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by Robert Herron Sprint 4G Rollout Updates Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 5:40 PM MST Sprint 4G Rollout Updates has been notified of a covert new upgrade promotional titled "Upgrade Now Promotional - Trial." This is similar to one leaked a few weeks ago, but eligibility is a little less stringent this time. However, it is only limited to 21 out of the 97 Sprint markets, from now through April 14, 2012. The markets included: Atlanta / Athens, GA Charlotte, NC Chicago, IL Cincinnati, OH Cleveland, OH Columbus, OH East Kentucky East Michigan Ft. Wayne / South Bend Indianapolis, IN Jacksonville, FL Miami / West Palm, FL Milwaukee, WI Minnesota Nashville, TN Orlando, FL Raleigh / Durham, NC Tampa, FL West Kentucky West Michigan Winston / Salem, NC Only customers with a RLOF (Rebate Life on File) between 9 to 21 months are eligible and will need to pay a prorated fee to upgrade. Customers must go to a Sprint corporate store and be willing to sign a new 2 year service agreement. All devices are eligible, including the iPhone! An Upgrade Now Fee must be paid to to qualify for this upgrade promotion. The amount of the Fee is dependent on the remaining term left on your contract. See upgrade pricing below: Fee is based on how long it has been since the last upgrade on that line 9-11 months RLOF = $165 12-14 months RLOF = $125 15-17 months RLOF = $95 18-21 months RLOF = $55 Customers pay the lowest promotional price for the phone, the Upgrade Now fee and $36 activation fee. This is a covert thing, and Sprint will not likely be advertising it out. Sprint Customer Service Reps are not allowed to proactively share. But if a customer calls and asks, they are to be directed to a Sprint corporate store for the sale. This program will be managed at the store level, most likely to help retain customers unhappy with the fact that they are not eligible to upgrade at this time. Source: E-mailed From Sprint Source

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Starting deployment in Mid 2012? If you consider an August-October start to be Mid 2012, then yes. But not many. Come the end of 2012, the Non-WiMax market dam breaks loose. Assuming NV stays on schedule, of course. Stay tuned.

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It used to be much easier to find on Google, but with the migration to the new site, we have slipped quite a bit in search rankings. Hopefully we will recover and get back up to the top of Google soon!!!

I think a lot of the data I have would support that. I think Sprint will be live in a lot of the largest markets, complete or near complete around the beginning of October.

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Spence...no. I haven't bothered, yet.

Artem at Android Police posted that after our article: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-34-new-network-vision-and-lte-deployment-info-released-in-sprint-webinar-today/ I have a really good rapport with Artem. I wouldn't quite say we collaborate, but he retweets our stuff and covers our articles on occasion, and we do the same back.

Definitely. However, we will probably see it in the iPad first because of the additional real estate on board for additional antennas. Apple definitely needs to adopt LTE this year, or its going to start falling behind. But I'm concerned that they may not include all the LTE frequency sets of their current iPhone and iPad carriers. It would be really sad for Sprint if it gets left out of new LTE products. They need it to keep their numbers up to have any chance of meeting their numbers with Apple. Posted via Forum Runner

themuffinman...its one of the advantages of how Sprint is deploying Network Vision with three different vendors. But also keep in mind that each market is going to take 3 months to 8 months to complete depending on the number of sites. Additionally, we are even announcing cities that work hasn't even started in, yet. I believe Sprint doesn't want to announce these themselves for a couple of reasons. 1. They are trying to under promise and over deliver as a strategy 2. They are giving themselves room for changes and or delays with their NV partners due to permitting or local deployment issues that may occur. Also, NV has a huge learning curve for its vendors 3. Sprint said in a conference call last year that they may speed up or slow down NV deployment based on cash on hand to make payments. If they get far ahead of themselves in announcements, it removes some of that flexibility they may need

Rawvega...Baltimore was the first A/L market announced.

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by Robert Herron Sprint 4G Rollout Updates Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 3:33 AM MST OK, Sprint 4G Rollout Updates is prepared to name the third city that Sprint's Network Vision vendor Alcatel/Lucent is deploying during 2012...Washington, D.C. The District will soon be getting another LTE option, but this time via the Now Network. In the past few days, we announced that Sprint is working on Network Vision/LTE Deployment in the San Francisco Bay market and Boston market. And now we can tell you that the Sprint Washington DC market will begin Network Vision and LTE Deployment before mid year 2012. Sprint's DC market covers the District of Columbia and the adjacent Maryland and Northern Virginia suburbs. Alcatel/Lucent is preparing for mobilization and work should begin in a few months on converting its 900 sites to Network Vision. The entire market will take approximately 6 months to complete, wrapping up before the end of the year. The Baltimore Sprint market will have its 450+ sites fully converted and operational by the time DC comes online, making for a large contiguous super LTE cluster. Once complete, you will be able to run non stop on I-95 from Fredricksburg, Virginia, through DC and Baltimore all the way to Bel Air, Maryland with a continuous LTE signal. Sprint 4G Rollout Updates can bring you this information about 2012 deployment markets because we have been tipped off about Network Vision information from inside sources. With this information we are able to reasonably conclude how and when Sprint intends to deploy Network Vision and LTE in every market in the country. We will continue to scour through the data and gather deployment information for your use. It is our intent to provide at a minimum, all the Sprint markets that will likely begin Network Vision/LTE upgrades in 2012. And we intend to do so in a series of articles over the next few weeks. We will not likely announce communities slated for 2013, because the dates we hold for 2013 markets appear tentative and subject to change. With the many variables between now and 2013, Sprint could make significant shifts in deployment plans. Based on dynamic need change, funding, market permitting difficulties, etc. With the release of Washington, D.C. today, that brings the total of Network Vision markets announced to ten. Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Baltimore and Kansas City as announced by Sprint. Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and Washington, D.C. announced by Sprint 4G Rollout Updates. Stay tuned to Sprint 4G Rollout Updates. On Friday we will be announcing another Network Vision/LTE market that Alcatel/Lucent will be working to bring online for Sprint in 2012. Check in at S4GRU.com for all the latest updates! Become a member today. Membership is free and easy. Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Information about the source: The information for all of our Network Vision information has been obtained by several internal sources close to the Network Vision program who choose to remain anonymous. No source information will be released to protect anonymity. EDITED 3/5/2012: To include market map.

THIRD ROUND MARKETS (30): Below are markets that are in the Third Round, with scheduled starts from December 2012 to May 2013. However, some markets with GMO sites have started a little earlier. Central Illinois Central Iowa Cleveland Colorado Central Pennsylvania Dakotas Delaware East Iowa East Kentucky GA/SC Coast Georgia Gulf Coast Idaho Inland Northwest Las Vegas Milwaukee Missouri Myrtle Beach Oklahoma Phoenix Providence South Carolina Southern Jersey South Texas Tucson/Yuma Upstate NY East Utah West Iowa/Nebraska West Kentucky West Texas Updated as of Friday, March 6, 2015.

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Network Vision deployment will be very different than WiMax deployment. WiMax was by Clearwire, and they didn't care at all about Sprint's markets. And they never had any intention of going live on every single tower the way Sprint is doing with Network Vision. Clearwire had to do their own tower spacing and set up their own sites because of the propagation differences between 2500 and 1900. So, their footprint ended up being completely independent of Sprint's coverage. So they pretty much completely did their own thing. And then that got even more chaotic with the WiMax Protection Sites. It seemed virtually no thought was given to where those things went.