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benson79

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  1. Caught some monkeys on the Grandview HS site. Looks like the conversion process from GMO to full build is under way. Excellent!

     

    I'm getting -113 dB of LTE in my apartment next to the G.H.S site pulling 9 MB down and .8 MB up. I'm guessing the LTE is coming from that site on edgehill though. I'm impressed with the signal strength seeing as how the site is so far away and my apartment building is made of concrete.

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  2. I saw a contractor at the Grandview high school site today while getting lunch. Blue ford truck and a white trailer, the gate is open around the fence that holds the cabinets. The service is now terrible at my apartment so I am willing to bet that that tower is now disabled. Finally, some progress!

  3. Picking up LTE in front of my apartment in Grandview. I know its not the towers at the football field because i have not seen any construction on them in the past year and if it was the signal would be the strongest you can get since the football field is right in front of my apartment. I'm guessing maybe they turned on a tower close by? 

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  4. Its the one on the northeast section of the field. On the light pole.

     

     

    The Sprint upgrade map a few months ago told a different story. I zoomed in and it had the tower on the north west side of the football field on the pole with the spotlights getting an upgrade. This tower has two sets of antennas and it has American Tower corp's sign on it. The upgrade is not there anymore though i just checked. 

  5. I was in Nashville this weekend on vacation. I was not impressed at all with the LTE service. The 3G worked good, but for me to get LTE i kept on having to cycle airplane mode. Half the time i still could not get LTE even after cycling airplane mode. I was downtown on Boradway. Then when I left I was on the northeast side before I got on I-65 and I had no LTE at all even after cycling airplane mode. What is the deal?

  6. Took my lunch break sitting next to the Revol site at Grandview HS. The Sprint gear is still all legacy but I witnessed a contractor doing a site visit, identifying which antenna was Sprint's and wandering around trying to locate the cabinets. Great news!

     

    Which part of the tower is sprint's? there is a lower part with small antennas and then on the very top the antennas are a lot wider.

  7. I have a snicky suspicion that there's some political crap going on with that site. I work in Grandview Heights and deal with the city for some building projects. For the most part they are easy to get along with. Maybe the school is being a hiccup in upgrading that site. 

     

    The high school football field has two other towers besides the sprint tower on it. One is an AT&T and I'm not sure about the other. The school has to be making a killing of of leasing spotlight towers. I'm guessing maybe they won't allow upgrades to begin because it's track season and a lot of people are using the track and field. Maybe they don't want construction to interfere. 

  8. There is a tower right next to my apartment in Grandview, mounted on the spotlights for the football field.  I've pulled 2.6 MB down on 3G on it before only because its so close. I called sprint and asked them when it will be upgraded and they said not until July. I don't know if they meant July is the official launch date or the actual date the tower will be upgraded though. Sigh. 

     

    Also, I'm kind of new to this site, what is the differences between the three LTE bands sprint is using and does the iphone 5 support all three of them?

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