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Being in Phoenix now makes me miss sprint in Chicago. Feel like the stone ages out here with data.

I flew into midway yesterday and didn't drop LTE in the airport or the entire way to my apartment in Hyde Park. Feels good man. It's a welcome respite from LTE in San Francisco...I even connected to an 8T8R site outside of Washington Park!

T-mobile tower by me had fiber put in 2 months ago while lte got installed maybe three weeks ago. They were their maybe about 4 days to install everything. I can see it happening.

I'm still having the most difficult time believe the edge to LTE conversion time schedule Legere has quoted in the past. Is it feasible that they can have their sites converted that fast....including having backhaul installed.

Awesome, now I'll finally have coverage at my place hey guys, Am I suppose to glow?
 

Gotta love Sprint/Clear panel placement here in Astoria... Absolutely ridiculous, blasting straight at the facade in front!
 

Haha, that's exactly why I was there.

Nobody is in Chana except the sale barn.

Yeah, sadly I've been experiencing that since day one.  Seems Like something is not quite right.  Its either not tuned or hurry up and put another panel that goes in a different direction to densify the network. Im not sure if they accounted for signal penetration when removing two or three panels and replacing it with just one. Today, I was in Chana, IL. and the network was unusable for data. 4G was not in sight and ehrp/evdo was going in and out which meant all I was doing was timing out. These things shouldn't be happening anymore.  Not a good experience for new subs that we poach from the big boys.     

Just took a road trip to Chicago over the weekend. Stayed over in Naperville, visiting downtown to see the sights (the bean!). My biggest gripe was the coverage in Naperville, at the house I stayed at. My phone would bounce between B26 and 1x and EVDO, even though I was pretty close to the site.

 

 

Sony needs to put dollars into marketing.  When they learn to Market again then I could see them be a force.    

Remember, this a formula that has worked before. You can only get X phone on our network. They just need to put some marketing dollars behind the Sony.

Popularity of the Evo killed the network.  Sprints back haul consisted of multiple T-1 lines.  Problem was they never forcasted demand properly.Same as when ATT launched the Iphone. Vzw was the smart one out of the bunch. Installing Lte while it was getting fully baked (Old Releases) was a big risk for Vzw. Essentially,  they were ahead of the curve.

*Do i really need to mention Wimax?*  

Regarding Ericsson- They were already in a hole when they took over.  I'd compare it to a tsunami of Data That no one foresaw until too late.  Brings back memories of when my home dial up internet was faster then sprints evdo network. Its like a bad dream thinking about it now.  lol

There is a whole myriad of factors as to why the Network was let go. Bright side from here on, it just keeps getting better.  I wouldn't be surprised by the end of this year we get some number 1's in network reliability and Speed... #NewDayForData

Really? It seemed like all the repairs & backhaul that Sprint prepaid for so that Ericsson could deploy it as needed (since they are actually over seeing network ops) that they waited on until things got so bad and then their was a shortage of parts and backhaul takes time to get rolling. I think in fact the Evo had little to do with it, as the majority of my friends in fact had the Evo and it regularly beat my HTC Incredible on Verizon (3G speed wise). In fact I have never seen a EV-DO speed as high in my life as my buddy on Sprint with his Evo, he got 2.6Mbps DL, back in the day.

4+ billion with less then a billion cash.  Burning subs and $ like a drunken sailor.  Cant see Son making a move on NII at the moment .  Let the bankruptcy play out and if still interested pick it up for the cheap.  Would be a great play for all the Mexicans that travel in the states and in Mexico. Ex... Unlimited calling between countries, Roaming,Data. Lots of potential there.

Mexico, Brazil and Argentina will be a nice prize. In Mexico, they won a 15x15 chunk of AWS that's screaming to have LTE put on it. What is NII's debt situation?

I for one would love to see Sprint ditch Ericsson as it seems Ericsson was the beginning of Sprint's issues. Back when I was with Verizon, my Sprint friends always had better 3G speeds than me (around 2010).

Nah, it was the popularity of the Evo and lack of investments that crippled the network.

Nii got its ass creamed when sprint shut Iden down and didn't have a decent way to replicate the beep with the US market. People didn't have a need to be paying a premium in Mexico anymore if they couldn't call US for free. Hence Nii is losing mexicans subs at a horrific rate. A glimmer of hope would be SoftBank to purchase them. But there in not to good shape until Iden gets cut off and they can focus on one network. Not sure if Son would want to go through all the headache.

I was there in late April. Went to sprints campus and all. Sadly, the Vzw phone I had was beating sprint in speed tests on its own campus. Granted this was a few months back. Here's to hope a lot has changed. When I was there band 41 wasnt activated or my g2 never sensed it.

On another note I know Rockford il is swimming in new Band 41 few a few months now. There's still holes around the city but I'm very hopefull that once they tune the network it will be top notched.

 

Visit Kansas City

 

 

 

Sent from my LG G3

Sadly, its Perception that sells.  And we all know Sprints Perception sucks. But to be honest they had it coming.  What I would like to see from Sprint is at least have one Market that is fully tuned/optimized by now. Even for me Chicago Market is better but theres still many holes. Something that Root Metrics and all the others confirm Sprint is Top Dog.  It"ll be a great Day when that happens. Just frustrating waiting so long cause I really do want them to succeed.  It sometimes feels they take one step forward and two steps back.  So Marcelo if your listening put a fire under Sprints ass and make the public take notice.    

At One time Nextel owned Northern IL. Sprint let it go downhill big time by not collating their sites. Crystal Lake is a prime example. Now We can just hope for the best.

Service in Downtown Crystal Lake is abysmal. No service in Dukes and roaming on VZW in Finn's. Is one of the towers out here? Or has it always been like that? Here's hoping for B26 optimizations..

HTCguy,

Yes and yes...

Great phone just uses single lte band. And battery life could be better..

Afraid of LTE.  lol.   While, I experience the same problem it does stay connected to my airave much more then before the update... 

I'm experiencing the same issue. After the update my phone almost acts like its afraid of LTE. Even seems to connect to 800 CDMA less as well. I've tried updating my profile and the LTE scan timer trick to no avail. [emoji27][emoji24]

Little tidbit from Ceragon conference call...

Lastly, there are three, there are large projects pending in the developed market. Most notably Sprint in the U.S., the Intercom and MegaFon in Russia and Vodafone in Western Europe. We believe that we are well positioned to be a vendor, for example Sprint is looking for ultrahigh capacity capabilities and our IP-20 platform can deliver 1 gig to each site in the air whereas competitors can only achieve this using compression technology.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/2347895-ceragon-networks-crnt-ceo-ira-palti-on-q2-2014-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single

IP20- Platform Website link.

http://www.ceragon.com/component/k2/item/893-ip-20-platform-overview

Any Back haul gurus familiar in the product? 

Sometimes with Sprint, I feel like I'm waiting for the Cable guy.

  I have seen no work on towers they are still waiting for fiber to be connected.   Why is that so hard?   

The Town is covered (LTE) piss poor.  Every little bit helps.  

I think the Best Buy in Crystal Lake has a DAS... My RSRP improves by 20 dBm on B25 when instep inside.

http://www.malibutimes.com/news/article_6bbb077c-0218-11e4-95b5-0019bb2963f4.html

In response to Rosenthal’s letter, Ryan Shepard, regional sales manager for Sprint, said that Malibu “doesn’t have normal cell towers.” The city is one of only eight communities in California with “DAF” nodes — a relaying system for wireless users in difficult terrain. Shepard said the manufacturer no longer supports the DAF product, so it’s difficult to make repairs. Sprint has been replacing broken DAFs with the LTE network. 

I'm assuming this a repeater system...

Ran into the same problem. I used the lg tool and installed kk through that.

It WAS rooted but I unrooted it. So yea its totally stock now

Theres two major differences.  First, Iden was a orphan technology.  Second, Network Vision is in play.   

they aren't using LTE for Voice AND data..so you still ahve two networks you have to manage because voice and data are on two incompatible technologies...sprint+tmob=nextel disaster again.

Is that before or after Fcc came out against it?  $6B was a good hunk of change that really propelled T Mobile's reenergized network investments. DT at the time gave up on spending money on the network. They won't do that again.

Just remember what AT&T merger did to T-Mobile network deployment.

Tried to stop people from talking while driving.  I bet he's the same kind of dude that stays in the left hand lane while going the speed limit.  Enjoy the story...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2149501/florida-commuters-illegal-jammer-blocked-more-than-cell-talkers.html

Scary shi*..

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/man-injured-150-feet-high-cellphone-tower/nfXds/

It was so spotty for me last week. Don't know if the towers were being bi polar or what. Really disappointing to say the least. This was at magic Kingdom btw.

I'm at Bay Lake Tower hotel at Disney World on the 11th floor pulling a -92 dBm LTE signal. Last time I was here in January this spot was still legacy 3G.