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If we are talking the tower out in the farm west of logan, it should have new equipment on it, however backhaul for LTE would probably be more difficult. Almost all towers in utah have new equipment installed but it may take a year or more for backhaul to reach some of them. There is a tower a couple "blocks" closer to town that does have backhaul, but if my records are correct, it's a t-mobile and cricket tower.

Where is this tower located?

Would you mind posting the nearest cross street to your location? East layton is not necessarily a beacon of high density housing or having a lot of the other "user burden" dynamics that would drive LTE speeds to the sub 1mbit, even if there was only one tower live. T-mobile in Davis county has the same 5x5 LTE spectrum allotment and seeing speeds under the teens is rare. Even verizon and ATT with their poor LTE cell tower density maintain at least 5mbit and usually ~20 for ATT and ~10 for VZW in Davis county.

Ranting? I just want to know if you cornered the poor tower crew upgrading a tower at Nichols field in fruit heights :-) Since you seem to stumble on pretty much every upgrade going on in davis county :-)

Speaking of T-Mobile, it appears that new tower in that area servicing magna is....... a T-Mobile tower. Funny stuff. You know, if they are just going to end up under sprints wing, maybe switching for 10x10 LTE wouldn't be a bad thing.

I used to live out in that area (spent a lot of time at that reams) and it was terrible for cell reception, from all the carriers really. I noticed while driving through a few months ago that a cell site went up at the storage units near the corner of 35th and 7200. I take it from your experience that it's not a Sprint tower. I am hesitant to think it's a vzw or att since they rarely improve reception (cell density), but I will take a look at my info and see who's tower that is. If it is vzw or cricket you should have good roaming signal.

Just out of curiosity, where in magna are they located? (I don't need an exact address)

Like I said, Sprints official scapegoat for Davis/Weber lag is Centurylink

The initial LTE lighting in Utah county is done. Again, this does not mean that other towers wont come online. Now that is done so the next market should be Saint George.

There's what, about a half dozen towers between that sprint store and the one you probably hit at the walmart? It's very highly unlikely that a sprint store employee would be privy to any information about what you are experiencing. There is and will be ongoing updates and tweaks to various towers and services over the next year or two, but the primary push in your area is done. I dont think I could pay a bill every month having service like you (and to be honest, many on the forum) encounter. It's one thing to show up at a cousins house for a family party that you go to once every two years and find crappy/no service, because every carrier in every market has areas like that. And I think it's foolish to "switch to verizon" for those rare times. However, It's another to have it be problematic between your home/church/school on a fairly consistent basis.

Sprints official word on the delay is centurylink. So it's not you. You dont have to repent for those bad thoughts of leaving sprint for another carrier :-)

This should be the week. Remember that Sprint brings up about half the towers in this phase, so you may or may not see it lit on the towers you use most.

Yes, I do, see my post above.

I do, but I opted not to be specific, for various reasons, one of which there are no guarantees, but I will say this, Orem/Provo should see LTE in many places this week. Most of the sites that are planned on going live in this cluster lighting in Utah county will do so before Christmas. After that we get ready for Saint George :-)

Well i'm not promising that one of your towers wont get LTE shortly. After all if one of your towers was planned on this cluster but one of the RRU's malfunctioned on your tower when they went live, they may get it replaced next week and still light it. (this is just an example off the top of my head and may or may not even be reasonable) I'm not saying you'll see no additional LTE towers light in salt lake county, only that they have brought online in clusters the ones they planned on at this time and now they are moving to Utah county. Also none of the carriers have upgraded *all* of their towers to LTE in launched markets (don't believe the verizon fans who claim otherwise). It would be foolish to assume 100% of their towers would go live within a short period of time. Most of the other carriers have done half to 80% and then turned up the LTE volume (so to speak) on those sites higher than they have it on their legacy airlink (1X/EVDO/HSPA/EDGE).

Not likely a new tower, it's probalby the one a half mile away from her work on 2700

I told you utah county was coming. I dont know if you'll see LTE till next week, but it's time for the utah county people.

Iast day for LTE to light in salt lake county (at least in this phase). Nice that it happened in your area.

I'm not a sponsor, I don't really know what "acceptance" is all about (is that where towers go to feel good about themselves? ), I only know the network engineering plans for cluster deployment. :-)

Saint George is scheduled for LTE soon :-)

Well you got it right. :-) About half of their 12 dozen Salt Lake County sites should be live by mid week.

December 4th was the official day the cluster that included the West Jordan area was lit. While stragglers are allowed and may come online. All sites that will be lit for the salt lake county rollout effort should be lit by mid week. If your area/tower doesn't come up soon, you may be waiting a while because their focus will be shifting to Utah County.

I believe you are right, and, interestingly enough, it only seems to be broadcasting 4G, no EDGE (2G).

There is a newer-ish tower at the top of 200 S just before you go in the canyon designed to hit most of the area against the mountain. I'm not sure who's it is. I'll do a check. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.361142,-111.703036&num=1&t=h&vpsrc=6&ie=UTF8&ll=40.362471,-111.703835&spn=0.006352,0.012574&z=17&iwloc=A

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.379728,-111.879483&num=1&t=h&vpsrc=0&ie=UTF8&z=18 I double Checked and that should be a T-mobile tower.