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People should choose the provider that works best for them at the present time. If Verizon or AT&T works best for them where they use their phones the most often, then go for it. For me, 3G and 4G have been getting better and better over the past year so I'm happy. 

Sprint announced today: http://newsroom.sprint.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=11245

I wonder if this means there's going to be a mass of 3G/4G acceptances within the next week. I imagine Christmas and New Years weeks will have barely any work done.

FWIW, the tower near my house isn't 3G accepted and it doesn't look like anything's been done.

We should be getting 2500 spark much sooner than other cities with no Wimax deployments. Wimax deployment started in the North County such as San Marcos, Escondido and South County in National City which was never finished by Clearwire. Sprint will just pickup where they left off and we hope that San Diego would get higher priority because we are in the IBEZ zone with no 800mhz anytime soon.

We'll get it before 800, but Sprint isn't going to give us higher priority because of the IBEZ. Also, we never got WiMAX. The two sites that went up are protection sites.

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^ Oh, that map. Nice. It does seem awfully optimistic at the moment though.

I just wish they'd start working on the "tower" (actually AT&T building) by my house so I get 4G at home.

I just saw a couple of days ago that Sprint added San Diego to their map of LTE cites. I currently have an unlimited data plan with Verizon and i am wanting to upgrade / change to Sprint. Can anyone tell me if the LTE data speeds are good and if the marjory of the city is covered with good LTE signal?

The drop-down list at http://network.sprint.com/? It seems like it's for the "data speed upgrades"; that's been there for a while. Unless I'm missing something?

The HTC one isn't tri-band as it was released back in, what, March or so? No radios to pick up the band 26 and 41 LTE. Only band 25/1900 LTE.

On another note, anyone know if the HTC One is capable of qi charging?

 

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I'm glad I have the One instead of a triband phone in a way. At least with the One we have SvLTE. 

Just got my mifi activated and rolling along on LTE. Question: how do i see which band I'm connected to in the web interface? I can't seem to find it. Also, I have my msl from Sprint. Does anyone know where to enter that or how? I'm really curious because my phone LTE (b25) is always dead slow at work while outside, and the mifi had me cruising along at 15mbps. I want to know if it's 26 or 41. Thanks.

For the band you're on, go to http://192.168.1.1/debug (it'll ask you for your password). I think you only need your MSL for advanced settings, where you can change band order and en/disable the 800 and 2500 bands.

I took a look at Robert's latest map update today and it looks like a large number of towers in SD proper are 4G approved now. Is it safe to say that if they fill in PB and Clairemont that Sprint could be able to launch here?

More information here on the overall rebanding of 800 MHz than I can process for those interested.

Interesting. Looks like Sprint is going to be paying to move/replace public safety radio equipment even outside the IBEZ: http://www.800ta.org/content/resources/faqs.asp#costsfaqs

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Yeah I figured as much.   I thought I noticed something different but didn't get a chance to investigate until now.

Er, somehow I made two posts and can't delete/modify one without modifying the other. Help? 

I think I'm late to the party on this, but after downloading the latest OTA update the signal bars on my phone seem to correlate with the signal strength of the current tech being used for data (1X, eHRPD/EV-DO or LTE) instead of just 1X like before. 

I took the attached screenshots on the way home from the store. The first screenshot was about a block or so before I completely lost LTE signal, while the second is right outside my apartment. I was on the same 1X/eHRPD tower for both. Notice how I only have one bar in the first screenshot while I have four bars in the second.

Anyone else notice this?

I was walking back to my car after work in Del Mar, 92014 on the corner of Stratford Way and Luneta Drive and Signal Check Pro notified me that my voice service switched to 800. I didn't think we were getting any that in San Diego due to the IBEZ. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk

Hmm, I was near there today and there was no 800. Tried toggling airplane mode and updated PRL too. Maybe it being on was an accident or they were doing testing.

Yes I'm sure. Seen it along with the next nearest that is live when I mapped a month in half to 2 months ago.

May want to ask Robert about that. Could be a mistake.

I stopped by the Vandergrift/Gold Dr site and took pics. From a distance the day before while passing by it, I noticed an antenna change. It didn't look like new equipment when I went up to it, and had black hand smudges on them due to replacing them. It's a cleaner look that kinda looked similar to the old crap (last pic in link) that was on this street light. This site is also LTE live. Cabinets were a few feet away that were ATT and SDG&E. From what I've been reading on this site, I thought everything will be brand spankin' new with NV.

 

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It might still be new, just that it's been sitting at some sort of central location for a while before being installed.

I followed the link but it didn't seem to reference 800 in the IBEZ zone

 

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Considering all of San Diego County is in the IBEZ, the fact that the guy posted a screenshot of SignalCheck showing 800 is significant.

They might be doing work in the IBEZ already. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/2144-network-visionlte-san-diego-market/page-50&do=findComment&comment=222973

Wow! I didn't think SD would get it either. I wonder if other areas of North County will see this?

I wonder if the users on the Baja California side already vacated (at least some of) the required frequencies. 800 might still be pretty slim here since they still have three years or so to completely leave.

IBEZ reband plan has already been approved between both parties (FCC and Mexican government) and is in progress for the US/Mexico border.  The US/Mexico reband effort will take up to 30 months that began on August 23, 2013 and at latest finish by February 23, 2016.  I would show you the link but the FCC website is down.

So it probably won't be until 2017 or so before the IBEZ gets 800Mhz. At least it's progress!

Will the government shutdown delay an agreement for the IBEZ at all? 

…and I dropped a call just now. There's one legacy tower in the middle of a bunch of 3G updated ones, so that might have something to do with it. I thought Alcatel-Lucent equipment was supposed to hand off to legacy fairly well?

Yeah, I don't know why people are so excited for the first tri-band LTE phone because it will be long obsolete before Sprint gets it up and running.

Some of us travel often to places not in the IBEZ. 

And San Diego is not getting 800Mhz anytime soon which cannot cover the gap. 4G coverage has not improved for the past 3-6 months.  They need to hurry up with the 4G coverage.

 

Voice hasn't been so great lately, getting too many drop calls.  Pre-NV we rarely drop calls, now today when driving cannot even hold on a call.

They just turned LTE on for a few towers near work. The issue has always been AT&T, etc. dragging things out.