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attitude change Robert - Posted from my E4GT with ICS using Forum Runner

The biggest deal for Sprint adding service coverage through new sites is cost. Tower site leases, engineering, equipment. Sprint is not in the position to add sites at the moment. They are only adding sites in places where either... A. They are spending boatloads of money on roaming fees and thus adding coverage will be cheaper B. They have a lot of customers already in that area and they are very vocal Sprint is only adding approximately 50-100 sites per year currently. However, when Sprint wants to add a site, the first thing they try to do is identify a rough location of where the site should be ideally. Then they check the databases of their tower companies (American Tower, Crown & Castle, etc.) to see if they already have a tower with space available where it is needed. If they do, and they can come up with acceptable lease terms, they then proceed with engineering, permitting and eventually equipment ordering and deployment. In the fastest track, this takes 6 months. If there is no existing tower to work from, the costs and time it takes go up to a year or more. Because then they hire out a company to build a site that Sprint leases back. Sprint owns very few of its sites. They sold them off a few years ago. This is just a very basic explanation. Hope it helps. Robert - Posted from my E4GT with ICS using Forum Runner

Most of the E4GT LOS issues were related to 4G WiMax. If you kept the 4G antenna off, you were rarely affected. I only had LOS twice before the fix came out. And both times I was in Santa Fe and had my 4G on but not connected. Robert - Posted from my E4GT with ICS using Forum Runner

No. Albuquerque is dead last with 8 other "unnamed" markets. Robert - Posted from my E4GT with ICS using Forum Runner

I used to have this issue in my last home which was made of adobe. If I was on the side of the house closest to the tower, I would do pretty well. But the other side was a dead zone. Robert - Posted from my E4GT with ICS using Forum Runner

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When you get high up in buildings or on hill or mountains, the noise floor of your device goes way up. It can see and connect with too many sites and just keeps bouncing around. And even when it can lock onto something, there is much interference. It can can cause device chaos and crippling speeds. I have this issue when I climb mountains above Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Or when I stay in a casino in Vegas. Robert

I was hoping too. But I received final confirmation in February that will not happen. Robert

Nextel sites will not be upgraded to Network Vision. Only Sprint CDMA sites are being upgraded. Robert

There is no rhyme or reason to Sprint's market naming convention. Highly inconsistent. Robert

Mountain chain Robert - Posted from my E4GT with ICS using Forum Runner

Robert Herron Sprint 4G Rollout Update Monday, March 26, 2012 - 6:41 PM MDT Sprint continues its iDEN thinning plan that it announced a few months ago in full force. It is wrapping up the removal of 83 sites in the Nextel New Orleans market and readily preparing to mobilize nationwide in 20 of 21 remaining Nextel markets to do the same. Based on newly obtained internal documents, from mid April 2012 through the end of June, Sprint plans on decommissioning over 9,000 of Nextel's approximate 32,000 total site count. Just under one third the total Nextel iDEN network. This will save Sprint a lot of operational dollars in 2012. Might as well save a few bucks... It has been in the plans for some time now for Sprint to fully decommission the entire Nextel iDEN network in 2013. Sprint will be reusing the 800MHz SMR spectrum that Nextel's iDEN network currently uses and reallocate that to be used on its new Network Vision platform. The new uses will include CDMA voice (1xAdvanced) and 4G LTE for high speed data. These are seen as critical for mid and long term capacity, as well as helping Sprint customers with building penetration. It is no secret that Sprint is shedding Nextel subscribers at a high rate. And since the epitaph for the iDEN network has already been written, it makes a lot of financial sense for Sprint to start taking down many iDEN sites now, leaving a minimum amount of coverages left for the remaining Nextel subscribers. Sprint has said in the past that the Nextel network capacity was significantly over built in most urban areas in order to allow for future subscriber growth. The high growth rates never materialized post Sprint and Nextel merger. Sprint is largely identifying these extra sites for removal. These provide significant operational costs without much advantage. However, there have been anecdotal reports already that thinning in the New Orleans market has created reduced amounts of coverage. Those waskily wabbits!!! Sprint originally created a iDEN Thinning site to help customers understand what was going on. However, competing wireless carriers were using this data to try and specifically target affected customers in order to gain subscribers. Sprint has had to take the information offline because of the exploitative nature their competitors engaged in. Nextel's 22 Markets. Each Nextel market is shown with a number in blue listing number of sites before the 2012 Thinning and the number in green showing the number to remain after thinning. A total of 9,775 sites being taken offline. Click on image to enlarge. The select iDEN site decommissioning (thinning) has already started occurring in the New Orleans market and should be wrapped up completely by the middle of April. The rest of Nextel's market will begin in earnest in April. See market break downs below. April 2012 New Orleans (completes) Atlanta Baltimore/DC Minnesota Denver Pacific Northwest May 2012 Northern California Southern California New England Philadelphia St. Louis Syracuse Detroit Phoenix June 2012 Tennessee Texas New York Chicago Ohio Carolinas Florida Will not be thinned in advance Hawaii

LTE 1900 will out perform WiMax 2500 in every way, except capacity. It will penetrate buildings better, it will be faster (not because LTE is faster than WiMax, but because of how this network is being deployed). Basically, everywhere you get 3G EVDO now, you will get LTE 1900. Eventually, when Sprint starts selling 800 LTE devices and the 800 LTE network is operating, that LTE service with Sprint will be far better in coverage and penetration than 3G EVDO at 1900 is now. Robert

I don't think they are jumping all over your argument. They just see it differently. I get both idea camps on this one. Robert

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I've been rocking ICS FC18 on the E4GT for approx. 5 days now. It's the best ICS build now to date. Robert

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Ryan...Sprint will announce the market "Live" when it reaches 50% completion. They probably will only announce 100% complete in a Press Release after the fact, kind of like how they are announcing 3G band-aid fixes via PR's. LTE will be usable at each site once it is upgraded. So early LTE device holders will be discovering LTE service frequently in markets prior to official "live" market announcements and market completion. There are quite a few areas that will be going from 1x to LTE. We have members in Norfolk, NE and Niles, MI who are still on 1x. And the day their sites get EVDO for the first time will be the same time they get LTE. Part of me wants to laugh, however, I doubt customers in those areas think it is funny. Yeah, Sprint is not follwoing Clearwire's WiMax deployment strategy. It is completely different this time around. Apparently, beggars can indeed be choosers! Yes, all these areas are getting 4G LTE service on 1900. Only about 80% of them will get 4G LTE service on 800 in 2013, though. Sprint 3G EVDO will not be capable of 5Mbps speeds, even after Network Vision. The maximum real world ideal conditions 3G speeds that Sprint network will ever achieve is around 2.5Mbps. But realistic 3G speeds after NV will be more in the 1Mbps to 1.6Mbps range in most areas. Spectrum constrained markets will be more of a challenge for Sprint. LTE speeds will be highly variable from 4Mbps to 25Mbps, highly dependent on signal strength. Robert

Lots of guessing going on!!!

Dr. No Robert - Posted from my E4GT with ICS using Forum Runner