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Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I thought the panels were on top of the Astor Crown Plaza facing both riverbound and lakebound (and a 3rd one back by Iberville facing into the FQ).

Today is exciting! it's HAPPENING! I thought Sensorly only updated every night, but this thing's is spreading like purple pox every hour.

There was no 3G available Uptown this morning at all, so I'm hoping that's progress. Maybe hot-swapping the tower I usually connect to? How do I cycle my phone into LTE when that happens in order to check? Just go to Airplane Mode, then out of it? I tried that ##DEBUG# too, I don't know what goes in the Data field to get to the next screen.

Also, is it weird that the Sprint network map keeps changing where towers are located? https://network.sprint.com/search/70115/ A week or so ago, there was definitely an icon at the corner of General Pershing and Camp (which I could not find IRL). Also, I took pictures of the panels on the condos by Audubon Zoo, which are now not listed on this link. Contrary to that, is now, there is a tower icon on S. Broad by Earhart (3900 Erato), that was certainly not there a week ago, along with the one on the roof of the Monroe dorms at Tulane that had been present before, but was not listed a few weeks ago. Is Sprint messing with us? I guess I should just donate and get premium access on this site so I know what's really going on.

As we watch this LTE Sensorly progression, does anyone do anything like a daily screen capture so we can make cool gif in the future showing how the signal infilled the area?

I just thought it was that space between here and the airport(?). Are there actually people out there in the hinterlands who will use LTE??

The day I saw the unmarked white truck and trailer was Sunday the 30th on Tchoup and Soraparu.

I submitted pictures on this one Dec 30. Well, I put it in my Google Docs link. Not sure if anyone looked at it. Between Uptown, Downtown, Midcity, and Marigny, I only found about 6-7 that even looked like they could be LTE ready.

The Nexus S 4G isn't great already, so if nothing else, I'm getting a dual-core handset that will carry me through the end of my contract until a new Nexus is available on Sprint. I wasn't going to spend more than $200 for an intermediate step phone while in contract, and this at least resolved a few technical problems I've been having with the limited hardware I have now.

I just ordered a Galaxy Nexus so I can enjoy the 4G and 800smr and DUAL-cores and 5.0Ghz Wifi like everyone else! Can't wait for it to arrive! Hopefully Sprint will have a new more powerful Nexus by the end of this year when my contract is up! Happy New Year NOLA!

Note to self: no more nonchalant references to local sports teams to break the ice. Keep casual local references to politics and religion for the safety of all involved.

it may have been an ugly day for the Saints, but it was a beautiful day to hunt towers. https://docs.google....0NzN1Via1U/edit If I put **, then I think it has NV. If I put *?, then I think I see NV, but I could have the wrong tower, like AT&T. If I put xx, then I'm not sure why a tower is still up there, it looks inoperable. #15 I couldn't find on Google Maps, but then I thought I saw it on the Tulane Med garage. But that didn't match the map, then I noticed a few panels on the UNO building a couple of blocks away. So I'm assuming Tulane has AT&T. If Sprint is on UNO building then that's more recent than the satellite image, which makes me wonder why I can't see RRU's. #23 was in progress when I pulled up. You can sort of make out the legs of the guys working on it. They had a white truck with no markings, and a medium sized white trailer (no markings) they were towing. 2 in the tower, one in the cabin playing on his phone and picking his nose. I based my searches off the Sprint Network map page. The only ones Uptown I can't find are at churches (Sprint seems to like to hide them there) at Mater Dolorosa (S. Carrollton) and St. Stephen's (Camp & Gen Pershing just off Napoleon). The only one I knew about and missed was on Decatur in the FQ. Sorry, I know that's an important one too, but there was traffic distracting me with all the bowl game people in town. Downtown, I can't find the panels by the Superdome and Poydras or St. Charles and Poydras. They may be up higher on a building than I'm seeing either in person or in Google Maps. Or just well hidden. Anyone have any thoughts or ideas on these to help confirm? Between Uptown, Downtown, Mid City, and Old Jefferson, there aren't many towers upgraded yet. Not sure we'll make it in time for Superbowl. Today I kept my travels below Causeway-ish, riverside of City Park Avenue and Gentilly Ave, and above Franklin on the East Bank. Enjoy!

I used Google Maps and the Sprint Map and was able to find almost all of the uptown towers/antennas. Only the one at Napoleon and Camp eludes me. I even made my own map so I can bring it up on my phone when I go hunting. The ones I've found are at Touro, just riverside of Chestnut between Delachaise and Aline (on the roof); Tchoup 3 lots above Soraparu (behind a fence); Orange between Tchoup and Religious; the back of the parking lot of 1029 OC Haley (though, this website shows the tower absent after reno - http://1029ochaley.com/); 1130 St. Charles next to Circle Bar at Lee Circle has antennas mounted to the front top "crown," Warwick Hotel (next to Duncan Plaza) has two sets of antennas mounted to the roof on the SE corner (pink and white building); Astor Crowne Plaza (Bourbon and Canal) looks to have 3 trusses mounted to 3 corners of the roof. There are 4 others in the CBD I can't find on my own (3 on or near Poydras), but I think if you donate to s4gru they'll tell you where they are. Also, I'm not sure if the tower at Causeway and River Road is Sprint, but I think i spied my first RRU's in the wild on there last week. I only did a tower search on the Sprint site for my neighborhoods, so I hadn't investigated East Jeff yet.

Ah, it did new interesting things this time. Menu options are such: 1x Engineering EVDO Engineering Configuration Bluetooth Data Status Memory State Under 1x Engineering, when I click, at first I see one of the fields, "Band Class: US Cellular (800 MHz)", but then it flips just to "US" after 1 second. I don't know what these other things mean, like "SO" "Channel" "SID" "NID" "Base ID" "PN" "P_rev" etc. In that first second, State is also "N/A" but after that, it switches to "Idle: Initial", "SO: 0", "Channel: 25." OH! It just changed. State: TrCh: Traffic, SO: 33, Channel 150. Just flipped through some other states and went back to Idle. It looks like it lost 3G coverage and went to 2G for a moment before regaining the signal. I don't see eHRPD on any of the menus. It's all either 1x stuff or EvDo Rev. A. Thanks for the help.

Nope. Nothing happens. It tries to dial the text of "debug" and says, "The Number or Code you have dialed is incorrect...." I just assumed y'all were using an app. Not sure if I can ROOT a work phone (it's already set up with a pw and everything), so I was hoping there was an app that told you all the radios and such to use.

So I got a Motorola Admiral for work, and it supposedly works in the 800 mhz range, but I can't figure out how to tell if I'd been eHRPD or if/when it switches to the lower frequency when NV starts. I work near the Superdome, so if anything is lit up, I'd probably notice it down there first (eg, I appear to have more bars now than I did a month ago on the Admiral, and battery is lasting way longer). It's running Android Gingerbread 2.3.5 and all I can see is the PRL (61090) and Mobile Network type ("CDMA - EvDo rev. A"). Is there an app everyone uses to know such things as frequency or radio or tower? Related, now that I have a PTT Sprint Direct Connect work phone, I was wondering what frequency PTT runs on, or plans to run on, too. I've only seen one article in 2011 that it said it will run on 1xAdvanced, which if understood correctly is future 800 mhz, so I should be able to PTT from inside the building even when web services are weak. Right? Now I wonder, I guess standard sms text messages (non-Google Voice) will also travel on the lower frequency when available, too, since that's a 2G service (right?). Thanks.

The Remote Radio Units are the 3 approx 24"x24"x12" boxes attached to each panel? So in your picture above, I'm looking at 3 NV panels, and 9 of the radios between those 3?

Swung by the Roly Poly on Tchoupitoulas tonight, and remembered there's a tower by the railroad tracks near Dufossat and S. Front (according to the Sprint website map - though, I couldn't find the one by Camp and Napoleon). Clearly my smartphone doesn't have the power to take great clear pictures in the dark, but maybe y'all can make more of this than I can. I don't know that I saw the NV controllers on the ground, and while I still don't know exactly what I'm looking for on the tower, the carriers (?) on the tower looked too small to be the new ones. I'll try to get some better pictures in the daylight. Gate facing Dufossat. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9joA7fvYb_9Q1VVTllVNzIxRWc/edit?pli=1 Looking north of the tower from the gate area https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9joA7fvYb_9a0owY2lqOFIxeVE/edit?pli=1 Looking south of the tower from the gate area https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9joA7fvYb_9eS1jNmxVQnAwcmc/edit?pli=1 Shifted south along the fence and looking north, the back side of the last picture https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9joA7fvYb_9NzhpLVhuSFQ0SE0/edit?pli=1 You can't really tell (even if you zoom in), but something about this doesn't look like the others y'all posted. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9joA7fvYb_9UnczbG5hZFVPQmc/edit?pli=1 So is my assessment correct? Or is this tower actually powered up? Any recommendations on what parts to focus on when taking pictures in the day light? Thanks!

I think Exline may be speaking of the H-block that may or may not ever come up. I tend to have a different take, though, on strategy. AT&T and Verizon have effectively played "small ball" scooping up as much capacity as they can, wherever they can. Sprint likes its continuity, like G block, H block, SMR. It simplifies, but I'd posit this, if it's even possible, that Sprint could start playing more small ball (like this deal & possibly even a full USCC merger), and then use the 700mhz and AWS assets to bargain with AT&T and Verizon. They may not want them now, but their value will only appreciate and the "bandwidth crunch" continues. Then, maybe in places where one of the other two Telcos has adjacent bandwidth Sprint could use, Sprint could swap, say, 20mhz of 700, for 25 or 30mhz in 1900? Or some 1700 even swap for 1900? (I'm not as well versed at who owns what, but with all the permutations and geographic limits, there's got to be some good horse-trading out there for all parties). Also, is it possible for some of the 850 that others own to run with the new 800SMR, so that could be an even swap? It's adjacent, but I'm not sure about the rules for co-mingling those different band types. I guess the more expensive option, is just to play for keeps, and not swap at all with other Telcos. Maybe sell and swap with other big stakeholders like cable cos? Personally, I like the idea of buying a sliver of property with a big fence smack dab between Boardwalk and Park Place.

This is where I'm lost, now. What does 1xA data even look like? How does it behave if there is EVDO available? Is it even accessible to use the data? Does it mean that I'll be able to get tweets deep inside my office building, as well as a phone call? Thanks.

I was just digging around and seeing what the updates were (also, I think I found one of the towers near me, so I need to drive by and see what I can see). But I looked at this part of the Sprint website, and it appears Louisiana is not getting LTE anytime soon. http://shop2.sprint.com/en/shop/why_sprint/4g/4g_lte_plan_details.html?INTNAV=LP:iPhone:091412:Tab24GLTE#tab_where I mean, I'd be happy with 800mhz Rev A, and then I'd be able to cross the CCC without dropping, but if accurate, that's a huge disappointment with Superbowl around the corner. Everyone who will be in town will have high speed data from all the other carriers. Also, is anyone considering dropping their Galaxy Nexus for Sprint any time soon? I think I'd like a used one so I can take advantage of the 800mhz when it comes online, since my Nexus S 4G does not appear to support the SMR frequencies.

Hmmmm... Then I wonder what is going on around here. Maybe we just had a NV tower come online and overall service got that much better.

I'm not sure where to find the network settings in my Nexus S 4G, but I was having serious problems yesterday with my signal. I work in NOLA CBD interior building. Signal is usually bad. Yesterday was horrible. But today, today is glorious (well, almost). I was walking down Poydras last night and I couldn't even get a YouTube song to not skip every 3 seconds. Perhaps it was the problem jumping between channels?? I had to reboot several times yesterday, but today, things are much better overall. Less lagginess in the phone, text messages that arrive on time at my desk, etc. My first thought was, did this phone just switch to 800 mhz? Then I thought, well, maybe this is Network Vision being phased in. But really, I have no idea. Other than the fact that my signal is much improved (not great, but noticeably better) inside a CBD high rise. Anyone know where I need to look to see if I'm on eHRPD now, or to see what frequency my signals are running on? I can't seem to find it. Maybe the phone needs rooting for that? I'm an S4GRU lurker normally.