ashirley751

Oh I'm absolutely with you. I get that there are many different challenges with a roll out like this but being in a market as big as Denver and having such little progress is very frfrustrating. Regardless of how strategically relevant or logistically prohibitive or other reasons for the slow pace to our market it does suck something fierce.

Just to be a smart @$$, we're more likely to have spark coverage everywhere in Denver prior to having the existing NV plan turned on. Again, just being a jack @$$ =)

Doesn't look like it yet. I know others have said it, but I just recently did it and will echo it.....spend the few dollars and make a donation to the site so you can be a sponsor and have access to the sponsor maps. The sponsor section has a tremendous amount of information that is extremely helpful.

Makes sense. I've gone back and forth with Sprint over the past few weeks expressing my displeasure with the experience I've had with them this past year. I want get into the whole sob story but it goes well beyond the glacial pace of the roll out of LTE in Denver. Through my work we get corporate discounts on all the big 4 carriers and have penciled it out multiple ways between Sprint and T-Mobile. I've been with Sprint for 11 years and really don't want to leave. Until the latest news picking up steam with Spark and other items such as one-up I was pretty convinced to leave. Hopefully you're right, sooner rather than later on the devices being able to enable on band 41 or 26. I am supposed to be getting a call back from the person in retention handling my escalation today, not looking for roses to fall from the heavens but something of a gesture would be welcome.

Thanks for the quick response on this. Is this device ID,map address (not sure if I have the right term there, forgive me please) or some other method of disabling. I guess what I'm asking is, is there a way (obviously unsupported I imagine) to get past this disabling? I'm a patient person, but you know...thought I'd ask!

Here's a question. I apologize if this maybe a bit uninformed, but after reading this thread for months and following the Denver market closely (yes, I'll put in the obligatory it's been painful comment, lol) I wanted to pose this to the group here. With the Nexus 5 finally becoming official today, and other Tri-Band handsets becoming available it made me think..... A few months ago, Robert posted http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/2172-network-visionlte-colorado-market-denvercolo-springsfort-collinspueblogrand-jct/page-30?hl=%2Bviva+%2Btri&do=findComment&comment=173065 that he was getting LTE via a Tri-Band Mifi device along I25, Park Meadows Mall was called out specifically. Would these new tri-band handsets be able to pick up the signal from these acquired clear wire sites that have been converted or will we still be waiting longer?

Back when that tower first went live I bolted up there that first weekend like the winning powerball ticket was waiting for me. I stayed around the area for a bit and never once got a hit so I wonder of it cycles.

Ha! Well played.

Here is the rest of the detail from my 11.8 mb test this morning. Not sure this says anymore than is already known but thought I'd post it in case.

True but I'm greedy. Lol.

Actually, second test got over 11mb. Still not as fast as we see on other LTE networks but a massive improvement over our currently miserable 3g.

At Sonic in Castle Rock this morning to test it out (live in Highlands Ranch), I'm getting about 8mb down.

This! On an lte note, the speculation about service interuptions indicating lte work.. . Add federal and mineral area of Littleton to that list. Was at a buddys place this morning and the signal strength was goin ape poo on me. Max to nothing back to max.......and yes.......lost 3g down to 1x.....here's to hoping

The Dish/Sprint/Softbank news keeps coming in! I agree with S4GRU, regardless of what happens with the buy out topics, the LTE project has been paid for previously. They're not on a "pay as you go" construction plan. =) Here is the latest: Sprint and SoftBank today announced an amendment to their original merger agreement that makes the deal more attractive to current Sprint investors. Chiefly, SoftBank is upping the amount of cash it will pay to investors by $4.5 billion to a total of $16.64 billion. The amount of cash being pumped into the front-end of the deal is being offset by a $3 billion reduction in the $4.9 billion investment SoftBank planned to make in New Sprint after the acquisition was completed, as well as new financing on SoftBank's part. The companies together believe that reworking the finances is a win for Sprint's shareholders and reflects Sprint's Network Vision progress and profitability improvements. However, once the deal is done, Sprint's current shareholders will have 22% ownership of the company, and SoftBank will have 78%. Under the previous terms, SoftBank would have had a 70% stake in Sprint. Separate from altering the SoftBank transaction terms, Sprint today also announced that its Special Committee evaluating Dish Networks' proposal has concluded that Dish's deal is no good. "We have expended substantial time and energy engaging with Dish over the past nine weeks, including an extensive due diligence process, but these efforts did not lead, in the Special Committee's view, to a proposal that was reasonably likely to lead to a proposal superior to SoftBank's," said Sprint. In light of these changes, Sprint has delayed its planned June 12 shareholder vote to June 25. Most U.S. regulatory bodies, including the Justice Department, SEC, and FBI, have approved SoftBank's proposed equity acquisition of Sprint. It is now awaiting review from the Federal Communications Commission. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130610006626/en/Sprint-SoftBank-Amend-Merger-Agreement-Deliver-Greater

I've lived off Wildcat for 5 years and have dropped calls daily. I drive the length of wilcat on my way to work and there are several very poor spots that have minimal to no data and at times no voice. What you experienced is more than likely standard and not indicitive of tower work. One can hope though!

I run a call center in the Denver area for a different industry, but some former employees of mine do work in the Sprint Call Center and they've heard similar word internally. So hopefully that's the story but at this point I've lost hope and will just be patient for the launch. I think the frustrating part for a lot of Sprint users in the area, many of us had WiMax phones and while the WiMax service was less than ideal, it was excellent compared to 3G, at least where my office is. When the LTE handsets started coming out (such as the GS3 or the Evo LTE or Note 2 etc) many of us jumped to those handsets because the feature set was a much richer experience, with the trade off being a wait for LTE service. I can't say whether I would've waited on upgrading my handset if I knew the LTE wait in Denver would've been this long but it certainly would've been something taken into consideration. Probably would've upgraded either way, end up on WiFi most of the time anyway so it's a little bit moot. Watching with great interest right now though, thank you to all of you guys for sharing your knowledge. Learned a lot from you.