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Reynoldsburg New Albany south of broad GMO still very very gmo.

Pickerington. Longview getting moved. Old gear removed from the water tower. New gear also removed. Now on a New monopole next door. Of course the southwest sector is blocked by the water tower. Roads still closed around it.

Cleveland Avenue car wash. No signs of anti-GMO activity.

Cleveland Avenue car wash. No signs of anti-GMO activity.

Got some more Band 26 LTE sites this week. I think on average we're getting about 7-10 per week. Just guessing, it must take about half a day per site.

Got ya. That gmo would fix that.

We were finalizing construction with inspections. Civic park south of main by the pool? Site spacing, trees, and being outside of there focus of the north sector of the Livingston site. Then crowding. Do you have a band 26 capable phone? Getting off crowded band 25 would help.

Inside. Columbus vascular

Good to hear. Must be a problem where I was. I was next door where they just finished remodeling and couldn't latch enough signal to get a call through. [emoji53]

There's ongoing scuttle in our discussions down here about how the IBEZ may be affecting 1x800 completion our way. There's an imaginary line east to west thru our market where the southern 3/4 of Columbus has a dense 1x800 completion and above that nothing. But the S4GRU maps showed Cleveland with 1x800 which would blow out the IBEZ reasoning. Hence your call for reporting of active 1x800 I believe. Also, I remember the FCC reporting Ohio rebanding is 100% complete dated late June??? It was an interesting read, all the rebanding documents. In a nutshell Sprint has to give permission for upper 800 users to remain past the deadline date. Sprint is paying for the upper 800 users to get off the spectrum. Sprint is being really, really nice to those users. I'd charge them rent.

I WAS WRONG! K??! Confused 800 LTE and 1X. It's all those new B26 protons making their travels over the dead Sprint triangle zone place. It's all Ericsson's fault! I need 8t8r to level me out.

Negative! Devices capable of 800 LTE and 1900 LTE. Such as the Galaxy S3, perfectly capable.

New 3G Ada 800 LTE 22 sitesThere's several site updates I know some of you have been asking about. I can't disclose them here but they will be posted in the maps and spreadsheets accessible in the Premier forum. It is a shameless plug for sponsorship.

Digiblur, is that You?

How many Sprint, Ericsson and General Dynamics people does it take to fire up a site? mmmm They were creating a heat map??

Obvious proof that electronics are smoke powered, let the smoke out, they stop working.

Kind sir, the proof of such statement.

Not a laughing matter but the jokes are hilarious. Here is Sprint Spark. If it's a slow news day then they'll talk about it a little more than what anyone could make out of it.

Dropping more info on rebanding and what may be causing your 1x800 rollout delays.... www.800ta.org The web site of the 800 Transition Administrator. I haven't really paid attention to this thread. So if it's reposted info, I apologize. It's just we in the Columbus market experienced a 1x800 site going live north of a boundary that we've noticed has not had 1x800 before. So in my beautiful mind kind of way all the Googles were aligning and these web sites started jumping out at me. I like to share. Now on to the Sprint Spark in Columbus that was just too much... (GMO fire)

Just dropping info here. Pretty much anything you want to know about 800 rebanding. I googled "fcc rebanding status fra". Basically Sprint/Nextel has had to pay the users of upper 800 band to relocate to lower 800 band. This is a part of reorganization of 800 spectrum to alleviate interference issues between Nextel and other users, mostly public safety. For the spectrum in upper 800 SMR band, Sprint has paid dearly for it. In that Google search I found rebanding info from many public safety agencies. The one for Indiana explains in great detail the work required and money involved and time for Sprint to ink contracts and process change orders. Take that times 50 for just statewide radio systems , don't figure in utility company's and other users. That's a whole lot of cash outlay and red tape. The link http://www.in.gov/ipsc/2367.htm

I believe the Columbus market (central Ohio) is 79% complete on LTE. They're slowly getting LTE turned on at the latest NV converted sites. Coverage isn't that dense. We're hoping that the 800 LTE and NV 2.5 LTE will help decrease dead spots. What area are you lurking in?

Pci.

Caught some monkeys on the Grandview HS site. Looks like the conversion process from GMO to full build is under way. Excellent!

That may be what the people think. In reality coverage was pretty good. I was by cooper stadium and bounced off four towers that i watched for. I was on 800 and it was surprisingly flooded with subscribers with the ability to make calls but data was very delayed and slow. Once on LTE from the cell near me, it wasnt too bad. I actually pulled a speedtest on LTE last night of 2 down 1.8 up. It was definitely an improvement over last year but no carrier is going to perform well in that environment without setting up small cells or high density cows.

That's absolutely stupid. How are you going to switch your phone to another carrier? Sprint has these phones so you cannot "switch" to another carrier. Got a spare Sprint phone? Log into your account. Swap the old phone for your G2 in the system. Complete activation. Then switch it back. In both cases you are given or MSL code on the web page in case you need to go edit your info to get activated.