prices jumping 19 percent today on nTelos being sold to Shentel... Just FYI

[davidtm]

Whoa! That's cool

 

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[cdk]

Hey guys I got a alert from stock prices jumping 19 percent today on nTelos being sold to Shentel... Just FYI

 

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/05/13/2129355/us-telco-raw-alert-ntelos-targeted-by-shentel/

 

http://seekingalpha.com/news/2519926-ntelos-up-19_7-percent-on-chatter-shentel-could-pay-nearminus-50-percent-premium-in-buyout

[shawneyboy123]

At a 50% premium. They must really feel bad for people like us!

 

 

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[chamb]

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/05/13/2129355/us-telco-raw-alert-ntelos-targeted-by-shentel/

 

http://seekingalpha.com/news/2519926-ntelos-up-19_7-percent-on-chatter-shentel-could-pay-nearminus-50-percent-premium-in-buyout

I would not rule this out, but it is still just a rumor.  I hope Shentel would not pay too much for nTelos.  nTelos appears to be in poor shape. Would take a bunch of work to fix the issues.

[cdk]

I would not rule this out, but it is still just a rumor.  I hope Shentel would not pay too much for nTelos.  nTelos appears to be in poor shape. Would take a bunch of work to fix the issues.

 

Certainly still a rumor. I don't think the price floating around is to far off though. Shentel (or Sprint) buying nTelos is the best way to fix their problems.

[S4GRU]

Sometimes you have to pay a premium over the stock price when the company has more in assets than its current stock value. If you don't, then either the company being bought out will not approve, and you also risk another company swooping in and outbidding you.

 

Since I don't think Shentel is stupid, any Premium paid would be justified.

 

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[shawneyboy123]

Even if the buyout goes through, don't these things usually take a while? If that's the case then the LTE rollout seems like it won't come any sooner but it will be better once it is here.

 

 

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