TechSmurf

Three weeks isn't unimaginable at this point, but I promise you they aren't installing the 800 RRUs. We'll be running 1900 only for the foreseeable future.

I guess that's where Nextel Mexico comes in...

817-818.5 x 862-863.5 will be mexico primary, though...

Has nothing to do with iDEN. iDEN channels are interleaved with mexican channels, 25KHz for US, 25KHz for them, back and forth, so even after the iDEN shutdown mexican licensees may still be operating in every other 25KHz channel, effectively blocking the range, in which case there's no way to get a 1.25x1.25MHz CDMA carrier in there much less LTE until things are sorted out with Mexico and mexican licensees... and even once that's settled the plan calls for 5.5x5.5MHz co-primary for wideband operations, so they can't run CDMA plus a 5x5 LTE... so I'm not sure what the current plan is.

Here's a fun read regarding 800SMR in the IBEZ: http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2013/db0401/DA-13-586A1.pdf

Even I-10/Cortaro is 106km from the border, within the 110km IBEZ. 100% of available City of Tucson plans don't include 800 RRUs (sponsors go read them yourselves if you don't believe me). I'm sorry, but until I see an 800 RRU bolted to a tower I firmly believe any reports of 800 RRUs being installed are BS.

I don't even see coax hooked up for 800 yet. Ah well, we'll see what they leave behind when they're done.

Definitely a sprint nv full build there. Their answer is confusing though because the 3g and 4g equipment are the same equipment. Should go back and ask them what it is they're not installing.

6/12/13, Site ID Unknown, Kaunakakai, Permit Issued

Every permit marker on my map links to the permit on the Web. No fuss needed.

No work should have begun on any site without a building permit. "Applied for Permit" means that a building permit has been applied for but not yet issued, thus nothing should have begun yet. Sites that are "Permit Issued" are likely being actively worked on. A site has been upgraded once it is "NV 3G Complete" (and hopefully soon "NV LTE Complete")

The two towers closest to my work were accepted over the weekend. Pulling 1.5Mbps down this morning. Under 100kbps last week. :D Oddly I'm getting EvdoA now rather than the Ehrpd I saw last week.

Note, they're not even installing 800 RRUs on these IBEZ towers yet, so be armed with some good questions

Very possible.

Negative, Ghost Rider. No issued permits. Hawaii looks to have the thickest red tape in the country. Don't get your hopes up on lte hunting just yet either.

That's AT&T if it's on a field light pole; they relocated off the smokestack when they upgraded for lte (their 4 antennas per sector plus RRUs was probably too much for it). Sprint's antennas are staying on the smokestack. Nothing has been done to Rincon/UHS yet.

The interactive version in the sponsors forum is much better

Little teaser:

The maps that show Sprint acceptance and local building permits are available in the Sponsors Forum. I will say that numerically the Tucson metro area is way ahead of Yuma.. but percentage-wise, because Yuma has so few sites, they'll probably be done long before Tucson. Interesting to hear CenturyLink is out there burying fiber at the same time... hope they're being that proactive in Tucson (though I suspect most Tucson sites are near fiber these days anyway)

I haven't seen the slightest hint of an 800MHz RRU being installed in this market, so I'm willing to bet pretty strongly against that.

As far as I've noted in my research sprint is not operating on any monopalms in Tucson. That is very likely an att tower.

For our lonely friends in the Pacific, I've decided to begin a little side project to my local market permit map... This should brighten someone's day. http://s4gru.com/ind...vision-permits/ (Sponsors Only)

I certainly hope we've got people with LTE phones running Sensorly in Yuma, Kingman, and Havasu...

Added info to market map The sooner I have to kill off the "In Progress" status to make room for a "NV LTE Accepted" status, the happier I will be.

I've noticed some sites in Tucson are being set up with 2 RRUs per sector, while others are receiving only one RRU per sector. Was it ever determined if current Alca-lu RRUs can run CDMA+LTE? Are they possibly skipping LTE deployment on otherwise full-build sites?