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    Network Vision/LTE - Cleveland/NE Ohio Market

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    Admittedly I don't know enough about the technical aspects of 3G 800 vs. LTE 800, but that's good news if the 3G 800 is supported by many of the non tri-band devices. I hope you're right because cell phones are virtually useless when a decent amount of people are downtown. I'm not sure how it is on a normal work day, but I would guess it's marginally better. There are a good amount of people downtown during the day. 

    I could be wrong but I believe youe S4 supports 3G 800. I know my iPhone 5 does but it only supports 1900mhz LTE.

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    Network Vision/LTE - Cleveland/NE Ohio Market

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    As far as I can tell right now, any LTE being received in downtown is purely testing/pre-approval LTE still, so I wouldn't take any signal strengths you're getting at this point as scripture.  Once 3G 800 launches, cell service should be MUCH better downtown, even if it is low broadcast strength.

    Agreed, the density of cell sites downtown along with even lowered strength should still give everyone great cell reception on the 800 band.

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    Well, hopefully that means that I will no longer be roaming on Verizon. That is my tower, very close to my house, and I started pulling LTE yesterday afternoon but I was still roaming on VZW for 1X voice. Very annoying. 

    Did you try a profile update? Also try clearing your cache and restart the phone. This might fix your issue.

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    And naturally I live in Beachwood.. Doh.. It seems to be creeping close to me but isn't there yet. Any chance on that being soon?

     

     

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    They probably will be lighting up you area sooner than later but who knows. I live in mentor and I don't see it happening before summer some time. They are creeping in from the east and they're suppose to start upgrades on the first tower in mentor sometime this spring. Hopefully as the weather gets better things will pick up a little.

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    IBEZ = International Boundary Exclusion Zone. It refers to the roughly 70 mile area from the Canadian and Mexican borders (there's varying accounts of the actual area, but 70 miles is what I've seen the most of). The US and Canada / Mexico must reach an agreement for the use of the 800 MHz SMR spectrum that Sprint owns before Sprint can fully deploy that spectrum, otherwise there will be interference with the owners of the same spectrum on the other side of the border (Telus Mike on the Canadian side). The SMR (800 MHz) spectrum is what Sprint obtained from Nextel and is far better at building penetration and traveling distances than the 1.9 ghz PCS spectrum Sprint operates on now.

     

    In addition to the 800 and the 1.9 frequencies, Sprint acquired a huge swath of 2.5 ghz from the acquisition of Clearwire earlier this summer . Sprint Spark refers to Sprint utilizing the three of these frequencies together as one contiguous unit - in essence the phone will seamlessly be able to choose the best available frequency at any given moment.

     

    So what does this mean to Cleveland? Sprint is actively deploying LTE on its 1.9 band. With the rate I've observed, I would estimate a fairly robust LTE rollout by Spring 2014, so most of the areas you see 3G today you should experience LTE by that time (no guarantees, just an estimate). Sprint Spark is still a ways off, especially considering the challenges of the IBEZ. It should be noted that sprint has worked out some sort of agreement to be able to deploy it's 800 spectrum for voice and 1x data coverage, but in what appears to be in a powered down state. The rollout of LTE in 800 is TBD in this market. 2.5 has actually already begun deployment, however you need a tri-band device to be able to utilize any of that at this time. S4GRU has a ton of information on all of this if you want to find out more just start digging around.

    Great answer! :)

     

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - Cleveland/NE Ohio Market

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    Thanks for the info guys. I don't know which towers, but I know one is on Cook Rd in Olmsted Township.

    The CSR's told me (of course) that NV would help my signal, but I'm sure they don't know.

    Right now I have an iPhone 4s, but would like to be able to just make a call in my neighborhood. Streaming some radio while I walk around the hood is, I fear, a pipe dream but who knows?

    Well It would help if you have an 800 voice capable phone like a 5 or 5s. I don't think a 4s is capable. It will be better I know that for a fact. I live near an LTE active tower which is not on the NV complete map. Before the upgrade I would get three bars for voice and now it's five. I haven't checked to see if it's 800 but I'm sure it is.

     

     

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    Theoretically yes but there are a lot of factors that go into it. Unfortunately we are located in the IBEZ zone so although we will have 800 voice and eventually 800 LTE, until they work out an agreement with Canada it will most likely be an under powered version. 800 is where we will get more coverage. Other factors include geography, buildings, antenna angle and some other things so the short answer is who knows! As far as data goes once Cleveland is launched as a spark market I think we will be fine.

     

     

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    Although you will also have to own a phone that takes full advantage of NV.

     

     

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    One "simple" question...once NV/LTE is turned up and going, will the towers have longer range? I've been told our development is on the outskirts of three different towers and would love to know if the new technology is going to afford our area phone and data. Thanks for the help!

    Theoretically yes but there are a lot of factors that go into it. Unfortunately we are located in the IBEZ zone so although we will have 800 voice and eventually 800 LTE, until they work out an agreement with Canada it will most likely be an under powered version. 800 is where we will get more coverage. Other factors include geography, buildings, antenna angle and some other things so the short answer is who knows! As far as data goes once Cleveland is launched as a spark market I think we will be fine.

     

     

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