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Ahhh, so an area like that, probably would be on the chopping block, lack of customer base maybe?

I have read similar stories throughout this site about locations which have one tower, and almost zero customer base.

Verizon has this entire area lit up with FiOS, God bless my 25/25 connection

Why don't you check Clear Coverage Map? It should show the tower locations in your area.

It does show the tower on the same location as the Sprint tower, interesting. I'm assuming fiber backhaul for all!

I don't see the microwave. Do you see it on the opposite side of the building?

I'll take a better look tomorrow morning, but I think that was the only logical location, I don't see any other sites other than a tower down the block, I'll snap a picture tomorrow, we can see who's it is

This might be the 7" tablet I get, as long as it is slim. The RIM Playbook is awesome, but the square size makes slipping it in a jacket pocket impossible. I currently have the HTC View, and while I love having an embedded modem for Pandora, Netflix, etc. I'll be happy to take a faster unit, as long as I can expand the capacity.

Wow, I wonder how much they get paid for that on their house?

 

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That's a good question, and I think Clearwire also did an install there as well, I get awesome WiMAX coverage.

Cool. Maybe we can get wireless industry types to endorse us with some pithy blurbs. Imagine the possibilities:

 

"The feel good wireless network and spectrum focused blog of the year!"

- Martin Sauter, author of "From GSM to LTE"

 

"Action packed! The breakdown of Network Vision deployment in Chicago had me on the edge of my seat."

- Kevin Fitchard, writer at GigaOM

 

"I hate those guys at S4GRU. But I read them every day."

- Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint

 

 

AJ

I had a major LOL at the last comment.

My local tower...gotta love living in urban areas, basically located on top of someone's house. There is a dedicated ladder cage installed on the side of the house to allow access, and the base stations are fenced off.

Do you have a list of those 100 and could you make it available? If not could you check if this tower happens to be one of them?

 

I know quite a few people that will loose service when iDen is killed on this tower. Contrary to the Sprint coverage maps they do NOT have a usable signal in the locations covered by this tower. This tower was originally a Nextel Partners tower and since the buyout is now located in no mans land right on the border of Sprint corporate and Shentel coverage areas. I spoke with Shentel and they have no plans to place a tower east of this tower which has got ATT, Sprint and T-mobile antenna's.

Are the majority of those folks iDEN users? Or is there is a co-located PCS site on that tower?

I bought Sprint back when it hit 2.50 or so; I knew it was a long-term bet but I'm willing to wait.

Thank you

Which broadcasting station do you watch your stock market information through?

Usually Bloomberg is on all day, good way to know what's going on.

The entire DJIA is down almost 2% and sprint is up... the article didn't do nuttin.

 

Entire stock market is taking a beating... sprint has done well lately in the market.

I agree, we watch it daily at work.

In my opinion, it was the faction of iFans who determine their social status by having the latest model of iPhone and in order for people to know that they had the 4S, they had to be using SIRI nonstop, that is time consuming. I'm sure they were hoping for an iPhone that actually attached to their eye so everyone would know that they are better than them

I agree, and they were the biggest complainers as well.

I'd like to thank you guys for your input on this. As it stands now, I'm not paying for the Airvana, and haven't been for quite some time - Sprint didn't really put up much of a fight when I said, "I can't use phone or data service in my home."

 

Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of all of this has been dealing with Sprint account services personnel who've claimed numerous times that there's nothing wrong in this neighborhood when Sprint tech support personnel have stated plainly that there is. I'm aware that they don't all have access to the same information, but it's massively annoying that in the last year or so, I've spent literally hundreds of hours on the phone with Sprint trying to convince them of something they finally admitted has been "broken" for a very long time. My experience with Sprint had been more or less positive until the last few years - this basically coincides with decreases in data quality and customer service reps who often exhibit zero interest in customer satisfaction.

 

I'm willing to stick it out for a few more months in the hopes that there will be some improvement. If NV is available this fall and works well, that would definitely go a long way to keeping me with the company.

It will man, glad to hear you're gonna stick it out.

S. Ozone Park in the house. or as others would say, that area near JFK. lol

 

TS

Ah yes, that part

Actually I think the area around La Guardia is even worse.

That's an interesting perspective. I have always felt that the 4s ended up with a higher 'wow' factor than the 4.

There was a lot of disappointment that it was physically the same, and that the main changes were internal. At least, that's what I read.

Well, when the market as a hole is down over 100 points, that can happen. Don't forget the big picture. But I see that even with the DJI having a bad day, Sprints still up a over a percent, as of now. They've had a stellar couple of weeks here.

Yep, just saying how it seems Sprint is always on that fence.

I can't wait for NV to be complete

I was hoping for some pricing announcements, but color me impressed. The one concern I had was that the ARM based WinRT version would only run the Metro apps, not generic apps built for Windows. I look at what I use my current 7" tablet for (HTC View), which is primary ebook reading, web surfing, Pandora, and watching videos. I'm hoping the Surface will have multi-codec support, or at least software players which will emulate ffmpeg or whatnot.

Unless Apple has something hidden up their sleeves, the new iPhone will not be the wow that the 4 was. When the 4 released, it was a huge step up from the 3G/3GS. After that, we have seen a mid-cycle refresh, adding additional carriers and upgrading some specs, but keeping the same design.

This new iPhone, if the renders are correct, will be a larger version of the 4, perhaps leaving the glass back behind and going with a metal/plastic. It will introduce accessory fragmentation with a dock connector change, and will require the purchase of new chargers, or adapters, to work with the existing connector found everywhere today. This affects existing Apple owners more so than new customers such as myself.

Samsung took the GS2, streamlined the design, upgraded the hardware, and customized the software. This gave us the GS3, an evolution of the GS2. The jump from GS to GS2 was more revolutionary than the GS2 to GS3.

What's your definition of upper management? Just curious

I respect Apple for their marketing, and their ease of use for your average user. They've taken a mid-tier smartphone, and put it in the hands of average Joe/Jane. Any change that they make to the OS, be it incremental in nature, is to just fix issues which confuse folks. One of the biggest topics trending on the web is iOS 6 vs Android in terms of features added. If you read the blogs, many of the features are already available on Android, but they are not easy to find.

I believe Apple is really good at is taking features that others have, and streamlining them into the OS, making it appear evolutionary.

Here is a link to the Sprint rant forum http://www.facebook.com/sprint or here http://community.spr.../baw/index.jspa

Or http://www.sprintusers.com/forum , full of ex-Sprint customers.

Reading that blog, I doubt the person was at a really high level in the company. Although, level is relative to the group/position.

And I will tell you, Sprint Corporate Security takes leaks very seriously.

Ok thanks guys, I checked mine, and I'm showing EvdoA, but I'm connected to an inbuilding BTS, and not to the macro network.

thanks for the info. honestly, if you were in my position, what would you do? I'm not eager to change carriers and I'm hopeful that NV will offer significant improvements, but it's been so hard to justify the checks I've written to Sprint over the past few years.

I live in Jersey, and am in NYC all the time (girlfriend lives in Queens), and can relate to the poor signal and data speeds in NYC. I'm riding it out, not just because I'm a Sprint Employee, but because I know the changes are coming.

Unless your service has degraded to a point where it is unusable, I'd stick it out. Like someone else mentioned, do you have access to WIFI for data?