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Definitely a mediocre signal. If you live in a wood frame structure then you may be able to maintain a usable signal in the interior of your home. However, if you have a metal, brick, block or concrete building then there is no way to keep a -107 RSRP signal going to the interior. You will need to closer site to come live to have good 4G. However, this is definitely progress. Robert

I don't think you are connected to that site. Your speeds would be faster and you would have a strong connection that wouldn't want to drop. What was your LTE RSRP signal in your LTE Engineering screen? Bars don't mean anything for LTE signal. Robert

According to my source, two sites had 4G LTE accepted from Ericsson yesterday in the NOLA Market. The site at I-10/I-510 and the one at I-10 and Power Blvd in Kenner. I am updating the second site as In Progress now as it was not on the maps yet. If any of you are over near those sites today, check out and see if you can connect to LTE. And if you do, make sure to run Sensorly. Thanks! Robert EDIT: These two sites will remain In Progress until next week's update. I only add In Progress sites between updates.

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No. Not LTE. Never. When it is correct, it is only coincidentally correct. Like when a broken clock shows the correct time twice a day. The only time that LTE will be shown in the correct location in NetMonitor is if you are connected to 1x at the same exact site. There is no way to verify you are connected to the same site or not, so depending on NetMonitor to locate LTE will yield poor results. LTE doesn't broadcast coordinates that your device can use, so it can not be located by any app. However, 1x does broadcast its location. Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

I don't want the NYC thread to go on a tangent about complaining about networks that have not been launched. I personally think it is silly, but it is derailing the intent of this thread. April, call Sprint as much as you want to. We cannot take that away from you. But I want this thread to talk about new sites and areas deploying and even outages. But not complaints and rants. Feel free to tell us where a site has stopped operating. And tell us when it comes back on. This is happening at sites all over the country in unlaunched areas. Our members appreciate hearing the latest going on in everyone's neighborhoods. However, complaining about Sprint right in the middle of active deployment is wasted energy. And posting about it negatively flirts with the line of violating our posting guidelines. Other carriers do not have this problem, because other carriers don't allow us to use their LTE networks early as each site completes. If Sprint was deploying like AT&T or Verizon you wouldn't be using LTE anywhere in NYC at the moment. They would wait until the whole area was complete. There are advantages and disadvantages to using sites early. But personally, I think it's better for customers to be able to use LTE any time it is available. And for you April right now, it is not available. And probably will be soon. I would appreciate if everyone gets back on topic now. Thanks. Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

Smaller regional carriers should be deploying LTE before the big boys in smaller communities. This is the best way to compete, IMO. That's why USCC is shunting several PCS markets to Sprint, because they had no path to upgrade those communities to LTE with the spectrum they had. Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

3G EVDO speeds of 2+ Mbps are not sustainable at a busy site at peak times. However, Sprint can maintain sites to run 1 Mbps peak speeds and up to 2.65 Mbps off peak speeds with proper network maintenance and carrier upgrades. Anything above 1 Mbps is just gravy. Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

Wow. There is no way I can tell from that photo. Sorry. Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

A site went live near Jupiter last Thursday too. Thanks for supporting S4GRU. Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

I was hoping you would. These are from site dispatch reports. These are new to me. I'd love to get some verification. They may have started already. They may be about to start. I'm not sure in what stage these sites are in exactly. Let me know what you find. Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

Who cares about USCC? Sprint is actively deploying in the entire Nashville market. And before some other worthy markets I might add. Work should be starting very soon in the Knoxville area, if not already. Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

Hobe Sound is the far south end of the Orlando market. The site went live last Thursday. It is shown on the NV Sites complete map in our Sponsor section. I'm looking forward to LTE appearing in my area. Congrats. Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

There is no app on Android nor iPhone that shows which LTE site you are connected to. They only show the 1x site you are connected to. And even the accuracy of that is variable. Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

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I agree that WiMax is less than ideal. But that being said, Puerto Rico only had WiMax Protection Sites. Protection sites are deployed with zero downtilt to maximize coverage. This only made the penetration problem worse. In fully deployed and appropriately dense network conditions, WiMax performed OK. But Sprint LTE is superior in every way. Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

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When Clearwire stopped deploying WiMax they had only enough money to pay for one year of operations. That would leave nothing to continue deployment. Clearwire would have loved to deploy in the markets they had already planned because they believed in their retail model and thought they would make a lot more revenues in these additional markets. Clearwire didn't really start messing with Sprint until Sprint started coming down on them about the retail strategy. When Clearwire started running out of money, Sprint started pushing them to abandon their retail. Retail stores were burning cash on overhead and labor. And Clearwire was having to spend a lot of money on advertising to try to prop up their retail business. Retail never paid for itself and lost a lot of money. Since Clearwire shuttered their retail strategy eventually, it turned out Sprint was right. And the billion bucks CLWR spent on it was wasted. That billion bucks would have paid for WiMax deployment in a dozen or more markets. Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

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You know that Clearwire fully intended to deploy in San Diego. They had the design complete and started permitting. They ran out of money. And Clearwire tried to sell spectrum twice since then and no one offered a bid. Please stop with the pipe dream that there were other uses. If someone had a good use for it, Clearwire would have sold it to them for a good price if they were approached all the way until Sprint offered to buy them out. Also, half of Clearwire spectrum came FROM colleges and universites. EBS spectrum was even more under utilized by schools than before Clearwire got a hold of it. That was the very definition of fallow spectrum. You can guarantee that Sprint will put that spectrum to better use than Clearwire ever did. Robert

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Yeah, it must be from a distant site. On the 11th floor you are above the ground clutter and have a clear shot to the site. Robert

Sprint's LTE network is LTE Advanced ready. It is just a software upgrade for them. However, Carrier Aggregation will require a site visit. But until Sprint decides to start making devices that support CA (and they may never do so), then this is a moot point. Robert

I have not noticed any difference in battery life with LTE on the GS3, Note 2, EVO LTE, Photon Q and the Victory. However, I did notice a reduction in battery life on the Viper and Galaxy Nexus in my device testing while using LTE. Carrier Aggregation uses LTE in two different paths having double strain on battery life during active data sessions. Carrier Aggregation does not have any impact on battery in standby, because it reverts to using data only on one carrier when not actively using data. Robert

I edited that out earlier today in several places, but missed the one you reference. Thanks. Robert