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JThorson

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  1. What exactly do you mean by difficulty improving? The rip and replace took about 2 years to complete, and while it's still ongoing in some areas it's largely completed now. That's faster than the other carriers have deployed a network wide upgrade. 

     

    Where LTE is deployed, it works. It got saturated fast, which is why they are deploying a second B25 carrier where they can, and B26 most elsewhere. 

     

    The other carriers have had similar struggles getting their upgrades, it just wasn't nearly as public as Sprint's. It also helps that, AT&T and VZ especially, had LTE rolling out before and while data demands were increasing exponentially, rather than after demand had begun increasing.

     

    Until B41 is deploying everywhere on multiple carriers, demand will increase faster than Sprint can bring B25 and 26 online.

    Sorry, poor choice of words. I get that they redid their entire network from the ground up and that takes time. I would like to retract my previous statement. It just seems like things I hear still are how people with upgraded towers still seem to have some network issues. But then again I guess that could be a backhaul issue.

     

    On a side note, I haven't had a chance to experience the new network yet. Where I live I won't see b26 until Ibez is figured out.

     

    I know once they get the 8t8r sites up and backhaul completed, things will be looking a lot better. I agree with you on how it seems like Sprint's struggles are always on the front page but when they make leaps and bounds in their network, you don't hear a peep. 

  2. What I still can't seem to understand is why Sprint seems to have so much difficulty on improving their network. I mean I get that there is a lot to do, upgrading backhaul, towers, dealing with spectrum and OEM's etc. but the other 3, especially T-Mobile because of the similarities with Sprint(in my opinion) can seem to make noticeable improvements in their network while Sprint seems to lack. I keep waiting for the day when Sprint will be like (BAM! In yo face!) Maybe that is what is going on now? It seems to me quieter with the network side of things.

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