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    Network Vision/LTE - East Kentucky Market (Lexington)

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    Somewhere has to be last. And I think most Americans would be OK with Alabama and Eastern KY to be last. Right, wrong or indifferent. I also have a feeling it will largely be folks from Alabama and Kentucky who would disagree.

     

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    When you consider that I-75 (cutring through east Ky) is one of the most heavily traveled north/south interstate corridors in the nation, I would say that "most" is not an accurate assumption. ..

    Network Vision/LTE - East Kentucky Market (Lexington)

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    Not true, there is plenty of sites in other markets that still do not have LTE.

    Speaking in percentage of the number of towers converted to LTE located in a specific market, yes... East Kentucky is in fact lagging behind the nation. In Middlesboro, Verizon and AT&T have been LTE live for going on 3 years and T - Mobile went live today. Pretty pathetic Sprint...I've held on to hope long enough time to switch carriers.

     

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    Comments related to the NV Running List Thread

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    Difficulty is more than just permitting. More often it is the site owner or structural issues. Many of the remaining sites, Sprint is looking for a new site location.

     

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    Would this be the case in Middlesboro, KY. The Sprint tower here also hosts AT&T and Verizon of which both have had LTE here for nearly 2 years and both use Century Link for backhaul. Also, Sprint still has Wimax on this same tower....is it possible they don't plan to upgrade to LTE until Wimax is decommissioned this fall. I'm really tired of waiting as I live here part time for work...The rest of the time I live in Knoxville which has great LTE coverage almost everywhere. Also of note, Harrogate, TN. ...The town directly across the state line has had LTE over 6 months now.

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - Nashville Market (including Knoxville/Chattanooga/Tri-Cities)

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    I have to disagree with the snails pace that is being discussed. With the acceptance reports that Robert is adding, the Nashville Market, not just Knoxville itself, is one of the fastest movers in the US on average. We have to remember that The Nashville Market goes from the state line with NC, includes a small part of VA, then heads west to the TN River. I am not sure how many towers that incorporates but I ponder a guess of 500 to 600. Even with the coverage that is shown in Nashville on the maps, LTE, 3G and voice are still spotty in areas but is getting better.

     

    As Robert has stated on many occasions, the crews go to where the work is. There is not rhyme nor reason on the pattern of which towers are completed next. There are variables with permits, access to the property on which the tower is located, where NV equipment is delivered, etc... that can hold up the change. The crews are not going to wait in one area when it is available and ready to be installed in another. They need to make their money too.

     

    Just remember, once the conversion is complete, Sprint, in my opinion, will have the better network. Granted, it may be longer that we would like it to be. I will not change to the others for the same hatred due to all of the data I use in a month for emails. I would burn through the others 2GB data plans in about 3 days on average.

    I'm speaking of Knoxville only, actually Chattanooga too.....I know that the immediate Nashville area is covered fairly well, as good as any other city in the nation at this point. Trust me...the immediate Knoxville area (even though it is technically in the Nashville market) is in fact rolling out at slower than a snails pace and has the least LTE online percentage (of total towers) than any other metro in the state. LTE deployment is completed or near completion in the Tri Cities, Cleveland, and Morristown metros. Nashville, Memphis, Clarksville and Jackson metros are well over half LTE deployed but Knoxville and Chattanooga metros have all but stalled out with little to no acceptances in weeks.

     

    I do agree with you...Sprint will have the best network in the nation at the end of NV but with the issues of the growing pains intensifying daily I'm not sure it is worth riding it out til 2015. I understand it is an enormous complicated process from beginning to end and I'm not laying blame at Sprint, but partially on Ericsson and partially on back-haul providers. In the end it is just terribly frustrating to not be able to use a $700 phone without being in the area of wifi and at this moment and for the past couple of years, this is the case for the vast part of the Knoxville area. 

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - Nashville Market (including Knoxville/Chattanooga/Tri-Cities)

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    I am happy about the lte that I have but have gotten more and more frustrated with the 3g/4g switchover. 

    With what seems like a 50/50 split of the towers with 3g vs 4g I am constantly searching for a signal. I typically have to go into airplane mode then out of it to pick up one signal. 


    Is this change to 4g something that 100% completion will be in 5 years or the foreseeable future? Its getting old real quick. 

     

     

     

    Couldn't agree more. Because of the glacial pace of the NV roll-out here in Knoxville, I have almost lost all interest in LTE because of the issues you just stated....knowing that for the next year at the very least, we are gonna have to deal with these issues that are only going to get worse before they get better.

     

    Just to be quite honest, I couldn't care less about LTE if only we could get the 2-3 mb download from 3g that we should be getting. I hate to be so negative, but in 2 years time 3g has gone to hell in a hand basket and I have been patient but that is wearing extremely thin at this point.

     

    In essence, I feel as though I am being ripped off as I am paying for nothing better than a 1g network most of the time. I have an intense hatred of both Verizon and AT&T but I am indeed at the point of going back to one of them.

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    Samsung Galaxy S4 [L720 Single Band] User Thread

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    Is it a patch for the "Android exploit that affects 90+% of Android handsets"? I say that in quotes as I read that on a few blogs here and there. No internal documents regarding an OTA for the Sprint GS4 that I've seen yet.

     

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    No. The S4 was already immune from that exploit straight from the factory.

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - East Kentucky Market (Lexington)

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    You guys in Lexington shouldnt feel bad......Middlesboro has been marked in progress for over 4 months now. It is definitely Ericsson/Sprint dragging their feet here because backhaul is certainly in place. Verizon has been broadcasting lte for several months here on the same tower.

     

     

     

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    Verizon does not give it's backhaul to other carriers. Sprint has to bring in their own. Verizon frequently uses microwave to their rural LTE sites.

     

     

     

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    I was told that both Verizon and Sprint would be using AT&T fiber at this site. The tower is also located directly beside the AT&T switching building. Obviously, info could be wrong but it did come from an local AT&T emloyee....

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - East Kentucky Market (Lexington)

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    You guys in Lexington shouldnt feel bad......Middlesboro has been marked in progress for over 4 months now. It is definitely Ericsson/Sprint dragging their feet here because backhaul is certainly in place. Verizon has been broadcasting lte for several months here on the same tower.

     

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    Dish Network proposes merger with Sprint Nextel for $25.5 billion

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    You know good and well that Ergin would suffer from spontaneous combustion before that would ever happen. He would destroy Sprint completely thereby giving at&t & Verizon an unlimited Duopoly that not even the Government would have the balls to stop.

    Should that worse case scenario happen, I assure you that the government "would" have the balls to break the Death Star and the ugly big red "V" into smaller regional units just as was the case with the original AT&T/Bell back in the day. A "real" Duopoly would never be allowed to exist.... period..

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