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Well that's just awesome! Thank you very much for reporting it! There's a forum to report these types of sites that Robert watches, I'll be back with the link.

 

5G is a fundamental change in the network. fiber fed high frequency point to point & point to multipoint backhaul links & satellite fed sites or clusters. With 5G a carrier/operator will be able to bring reliable highspeed broadband data to ANYWHERE they choose.

 

However with my thoughts on what "5G" should be i see no reason to remove Lte from that labeling as this yields for longer terms of evolution. So "5G Lte"

Don't we have better than satellite feed junk now with fiber and microwave. Nv pings and backhaul speeds are awesome.

The air link will always be the weak link, well unless you run your whole network on t1 lines...

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Oh and rich folks golfing bergamont

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Looks like the site is in Oregon (WI' date=' not the state )[/quote']

 

Gotta cover those NASCAR tracks

 

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I base my opinions on the idea that Dish wont be in the wireless business for much longer, definitely not at the point if/when Sprint merges with T-Mobile. It's my opinion to be sure, but I'm sticking to it.

I'm with you up until T-Mobile and 600MHz spectrum. I believe the technology is good enough that coverage can be handled by 800 and capacity by 1900 + 2600. I don't really care either way about the EBS spectrum. Also Sprint + PCS H nationwide seems like the most efficient solution to me.

I might like to see Sprint buy Dish's 2ghz spectrum or AT&T.

I think a stand alone T-Mobile + 10x10 of 600 in the most freed up TV channel nationwide is great for us as consumers.

I don't think AT&T and Verizon should be banned from all spectrum auctions, but handled very carefully to make sure that T-Mobile gets enough 600, but AT&T should be allowed to buy AWS and Verizon some 600. If Verizon gets 600 in areas where they do not have cellular, maybe the FCC can force them to divest all PCS.

We might have to dust off the old chat room that day for a party

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He's also going after Lightsquared because he loves watching things crumble.

NV1.0= complete physical replacement of sprints legacy network. New modular gear will be installed including modular base stations, multi band and remote controlable antennas that support 800/1900 and upgraded backhaul.

 

NV2.0= activation of SMR 800 service on a wide deployment on both CDmA and LTE. In addition, Clearwire TDd-LTE sites will be utilizing 2500 mhz for hotspot offloading in huge 20mhz carrier aggregated channels. This is beginning with the Nextel iden shutdown on June 30,2013 11:59:00pm

I think we also figured that there will be some small cell deployment as part of NV 2.0 and unlikely, but possible that there will be some new macro sites as well. Then there's the whole build out requirements by 2016 that AJ brought up the other day.

Hello everyone. I'm a new member here. I've been watching this site for months while watching / anticipating Sprint's LTE rollout in the Twin Cities. It's been pretty quiet in here for a while so I thought I'd simply ask, "What's new and exciting?"

Well we're surrounded in Maple Grove. There's towers in every direction broadcasting LTE on 610, 494, and 694. The only issue is that they need to upgrade a tower in the 169 and 694 area and also downtown Maple Grove to really get good LTE signal in and around the city.

Everyone can say whatever they want, if the lightsquared spectrum was for sale, I would like to see sprint make a play for it. Although it is not 600Mhz spectrum (which I think they need more to become competitive) it is at a lower frequency than their PCS spectrum, which theoretically should have better propagation characteristics than their PCS spectrum. If it were deployed on the current tower configuration, than we as consumers would see slightly better coverage compared to the PCS LTE. I know that LTE on 800Mhz band is going to be looked at as the golden ticket, but it will only be 1 5x5 carrier and in some places only a 3x3 carrier. It will be great for coverage, but they need to look at whatever they can do to increase capacity at better coverage than they currently have.

Of course there are legitimate concerns with this spectrum: Will it interfere still with GPS or other adjacent spectrum? If approved will there be power limits, limiting the propagation characteristics? Will device manufacturers be able to integrate the new bands into future devices, and not at extremely increased costs? What New panels will be required and how much would it be to include the bands?

 

All in all it will require sprint doing the math, and seeing the return on the investment. If the spectrum is cheap enough (relatively of course) it might be worth it, but more than likely they will try and wait for the 600Mhz to be auctioned off and do all in their power to position themselves for that spectrum.

Sprint has 1 5x5 carrier for LTE right now in PCS and the coverage/capacity really isn't bad and often overlaps quite a bit. When they have more PCS carriers, and the 800 available only when phones need it, and Clearwire spectrum + small cells for extra capacity in high density areas, the finished product should be able to completely meet Sprint customer needs. Buying any more in new bands seems inefficient and greedy to me.

I heard they have just a little bit of AWS lol

The EVO LTE has more issues than just isolated LTE sites. It has a limited range compared to other phones as well.

Know of any stock program that will force the evo into discovery mode?

Flipping in and out of airplane mode or the lte discovery app floating around these forums.

Honestly, I just hope T-Mobile gets some nation wide. Sprint would be a bonus.

At my apartment I get ehRPD and at a friends like 40 ft away, the 3G is EVDO-B

Sprint doesn't have EVDO-B. eHRPD is at the network level, so if this is the case, the towers would have to be currently configured to different network backends. We usually see whole cities/markets get eHRPD get turned on at once. Also, only LTE phones in LTE enabled mode can see eHRPD.

I havent been following this thread to much but what is the schedule for lte over 800? The reason i ask is i had a rep look up my tower on Glance at a store today for issues and we saw that now all the towers in south bend area have 800 lte listed as scheduled in next 3 months.

 

 

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I could be wrong but that sounds more like 800 CDMA. 800 LTE should start showing up around the end of the year.

Also, the fact that there is no EVDO on 800, means that once this is all done, we should hardly ever fall back to EVDO, causing even less users, whereas phones hold a connection on 1x and LTE all the time.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/2/4293682/meet-tom-wheeler-the-man-who-could-control-your-digital-life

I'm thinking that spectrum screen will fall.

So the shareholders vote on June 12th. What's the likelihood that the FCC/FBI/CIA/NSA/KAOS give approval before that date? Would it matter?

 

TS

The FCC's 180 day "shot clock" for approval ends on May 29. Yes it would matter. They would want approval before any vote, and would almost definitely delay a vote until an approval has happened.

 

The Googles told me that eHRPD is the software upgrade portion for tower handoffs with LTE, so its a precursor, but not necessarily anytime soon kinda precursor, right?

Hmm only 2 out of the first 3 results for me are s4gru. Gotta fix that.

The problem with pointing you at "the article" is that pretty much every article here is another relevant part of network vision. First I would start with the stickies on the top of the Network Vision forum, especially the "what is network vision" or something along those lines.

"Let me chirp these fools" -Three 6 mafia - "Roll with it" I'll let you find that one yourself.

I think the other part of the problem is the network just isn't that dense yet.

 

When LTE first launched in Boston, I had no problems getting into the 20's. Now, similar to Verizon or AT&T, the LTE speeds are becoming inverted with the download speeds slower than the upload speeds.

This is the nature of FD-LTE where the same amount of bandwidth is allocated to uplink and downlink.

Oh, and I am going to "adjust" the title of this thread because Sprint has not "adjusted" LTE speeds. You are just experiencing the variable nature of a signal strength dependent, multiple user airlink.

 

AJ

The complexities of a macro wireless network are often ignored when it comes to personal service.

##33284# on your dial pad, select lte engineering.That puts you phone into lte search mode. I believe my statement correct?

I don't actually know. I have Cyanogenmod without LTE engineering screen. I usually just toggle airplane mode when I think I'm around a tower that should be broadcasting 4g.