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It's 22 Mhz I believe.

FCC Spectrum Dashboard shows:

746-757, 776-787

1745-1755, 2145-2155

1870-1885, 1950-1965

824-835, 845-846.5, 869-880, 890-891.5

 

Verizon runs 2-3 1x voice and 5-6 Ev carriers in their Cellular (850 MHz) here. They also run some Ev in PCS 1900-- but only to keep the speeds up in the busier areas of town.

 

Since buying Alltel, they have the Cellular A side in BR and I think the whole B block PCS.

Correct. Vzw has the PCS B block, 10mhz of AWS, Cell A and of course their block of 700 in BR.

 

You're assuming it was ENGINEERED! GCW probably didn't bother-- I know I'd never put my P.E. stamp on any of their stuff!

No doubt. Even the 850 guys around town have towers closer together.

 

One other thing that is killer in BR: the stupid low-e glass they use downtown now-- damn treehuggers! I had jury duty down there-- and you could tell the half dozen Sprint users were lined up along the wall so they could get half a bar of signal from the tower less than 2 blocks away! The energy saving crap kills all the PCS signal! The AT&T and Verizon guys were just sitting in their chairs playing away on their phones and I was standing by the window leaning on the window with my tongue hanging half out trying to get my mouth right to catch a signal-- and I know I was killing the EVDO on that sector trying to pull timeslices.

Sorry for trying to download my 300 meg video podcast for the 5th day straight that week :-)

I keep the slices attempting to flow on my phone all the time downtown. Doing my part of flooding that tower.

<br />Would it help if Sprint kept some of the Nextel towers and converted them to NV to fill in those gaps? I am not familiar with the Sprint tower layout in BR.

I have a google map link on my site to the BTR towers. www.batonrougebroadband.info

There are some other towers listed on there too so be sure and read the map key in the description.

I still 100% believe that we had an 850mhz engineer design the 1900mhz network in BTR.

 

That's also a problem now-- BR needs way more towers from Sprint-- they're spaced too far out and a weak signal for one user will cause slower 3G speeds for everyone on the sector-- it takes more timeslices of EVDO to deliver the same data rate as the signal gets weaker-- so weaker signals means less throughput of the sector. I doubt they'll thicken the coverage in BR with NV-- at least in the initial deployment, but they need to badly. Verizon has towers closer together here and they run most carriers on 850.

And there lies the issue with BTR Sprint layout. Some of the sites barely cover what is needed. So you end up with users with a -100 signal hanging off the tower all day trying to use it.

I also doubt that will thicken any coverage in BTR. This market is tooooo far gone to turn around the customers.

I was driving over to Towne Center last night and noticed the tower at Jefferson & Old Hammond had what appeared to be RRUs attached to the antennas on the bottom rung of the tower. I was going to snap a pic, but the traffic was actually flowing (which is a rare blessing there), and I didn't have time. Any Folks in Baton Rouge, LA should go check it out.

Interesting... is sprint on the bottom rack? If I remember right that tower has 2 or 3 carriers on it.

Even 802.11n is overkill for phones. Most phones only support 1x1 sgi40 on a 20mhz channel. Which means the fastest handshake is 65 megabits while your laptop is connected at 300 megabits on 40 mhz channel. If of course your router and wireless card are set to use 40mhz which most routers are not.

Yes. We are doing another release tonight. I'm at a concert. But my wife is driving home and I will grab my tablet and do a live chat from I-25 on the way home. Stay tuned. Should be around 10:30 pm MST.

Now that is dedication!! I would be to drunk after a concert to type on a tablet :-)