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    S4GRU

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    Im glad to see Sprints updating my area with 4G LTE but whats the deal with there phones? I just got a Photon 4G last weekend and Im reading lots of things that its wimax only. Can anyone confirm this? Ive read Sprint has no LTE phones yet and Ive read someone tested the Photon 4G from Sprint with a Verizon LTE sim card and connected to Verizons' LTE towers. I live right in between 2 of those towers in the Worcester area and work near another in Aubrun but I cant connect to 4G.

     

    The Photon is a WiMax only phone. It is impossible for any Sprint WiMax device ever built to run on Verizon LTE. Verizon LTE runs on 700MHz, which no Sprint WiMax device can do.

     

    If you don't have WiMax coverage now, you may want to return your WiMax device now and wait until 4/15 for a LTE device. LTE is being deployed in the Boston market (including Worcester), even as I type this.

     

    Robert, S4GRU.com

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    S4GRU

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    I tested my Driod RaZR MAXX on eHRPD after turning off the LTE radio and I get 2.5 megabits down during the middle of the day here in NYC. I am keeping my EVO with Sprint to preserve the unlimited data plan, but if Sprint get rid of it I will be done with them. With Verizon you get what you pay for.

     

    Perhaps, but VerizonNYC is not as nifty of a screen name. :P

    S4GRU

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    Robert: I've been checking your site every other day for updates on network vision an you have provided great info and updates. Please keep up the great work. I live in NYC in the county of Queens which is one of the 5 boroughs. If you get any info regarding sites that are up an running, let me know and i'll for sure take a drive around and do some tests. I wish I could go to boston and try for myself the 3G speeds and coverage.

     

    Thanks for the offer! And :welcome: to the site!

     

    Robert

    S4GRU

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    Robert, I live here in Orange Count, CA and would be glad to be a volunteer for you for this area since I drive all over OC here recording Sprint & Roaming towers on my Blackberry Bold 9930 using Signal Loc.I also travel the country here and have a trip planned for April to AR/TX that if you need me to report if Sprint has changed anything along there I can for the site here?Let me know.Shaun

     

    Thanks for the offer Shaun. If I have something come up in your area, I will PM you. Send me a PM before you travel and I will let you know of things that you may be able to look for on your itinerary.

     

    Robert

    S4GRU

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    If you get info like this for the LA Metro market, I would gladly volunteer to drive around and do speedtests.

     

    Eric, I am counting on you and others every time I can put together a list of completed sites for you all to go verify some/all of them. Thanks for the offer.

     

    Now if we can just get some folks in this area to go do some verification. I think Kevster is within 20 to 30 minutes from one or two of these.

     

    Robert

    S4GRU

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    Honestly I don't see the lack of 800 mhz LTE support as a deterrent for those that EVO or 3G customers from grabbing the Galaxy Nexus and LG Viper phones. Most customers don't even know about the 800 Mhz factor and lets be honest, a 4G LTE phone with 1900 Mhz is going to have faster speeds than any 4G Wimax phone or any 3G phone. They are just going to see LTE and going to relate that to AT&T and Verizon like speeds.I am kinda curious why the LTE band was only tested from 1852.5 - 1912.5 Mhz from the FCC? The PCS G block runs from 1910-1915 Mhz and 1990-1995 Mhz. I would have thought they would have to run testing from 1852.5 - 1915 Mhz to cover the entire PCS G block frequencies? Any insight on this?

     

    If you get into the full details, they did test out to 1915. https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/eas/GetApplicationAttachment.html?id=1651779

     

    LTE was tested in 5MHz channels. 1912.5 is likely the center point of that channel.

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    S4GRU

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    According to AJ, our in house Sprint spectrum resource, he said this about 800 licensing in Puerto Rico... "Regarding SMR 800 MHz in PR/VI, this is what I have dug up. It is still in the process of rebanding. Sprint does hold licenses, so Sprint may be able to deploy CDMA1X 800 and/or LTE 800 sometime in the future, but obviously not during initial Network Vision roll out. (Additionally) there is an iDEN 800 carrier in PR/VI: North Sight Communications. And it holds 3 MHz x 3 MHz of contiguous SMR 800 MHz spectrum." http://wireless2.fcc...se.jsp?licKey=6

    S4GRU

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    Interesting looking at that map. Sprint started Network vision in between New York and Philly.

     

    It should have been obvious to me, since the very first Network Vision announcement was related to a site conversion in Branchburg, NJ. Which is in the Central Jersey market. However, all of Sprint's schedules I've seen, including an update this week, still show Central Jersey as a Second Round market. But I have now confirmed that it is indeed underway. More sites coming live soon. Stay tuned.

    S4GRU

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    I work as a pharmacy technician in Pensacola, FL hwy 29 (pensacola blvd) and always have a bad connection for sprint 3G in the building, wish thier building had this, lol. Otherwise my home connection is fine. =^)

     

    I know people who have tried to take them to a workplace, but unless they work in IT, it usually doesn't work out for them. Getting it set up on a corporate network, with firewalls, etc. can be tough.

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