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With CDMA 800 fired up on the first site in Minnesota, the transition from Sioux Falls area to Sprint in the Dakotas market worked well. So they should set up a handoff to the West Iowa/Nebraska market too. Robert

I have added Swiftel to the NV Sites Complete map tonight. There was only one Brookings site and one Sioux Falls site added to the original list you had. If you scan the map, you'll see that they have a pretty lean deployment. Brookings is covered fairly well, and Sioux City is pretty good. As well as the south side of Sioux Falls. But the north side of Sioux Falls and rural areas are very poor. Robert

Swiftel uses Sprint devices. Swiftel does not have their own stores. They are branded Sprint. though owned and staffed by Swiftel. Robert

Rebanding is a separate issue than the IBEZ. Rebanding can complete along the Mexico and Canada borders and the IBEZ will still persist. This rebanding is affecting American providers in the SMR band, not international providers in the same spectrum. Until Mexican and Canadian providers stop using narrowband transmissions within Sprint's 800 SMR spectrum holdings on the other side of the border, there will be no resolution to the IBEZ problem. Until Mexico and Canada rebands themselves, the problem will will not go away. AFAIK, there is no rebanding occurring north or south of the border. Robert

That's not even funny. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

I have changed the name of the title since this really is the Swiftel thread. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

Me too. I hope to add this to our maps this evening. I will be in the Sioux Falls/Sioux City corridor the July 25th weekend. Hopefully I'll have time to check some things out then. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

I didn't take screen shots of it. I was busy taking screen shots of the 1x addresses in Signal Check. In my view of the Engineering screens, I was always on the same channel for 1x and EVDO, everywhere. So, I don't know if it was coincidentally just handing off to the same channels or if there is just one of each at every site. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

Yeah, I only stayed in the Sioux Falls/Brookings corridor on this trip. So I kept my guess to the number of sites in that area based on my observations. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

The bad news had a glimmer of truth to it. Most likely they misunderstood what they were told, or the person who told them misunderstood. The issue near the Canadian border only affects 800MHz deployments. And only in areas where there is a Canadian narrowband license holder across the border. The only reason why there is no 1900MHz LTE in Grand Forks on Sprint now is because of waiting on completion of backhaul to sites. When a few of them are complete, they will come back and integrate LTE to go live at the completed sites. There will be a long, long wait on 800MHz LTE though. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

2018, according to this article: http://www.brookingsregister.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=76&story_id=5230 Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

Wow, not bad on an educated guess. Off by one. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

I've been in Sioux Falls for an hour now. Been on 6 sites. Speeds are awful and site spacing is only fair. Signal quality is quite poor. Averaging 50kbps - 400kbps. Pings are no good, either. 250ms+. Drive across the border into Minnesota and into a Sprint corporate market and you get LTE and CDMA 800 right away. It's so bad, that it's hard to imagine anyone would use Sprint here because of Swiftel. Although AT&T still has no LTE here, Tmo is EDGE only. So it pretty much is a Verizon dominated market at this point. Sprint could build out the Nextel sites here in this area pretty easily and dump Swiftel. In the Bookings/Sioux Falls area it appears that Swiftel only has like 25 sites in their whole network. They would be easy to replace as a corporate market. Sprint should dump them. Robert via Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

The Hawaii CCA coverage is from Sprint and T-Mobile only. Robert via Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

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I'm in Brookings today. No eHRPD, only EVDO-A. None of the sites I've seen show any signs of Network Vision activity. 3G EVDO performs fair, running 400kbps to 1.5Mbps. Sprint needs to move beyond Swiftel in Eastern South Dakota. Robert via Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

It's my plan to eat at the best Fried Chicken Joint in Sioux Falls today Robert via Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

I have that same exact black Polo shirt in your pic. Although it makes me look fat. Or maybe it's the friend chicken that makes me look fat. Emmm...fried chicken...drool... What were we talking about again? Robert

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Especially in then IBEZ! I'd do it!! Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

Nope. We probably won't know until they open up that network for usage and someone spots it in the wild in Montana. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

Site acceptance report from Monday (7/7) through Wednesday (7/9): Albuquerque - 1 update (1 LTE) Boston - 5 updates (5 LTE) Central Iowa - 2 updates (2 CDMA 800) Central Jersey - 1 update (1 LTE) Central Pennsylvania - 18 updates (18 CDMA 800) Charlotte - 1 update (1 LTE) Chicago - 1 update (1 LTE) Cincinnati - 5 updates (5 LTE) Colorado - 104 updates (104 CDMA 800) Columbus - 7 updates (1 CDMA 800, 6 LTE) Delaware - 1 update (1 LTE) East Iowa - 2 updates (2 CDMA 800) GA/SC Coast - 2 updates (2 LTE) Georgia - 2 updates (2 LTE) Inland Northwest - 1 update (1 LTE) LA Metro - 5 updates (5 LTE) Long Island - 2 updates (2 LTE) Memphis - 1 update (1 3G) Milwaukee - 1 update (1 LTE) Minnesota - 8 updates (3 CDMA 800, 5 LTE) Missouri - 165 updates (165 CDMA 800) New York City - 3 updates (3 LTE) North LA - 5 updates (5 LTE) Northern Jersey - 2 updates (2 LTE) Orange County - 3 updates (3 LTE) Oregon / SW Washington - 12 updates (9 CDMA 800, 3 LTE) Philadelphia Metro - 2 updates (2 CDMA 800) Phoenix - 2 updates (2 LTE) Pittsburgh - 12 updates (12 CDMA 800) Raleigh / Durham - 5 updates (3 LTE, 1 new 3G/LTE site) Indianapolis - 1 update (1 3G) Richmond - 3 updates (3 LTE) Riverside / San Bernardino - 2 updates (2 LTE) SF Bay - 9 updates (9 CDMA 800) San Diego - 5 updates (5 LTE) SF Bay - 1 update (1 CDMA 800) Shentel - 10 updates (3 CDMA 800, 7 LTE) South Bay - 1 update (1 CDMA 800) Southern Connecticut - 1 update (1 LTE) Tucson / Yuma - 1 update (1 LTE) Upper Central Valley - 15 updates (15 CDMA 800) Upstate NY Central - 1 update (1 LTE) Utah - 5 updates (1 CDMA 800, 4 LTE) VT / NH / ME - 1 update (1 LTE) Washington DC - 1 update (1 LTE) West Washington - 2 updates (2 LTE) Maps are updated. Robert Links: Comments regarding this thread, NV Sites Complete Map

It seemed logical. Yet Sprint always referred to it as 'roaming' and had not confirmed it. Until we were able to confirm for certain and put it to rest, there was always going to be a lot of anxiety and uncertainty about how this new coverage would be treated. And CCA LTE coverage is still yet to be confirmed. That may still end up being true roaming. Although roaming allowances may be more liberal for that coverage.

Based on reports from others, I believe Sprint has taken B41 offline around Denver. Hopefully it will not be much longer. Robert

Our VZW Band 4 "XLTE" here in Western South Dakota has dropped to 15-25 Mbps. It's only 15MHz channels here, though. But it started at 40-50Mbps last Fall. But it is doing its job. 700MHz had dropped to 1-3Mbps before the additional band. And with the 'XLTE' relief band, now the 700MHZ runs around 4-7Mbps. But since the speeds of XLTE are steadily dropping, it makes me wonder about VZW options beyond Band 4. Refarming some Cellular and PCS is next. But they will be lucky to get 5-10MHz channels out of that. They aren't going to be able to do 15-20MHz channels like they are doing in Band 4. VZW's best LTE days are now. Their speeds are going to drop and Sprint's are going up with B41. It's about to become a much more competitive market regarding LTE performance. Robert