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Careful on that as the phone is missing LTE bands 2 and 5.

Some sit under the coverage of a broken legacy site. Sprint shows no efforts to remediate this issue for them. Not the customers fault by any means.

I hope it doesn't come anytime soon as I use it for TV in my household. Many people use OTA and don't realize it. Cable companies, satellite company feeds, etc. Some areas are too packed already and have co-channel interference issues. The Northeast US comes to mind. And you can't start sharing spectrum until they adopt MPEG4 as the standard.

Tmobile is kinda sparse here.

ATT has more sites out of all here. I have mapped out most areas of town. Some areas are double or triple what Sprint has. Some more. LSU area is crazy. I can't even find two of them to narrow them down. I found 7 sites and Sprint only has two. You can consider it even double that since they have twice the bandwidth of LTE. Sprint has their work cut out for them here.

Also useful in a situation where the house is semi covered by a non 800 site and the adjacent 800 site decides to creep inside the home at times. Screws with CSFB big time.

I'm probably going to stick to the Swappa thing. Heard too many people selling Sprint phones and the idiots request the phone serial and activate on their account holding it ransom. I'm hoping you don't have to post the number with Swappa.

Nice to see some Ubiquiti equipment! Love their gear, hard to beat their prices and value! I've done a few backhaul shots with their stuff and its still kicking years later with no issues.

Yeah, just like the old Samsung Epics I have sitting in my stash that I said I was going to use for wifi only music listening when mowing the grass. Think I used one of them once for that. Hate to see them just go to waste. Online will be the only way, as I don't have the blessing of a positive Sprint market..aka..I won't get much. EVO LTE, S3, and Note2 with otterbox cases and few extra batteries. (Not trying to turn this into a selling thread as I'm not sure on the rules on that one)

I have a few Sprint phones I need to sell to free up some tech storage space. I've never sold any online as I've always hear about the scammers out there. I hear the Swappa seems to do a decent job on things but before I take the plunge and I wanted to hear some tips from the pros that have purchased and sold phones online before.

I still don't buy anything on that article. Maybe if someone has some official docs to back it up. AT&T knows how much it costs to do things. This isn't their first rodeo of network upgrades. There was a PBS special a while back on how tower upgrades were paid and all the middle men involved. AT&T says this is what we pay for the work, do it or someone else will do it. It's not like you could turn around and bill them more. The OEM bids, then the tower company bids the OEM. I think that article was blown out of proportion by some ex-employee or someone tied somehow to their upgrades that pissed them off. There is probably some merit to AT&T stopping and making changes during this first test rollout. They probably pissed someone off and cost them money. So they made up some crap to piss them off back via the media.

Those typical RFS antennas that Sprint uses for NV are also right at 50 lbs IIRC. They are larger than you think as well.

That is true about the mapping on Sprint as people are looking for where that LTE signal is. I have mapped tons of high traffic areas on AT&T that were lit up a good 2+ years ahead of Sprint. And this was in a heavy AT&T customer market. It's just the nature of the beast. I am sure there are many areas where Sprint isn't mapped as well.

Comparison of RRU12 to RRU11 It also has an expansion module available as well. and

I found a few more sites around me that had band 4 added. I was able to determine they are using RRUS12 B4 models now.

If most of the site parameters, tilt, power, etc are close I bet you wouldn't be able to a difference with a phone.

Never seen that myself either. I've only heard it's out there in areas. I've seen the typical band 17, band 4, and quite a bit of band 2 I've seen popping up in various areas as well.

Playing with the Moto G LTE side by side with the Nexus5 impressed me. Excellent phone in RF, speed, and definitely price. HTC's track record on phones has left me to not even look at their products the past couple years.

My area only needs permits for brand new sites so I rarely check for things. Occasionally I'll see VZW or AT&T permits for new builds. I saw this one this morning. It's 3500 feet from another B4/B17 LTE site, not a low signal area by any means. Nice to see proof that permits are still moving forward. $185,000.00 07/21/2014 13100 COURSEY BLVD At&t Wirless 119 Veterinarian Rd Lafayette LA 3378966392 DYNAMIC TOWER SERVICES, INC. 421 Sonnier Road Carencro LA 705203375652270 0.00 Install a new monopole cell tower 115' height with 138 sf. building for electrical equipment. and a new 50KW generator with 173 gallon diesel tank. Must have 5' from any structure or opening.

Yes, they have a 5mhz pair in AWS but after the Cricket purchase was approved they moved over to the 10mhz pair in AWS. I haven't seen them go back and light up the 5mhz pair yet. In Mississippi I saw them South of Natchez working on finishing Highway 61. In the last few months they have lit up band 17 in the St Francisville, Angola, Jackson, Clinton, etc rural areas North of Baton Rouge. I have mapped some of it on Sensorly recently.

I drug one or two of them out a bit down the interstate in SD for you. It was a nice surprise to see AT&T added 10x10 of AWS band on my home site while I was gone and it wasn't even needed. It is an easy install though. Mount three RRUs, wire into existing squid box on tower rack, attach RRU to existing AWS antenna sitting idle. I saw some guys hanging antennas on an AT&T site in Mississippi that was HSPA only. I also ran into some guys doing AT&T band 4 work at the hotel I stayed at in Little Rock AR. Definitely not seeing this work stoppage talked about.

It's showing a -1 for band here on a standard band 17 site.

Possible to get the bands on the 310410 Mcc? I can send you the method of determining B17 DAS, B17 sites, B4, and B2 by the GCI. Not sure what band 5 has unfortunately.

Those new network edges created with the no 800 are a pain. Not as bad as the 3g only GMO's but nevertheless the one by house caused me to shut down the wife getting a triband device. That 800 network edge made the triband device on 3g most the time in the area and being a single evdo carrier it was slow.

If only all the spectrum had deadlines. Some squatters sitting on spectrum forever needs to stop.