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    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    thats what i mean't. As in NV 3G in all of sacramento is now live, not LTE. Everyone on the forums were talking about a sacramento cluster launch occurring a few days ago and sprint updated their map to show the cluster did in fact come alive.

    So LTE shouldn't be too far away, mid - October IMO.

     

    I just can't wait for LTE deployed over 800mhz. Better LTE speeds and better coverage. Any thoughts on when 800 LTE might be up?

    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    It means that Sprint and Samsung is inching closer to finally converting every single site in the Sacramento cluster of about 40-50 cell towers/sites. Once all are converted they fire them all up at the same time (cluster launching) for 3G and 4G will go live too on any site with high speed backhaul (high speed internet connection) delivered by contracted companies. If that site has backhaul delivered then LTE will be fired up on that site when they do the final cluster launch of our market.

     

    Can't be more than a few weeks now.

    You mean there is light at the end of the tunnel, Sacramento should be cluster launched in a few weeks?!?

    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    Not part of this market and not actively right now. Site expansions are in the planning and funding stages right now and organic build outs won't be expected en mass till at least mid 2015.

     

    Right now only existing sprint sites are being upgraded but the eventual goal is 55,000 cell sites which is way more than the existing 39,000 sprint and 10,000 clear sites they're going to keep.

     

    Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

    Are you saying their eventual goal is to add 6 more sites (39k+10k = 49k, 49k+6)?

    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    I work in midtown too, it is (was, since I canceled service) pretty much unusable. I was often getting around .07 down and .15 up. Sometimes no signal at all even when outside- completely unacceptable.

    I think we all feel the pain but, I for one, am going to stick around and see what Sprint's data speeds will be when SPARK is up and fully running.

     

    I dont know if its a Sprint tower but there are crews working in West Sac and I've been back & forth between 3G and 1x on my iphone today.

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    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    Yep by our estimates.

     

    The ultimatum on LTE 800 was laid down by Masayoshi Son earlier this year who made his point very clear by firing many of the netwok management and deployment executives and installing a new regime lead by John Saw. LTE 800 will be going on practically all available towers by the end of this year baring any local issues.

    LTE 1900 and 2.5Ghz is fine and dandy but depending upon the coverage and penetration of LTE 800 will be the only reason I stay, or leave, sprint.

     

    Does anyone have any experience with LTE 800 than can speak to its speeds and penetration in buildings?

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    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    Not new news to us. A cluster launch is the 100% conversion and activation of new equipment in a specific area. Elk Grove cluster launched months and ago and thus have 100% of all the cell sites in Elk Grove has been converted and same for any other area.

    Gosh darn it, Lilotimz, if I didn't already know that but I forgot at the same time. Thanks for pointing it out.

    I was sitting across the street and was picking up a faint LTE signal.

     

    My SpeedTest speeds have been slower after performing an update on my phone and Sprint said that one or two towers are down in this area. Might they be optimizing?

    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    Not sure about the length of time it takes to place a call, but keep in mind that the dropped call issue only has a chance of occurring when you go from an area that is cluster launched to an area that is not, or vice versa. Any dropped calls besides that are just because the network sucks :/

    I have 1 or 2 areas that I know I'll always get a dropped call, I'm not concerned about that. The issue I mentioned above occurs in Elk Grove (cluster launched) and in parts of Sacramento (not cluster launched). I can't say this only occurs when I call to another carrier, it sometimes even happens to a landline.

    Network Vision/LTE - Upper Central Valley Market (Sacramento, Stockton, Redding, Eureka & Reno/Lake Tahoe)

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    Cluster launches are not correlated with LTE. LTE sites can be brought up at any time. The same cannot be said for 1x800/evdo. If they upgrade one of these sites without doing others in the area, you risk dropped calls. This is why they cluster launch areas; you upgrade all of them at the same time so you don't run into that problem.

    Thanks for the explanation. I have had some dropped calls lately which are attributed to this, I'm sure. I've also had another issue too where it takes 30 seconds for the phone to place a call, meaning I hit the "call" button to place the call and it literally takes 30 seconds before the phone starts to ring. What could the issue be there, and it's not a busy tower/network issue??

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