dergasmann

Fair enough. Good luck everyone and thank you for helping keep us informed.

I live on South Euclid, so I'm hoping upgrades in this area happen soon, too. As it is now, I just received an Airave last week, since for the past few months, incoming phone calls wouldn't even ring inside my house. The Airave has "fixed" that issue, but I still get mostly just 1x around town. My contract isn't up until December but if things don't improve before the S5 is released, I'll probably jump ship for T-Mobile and take advantage of their ETF reimbursement.

 

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I've got a T-mobile SIM ready and waiting to go. But I'm keeping it sealed since the phone I want isn't out yet anyway and I've put Sprint on watch with the Governor's slim chance of an 11:58pm phone call

I wouldn't get too excited about 5 down and 5 up speeds anyway. Until they're officially on and are being used for a good while we don't know what typical speeds will be. WiMax, although it's yesterday's tech, is showing far reduced speeds on my phone even at 3 bars around here recently. But that may be due to the ongoing work on the upgrades.

I can get WiMax 4G inside my Warrensville Heights office again, although only 1 bar and no faster than it was before I think. People with LTE Sprint phones though may be seeing more impressive or widespread coverage around here, but I have no way of knowing since I know few people who have it around here (ahem). I'll test again outside later.

Something may be up on the Eastside. I didn't go into instant roaming this most recent time until almost reaching the corner of Cedar and Richmond by Legacy Village - so there MAY be work going on around there although it's disappointing it didn't hold.

I also was able to be in a restaurant in a different area further East and hold a low 1-2 bar phone signal and 4G (still WiMax on my old phone) where I couldn't before.

And finally, in my office to the East and South I've been unable to connect to the 4G WiMax signal for the past few days. I doubt it's my phone since I can by just moving a few miles away. When (hopefully not IF) the 4G connection comes back I wonder if it could be faster or steadier.

The suspense starts.

I live in Warrensville Hts. by Thistledown and I finally have LTE at home as of today. Too bad I'm moving tomorrow. What luck. I have been noticing LTE coverage in a lot of new areas near me lately. 

I remember around there was where my OG Epic first showed me the awesome WiMax speeds. Sorry you're moving. Strange times we live in where broadband data becomes such a consideration...

Sitting in my office in Beachwood I Noticed my N5 displaying LTE.. No cause for alarm as it once and a while picks up a blip of LTE while switching towers.. Never locking on because lack of CSFB. This morning however it didn't go away.. Looking at signal check pro I notice the Provider ID for Sprint Band 41.. Screen shots and speed test.. 17mb down 2-3mb up at -116dBm.. It stays locked on even at -120 dBm

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Also good news, but the Beachwood industrial park area (like Chagrin Highlands) typically sees good coverage while the suburbs and residential areas don't. Sprint seems to have minimal or no tower leases around there but I'm only going off of the coverage problems typical of the area in the past, not hard data I admit. Maybe the NV work will remedy that...who knows if or when.

I also hope the lower bands get turned on soon, even if the 800 band could be a lost cause in Cleveland according to the experts here.

I bet they're still working on the east side too. I think we'll instead see bursts of NV launches instead of individual sites now due to equipment incompatability with the old Motorola stuff. A majority of what's left is the more urban areas in Cuyahoga and Summit counties, so they probably want to keep the service disruptions to a minimum and only throw the switch once all equipment is in place.

The difference between what we hope for on this side of town vs. what we've had with Sprint had better be dramatic, and soon. I can't believe I'd ever be ready to gamble on the other bargain/upstart carrier but here I am. I'd be willing to spend the several hundred more with Sprint over the life of a 2-year contract if I'll get good coverage and a good top-end triband handset that doesn't necessarily end in -ung but right now that's far from sure.

I noticed after calls yesterday that my old dino/dodo phone was taking ages to reconnect to data (3G). Might just be the phone itself or might be a sign work and related interruptions of service were going on. ETA: sigh...above post explains it wasn't a sign of anything positive, most likely.

S4GRU might want to consider a Sony section (I couldn't find it) for slightly disgruntled Samsung fans like me who are leaning toward the Xperia Z2.

To be fair, the S5 is an order of magnitude more powerful than what I have now (S1 variant).

But relative to where top-end phones can go, I think the Xperia is going to finally be my upgrade unless 1) it doesn't become available in the U.S. soon (boooooooooo...c'mon, Sony, you're an international company--COMPETE!) or 2) HTC comes out with something amazing.

And I suppose there's always 3) unless Apple manages to brainwash me (not likely).

Never thought I'd consider Sony again for a major electronics purchase (not being a videogamer anymore) but you can't paint any of these major MFRs with the same brush on every product after all!

I was inside a government building with plenty of windows today in a densely populated eastside suburb.

When I arrived there around 8am, there were 1-2 bars of signal inside the building. By 11am when I left, it had switched to roaming with no bars and my battery was 1/4 drained.

I hope this improves soon or Sprint may as well just close all their stores anywhere near or East of 271 because they won't sell a thing.

Sweet-I was just at the BW3 at Richmond and Harvard, in Orange/Beachwood/Warrensville, and my Nexus 5 lit up with LTE... I made a call, and it immediatly went to 1xrtt/3g, and as soon as, and I mean instantly, when I hung up it went back to LTE CSFB seems to work really well.

 

 

That's always been an area where network changes happen fast, and the very nice Sensorly map has noted it thanks to all you trackers out there.

The main issue in Cleveland now seems to be wide swaths of the near- and far-Eastside that still have nothing. If history is a guide, many of those areas will take long if they ever get decent coverage. Neighborhoods like University Heights and Beachwood had useless coverage in many sections and it pains me to see how Sprint stores are located in places like Legacy Village where my phone switches to roaming every time.

When those are lit up, it'll be time to decide whether or not a new phone and contract are in the cards.

I wouldn't say so, we should at least have 800 voice, which will help us have a usable signal for calls. Even then, band 25 LTE isn't terrible, when I have a low LTE signal on band 25, I'm still getting better speeds than 3G. Furthermore, more places are starting to offer free wifi, so if you're in a building and can't get LTE, perhaps they may offer a free wifi network to connect to.

 

As far as band 41, if it's deployed on enough sites and the area is blanketed with it, I have hope that I'll be able to use it without too many problems.

That's interesting and I hope you're right. Thanks for this info.

What are you talking about?  You think that LTE 1900 is little different in coverage from WiMAX 2600?  And you think that T-Mobile LTE 2100+1700 is somehow better?

 

You have previously had several of your posts removed.  Are you here just to stir the pot?

 

AJ

I think it's unfair for anyone who is fretting about Sprint's future and their relationship with this carrier, at least in their local market to get their intentions questioned every time they say something at all critical to any degree.

If you'd read my post a different way you'd have noticed I said I'd wait and see how things progress here over the next several months. I've been a Sprint customer for 10 years now and my opinion is hardly unique. I want them to succeed and don't feel the need to hide my frustration when it's deserved.

This site has and will help me make more informed decisions. Take that as you will.

I'm bummed about this band 26 information some of you have been posting.

It seems like Cleveland is at best a crippled market for Sprint even after they'll finish their work here; out of the proverbial frying pan and into the fire.

T-Mobile is going to eat their lunch (probably are already) when people realize that their indoor data use has barely improved from WiMax, which is what this is sounding like. My out-of-contract terms are really good but they're not good enough for this. I'll hold on for a few more months, see what kind of user reports are out there and decide. I think it's a real shame if Sprint can't be an effective competitor here.

I'm not sure (yet) whether to be mad about non-starting calls, non-delivered texts, missing calls which go right to voicemail, voicemails which don't show, and delayed received texts or just the mite bit excited that this could indicate serious work is going on in local Eastside towers right now. But this stuff has been happening for at least 48 hours.

I'm praying that the PRL and profile update I did on my ancient phone, along with a reboot, might have helped end this behavior. If it's my phone, I'm really shafted because I refuse to get a contract and subsidy on possibly a non-triband handset while this NV/LTE work In Cleveland may be nowhere near finished.