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Dang this is new never got a 20mbps test from my tower usually it's 9 to 10mbps

 

 

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Talked to the SBA tech again a network engineer was with him Sprint struck a Charter Comm backhaul deal for the Upstate he says it also includes Time Warner Cable areas which I am guessing includes Columbia and The Sandhills the tower I use they gonna start optimizing it over the next few weeks this is for SBA Communications towers and sites again he can't speak for Crown Castle and American towers SBA and those 2 are major tower companies in SC

 

 

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He also told me he does not know why Sprint wont microwave to these what he calls "Interstate towers" he says from Atlanta to Commerce Ga Exit 149 is Microwaved thru Conterra and its SBA towers he said there is about 13 towers of theirs that has B41 following I85 that can be easily Microwaved from that last tower with B41 in Commerce and he said Conterra is pretty good Verizon speedtest on our tower gets around 20 to 40mbs down and he said all of the towers along I85 are Microwaved and they never had a slowdown issue or anything and serve plenty of rural customers in this area of the upstate

 

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Yeah there was one then 2 in Greenville i remember seeing them on Clearwires coverage map but they was not active just got done talking with the SBA guy at the tower he looked at the GCI PCI and TAC numbers and he said that was their tower on E Whitner Street downtown and there was a upgrade work order open for it from Sprint been in Progress for 3 days now he was saying most of the towers around here SBA tower wise has the B41 Equipment but inactive due to backhaul issues like our tower he says when the backhaul issues gets fixed he said its as simple as cutting on the power switch to broadcast but he cant speak for Crown Castle which also owns alot around here

 

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Yeah i know its strange i saw the same thing in a area once it was getting B41 i know i saw some SBA techs at the tower we lease our land to for their Tower i am gonna walk down there in a bit they have Paneled the tower for B41 when they where working on 26 they put alot of Panels up and while they where Removing the Nextel section array reason they told me B41 is not on yet is cause of a Backhaul issue Verizon on the tower LTE is Microwaved from a company Called Conterra communications but the current for sprint atm is pulling from backhaul from AT&T which there is also a Charter Communication backhaul line also going to it last time i went down there and it was new when Charter redone all the Cable in our area

 

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Manage to get a Engineering screen shot from Debug BW-10Mhz usually 5 around here and weird it reports B4 i saw this one time they where building out in the Statesville/Mooresville NC area

 

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Speed test i got off of B41

 

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And something is def going on in the area i usually get 10+mbps here and only this and around the hospital i usually get full bars of B26 but today no way lol keeps going back and forth 25 26 41 back to 26 and 41

 

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Finally got a screen shot it was fast lol but edit i got a better screenshot it stayed connected a little longer

 

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Riding around downtown area of anderson near the hospital had Band 41 with alittle 2 for a split second then it dropped got a LTE connection error signal dropped to none back to Band 26 which is going up and and dropping like the time they was putting LTE in our area

 

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Got a new PRL update from 55051 to 55052

 

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Got this test in Pendleton SC today pretty good 20+mbps down on Band 25

 

 

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Holy crap rode by this morning the Nextel section is gone

 

Amazing all in 24 hours

 

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At the intersection of Whitehall Rd Clemson Blvd and Concord on Anderson I went for orientation they where people up on that tower while waiting my phone lost signal dropped to 3G connected to 41 for a split second and went to 26 I was about to screenshot it! But it went away fast! And when I pulled up SCP it said 41x2 unless my 6P is being crazy and LTE is down out here in West Anderson County at exit 11 and 14 along I85 it is a Microwaved LTE tower same as the one on exit 14

 

 

Just snapped this is the exit 11 townville tower look someone is at the top

 

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They are easy to spot it will be the one that has really Small panels I can go right to 6 of them in Anderson that are just sitting there and VZW Tmo and ATT has their big ole LTE panels and there is a Inactive Nextel one there just chilling

 

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Yeah and mostly if u look at towers they have old Nextel stuff on them and it's easy to spot a IDEN cell on a tower I see them everywhere that has not been converted they just overhauled the major ones along highways

 

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Well the B26 conversion up here in the Upstate where the Old Nextel cells they had on towers which they where about on every tower along I85 corridor from GA state line to NC

 

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Hopefully at least around Urban and we get Carrier Aggregation which I think will do well in this region cause it's mostly flat but I do miss Alltel roaming at least they gave us EVDO but now it's 1xrtt since VZW and Alltel hardly ever reported Roaming to sprint cause I remember back then looking at my usage it never went against the roaming allotment

 

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Yeah it seems like the South end of the lake towards the Dam is obsolete Elberton GA is like Iva SC people live there but sprint has no service there they are towers in Iva but they are owned by Verizon which I know infact the one in Iva used to be Alltel but now VZW since the conversion I am guessing it's the same for most of the area down below the Dam

 

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Dang not even Greenville/Spartanburg/Clemson yet? I would kinda figure since those are major markets I think reason I am getting higher speeds I am on a tower that nobody hardly uses its in the middle no where

 

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Any new updates in our Upstate market I know I see alot of B26 (especially in Rural areas of Anderson County which I know pretty much every tower used to have Nextel around here) which runs better than 25 on 25 get around 9mbps 26 about 14 to 16mbps down and any B41 sightings in the Upstate? And about the only time I hit 3G if the road or Interstate drops down like 85 over Hartwell lake but I am guessing the Panel's are not Aimed

 

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Ah okay i know looking at the coverage maps all the spark coverage looks like it gets to the SC state line and just borders it except for Rock Hill dunno what is special there

 

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Lol yeah i know in Anderson County cause of flat land B26 reaches very far i am amazed if u loose 25 it does not drop to 3g goes right to 26 which is awesome

 

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I'm in the travelers rest area, 85% of the time I'm on b25 or b26

 

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Yeah i passed thru Greenville and Spartanburg county and ever since 26 came live LTE is strong and everywhere but i would kind of figured 41 would at least have came live by now in Greenville at least since it has a high population unless its restricted

 

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Yeah i know i am down here visiting family 41 is everywhere almosy in NC but soon as you pass the state line along 85 its all 25 and now 26 i wonder if SC has like a restriction on the 2.5ghz 41 frequency

 

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