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    Network Vision/LTE - Puerto Rico/Virgin Islands Market

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    In the martinez nadal road, near the train station. In the villa venecia apartment buildings. I was sitting in my car waiting for someone and I looked at my phone and had 4G there. Had it for a little bit, then the 4G signal dissapeared completely. Turned LTE only, went close to some of the sprint towers and none had LTE. Came back today again and no LTE anywhere in Guaynabo. Had eHRPD tough at plaza guaynabo. With a blistering fast 3g speed of 50kbps! -_-

     

    At least we know they are working on them! :D

    We have made it this far, LTE is just around the corner.

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    How come Sprint doesn't get...

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    Definitelly earns u braggin rights...

     

    Lol definetly, even if I was to get 2mbps and he was to get 20mbps I would have just said "Let's run it a few more times to see whose data runs out faster!" That would have killed him right there :P

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - Puerto Rico/Virgin Islands Market

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    ... then why dont i get the 4g? I live in levittown and well it happened about 3 times, i was on the boulevard and it switch to 4g, when i did a speed test it said the server was from atlanta... huh? But i didnt care i saw 4g lol but it wouldnt give upload speed, and it just went back to 3g, samething happened the other 2 times now it hasnt switched back since and that was like 2 months ago, ive gone to rio hondo, plaza del sol and plaza las americas and zip zilch nada :-( and yes i have toggle in and out of airplane...

     

    I know for sure you can get a signal in Plaza del Sol. I have had great coverage in there before. A member recently said he got a signal near Rio Hondo but his signal was weak which means it was from a more distant tower. Now Plaza las Americas is a great mall, but it has been a hellhole forever! Very little signal in most of the mall and you only get 1 to 2 bars of 1x on the top floor. And this isnt only with Sprint it has happened with AT&T also. So I doubt you will have 4G in there in the near future.

     

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    How come Sprint doesn't get...

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    You know that some idiot is going to say that sprint doesn't have 4g LTE. That they only have 4g and that 4g LTE is better.

     

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    Lol so funny you said that! It actually happened to me. I got to school one morning and there it was the 4G icon on my GS3. So I tell my friend that has a GS3 on AT&T that I have 4G now. He then told me his is better because it says LTE on the side and that mine wasnt LTE. We proceeded to run some speedtests. His AT&T phone got 8 mbp download and mine got 25 mbp. :D

     

    He hasnt mentioned the LTE icon since :P

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - Puerto Rico/Virgin Islands Market

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    Ok so at my parents house which is close to plaza rio hondo I noticed that my phone was on 4g at my room. As I did a speed test it dropped out so I went to a window that has the mall infront of it.

    Toggled airplane mode and 4g became stable there. (If I moved from that room it would drop out like it did in mines)

     

    This is a picture of the site. (I may be wrong because the building has two antennas that are similar about 10ft away in the same rooftop) but netmonitor says thats where I am connected. sorry for the flipped picture :D

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    Im surprised you were lossing the connection when you were that close to the tower :wacko:

    Im wondering if you could be connecting to another tower, since you should be getting higher speedtests. I know there is a LTE ready tower at the palmas gas station which is not that far away. Could you be connecting to that one?

     

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    AT&T Receives Spectrum Approval

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    I agree that WiMax is less than ideal. But that being said, Puerto Rico only had WiMax Protection Sites. Protection sites are deployed with zero downtilt to maximize coverage. This only made the penetration problem worse. In fully deployed and appropriately dense network conditions, WiMax performed OK. But Sprint LTE is superior in every way.

     

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    I had no idea that protection sites had no downtilt. I learn something everyday :D

     

    I also wanted to add that if you were to go on a roadtrip or something similar when you are constantly moving from one site to another the handoff is incredibly slow. Very ineficient for a cell phone in my opinion.

     

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    AT&T Receives Spectrum Approval

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    I totally disagree. While Clearwire may not be able to justify wimax in extremely rural areas, they could have justified full implementation in major markets like Phoenix, Detroit and San Diego. Instead of deploying protection sites in rural America, they should have returned those licenses to the government. There doesn't need to be an Angel in the wings to swoop in and use the spectrum. Surely, this 2600 MHz spectrum could be put to use by colleges, universities, local governments, or some other use. Just because no other cellco's want it does not mean that it's useless. I still believe the government should look into the 2600 MHz utilization as part of SoftBank, Sprint, Clear deal. If this happens maybe Sprint can get an even lower price.

     

    Anybody that has used wimax knows that it only works outside. As soon as you go inside a building you are basically screwed. Even if Sprint was able to put wimax in every single tower you would have so many deadzones it is not even funny. Especially here in Puerto Rico where the houses are made of concrete I could be 1/4 of a mile away from a wimax site and have no signal at all indoors, let alone 1 mile away. Now that we have LTE it goes through walls a lot easier. It might not be as good as AT&T's LTE going through walls, but its unlimited and way faster depending on the areas. Wimax is very similar to wifi in some ways and it is not the ideal thing for cell phones where you are constantly moving around.

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - Puerto Rico/Virgin Islands Market

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    Microwave is better for getting data from one site to another. It is very cost effiective, and it is rapidly deployed. Obiously a direct fiber connection is better but the deployment would take a lot longer and it would cost sprint a lot more. The only diference between a tower with a direct fiber connection and a microwave connection are ping times. I remember reading here about 20ms ping times if im not mistaken. Microwave is also more reliable and it meets current and future demands. In my opinion, if a site gets microwave backhaul then great! If it gets fiber backhaul then even better!.

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