CosmicJeff

If there is any left in town lol. Work was a complete madhouse this afternoon, you would have thought the world was ending. Although i have to admit the thought of 24 inches of snow the first week of October is hard to stomach. Congrats on the house Robert and thanks for the info on the site location. Edit: Thats some pretty good reach for 1 site if i can pull in 2 bars from 5 miles away when i am at work and without direct line-of-site. - Jeff

Congrats on the new job, and welcome to Rapid! Only 1 or 2 Wimax protection sites here, both on the south/east sides of town, fairly sure one is on the SD School of Mines campus not sure where the other one is if their is one. So those of us who have/had sprint and live in rapid will just have to wait and see what sprint does.

I will definitely let you guys know how things play out.

In my original post i said i was using WiMax, apologies if i implied otherwise. I would think that changing my address to an area outside their territory would flag my account. I was unaware that there was an option to put your account on standby, that would be preferable to having to cancel it outright. You are correct on the T & C there is a majority use clause i had done some more research the last couple days and ran into that. Thank you for clarifying on the Denver market, i had run across that on the FCC site and was unsure what it meant. Makes since then that they do not have service if we are part of the Denver market, although with 130K in the metro area you would think it would have to be on the list if they consider expanding the network outright when they get done with NV. -Jeff

Thanks, I will definitely keep my ears open and let you know if i hear anything. I think i may write a actual paper letter to sprint kindly asking them to consider putting a couple towers up around here, with 3 Million visitors to the area a year i think it would make sense. Worse they can do is say no. -Jeff

Woa woa, slow down a minute guys before you bbq me, i am not as you refer trying to stick it to sprint, to the contrary, i do not even have roaming turned on my phone, 95% of my use is data and that is mainly at work since at home i have wifi, and at work i have wimax, i am hardly costing them any extra money, and btw it was not my choice to move here, and the reason i have not closed my account is that i hope to be moved somewhere where they have native coverage in the next 6-8 months.

Yea it baffles me why they do not have any coverage here, they own their normal spectrum according to the fcc site as far as i can tell. But i am out of contract so i am going to use it until they kick me off

I recently moved to Rapid City, SD and I can confirm that there is a WiMax signal on the south side of town. Not terribly strong as it is usable only when outside most of the time, but my EVO 3D has no issues using it.