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I just briefly noticed that SCP was showing the second B25 carrier at my office. It was too quick for me to get a screenshot of anything and I haven't connected to it again. If I get connected again, I'll grab a shot. It is recorded in my SCP logs and has 0A as the last 2 of the GCI whereas the primary carrier for that same sector is 02. This is over in the Plainview area near I-64 and Hurstbourne Lane.

 

 

And right now I'm sitting underneath a brand new site as well. Sprint equipment went up 3 weeks ago. This tower is replacing the older tower next to it so it can support T Mobile as well.

Where's the new tower?

 

While the speeds are awesome to see, it'd be nice to have things optimized better around town. B26 doesn't stretch much further than B25 and when I do connect to it tends to be overloaded. Overall I can't complain since I'm on LTE more than 95% of the time.

That seems completely unnecessary (typical Ericsson, I already miss ALU) but at least it sounds like they're working on reverting it.

B41 has been popping up all over the Louisville area so hopefully once it's more widespread, they can get a tech to start optimizing all 3 bands. I still spend most of my time on B25 even when in range of active B41 and occasionally switch to B26.

Have there been any reports of Ericsson lowering power levels of Band 25 in the Louisville area over the past few months? I'm sitting in my grandparents' house on -118dbm average where I had about -107 average back in April when I last visited.

We saw some reduction in B25 signal strength when they flipped the switch for B26...usually in the 8-10 dBm range. However in the past few months, I've seen the B25 signal revert back to the pre-B26 levels. I was hoping it was them optimizing the new work but that hasn't panned out yet.

Here's a screenshot of the deal from Cartwheel app. Good through 12/20. Didn't see anything about the trade in part.

Beginning to wonder if we have techs in the area starting to optimize the network. In the past 2 days my B25 signal at home has increased by about 8-10 dBm. I'm usually sitting around -87 to -92 according to SignalCheck compared to the upper 90s that I've had since B26 was flipped on. It could be the winter weather and lack of leaves but I did see a white Jeep parked at the tower earlier this week.

 

Anyone else noticing improved signal levels around town?

So what day will the phone be available in stores? I want to get one next week with easy pay.

 

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I was at a corporate store today and they had one on display... didn't ask if they had any in stock though. I would assume that if they have it on display that they have/had some in stock.

Has anyone seen how they are installing these new b41 sites in a market? I just wonder if they will just do overburdened sites or the whole network like with b26 and b25.

So far most of the B41 installs are right in line with the known schedule that is available in the Premier thread. I don't know if the scheduled sites were already in the pipeline before the shift in focus to overburdened sites and key markets. If I was to take a guess, most of the current B41 sites were probably already permitted and scheduled prior to shift. I would also bet that we are at least a year out or more before we start seeing anything near a whole market build out of B41 just due to equipment shortages and our market status.

 

In my opinion, B26 (outside of the few main metro areas) and especially the potential CCA agreements are key to providing better overall service in the market. If they fire up B41 on some strategic towers in the metro areas to provide capacity then the current network in the less populated areas can likely survive for a few quarters.

A comparison article between the HTC One M8 and the LG G3 just came out. I love when they do this sort of article because it gets many points of views rather than the point of view of the author. I think that it's awesome that the M8 can still hold its own to a device that many claimed, clearly out specced it. Clearly specifications aren't everything.

 

http://www.androidcentral.com/lg-g3-versus-htc-one-m8

I just happened to read this earlier and didn't even realize it was just published today. I want to upgrade my Galaxy S3 but can't decide between the two. It was good to have multiple perspectives for each phone. Seems like you can't go wrong with either one and it's more of a personal preference between HTC and LG.

Soda Jerk

 

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World Cup

 

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Ok thanks  I'm just wondering if it has anything to do with what someone mentioned in another thread on here about Ericsson  blocking the 800Mhz  even tho it's installed

If the tower has NV upgrades then they would have installed the necessary equipment for 1x800 but it just hasn't been activated yet. There are hand-off issues from CDMA 800 to 1900 which usually results in dropped calls. Because of this issue they really need to turn 800 voice on in clusters but Ericsson doesn't work on sites in clusters. I'm hoping with the progress in the West and East KY markets that they we will see a surge of 800 sometime in Q1.

Disc golf

 

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Day dream

Full House

Noticed twice in the last few days where my clock was an hour off. My sister in law had the same issue today. Anyone else experience this problem? It fixes itself but it's a little annoying. Hopefully it's a sign of some more progress.

 

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Love Child

 

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I never got it. Probably because Atlanta is largely done?

I haven't gotten one either. Although I live in Louisville now I still have a Chicago area code from when I lived there. I'd guess that they are only sending it to people who have numbers in areas that are either recently launched or where the official launch of LTE is eminent. It's also possible that it's just a PR thing in select markets to attempt to give people hope that NV is coming.

Lexington has come along nicely. It seems like they just turned on one more tower downtown and I'm getting a strong signal in most of downtown. 

 

How can I tell what tower it is that I'm connect to?

From my experience, Signal Check Pro usually only gives you an address in the sector of the tower that you are connected to. I know when I check it at my house, it gives the address of a house about 5 down from me which I can guarantee there is no tower there.

 

The best way I know is to use your engineering screen and check the serving cell. Some of the area sponsor forums have developed spreadsheets to track the towers in their area. mdob07 has created a spreadsheet for KY but no one has reported serving cells for the East KY area yet. He has some helpful links in his signature(3 posts up) that explain how to use the engineering screen and to the Sponsor's section with the Kentucky LTE spreadsheet.

LTE at TMMI in Princeton this morning, though I'm not sure if it is still part of the W. Ky region.

Yes Princeton is still part of the West Kentucky market. If you have Sensorly installed, try to map the area so that others can see the 4G coverage. Right now Sensorly doesn't show any 4G coverage in the area.

There were people working at the tower on six mile lane/hurstbourne saturday near Dicks...a couple trucks, and another one there on Sunday. I couldnt really get a look as it's fenced. Really hoping that was sprint work, as that would light up my neighborhood nicely

 

Unfortunately the work that has been done up on the tower at Hurstbourne and Six Mile isn't Sprint that I can tell. They added some new panels to the top rack but they aren't the Ericsson panels that are being used in the area for Sprint. As for the work on the ground, like you said, it's tough to tell anything with the privacy fence all the way around the base.

 

On a positive note, I noticed this morning while driving down Six Mile that the tower at J-town HS has the new Sprint panels and RRUs installed. This must have happened in the past week since I drive in that area often and haven't noticed it until today. I wasn't able to grab a picture from where I was and I wasn't going to drive onto the school grounds during the morning arrival.