joshnys8913

I don't believe he said that would be finished in 2014. Only "half" of them.

 

I believe that full 100% 2G-to-LTE deadline is still mid 2015. It was always mid 2015 -- this hasn't changed or been pushed back in any way.

Maybe your right, I guess I just heard it wrong lol 

Cool, I never saw that, have a link that?

I think it was this one,  

Pretty impressed with the edge conversions in LA and MS as well. Not sure what Legere, Neville, or magentans have to do with it, but okay.

Legere did say "ALL towers will have 4G LTE by the end of the year" (2014) It was in one of the uncarrier videos. As far as I know that never happened because I have friends who have t-mobile and there are still spots with 2G EDGE still. 

I can only speak to my personal experience in OK - and from the perspective of the engineers who are building the network here. Whether or not what is being said matches up with reality is something we'll have to wait and see. I'm far from a TMO evangelist, but I'm pretty impressed with what they've done in my state in a short amount of time. 

 

For work, I always have a current flagship from each carrier in my desk drawer, and I rotate them out frequently. VZW continues to be the most consistent carrier in my state, with AT&T lagging behind slightly in the more rural areas. T-Mobile has always been the worst outside of the city, but that is changing very quickly. Sprint, on the other hand, is an absolute disaster in the OKC metro. It's no more usable than it was a few years ago, but again, that's just one guy's perspective. I'm all about rooting for the underdog when they deserve it. In my region, Sprint has done tons of modernization but the cell grid is still so sparse. They don't stand a chance in this state unless they start putting up more macros, which doesn't seem like it's in the game plan any time soon (unless I missed something). 

One of the big reasons why Sprint fell way behind is there "rip and replace" Sprint could of added cards I am sure (but I am not 100% sure if the old equipment could of done that). Plus Sprint wanted to use old clear spectrum and old nextel 800, so new equipment was probably the best way to of gone. It did hurt Sprint to rip and replace I think BUT its beginning to be a MUCH better experience. 

One thing I did notice is t-mobile sites that had previously 3G/4g (hspa) active on there towers they replaced equipment (not antennas), in my area, for 4G LTE upgrade.  

I have never heard anything good about reliability being good on t-mobile, other then good data speeds. 

Yeah, I think our quick rollout of spark in lots of areas had to do with Rochester having had an active wimax network though. So some older but faster backhaul was probably already in place at clear sites. We are miles ahead of where we could be, though! And damn fast in lots of places now too.

I agree we were fortunate to have really good Wimax network in Rochester, and Syracuse did too, I was surprised Buffalo out off all places being the biggest city outside NYC in NY state didnt have a Wimax network, they had 2 protection sites I think. 

I'm pretty sure it was a nationwide outage unless you had an iPhone... Otherwise midnight eastern time texting outbound went down...

not here I was on the phone for 5 mins talking to a friend from 12:04am-12:09am and texted after that back and forth with 2 of my friends before I went to bed, and checked my email (and no I was not on wifi, I never use wifi on my phone).  I have Android.

How did everyone fare the hour or so outage the whole sprint network had for texting at midnight eastern time last night?

Um.... I dont know what your talking about, all services were working for me at midnight.... Maybe it was just your area.... 

My resolutions is not repeating or making stupid mistakes like in the past  (simple) 

The band 41 is pretty kick-ass when you can find it though, to give credit where it's due.

 

I was actually in the other side of the state this weekend, over towards the Amsterdam-Schenectady area and the active band 26 over there is actually amazing. Being able to hold an LTE signal inside is Sprint's biggest weakness right now, and as soon as they can deploy band 26 in Rochester it's actually going to make a huge difference.

Yea I know, there are lots of towers that have band 41 Spark active in Rochester but they are on certain ones, just seems like we have been at a stand still for a while lol

No new Spark sites yet, no new 800 yet either, I was all over this Holiday season and nothing new since the last map updates, darn!! Come on Rochester we had one of the fastest 3G NV completions, and 4G LTE and now it feels like we are dragging lol 

Move this to the relevant market thread.  It is not a widespread issue.

 

AJ

Def. not, no issues here!! 

Iv'e never had a bad call quality with Sprint in all the years I have been with them, (even before "Power Vision")!! Big red Vzw is terrible, I never had a good call when I used a friend's phone. At&t I just had dropped call issues lol

I agree with you, awsum gam3r, newboyx and jamisonshaw125 that the iPhones are over rated, but then again I can see why they are so popular, they are made for the "general public" they are simple to use, hard to get virus if you download something, security is very high (although nothing is 100% like everything else in this world).

I personally am an Android fan myself I don't like Apple products at all (thats my preference). However one thing that I will give Apple credit on is that it seems that they come out with updates more often on iOS then Android. Another thing I think the general public likes about iPhones is they keep the same basic layout and functions (pretty much) with every new phone that comes out, and that is something people want and like, they want to pick up there new phone and know exactly where to go to find what they need instead of hunting for things. Thats one thing I dont like about Android is you go from LG to Samsung for example and its different, but then again some people like to switch it up (which I have I went from HTC to LG). Android (well more specifically each company) gives you a different experience.   

I have TWC, I'm just south of Rochester but I think mine runs out of Batavia, no issues with cable, Internet, or Sprint today.

weird, lol

I had Softbank for two years when I was stationed in Japan. My service was fantastic! LTE wasn't available yet and I only had an iPhone 3GS. But the 3G speeds were pretty fast. I had unlimited data at the time.

 

I was very excited when I read that Softbank had bought Sprint. Softbank will definitely help improve Sprint.

 

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It good to hear someone who ACTUALLY had personal experience with Softbank cell service in Japan, sounds like there are doing good over there!!   

Well today was good, except the TWC outage for 4 hours in the Rochester, Buffalo (and some of Syracuse area), glad Sprint doesn't have TWC as the data vendor or else I would not of been able to use my phone when the Internet went out at the places I went to and WIFI wasn't working. I guess a lot of the North East was affected today who had TWC. (it affected Internet and TV). Sprint is always working when I need it!! 

Syracuse and Rochester have Spark yes I can confirm that, but its not official by Sprint.com I have not been to Buffalo in a while so I couldnt tell you that. 

Way too expensive!! 

Thank you Dkoellerwx, I should of done what you did. That was a long quote for a reply. 

Having 4G LTE on every tower would be helpful first, then we can think about "5G".... 

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Long post, I have Unlimited My way. 

Sprint cooperate stores in my past experience are sometimes better then the "authorized retailers" (they have more access to account changes, well they used to anyways) and repair. There is one authorized retail I go to all the time they are great, no matter what store I go to. There is another authorized retailer I have gone to before and they are not friendly (no matter what one you go to) and they are just NOT good in general and I am not the only person who has had issues with this particular one in my area. I guess it all just depends on where you are!! 

B shaped panels are most likely Nextel. Seem a few that are similar to those on nextel sites before.

You said the same thing I did, lol Thats what I thought, not common but I did see them before. 

The B shaped one looks like some used from old Nextel days, and the other flat ones dont look like Sprint only Legacy Panels, but I could be wrong, looks like a different carrier.