Jump to content

jamesinclair

S4GRU Premier Sponsor
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    1,134

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    3

 Content Type 

Posts posted by jamesinclair

    Network Vision/LTE - Lower Central Valley Market (Fresno, Bakersfield, Visalia)

    in Markets

    Posted

    Visited a family member that lives by Chaplain and Perin in Fresno (woodward park area). Inside the house I was roaming on Verizon. I dont remember it being the case before. Ate up my battery

     

     

    Got a good speed test down by Shields and 1st, 4pm too.

     

    Failed speed test out by Clinton and Marks. 1 bar.

     

    Ill be up at China Peak tomorrow. Ill see if I catch some service. Last time I was there only the iphone in our group had a bar (roaming), and only when the wind was aligned in a certain direction, while Saturn was on a certain axis.

    New fee changes from sprint coming

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Cheaper to put your money away each month and use it towards a new Nexus. 

     

    Absolutely.

     

    I can also see getting insurance for months 1 and 2 because of the peace of mind, and then cancelling it.

     

    Finding out you have a defective phone on day 15 can cause an artery to blow.

     

     

    The 5/5s has always been 11 a month for their coverage. And that 79 is for green level replacement which is pretty much dead pixels or a dead earpiece/speaker. See if Apple will replace a cracked screen for you. With TEP you can have your phone replaced even if it's cracked so long as it's one crack under 2 inches or 2 cracks under 1 inch a piece. Or see if Apple will replace your phone for a faulty antenna. Won't happen.

    I'm good with my phones and I still have insurance. My g2 was 3 weeks old and was replaced for free for a defect from the manufacturer. Without TEP it's $75. So on an so forth...

     

     

    How much do those small shops in strip malls charge to replace a screen for you?

    Sprint to combine Virgin and Boost and revive Nextel (also regional grocery chain thread)

    in General Topics

    Posted

    I cant say I think any of this makes sense.

     

    Boost and Virgin are strong (known) bands, why throw them away and start with nothing?

     

    Yes theyre redundant. Thats the point. Joe Cellphone doesnt know theyre the same company.

     

    If hes in the shop comparing verizon prepaid, boost, virgin, sprint pay as you go, at&t prepaid and tmobile, hes spending 50% of his time looking at Sprint.

     

     

    Nextel has the aura of "old" around it. And doesnt inspire trust.

    Network Vision/LTE - Lower Central Valley Market (Fresno, Bakersfield, Visalia)

    in Markets

    Posted

    Jee wiz... Surely someone in the Upper Central Valley is tracking the progress of sites in that market right?

     

    oh wait...http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/3724-upper-central-valley-market-network-vision-permits-progress/page-54&do=findComment&comment=260439

     

    Im sure those sending Sprint a cheque every month and receiving abysmal service will be thrilled to hear that moving into 2014, permits are in motion and they should receive LTE sometimes before 2020.

     

     

    Further, it doesnt make sense to blame the municipality when every other wireless company has LTE up and running in the market. I think it's fair to say that someone in the Sprint chain, maybe at subcontractor #46, made a mistake.

     

    Maybe they filed the wrong form. I don't know, but Fresno city government isn't exactly Malibu. They approve things like they've never seen a rejection stamp before. The city is so ugly for a reason after all.

     

    And apologies if I sound upset, but one does get irked when data speeds are so bad that a speed test doesnt even work.

     

    2013-12-28152850_zps2b04df92.png

    Network Vision/LTE - Lower Central Valley Market (Fresno, Bakersfield, Visalia)

    in Markets

    Posted

    Excuse me?

     

    All the sites Modesto has been cluster launched for 3G & 3G/800 and the wait is on backhaul providers to deliver backhaul to sites. 1/2 to 2/3rds of the sites in stockton have been converted already as of a month and a half ago with definitely more done by now.

     

    Don't bring in cities from another market unless you know what you're talking about. 

     

    I meant Madera, not Modesto. My mistake.

     

    Roberts map indicates zero work finished in Stockton.

     

    Roberts map also indicates very little work finished in Sacramento, and nothing in Bakersfield.

     

    Sanger has one site, yes, also not worked on. (Should be two or three like Verizon but thats another discussion)

    Network Vision/LTE - Lower Central Valley Market (Fresno, Bakersfield, Visalia)

    in Markets

    Posted

    Clovis probably, but Fresno does not look good at all. AT&T's deployment of LTE in Fresno involved a metric ton of brand new stealth monopoles, which I suspect was mandated by the city in order to issue the permits. I can't think of why AT&T would incur that extra expense of replacing a bunch of towers unless they were forced to. Granted, there's some new AT&T stealth monopoles in Clovis, but not all of them were replaced. In Fresno, I can think of one or two existing monopoles (one of them being across Willow from the old Regency theater) that were simply upgraded with the new LTE panels. In case you want to see this site replacement ballet in action, check out behind the Savemart at the Herndon and Marks/Valentine area.

     

    Regardless, I am confident that the city of Fresno has only one updated Sprint site. This one site is not a monopole, either. I went on a drive yesterday to some sites that would, ostensibly, be easier to permit because they are in industrial and lower-income/lower-NIMBY areas. No dice.

     

    It also bears mentioning that there's usually a major delay between site upgrade and site "turn on," and even when it turns on, there's a good chance it wont be broadcasting LTE, at least initially.

     

    If I were in Fresno, I would be looking to change carriers.

     

    I dont think its a Fresno problem, its the contractor.

     

    Bakersfield, Stockton, Modesto, Clovis, Sanger....

     

    If it was ONE city that was stopped, it would be fair to blame their permit office, but every major city in the valley?

     

    The problem is with either Sprint, their contractor, or their sub contractors. Someone dropped the ball.

     

    Forget regular LTE thats over a year behind schedule, we were supposed to have 800 LTE two months ago, and yet they cant even get the 3G updates done.

     

     

    Anyway, I tried to visit a Clovis site yesterday but it is deep inside a private property (farm) and it looked like the owners were outside so I didnt even feel comfortable stopping at their gate to take pictures.

    Network Vision/LTE - Lower Central Valley Market (Fresno, Bakersfield, Visalia)

    in Markets

    Posted

    That's the only time table sprint support is privy to. Either "next three months (90 days)", "3-6 months", or no information at all. Nothing more specific unless you get pretty high up, or someone who really knows what they are doing. And that's hard to do.

     

    And that "90 days" could really mean tomorrow, or it could actually mean 90 days. Very difficult to know without knowing the status of backhaul at every site, the status of the 4G core, where the acceptance crews are, whether the cluster is ready to go, and if everything is in place for eCSFB.

     

    Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

     

    Its not just Sprint though.

     

    90 days is universally equivalent to "we have no idea but we're hoping for the best"

    Network Vision/LTE - Lower Central Valley Market (Fresno, Bakersfield, Visalia)

    in Markets

    Network Vision/LTE - Lower Central Valley Market (Fresno, Bakersfield, Visalia)

    in Markets

    Posted

    To their credit, they're not lying, just reading exactly what is found in their tools provided by Sprint. The trouble with that is 100% of the towers in the LCV have said 4G to be upgraded in the next 90 days since at least May.

     

    *edit - not 100% but the majority of towers*

     

    Yup, 90 days always seems to be 90 days away

     

    Im going to be in Fresno tomorrow....I remember the last two times I was in town I was hoping thered be LTE (May and August)

×
×
  • Create New...