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

[S4GRU]

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

Shentel does not have wireless service in Staunton, as far as I can tell. But you're absolutely correct about Harrisonburg. That's where their HQ is.

[JohnnyP]

Yep your right. I was just thinking about the 4g.

[dethalis]

Damn dude

[S4GRU]

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.

On a Sprint device? BTW, Liberty alum here.

 

[Galaxyguy]

Shentel's service area stops at the Rockingham/Augusta Co line, about 10 miles south of Harrisonburg.

 

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[Galaxyguy]

On a Sprint device? BTW, Liberty alum here.

 

Nice. I'm working on a Master's degree through LU online.

 

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[JohnnyP]

I have picked up shentel as far south as the Weyers Cave exit on 81.

[dethalis]

Yes sprint note 4 here and I pick it up at the same place is johnnyp

[Galaxyguy]

I have picked up shentel as far south as the Weyers Cave exit on 81.

Yeah, that's about a mile South of the county line.

 

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[Galaxyguy]

I'll actually be down there (Weyers Cave) next week.

 

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[JohnnyP]

Ok. I wasnt sure where exactly the county line is.

[dethalis]

Any word on when sprint will get turned on

[Galaxyguy]

Ok. I wasnt sure where exactly the county line is.

If you go north on I-81 from the Weyers Cave exit, you go down a hill, then back up another. It's at the top of that hill.

 

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[bhinks]

On a Sprint device? BTW, Liberty alum here.

 

Unfortunately for you guys I am on ntelos..... no world on when they will allow sprint customers onto the network.. I would assume they will wait until they have most of the towers active with LTE.

[GBtopgear]

Unfortunately for you guys I am on ntelos..... no world on when they will allow sprint customers onto the network.. I would assume they will wait until they have most of the towers active with LTE.

If that is the case then it could very well be another year to a year and a half.....................

[dethalis]

Omg... i swear if by the end of this contrat of 6 years and i still not have 4g i am done with them

[Boost Happy]

Omg... i swear if by the end of this contrat of 6 years and i still not have 4g i am done with them

Can't blame ya. Mine was 9 years and I just left for AT&T 30gig double/rollover data. Couldn't be happier. Had 4 lines. I moved 3 out to att and kept one to sprint Edited February 4, 2015 by Boost Happy

[locked31]

I spoke with a rep this morning and they gave me the same line "this is a large upgrade... we can't give a specific timeline... blah blah blah".  When I talked to a tech in July 2014 he said that work was supposed to start in August and be finished by late September.  smh

[rmorrisonva]

I spoke with a rep this morning and they gave me the same line "this is a large upgrade... we can't give a specific timeline... blah blah blah".  When I talked to a tech in July 2014 he said that work was supposed to start in August and be finished by late September.  smh

 

Reps are pretty much useless, I wouldn't waste my time asking them anything (let alone sharing it since, again, most of them are full of you-know-what).

 

If you're in nTelos-land and have Sprint you have options:

 

1. You can stick with the better overall coverage footprint and low prices Sprint offers (despite the LTE caveats).

 

2. You can switch to T-Mobile or a T-Mo MVNO and get some LTE coverage but a much smaller overall coverage footprint for similar prices as you pay with Sprint.

 

3. You can cough up more dough for service with one of the Duopoly and get LTE coverage and a good coverage footprint, albeit for a lot more $$.

 

Not to be too terse but I hate that about half the time I check on this thread to see if nTelos has made any progress I am instead confronted with a bunch of complaining and self-pity.

C'mon guys!

[dethalis]

I get tired of waiting... i have had them 6 years at the end of this contract and am hopeing they get lte by then

[rmorrisonva]

I get tired of waiting... i have had them 6 years at the end of this contract and am hopeing they get lte by then

 

That's great, I've had them for 11 years. If you are tired of waiting I'd switch, otherwise better just to post about improvements/developments one has noticed in nTelos-land. I get excited everything I see life on the thread only to open it and see people complaining about the state of LTE in nTelos-land or Sprint in general. I assure you we all feel the same way but this really isn't the place to be venting.

[dethalis]

First of all i am not venting ... secondly i have posted improvements i have noticed.. and last please stop attacking my posts... i am simply stating my opinion

[nandjreed]

Just to keep up with changes being made. We had LTE last week. They turn it off every where in roanoke. Right now we are experiencing the dropping of unusable 3G to 1x. I assume it is continuing upgrades to the towers for downtown roanoke

 

 

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[dethalis]

Ntelos or sprint

[Galaxyguy]

They will probably need to shut individual towers down as they upgrade. Service will degrade some when they do that. When Shentel was replacing equipment here, calls dropped quite often. Once the work is done though, it'll be worth it.

 

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