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

[dethalis]

Also this is an ntelos phone not sprint... I would imagine sprint is soon to follow..

[dethalis]

lost LTE near Bonsack

[nandjreed]

Yea it came back up for me on ntelos network but no data. It has went back to 3G

 

 

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[GBtopgear]

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

 

See my signal checker.. This was off plantation road

Probably still in testing as to why there is no data. So this should be band 25 right? Can you post a screen shot from the engineering screen please! This is very exciting hopefully they open it up to Sprint very soon but progress is good oh if you dont know how to get to the engineering screen here you go

 

To get to the lte engineering screen open up your dialer and do

 

##DEBUG# (33284)

Hopefully your not prompted for a password I dont know the nTelos code (sprint being 777468)

Edited January 22, 2015 by GBtopgear

[nandjreed]

 

 

I asked ntelos if this was staying they said that engineers are testing there is no exspected release date for LTE

 

 

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[nandjreed]

 

At 520 I got this in the cave spring area at 524 it switched back to 3G and can't get lte back but not bad so much better than .5 on a good day

 

 

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[GBtopgear]

 

At 520 I got this in the cave spring area at 524 it switched back to 3G and can't get lte back but not bad so much better than .5 on a good day

 

 

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Come on Ntelos! were rooting for ya! The sooner they open it up to Sprint customers the better but i guess from the looks of things its still in very early testing oh well better than speculation!

[dethalis]

I live in Clearbrook and I only get 3G at my house I've never seen it switch to 4G LTE over there

[nandjreed]

I been switching in and out of LTE I believe that is because of how weak the signal is. But I am on ntelos not sprint.

 

Here is a link to charleston wv

 

http://www.wvgazette.com/article/20150122/GZ01/150129705/1101

 

 

 

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[Boost Happy]

Those speeds are really disappointing compared to AT&T and Verizon

[GBtopgear]

Those speeds are really disappointing compared to AT&T and Verizon

Well at the same time nTelos is about 1% of the size of AT&T and Verizon as well as Sprint And Tmobile and really is there any difference on a phone if its getting 10-15Mbps or if its getting 30-40Mbps? what matters is consistency but this is where as i'm sure most of you know nTelos and Even sprint struggle. One moment its between 0.2-0.5 the next its 1.3-1.7 Am I satisfied with the Amount of money im paying?for the most part yeah, it is unlimited but here is the main reason why as im sure many of us here in nTelos land stick with them. Verizon, AT&T, and U.S Cellular with their share your wallet plans™ are way over my budget, with TMO you either have blazing fast speeds or unusable edge (witch is changing pretty fast ifImay add) which leaves Sprint/nTelos. Sure its only 3G but MOST of the time it does what it asked to do. Will you be streaming at 720P, no but at least its unlimited and a mostly fair price. Sorry for my off-topicness. 

[Boost Happy]

When your trying to show a buddy a crappy highly compressed video on Facebook but has to wait to buffer every few seconds and he pulls anything up instantly, then no it's not tolerable enough to care about unlimited data.

 

Sprint in Richmond was nice, but that will never happen here in nTelos land

[lou99/maximus1987]

When your trying to show a buddy a crappy highly compressed video on Facebook but has to wait to buffer every few seconds and he pulls anything up instantly, then no it's not tolerable enough to care about unlimited data.

 

Sprint in Richmond was nice, but that will never happen here in nTelos land

How can ntelos suck so much in 2015?

[GBtopgear]

How can ntelos suck so much in 2015?

Their probably just barely hanging on at this point. Idon't know anyone that is on nTelos.

[bbostwick8]

Their probably just barely hanging on at this point. Idon't know anyone that is on nTelos.

NTelos here in Beckley really isn't all that bad. LTE gets decent enough speed. For the 45.00 a month we pay really can't complain.

[JDP121]

Sprint seems to have updated there maps today. Seems like some areas on i64 in Albemarle County seem to have been lit up. I will be going through this area next sunday and will test it out and see if I pick anything up. 

[Galaxyguy]

I'm pretty sure that's the western edge of the Richmond market, but still good news.

 

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[davidtm]

That's the extreme western extent of native Sprint here. I haven't driven through that area lately, but SC Pro has yet to give the audible alert for LTE. I did drive to Staunton this weekend, and didn't get any LTE through Waynesboro, either, even though the map shows some spotty LTE there.

 

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[JohnnyP]

So a cpuple things on ntelos. 1st they turned on some 4g in parts of Roanoke. Then there is this http://www.wsls.com/story/27965403/ntelos-cuts-jobs-in-daleville-and-waynesboro

They are now cutting corperate jobs.

[GBtopgear]

So a cpuple things on ntelos. 1st they turned on some 4g in parts of Roanoke. Then there is this http://www.wsls.com/story/27965403/ntelos-cuts-jobs-in-daleville-and-waynesboro

 

Well since they're losing almost half of their current customers, I am almost a little surprised that this didn't happen sooner. Also would anyone know why sprint users in Roanoke still havent been able to connect to nTelos' new 4G since they *should* be using the new sprint network vision gear here unlike in the Becky, Parkersburg, and Waynesboro markets? 

[marioc21]

An update on NTelos' LTE plans.

 

Sprint (NYSE: S) wholesale partner nTelos Wireless said it will expand LTE service to 81,000 of its wireless customers in Roanoke, Va., and Charleston W.Va. The attention on those markets and the network expansion comes two months after nTelos said it would sell off its spectrum and its retail business in markets in eastern Virginia, known as its "Eastern Markets," to focus on its "Western Markets" in western Virginia and West Virginia where it has a stronger retail presence and benefits from a network deal with Sprint.

 

In a statement, nTelos said the LTE network enhancement for Roanoke and Charleston is part of its "4G for All" expansion, and includes LTE deployment across 26 cell sites. This deployment will be the first in a series of nearly 300 LTE site launches the company has planned across its Western Markets in 2015. NTelos already has nine of its markets covered with LTE: Beckley, Bluefield, Parkersburg, Harrisonburg, Staunton, Waynesboro, Winchester, Woodstock and Hagerstown.

 

 

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/ntelos-expand-lte-network-virginia-and-west-virginia/2015-02-02?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Editor&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

[marioc21]

Interesting on that NTelos story I just posted.  Woodstock and Winchester are also Shentel territory. Didn't realize NTelos had markets that overlapped with Shentel.

[JohnnyP]

They also overlap in Staunton and Harrisonburg. 4g is already available for ntelos customers in those areas.

[dethalis]

Come on let us sprint users on!!

[bhinks]

Had some 4g signal intermittently today in Lynchburg near LU... a sign of good things to come hopefully.  Unfortunately it was gone before I could do any testing.