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First site in the Wausau area had LTE accepted yesterday. It's between Edgar and Marathon City, along the freeway. Robert

Digiblur has a great PRL that gives you ability to get 3G EVDO roaming when off the Sprint network (instead of just 1x) and also will allow you to access any open 800MHz networks. It's great. Robert

We had the first 4G LTE site accepted in Central Jersey market yesterday since the FIT a year ago. It's near Flemington. Hopefully this mean LTE expansion is currently starting to get moving in the Central Jersey market. Maybe Southern Jersey soon? Robert

Alcatel Lucent was always the Network Vision vendor for this market. And Winston Salem was always going to be one of the last markets to start. Ericsson has the Network Maintenance contract, not NV deployment contract in your area. It is most likely there are 14 sites under way now, and then deployment will continue after them and the market will wrap up in the first quarter of 2014. If for some reason, it does end up happening like you say, it will be the only one of Sprint's 97 markets that went that way. There probably in some confusion in the communication chain. Another thing that it could be, is that in general, AlcaLu tends to deploy 3G first for manymonths, then comes back and does the 4G LTE light ups. So this may be what they're referring to. However, in the Raleigh/Durham and Charlotte markets, AlcaLu bucked the trend and did 4G LTE first. I guess we will know what's up soon on the NV Sites Complete maps over the Sponsor section. Every time Sprint accepts a site, S4GRU finds out and we update our Sponsor maps to show them. Robert

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The biggest benefit of rooting your Note 2 is to be able to use the DigiblurROM. You can install PRL files on the fly. Robert from Note 2 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

It is not completed, it is in progress. It is shown on the sponsor maps in the sponsor section of our site. Robert from Note 2 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

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2 blocks to 10 miles. There really is no such thing as a typical rough distance. For the reasons you cite, and more. What height are the antennas mounted? What is the downtilt of the panels? Where is the device in relation to the panels? Are there RF shadows caused by large buildings, hills or mountains? Every cell is specifically designed to cover an area. Very few cells are full sized at 5-10 miles. Most are engineered to be much smaller to provide a better signal and capacity in denser areas. Robert via Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

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It's hard to say with 100% certainty, but I feel good that the top rack is a Sprint Samsung NV install. Robert via Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

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They have started deployment over the entire Lower Rio Grande Valley. Sites will come online one at a time when each is complete. Robert via Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

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It's possible. Not something I've considered before. Robert via Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

Indeed. But I was excited just to see 1X on my display for the drive home. That was a welcome change in itself. Robert from Note 2 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

It's my understanding that some of the backhaul is complete, but they will bring up each island as a whole when all the sites are ready. Robert from Note 2 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

Got mine installed. Yeehaw! Thanks Digiblur! Robert from Note 2 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

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It is most likely that the WiMax site is closer to you than the LTE site. Because if Sprint 4G WiMax and Sprint LTE are on the same site, the LTE would likely have a stronger signal. Two reasons... Frequency. Sprint LTE is on 1900MHz. WiMax is on 2600MHz. Lower frequencies penetrates buildings better. So Sprint LTE will penetrate a building better and travel farther than WiMax when all things are equal. WiMax usability fades earlier than LTE. WiMax fades around -82dBm RSSI, whereas LTE will fade out around -93dBm RSSI. So even when WiMax and LTE are deployed on the same exact tower and same frequency, the LTE will travel farther and penetrate better. LTE is not finished being built out in the Dallas area, so it may get better. However, if you are closer to a Clearwire WiMax tower than any Sprint tower, then you may be in one of the unusual atypical places where the WiMax signal will be received, but LTE will not. It is very uncommon for that occur. Most customers will have a much better LTE signal than WiMax. But anomalies will occur in some of the locations where Sprint and Clearwire are not colocated on the same site. Robert

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