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And LTE 800 will not have a hugely larger coverage area than CDMA 1900. The signal will just be stronger within the coverage area. But it will be much better than LTE 1900. In my testing of VZW LTE 750, the LTE signal did not extend much farther than CDMA 1900. And had nowhere near the coverage of VZW CDMA 850. But within the area covered by CDMA 1900, the LTE 750 signal strength was pretty darn good. But once you traveled outside of the CDMA 1900 area and into the fringe LTE 750 area, the signal degraded quickly. If you look at a VZW coverage map, they show the areas that would essentially be out of CDMA 1900 coverage as "Extended LTE coverage". Meaning you may or may not get a signal. But if you do, it will be weak. But as with every single site and sector, it will come down to how it is deployed. A boomer site with panels set with no downtilt will have LTE 800 stretch a long, long way. Especially in the plains. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

Interesting. So if I read that correctly, it sounds like they do not issue unique PNs for femtocells and they use the same generic ones to allow handoffs. Never thought about that before. I wonder if this is just commercial femtos or if it includes the customer femtos too? Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

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There are already quite a few LTE sites live around the Peoria area. Haven't you used them, yet? It should be evidence that the upgrade is occurring. Samsung has pretty much finished all the physical upgrades to the network in the Peoria area. However, the LTE can only be turned on at each site as high speed internet backhaul arrives and is connected. So the remaining sites around Peoria will come online one at a time over the next 6 months or so. Sprint is a mobile wireless service. It is not a home ISP. Most of us don't use LTE in our home, we use WiFi. We use LTE where we go. I personally don't care if my home has LTE, I just need a strong voice signal at home. But ideally, I would like LTE from my driveway and the places I go from there. And maybe that's what you mean when you say you want LTE at home. If you are only looking to use Sprint unlimited because you want to use it at home, let me be the first to encourage you to switch providers. I think you can expect to have a pretty consistent coverage area around Peoria within 6 months. Especially if you have a device that supports Band 26 by then. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

Also, being in a Samsung market, I wouldn't rule out CSFB. If you are farther away from the LTE site in a place with a lighter shade area, you are more likely to be connected to a different 1x site than the LTE site. And that 1x site may not be running CSFB. If that were to happen, you would not connect to LTE until you got closer to the LTE site and connected to the same 1x site. However, a single band LTE device would not have this problem, allowing it to map on Sensorly out to the end of the LTE signal regardless of whatever 1x site it was connected. You can test this by putting your S4GT in LTE only mode and driving around back over the Sensorly coverage area. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

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A fair comparison in your area. I would only add that Tmo has announced their 700 timelines. They said they would begin deployment and selling 700 capable devices near the end of 2014. They will not even get FCC approval to buy this spectrum until the middle of the year. Additionally, Tmo has also dropped the names of several markets they will begin with, and none of them were Grand Rapids. So they may not do Grand Rapids for awhile after they start 700 deployment. That is an unknown at this time. We also don't know in which markets they will expand 700 coverage outside of major metro areas. Tmo has not committed to expanding 700 over all their EDGE/GPRS sites in areas where it has licenses. Tmo's non urban 700 deployment plans are unclear. They have only made comments like "future" and we will be "expanding coverage". But the scope is always vague. They have never made a commitment to convert the whole network, with or without 700MHz licenses. Sprint LTE 800 will likely fill in all the LTE coverage holes in cities and towns, including Grand Rapids. But the problem will likely be that in the places where you only get LTE 800 signals, the network has a higher chance of getting congested. Grand Rapids needs much greater densification (as you've outlined). The conversion of the WiMax network will help this tremendously. I hope Sprint also converts many of these unique WiMax sites to full Network Vision. Probably the only less dense market in the U.S. than Grand Rapids is likely Baton Rouge. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

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I'm not in the mood to be mocked. I think you have completely misunderstood my posts. I am discussing how the one accepted LTE site on our maps is not actually a site and is not broadcasting to the public. You are discussing a Sensorly report. I am trying to explain to you that the signal from Sensorly IS NOT COMING FROM THE DATA CENTER. If any other phantom signals appear, they also will not be coming from the data center. The Hawaii market is receiving NV deployments. The signal could very well be coming from a site in progress. I try to run around and provide helpful information to 98 markets. I don't appreciate being "mocked" by you for giving you good information about yours. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

They are deploying Band 25 LTE in the Norfolk market. They are not deploying Band 41 Spark, yet. However, we cannot fault the Sprint store, as Sprint is causing mass confusion in what is called Spark anymore. Robert

OK. Sounds good. Robert

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In a Samsung market, they can only do CSFB one site at a time, unfortunately. Robert

Band 41 LTE (Spark) is currently only being deployed on existing WiMax markets. We have schedules of this work in the Premier Sponsor section. The Hampton Roads is not a WiMax market. In the 2nd Quarter of 2014, Sprint is planning to start deploying Band 41 on Network Vision sites. We have not seen schedules yet of this work. We don't know where the Norfolk market will shake out at this time. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

Ericsson wasn't really getting any sites 3G accepted nine months ago. They started doing 3G really late, I'm sure you remember. Please provide details of what they were doing exactly and what you saw when the 3G was being flipped on in front of you. We have had workers tell our members in the past that both sides were being integrated before and them be dead wrong. Also, please provide me the Site ID # and I will have a source specifically double check the Sprint databases to see if the site has indeed been signed off complete and accepted. Since we are human beings handling data for 75,000 sites (incl. Clearwire and Nextel databases), we are certainly not above making mistakes. There are no systematic issues of Ericsson not reporting 3G sites, though. But there are also reasons why a site can be broadcasting legitimately and not accepted. We receive acceptance reports, not on air reports. They generally are about the same time...acceptance and on-air. Acceptance means everything has been signed off as acceptable and the Contractor can be paid for his work. Sometimes a site can be done enough to be fully functional and allowed to go on-air, but something on the site is not good enough to be accepted complete. And if that item or items does not hinder the customer experience, the site could be in the condition where it can be live but not accepted. And if it is a cluster launch, then they really will not hold up turning on a whole cluster because of some minor things holding up acceptance of one site. A site can sit there languishing for months waiting for something minor to be corrected. It would likely stay that way until the Contractor finally wants to get paid for that site and makes an effort to double back and finish up some stragglers. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

It is in the city. On dozens of sites. More every month. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro

All Triband devices are affected. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro