Justindcarter79

Why aren't they turning on LTE when everything is already done, or appears to be ?

4:30 about, nothing was installed it was all still on the trailer. The network has gotten very bad here I am dropping multiple calls every day. I hope they are close, the guy in charge of the account is wanting to switch. I can only hold him off for so long.

That's what I saw by mine. On another note I saw equipment being delivered to that tower someone thought was new by DMACC.

What was the name of the company doing the towers in Des Moines ?

no, 1x800 is voice going over the 800Mhz range instead of the 1900Mhz that it used to. there will be no "3G" (EVDO) on 800, just voice and eventually LTE.

 

800 = voice and LTE

1900 = voice, 3G (EVDO), and LTE

2600 = LTE

 

usable 3G speeds will come when LTE gets turned on as that will mean the fiber backhaul is hooked up instead of T1 lines. the exciting thing about seeing the 1x800 signals is that means the new NV equipment has been accepted and is now broadcasting something at least.

this is what I was reffering to.

Phase 2 is suppose to be the upgrade to 800mhz ? So does that mean they are going to turn on LTE here on the 800mhz spectrum at the same time as 1900 or maybe not at all on the 1900 mhz spectrum ? I'm all sorts of confused because I thought the 800 mhz upgrade was phase 2.

I was there around 11 a.m. and yes he said 4G. I walked over and asked and he said they are going around testing the towers.

I talked to some guys at the MLK tower and they said they were there testing to turn stuff on, I think we are getting closer.

such bull that they are doing this, especially with how bad their service was even before work began. Oh well maybe someday it'll happen. lol

I would think that one should be broadcasting quick since fiber is already run to it. 

I saw workers down at the tower by Decarlo Demolition again, they had cables up and looked like they were adding equipment. This is the tower that is shared with AT&T, and they did their work back in July. So I'm assuming they were sprint workers. I didn't stop because obviously by now I have realized just because the equipment is installed doesn't mean the tower is anywhere close to broadcasting.

i was in Atlanta, GA from Sunday to Wednesday this week at a conference for work. Just wanted to share my 4G experience from there to give people an idea of what we have to look forward too.

 

The only two places i was at during my trip was the airport and the Marriott Marquis in downtown Atlanta. 

 

4G at the airport was a complete failure and of course it was the first 4G i encountered on my trip so it didn't give me very high hopes. I didn't look at the completed maps for the airport so i'm not sure if all the towers surrounding it are 4G accepted or not. even so there are so many people in that airport that i did kind of expect it to be crappy, i was lucky to get .5 meg down on 4G at the airport. this was not giving me high hopes for downtown since downtown usually has a ton of people too, so i was guessing i would run into the same thing there, especially during the work day.

 

downtown however surprised me! speeds during the evening hours were great! i would get anywhere from 8 meg to 13 meg down! i was still cautiously optimistic since it was evening time and downtown wasn't full of people working. so during the day i had a break and ran some tests from my room. speeds obviously dropped during the day, however they stayed very much usable. i was getting anywhere from 1 to 3 meg down on speed tests! i did check the maps for downtown and there were 4 towers that covered the hotel i was at, only 3 of the 4 were 4G accepted, so once that last tower gets 4G it would get even better!

 

so anyway, just wanted to share my experience in a big city that is mostly deployed. The kind of speeds i was getting gives me high hopes for des moines, with less people around here i'm guessing we will see even higher average speeds then what i was getting in Atlanta, then throw in tri-band in a few years and it will only get better

Last time I was there I had a Wimax phone and it worked as it was suppose to at the airport 3-5 mbps down, I would think something isn't right or they are still working in that area.

I also am not holding my breath, I would rather have a nice surprise than another let down. The 3G has improved some anyway, so LTE isn't as dire to me as it was before the improvements began.

Sprint said 6 towers are live in the central Iowa market out of 125. They expect to have another 50 live by end of the year.

I wonder what it will take to get the completed towers turned on in Des Moines ?

I wasn't there a friend of mine texted me, I'm assuming its that new tower by the exit.

Mitchelville has LTE live

Never mind some dummy hit a gas line. lol

Something may be going on at the tower at 2415 Martin Luther King Jr Pkwy. My step sister posted a pic on Facebook of a bunch of workers showing up with equipment. 

Is this where I would find info about lake of the ozarks in Missouri ? I did a google search and it sent me here.

Robert takes the majority of what I say in the wrong tone, I think he doesn't like me much even though I didn't mean anything bad by what I said on Facebook I was merely expressing what my experiences have been with Sprint. I realize that I didn't need to post the complaints that I did, I was more or less making conversation with other people. I guess I didn't know other people on here don't like me either. I thought I was helping gather info about the couple towers around me, I didn't realize I was part of the problem. I'm going to go ahead and stop posting, I may look in from time to time to see what's new. 

I have valid reasons for not becoming a sponsor so if you want to know ask Robert. 

so if we are now 11 percent what other towers are accepted ? Have they accepted the one at 2415 Martin Luther King Jr Pkwy ?

I think it's safe to say Des Moines will be on the next list to be officially announced for LTE.

I wonder how long until the other completed towers go live ?