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There is nothing we can do about spammers except to shut 'em down as fast as possible. Any other actions just hurt our members. Spammers suck. Robert

Premier Sponsor is not the same as regular Sponsor. Not only do Premier Sponsorships do not expire, but they can access more data and forums. He is already a standard Sponsor. Robert

All usable spectrum is popular when it becomes available. Because there is a limited quantity available. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

Yes, but we need on average about $20-$25 per new sponsor to cover our monthly fees. But we will accept less for those who cannot afford it. That being said, I think he is saying he cannot afford to upgrade to Premier Sponsor. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

Yes, I posted something myself since I posted this about Shentel deploying a second carrier. I am the one who said it. Robert

They are deploying LTE 800 on every site, except where not needed. If two sites are adjacent to each other by a few hundred feet (think Manhattan), it is OK to skip one with B26 (LTE 800). Your signal strength on B26 will be unaffected, even when standing next to the site where B26 was skipped. You will still have full bars. And the area already is completely covered with B41 (LTE 2600) too. So B26 site splitting is not needed for capacity, as capacity is carried by B41. There will be some places it just doesn't make sense to deploy B26 on every site in urban environments. But it will only be done in places where the net result for customers will be unnoticeable. Robert

That app cannot see the voice network when you are connected to LTE on a Triband device. Does your voice not work if you make a phone call? It should drop off LTE and work just fine. Robert

Yes, the contracts do have failure to perform clauses. We don't know how they're defined though. They may, or may not be in default. And they are more likely to bend over backwards for CenturyLink than other backhaul providers, as Sprint used to own a big chunk of what is now CenturyLink. The Sprint landline business is now in the hands of CL and a lot of their executives and upper management. Sprint is much more likely to tolerate problems from CL. Also, and now that they are this far along, and CL is close to having backhaul ready, do you fire them now and start redoing all the contracts? At this point, Sprint probably believes it is faster to get CL across the finish line than start all over. And now at this point, it probably is true. However, CL was missing deadlines over a year ago. Sprint should have taken action then. I don't excuse any of the CL problems. It's awful. And I have been critical of Sprint about it for a long time. But what is done is done at this point. We will watch CL slowly cross the finish line, albeit very late. But at least we are getting reports of CL fiber digging and connections in a few places around the country. It appears the logjam is finally starting to clear. Robert

Holy crap! CenturyLink is working somewhere?? Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

Also, I understand poor site spacing. But the antidote for poor site spacing is not overburdened EVDO 800, with nothing to relieve it. The antidote is more sites and better spacing. Don't choose a cure that won't cure you. Besides, like I mention above, not all 8x8 markets will even get to use more than 7.5x7.5, and they will not be able to use the full 8x8 until 2018. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

I don't think you're foolish. But Sprint has already discussed EVDO on 800 years ago and decided not to do it. There are not many places they can anyway. Even the yellow places on the 800 spectrum map are not guarantees of room for the extra space. 816-816.5MHz cannot be used by Sprint until 2018, and only in places if no rebanders move into the Expansion band. By 2018, people will be saying "What's EVDO?" Based on calculations I've seen in Sprint docs, B26 LTE should reach a little further (~20%) than CDMA on 1900 in similar deployment scenarios. B26 should fill in places based on a PCS spacing just fine. Places spaced more like CDMA 800, not so well. But will still be a MAJOR improvement over B25. When Verizon added LTE 750 over their CDMA 850 network, it was quite noticeable that the LTE didn't travel as far as the CDMA on 850. But over time, they densified their LTE 750 some, and pointed up some LTE sectors in rural areas for more coverage, and the difference became less noticeable. But Sprint will probably not be able to do quite, because both their LTE 800 and CDMA 800 are in the same band. At least VZW's LTE band had a 3% propagation boost over the 850, narrowing the gap a little. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

They have not moved on to other markets. They have finished all the sites that have had their backhaul upgraded. All the remaining sites will go live one by one as the backhaul vendor finishes up and the backhaul is live and ready. Then Samsung will send an integration tech out to the site and fire up the LTE. One or two at a time. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

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Site acceptance reports from Saturday (3/1) and Sunday (3/2): Alabama - 1 update (1 LTE) Austin - 2 updates (2 LTE) Boston - 3 updates (3 LTE) DFW - 2 updates (3G) East Iowa - 1 update (1 LTE) Ft. Wayne/South Bend - 1 update (1 LTE) GA/SC Coast - 1 update (1 LTE) Jacksonville - 1 update (1 LTE) Kansas - 3 updates (3G) Las Vegas - 2 updates (2 LTE) Miami/West Palm - 1 update (1 LTE) Missouri - 3 updates (3G) Myrtle Beach - 1 update (1 LTE) Nashville - 1 update (1 LTE) New York City - 1 update (3G) Norfolk - 1 update (3G) North LA - 1 update (1 LTE) North Wisconsin - 1 update (1 LTE) Northern Connecticut - 1 update (1 LTE) Oklahoma - 1 update (1 LTE) Phoenix - 5 updates (5 LTE) Pittsburgh - 7 updates (3 LTE) Providence - 2 updates (2 LTE) Raleigh/Durham - 51 updates (1 LTE) Shentel - 8 updates (8 LTE) South Texas - 1 update (1 LTE) Southern Connecticut - 1 update (1 LTE) Southern Jersey - 1 update (1 LTE) Tampa - 1 update (1 LTE) Tucson/Yuma - 1 update (1 LTE) Upstate NY Central - 1 update (3G) Upstate NY East - 4 updates (4 LTE) VT/NH/ME - 5 updates (5 LTE) Washington DC - 2 updates (2 LTE) West Iowa/Nebraska - 4 updates (4 LTE) Winston/Salem - 1 update (1 LTE) Maps are updated. Robert Links: Comments regarding this thread, NV Sites Complete Map

AJ is working on an article that will answer those kinds of questions. Robert via Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

There is no "NV2.0 gear", per se. NV2.0 involves activating B26 LTE (800), adding B41 LTE (2600) and adding backhaul and LTE to GMO sites. In the case of B26, all the equipment is already there, except for B26 LTE carrier cards. In the case of B41, it will be adding the B41 rack in the cabinet and installing one new panel/B41 RRU per sector and connected the base station and antenna/radios via a new fiber run. In the case of GMO's, it is not completely known. A GMO site has all the equipment they need to be a full build except new panels on the structure and fiber runs from the base station cabinets to the panels. They may upgrade them all to be full builds. In which case, they will move the RRU's from the ground to the tower (where permissible), install a new NV panel and run the new fiber to the ground. They may also only convert some of them to full build, but others they may just add LTE to the existing GMO set up. Most GMO sites can run B25 LTE just fine with just the addition of the appropriate backhaul. We don't know the full plans Sprint has with GMO's. We just know we have seen a lot of sites that were supposed to be GMO built to be full build instead, and we have seen some sites that were not slated to be GMO end up being GMO in the field, and we have seen a few sites that were initially deployed as a GMO already be converted to a full build. Shentel has quite a few B25 LTE sites that are GMO's. They seem to work pretty well. Robert

If it's for CenturyLink, it will be for any CL customer in the area. So, as long as CL is still the backhaul vendor for Sprint in that area, I would take that as good news. Robert

GMO's are running on NV gear. So yes. But they will not be all converted to full build by then, no. In general, GMO sites are in NV2.0. Which is just beginning. Robert

Not odd. Common, actually. Robert

There is no way to know definitively. However, if CenturyLink is the local ILEC and there are Sprint 3G Network Vision sites complete in the city with no LTE at all, there is a good chance that CenturyLink is the local backhaul provider for Sprint. And if it's Windstream, then that makes sense too. As Windstream is also way behind in their backhaul commitments to Sprint. Robert

EHRPD and EVDO pretty much are the same thing. Differences in performance between devices in that store is most likely from different site or sector connections. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

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Site acceptance reports from Wednesday (2/26), Thursday (2/17) and Friday (2/28): Alabama - 2 updates (3G) Arkansas - 5 updates (1 LTE) Atlanta/Athens - 10 updates (4 LTE) Austin - 2 updates (2 LTE) Baltimore - 37 updates (1 LTE, 34 CDMA 800) Boston - 65 updates (1 LTE, 63 CDMA 800) Buffalo - 11 updates (9 LTE) Central Illinois - 5 updates (5 LTE) Central Iowa - 6 updates (6 LTE) Central Jersey - 4 updates (3 LTE) Central Pennsylvania - 2 updates (2 LTE) Charlotte - 1 update (1 LTE) Cincinnati - 12 updates (7 LTE) Cleveland - 29 updates (28 LTE) Colorado - 42 updates (5 LTE, 37 CDMA 800) Columbus - 13 updates (13 LTE) DFW - 6 updates (3G) East Iowa - 1 update (1 LTE) East Kentucky - 2 updates (3G) East Michigan - 11 updates (11 LTE) GA/SC Coast - 1 update (1 LTE) Georgia - 5 updates (1 LTE) Gulf Coast - 4 updates (1 LTE) Houston - 356 updates (355 CDMA 800) Idaho - 1 update (1 LTE) Inland Northwest - 2 updates (2 LTE) Jacksonville - 2 updates (2 LTE) LA Metro - 3 updates (2 LTE) Las Vegas - 3 updates (3G) Long Island - 5 updates (1 LTE) Louisiana - 2 updates (3G) Lower Central Valley - 7 updates (7 LTE) Memphis - 3 updates (3G) Miami/West Palm - 5 updates (3G) Milwaukee - 2 updates (2 LTE) Minnesota - 10 updates (5 LTE) Mississippi - 1 update (3G) Missouri - 13 updates (1 LTE) Myrtle Beach - 36 updates (4 LTE, 32 CDMA 800) New Orleans - 5 updates (1 LTE) New York City - 6 updates (4 LTE) Norfolk - 10 updates (1 LTE) North LA - 1 update (1 LTE) Northern Connecticut - 2 updates (3G) Northern Jersey - 7 updates (4 LTE) Oklahoma - 3 updates (3G) Orange County - 3 updates (2 LTE) Oregon/SW Washington - 3 updates (3 LTE) Orlando - 4 updates (1 LTE) Philadelphia Metro - 4 updates (3 LTE) Phoenix - 8 updates (6 LTE) Pittsburgh - 5 updates (5 LTE) Raleigh/Durham - 9 updates (9 LTE) Richmond - 1 update (1 LTE) Riverside/San Bernardino - 1 update (1 LTE) SF Bay - 1 update (1 LTE) San Diego - 5 updates (4 LTE) South Bay - 2 updates (2 LTE) South Carolina - 4 updates (4 LTE) South Texas - 3 updates (3G) South West Florida - 3 updates (1 LTE) Southern Connecticut - 6 updates (6 LTE) Southern Jersey - 2 updates (1 LTE) Tampa - 7 updates (3G) The Panhandle - 2 updates (3G) Tucson/Yuma - 3 updates (2 LTE) Upper Central Valley - 9 updates (2 LTE) Upstate NY Central - 1 update (3G) Utah - 34 updates (1 LTE, 32 CDMA 800) VT/NH/ME - 3 updates (1 LTE, 1 new 3G site) Washington DC - 1 update (1 LTE) West Iowa/Nebraska - 8 updates (8 LTE) West Kentucky - 7 updates (3G) West Michigan - 5 updates (5 LTE) West Virginia - 17 updates (17 CDMA 800) West Washington - 42 updates (12 LTE) Winston/Salem - 1 update (1 LTE) Maps are updated. Robert Links: Comments regarding this thread, NV Sites Complete Map

It involves having a 5x5 chunk of spectrum available, and installing an LTE carrier card on the LTE module in the base cabinet. Only after the B25 LTE RRU is full of carriers (typically 4) would you have to install another RRU on the tower structure. Additional antenna panels would only be required if all the PCS antennas are full capacity. Then another panel would be required. For most sites and most deployment scenarios, adding a second or third B25 LTE carrier is a matter of installing the card, a few hours of provisioning/integration, and most importantly, available spectrum to use it. Not a difficult process at all, really. Robert

Like digiblur mentions, most places are covered with more than one roaming partner. And a lot of the removes just don't exist anymore. Like Alltel and Revol. Robert