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by Robert Herron Sprint 4G Rollout Updates Sunday, February 12, 2012 - 8:59 PM MST Another set of Network Vision drawings have appeared, and of course we have to post them up here at Sprint 4G Rollout Updates. There isn't anything earth shattering in these drawings that weren't really in the drawings S4GRU published a month ago in Lawrence, Kansas. The new drawings show a roof mounted cell site on top of the Hillcrest Bank at the corner of W. 95th and Nieman Road in Overland Park, Kansas. These drawings are a little newer than the Lawrence drawings posted, with the most recent revision date of 12/5/2011. These drawings show detailed before Network Vision, transition configurations and final layouts. This gives a good technical overview of exactly how a roof mounted cell site is modified under Network Vision. LightSquared antennas are still shown. You can click on this link to view and/or download the PDF file of the Hillcrest Bank NV drawings. Special thanks to Rickie546 for sending me the links!

There was one conference call last year where a Sprint exec said that there would be some select expansion in markets where Sprint was holding significant PCS spectrum, but had yet deployed. They said they were evaluating carefully where that would be. However, there has not been one peep since that point. I would like for them to expand, but I fear they will not. Especially given the fall out of LightSquared. Excellent question!

dog tired

Yeah, that's what I hear often. Sprint/Clear WiMax is on 2500MHz, which is quite poor at building/obstacle penetration. There are significant RF shadows and gaps between cell sites. 2500MHz coverage maps often look like a whole bunch of slightly connected islands. Fortunately, Sprint's LTE on 2500 with Clearwire will work much better than the existing WiMax network on 2500. That's because Sprint LTE devices will only run on 2500 for extra capacity. In those places where you get in service gaps where the 2500 signal cannot reach, the Sprint LTE on 1900 and 800 should be going strong. And you will seamlessly transfer between LTE on 1900, 800 and 2500. It's actually going to be an awesome network when complete. LTE on 1900 is being rolled out this year. The additional LTE carrier on 800 will start to deploy in 2013 after iDEN decommissioning and LTE on Clearwire's 2500 should also begin in 2013. Now if Sprint could get their devices so figured out for the future, that would be a relief.

lazy day

Let's say...Note with LTE. Release in early April. And I will pay big bucks. If they wait until the end of summer...too late. GSIII will be out in many places around the world, and the Note will have antiquated specs. They really gotta get this thing out fast to make it work.

Sprint bill

I hope you're right.

I hear ya. Sprint has 97 markets nationwide. Looking through their NV list, I think they are largely doing a good job in the priority list. I can see why they are doing them in the order they are for the most part. The only one that jumps out of order to me is Kansas City. But I can understand why. I mean, you have to do your Headquarters city near the beginning, right? How does the 4G WiMax work in Columbus?

Based on the documents I have, I think Columbus will not be announced soon. But will not be at the end either. Stay tuned to S4GRU for more announcements as communities like Columbus get closer.

You know I'm beyond pissed if you ever see my posts go beyond a G rating. But it does happen occasionally.

I definitely agree with this. I could do exactly the same thing to my Evo and my wifes Evo and get different results.

Ed Zachary.

Great write up. I know a lot of our Evo users will appreciate this post.

You can tell it's a Samsung product. Sure gives me TouchWiz flashbacks. Thanks for the post. I hadn't heard of Tizen at all. And to think I'm supposed to be a tech journalist...even if just a pretend one.

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In a YouTube video I saw this morning lighting up all over Twitter, Saturday Night Live has spoofed Verizon's 4G LTE commercials. It would be even funnier if they mocked their LTE network outages. Maybe that's next week? To view the video, click on the image below. The original YouTube embed was taken down because NBC Universal complained to YouTube about Copyright infringement. Now the image below links you directly to the non-infrnging video on the NBC Universal site. You will have to endure a short commercial to watch it, though. - Robert, S4GRU

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I find it a little ironic that they can have 180 nation m2m roaming, yet we can't LTE roam two blocks away. S4GRU is now mobile...posted via Forum Runner

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