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Wow! Look at that Samsung B41 8T8R equipment go!

Yes I think that Mather has had its Sprint 2.5 equipment activated and gone Live. The Mather Water Tower did not have any ClearWire equipment nor is there any ClearWire equipment nearby, so this must be the case.

Sprint is launching LTE 800 rather quickly all over Sacramento. I've noticed though however that when I am connected to B26/B25 via the same tower my RSSI(Signal Strength) is nearly the same via both B26/B25 on the same tower. You would think my signal strength would be greater on B26 from the same tower that is also broadcasting B25. I believe this is because Sprint is setting lower power settings on B25/B26 upon early site acceptances, so that they can roll out B26 really quickly and keep interference issues at a minimum. This is fine by me though because just having B26 is an immediate increase in network capacity. I think this is where next year in 2015 when Sprint starts focusing resources on site optimizations that we will see better signal strengths from B25/B26 as they slowly increase each sites transmit power...optimizing...and improving coverage/performance. This goes for all bands actually including B41. Optimizations are going to take some time just like the rip and replace of all the equipment has taken awhile, but I think once they start focusing resources on optimizations and not new equipment roll out it will go rather quickly considering permits/etc will no longer be involved. They can do a lot if not most of site optimizations remotely too without actually having to be at the site itself. They still need a guy/vehicle like the old Verizon Commerical (Can you hear me now? How about now?) that is out and about testing real world signal strengths in various places though as they do optimizations. Haha. Nice to see the progress really pick up speed before we go into the new year 2015!

TriBand Phone. Your limiting yourself because the Note 2 can only access 1 of the 3 bands of LTE Sprint is providing to you.

Yeah this is confusing to most users. Even though you may have only 1 or 2 bars of LTE(also depends which band 25/26/41 LTE) you could really have Full Signal strength on 800/1900 voice from a different tower. The LTE signal strength can be confusing to some users thinking that they they are going to have poor voice coverage, but soon as you place a call your phone switches from LTE to 800/1900 voice...and you most likely will have good to full signal. This is usually the case when your phone is connected to a B41 LTE site.

The Rancho Cordova Fitzgerald site is a Clear site actually over and behind the Costco. That is the closest site. The rest are Sprint and NV 3G/800 at the moment with two having LTE 25. The next Clear Site isn't until down by Watt/Howe, so there is a large gap until they bring in the 8T8R equipment.

Yes this is good now too. We are only helping Sprint by helping identify network issues at this point.

Well.....what do you know!!!! Madison/Hazel site just got accepted for 4G LTE!!!

I heard the 6+ is having alot of bending issues due to it's size being too big and too thin.

Backhaul. Tmobile is on this tower and so is ClearWire, so there should be some sort of fiber or advanced backhaul, however it could be there is not enough fiber available and they have to pull more fiber. Advanced Backhaul can take as long as 6 months from when an order is placed. We don't know when they placed the backhaul order for this tower though.

Sweet!

B41 8T8R Equipment?

There is Clearwire equipment on the Football Stadium Lights Pole at Bella Vista....betting your pulling B41 from there. Cool.

Looks like LTE Band 12 got left out..for CCA/RRAP. The two models for Sprint A1586 iPhone 6 is Tri-Band and A1524 iPhone 6 Plus is Tri-Band. Woo-Hoo!!

Ok. That makes sense. Years in the future...darn. I guess this would work if they could get everyone off 3G and onto LTE, but Sprint doesn't have much in 1900 or 800 spectrum to shift things around until they can get everyone completely off 3G to re-purpose the pcs spectrum. Interesting.