DomSim

Ohhhhh, so my girlfriend one should be able to connect as well, yes?

Got lte at my house in pickerington. How do I see what bands it is?

http://imgur.com/8FGulv0

I was able to get my nexus 5 to connect to the b41 lte found a tutorial on xda on how to enable the bands.

Unfortunately, the problem is lack of communication from Sprint.  If you were not on this website researching the information yourself you would be completely uneducated on the matter.

 

Having said that, here is what you need to know in a nutshell.  Sprint recently acquired Clearwire who had a pretty decent / large Wimax network in Columbus.  This Wimax network is being phased out and in turn will be converted to B41 LTE.  Concurrently, Sprint is rolling out Network Vision improvements that will add both 1900 Mhz LTE and 800 Mhz LTE (later down the road) to all existing Sprint towers.  As you can see, the two projects are NOT the same and therefore do not depend on each other.  From what we know they are not even being executed by the same teams at all.  Totally different project managers / contractors working on the Clear towers vs. the Sprint towers.  I know this may be more than what you were asking for, but it is the least I can do to explain the situation.

 

Reynoldsburg / the entire Columbus market is being upgraded to NV which will move all (read: 95% of the towers) to 4G LTE @ 1900 Mhz to start and later be updated to 800 Mhz LTE.  Also, all Clear towers are being upgraded to B41 or 2500 Mhz 4G LTE as well.  The NV towers are already being upgraded and if you make a small donation to this site you can gain access to that information.  Which includes full Google Maps with information on expected completion date / progress to date.  We do not have a ton of members in the Reynoldsburg area so that would be great to get you added so you can scope some towers by you to see if the work is completed.

 

The HTC One has access to only 1900 Mhz LTE while the N5 has access to 1900, 800 and 2500 Mhz LTE.

 

Keep the questions coming.

This is great, and explains completely, thank you!

Correct, no dice on the N5 or the HTC One.  Keep in mind the HTC One will not be able to connect to B41 altogether.  While the Nexus 5 will be able to, just needs to get the official Sprint Spark update.  Which, unfortunately noone has a good understanding of when that is going to happen.  We are thinking 1st quarter of this year.  The LG G2 just received its update earlier this week and we are thinking it should be "soon" after that we receive it for the LG N5.

 

Let us know if you have any other questions.  (May want to change your phone information with just that and eliminate your phone number).

Oh, good call on the phone number, thanks. So will this tower ever broadcast a non b41 signal that my girlfriends One can access or my N5 without this Spark update? I guess I'm a bit miffed that sprint would roll out an even newer network that its older LTE phones can't use, before even rolling out the LTE network those devices were designed for, and never got to use. Seems as though a lot of people would be getting the shaft from Sprint. Here, buy this phone, we are building our LTE network. I know you don't have it yet, but buy this top teir phone and soon it will get LTE. Oh wait, just kidding, we are skipping that LTE and going with something else grrrrrr

So I won't be able to connect yet with my nexus 5 or my girlfriends HTC One?

Thank you for the response btw.

 

New LTE Accepted yesterday

• Butler
• Harlem Township
• Kenton
• Marysville
• Pickerington x2
• Waverly
• Westerville x2
• Zanesville

 

Haven't kept up on this thread for a while, but sensorly has shown 256, tussing area with lte for like a month now but I was not able to connect to it. I'm think it was being tested and someone caught it and logged it. These towers that have been excepted in your post, what is the likely timeline until they are actually active?

How far west on Tussing? Near the business Park

 

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If you are asking which one I normally connect to, its the one in the third picture I posted

800 In Pickerington!

http://i.imgur.com/26gw0i1

I normally never connect to this tower at work either, I normally get the one on Tussing.

EDIT: it seems to be unstable and jumps to another tower I don't recall ever picking up at work either, but is also 800!

http://i.imgur.com/KCl6dbI.png

EDIT x2: dropped both, back to my normal tower, sans 800

http://i.imgur.com/wyocXuh.png

WIP 256 & Livingston. This is all I had time to get.

Those are NV cabinets in the first pic right?!?

What tower/area would that be? Isn't Lancaster south of pick town? Or Lancaster Rd?

 

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This one;

Definitely have way better 3g speeds on the Pickerington/Reynoldsburg tower near Lancaster. Seeing almost 2mbps download speeds.

Noticed my tower at home is showing evdo rev a now. It was showing as edhrp before? This is the tower in reynoldsburg off of tussing rd.