VEllisWade

That area has couple of band 41 sites lives and couple more to go live soon.

 

Your data will probably be a bit average since it's a high traffic area. Your best bet would be to get a spark phone and enjoy some super fast speeds. The coverage in LA has improved a lot. If you start heading to mission hills, northridge, and around that area you'll be on 3G most of the time from my experience.

Oh, I am already ahead of the curve on that. I have a Nexus 5 and have already activated the 26 and 41 bands through the engineering menus. Can't wait!. 

My girlfrend and I are about to move to the Mid-Wilshire area in the next few weeks (W 3rd Near the Grove). We are assuming that will be a high traffic area due to the abundance of shoppers combined with the usual LA traffic. 

A quick search of this thread shows 25Mbps down, but that was a post from April 2013. 

How are the speeds in that area now? Still as consistently fast?

The Lakewood/Tacoma area is getting lots of love.

 

I noticed my Nexus 5 and LG G2 is on 4G LTE in more and more places. Especially near the Lakewood Town Center and along much of So. Tacoma Way

 

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If I had to guess, this is in part due to that band 41/2500 mhz LTE. In my condo (downtown Seattle) I can't get LTE with my Sierra Tri-Fi because it only has 1900 LTE, and the 2 closest towers to me have yet to be turned on. I switched to the Netgear Zing, and now I pick up a few bars of LTE, and decent speed (15-20 Mbps). At the same time, my Tri-Fi's WiMax coverage has declined steadily. Not a coincidence, me thinks, as I seem to recall an article from a few weeks ago starting that Sprint was already starting to convert some WiMax markets over to 2.5Ghz LTE, including the Seattle/WW market.

A few weeks back I noticed I had full signal in the building where I work in Bremerton.  I used to only get 1 or 2 bars.  The NV sites complete map notes the nearby tower was converted from iDEN to CDMA.  Not sure if this is a typical conversion or a special case because of all the Nextel (now Sprint) phones used at the shipyard.

Sprint shut down its entire Nextel network back on June 30th and is now in the process of converting those towers. Anyone down on the docks still using 'Nextel' is actually using Sprint's newer CDMA Direct Connect service.

Looks like it is finally hitting Downtown Seattle. Just got it all through the City Target on 2nd between Union and Pike. Maintained it walking down 2nd to University, and it reverted back to 3G about halfway down University toward 1st.