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I kept my eyes up and look what I found! Might be the first full build found in Albuquerque. Site is at Cesar Chavez and Yale. Saw a crane dropping new cabinets into the enclosed fence area. Also, I was right next to the tower and had zero signal, so I assume it was Sprint. Check the pictures and let me know if you want me to go back later once it is cleared to get more pictures.

 

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Hammond is Jammin! Hammond is Jammin!  I love your post. I am still stuck in Window Rock, AZ

I found a full build site in Farmington, NM today. It's near the corner of East Main and Browning Pkwy, directly behind the Sprint store.

 

It looks complete to me. Three RRU's per sector. The site only has Sprint and a Clearwire WiMax protection site present (bottom rack).

 

I ran into a gal who worked at the Sprint store and she said she saw workers there the last two weeks, so she assumes they're done. Clearwire definitely has AAV backhaul present since their site went live here in early 2011. So this may end up being the first LTE site to go live in the ABQ market. No LTE signal present at the moment.

 

Either way, it's nice to finally confirm full build activity for myself in Northern half of the state. Woohoo!!!

 

If they're working in Clovis, Farmington and El Paso, then they're pretty much working the whole market. Keep your eye peeled in Albuquerque!

 

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I can't like this post more than once. Will keep an eye out on my way back from Gallup tomorrow.

However, I have enough equivalent experience that it wouldn't be a big deal. However, notice the end date of the position is 8/2/2013. Does that mean they believe that they will be substantially complete in this area by August?

Robert

I saw the same thing. Maybe installs will be quite easy. The whole ABQ market is getting to the best time of year for weather. No rain. Sun all day. Hopefully no more wind.

I found the perfect job for you Robert! Pays pretty well.

http://www.bullhornreach.com/job/736464_construction-manager-ii-for-ericsson-albuquerque-nm

What will happen to protection sites in the future? Will Clear keep them online?

Proper homage to Chimayó involves a lowrider. I find it funny that this conversation is occurring in the Missouri thread and not the New Mexico thread.

 

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Its ok. I am from NM and currently live. However, I spent all of my college years in the SHOW ME state. GO CARDS!

Ahem, Chimayo red chile.

 

 

AJ

I haven't been to Rancho de Chimayo in a while. Will need to do my own 'homage' to Chimayo.

Oh, brother, now AJ is going to start a Chicken War. Besides, where Robert lives, it should be a large order of blue corn enchiladas with green chiles. And sopapillas with honey.

Depends on where you getting this? If it is coming from my favorite place in Pojoaque, then I would say. However, don't be fooled by the knock off Mexican. Plus now that ABQ has chick-fil-a, wouldn't he like a sandwich instead?

I miss me some Chili Works. Totally worth driving up to my parents house for the weekend.

That is awesome.

Even though I am not in El Paso, tx, please update with the newly announced communities that will be getting soon.

Well that got butchered.

I just saw an Ericsson truck at the tower located at Yale and Caesar Chavez in abq! We might have something!

 

Question: is Ericsson or a subcontractor performing the work. I have been confused about that for a while.

 

EDIT: Or it could be non-NV related maintenance since it was only an Erricson truck. I really hope not.

 

 

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The government has Wireless Priority Service!

I have been texting a friend that ran the Boston Marathon all day. She is ok and thankfully Sprint is operational. If it wasn't, our family would be worried sick.

 

 

I feel like no matter how many times this is explained, it is ignored. WiMAX sucks, Sprint sucks, they're dumb and waste money. Facts are meaningless.

Why are you here then?

This is a very interesting discussion. I feel that I learned something today other than looking at towers. Thank you all for your opinions.

Look at my results in Chicago.

 

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This was the worst app ever created. I count 8 speed tests in the matter of two minutes.

Haven't looked at the running list in a while. I see ABQ market is a third round. Exciting

Well, I got some bad news today. I saw work going on my site again as I was driving by to an appointment. I stopped in and talked with the guy working on the RBS.

 

He pointed to the carrier cards in the new RBS, which he said were four CDMA cards. One EVDO and one 1x per sector. He said that the RRUS11 on my site will be CDMA only.

 

He also allowed me to look at the plans, and sure enough it is clear as day...LTE 1900 - 0 RRUs. CDMA 1900 - 1 RRU. CDMA 800 - 0 RRUs. LTE 800 - 0 RRUs. He said also there is no new backhaul at the site. Just two T1's. One for EVDO and one for 1x.

 

He said my site will not likely get LTE until they come back for a full build. He said all the sites he's worked on in Northern New Mexico area and West Texas market so far have been ground mount and CDMA only with no upgraded backhaul.

 

He said there is the possibility that if the site has upgraded backhaul, they will add LTE to the ground mount site now. Or if backhaul shows up in the next few months, it would be very easy to add LTE. Just slap in a carrier card and an additional ground mount RRU for each sector. All can be done from the ground in a few hours.

 

I'm a little bummed. But I always say that I don't need LTE at my house. I guess I need to prove I mean it now by not whining.

 

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The only reason I could see by doing the upgrades performed now versus full build would be related to energy efficiency. I assume this means that the ABQ market is not really in progress in any way.

Next question should be, are the "in progress" sites in ABQ need to be changed? Do they fit into the definition on Network Vision?

 

 

If only you had taken US-285, the flashing yellow stoplight and left turn at Tres Piedras could have bought you a couple of seconds of reading time...

 

 

AJ

Quite amazing that u know so much about this majestic state. Also, how do the big two or dish block SB and sprint purchase?

It was Portland Tennessee that saw lte not Oregon.

This is really exciting to hear so many sites that have the equipment. Excellent speeds as well.

warning to Albuquerque nv watchers. I saw some more trucks at cell site by unm Saturday and went over to ask the guys if they were with Sprint when they responded they were working on the tower for att, maybe they are getting lte here? Anyways if you see a tower being worked on know that att is doing work now too.

 

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This makes sense as ATT just announced LTE live in Albuquerque little over 4 weeks ago.

Talking to my friends, the service is quite limited in the city.

 

 

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49 sites out of 415.

I just saw the update of the map. Wow.

Before I get too hot and bothered, I am interested what happens at Roberts site. If lte goes live we might not have a problem. However if it is different, it makes me think sprint is changing thier plans. Potentially due to clear wire or something.

I just checked the Phoenix and Tucson/Yuma markets. They do not have any Ground Mount RRU's noted. They just have No 800 sites in the International boundary zone.

 

Robert

Is engineering performed by Ericsson or is it performed by Sprint in KC?

I would assume it would be performed by someone by Ericsson but you know what happens when you assume. You are wrong.