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1 hour ago, derrph said:

Wow Sprint is really moving in this market.

They are moving quickly in El Paso. Not so much in Albuquerque.

1 hour ago, jroepcke51 said:

I am heading up to Denver this weekend from Albuquerque. I will try and update everything before I leave to see if it roams btwn Las Vegas and Colorado boarder.

I looked at the coverage map and I should have LTE that is not partner LTE the whole way.

I am heading up to Denver this weekend from Albuquerque. I will try and update everything before I leave to see if it roams btwn Las Vegas and Colorado boarder.

Has anyone experienced Tmo roaming?

My biggest question is when the FCC and DOJ will start review?

13 minutes ago, Trip said:

To the earlier discussion about the number of cell sites being turned off, I did a little bit of an analysis.  I used Spotsylvania County, VA as my example case, excluding the Shentel area.  I put both the Sprint and T-Mobile sites on a map.  The total number of sites is 18.  Of those, 12 are shared between Sprint and T-Mobile.  Of the remaining six, 5 are Sprint-only and 1 is T-Mobile only.  While the 1 T-Mobile only site is kind of near one of the Sprint-only sites, both are on I-95 and AT&T is actually on both towers, so I would expect them to keep both.

So even though 2/3 of the Sprint sites would presumably go away in Spotsylvania County, the actual change in service would be effectively zero.

- Trip

Great analysis. I will do this for the ABQ market as well. I am interested in the New Co coverage.

2 hours ago, tyroned3222 said:

Ya they are extremely close . And this does future proof the site .. so, my guess all it would take is a software update to turn on b26

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At least the panel is 8T8R. 

3 minutes ago, lilotimz said:

 

Zis -->> http://s4gru.com/entry/428-discovery-time-next-gen-dual-band-10-port-800-25-configurations/

Does this mean Mexico rebranding is close?

25 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

Anyone else notice the new “Customer and Location Data” option as part of the My Sprint App update for iOS released yesterday?

I read the associated Privacy Agreement. Curious to see what Sprint is doing with this.

I thought it would be user verified service like Tmobile.

28 minutes ago, lilotimz said:

Great to hear!

You're looking for Ericsson 8T8R or Nokia equipment in your area!

 

 

 

For the most part I had only seen mini macros. Only exclusion has been down town and uptown sites. I don’t have time today but I’m pretty sure which site/sectors cover that store. 

I ran ran a test and I got 76 down. 

Alright guys. Great news. I am at Whole Foods for lunch and I usually have full LTE here at Academy ans Wyoming. I only had two bars on my iPhone so I checked. I am connected to Band 41. Earfcn 39874

first sighting north of the uptown area for the northeast heights. Great news. 

7 hours ago, RAvirani said:

B25 will be 15x15 in the next few weeks. 

Is sprint thinning CDMA again for this? How spread out will this be?

8 hours ago, RAvirani said:

That’s not normal - I would open a ticket to get that resolved if I were you...

Yes Ill do that.

3 hours ago, S4GRU said:

And Sprint roams on carriers in that area.  Like Commnet and Verizon.  T-Mobile is worthless in Northern AZ when not on a native signal.

Robert

That’s my thing. My ip7 did roam on band 17. My ipX will not connect. Always falls back to dead 3g

6 hours ago, techcj_manzer said:

I have a T-Mobile Note8 and it’s fairly unreliable through there. You get LTE in the towns but between them it’s nothing. (Like emergency calls only/no service nothing) I don’t remember exactly compared to Sprint however. 

Ok not an option. I’ll have to look at att and Verizon. 

Does anyone have Tmobile?  I am thinking of switching as I travel a lot on I40 west to Arizona and the service is just terrible.

There is a tower in Window Rock but Sprint confirmed for me today there are no planned upgrades to the tower for the next 6 months.  It still has not been upgraded from legacy equipment.

30 minutes ago, S4GRU said:

I was hoping that one of you could confirm that.  It never showed up on any of my lists.  That, and the one just west of Paseo/Coors at the church and Sandia Peak have never appeared on any list as being GMO'd.

Robert

 

and I cannot confirm the Sandia Peak.

However, northeast is pretty usable. The GMO LTE isn't bad at all either as I trail run train county line to Tower 1 or Tower 2 and stay connected to the cell site at the ice skating rink.

18 hours ago, seventy_x_7 said:

That's good! Hopefully they do a lot of upgrades while they're here. I just wish they would fix the tower on Coors and Montano. It's so terrible.

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Well when they came through in the late summer, they were able to get all of the far northeast heights GMO's to LTE. I assume that one is a GMO site as well.

6 hours ago, TheCUJuan said:

Thats’ really interesting... i wonder if that box’s signal goes all the way to my house or not. Probably not.. i’m guessing  I’m about  1/4 of a mile from that intersection.

I haven’t tried. I’ll walk test it the next night as I walk the neighborhood looking at lights. Plus that guy on Luella and Louisiana is legit. 

20 hours ago, TheCUJuan said:

That’s really interesting. I live near Louisiana and Vivian/San Antonio and when I had Sprint back in Feb, I rarely got speeds higher than maybe 3 Mbs.

Since February band 25 CA has been rolled out so I can verify that is what I get and I live at Louisiana and Luella Anne.

Also the Magic Box at my house has really helped.

38 minutes ago, tyroned3222 said:

2 new small cells spotted in EL paso, TX .

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Those look like Airspan band 41 equipment. 

36 minutes ago, Steve Dean said:

Updated to 11.2.  Now see that the Carrier updated to 31.0.

I am now on 31.0 as well.

9 hours ago, tyroned3222 said:

I've been tracking permit under Sprint, crown castle and American tower ... Sprint is finally aggressive.. They should have el paso done with band 41 by summer

 

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I like the optimism but I would slow the boat a little. I have seen sprint apply for more for Albuquerque which I believe B41 but I don't believe it will be enough to blanket the city with B41.

53 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:

Oh. The map I've seen shows them holding C,B And G Block there. So I thought they could put all the C Block on LTE and keep B Block on CDMA

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Yes you are correct about the holdings. However, I don't have the specific date but the C block of 30mhz total was leased to AT&T.  I will have to check the spectrum dashboard if the lease expired and has since returned to sprint.

Edit. Obviously something has occurred as the picture posted is in the C block. Also Band 25 G block is deployed down there so it could be that a sliver of the C block has been returned and subsequently the G block has been expanded.

8 minutes ago, tyroned3222 said:

Sprint running band 25 10mhz on I-10 heading west towards Las cruces

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Awesome news! I didn’t know they could do that there.