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Classic pricing error. Now they are fixing the error. Good deal for those of us who got one though. Hopefully they will not cancel those of you who got the waiting on inventory email. 

I don't know if you saw the internal memo that Robert received but it listed Denver as a soft launch market for TD-LTE.  Robert just so happened to be in Denver and was eager to verify that TD-LTE was live there.  Here is the link for the reference.

 

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/4083-sprint-td-lte-25002600mhz-discussion/?p=171765

 

These were the listed soft launched TD-LTE markets in the memo

Los Angeles,

San Francisco,

Denver,

Seattle,

Miami,

New York City,

Tampa

Chicago.

Somehow I missed that one. That makes more sense now. Thanks.

Why are you surprised?  I assume you are talking University City in Missouri.   When the internal memo said that only 8 markets have been launched with Clearwire LTE, I would assume that it is going to be those 8 markets for now. 

 

Also we don't know right now if Clearwire will be allowing folks to connect to the TD-LTE as soon as they are finished with each of the intended towers like Sprint allows customers to connect to the LTE as soon as a Network Vision site is LTE complete.  Clearwire could be blocking off users and waiting until a market has all their TD-LTE sites complete before allowing users to use it.  There must be other markets that are in progress of TD-LTE upgrades and I have only heard of Dallas being one in progress.

I'm not surprised. I was just seeing if maybe there was some development going on behind the scenes that hadn't been announced yet. Robert mentioned finding signal in Denver so I figured I would try looking for it here.

on a somewhat sadder note, I am in University City and I kicked it to LTE only and it didn't pull up a signal. So I guess that means no Clearwire LTE yet. There doesn't seem to be Sprint LTE yet in ucity either as witnessed by my htc one. 

I am gonna take it with me to South county in a couple hours and see what I pick up there. 

Oh and I just activated it with sprint via their website and it worked. I had a hotspot line already and I swapped this one in on that line. 

Looky what just arrived 

We have to activate these via Wirefly, right?

I am gonna try to do a regular esn swap on the sprint website first (i have an older wifi hotspot already), if that doesn't work then I will go thru wirefly. But I don't see why you would need Wirefly to activate it. 

I had two orders, one under my name, one under my wifes and they both shipped and should arrive friday. Crazy stuff..The retail price on sprint's website is $249 so it has to be a mistake (wirefly charge $19.99 when you sign a contract), but they have to know about it by now and it is still listed as free on their website so who knows. 

I'm ordering two! lol

I'm thinking about ordering another one... my order says it passed validation and is in the process of shipping. 

also of note, you can get the mif500 for free with no contract (select replacement device)

 

http://www.wirefly.com/eCommerce/SpecialOffer.aspx?cid=21427_227e16dc06ef4ac796662fd54752d6c6

it is definitely free... I ordered one and I will have to wait and see if it ships. 

They will be upgrading all 39,000 or so sites. There are however about 100 sites nationwide that they will not be upgrading due to complications of some sort or another. None in STL area that we know about. A lot in Springfield, IL though. If you become a Sponsor you can see all of the sites that they will be upgrading, in progress, completed, etc and you will have access to the MO Market spreadsheet that I created.

That's kinda funny because I am from Springfield, IL. I'm just guessing that there are probably equipment issues. They couldn't put wimax in there because they were having issues with equipment that was old and not maintained very well by IPCS (at the time). I'll check out the sponsor info. Thanks!

I ran sensorly from the time I left U-city yesterday all the way down to imperial by my house using my HTC one. I definitely picked up 4g from 55 south butler hill down to richardson road. It was definitely fast and the 4g stayed on when I got a call. Do we know if they are upgrading all the towers to LTE? The one at imperial main street / I55 serves my house and I am really hoping they hit that one too. I know they skipped it when they did wimax rollout.

I have seen eHRPD in University City and Arnold the last few days but not today for some reason.

Im still hoping saint louis sneaks into the map soon.