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Unless you have some abusers on your sector, I would say it is unlikely. But since you are in a launched market, I would call and complain to Sprint and get a ticket opened. Insist on a ticket. That way someone who knows what they're doing will have to investigate your site. I'm thinking it is backhaul related. If the backhaul is not functioning properly, it may bog down during the day, especially if it came from an ILEC. They can then get the backhaul provider to do what is necessary to meet the contract requirements to fix the problem. If the airlink is saturated, then Sprint can then identify the abusers and perhaps take actions against them. Because it would be very difficult for the air link in your sector to be saturated yet with normal usage. There are not enough Sprint LTE devices out there yet. The switching to 3G is likely unrelated. I see in your iPhone signal strength indicator that you have a pretty weak LTE signal. At the edge of service, going in and out of 3G/4G is common. In fact, this probably the reason why your speeds are low. The nearest site to you probably still isn't live with LTE. Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

Yes. However, I have always read in docs that Ground Mount sites do not get 800MHz deployments. However, the term no touch I had never seen before these Wakulla County drawings were sent to me. These ground mount no touch sites appear to be CDMA 1900 only because they are not changing the panels. And the panels can only support CDMA 1900. Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

If I was placing money on it, I'd say nay. Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

Technically it is 800 SMR and Cellular 850. Because technical autocrats of technology have technically deemed it so. Technically and literally are two distinct concepts. Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

And yet it's not. Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

This is common in unlauched markets. Sometimes the signals come and go. It will be back soon Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

It showed up in the update today. It is on US 441 between Lady Lake and Fruitland Park. It will be in the next Sponsor map update. Robert

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In New Mexico, building permits are run by the State. They have a website. You can pull permits if you have the actual physical address of the site. Not the one Google Maps or GeoBatch says it is. But the one used on the permit when filed with the CID. And it has to be exact. And they only give you dates, and plan review comments. They almost never have plans attached electronically. Robert

I have a request of S4GRU Members. Please go through all your permit jurisdictions in your area and see if you can come up with plans like Wakulla County, Florida in this link: http://www.mywakulla...-12/SP12-16.pdf If you find some, send them to me, please. I would like to look at several sets of plans of Ground Mount RRU's and see if they all have no LTE like the one above. It may be an isolated site. And that's fine, if so. But if it is correct that all Sprint sites with ground mounted RRU's get no LTE, then I feel perhaps, we may collectively at S4GRU lodge our protest to Sprint. And maybe even plea with SoftBank. Sprint needs to install LTE on its entire network. Not only is it a commitment they have made, but also, they need it to be competitive. Also, rural areas should not get the middle finger by Sprint. LTE for all! Robert

I don't see RRU's. This is the fourth site in the South now shown as 3G only complete that has not shown NV panels. I'm starting to fear that all these 3G sites popping up in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi may be like this site in the Panhandle of Florida: http://www.mywakulla...-12/SP12-16.pdf The site referenced in the PDF is called out as a Ground Mount RRU's/No Touch Site. If you read through the PDF, you will see that this site is not getting LTE. In Sprint docs I have seen to date, I have only seen Ground Mount RRU's/No 800. I had never seen one that said Ground Mount RRU's/No Touch Site. But when I look in the site database for this site in Florida, it says "Ground Mount RRU's/No 800." Uhh ohh. Have they changed their mind and now sites that have Ground Mount RRU's will now not get new panels and LTE at all??? I sure hope not. I hope the Florida site above is an isolated case. We have always been told there would be sites that would not get LTE. And I have been told these would only be one hundred or so where they could not deploy LTE. But there are thousands of sites nationwide that have Ground Mount RRU's, hundreds in my market alone. Sprint promised LTE over their entire 3G network, and I hope they are not pulling back on that. I have a lot of Ground Mount RRU sites in my market, in my area. Heck, even next to my home. If these sites are never getting LTE, it may change my whole view of Network Vision. My whole view of the LTE deployment. My whole view of Sprint and maybe even my whole view of S4GRU. This is a big deal to me. I do hold out hope, though. There is a Shentel ground mount RRU site in Mont Alto, Pennsylvania that has LTE. I have a member in that area going to try and get us pics soon. But Shentel may do their own thing, regardless of Sprint. This my plea...Dan. Listen to me! There is no reason these ground mount only sites cannot have LTE. The sites may not be able to handle the weight and/or wind load of the RRU's mounted next to the panel, and they may not be able to handle legacy panels and NV panels together, but surely they can handle one NV panel by itself connected to a ground mounted RRU. We would rather you do a hot swap on these sites and be without service a few days than to never have LTE at all. I am waiting to see what they do at my site. But they have only installed one ground mounted RRU per sector. I'm getting a little nervous. The electrician said it is an LTE upgrade he is working on, but he may think all the sites he visits are LTE upgrades, even if not. One third of the sites in the Albuquerque market are slated for Ground Mounted RRU's. It would be very tragic if all of them were bypassed for LTE. Very tragic. Robert

It was sent to me from a member. Robert

AJ has theorized that removable SIM's will come about with Sprint after the sunsetting of the Nextel iDEN network. iDEN devices use SIM cards. Robert

Over in the Sponsor section, you would see the adjacent site locations which are not live yet. They are within the current LTE signal of this site. It will provide sufficient overlapping coverage that there should be no gaps in coverage in the city when the deployment is complete. Currently this live site is an island Robert

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No. The signal will not get bigger. They engineer the size of the cell intentionally. The signal can only slightly overlap the signal from the next cell. Otherwise, interference from adjacent cells will be too great. Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

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It was a late night last night followed by an early morning this morning. I think I need another cup of coffee. Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

Lots. First off, 3G is only complete in the Exurbs. There are massive amounts of 3G NV work still to be done in the urban parts of the City and the Inner Suburbs. Around late September, they stopped focusing on 3G and went into 4G deployment overdrive. Skipping lots of sites from getting 3G upgrades and prioritizing LTE deployment. They are just now starting to go back and pick up the 3G sites they skipped in the Inner parts of the market. If you were a Sponsor, you'd see the maps showing where 3G and 4G work has been done around the Chicago market to date. Additionally, there is one big problem in Chicago with Sprint 3G even beyond Network Vision. Spectrum availability. Chicago has been a spectrum constrained market for Sprint for a long time. Even at a Network Vision upgraded site, if that site already has the maximum amount of EVDO carriers that the available amount of spectrum can support, nothing more can be done. However, only about 10-15% of sites in the Chicago market are maxed out like this. But as traffic grows, more and more will be affected. Sprint does have a long term solution to the spectrum problem. They recently announced that they are purchasing another 20MHz of PCS spectrum from USCC in the Chicago area. This will give them the ability to add more EVDO and LTE carriers in th Windy City for years to come. But it will be awhile before Sprint gets ahold of that spectrum and can start deploying it. In the interim, if you are a Sprint customer in the Chicago market for the next few years you will need a LTE device. Because when you encounter one of those spectrum maxed out 3G sites, you will need to be on LTE to be able to keep your data moving. And LTE may even offer some relief on those 3G sites that cannot have capacity increased in time. The LTE network has more options that can be deployed sooner to keep it more robust. Like additional carriers on 800 SMR and TD-LTE on 2600. Those can start being deployed in just 6-7 months. Robert

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Yes. This market deployment is under way. Let us know what you see, You can also keep members updated by discussing in the thread for this market here: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/2182-network-visionlte-riversidesan-bernardino-market-inland-empire/ Robert

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