red_dog007

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

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.

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.

I didn't go into BHam but just outside in Leeds. Had both B25/26. Sprints coverage map has LTE going up way to far up I59 towards Gadsden. Then just Gadsden has LTE. I75 in KY from TN to London, still needs some work. Wish Sprint would at least get a tower in Manchester. Appalacian Wireless is only 1x roaming. :-( at least get a 3G roaming agreement.

How is that market coming a long. Going to the auto race this weekend in Leeds. Trip doesn't look good from Chattanooga. B26 heavily deployed down there? B41 coming up well? Root just went there and for data seems like a very meh market.

Is there a map of these site locations?

I'm ready for Appalachain Wireless roaming! At least on BG you are on 3G. AW is only 1x. :-( Wow. July 2015 eh? That is exciting! Is a lot going to come online then, or is it going to be a carrier here and there through 2015? Seems like a new phone will be a must that supports 700MHz. The M9 or S6 going to support 700MHz on Sprint LTE roaming?

I have not been able to test B26 yet, but 1x800 has recently went live here in Chattanooga. The tower next to my house outside city limits has 1x800 up and running. Some tower near the Chattanooga airport has 1x800 on it as well. These are the two places that I have checked. Fairly recent happening. Sprint's coverage map now shows that it is a Spark market. Kinda interesting cause they only officially annouced Cleveland, TN but Chattanooga is covered in it. Hoping to get my N5 activated this week to test the waters out. Some four or five months ago there was zero 1x800 or B26/41. k

I was in Walla Walla last month. Even 3G sucked hard and I was constantly kicked down to 1x. There are some real data issues going on in that area. Even along HWY12. On the way to Burbank picked up some LTE and that is when things got better. Even I84 from Hermiston to Portland offered better services than HWY12 into Walla Walla. Even picked up LTE on some places on I84. Connected to 1x800 here and there as well, but not in Walla Walla.

When I was in Matthews last month I was getting B41.