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    Potential Sprint rural buildout by 2016

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

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    The Sprint goal was to preserve licenses. The only immediate benefit was to reduce roaming costs, thus speeds around 3g might be viewed as acceptable. Like many of the Wimax protection sites, I don't expect this to appear on coverage maps. The only one of these rural areas that Sprint has publicly committed to is Montana, thus I would expect them to be more fully expanded first. This has to be placed into the context of Sprint's goal of becoming profitable this fiscal year.

     

    Besides decent backhaul, to truly serve an area you want overlapping sites - only one site was seen in Caspar on a drive through. The service from some of the Wimax protection sites was good. They were like an oasis in the desert. I would hope Sprint would at least rise to this level and make these moderately performing LTE sites. Then they could even put them on the coverage map.

     

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    I guess there's new signal just outside great falls MT

    Based off Sensorly unless that's another glitch in the mapping app

     

     

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    Potential Sprint rural buildout by 2016

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    Correct. If I remember correctly it was mapped on root metrics, which showed it had very weak throughput. I like to know when it was done. Sensorly does have bad data at times, root metrics does not give dates.

     

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    Do you think they'll just have minimal coverage in Casper and Cheyenne in that state and that's it ?

     

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - Las Vegas Market

    in Markets

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    Outside the coverage is not bad. Haven't been down the strip much since I'm working all day.

     

    Gets a little frustrating when people next to you have ATT, T-Mobile, Verizon and not lose service or data.

     

     

     

    It'll be like that until band 26 is cleared for rollout. That'll solve most of the issues.

     

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - Las Vegas Market

    in Markets

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    So Monte Carlo now has B41 covering their casino floor and even their hotel rooms (very usable for video, but unusually slow for it being B41). Signal in rooms bounce from same cell that services the casino floor and another tower I probably won't get to locate. I also experienced B41 inside The Flamingo floor which is a good update considering they only had 3G last year.

     

    Also, the network in Las Vegas is extremely aggressive at handing off to band 41 from band 25. I'm very impressed by that.

    Nice, ill be driving there in 2 weeks. I'm already foaming at the mouth.

    Everything 800mhz (1xA, LTE, coverage, timeline, etc)

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

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    Sprint isn't very happy with Maricopa county.

     

     

    Improving Public Safety Communications in the 800 MHz Band - EDOCS

    May 18, 2016 - ORDER

    Granted in part and denied in part a request by Sprint for Bureau intervention in Maricopa's rebanding proces

     

     

    http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016/db0518/DA-16-553A1.pdf

     

     

    Jesus. Sounds like it's going to be awhile before this is settled. I hate Arizona. I use to live there for 6 years lol. My kids still live there now.

    Network Vision/LTE - Phoenix Market (including Flagstaff, Prescott)

    in Markets

    Posted

    Yep, thanks.

     

    :tu:

     

    You wouldn't happen to know which markets are getting small cells currently do you ?!? I'm in L.A and I follow a sprint engineer on Twitter so I'm aware it's underway here but curious to know what other markets are underway. I'll be heading to Vegas in 3 weeks and then Phoenix the following night after Vegas. Wondering if those cities are underway.

    Project Cedar / LTE - West / East Montana

    in Markets

    Posted

    What does that have to do with Project Cedar? You are overly generalizing by equating two very different things and places -- more small cells in Southern California and more macro sites in Montana. Sprint makes a lot of money in Southern California. Sprint will make very little money in Montana, thus low priority.

     

    AJ

     

    Thanks for your 2 cents

    Project Cedar / LTE - West / East Montana

    in Markets

    Posted

    Project Cedar is not really in full swing yet. These sites in Missoula, Helena, Great Falls and Billings are just license protection sites required to maintain their PCS G block license.

     

    More sites will be added in the future. I just don't think it's going to be soon given Sprint's tightening of their capex belt. Priorities, priorities.

     

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    Sounds like a nightmare for Sprint. So it'll be a long while before Southern California sees any real improvements if this lower capex spending is real

    IBEZ 800MHz Retrofit

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    Robert mentioned in another thread that this same data has been posted before... when we know that San Bernardino was not clear. So it's possible this means nothing at all for the affected areas.

     

    I included OC in southern LA ( though they are separate markets)

     

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    Gotcha. Which other thread was it ? I only posted in this one since it pertains to it specially

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