schalicto

Clocked 42.61 down and 1.72 up on band 41 in White Bear Lake on Saturday.

Android 4.4.3 means that I can consistantly use sprints 4g network now.  I am becoming less irritated as a sprint customer

Wow!  Thanks njjdnt!  I just updated PRL on my phone, and now I get LTE in downtown Minneapolis, also band 41.  Speed test just rocked out 23.6 down 1.53 up!

Sprint just informed me that the tower near my work, 619 marquette ave s, has not been upgraded to LTE yet.  Schedule to begin in the coming months.

While updates in Minneapolis are not complete, this sounds awfully bad. You might want to consider backing up your phone and resetting it to factory and seeing if that improves things. It is possible that you have a lemon, and not just issues with the network. There is a difference between your phone and you wife's iPhone, her phone isn't triband.

It's not his phone.  He is describing what everyone in downtown minneapolis is experiencing with sprint, and has been since about October of last year. We keep hearing 'soon', and 'be patient', but I think 6 months of unsable service fully qualfies as being patient.

I started receiving 4G LTE on my Nexus 5 at my home near Century College in White Bear Lake.

I received an LTE signal at the Maplewood Mall park and ride this morning with my Nexus 5.  On Monday this week I only got 3g.  They must have gotten some eCSFB going on one of the towers over there.

Yup, that's because of eCSFB. There is a good article about this on The Wall. This is why the focus has shifted to getting sites 3G completed in Minneapolis. They want to get this fixed. This is only an issue for those with newer triband phones, since they don't do SVLTE.

Thanks!

Any sites still with eCSFB issues won't let you connect to them over LTE, as a result of that, and the ongoing NV work in MPLS, you might be seeing some issues.

You can set your phone to LTE only, and you'll connect to LTE (But you can't make or recieve calls or text). 

I've asked this a couple times, but I'm still wondering if anyone has any information about improvements in downtown Minneapolis.  Over the past couple of weeks it seems like things have gotten worse.  I was outside the other day and took a speed test while connected to LTE, and here are my results ( http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/672474659 ).  Do you think this is due to congestion?  It is not my intention to complain, i'm just looking for information.

 

LG Optimus G specs.... 1900 LTE.

 

 

TECHNOLOGY

• CDMA:
  • 800, 1900 MHz
• GSM:
  • 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz
• UMTS:
  • 850, 1900 MHz
• LTE:
  • 1900 MHz
• Data:
  • LTE, HSPA (unspecified), UMTS, EDGE, GPRS, EV-DO Rev.A
• Positioning:
  • GPS, A-GPS, Glonass
• Navigation:
  • Turn-by-turn navigation, Voice navigation, Points of interest (POI)

 

Thanks for the info about my phone.  It seems like that information is difficult to find when researching a phone.  Oh well. 

I work on 96 and 35e in White Bear.  They were just installing on the water tower here a week ago.  White Bear has some of the better coverage in the twin cities.

I'm pretty much on the opposite side of White Bear Lake, near century college.  There is a sprint tower right next to the century college water tower, i've been assuming that is where my LTE has been coming from, but maybe they just turned it on.

How do you know?  I bought it because it has both 1900 and 800...

I'm finally getting LTE inside my house in White Bear.  I've been getting LTE outside for many months, but the moment I step inside it would switch back to 3g.  Does this mean 800mhz has been engaged on my tower?  Is there a way I can check what frequency my phone is connected to?

It's been quite around here for awhile.  Downtown I'm getting a pretty strong 4g signal outside my building, but 1 step inside I'm getting an unusable sliver of 3g.

Does anyone know about upgrades in downtown Minnesopolis?  I've seen LTE at a few spots downtown, but I'm in the Wells Fargo Tower and I've got zero LTE and 3G is unusable.