ScottCoGuy

Just received the following information about some testing in the SouthWest Metro...

Sprint has been working on their 4G network upgrades in your area, and would like to make some test calls (see schedule below).

Sprint will be in your area conducting drive testing and would like to make the following calls into the PSAP.  

3712

Scott County Sheriffs Office

Monday Night

06/10/13

11p - 5a

14 test calls

Our technician has been instructed to call dispatch @ XXX-XXX-XXXX prior to testing to verify that your dispatch is not already busy with emergencies.  If at any time during the testing you become busy with emergencies, the testing can be suspended. 

http://s4gru.com/ind...d/page__st__220

That forum is locked for me so I copied my post over to the 'Report Sites and Progress' thread. Thanks for the suggestion.

I found a new Sprint tower last night in the Southbridge area of Shakopee. I was using an app called CDMA Field Testing Application and followed it to the following location.

44.77962,-93.443747

There is an enclosure and building there hooked to a couple of antenna's on top of the power line structure but I didn't have time to take any pictures.

This site is listed as a future tower build on the Sprint web site and apparently it's up and running with LTE.

http://coverage.sprint.com/action/WebImageStream10?covType=sprint&serviceType=voice&mapcenterx=-93.4977035522461&mapcentery=44.777313232421875&geocenterx=-93.4977&geocentery=44.7746&endlinex=&endliney=&scale=10.0&width=420&height=315&showPinpoint=T&signalStrength=T&antiAlias=T&layers=TFFTFTTTTFTFFTFFFFFFFTTFFFF

I've also been getting 4G from the tower behind the Shakopee Target store, mapped at 44.777224,-93.500088

I mapped some purple around Shakopee on Friday night and Monday afternoon. It appears the small tower near Stagecoach Rd http://maps.google.com/?daddr=44.77972539529272,%20-93.40416473483302 and the 4th Ave. tower North of Canterbury Park are live! http://maps.google.c....48542874112637

The following is a part of an email received by some businesses in the MN area. The dates affected are March 20 to April 10.

Sprint Nextel will be performing network maintenance to ensure the continued reliability of your services. A description of the impact is listed below:

Maintenance Description: Sprint will be performing a Network Deployment Scheduled Maintenance activity to consolidate multiple network technologies into one new, seamless network with the goal of increasing efficiency and enhancing network coverage, call quality and data speeds for customers across the United States on a new 3G and LTE network nationwide. This activity may result in a loss of CDMA Data Connections and/Or Dropped Calls services intermittently during the scheduled time below in the Min-Minneapolis market