bsharitt

I've been seeing some work done in the Beavercreek/Fairborn area. Specifically on the tower at the N. Fairfield Rd/I-676 intersection. I don't have Sprint anymore so I can't test anything(but this was the tower I used at home according to CDMA field test), but it does look like Sprint finally has boots on the ground in this area.

Not surprising that they'll be last.  Sprint has selected the Ohio Motorola equipment markets to be last, because they need to move voice over to 800MHz when they upgrade this markets.  They could not do that until Nextel iDEN network is decommissioned.  That occurs on June 30th.  We are all looking forward to that day.

 

Robert

That's interesting, I don't think I had heard that before, I guess that would be why Sprint has seemingly forgotten all about Ohio to this point.  Was there a reason behind needing to wait to move voice to 800MHz?

Sprint isn't going to be the second carrier with LTE in Dayton. T-Mobile has starting showing up with LTE this week. With AT&T supposed to be lighting up LTE in Dayton at the end of summer, it look like Sprint will be the last with LTE in Dayton.

The crazy thing is that it looks like Cincinnati is about to get some major LTE love from both T-Moble and Sprint soon.

I heard that T-Mobile should start showing up in Cincinnati and Dayton in June/July and AT&T(for Dayton) in the more vague "summer" time frame. Looks like the Cincinnati and Dayton areas should have their choice of LTE carriers by the end of the year.

I'm still curious how T-Mobile is deploying LTE in Cincinnati. They don't seem to have enough bandwidth to share between LTE and HSPA+ on the AWS bands.

I've now done my part to ensure that the Cincinnati market, particulary Dayton gets LTE. I finally got sick of basically useless data service over the past year and jumped ship to T-Mobile, which means that Sprint should be turning on LTE any day now in Dayton.

Just noticed on the Columbus thread it seems work may have just started up there. Looks like we need to be on the lookout for work being done on the towers down here......

 

Could be exciting around here soon!

I was almost starting to get my hopes, but I was a bit let down when the latest round of "coming soon" markets contined to leave Ohio off the list.

I'm already tracking all of the Dayton OH permits in another thread in the Sponsor Forum... http://s4gru.com/ind...network-vision/

 

There are 29 permits pulled so far in the Dayton area, including Montgomery, Greene and Shelby counties.

 

I can't wait for us to finally get some 4G love in Dayton.

Nice. I guess I'll pause shopping around for Verizon phones for the moment.

Many assume that, because Sprint never had 4G WiMax in Dayton when it was deployed in Cincinnati. And that is because the 4G WiMax network was deployed and operated by Clearwire. And Clearwire has Dayton and Cincinnati in separate markets.

 

In fact, Clearwire had an old 3G-like technology called Expedience that was deployed in the Dayton area. It is the reason why they never deployed WiMax in Dayton, because they already had a network there. And by the time Clearwire would have gotten around and converted that network to WiMax, they ran out of money and nearly went bankrupt. Sprint has had to bail them out several times just to stay afloat.

 

Robert

Yes, the pre-WiMax "Clearwire, but not CLEAR, and certainly not Sprint" network didn't really help figuring out which market was which. I don't know what was worse, that Dayton never got WiMax or didn't get it because of that crappy network.

Dayton is in the Cincinnati market. Dayton will receive Network Vision/LTE upgrades with Cincinnati, starting this Spring.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

Good the hear. For some reason I was thinking Dayton/Springfield was its own small market. Maybe I was thinking of a differnet carrier.

Yes, In the coming weeks I need to have one of these meetings in Cinci and another in Cleveland.

Any word on Dayton, or are we destined to be surrounded by 4G again with nothing here? I was hoping that with Sprint rolling out to so many smaller markets first in states where they have rolled out, Dayton might be an early Ohio market.