It's too bad samsung and ericsson don't have a clue about getting networks up in a timely manner. I currently work on the tower side of this and if they had a little more common sense these towers could be upgraded in 3-4 days, but like fools there is far too much nit picking on how things have to be their way. Its's funny to me to see that they are just now getting sites turned up when crews have been working on these sites since September, and it's now February??? I give them a thumbs up for only running 1900 here but if they were to go to the trouble of that why not let these sites have a simple and effective build out design? Which in turn, they would have the towers upgraded in a much more timely fashion and give themselves a much better name. I have done verizon 4g and that was such a more speedy process. With sprint its unreal at how everything has to be a certain and what seems most difficult way possible to build these out....i feel if they took after verizon nobody would be complaining about service right now. Now don't get me wrong they have a simple system but its all the extra non sense that they are making us do that is costing them time and probably customers. The only good thing i can say is thank god that spring and summer are around the corner which will give us tower technicians more time on these sites. I also suppose that if they didn't hire general dynamics as a contractor things would be going more smoothly as well. GD doesn't seem to know their left from their right.... maybe they are part of the problem. As far as i know in this market there are still around 800-1000 sites that still need to be upgraded, so i'm sure it will be sometime before they have a strong lte network.
