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Yes. Crews may go home on weekends if they are near home. If they are far from home, then they will work all weekend until they have finished up their current assignment and head home in a week or two.

I'm surprised they are forced to work in the winter, especially with as cold as it's gotten.

Does Sprint work on the weekends, both Saturday & Sunday, in terms of cell tower and working on it's network?

As long as it takes. Most market should be getting it in the coming weeks /months or already has it like nearby Ohio or Illinois or Indiana.

 

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I'm sorry, but I have a couple more question. So, current markets that have a single Band 25 carrier are 5 by 5, would the second carrier make it 10 by 10? If so, does that make it wideband LTE?

All software but it requires refarming across the market and shutting down cdma carriers to free up the spectrum.

 

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How long would reforming take?

9000 new towers and adding more spectrum for lte services such as the second band 25 1900 carrier which is popping up rapidly in markets which has the spectrum (like Michigan) and more band 41 carriers from the new 2.5 Equipment.

 

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Do you know if the second Band 25 1900 carrier would require new equipment or software updates? Also, if the carrier is being added to the Detroit market?

So basically the 9000 tower plan to fill in the gaps will do it? I will say there is a great difference in Sprint connectivity now vs. a year ago. What does everyone else think?

When Sprint launched 4G LTE in my market a year ago, I actually had 4G LTE speed at my house. Now, it's been a year, and the speeds are in the lower 3G-like speeds, while displaying an LTE symbol on the phone. They definitely need at least an extra tower in my neighborhood, or at least force everyone on to Spark capable devices, and offload them off of Band 25, on to Band 41 where they live.

Speedtest in New Baltimore indoors! Hope this will be the new norm or atleast close to it when spark is finished being deployed.

 

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Nice, similar to what I get at my mom's place.

Anyone having trouble viewing the Sprint coverage map on sprint.com because I am.

The true is speed is 1Mbps, I've experienced speedtests (especially on the Speedtest.net app) where the speed will spike and then start to bottom out, or it will spike and bottom out then gradually increase.

 

Seeing speeds around 1Mbps on LTE means your have a degraded signal or the site your connected too is congested.  Band 41 will alleviate these problems on down the road once a market has been blessed with Band 41.    

From my sitings, there are only a few towers left in my city, that don't have Band 41. Two of the three towers I triangulate in, have Band 41. I wonder if when the third tower gets Band 41, will I start to experience the alleviated data speeds?

It could be site optimizations occurring around you or it could be from the recent solar storm that recently hit. 

For some reason, when I run speedtests, the needle jumps really fast to the 10 Mbps spot, then stays consistent at around the 1 Mbps spot. Does this mean anything?

Anything 12 mile telegraph?

Sprint store there last showed speeds 0.05mbps

 

 

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I was on Telegraph near that out of business Kmart, and picked up Band 41 over there.

I'm happy to announce some new Band 41 LTE sitings today. Over by the Laurel Park Mall in Livonia, at Farmington and 8 and 9 Mile Rds. Near the Burger Basement Bar in Farmington. Inkster Rd. and Schoolcraft. And lastly, near Redford Union High School. I was out and about today.

It's interesting that the last two times they've added spark coverage portrayal on these maps, they've not made any "official" launch announcements.

I don't think they want to make any launch announcements about false coverage. Haha.

Looks like it added Spark coverage to the lower part of Michigan, cool. Hope it's accurate.

Well, this morning, I saw a just in speed, from a speedtest. I saw 5.67 Mbps download at my house when the usual speed is around .55 to 1.10, which now it's back to the usual now. It makes me think that they're working on a cell tower. Anyone think it could be the cause, tower work?

Band 25 is 5x5 and Band 41 is 20 MHz chunks.

 

-Anthony

Any word of any more Band 25 coming?

Does Wi-Fi work anywhere with your phone?

It sort of works, but for some reason, it won't stop switching between Wi-Fi and cellular data, like for some reason it doesn't want to stay on Wi-Fi, so I just had my phone forget every network and turned Wi-Fi off. It would overheat and drain the battery within hours. With how I have it now, my phone lasts all day.

Band 41 is 2500-2600 MHz, Band 25 is pretty much the entire 1900 MHz PCS band. And Sprint owns all of the SMR/ESMR spectrum, which is what is commonly referred to as 800. The other chunks of 800 MHz spectrum are owned by Verizon and AT&T (and maybe some small regional carriers), and that is commonly referred to as 850 MHz.

 

-Anthony

I was asking because he said Band 26 was 5 by 5 MHz. I was wondering what the other bands were.

band 26 for lte is only a 5 by 5 MHz slice ....so it will only be better for coverage band 41 is better for speed but horrible for coverage

What MHz are Band 41 and Band 25 at? Also, I thought Sprint had all the 800 LTE.

Use Wi-Fi at home.  Problem solved! You are welcome.

I would, but my phone stopped connecting to Wi-Fi a month ago. Problem not solved.

I don't know if anyone can help me, but my phone has been bouncing between LTE and 3G for a few hours now, and has done a few nights in row, like this. Can anyone say what could be the cause? I live at 7 Mile and Inkster, in Livonia.

band 26 for lte is only a 5 by 5 MHz slice ....so it will only be better for coverage band 41 is better for speed but horrible for coverage

Well, hopefully carrier aggregation will help with the separate LTE band issues, and to be able to bring them together, as a single LTE band.

 

Over by the Big House in Ann Arbor tonight.

 

 

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Nice.

I'm very interested in experiencing Band 26 (800Mhrz) LTE, can't wait. Hope they're as fast with Band 26, as they were with Band 25 and Band 41.

If your upgrade date is in August, I would wait until the 6s/6s+ to upgrade. Maybe by then we will have Band 12 LTE on iPhone, and then it's fully compatible with the CCA/RRPP.

 

 

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Yeah, Band 12 is T-Mobile's issue, not Sprint, right?