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  1. Trip
    Well, yes, I know that, but I mean which specific towers. It does appear there are some nTelos towers, much like how there were at least a handful of Nextel towers, that may be useful to Shentel even in their own region. EDIT: Also, my count has only 98 towers in the overlap area. Of course, I'm guessing that the nTelos stuff in Ohio that overlaps will also be taken out. I count 36 more in Ohio and the overlap area of West Virginia. I knew I was missing some but that seems like a lot. - Trip
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    Did anybody happen to catch this? http://investor.shentel.com/eventdetail.cfm?EventID=163855 I'm mostly interested in what might have been in the Q&A. I see in the presentation they're saying 148 tower sites are redundant. I'll be digging to figure out which those are, I think. - Trip
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    http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/6784-trips-cell-tower-map-work-in-progress/page-2?p=435535&do=findComment&comment=435535 - Trip
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    Maybe it's just me, but I want to see them remain separate companies. I think Shentel has generally done a much better job of being competitive with the duopoly and completing their build-outs in a timely fashion. If Shentel became a part of Sprint, is there any guarantee they would continue to do that? - Trip
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    Those maps are just the areas where the two companies have overlap. If you want a map of all the nTelos sites, see here: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/6784-trips-cell-tower-map-work-in-progress/page-2&do=findComment&comment=435523 - Trip
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    That's how I understand it. - Trip
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    That expansion map is beautiful. Most of my drive to visit my parents is about to get filled in with service from Shentel. Look at Buckingham County, currently a giant void, full of yellow. And US-15 between Culpeper and Gordonsville. And Red House! People in that area currently can only use US Cellular, no other carrier has service there. Premiere Sponsors can see a map showing the overlap of Sprint/Shentel and nTelos tower sites in this post here: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/6784-trips-cell-tower-map-work-in-progress/?p=419133&do=findComment&comment=419133 - Trip
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    What I found is that for me, buying an S5, it was cheaper to be on the contract than to be on Easy Pay, but not by a lot. Had I, instead, bought a cheaper phone, Easy Pay would have been the cheaper option. - Trip
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    Turns out it's almost right outside my office door anyway. I generally see -75 to -80, except that I can also see an 8T8R from an unknown location at about -110 and my phone prefers it. - Trip
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    I finally figured out where my mystery B25 signal is coming from at work. Apparently, the building's DAS is the source. I happened to be standing in the hallway and looked at my phone and noticed I was at -66 or so. I found a spot on the ceiling labeled "ANTENNA 6-3" (I work on the 6th floor) and held my phone up to it, and, well... That answers that. - Trip
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    Yes. Or it did last time I looked. - Trip
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    Two things: 1) For anyone who hasn't seen, there is now a Premiere Subscriber thread with spreadsheet and maps for the Washington, DC and Southern Virginia markets! If you have SCP data that you would like to contribute or other tips and info, let me know. Look forward to seeing you there! 2) Today I took my handheld spectrum analyzer with me to work. On the way, I had it looking at 700 MHz. I observed LTE from both Verizon and AT&T at L'enfant, and I know from experimentation with a MetroPCS phone that T-Mobile has LTE on AWS in L'enfant Plaza Metro as well. Only Sprint, it seems, does not have LTE there. I wonder if it's due to Sprint's use of B25 and B26 instead of B2 or B5. Anyone know? - Trip
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    Given JosefTor's location in California, I would assume OC is Orange County. Ironic, though, that OC and OC would both have issues. - Trip
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    The last tower at Culpeper has B12. It made it, with significant gaps on the down-slopes of hills, to the county line. After that, there's simply no T-Mobile towers. Lack or presence of 700 doesn't change that. (T-Mobile owns 700 all the way to Gordonsville, but there's no service from T-Mobile, period, from the Culpeper County line until well after Gordonsville.) - Trip
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    To provide an anecdote to the contrary, I recently bought an LG Leon LTE (MetroPCS) just to see how service is on T-Mobile, and have found it lacking. In this area, coverage is good, it holds LTE a really long time, etc. Once I left Culpeper to visit my parents last weekend, though, my Sprint phone kept on chugging (either via roaming on US Cellular or, for one short stretch, Verizon, or via nTelos pseudo-native) while the T-Mobile phone spent more time saying "No connection" than anything else. Service popped up when I crossed the interstate and one other larger town, and that was it. I would say that out of the 4 hour drive, T-Mobile had no service for at least 2 hours of it. - Trip
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    No idea, but the way the PRL is laid out, Verizon roaming is only 1X, with the option of connecting to EV-DO from Sprint. Which Verizon SID were you on? - Trip
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    From what I observed when I was hunting through the PRL, it will only connect to Sprint EV-DO when roaming on Verizon. - Trip
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    Not sure why, but I'm at my parents' house today in US Cellular territory and I do not have EV-DO roaming working. Just 1X, like in the past. I tried updating the PRL, still on 55026. Anyone have any other ideas? - Trip
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    Looks like it works! - Trip
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    Clear sites are those inherited from Sprint's purchase of Clearwire, and implemented using the Clearwire B41 equipment. Sprint sites are those with newly installed Sprint B41 equipment. When you use SignalCheck or SignalCheck Pro, it will identify each site as either a Clear or Sprint site. - Trip
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    http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/3060-signalcheck-android-app-to-monitor-your-2g3g4g-lte-signal-strengths/?p=430248 - Trip
  22. Trip
    I've been seeing B41 second carrier in this area for months on certain sites. The Clear sites have had it for a few months, while the Sprint 8T8R sites have been popping up over the past several weeks. - Trip
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    Where is the best SID list? I'm having a fit trying to figure out what SID goes with what carrier beyond the normal Sprint/Verizon/USCC/Cricket type carriers. A lot of them seem to be registered in the names of law firms. - Trip
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    I'm willing, so long as you or someone else checks my work first so I don't waste a bunch of time doing something that as soon as I'm done someone says, "you did it wrong." - Trip
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    Here's an 8T8R second carrier (as best I can tell) in DC I spotted this morning. - Trip
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