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i'm thinking it has to be just some fringe signal that you are getting from the one off 14th and hartford, i know its a little ways away but its still possible. if it were anything closer you wouldn't have this hard of a time picking it up.

58th and delaware has had no work done on it yet, so its definitely not that tower. it is possible that it could be coming from the 4G accepted one thats live so far. at the right spot at the right elevation and no obstructions that wouldn't be too far the signal couldn't get there.

Nice! East mix master or west mix master?

yep, every tower in cedar rapids will get voice and 4G on 800, and voice, 3G, and 4G on 1900 and then sometime next year they will add 4G on 2600. right now since they are at the start they are only turning on voice on 800. at some point they will start turning on LTE on 800 and come back and do the rest.of course there are no phones that support LTE on 800 or 2600 yet. so with your current phone you will get voice on 800 and LTE/4G on 1900. then when you upgrade phones next you will be able to start picking up the other things. if you have any other questions let us know

hello and welcome! every tower is getting every upgrade (3G/4G/800). the completed sites map is just where they are with the upgrades at this point. so as the days progress more and more towers will get added and updated when each new part gets accepted. for more info on what accepted means take a look at my signature

yeah, the person that posted that has been on this site several times since they posted that and haven't answered my question as to where they were, so take that for what you will.

would you be able to give me an approximate location of where you were when you got LTE? going to look at the maps and see if i can tell what tower it was coming from. i would think any part of west des moines would be too far away from the currently 4G accepted tower so that must mean a new one!

lol no joke! the heat is exactly why i haven't gone out looking much, too hot to be driving around and no i haven't heard or seen anything new yet

well in that case enjoy the new phone! can't have a phone that doesn't work! and definitely don't use other peoples upgrades! i had a fiasco with that, never again!!!!

when tri-band devices are so close?!?!?!!? quick take it back and get your old phone back!!!!!

thats fine, i don't really care, but that doesn't mean you can continue and ask for info that can only be obtained from the sponsor area.

this is the last time i will say this, i've mentioned this to you many times before, that info is found in the sponsors section, we can't give out info from the sponsors area, so if you want to know then become a sponsor. if you aren't going to become a sponsor then stop asking.

in the premier sponsor section there is one. Its recent too, just got added maybe a month ago.

lol, best excuse ever

welcome! did you happen to get a screen shot of signalcheck connected to 4G? i ask because i want to see if its the tower that is already 4G accepted or a new tower. if it was a weak intermittent signal it was probably the one that was already accepted, but if it was a stronger signal they could have been testing a new tower. the serving cell ID of the current live tower is 07A04C0X (where X=0, 1, or 2 depending on what sector you are on).

i'm no expert but i don't think it should, they design the equipment to work in all kinds of conditions. losing 3G or even service all together could be an indication that they were working on something, it could also just mean you lost 3G and service for a bit (aka it could mean nothing). There is no way to know for sure.

I posted this in the west iowa/nebraska thread, figured it would be good to put it here now that we have a live tower remember in a new market where there are only a few towers live, that 1 tower broadcasting LTE will have many more people connecting to it than when the market is complete and the rest of the towers have LTE too. for example, if normally 1000 people are covered by 4 towers you would have 250 people per tower. if 1 of those 4 towers gets LTE and it can reach 750 of those 1000 people you will have 750 people connecting to that 1 tower. once the other 3 get upgraded it will go back down to 250 people on each tower so there will be less people sharing the bandwidth. the max speed you can get from a single sector is 37.5 Mbps, the more people on that sector, the slower your speeds will be as you will all be sharing that bandwidth. in the future sprint will be adding LTE on 800Mhz and 2500Mhz, each of those frequencies will have their own max bandwidth too. but once people get phones that support those bands people will be split between 3 different frequencies so you all won't be sharing that 1 37.5 Mbps pipe anymore

i was not comparing an evo lte to an iphone. i know the evo lte has problems, but its issues are that it doesn't scan for LTE often enough and it doesn't hold onto weak signals very well. I was in neither of those scenarios since i was sitting right under the tower and was cycling airplane mode, which would force it to rescan. since it wasn't connecting to 4G i wanted to check and see if anyone else had any issues. earlier this summer i drove through KC and my phone had no issues connecting to LTE there so i didn't know if it was my phone or tower this time. mbrinson, thanks for your reply confirming you had no issues

my turn to post pictures!!!!! did anyone else have issues getting their phone to connect to the tower? i was sitting right under it and did airplane mode about 10 times and it wouldn't connect to 4G, finally i restarted it and then it connected when it loaded up. I drove around and lost 4G and when i got back in range it wouldn't pick it up again, this time i did a PRL update to force a rescan and it picked it up again. not sure what the deal was with that. Oh, its also on sensorly now too

just went to my computer and looked at the maps, all of those are within reach of the tower i mentioned so i bet thats where it was coming from! and since its live and there is proof i can finally go :frantic: :frantic: :frantic: :frantic: :frantic:

Very nice!!!! I wonder if the 4g accepted tower is finally live, its right next to east 14th st and Hartford.

i'm assuming its different for every tower. i know the tower on lower beaver by the interstate has mediacom fiber run to it. the ryko water tower on the south side of grimes i *think* has verizon fiber run to it as i saw a verizon truck sitting near it when fiber was being ran.

people need to ignore the fair thing. that came from someone here talking to sprint sales people, believing that what they told him about LTE by the fair, and coming here and spreading that rumor. sprint sales people do not know anything about NV completion/dates/timelines. anybody thats a member here that takes the time to read and learn and understand the process and go out and look at where they are at with installing equipment on towers will know more than any sprint sales person. as to the hold up, no, no one knows that the deal is. if i had to guess i would say they are short people that do integration/inspection work. between the des moines metro and ames roughly 30% of the towers have all of the equipment installed. so its not like work isn't being done, something is just preventing them from getting turned on. so thats why i'm guessing they are just short handed the people that would do that. every week i'm finding 1-2 more towers that now have equipment installed so nothing is holding up work being done on the towers. the standard M.O. for samsung markets is that as soon as a tower is accepted as 4G complete it will be broadcasting LTE. every market has been this way, i don't think they would change that up just for the des moines market, we aren't that special. so since the lone 4G accepted tower in des moines isn't broadcasting yet there must be a technical reason that is still being worked on. and no more towers have been accepted because no one has been around to accept them yet. we are at the point where LTE will be live literally any day now, of course that could be tomorrow and it could be in a few weeks, just be patient and be happy/surprised when you look at your phone one day and it says "LTE"

can you post in the iowa thread in the sponsor section with the ID of the tower you are talking about so we can take a look at it? edit: i think i found the tower you are talking about and made a reply in the iowa thread in the sponsors section for you.

i assume you are using signal check? what is the BID of the tower? the SID (22439) will be the same for all 1x800 connections, its the BID that will be different from tower to tower. BID 2753 is the one i've been connecting to around des moines. edit: so far the 1x800 signals are broadcasting their exact locations, so if you use the "1X base station geocoding" option of signal check pro and click on the link it will take you to the exact location of the tower you are connected to on a map.