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It could be any site. However, the one at Cesar Chavez High School really is intriguing to me. It's also on public property and will be easier to access, most likely. Robert

Good idea. Done!

It was news to me too. Hey, maybe you can go check out this site? It looks like it is built into the light standard to a High School football field. Maybe you can take some pics? I wonder if these new sites will be built to Network Vision standards? Doesn't make sense to build a new site, then go right back in 6 months and NV it! Robert

No. I know of 344, plus now these two. Robert

I have created the new thread for submitting discovered new "towers" from network.sprint.com. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/685-help-needed-networksprintcom-has-added-some-new-sites-please-cull-your-area-and-submit-to-this-thread/

ATTENTION S4GRU Members! Thanks to S4GRU Member BenChase7, we now know there are additional sites that Sprint has recently decided to add and they have been added to the network.sprint.com website. I am requesting that all of you cull the Sprint maps in your area and post any new "towers" below in this thread. Please include either a city and nearest crossroads, or ideally, GPS coords. A screenshot could be nice too, but not required. I am going to take these new sites and add them to our maps. I can't go through the whole country, but we now have enough members that all of you could dig up the dirt easily on your area! Thanks for your help! Robert

I see them now. Good find! These are sites Sprint has decided to add since October 1st, because they are not in my database. Sprint is adding ~340 sites in Network Vision. So there are sites being added. Just not many. However, these new ones are in addition to the 300+ already to be added. I am going to start a thread asking people to review network.sprint.com in their area and submit any new sites they find so we can get them added to our database! Robert

Update, as of today: 604 S4GRU Members (20.8% increase) 1,091 Twitter Followers (1.3% increase) 921 Facebook Fans (1.9% increase) 163 Google+ Circlers (3.1% increase) Averaging 13,000+ page views per day (8.3% increase) 85 S4GRU Sponsor Members, donating $9.91 on average (112% increase in sponsors, 10.8% decrease in avg donation) 6 S4GRU Premier Sponsors, donating $104.16 on average (20% increase in premier sponsors, 0.08% decrease in avg donation)

I couldn't locate anything on the Sprint Network maps marked new. I started in Glendale and started working out in concentric circles. Clicked on every one. Where are you getting new sites? I couldn't find any new sites in the Sprint coverage tool. I'm lost. Robert

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I will look into these site adds when I get back in front of my computer. Robert via NOVO7PALADIN Tablet using Forum Runner

AFAIK, they are handled by Ericsson and their Sprint nationwide network management contract. Robert via NOVO7PALADIN Tablet using Forum Runner

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I just died a little today after seeing this. Robert

Yeah, me either. That's one of the things that we try to do around here, educate the masses. I have learned a lot myself since starting S4GRU. I learn more every day! Robert

It's definitely viable. Sprint just needs to do it. Robert

The variability between dates at different sites is amazing in many instances. Robert

I have no idea. However, here is the info you requested on backhaul: CH03XC430 Backhaul Ready: 4/25/21012 (E) RRU Install: 3/9/2012 (A) 3G OnAir: 3/30/2012 (E) 4G OnAir: 6/28/2012 (E) CH03XC432 Backhaul Ready: 2/3/21012 (A) RRU Install: 2/7/2012 (A) 3G OnAir: 4/9/2012 (E) 4G OnAir: 6/14/2012 (E) This document is dated 3/30/2012. A means "actual", E means "estimated." In the first one, the backhaul will not be live until the end of the month. The second one, the backhaul is already ready. Neither one of them had NV 3G live on 3/30. And it appears that only the first one has gone live since then. It seems that for the most part Chicago is running a week behind schedule. It's likely you are still on a legacy signal on the other site, even though the work is underway. If you are running slower speeds on the first site, then that makes sense since the enhanced backhaul is not currently live there. This must be chaos for the subcontractors keeping track of all the sites they have to go back to and hookup new backhaul to when ready. Notice the 4G live dates in Chicago are not until June. Robert

Dino...you probably have more details then what I have from your site visit in Marengo. I had a Samsung RF Engineer tell me this is an e-mail, "The Hampshire cluster is problematic. It was one of our first goes in Chicago beyond the FITs. We are still troubleshooting." That's all I know. I received that e-mail over 2 weeks ago. That engineer has not responded to any follow up e-mails since. Maybe he will read this and respond? Yes, please. Photos, screenshot of tests and tower location would be fantastic! The market is spectrum limited in the sense that the busiest sites have all their spectrum available in the market fully allocated. However, only approx. 10% of sites have their spectrum fully used. So approx. 90% of the market can still add more EVDO and Voice carriers if needed. In places where they have fully deployed spectrum and still need more carrier capacity, all is not lost. They can add additional sites in the area and reduce the burden off these sites. These is a great solution for Sprint, but expensive. It is much less expensive and faster just to add carriers to existing sites than planning, building out and operating new sites for capacity. Robert

They do. But we don't. We are lucky just to have use of AJ's spectrum analyzer. Those things are very expensive. Robert

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