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    Network Vision/LTE - Tampa Market

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    is her brother OK hell I would slap a lawsuit on sprint for that one if I was her brother and had prof that I tried to call

     

    I'm not sure but I imagine in the terms and conditions Sprint does not guarantee service. It sucks but it's no different than if a tower fell over

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    OK have a question according to sprints site where they have towers the closet on is the bellshols one the next closet one is on causeway. I live in cypress trace apartments and yet I get like 0-1 bars of lte I don't think I would get better coverage from any other site my ? Is do they angle this panels to cover different sides of town or just try to go as far in any direction.

     

    From what I remember about Nextel installs, all the towers had corresponding azimuths. So if one tower had sectors set at 60, 175,and 250 degrees all panels that we installed at any other site would be set at those degrees. I'm not sure how that corresponds to anything else though.

     

    I'm sure someone will chime in on what I'm about to say so if I'm wrong someone will step in. I THINK Sprint is going to have an interesting problem here in Florida at least. From initial testing it seems the LTE signal carries further than 3G. I'm not even sure if I'm saying that right but I'm seeing that I am holding a usable LTE signal past at least another Sprint site that has not been upgraded yet. I'm sure they are not going to decommission sites but it is a question

     

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    So much activity in St. Pete!

     

    In some ways yes but honestly there are only 3 or 4 active towers.. Sensorly makes it look like a bunch is happening.. Going to check my in progress sites now.. Wish me luck

     

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    I'm visiting the St. Petersburg area this week and I picked up LTE pretty strong on the 22nd Avenue North exit going even a mile or so west of 34th Street (US 19). This was taken off my iPhone 5 (iOS 6.0.2 Carrier settings 13.1). I got no LTE in Tampa where I expected to get coverage but ironically in St. Pete I'm carrying about 3 bars consistently where I'm staying. In L.A. LTE is coverage is rapidly being deployed so seems like Sprint is getting their ducks in a row.

     

    They still must be doing some tweaking in that area. West of that intersection earlier this week was giving a very weak signal almost unusable. From that cross street heading south picking up that signal was difficult until you actually got on the street it was actually on. At the time I thought it was odd because it seemed that the tower was serving just that neighborhood, especially because there is another Sprint site that is east of 34th street and Sprint is pretty far up that tower. Good to see they are still tweaking things as they go. Thanks for checking in with us.

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    Maybe 3 weeks ago. It is hard to tell with everything packed so tight on a mono pole but if they are at&t or sprint. How long ago did they start working on the sites?

     

    I have been by there a few times looking but haven't seen anything. You're right though that space is tight and you may miss what you would be normally very visible as a Sprint site.

     

    The permit you got pictures of sounds like the AT&T install that was done a while back on that site. Usually the crows nest would refer to the upper most site on a monopole.

     

    When I saw that site sometime ago they had a crane and we're replacing the panels. It was New Tech but it was at&t they were working for. It was one of the first sites I saw and was just about the start of this thread

     

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    This is the site at 19 and mainlands blvd. There was some working going on there setting new panels with a crane, i can not tell if they were for at&t or the sprint panels I have attached the tower and photos of the permit.

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/af3ytcrqyt9uupb/Photo%20Dec%2028%2C%2012%2018%2047%20PM.jpg?m

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/ef3z2i3stzz41s2/Photo%20Nov%2016%2C%2012%2018%2008%20PM.jpg

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/gkby2l67afo0479/Photo%20Nov%2016%2C%2012%2017%2050%20PM.jpg

     

    Also has anyone seen permits for the site on gandy near the dog track? i have seen activity at the site some days as i drive by to goto work but cant tell the writing on the trucks.

     

    When did you see them at Mainlands?

     

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    I'm not sure if there's another tower or what but I got a 2 bar LTE by panthe trace in riverview... Not sure if this was a new tower or what because I have an iPhone

     

    Dang.. Maybe one of the other guys can get that way.

     

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    They don't always wear the head gear once they get up there though. I'm guessing it's a requirement now, it's been 10+ years since I've climbed. We climbed at night and just about any condition except lightning and heavy rains and never used any head gear.

     

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    Right when I gave it up OSHA was really trying to change the industry. Mandatory fall protection, hard hats, had to use the safety rails. It was really a bummer but necessary. I used to see guys ride the winch line 200 feet while smoking weed.

     

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    That is possible, my signal strength was only 2 bars. I thought it would not be that strong being under the base of the tower. See the screen shot on the link for my signal strength and speed test while that that site.

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/i7vx8p46prudrz3/Photo%20Dec%2027%2C%204%2058%2053%20PM.png

     

    I'm about to drive by there so I'll check. What I have found is if I approach a site that I suspect is live my signal should should become better as I get closer, drop AT the site and driving by will result in the signal picking up again.

     

    For example, what I'm seeing in our area is from a live LTE site to the next that is not live about -124. I suspect if the site was live there is something that will tell the phone to hand off to the next site well before it reaches that signal level. Because we don't have two sites yet that are handoffs to another I haven't been able to test what the threshold is.

     

    This is all unscientific of course because I'm only using my phone as my tool but I think it's a pretty good place to start. I'm hoping this week we will have two sites where I can test from one to another

     

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    I am currently at the starkey road site and looks like their work is compete with the exception of their backbone. I do not see any fiber, they currently have several t-1's there is a new cabinet that is hanging on the back of their telecom interconnect and the LTE cabinets are powered on. I have LTE signal however the speed test from here is nothing more that a couple of meg down and 1.5 upload.

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/4npwbtg3176scmx/Photo%20Dec%2027%2C%204%2016%2015%20PM.jpg

     

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/t73eg0ip51gj2il/Photo%20Dec%2027%2C%204%2016%2025%20PM.jpg

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/7ay0vu0pbkwuktp/Photo%20Dec%2027%2C%204%2029%2029%20PM.jpg

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/v5gag6nzw7de7ld/Photo%20Dec%2027%2C%204%2029%2034%20PM.jpg

     

    Mike did you take a look at your signal strength? That tower over by the Largo Mall throws a signal and the one by 54th does the same. I wonder if you picked up one of those..

     

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    Question for the LTE enabled... went by a site this morning on the way to work checking for LTE. The RRU's are easy to see and since it was dark I could see the lights on them. All I could see were blinking lights on just about all of the RRUs. Slow green blinking lights. I was curious if you were seeing the same on your LTE enabled sites.

     

    I know Wildman has reported the lights on the RRUs. I have not seen them though. I will take a look tonight if you want. I have a live site just down the street from my house and a good pair of binoculars

     

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    I am hearing reports of people in Indian rocks beach that have lost sprint service for a few weeks now. Does anyone know if equipment taken down to make room on those sites? or does anyone live or travel through that area that can confirm there is an outage there.

     

    A few months back there was a girl in the Sprint store raising hell about losing service on the beach and how she couldn't wait till her contract was up.

     

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    I just got word that the site on the roof of the Tampa Airport Marriott is in progress. Do you get your signal from there? I will add it to the next map update.

     

    Robert

     

    When I got to Florida that was the site we built for Nextel, on that roof.

     

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    I need to get back out there and do some EVO LTE testing with the new JB update. This sounds dramatically improved over my experiences. Exciting.

     

    Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

     

    I would love for someone that knows way more than me to get out there and run the EVO thru its paces. If I didn't know any better I would think all of you guys were full of it about the issue before the update. It's that good now.

     

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