Dan Hesse "2014 is our comeback year"

[Dkoellerwx]

When I read the hoopla about 180 Mbps on spark, I laugh. All people want is 1 (one) Mbps, or a signal where they don't have one.

 

I don't understand why they are spending a penny on this spark, when they haven't completed 35% of the NV upgrades, according to the status map.

Ummm.... go look at the NV Sites complete map. Your stats aren't even close.

 

Nearly 50% of Sprint sites have LTE enabled. More than 75% have NV Equipment installed and accepted, and another 5% or so have equipment installed, waiting for acceptance.

 

The whole Spark upgrade is still under Clearwire's operations. They haven't switched to Sprint's plan for Band 41 yet. And why not do the upgrades? They were already planned, and will help to create a better network.

 

And no, 180Mbps is not going to happen anytime soon. Currently, Spark is providing speeds between 50 and 70Mbps on a good signal. It will be a few years before we start to see carrier aggregation on Band 41 to get those 100+Mbps speeds.

[Fraydog]

I've already sent map tweets at Miami Vice, showing the vast expanse of EDGE in the T-Mobile network. Funny he never replied to those.

[tommym65]

When I read the hoopla about 180 Mbps on spark, I laugh. All people want is 1 (one) Mbps, or a signal where they don't have one. I don't understand why they are spending a penny on this spark, when they haven't completed 35% of the NV upgrades, according to the status map.

Actually, last week, NV was 48% complete by upgrade count. With the many upgrades the last few days, it is now nearly 50. This doesn't count any "in progress" sites or 800 SMR sites operating but not "officially" accepted.

 

Throwing more dollars at NV would be like hiring 9 women to try to have a baby in 1 month: You simply can't do it with just raw numbers.

 

BTW, I am sending this comment on a Band 41 "Spark" site in far NW suburban Chicago. There is a lot of execution behind Sprint's promises.

[Dkoellerwx]

Actually, last week, NV was 48% complete by upgrade count. With the many upgrades the last few days, it is now nearly 50. This doesn't count any "in progress" sites or 800 SMR sites operating but not "officially" accepted.

And that's just the LTE sites. Throw in the sites that are 3G complete, and sites with equipment installed an ready for acceptance, it's over 75%.

[Fraydog]

 

I can play the Twitter game too.

[tommym65]

And that's just the LTE sites. Throw in the sites that are 3G complete, and sites with equipment installed an ready for acceptance, it's over 75%.

Actually, my numbers were for "technologies" (3G, 4G, 800). For total sites, you are absolutely correct.

[S4GRU]

When I read the hoopla about 180 Mbps on spark, I laugh. All people want is 1 (one) Mbps, or a signal where they don't have one.

 

I don't understand why they are spending a penny on this spark, when they haven't completed 35% of the NV upgrades, according to the status map.

 

Unfortunately, people don't want just a 1 Mbps connection.  They think they want faster and faster.  The demand is there.  It's not as if Sprint is not working on Network Vision to just work on Spark/Band 41.  They have to be able to do it all.  Work on the present, and plan for the future.

 

It's not as if planning for Band 41 deployments in the future is stopping backhaul to a site in Pierce County, Washington now.  C'mon, get real.

 

Robert

[Dkoellerwx]

Actually, my numbers were for "technologies" (3G, 4G, 800). For total sites, you are absolutely correct.

 

Ohhh. I understand. I like to look at it in site count, since all sites don't see all three acceptance reports, and some are missing. But that's a good way to see it. Thanks.

[cdk]

I've already sent map tweets at Miami Vice, showing the vast expanse of EDGE in the T-Mobile network. Funny he never replied to those.

 

Care to share those map tweets with us non-tweeters?

[centermedic]

When I read the hoopla about 180 Mbps on spark, I laugh. All people want is 1 (one) Mbps, or a signal where they don't have one.

 

I don't understand why they are spending a penny on this spark, when they haven't completed 35% of the NV upgrades, according to the status map.

Spark is just marketing hoopla. The use of the 2500 frequency has been part of the Netwrok Vision strategy from the start. The only change is that they now intend on doing a full overlay. On paper the money has been spent. The only additional outlay has been the transition from targeted 2500 mhz deployments to the full overlay.

[Nickel]

TMO is really stupid by not upgrading the I-15 corridor to W-CDMA for data. That road is so well travelled every weekend, and even more so on holidays. All those bored people on thanksgiving weekend trying to go back to LA stuck for who knows how long, and how many of them were T-Mobile customers dying of boredom because they only had 2G Internet. Lol!

Does Sprint have LTE through there? Sensorly says no.

[MacinJosh]

Does Sprint have LTE through there? Sensorly says no.

No, no LTE except Victorville/Hesperia, CA. Barstow LTE might start coming online in the Spring. But between there and the Nevada border, probably not until 2015.

[Nickel]

No, no LTE except Victorville/Hesperia, CA. Barstow LTE might start coming online in the Spring. But between there and the Nevada border, probably not until 2015.

Only reason I said something was for the sake of being fair.

[MacinJosh]

Only reason I said something was for the sake of being fair.

 

They do have really decent 3G in most areas of that route though.

[CAREND]

They do have really decent 3G in most areas of that route though.

 

Not enough to stream pandora.  i could do iheart for a little and pandora would come and go.  It was tough trying to get traffic info half the time.

[Nickel]

Not enough to stream pandora.  i could do iheart for a little and pandora would come and go.  It was tough trying to get traffic info half the time.

It's probably something like this most of the time. WARNING: LANGUAGE

 

http://goo.gl/Z54dre

[shamrock 505]

I'm 2 1/2 blocks from a Sprint tower that is shooting lte one way and I'm getting lousy 3g at home the other way-2014 only has one way to go and it's hopefully up

 

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