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They also have a large cache of disaster response equipment staged in Live Oak. At least a dozed semi-trailers of generators and other vehicles and assets. They have also been doing some footprint expansion in the area with numerous sites under construction and some that have already come online.

They just lit up their third and fourth 5GUC sites in Lake City, FL this week. Two of the four sites are former Sprint only sites that they converted. I consistently get over 400 Mbps on all the sites that they upgraded.

Just came across a permit for another rural site that is being converted from Sprint to T-Mobile. This site covers Interstate 75 and is taking their average tower spacing from 7 miles to just over 3 miles. This is positive to see the site density that they are keeping with the Sprint sites. Here are the details on the site https://webportal.columbiacountyfla.com/AlfrescoDownload.aspx?Site=BuildingAndZoning/BuildingPermits&NodeRef=40985554-0c57-478a-b3c7-91bdc66808b4 And just for comparison many of Sprint's sites in this area are 10+ miles apart.

Suwannee County doesn't post their permits online like Columbia County does. However Sprint has numerous sites especially running down 129 in the middle part of the county where T-Mobile has none so I'd imagine they will be converting them. If I get some time I might swing by the building department to see if they have any permits. Some of the rural counties around here don't even require permits if they are just doing modifications.

I live in Lake City FL and they have L41 and N41 active on the watertower site down town. I was able to get similar speeds 1.5 miles from the site when I had clear line of sight to the site. Also they recently got permits to add N41 to several more sites. Also they just got the first permit that I have seen in the area to convert a current Sprint only site to T-Mobile. The plan details are here https://webportal.columbiacountyfla.com/AlfrescoDownload.aspx?Site=BuildingAndZoning/BuildingPermits&NodeRef=6abd2930-76bb-458c-b7e3-fa71dc841a10

I just got a S20 FE with TNX and I commonly will grab Sprint B41 in Lake City right near I-75 and Hwy 90 and also by I-75 at Ellisville. However it only seems to connect to a single carrier where my Legacy Sprint V40 will grab 2 or 3 so I get faster download Speeds on My Sprint Device. There is a T-Mobile site with N71 a mile and a half away from that site, but my TNX phone will prefer the Sprint B41 when it has a good signal strength.

I won a V40 from Sprint in January of '19 and ever since I switched to it all my reports show as 312-530 A good chunk of the reporting on Cellmapper for 312-530 in the southern and central US I contributed to. I'd love to see the data combined into one map.

Still waiting for them to add more sites up here, but in the last 3-4 months they have obtained permits to add B41 on all the sites in Columbia County

Yes, they recently opened 8 Express Stores in Walgreens in Gainesville, and from I have been told by current employees ( I used to work for Sprint Corp in Gainesville) they have a large scope agreement with Walgreens and will be expanding the Express stores and installing network equipment in most stores.

If they haven't yet they will most likely install a mini macro sites in most every Walgreens. They recently turned on sites at the Walgreens in Lake City and Like Oak. Attached is the screenshot that I took from the Lake City store today. The nearby Macro site has not been upgraded to B41 yet

So I just stumbled across what appears to be a new Sprint mini macro or small cell in Lake City right by Columbia High School it is still under construction by Mobilitie and the site id listed on the pole is JA90XS054 pics here https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jhg5b5qfffimeoc/AAAnogePf_IEtZcie67spx7Ha?dl=0 EDIT: Just uploaded permit to the dropbox folder as well

They just starting mounting panels today on the site in ellisville fl which is in the Panhandle market so I'd imagine Tallahassee has or will have work going on soon other than the ground mount sites that have been completed.

Looks like the site in Lake Butler is live. I started mapping it on Sensorly this morning.

Per Sensorly it looks like we might have got some LTE love in St Augustine this week!

Every Sprint site that I have been to in Florida has had a generator. I think the potential for power outages caused by natural disasters has something to do with it.