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I read on androidcentral that to change the dbm tolerance, you'd need the MSL code for your phone

I would expect only a map showing Sprint's 4g coverage and not the individual bands - 800, 1900 and 2500 - for a certain area

Not converting just supplementing - adding lte to existing wimax locations. There's still some wimax users out there that sprint still needs to support

One of the pics shows that the mifi was connected to LTE Band 41, which is the 2600 mhz band assigned to Clearwire (now Sprint).

I meant the towers in the major urban areas and surburbs. Don't really care about the rural towns

Since the coverage are for 2500/2600 is so much smaller than 1900 or 800 lte, I'm hoping that it'll be eventually deployed on all towers (Clearwire's Wimax and all of Sprint's towers). That should greatly offload the traffic from the main 1900 lte.

Someone will probably write a custom PRL to give 800 LTE first priority.

Ok cool. I wasn't sure because I kept reading online how 800 mhz didn't have as much "capacity" as the higher bands (e.g, 1900 and 2500/2600.) Wasn't sure how to interpret "capacity" into something more useful and understandable.

I know it'll be a 5x5 mhz channel for 800 smr, like it is for 1900 mhz. But what speeds (..as in mbps) can I expect for 800 lte?

What are the expected speeds for 800 mhz LTE? Similar to what it is now for 1900 mhz lte? I get 3-4 mbps for urban areas now , around 9-25 mbps in the suburbs where I live.

I don't know really. But I'm guessing: the backhaul is already is place (Wimax speeds are similar to LTE's). The antenna panels (?) for LTE and Wimax should be similar. I think it's mainly slide-in rackmount (card?) for the LTE equipment, turning on the power and some testing and tweaking.

Hopefully, the TD-LTE 2500/2600 roll-out will be much faster than the general NV overhaul and upgrades. I'm expecting Portland, OR to get some 2500/2600 love in the 2nd or 3rd round (maybe summer 2014) or so. For a map of existing Clearwire towers: http://www.clear.com/coverage

I found the source of my confusion. I was using the NV maps in the sponsor's section for a complete mapping of Sprint's towers.

If these new plans don't gain much traction, FierceWireless quotes the NY Times as saying, "SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son indicated that Sprint could cut service pricing in the future as SoftBank seeks to revitalize Sprint and make it more competitive in the United States now that its acquisition of the carrier is official. We will be aggressive in technology, price packages, services on every front," Son told the New York Times. "At the same time, we will improve the network to be the world's best," he said." http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/softbanks-son-hints-further-price-cuts-sprint/2013-07-19

I'm just saying that Sprint could put NV on their existing Clearwire tower locations to fill-in any coverage gaps.

This article mentions "sector." Not sure if that means every tower or what: "Clearwire, which has said it intends to start offering LTE this summer with a 20 MHz channel in TDD-LTE Band 41, which encompasses 2496-2690 MHz spectrum. Clearwire expects to subsequently use intra-band continguous CA to combine its initial 20 MHz with another 20 MHz, creating a 40 MHz pipe at every sector"

Found the answer: "Despite the intermodulation and interference challenges inherent in inter-band CA, rival operators AT&T (NYSE:T) and Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) have publicly stated their plans to use the technology to gain additional capacity by combining their respective 700 MHz and AWS spectrum holdings into larger delivery pipes." http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/sprint-exec-clearwire-spectrum-our-priority-lte-carrier-aggregation/2013-04-21#ixzz2ZLe9ClUC

What's the name of the app?

Don't recall the details. I think you had to have a certain minimum plan pricing to qualify. I don't recall their being an option to pay a monthly fee to get yearly phone upgrades though.

Sprint's coverage is barely tolerable now. Network Vision will help somewhat. However, Sprint still needs all the help that it can get with the exploding data growth. Especially in the larger cities with the larger population and higher demand for data.

Anyone know? I'm guessing 2015 when their NV project is mostly done. Hopefully, they'll convert the wimax sites into LTE ones. There's a big wimax network here in Portland, OR. I'd like to see some of the 2.5 ghz LTE love.

Time for Sprint to update the program and make a quick buck off of the Technologically impatient and math-challenged. I'm only half joking...

Is the 2.5 ghz spectrum only capable of doing TD LTE? Could another carrier lease some of the EBS spectrum and put FD LTE there instead?

just looking at the NV sites listed for Portland, OR. There isn't a lot of towers listed for the NW district which has a stadium. Or for the downtown area which has tons of people. Most of the towers are by the waterfront which has relatively few people.

so no 2.5 ghz love for the suburbs most likely