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JDP121 Member Level: 3G EVDO

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Just rode by the nTelos at Pantops in Charlottesville. Closed with no lights on but a Sprint sign in the window. I guess it will be reopening and what I saw before was ripping all the old nTelos kiosks out.

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If its the one in.the same.shopping center as Christians Pizza I noticed that yesterday as well. With that store it was closed and a Sprint sign up. I know the one uo at the Kholes Dtore Shopping Center I know that has a Sprint sign up as well. Havent checked to see if the one at Shoppers world has a sign up yet or not.

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You guys are in for a treat. Shentel is almost universally agreed to have the some of the best sprint markets anywhere.   Soon™   Sent from my Nexus 5

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Warning: Long, but worth the read.  I just wanted to give a good customer service experience with Shentel. On one sector of the tower closest to my house (Woodstock, VA), B26 had zero data throug

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Flompholph Member Level: 4G WiMax

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The website is so confusing to me. For example, why are there 5 different "United States" and why are there so many name less carriers?

They break the PLMN down to MCC-MNC. Sprint normally uses MCC 310 and nTelos MCC is normally 312. The nameless carriers are normally either a mistake in the app or a testing MNC that is unknown for the carriers. If you click through to them you will see they are normally only in a small area.

 

If they combined the B41 and B25 data I would probably use it. I understand not wanting to combine B25 and B26 when the PCI matches and they are close. I have 15443 unique sectors in my SCP logs so I would probably be high on their contributor list.

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JDP121 Member Level: 3G EVDO

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I see Sprint has updated the coverage map for the Ch'ville/Albemarle/Greene areas for LTE. 

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JDP121 Member Level: 3G EVDO

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Was on B41 at work, and checked for grins. (This is the tower on Jefferson St. downtown C'ville) e6613a5668b6b661d7f056e2ca1b4188.jpg

 

I'm grinning! [emoji2]

 

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Ya I've picked up B41 in a few different spots in Ch'ville the past two weeks. I got similar results as what you got. 

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I got this on Friday in a line of sight of the B41 tower that broadcasts over downtown. I almost hit 50mbps but couldn't do it 67cc59e1034bd963e32ecb4bffc30639.jpg

 

 

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Anyone had HD voice work yet ?

 

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Mine works very randomly and only with one person on a nTelos phone. It sounds great but can't figure out how to make it work all the time!

 

 

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Flompholph Member Level: 4G WiMax

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Does anyone know if shentel gets a list of amont of roaming and where that roaming took place? I am camping and it seems like only us cellular has data. Weak sprint 3G from 15 miles away and verizon is only 1x. I am fine with it the roaming data I was just curious.

 

I also took a trip to kingwood WV so hopefully I was able to collect some data. It was mostly roaming us cellular and 3g on WV26 going down. I did take a speedtest on nTelos lte with rootmetric at autozone.

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Does anyone know if shentel gets a list of amont of roaming and where that roaming took place? I am camping and it seems like only us cellular has data. Weak sprint 3G from 15 miles away and verizon is only 1x. I am fine with it the roaming data I was just curious.

 

I also took a trip to kingwood WV so hopefully I was able to collect some data. It was mostly roaming us cellular and 3g on WV26 going down. I did take a speedtest on nTelos lte with rootmetric at autozone.

I don't know for sure, but I doubt Shentel gets info on roaming for individual users. Sprint takes care of all the billing, per their agreement. They (Shentel) may get aggregated user data from Sprint to help plug "holes" in their network where a lot of roaming data is used.

 

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I don't know for sure, but I doubt Shentel gets info on roaming for individual users. Sprint takes care of all the billing, per their agreement. They (Shentel) may get aggregated user data from Sprint to help plug "holes" in their network where a lot of roaming data is used.

 

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This would be data on 1000s of people. At times data slows to a stop and US Cellular has 2 B5 5x5 and a B12 5x5 on the tower.

 

It is not so much a hole in one market but where 3 markets meet.(Pitt,W PA,and nTelos) It has always been bad here even verizon users have their pockets of coverage they have to drive to.

 

The tower that us cellular built is probably already paid for itself this year with roaming profits. What would it take 40TB at $5/GB to pay for the tower?

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Has anyone else seen LTE 800 around southern WV? I've noticed it a few times when randomly checking my Signal Check. I thought I had captured a screen shot but apparently not. ( I just got a new LG G5 and I am getting used to it still). 

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Read the post directly above it.

 

Looks like an unknown or unmatched GCI. Where was it beckley or farther south? Always nice to see new GCIs being found.

This was in downtown Beckley.

 

 

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Read the post directly above it.

 

Looks like an unknown or unmatched GCI. Where was it beckley or farther south? Always nice to see new GCIs being found.

Oh sorry, I missed that.  My bad.

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I know that this is not in our "Shentel" market but does anyone have any clue on when Zions Crossroads will be getting some sort of LTE. I asked a few months ago and Trip is usually good with this stuff so I figured I would ask.

 

3G at this point is not usable. Reminds me of Myrtle Beach the whole summer season. Can barely send an iMessage [emoji23]

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Every time I go by there, I always hope for LTE.  So far, disappointment every time.  (Sad, since the Troy ShenTelos tower down 15 has LTE now.)  But it really is unusable; the signal does almost nothing there, too.  I'm guessing that's what the pre-NV gear was like nation wide.

 

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Can anyone identify this tower and let me know if it is a Sprint tower? This is beside my work here in Charlottesville and I'm assuming the address would be Avon Street Extended. I have always had weak LTE signal here but full EVDO and two weeks ago they placed the big white panel on top and now I have full Band 26.

 

 

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Can anyone identify this tower and let me know if it is a Sprint tower? This is beside my work here in Charlottesville and I'm assuming the address would be Avon Street Extended. I have always had weak LTE signal here but full EVDO and two weeks ago they placed the big white panel on top and now I have full Band 26.

 

 

I know it's not the best picture but the best I can get at the moment

 

Thanks! 

 

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http://www.albemarle.org/weblink/3/doc/317036/Page1.aspx?searchid=d64b72a3-c907-4625-b34f-e4a47e816b03

 

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It's been kinda quiet in here lately but just saw something odd today. All of my family's nTelos phone have had no LTE since Friday. No clue why but it will not connect to LTE while my Sprint phone is working just fine. It's vice versa from what it was like back last year! [emoji23]

 

 

 

 

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