ejlwireless

I would imagine you need to since the RM510Q-GL is just the modem. May I ask where you got the RM510Q as it is out of stock everywhere and have been looking for them for months.

On 9/3/2018 at 1:40 PM, ingenium said:

Found a ton of the strand mounts from the Altice partnership in your market. They're everywhere around Saddle River.

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How many sites would you guess and how far is each node from another? Any more pictures? This is an Airspan Airstrand 1300 small cell. There should be close to 15k of these nodes around the US in addition to the pole mounted nodes from Mobilitie. Not sure who is contracted to install these on the strands.

@Dkoellerwx

Is there a different thread about other concealed solutions on this site? Is the rectangular box the B25 small cell halfway down the pole and not inside the antenna radome for the non-Alpha site???

Thank you.

Like this? 

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8853233,-94.7158812,3a,75y,163.5h,100.04t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZ8G4Y4W1tOJvgLL50JOE0A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

Any thoughts on which vendor is supplying this variant and is this a Sprint site and which city/state location?

I was wondering where people are seeing new sites from Mobilitie to transfer existing sites to the newer ones. They have claimed over 1,000 sites acquired but this is BS. At CTIA in September, it was all marketing BS but the rumors were they only have inked less than 200 sites, mostly in KS. At the clip they are going, Sprint will be screwed and will not be able to leave their current tower leases and may end up paying 3x-4x what their current lease prices are.

Any feedback would be appreciated as Softbank has already essentially cut off Sprint with any additional funding. A huge spike in op ex costs would really financially hurt the company and everyone's projects and jobs here on the board.

It's actually mispoken.

 

Clearwire WiMax will shut down on November 6. On that date all WiMax equipment goes offline or is blocked but they're already thinning WiMax out in numerous Clear markets by firing up a 2nd Band 41 TDD-LTE carrier on Samsung dual mode equipment. Those can and will stay indefinitely until the regional 2.5 vendor (ALU / STA / NSN) deems it not neccesary (insufficient Clearwire backhaul provisioning or just better Sprint site location if they're adjacent and redundant). In those Samsung Clear markets I envision those that have the backhaul provisioning to support 2 band 41 carriers will stay for a while. 

 

Huawei markets are the ones where we will see a lot of work being done since Sprint was ordered by the Feds to decomission their equipment. The Huawei Clear equipment are quite inferior compared to even Samsungs dual mode equipment  as it only supports a single 20 mhz B41 carrier + a 2nd 10 mhz B41 carrier vs up to 4 20 mhz B41 carriers [split sector 2T4R] for Samsung.

 

In quite a few markets we have the first initial evidence of complete one for one replacements of Huawei sites with the regional vendor (Samsung in this case since they're the markets we have the largest sponsor member base in). From what we've discovered so far they're doing a 1 for 1 equipment replacement of 3 new antennas / 3 radios/ new hybrid cabling and new base stations to replace the old. 

 

As of right now there is no change in acquisition / deployment as Alcatel-Lucent has not been formally bought out by Nokia. They're in the process of being bought out but things could happen and deals may fall apart at the last minute. So they're continuing the original contract as is. 

 

If or when Nokia does they'll be the vendor for both former ALU territory and Ericsson land so they'll have about 2/3rds of Sprints current macro site numbers (about 30-35K including Clear site counts within said territories). Samsung will maybe have about 15-18K plus any future site density adds or new market expansions like Montana

 

See my magnificant photoshopping skills:

 

-- Yep for ALU. Nokia uses a bit of eveyones. Samsung is predominately KMW but uses the others on occasion.  There's also Triband antennas in existence as well. These limit the 2.5 radios to 4T4R and half the potential capacity (3x20 vs 6x20) but are useful for more space constrained sites like flagpoles. 

Appreciate the feedback on this. Do you have any guesses on the number of Huawei sites in total that need to be swapped or which markets (including those in Samsung region) they had deployed equipment? Thanks.

Ericsson is replacing all existing band 25 rrus 11s with rrus 31s in what is known as the 65 mhz project since early 2014. Has got to exceed more than half by now. Probably close to 2/3rd s if I had to do a guess. I'd wager 2/3 to 3/4 done by EOY.

 

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So this would be all NV Ericsson sites? Thanks

Is the 4T4R/2T4R upgrade only happening for B25 sites? any idea how many got upgraded in 2014 vs projections for 2015?

The RRUS31 from Ericsson is 4x40W vs a 2x40W RRUS11 it is replacing. So you end up swapping two RRUS11s for one RRUS31 unit. The heat fins on the RRUS31 are huge compared with the RRUS11.

@Ascertion

When you say they will probably replace with Nokia panels starting Nov 6, is this within a specfic region that was awarded to Nokia [see below] or potential within the Samsung or ALU portion of the Network?

Also given the Nokia-ALU acquisition, any ideas for the forum moderator/membership community on if Sprint will decide to lean more on the Nokia side for equipment instead of ALU equipment? This would have an impact on the antenna suppliers I think. Or will they give more to Samsung to even it out between the future two vendors?

From what I know, there were 36,000 sites, split 3 ways between the OEMs. Post the acquisition of ALU by Nokia, it would have 24k vs 12k for Samsung. The geo split was NE & SW for ALU, TX and SE for Nokia and NW & Mid West North for Samsung.

Also is ALU still using mostly RFS antennas and Nokia is using Commscope antennas????

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@chris2420

Thanks for the info and about the dual band antennas at the NV sites for 1900/800MHz. I know since Spark @ 2600MHz is 8x8 MIMO that you can't use the dula band antennas for 1900/800MHz and make them tripleband because of the 8x8 MIMO.

It is great to see the details posted for each market. Are there also details regarding how many sites are in each market? Also, apologize if already noted, are all sites that are being upgraded also being installed with new dual band antennas for NV or are they reusing existing antennas at these sites?

Thanks!

Band 25 is the PCS band, not 800.

Sorry been a hectic week of writing and analyzing global bands. Meant Band 26 devices for 800MHz. Thank you.

Your discussion of LTE bandwidth is a bit off.  You are using "5 MHz chunks" to describe Sprint holdings but "40 MHz pipe" to describe T-Mobile holdings.  Your first follows the FDD convention, while your second references total paired spectrum.  That is inconsistent.

 

In band 25 and/or band 26, Sprint will have multiple 5 MHz FDD carriers in all markets; in band 41, it will have 20 MHz TDD carriers in top markets.

 

In band 4, T-Mobile will have one 5 MHz, 10 MHz, 15 MHz, or 20 MHz FDD carrier in some markets.  To be supremely clear, T-Mobile will not have 20 MHz FDD in that many markets, though T-Mobile would like to have you believe so.

 

Do you see how that fixes the comparison?

 

AJ

AJ

Thank you for the clarification. Is there more than one 5MHz channel for 800MHz band and how many 5Mhz channels of 1900Mhz would Sprint have on average? The G block is 5MHz for FDD. I don't think they have talked about using the A-F blocks yet for 1900MHz for LTE or have they? A slide from T-Mobile regarding the 700Mhz purchase from Verizon Wireless says it has 40Mhz in top 25 markets for AWS. I tried to post image but got an error saying the image extension was not allowed. What types of images are allowed on this forum?  Is this pure marketing BS? I agree on TDD LTE spectrum of 20MHz carriers in top markets for Sprint.

Are there currently LTE 800MHz Band 25 compatible devices out on the market?

Thank you again for your comment. This forum is really fantastic and a great resource.

Band 27 is Public Safety portion of SMR band.  Sprint is only deploying on Band 26, in the public part of the SMR band.  Sprint devices are capable of using the entirety of Band 26, which includes the public portion of the SMR band and the Cellular band.  So Band 26 capable devices can also roam on Cellular Band LTE, or if Sprint ever picks up any Cellular band licenses, it can deploy LTE on it.

 

Robert

Robert Thanks i rellized the mistake I made in looking at the 3GPP bands between 26 and 27. So from what was said earlier, it seems like a few towers are up and running in Band 26 but most of the focus has been on Band 25 1900MHz to roll out LTE for Sprint. Does anyone have specific markets? With these little 5MHz chunks here and there, Sprint will need LTE-A to bundle these small pipes to even compete against a 40MHz pipe from T-Mobile in its AWS markets. Thanks everyone for the great feedback!

Earl

Has anyone seen any LTE Band 27 equipment in any markets yet or it remains to be upgraded and deployed from the NV equipment?

Or will all the effort focus on TDD LTE deployments for Project Spark given the limited BW available at 800MHz?