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Sprint is playing catch up. Network Vision will bring improved 3G and a ubiquitous 4G LTE network. Robert

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Let us know if Sprint allows you to cancel the order. Sprint wasn't allowing customers to cancel their EVO LTE orders, but customers could deny deliveries and get a refund after the fact. Maybe they will allow it with this one. Robert

Jacksonville Status: LTE Launched/NV Upgrades Substantially Complete/Difficult Sites Remaining NV Sites Accepted = 98% LTE Sites Accepted = 97% LTE Launched = July 30, 2013 (Gainesville/Palatka launched 6/2013) Original Scheduled Completion = March 2013 Substantial Completion = July 2014

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Springfield is in an active Network Vision deployment area. Whether or not you will get active LTE by the date quoted will be interesting to see if it pans out. Keep us posted. Thanks for the info. Robert

I believe Sprint already overnights pre-orders. Robert

This is very true. However, I think you will remember my tone being similar when the EVO LTE was delayed I did not have a GNex nor a EVO LTE back then. But I did have the E4GT, which was the best device Sprint had at the time. So I guess that only further makes your point. Robert

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I personally don't know anyone who uses over the air television anymore. I know they exist. I just don't know them. Robert

That is not known at this time definitively. However, since the delay is being caused by Samsung and not Sprint, it is believed that it affects all outlets of pre-orders. Robert

by Robert Herron Sprint 4G Rollout Updates Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - 6:35 PM MDT Whether you call it the District, DC or simply Washington doesn't much matter. Soon we will be able to call it a Sprint 4G LTE city. The next market in our Network Vision/LTE deployment schedule update series is...Washington, D.C.. This market has not been announced by Sprint, but appears to be on the way for a late August launch. The Sprint Washington DC market covers all of the District Columbia, and the Maryland and Virginia DC suburbs. Sprint's Network Vision OEM Alcatel/Lucent has been actively deploying in the Washington DC market since March and is making good progress. As of this week, there are approximately 50 Network Vision sites that have completed upgrades. These sites are located throughout the market. Mostly in D.C. and the Maryland side, but sites are now starting to come live on the Virginia side. Network Vision Sites in the Washington DC market. Approximately fifty Network Vision sites are complete in the market. Market Launch and Remaining Schedule It was Sprint's original plan to launch markets when they reached 50% of sites converted to Network Vision. However, it has now been determined that Sprint will move up launches sooner than 50% completion in several markets. This is likely to maintain a Mid 2012 launch in markets that have already been announced. However, in an unannounced market like DC, we don't know if they will resume pushing back market launches to 50%, or if they will now settle on a 30% - 40% completion to be the new normal for market launches. If Sprint waits for 50% completion to launch the DC market, it would make the launch month to be September (should AlcaLu stay on schedule). That being said, if Sprint should launch around the third week of August (as we suspect), then the market would be less than 50% complete. This doesn't sound like enough, but it would provide pretty good coverage. Even Verizon doesn't launch on all sites in a market initially. Usually less than 50%, then filling in with more and more sites every few months. Anticipated Sites Complete at Market Launch. According to the Network Vision schedules that S4GRU has reviewed, if Sprint launched the market in late August, these are the anticipated sites that would likely have LTE complete at that time. This would provide fairly good LTE coverage over many parts of the market. Sprint is not reporting any of these live Network Vision sites in the DC market as currently broadcasting 4G LTE, only 3G EVDO. According to the NV schedule, these should have started coming online in May with LTE. However, none have shown up as LTE active to date. This most likely means that either the backhaul is not quite ready to service 4G LTE, or the 4G cores that these sites are tied to are not quite ready for LTE traffic. A huge backlog of LTE sites will probably come online in this market suddenly when the network is ready. The bottom line... We currently do not have a date that Sprint will formally "launch" the Washington DC market. We believe they are targeting a launch month of August based on reports internally within Sprint. However, after reviewing the schedule, it may actually pan out to be late August or the first of September. Sprint will likely announce a launch date for this market, and a few others like Austin, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles around the time of the first launch. Sprint's schedule for this market currently has 50 Network Vision sites complete. Alcatel/Lucent is continuing to progress and is planning to increase the production rate up to 100 sites per month from here forward. This seems like an impossible production rate to us. S4GRU has examined the schedule in great detail in this market and sees that most of the sites will be complete by January 2013. However, there are several sites that will linger past the completion. In our estimation of the schedule, AlcaLu is currently right on time, but may have issues meeting this rate identified in Sprint's schedule. Photo of Washington, D.C. provided courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. NOTE: S4GRU Sponsor Members can track regular updates of Network Vision sites completed nationwide. Completed sites are shown in an interactive Google Maps interface. Information about sponsorship can be found here: S4GRU Sponsorship

Reading the comments over at Sprint in response to the posting is painful. Like Sprint decided to delay them. People need to get a grip. I'm disappointed, but whatcha gonna do? I'll be more than happy if they give me a gel case like they did with the EVO LTE. Robert

Thanks for the tip. I wrote an article about it: http://s4gru.com/ind...ly-16gb-models/ Robert

I can tell you which markets. Virtually all of them. What is in question is only markets near the Mexico and Canadian borders, but it sounds like Sprint and the FCC are working that out. I can also tell you that Sprint is aiming for approximately 80% of all NV sites to get LTE 800 in its initial deployment. The last 20% is mostly in areas with redundant coverage, so there will be not much detectable to the customer with that last 20%. LTE 800 will only be added on those 20% when additional capacity is needed. Robert

I specifically ordered the 32GB figuring that if one would have delays, it would be the 16GB. Shows you what I know. Robert

by Robert Herron Sprint 4G Rollout Updates Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - 3:33 PM MDT S4GRU received some sad news today when we found out that Sprint is experiencing delays in their preorders of the popular Samsung Galaxy S III. 16GB models will not arrive early of the June 21st national launch as originally planned, and at best, will arrive on June 21st. Some may even experience delays of a day or two. However, if you bought the 32GB model (like me), your delay will be until next week...well after the national launch of the device. So much for pre-order. See Sprint's comments below: Source: http://community.spr...lability-update Special thanks to S4GRU Member Adrian28 who tipped me to the story in our forums.

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The LG What??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA But, point taken. Robert

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to S4GRU. I am glad we can be a resource for you. That's what we're all about! Hope to see you around. Robert