DamiusX

I noticed that All NV sites have been added to the NV Sites Complete map. Is this in anticipation of big things happening soon, or just some housekeeping?

I have what I imagine is a fairly large question, and this may not be the best thread for it, but the last part is specifically referencing the Denver area, so I will post it here and if it needs to be moved to a different thread, please do so. My question pertains to the NV sites completed map. I check in once in a while to see if anything is new and as I have looked at other cities, I have found that the buildouts look very different as far as which kinds of towers are installed around different cities. Can you explain the reasoning behind cities like Las Vegas and San Diego consisting of almost all 3G/4G sites while cities like Knoxville and St. Louis are almost purely 4G only, and cities like Salt Lake City are an absolute grab bag of 3G, 3G/800, 3G/800/4G, and 3G/4G? What affects the kinds of antennas that are installed? Is it purely bandwidth, do geographic features play in, do tall buildings have effects, is population density a consideration? Finally, my question that is Denver specific, what will the Metro Area buildout look like when it is finished (I realize it is never finished, just refering to this phase of buildout). I notice that CO Springs is a mish-mash, is that what we can expect or will we have pure 4G goodness.

Talked to a crew working on a tower in Highlands Ranch today. This tower is is close to my work so I have been keeping a close eye on it. I asked one of them if they were doing NV upgrades and he said yes. I asked him if the Samsung panels were going to fit inside the tower (it is one of the stealth towers used in HR because of their draconian HOA) and he said he didn't know, they wouldn' be installing them until January. Just to clarify I asked him if they were upgrading the tower to 4G and again he said yes, so I asked him which panels they would use until they put in the Samsung panels and he said he didn't know and wouldn't until they arrived on site. Sounded weird to me, but that is what he said. Either way, I think it can be marked as "In Progress". I pass there pretty much every day and will try to get a peek inside the tower when they have it open to see what is being installed.

Just stopped by the tower and am cautiously optomistic. When I was there last, the tower and antenna were all brown. It looks like they painted the tower white and added all new gear. Not sure if it is Sprint or not. Someone who knows the equipment please chime in on the pictures below. If it is I will get Sensorly and start looking for a signal. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vr68dnis3sww17o/gnMucm5dty

I think I know where you saw this, I spotted them about a week and a half ago while I was using the car wash. I thought about taking a pic and posting it here, but I didn't want to be "that guy", getting all excited when spotting someone doing some regular maintenance on a non-sprint tower. The car wash is just north of 285 and east of Wadsworth, behind the Conoco. The tower is actually attached to a car repair place called Lakewood Towing and Auto Repair which is adjacent to the car wash. I am going to look at the "How to spot sprint panels and RRU's" sections of this site and I will stop by there on my way home (i live about a half mile from there and this would likely be the tower I will use from my house, so if this is sprint LTE work, hooray me!). There were old brown looking panels on it the day i spotted the work going on, so it should be easy to tell if new onew have gone up.