TechSmurf

Grant/Oracle is live. Mapped. It's the 8/177/346 I found before. Still no clue on 95

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Vail Walgreens

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New sensorly track in Vail! One step closer to home!

I *think* there is Sprint tower off of Shannon between Anklam and Broadway, but if it has LTE enabled on it, it seems like the signal in that area would be a lot stronger.

I can neither confirm nor deny that the sensorly track in that area was me attempting to confirm or deny the activity of a site that may or may not exist in that area... but I can confirm my signal sucked in that area. Whatever I was picking up was only because of the hill. Also, picking up other sectors of that site east of I-10 confirms the site must be close to or east of I-10.

I'm glad to see the signal strength is creeping into the central part of town but I am excited to see towers popping up centrally versus on the outskirts first or along the I-10 freeway

By central are you referring to those dark spots at Himmel Park and 22nd/Alvernon?

All my stuff was dark tonight.

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I'll take another drive past a couple sites tonight, see if I can hunt some of this down...

Maybe 95 is coming from that dark spot by the Children's Museum?

Picked up 95 then 177 eastbound grant between stone and campbell... still no idea where they're coming from.

Picked up a third new site on I-10 between 22nd and speedway this morning. No idea where the signal was coming from. Keep your eyes peeled! IDs: 8/177/346, 95/264/433

Funny story. As I walked out of work yesterday and sat down in my car and went to load up sensorly and unlock engineering and everything, I got quite a shock... I already had LTE! Shoulda seen the look on my face...

Mapped South/West of Grant/10. Could not find source.

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New sensorly track around PCC West.

New sensorly track centered around Drexel/Old Nogales Hwy. New site broadcasting. Can probably assume this is what CaveCam found, but I'd like LTE engineering screens with RSRPs better than -90 to be sure.

It is band 26 aka 800mhz 4g LTE correct? Have we had any of that flavor of 4g in Tucson yet?

They aren't even installing 800mhz radios here, so nfc what's up with that.

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If it's a new site, based on the ID it should be sw/s/se of your location. Definitely not north.

Serving Cell 82 could be new, could be Cardinal/Valencia... nobody ever got samsung LTE engineering for that site, and your RSRP suggests *very* fringe signal. Sensorly doesn't suggest anything interesting yet. Go hunt it down, post again when you've got an RSRP under 90.

The fact it is an industrial \ commercial zoning possibly made for quicker permit approval and\or easier access to backhaul. The SAR approval would be significantly easier to obtain. The location will also be significantly easier to obtain landowner permission compared to the roof of an office building or hotel so it could be intentionally first to allow them to 'practice' on a site with less time constraints imposed by land \ property owners.

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The first permitted site on Oahu is in freaking Mapunapuna! Great for all those warehouses down there...

You seem annoyed by this, but I fail to understand why.

1: It appears quite a few people work in that area. They'll probably be quite happy to have LTE at work.

2: That permit does not directly translate into a spot in line for LTE. It'll probably get 3G upgrades and the rest of the tower work completed before other sites, but by the time LTE starts rolling out some months down the line there will be dozens of sites on Oahu that are 3G accepted and any one of them could get LTE.

No clue which, but they'll be getting their own fiber.

Funny thing is, since these antennas have been installed, my service has gone to crap. I've always gotten full 6 bars standing 50ft away from this tower, and now I get around 2-3. Service dies about 1/2 mile up the road when before it would die about 2 miles up the road.

 

I'm not picking up any LTE signals, so I assume they haven't done the work on the ground yet, just mounted the antennas and run the cables. Anyone familiar with the process of installing this kind of equipment - do they usually mount the antennas first and then do ground work later? They left the gate to the tower property open, so I assume they're not done yet.

When they begin the install of NV gear they generally shut down the tower. When it comes back up your service will probably return to normal or slightly better. Also when it comes back up, it probably will not be broadcasting LTE. AlcaLu likes their markets to have a significant number of sites ready for LTE integration before they start that phase, so expect this to be months down the road. They will have almost all of the physical LTE work complete before they leave, but they can't integrate until new backhaul arrives. Watch for a telecom crew trenching for new fiber to the site.

Has no one else seen LTE equipment go up anywhere else? I find it odd that they would be installing stuff on Kauai and no one has seen installations on Oahu. This is the only tower on the island that has been upgraded so far, though. It's definitely not broadcasting LTE anytime soon - this was installed over three weeks ago and no one has touched the tower since. Are they waiting for base station stuff, or what? 

I just said the first Honolulu permit issued last week... they can't do anything without permits.

The only ones we know have backhaul are the ones broadcasting lte. The rest...?

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First permit issued in Honolulu last week. Have a little water to flush out some of that salt.

Worse. You're the last major market to not have it. The other 4 states have little sprint coverage.

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they have fiber

Do they?