brittonx

What are you using to get the signal strengths showing in the notification bar? EDIT: Never mind... Found it...

Yes it is. There appears to be a dearth of activity anywhere near Rochester NY city proper. Basically the vast majority of Monroe County doesn't seem to have any activity.

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It does sound like the site you're referring to is a GMO site. My statement of all the sites in the Rochester market are getting overhauled was not explained clearly, and that is my error. When I say they are all being overhauled, it means they all ate getting upgrades. Even the GMO sites are being completely upgraded except for the antennas, everything else is being replaced. And also, GMO sites will be converted to full build sites, they just will be the very last sites to do so. So, yes, all the sites in the Rochester market are being overhauled and receiving Network Vision improvements. As for better signals, there will be no improvement at GMO sites. Full build sites will get slightly better signals through new RRU's installed up next to the antennas, and majorly better through 800MHz CDMA and eventually LTE deployments. GMO sites will not have better signals until they receive their full build upgrades in the future. Dropped calls are unfortunately going to become more common during Network Vision, especially on Samsung equipment. If you cross a seam between new Samsung NV equipment and legacy equipment, your chances of being dropped increase. If you are near a seam, you can be dropped without moving. Additionally, drops can occur even when solidly on a new NV site. Over time, they will make the adjustments that will make the network even better than it was before. And as more sites get converted, the better the experience will become. Robert from Note 2 using Tapatalk 4 Beta Thank you Robert for the more detailed explanation. I appreciate the service you provide on this site. I hope it is not a long wait for the dropped calls issue to be resolved. Quite frankly, that could force a carrier change for me if it will be an ongoing issue. I would prefer not leave but I need the phone to be reliable. Should I be reporting the new dropped calls issue to Sprint?

One site near my home is shown as 3G complete. The site is in the middle of the north east quadrant of the Rochester market. The site does not have the new antennas. Does that mean it is a GMO? If so, then "All of the sites in the Rochester market will be completely overhauled" does not sound like an accurate statement. (EDIT: I just read the GMO article. Does being GMO and 3G complete mean that there will be a second round of work on the site at some point to install the new antennas?) Sprint made it sound like we were to expect better coverage in weak signal areas. At least in reference to the tower in question, the coverage is no better and may, in fact, be slightly worse. On this tower and on the one directly to the west, I have been getting dropped calls for the last few days when I had never ever had dropped calls on them before. I was really hoping for more than what I'm seeing so far.

I was in Batavia on Saturday. I did a speed test and on 3G I was getting over 2M down and around 1.5M up. Pretty impressive.

The post just says Rochester. Is that Rochester MN or NY?

??? are you referring to a start of a build or something more?

Thank you Robert. That sounds a little more promising. It will be even more promising once we see actual results

I see this as good and bad news. Complete overhauls of the current sites should result in a more dramatic improvement. The "bad" is that sounds like it will be even longer before we are online with NV & LTE.

Anything will be better than the nothing we have now... Thanks!

I was in a corporate Sprint store today in the Rochester, NY area. The staff there were hinting that the work was well underway for LTE in the area. No dates given but they were implying it could be as early as July/Aug this year.