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Every one that I have schedules for. Which is almost all of them. And yes, they include LA Metro and SF Bay. Robert

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Now that is the epitome of ridiculous. Robert

The answer officially is no. Up until today, I have only heard that they are removing all iDEN, on every site. And on iDEN only sites, they had no plans to add back CDMA/LTE. However, today I heard the first credible rumor that Sprint is looking at a few strategic iDEN only sites for CDMA/LTE expansion. I have no more details than this at this time. And it is just a rumor, but the source is someone I trust. I hope it pans out...for us, and for Sprint. Robert

Indianapolis Status: LTE Launched/NV Upgrades Complete/LTE Deployment Continues NV Sites Accepted = 100% LTE Sites Accepted = 93% LTE Launched = December 18, 2012 (Anderson/Muncie launched 11/26/2012) Original Scheduled Completion = May 2013 Complete = January 2014

by Robert Herron Sprint 4G Rollout Updates Friday, June 15, 2012 - 12:40 PM MDT S4GRU has now completed schedule updates for all the official Sprint announced markets, but we will keep trekking along with schedule updates on the unofficial markets. The next market in our Network Vision/LTE deployment schedule update series is...Austin, Texas. This market has not been announced by Sprint, but it is on the way for an August launch, and work is already under way in this market. Sprint's Network Vision OEM Ericsson initially deployed to the Austin market quite early, starting work back in December 2011. Ericsson established their 4G LTE FIT (field testing) areas around Waco. There are already 20 sites in the Greater Waco area with live LTE. And work is just about to begin in other parts of the market, including in the Austin Metro area. Network Vision Sites in the Austin market. Twenty sites are complete in the market around Waco. All of these broadcasting Sprint LTE, and many of them are not even being blocked at this time. 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, in recently seen correspondence, Sprint has decided to move up launches sooner than 50% completion in many instances. This is likely to maintain a Mid 2012 launch in markets that have already been announced. However, in an unannounced market like Austin, 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 Austin market, it would make the launch month in September (should Ericsson stay on schedule). That being said, if Sprint should launch around August 1st (as we suspect), then the market would be well under 50% complete. This doesn't sound like enough, but it would provide pretty good coverage. A little known item is not even Verizon launches 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 August, these are the anticipated sites that would have LTE complete at that time. This would provide fairly good LTE coverage over many parts of the market. Waco coverage would not change. Also, the College Station/Bryan areas are not scheduled to start until October. At market launch, some areas will be well covered with LTE, and others may be kind of spotty. However, more sites will come online every week until the whole market is complete. And even with one or two bars of LTE signal on your device, you will still get speeds that are double to triple that of well performing 3G EVDO in most instances. And speaking of 3G EVDO, Sprint is reporting that most of the Network Vision sites around Waco have both 3G EVDO and 4G LTE complete. It is not known at this time if the sites due around Austin soon will have both 4G and 3G complete at the same time. Most of the other Ericsson markets are only reporting 4G LTE live at NV sites at the moment. The bottom line... We currently do not have a date that Sprint will formally "launch" the Austin market. We believe they are targeting a launch month of August based on reports internally within Sprint. LTE deployment is just about to really take off in the market here in Mid June and into July. Hopefully as these LTE sites complete, Sprint will allow them to be usable by Sprint LTE device holders in the area. Sprint's Network Vision schedule for this market currently has 20 Network Vision sites complete. Ericsson is plotting continual progress from here with production increasing up to a rate of almost 70 sites per month. S4GRU has poured over the schedule in this market and sees a November 2012 completion date. In our estimation of the schedule, Ericsson may be challenged to complete such a high rate of sites monthly, but it is possible with the appropriate amount of resources. Photo of Austin skyline 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

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There are two sites around Catano. The site near Hwy 5/165 off Calle Barbosa will start to be worked on until early July. The one north of Catano off Hwy 869 on the rooftop of the twin mid rise buildings will not start work until September. However, the 4G Core in Bayamon will not likely be ready before Fall. So sites that get upgrades before the core is ready will only be broadcasting upgraded 3G. And once the 4G core is live to serve the whole island, then the already completed sites will start broadcasting 4G LTE. Robert

Excellent! Let us know what you see. Now you know exactly where to go. Maybe you can take some pictures. It is right behind the back corner of that strip mall. Robert

The location shown on NetMonitor appears to be off. It looks like this is Site# HO03XC328. Which is on a monoploe behind a strip mall at Jones Road and Crescent Moon. It's less than a half mile from you, and about 2/3 mile south of where NetMonitor shows. It was scheduled to be complete at the end of May. So this is probably the site. Robert

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Agreed. We only use between 100 and 200 minutes a month between all four of our lines because most of our calls are mobile to mobile. Robert

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Yeah...but if you think about it, it should be called AnyoneButSprintUsers.com! Sorry...I shouldn't say that. But I can't even read a network thread over there anymore without getting irate. Robert

I didn't take it as negative. You were explaining things the way you see it from the info you have, and I had an opportunity to share things from my perch. No biggie at all. Robert