shawneyboy123

This waiting game is killing me. If they could just say something else about it or give us some kind of time frame. They've announced it and said it's a done deal, I don't see why it's so hard to authorize us all for network use. ):

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Even the iphone 5s/c supports band 2 according to apples website, Honestly I would worry about this when it happens. We all know that ntelos drags there feet. I am shocked that sprint actually signed a new contract with them, I can only figure that they got a really good deal. Only because ntelos would lose so much money if they lost this contract.

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They just need to stop being stubborn and flip the switch, then focus on improving the rest of their network so they can change their bad reputation.

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They also have it in Waynesboro Va as well.

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Sprint Corporation (“Sprint,” NYSE: S) and NTELOS Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: NTLS) today announced that Sprint and NTELOS Inc. (“nTelos”) reached an amended agreement to extend their Strategic Network Alliance (“SNA”) through 2022. Under the agreement, nTelos will continue to serve as the exclusive network provider for Sprint in the SNA territory, which covers approximately 2.1 million people in West Virginia and the western part of Virginia. In addition, Sprint customers will gain access to nTelos’s recently launched 4G LTE network and nTelos will have access to Sprint’s 800 MHz, 1.9 GHz and 2.5 GHz spectrum throughout the territory. nTelos plans to maximize the network experience for both its retail and wholesale customers by committing to expand and build its 4G LTE network in the SNA territory to specifications aligned with Sprint’s network modernization program.

Pulled that off of the Sprint website, described it much easier. They've launched LTE in Beckley.... So now all they need is to allow us to connect!

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So nTelos has extended the agreement to include LTE service. We are just waiting for nTelos to open the doors for us right?

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It's currently released on B25 1900mhz

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I just turned on my LTE, trying to connect if possible.....

After toggling airplane mode on and off repeatedly, no connection. Maybe some carrier update is needed. Or some OTA update to the towers themselves....?

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So..... After reading bits and pieces.... Do we have access to LTE now..? Or when will we have access?

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I would at least like to know what exactly is holding it all back... It sucks how in the dark we are about it. They announce the whole CCA deal but nothing really followed yet.

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*Smashes head into wall*

And this is all way off topic.

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I would imagine CCA LTE will be available to Sprint customers soon.

 

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If this means that we should be able to use nTelos LTE here soon then I should be getting it any down now. Almost 4 months since they launched it in Beckley WV.

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I really hope they can pull this off quickly, this is something sprint needs desperately!

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just curious if the tower pic you took was located in Beckley. What area?

near 1 Chesapeake Ln, Beckley, WV 25801

http://goo.gl/maps/Hzn9c

If you go there and look you can see that there was nothing there, and google maps just recently updated the map data for my area (End summer early fall).

Or a more simple answer. Across from the Beckley Plaza Mall beside Dominos and Dunkin Donuts.

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Beckley?

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The top one kind of looks like some Nextel iDEN panels I saw that were installed very late in life as replacements or at new sites. Like post 2008. Do you see these often?

 

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The place where that photo was taken was a place where a year ago there was nothing. They were first put on an old telephone pole around fall, then transferred onto a "mini" tower as a permanent place shortly after.

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Wow, nTelos just constructed this site about a week ago it's only about 30 feet off the ground. Those panels and RRU's are gigantic! Now I understand why they call them beast panels! They were hooking up the fiber when I took this picture earlier. Too bad I can't enjoy the LTE once it's competed. ):

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The first photo is a site that has been there since about the fall. It's very low to the ground, around 30 feet like the one in photo #2. They are side by side but the one in photo #2 was just constructed about a week ago, they were hooking up the fiber when I took the photo today. I'm positive that the 2nd photo is Sprint (nTelos in this case) but the 1st has always confused me as to what it is. Anyone able to tell from the photograph?

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Anyone travel near Smith Mountain Lake?  What's coverage like there, particularly 3G?  My family and I will be vacation there in July and there is no internet at the rental house - hoping we can bring our hotspot.

I've never been there personally but, looking at nTelos' own maps it looks fine coverage wise. No idea if you'll get NV like speeds or not.

Depressing. By the time there would be a build out or an agreement reached I think it would be too late for most people, for me anyways it will be.

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Hmmm . . . I wonder if those of us in nTelos land will get these texts?! :-)

 

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I have been getting them. Some people do some don't.

Just kinda looking around Sensorly out of boredom when I noticed this.... Someone recorded a Sprint LTE signal pretty deep into nTelos territory... At least according to the maps.

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At least I have some of the best 3G possible in morgantown.

Enjoy it, I had that around the start of the network upgrades. Now it is rare to hit 2. Now the average is about 100ms ping with .3-.8 down and consistent .7-.8 up. Although that was before the carrier hack for the iPhone, now I go above 1 more often but I still dont get those good speeds like i used to in most spots. And I have a direct line of site to 3 different towers at home, housing VZW, AT&T, USC, and nTelos.

It's almost as if they had a large influx of customers on the network after Christmas and its bogging down the network or something.... :/

Have you talked recently to any Sprint or nTelos reps in Beckley? What do sprints reps have to say when you ask them about nTelos LTE? And what about nTelos reps, are they still saying sprint customers won't be allowed on their LTE towers?

I haven't gotten around to asking anybody in store. I remember when I was going through the nightmare of activating my 5S at the Sprint store I made a comment about how I wish I could connect to LTE and he just said "Yeah me too. They're working on it" and i mentioned how their coverage is dependent on nTelos and he completely ignored me.