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Anyone able to identify anything good on this tower?

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Network Vision updates (800 MHz not LTE)

 

- 5 sites in Moorhead and 2 in Glyndon went live last night.

I hope West Fargo goes live soon. I get nearly zero building penetration where I work. The tower on main looks like it might have some new equipment on it...any insider info?

How about for South Fargo near 52nd and University? The signal at my house is quite inconsistent.

Thx.

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I work in a hotel in Detroit Lakes (45mi east of Fargo) and checked in a crew working for Sprint/Comcast? (a cable company, anyway). I asked them if they were doing LTE/NV and they said that they had put up 20+ sites in the MSP area, and by Friday (tomorrow) they'd have upgraded the towers around me.

 

They had no word on the activation date, though. I'm not sure if it'll be turned on immediately, or if they're waiting to activate the entire market.

I've been told they need to work the upgrades in order advancing from the cities up I94 maybe HWY 10 towards Fargo. Looks like they are moving fairly slowly. I wouldn't be surprised if DL gets some NV & LTE turned on before Fargo, but the build out of Fargo should be completed before the lakes area.

Then again this is based off of info received from a rep at an authorized Sprint reseller....What happened to the actual Sprint Corp. Stores in this area anyway? I had Sprint 12yrs ago before I had even heard of Verizon and bought my top of the line tri-band, green screen, Samsung flip phone from a Corp store. Now, this town is over run by VZW and Sprint seems to be dying off. It's just plain sad.. sorry to get off topic.

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The work was done out by Jamestown and Valley city. Sprint has yet to do any NV Upgrades on any of its Fargo towers.

 

I am seriously contemplating jumping to AT&T now since they announced yesterday Fargo will have their 4G LTE in place before the end of the year. Pretty sad... I am betting that AT&T will have it in place before Sprint. It will get too cold with the North Dakota snow and wind and become an occupational hazard for the tower techs or the ground will be too frozen to dig and put in the upgraded backhaul so the upgrades will be put off until Spring 2014. That's my guess what will happen.

I really hope the posts by mozamcrew are right and there is action happening in Fargo.  I've been checking the Sprint.com/lte site several times per week and noticed there have been some new "upgrades" hitting the map.  I'd like to see more than one per month, but your points about the weather are probably all too true.  If there was a way to get out without an ETF, I'd consider it, but my wife will probably kill me.  She was upset when we switched from AT&T and she had to get a new phone.  I don't understand her sometimes

I just switched back to Sprint in May after several years on other networks. I did so because I was told LTE was just around the corner...and had seen the April announcement. So far, I have regretted nearly every day. Needless to say I am glad to hear there is actual progress being made, but I still find myself skeptical. Part of me thinks it might be worth the extra $20/mo to use another network and get usable data even if it is limited. Mostly I hope it will be worth the wait.