Barshalen

Makes sense I guess lol. I'll keep you updated as much as I can on their progress. Thanks for the help and info!

 

 

That's great that full build site activity is now under way in your area. If A/L does Delaware like most of their other markets, it will take a few months of full build activity until LTE starts going live on the completed full build sites.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

Yeah, they just started and finished it last week, so it's a pretty fresh update lol. Thanks for the info. I'm just a very curious person though, so could you maybe explain what else they have to do before they go live with the LTE? Is it just so they have more initial coverage, do they have to work on the backbone network, or something else?

 

 

All the sites converted to date in the Delaware market have been GMO sites. Full build site work is just now getting under way. So it will still be awhile until LTE starts going live. If I were to guess, I'd say this summer.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

The site by my work that they just completed is not a GMO. They put new RRUs (Alcatel Lucent) at the top of the tower (city water tower), and did work in the ground cabinet/building that involved sawing/drilling for a couple days. I do not know what the other sites are though.

16 out of the 26 tower in Dover DE area are currently being upgraded. The tower by my work is finished, at least hardware wise. 4G is not turned on yet though. Does someone else have to come actually set up all the hardware maybe, or does Sprint wait until a good amount of towers are complete and turn them all on together?

Also, when doing the network vision upgrades, are they definitely removing/replacing/repurposing the iDen/Nextel hardware? My work uses Nextel, so I'd like to give them a heads up lol.