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I thought I was losing my mind when I looked and saw LTE on 91 by the Science Center, I had mapping on at the time, but I'm not seeing it on the map yet at any zoom level.

Yeah I tried mapping it too but as soon as I tried opening up Sensorly it reverted back to 3G. Came back tried again and gone.. Hasn't came back since :'( lol

Finally picked up LTE in Hartford. It's coming and going so they must've just hit the switch on the tower!

I'm working over at the Institute of Living (next to Hartford Hospital) with a Galaxy S3. I have no service at my desk! I usually have at least 1 bar, sometimes more, but today no signal. I thought maybe Virgin Mobile messed up my monthly billing, but I see other people are encountering problems. I've also heard that VM does not roam. What's going on with Sprint's signal in Hartford?

I have no idea but I've noticed my battery has also been performing worse ever since the issues started. I had a ticket out because they kept refusing to admit something is wrong and I just kept calling till I finally got a guy on the phone who said they were having an evdo outage. It's been 24 hours so I'm going to do my follow up call like the tech suggested. My 3G still gets frozen with the upload arrow blinking and it happens too often :-(

What device and where about are you? That happens to me a lot on the HTC One during signal hand off.

Galaxy Note 2 Downtown Hartford. But it's the same thing with my EVO LTE and my iPhone 4 is constantly on 2G. The only devices that are ok are my WiMAX devices and I'm assuming that's thanks to Clear.

Man as if my service wasn't already bad now I'm dealing with random moments of roaming for ten to fifteen minutes before my service comes back or my 3G would freeze from time to time and just keep blinking the up arrow till I toggle airplane mode on and off. Is this what tower upgrades look like? Because man I been harassing Sprint all week and they swear up and down nothings wrong in the area.

So I just created an account but I've been following the site almost everyday, I was on the phone with a customer care rep and she told me Lte should be up and running in the Hartford area by the end of August! Now I don't know if this is true or not because they have told false information about this before.

Don't hold your breath.. They say anything to get you to stay and not B**** @ them.

No one is forcing you to stay. I was just explaining why it takes longer to build a new speed boat than to just bolt on a new motor.

Actually someone is forcing me, Sprint. Five contracts to be exact. Well at least three are almost up in Dec. If things don't look better by then I'll make the switch. I'm still rooting for them and hoping I don't have to. Just a bit annoyed and disappointed, that's all. Hopefully in the coming weeks towers get fired up since they been working in the area for some time now.

This has been posted many times over in other threads. Tmobile already had backhaul there so they just slap on a new antenna, hook up the radio to the backhaul and leave. They don't touch the old stuff.

 

Sprint is replacing everything on the site. Takes longer but it works out better in the long run.

I still find it inexcusable. Sprint's network has been shot down since 2010. I stuck around out of loyalty since they were the first carrier I ever chose once I was 18 ten years ago. The Tri-State area should've been one of the first thing on their list in all honesty. Not Puerto Rico and other small islands/towns.. These towers are so overcapacity it's no joke.

Wow I can't believe this! Impatiently waiting for 4G LTE from Sprint to no availability then I decide to look up TMobiles progress and sure enough they are beginning to light up LTE. How does the forth carrier make more progress when Sprint started way before them? Even most of NY is lit up already by T-Mobile and they're just starting..

I had the same problem but they didn't know why the tower was down. Untill after 3 weeks I got a supervisor to look into it. I live in southern ct. But my towers a gmo weird but speeds are 2 down and 1 up

Well for me she just looked into the system and was like it's tower upgrades in my area and gave me their locations. I have a steady 3G connection now but it's no longer EHRPD, now it's EVDO since yesterday. Hopefully we'll see 4G in the coming weeks. My sprint account shows 154kb of LTE usage and I have not travelled to any LTE ready sites so idk where that came from. It's the second time my account shows 4G LTE usage..

They're currently working on the towers in my area as I'm typing this. My phone is going crazy from ehrpd to 1xrtt to roaming. Called Sprint to see whats going on with my service and the rep said they're upgrading three towers in my area. One is already complete and they're working on the second one by Tower Ave and Blue hills Ave. Let's see how many weeks before I see a 4G icon..

If it it's the one on blue hills avenue Sprint should be the bottom rung

That's definitely the one! I got a nice lil picture of it I took out of curiosity. Glad I wasn't wrong! By the way how does one become a sponsor?

I dont see a pictures.......

 

If you become a sponsor, you can see the list of all sites, and sites that have been completed and to what degree.  You should check it out.

 

In a follow up to my tower in East Windsor, its still offline, they have now pushed the date to July 3 at best, and they did offer me a little service credit, which was nice of them.  Student, can you pm me the site information for the tower near you?  I want to go see if I can locate it and take a few pictures.

  

 

I wasn't able to upload it, got a file too large error. If you want I'll email it as I'm very curious to find out.

 

if it's in CT and you have a location I could maybe find out let me know.

I don't have am exact address but it's up the street past a KFC in Bloomfield CT.

That's an awesome looking site!

How do I find out if a tower is Sprints? About two months ago I took a pic of what I thought was a Sprint tower but was never sure so I never shared. I always look up to see if I see a man working on it when I pass by lol. Looks similar to the one dstar posted except this one has a wider pole not made of wood.

 

Edit: Added picture. What you guys think? Let me know if I was off assuming it was so I can remove it. Ugh nevermind keep getting file too big error lol

Driving home from farmington today, was trying to check the traffic app...data was so poor that it wouldn't load

 

I'm hoping this is growing pains

 

Same here. Kept dropping down to 1xrtt on my Note and my sister was complaining her 3D wouldn't connect to wimax and 3G was dead slow. Hopefully those are signs they're working on our towers. I'm a little tired of waiting for lte lol

 

Not sure if this means anything but after 5 months of owning my Note 2 and Evo LTE this is the first time I see 4G data usage on my account from any of the two LTE decides. It's only 1kb but if it's showing on my Evo LTE's usage I'm assuming a tower must had been switched on for at least a quick min to pull that 1kb lol

 

Right now GMO sites don't get 800 till they come back and do the full build (New panels). But once backhaul is in place 3G well get better and possibly 4G could get turned on at a GMO site.

 

The fact that sensorly shows 4G lit up around Meriden gives me hope that these GMO sites will have 4G up and running soon. At least in my area hopefully!

 

 

Read.

 

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-340-sprint-deploys-special-ground-mount-option-network-vision-sites-in-some-low-capacity-and-high-engineering-locations/

 

Thank you. After reading that I am a bit disappointed. Now I see why Northern CT is increasing so fast while Southern CT is not. Guess that means the Southern Market is full upgrades. What I would like to know is how to determine wich GMO sites don't get 800mhz support. I really hope these GMO's do the job because 3G has been crap in CT since 2010!

 

 

I think all the Northern CT sites are GMO so far to date.

 

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Sorry for the noob question but.. What is GMO? New around here lol

 

 

Has anyone noticed how fast the Northern market has been climbing up the percentage chart? We're already at 21% and ahead of the Southern market that started way before us. Hope this is a sign that I'll pick up a 4G signal on my Note 2 soon!