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Doesn't seem like TMo has a lot of PCS there.  At least for supporting three technologies.  Though maybe TMo is already planning for 5x5 on PCS?

http://www.sensorly.com/map/4G/US/USA/Sprint/lte_310sprint#|coverage

Depending on what routes are taken.  

If there is a bit of none Sprint coverage, or 3G coverage, could maybe also pick up Cricket Wireless maybe on a secondary device (they generally have free devices after MIR that are decent).  10GB for $55 is the best in terms of more complete coverage and a sizable data bucket. 

I'm eyeballing the G4.  Really considering getting on even if it upsets the significant other. (I go through a lot of phones).  

I used to have the G2, moved to the N5 and really want to go back to LG.  I only wonder about RF performance.  How are all three band performance on it? Everything looks good on it, but nobody for some reason benchmarks or gives any input on RF performance. 

I have a N5 and find the performance to be very meh.  Especially on B41.  

There's a old iDen Tower map in the Premier Sponsor Section...I think there may even be an old coverage map there too, of select areas.

Poo.  $5 down, $95 more to go. :-P  Hopefully there will be another xmas sale this year. :-D

So, with Sprint possibly planning on refarming all the old towers with iDEN gear, what is the most accurate iDEN network map we have?  

Is there a comparison out there already of where coverage will be new coverage area with the activation of these old towers? 

No phone has 8R... Everyone else is behind cause only Sprint has 8T8R antennas. Other carriers don't, and phones don't.

Correct. That second shade of dark purple is EVDO roaming. It does not denote areas that are pseudo-native. The light shade of roaming is 1x roaming.

What isn't pseduo-native?  From what I have been able to gather so far, it is treated as native.

What all of those then are still roaming, and not psedo-native?  Maybe just add the ones that are confirmed psedo-native so far then?  Seems like in the PRL Update thread that a handful out west are.  I know Bluegrass is here on the East side. 

On Sprint's coverage map, if you change "Sprint Spark" to "3G and More" it will give you two shades of dark purple.

You care to add the "native" 3G roaming?

I interpret that as existing plans for sale. If you already have it, you'll keep it, just no longer be able to buy it.

There is a tower up the road from that address, but from Google Maps it looks like it only has 1, maybe 2 carriers. One of them is in a shed, which Sprint never uses around here. I don't think either one is Sprint. However, there are several towers with 1x800 just over the GA border, so it's possible SignalCheckPro is seeing one of those and the tower location is just offset really far.

 

Maybe Sprint is adding equipment to that tower for some reason? Does SignalCheck say the provider is "Sprint"?

I did pick up another, SID 22437, that said Sprint and had the 3G icon. That was 1x800 at -102dBm.

http://1drv.ms/1GBgGnY

Im in Brasstown, NC.  Far away from native Sprint. 

SignalCheck Pro said it is spotting a Sprint tower here both 1xRTT and 1x800. 

1471 Mason Road, Brasstown

SID: 1518, NID: 10, BID: 5249(x1481)

Sry, kinda lazy on posting a screen grab.

Just wondering if this might actually be a Sprint town.  Not getting EVDO from my current location.  Maybe that is a USCC tower?  I have been roaming mostly on VZW and "Digital Roaming". 

I'm in USCC territory and kinda disappointing that I am not using their network

Isn't each state responsible for their own deployments if they want to be? 

Seems like they should of had more spectrum.  LTE is nice and all, but range....  Im all for keeping around something like 1xAdvance just for the pure coverage area.  That way all the nooks and crannies don't have to be covered, and if that isn't even the goal, CDMA will just help fill in.

You'd also think that the feds could just put in some clause that if you are a two-way wireless operator, during time of emergency a tower needs to automatically reserve 30% of its capacity or something like that.  Then pass out devices that support every US band in operation be it LTE, CDMA, GSM, iDEN, WiMax, etc depending on the market area the device is going in.

It isn't used for the public.  It is city wide wifi for the city only.  They only recently opened up a few locations for public wifi, which can still exist, and really isn't even needed. 

It would be no different than say a government agency having a contract to say install VZW antennas in their place of business because as a business they use VZW devices.  As a side effect, only those employees with personal VZW devices get access to the frequency.  You don't see lawsuits flying around everywhere. 

Sprint would do the same thing, but instead of at a building level, they do it at a city level and in turn probably save cities tons of money.  Normal Macro deployment with small micro and pico deployment where it is needed.  Im sure would heavily cut down on the required amount of wireless AP that WiFi requires for the same level of coverage on top of being more reliable, dependable, and much faster. 

So my city has and still is deploying city wide WiFi.  It isn't public.  They use it most for law enforcement, fire department, and smart lights. 

So, in ideal conditions they mount a WiFi AP on a telephone pole every third pole.  Usually they are a lot closer.  Also, there are dead zones everywhere.  The city has dumped a few ten million into this project and it is still ongoing. 

Back in 2013 they spent 5yrs on the project and the Mayor decided to throw another $20million dollars at the failing project.  At the time they had almost 600 APs that were Wireless N.

No 5GHz has horrible coverage, and 2.4GHz is overcrowded.  You can go downtown, in a neighborhood, or an apartment complex and easily see 20~50 APs which hurts 2.4GHz performance, and dependability.

With all the 2.5GHz that Sprint has, and it being cellular (higher power, greater coverage) and lots more bandwidth, if my city is willing to dump tens of millions into a WiFi project it seems like a good opportunity for Sprint to get paid to deploy dense B41.

My city I am sure is not on any densification plans (Chattanooga), and if they were able to pull in deals from cities that would like to, have or are currently deploying WiFi, Sprint would do the normal macro B41 deployment but then have free money to go micro and pico.

Then Sprint includes x number of B41 devices for equipment and use of some given amount of spectrum for a period of time.  WiFi network costs money to maintain so Sprint would get money to maintain B41. 

Seems like a win-win to me. :-D

A little late for you but maybe it will help someone else.  There is LTE coverage at Barber Motorsports Park.  Root Metrics wasn't wrong, data can be painfully slow here at times and at other times it is just average but acceptable for pretty much any use.

 

There are some band 26 sites online in the Birmingham area but I am not sure how widespread they are.  I have seen no band 41 at all.

Yeah BMS was good, and the area, Leeds.  Had B25/26, didn't hit any B41.  At the race speeds were 10Mbps the few times I checked.  I actually mapped there on Sensorly and did a little in Leeds as well.

The LTE doesn't go anywhere near Springsville on I59 like their coverage map suggests.  Gadsden was pretty accurate, I mapped that as well, but geez I was at over -120dmb on B26 for so so much.  You can barely see it on Sensorly. 

USCC in NW is 1X roaming

North Carolina, Murphy/Brasstown to be exact. Just about as far West as you can get in NC USCC territory.

Going to USCC NC territory this weekend. So should expect 3G roaming?

I'm on $60 unlimited data. Will I get more than a 100MB roaming bucket on USCC and is Sprint pretty anal about charging after the bucket is depleted?

Will they just update the 3G map, or update the Spark map? 

My understanding is that going from 2T to 4T effectively doubles the spectrum bandwidth.  So 5MHz on 2T is ~38Mbps, 5MHz on 4T is ~76Mbps.

Thanks!

Is 4x2 possible on PCS if 3G or 1x gets dropped?

I guess Sprint has a ton of BRS, but you'd think that deploying 4x2 on their tiny 5x5MHz LTE blocks would be top priority.

With Sprint's main antennas being dual band, broadcasting 1x/LTE on 800MHz and 1x/3G/LTE on PCS, what is the MIMO configuration of LTE?

I'm assuming that it is only 2x2 MIMO for both PCS and 800Mhz.  Are the antenna's able to handle 4x2MIMO for both 800/PCS and still broadcast 1x/3G?

Is Next-Tech and James Valley Wireless recent additions to Sprint's 3G coverage map?  Or have they been there a while?

I just went through ky, Tennessee, and Georgia on my way through to Tampa, i had 1 drop from 4g to 3g, i had no issues at all through the I75 corridor. Just saying.

That is why I said I75 from TN to London.  Three towers there still aren't complete, so you drop down to 3G for a bit. 

Get into East KY and it is game over. :-(

But yeah, I go up and down I75 from KY to FL all the time.  Good freeway to be on. 

There's a lot of B26 in the Chattanooga area now. You should be able to get it on your N5.

Yeah, the market is a lot better with B26 and some B41. Seems like on my side of town B41 deployments stopped. However I have seen crews working on Sprint racks installing new mounts for the new 8T8R antennas.

What stinks though is it seems to be backhaul limited now. B41 always pegs out at 40Mbps. Then my local tower I used to get ~30Mbps before B26 all day every day. Now after B26, either band pegs out at ~15Mbps.