Brynn0823

I would assume so...

I hope bro, now what about Orange County ? Or is that considered southern LA?

This page refers only to *NON-BORDER* regions. So places like San Diego and southern LA are not included. I do not believe the spectrum has been cleared yet.

 

However, it may indicate that San Bernardino is good to go, which would be good news for Las Vegas. I cannot confirm that though, so don't get too excited just yet.

 

 

I am not sure what this means for Arizona. I have not seen any updates on that front recently.

I figured something didn't sound right. I live in lake Elsinore which I think is part of San Bernadino or riverside county. Riverside is next to Bernadino so does that mean if this is true lake Elsinore may make the cut ???

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I heard some licenses for band 26 has gotten cleared for southern California

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It might not look like it, but all of these sites have LTE. Sponsors can get the details in the "Report Sites in Progress" thread.

 

Are these small cells in LA ? Exact location ?

It depends on the phone too. For instance, my dad's Samsung phone actually gets LTE in my apartment, whereas the iPhones in my family do not.

 

As for B26, I wonder if Sprint should just give up on it ever coming to SD in a reasonable timeframe and accelerate small cell deployment instead. The occasional FCC reports about 800MHz don't seem to have changed much over the last 6-12mos for the southern IBEZ anyway.

But is it low coverage LTE ? My iPhone prefers 3G if its in a low coverage LTE area

It's why I had to leave them, same thing in the South Bay (San Jose). I just don't understand it. LA really just needs more sites, I don't think B26 will fix the problems, it will just end up overloaded.

 

PS. This isn't a bashing post, I want Sprint to be awesome because their plans offer good value and good competition is awesome. I just don't get how it's still so bad.

Band 26 will actually solve most of the coverage gaps as it does travel further in distance. Yes it will be overloaded but that's why they're rolling out small cells to densify it. They'll be fine when band 26 is cleared for rollout

It will show as Sprint LTE once Shentel gets control of nTelos. This overhaul and expansion is quite a large project, so it will take some time. Shentel still has a few loose ends to tie up yet before they officially take over the nTelos footprint. You should see some improvements quite quickly but for the next year or so, there will still be issues in this area. Keep in mind, this is a very positive thing, it just takes time to fix the nTelos network and make it equal to the Shentel/Sprint standards.

I wonder how many PoPs this will add to Sprints network

Based on Shentel's most recent presentation to us shareholders, they have budgeted the CAPEX to upgrade the Ntelos network for this year. I'd guess they at least get 80% of it done, but knowing Shentel's historical expertise I bet they get it all done this year. The formal acquisition should close in the next week or so. I look forward to seeing my Ntelos stock cashed out.

Is that going to be treated as extended LTE or will it be sprint LTE showing on my iPhone when I visit that part of the region later this year ?

800 will not solve all of the problems on the west coast it will be a temp bandaid fix at best for capacity. For coverage it will be a really big help though.

 

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That's what I meant for coverage. I'm in SoCal now and coverage decent. 800 plus small cells is the icing on the cake

West side of U.S. in general has it worse than the east of the U.S.

More geographically challenging as 1.9 and 2.5 don't travel well. Nothing will change until 800mhz rebanding is complete

Sorry if I missed this, but is Sprint clear to launch B26 in the Detroit area? I thought the last holdout along the Canadian border was in the Pacific Northwest. I haven't cared as much about the mitten until I met my better half.

There's a bigger holdout along Mexico for Southern California, Vegas, Arizona as well. It's going to take longer for that spectrum to be clear

Look in the Albuquerque thread here.

 

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I did, I know he's a bit biased which is why I take what he says with a grain of salt. That's why I reached out to you guys to see for myself.

Where did you hear that

Not sure if this guy knows his stuff but that's what he said that he heard. He could have been lying. He was on Twitter saying it

Status of CY - 1910-1915/1990-1995 MHz Bands licenses still for Montana, etc is still pending.

I heard the expansion in Montana is on hold, is there any truth to that ?

Ok so I'm hearing that sprints cedar project expansion is on hold. Is there any truth to this ?

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No that's not quite how it works Brynn. In NYC, they had been deploying equipment for well over a year, and the Clearwire equipment was already in place so that was mainly software changes. In your area, it has been way more than 2 months to get widespread Band 41 coverage.

 

In El Paso, there is no existing Band 41 equipment. It still has to be added. Each site can take anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of week to upgrade. And that doesn't take into account the red tape (permits, schedules and whatnot). Unless they do an all out assault on El Paso with 10+ crews simultaneously working, it will take more than a few weeks. Several months, if that. However, as each site goes live, it will have huge impacts on the surrounding network, and it may not take 100% site conversion to produce a very usable network.

Ahh gotcha, so how long would it take to launch El Paso at full band 41 strength ?

Looks like it. Im trying to track down a time frame

 

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It all depends when they start it. They had to wait to launch LTE plus in NYC until the judge approved the ordeal since they had to wait for WiMAX contracts to expire before launching it. It took them 2 months to cover the entire city so my guess is they'll cover all if not most of el Paso in a couple weeks since it's not rip and replace and the equipment is actually at the sites ready to go.

We have no idea on time line. Could be within 90 days. Could be a year. Or more, even. We don't know. And Sprint has not said anything beyond they purchased these Montana assets.

 

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Cool thanks. And no word on small cells in Southern California presumably Orange County. LTE at Disneyland is hideous.

looks like el paso is getting some band 41 action in the next few months

 

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I Told you on Twitter that El Paso would be lit up with LTE plus by summer!

I don't expect Sprint to add Montana sites to coverage maps until more sites come online. I don't think they'll show locations of Protection Sites only. Especially given the backhaul limitations.

 

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So what are we looking at in terms of when that'll be ? Probably July-Sept timeframe assuming sites are slowing turning on now. Also any word on both Dakotas, Wyoming and Alaska ? I heard LTE would make its way in those areas. I'm assuming there's no timeframe for that. Also do you know if small cells have started deployment in SoCal preferably Orange County. We desperately need it since the 800mhz is being held hostage at gunpoint.

They probably don't want to publicize their protection sites with pretty much nonexistent backhaul because it may attract customers. With a few people on these improperly provisioned sites, their barely existent network will get overloaded. My guess is that once they have a few more sites online, they'll start adding to the coverage map.

Which if we know Sprints past track record that could be by years end [emoji15][emoji30]

Of course my Vegas experience was exact opposite. Was on band 41 last month at least 75% of the time. In some casinos it fell to 3G deep inside the building.

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The contract between Sprint and San Bernardino County allows for up to $450,000 in incentives if the County can complete rebanding by June 30, 2016. Other milestone dates with lower payments include August 15, 2016 and October 15, 2016. (Incentives are also broken up into "desert" and "non-desert".)

 

Source: San Bernardino County Clerk of the Board.

Very interesting so it sounds like those incentives could push a completion by then. I'm somewhat excited

I stand corrected. B26 in Beckley now.

 

 

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How can you look up which band your iPhone is connected to ? I have an iPhone 6S plus on sprint