Network Vision/LTE - Missouri Market (includes St. Louis)

[dedub]

A sprint employee put on facebook he was told by his DM that LTE is live in West and South County. I haven't been able to confirm it though.

 

Well if you consider the airport area, west county... and towergrove/bevo area south county, then they would be right.

[Fraydog]

 

There is but if he resides in Chester then the closest site is about 8-10 miles as the crow flies.

 

I've been there and photographed the St. Mary site. It serves part of Chester, the rest is roaming on ATNI, which is going to go away soon. That's why I'm not a current Sprint sub. I could subscribe in the 62233 zip, it's that I'm doing Sprint a favor, if anything, by not drawing out the Golden Ticket.

 

I've snail mailed Sprint for a site expansion here on the SBA site on our side of the river built by T-Mobile. I'm not holding my breath, however.

[lilg740]

If I see this at a site that is only Sprint, can I assume that backhaul work has been completed?

 

[digiblur]

Unless you've tried it out and it works, then no.

[doomstang]

Unless you've tried it out and it works, then no.

 

It's a little hard to just "try out" backhaul isn't it?

[lilg740]

Unless you've tried it out and it works, then no.

 

What?

[digiblur]

It's a little hard to just "try out" backhaul isn't it?

 

Now you're learning! Which brings us back full circle to how can you tell backhaul is complete by looking at it?

[lilg740]

Now you're learning! Which brings us back full circle to how can you tell backhaul is complete by looking at it?

Well lets see, Orange marker that says buried fiber on a Sprint only site. Can't that be assumed? If it is fiber at a Sprint only site then its gotta be NV, correct?

[Dkoellerwx]

If I see this at a site that is only Sprint, can I assume that backhaul work has been completed?

 

 

Unless you've tried it out and it works, then no.

 

 

It's enough to mark it in progress. Backhaul work has been done, but likely not connected yet.

[digiblur]

Well lets see, Orange marker that says buried fiber on a Sprint only site. Can't that be assumed? If it is fiber at a Sprint only site then its gotta be NV, correct?

 

Nope. I've seen fiber run to a building, hooked up, terminated, equipment installed and configured. The other side had extensive work required and took 5-6 months to light up the line. This isn't cable TV where you run it out to the street and hook it up to the splitter. It's an end to end fiber run from point A to point B, it could be miles and miles long and you have no way of checking to see if it is complete from end to end.

 

Same case in point, you see the cable line run from the road to your house. Can you assume it is on just by looking at it?

[digiblur]

Yes.

 

It's enough to mark it in progress. Backhaul work has been done, but likely not connected yet.

 

In my opinion I do not consider fiber run to a site as in progress nor do I even bother posting those to the In Progress thread. It's a glimmer of hope in my eyes. I have no way of knowing if it could be for another carrier on the site or maybe a soon to be carrier on site. On our sheet and map I only consider in progress sites as full proof RRU installations as those a pretty full proof. Just too many unknowns with fiber since everyone uses them. Luckily as it stands now Sprint is the only person using the combination of equipment in my area so it makes it unique to spot, spotting fiber is not unique enough.

 

Not trying to be a debbie downer or burst any bubbles but too many times I've gotten a little bit of excitement about something seen a site like a truck or fiber only to find out later that it is VZW or AT&T doing their thing.

[Dkoellerwx]

We have been marking Missouri sites that are Sprint only which have had fiber work done as in progress.

Multicarrier sites we do not make the jump.

[digiblur]

We have been marking Missouri sites that are Sprint only which have had fiber work done as in progress.

Multicarrier sites we do not make the jump.

 

Be careful as I fell into that when it was fiber for a microwave shot that had nothing to do with Sprint and they were the only one on site. Nothing is full proof except for those multiple RRUs. That's when the smile hits my face. Until I think about sites sitting installed for 6 months in our market.

 

Sent from my little Note2

 

 

[Dkoellerwx]

Be careful as I fell into that when it was fiber for a microwave shot that had nothing to do with Sprint and they were the only one on site. Nothing is full proof except for those multiple RRUs. That's when the smile hits my face. Until I think about sites sitting installed for 6 months in our market. Sent from my little Note2

 

It's not always a good indicator, but around here, I highly highly doubt anyone else wants anything to do with these stupid utility pole towers.

[lilg740]

Went to another Sprint only site in Alton saw the green cover thing on the ground with disturbed earth but no orange marker...

[Papa314]

If anyone is in these Byareas and would like to check out a site please PM me. I have a hunch that work might be underway/completed. I may be wrong so don't drive completely out of your way to check....but it would be really cool if I was right.

 

Overland/St. Ann/Breckenridge HIlls

Natural Bridge and Kings Highway(You can find me in St. Louie, where the gun play ring all day, nanana)

Swansea/Fairview

Belleville

Glen Carbon

Festus

 

I Live In St. John, The Next Municipality Over From Breckenridge Hill, And Can Swing By After Work

[DaQue]

Don't get me wrong I truly appreciate every new site and and the work going into it but the Missouri rollout so far seams a bit sluggish. Nothing in St Charles county yet so while St Louis is close it doesn't seem to have hit my area yet. Oklahoma is kicking our butts onthe rollout.

[digiblur]

Don't get me wrong I truly appreciate every new site and and the work going into it but the Missouri rollout so far seams a bit sluggish. Nothing in St Charles county yet so while St Louis is close it doesn't seem to have hit my area yet. Oklahoma is kicking our butts onthe rollout.

 

That does happen. In my city we had two sites that went active in January then nothing until the end of April. Them bam 5 or 6 sites in one day. It was a serving cell extravaganza that morning on the way to work. Next week we had a few others. Definitely the wave...

 

Sent from my little Note2

 

 

[doomstang]

Don't get me wrong I truly appreciate every new site and and the work going into it but the Missouri rollout so far seams a bit sluggish. Nothing in St Charles county yet so while St Louis is close it doesn't seem to have hit my area yet. Oklahoma is kicking our butts onthe rollout.

 

When did work in OKC start? They are about on par with STL.

Tulsa is way ahead though.

Missouri is the northern edge of the Ericsson market and STL is even more on their edge.

[decoy]

Anybody notice the purple on Sensorly at the south I-255 bend near Columbia, IL? New tower gone active? Has LTE finally made it to the Metro East?

[S4GRU]

 

When did work in OKC start? They are about on par with STL.

Tulsa is way ahead though.

Missouri is the northern edge of the Ericsson market and STL is even more on their edge.

 

Somebody queue Aerosmith...

 

"We're living on the edge!!!!"

 

Although, that would be even funnier in those places where people are stuck on AT&T and Tmo EDGE service.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

[lilg740]

Anybody notice the purple on Sensorly at the south I-255 bend near Columbia, IL? New tower gone active? Has LTE finally made it to the Metro East?

 

Awesome! Anyone in the Columbia/Dupo, IL area wanna check this out? I won't be down that way unless I go to Six Flags.

[digiblur]

 

Somebody queue Aerosmith...

 

"We're living on the edge!!!!"

 

Although, that would be even funnier in those places where people are stuck on AT&T and Tmo EDGE service.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

 

There's somethin' wrong with my phone today

I don't know what it is

Something's wrong with my site

 

We're using phones in a different way

And Dan knows it ain't His

It sure ain't no surprise

We're stuck on the edge!

 

 

Sent from my little Note2

[digiblur]

 

It's not always a good indicator, but around here, I highly highly doubt anyone else wants anything to do with these stupid utility pole towers.

 

And a totally different look on this.. I went to a site that recently lit up LTE in test mode... Partial connects and you have to get handed off to the site to connect. Not a lick of any visible backhaul work anywhere. Not even new fiber. ATT has had LTE on this site for a while now. I suspect they simply used another fiber pair in the same run and spliced it in down the road.

 

I had been looking for backhaul work and didn't see any and figured this site would sit for a while and to my surprise it will be fired up very soon! Also to show how different things can be, another site north of this one is 3g accept only and ATT has LTE here as well. There is new fiber run to the site too. But no LTE in the past few months since it has been done. Nothing is a sure thing but we all love surprises.

 

Sent from my little Note2

 

 

[jelbl1]

Awesome! Anyone in the Columbia/Dupo, IL area wanna check this out? I won't be down that way unless I go to Six Flags.

 

I have never posted here before, I have just been reading it... BUT MY 4G LIT UP FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, AND AT WORK IN COLUMBIA, IL. SWEET!!!!. It was just for a little while though. I got 3mb download.