Mr.Nuke

You yourself could confirm it by looking at that map. We aren't going to talk about site locations here. If you have any questions pertaining to specific locations post them in the Nebraska/Iowa thread in the sponsors section.

Neither of which are indicators of what is actually happening right now.

Sprint already has a site in the vicinity there. So far all of the Omaha LTE sites are upgrades to existing sites.

Yes it is possible. Many of the Omaha sites are on the roof of buildings. Are you thinking of somewhere in particular?

Des Moines currently only has 1 completed (accepted tower). So I don't know what you mean by the other completed towers. There are other towers in Des Moines that are in various stages of visible progress including having NV equipment installed on the sites. That said we have no way of knowing what behind the scenes things like testing and dialing in the signals that may still need to be done. I don't. Omaha had 7 or 8 towers live at the time of the last announcement and wasn't even on the coming soon list. Like Dkoellerwx said, it is a Sprint marketing thing and it is hard to discern anything there.

By becoming a sponsor of the site. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/1195-information-about-s4gru-sponsorship-levels-and-how-to-become-a-sponsor/

Things slowed down. That said, a tower crew was spotted in the sponsor's section at a Sprint site in Omaha this week and fiber was being run to another (locations for both in the sponsor's section) so we know work is still going on. A site in that area should be one of the next ones to get worked on if the pattern holds. None. EHPRD has been deployed across the entire Sprint network. Every tower in Omaha should have it.

Pretty good idea given the 3rd floor part and if you go to the Nebraska/Iowa thread in the sponsor's section we can talk locations.

Welcome. Iowa has LTE!. As a sponsor check out this thread. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/636-network-vision-site-map-nebraskaiowa-markets/ Work is underway.

That seems slightly overly optimistic to me. Assuming the 114 is for Omaha and Lincoln, and assuming that is accurate, there are 17 of the 114 complete. 97 left in 9 weeks. That is about 11 a week. We've been at 2 a week (one in Lincoln, one in Omaha) thus far. I'd expect them to accelerate at some point, but 11 sites a week seems impossible based on the rate thus far.

Yeah the August 3rd quote was from the day the last accepted tower went live. He posted which tower it was simultaneously in the Sponsor's section.

Information on becoming a sponsor is located here. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/1195-information-about-s4gru-sponsorship-levels-and-how-to-become-a-sponsor/ Your second question is something you'd have better access to as a sponsor.

Welcome to the board. You can get a pretty idea of where coverage is currently available here. http://www.sensorly.com/map/4G/US/USA/Sprint/lte_310sprint Sensorly is an app on the phone that reports back to Sensorly when LTE is available and produces the map.

Both accepted sites are now live. Happy hunting!

And another site was accepted in Omaha this past weekend as well. The location in the sponsor's thread. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/636-network-vision-site-map-nebraskaiowa-markets/?p=172337

Lincoln will be there within the next 2-3 towers (including the accepted but not launched one) probably then and Omaha will be getting close with a couple of more as well especially if the just accepted tower gets a similar coverage range to the tower to the South like I think it will. Omaha/Lincoln will probably be in the next wave of launched markets then.

The site in question has yet to go live. For whatever reason Lincoln accepted sites are generally taking longer than the Omaha ones (the past two Omaha towers went live 3 business days after being reported as accepted here). I agree though a couple more sites based on the penetration the Lincoln towers are getting will get most of Lincoln covered. Is Sprint still going with the 40% of towers completed criteria for launch though? If that is the case, Lincoln would still be short.

I see your Lincoln speed test and raise you an Omaha one. At Brazenhead for dinner tonight off of 78th and Dodge/Cass.

No worries. Also keep an eye on that thread, when a new tower has been accepted (approved) the information is posted there.

Welcome to the board. Just a heads up, we generally don't discuss tower locations in this thread. As a sponsor of this site you have access to all of the towers in Omaha here. Not discussing specifics in the public form gives people who want access to more information an incentive to donate to the site and help keep it running. Most of the active towers in Omaha appear to be 2 to 3 miles. That said, starting from this tower going West there a couple of closely spaced towers. It is probable that this tower is merely designed as a capacity tower for traffic driving on Center. It also broadcasts a significantly higher distance going East along Center, which again makes sense if you look at other tower placements.

Data is a two way street incoming and outgoing. All I'm saying is you've dealt with the outgoing by delaying sending the reports until you've hit a wifi network. Sensorly is still presumably maintaining an incoming or receiving data position though to locate where you are to accurately map. That could still potentially impact tower hand-offs. That is all i use it for. And I would recommend talking to the developer who is on this site. It isn't buggy for me and it does what it supposed to do, notifies me when it connects to LTE on a Note II. SignalCheck Pro is another great app (I obviously have it as well) but it still only "passively" lets you know when you hit LTE. It basically let's you know what you are connected to. It doesn't actively seek an LTE connection like LTE discovery does. I'll generally run SignalCheck Pro, LTE Discovery, and Sensorly simultaneously if I'm mapping. As for forcing a reset of the radios, that is what LTE discovery does every 30 seconds until it hits LTE if it is functioning properly. That is my point. I've seen that mentioned elsewhere. I don't have the One so I was speaking in generalities of other devices. If the One actually picks up new LTE sites withing 30 seconds that renders my point moot, but for other devices it is still somewhat valid if your goal is to map the maximum LTE coverage.

I don't know how good this theory is. Sensorly is still presumably maintaining a incoming data connection to ascertain your position. Forcing the phone into airplane mode serves a really valuable function if you are trying to map on sensorly though. Phones only actively scan for LTE every several minutes (varies by phone). Based on other reports your phone is one of the better one's in this regard, but still... Let's say your phone scans every 3 minutes by default. If you are driving 60 mph on I-80 (makes the math easy) you could go 3 miles without your phone even trying to connect to LTE. That means you could miss mapping a huge chunk of a tower's coverage area in theory. LTE Discovery takes that 3+ minutes down to 30 seconds. You are going to connect to the tower as quickly as possible and be able to map up to several extra miles.

As a sponsor you have access to know exactly where said tower is. Just making sure you are aware of this and giving a plug for others to consider giving the site a donation.

I don't know. If Sprint follows the "shotgun" pattern they've followed in some other spots (and the first 5 towers they've picked in Omaha and the first 4 they've picked in Lincoln indicate their probably doing it here), you'd think North Omaha gets at least 1 tower fairly early on to provide initial coverage.