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Crappy 3g or crappy signal (105dbm + )? There's a big difference between the two.
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Robert, or anyone who might know - can we expect the area covered by an already active tower to expand? Specifically, I am asking about the tower on the east hill of Kent, which was one of the first to go "live". I live about 4 blocks outside of the area currently covered and I am wondering if I will need to wait for a newer tower to be activated before I will get 4G at my house.
No. The current coverage by the 4g signal is the maximum that sprint is setting them at or the permanent setting. If you don't get a 4g signal in your location but you still get a decent 3g signal then your specific area is covered by an adjacent cell site that will provide a stronger signal. Trust me. You don't want to be on the edge of a 4g signal.
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I made a video. Ill post it later. Um on youtube
Don't need to. The speedtest is wrong but you're no doubt getting very close to the maximum theoretical output of 37.5 mbps which is a good thing till you start getting a headache from standing in front of the panel
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Fastest I've seen.
Impossible speed. Definitely an error with the speedtest server. Sprints 5x5 configuration has a theoretical max of 37.5 mbps / 12.5 mbps UL-DL.
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I didn't know that. Is there a fee?
You only need a small donation to become a sponsor which houses the interactive maps that show all known Sprint cell sites and their locations. Premier sponsor areas has more goodies but costs about $100 to get to that level.
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Got to get rid of their stock one way or another as it's incompatible with any other network so they just can't sell it to another telecom.
Budget device like that iphone 4/4s i suppose.
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Okay.. a few questions.
The State College build is in 'full swing' on January 9th. It's nearly 14 weeks later and there's no LTE here. My apartment is a 5 minute walk from the 'build site' and inside my apartment I get 1 bar of 3G and even see the Extended network from time to time
- When will there be LTE in State College? I'm baffled on this one. Also, the Sprint store in State College has gone out of business and the closest Sprint is now in Altoona. I know you said there usually is 3G improvement (which hasn't been seen) and 'up to a couple of months until LTE is flipped on'.. it will be 4 in 2 weeks. Did they just stop with this build site?
Will Sharon, Pennsylvania ever see 3G? The Sharon/Hermitage area has a population of over 30 thousand and isn't a farm town. The iPhone 5 is inoperable in this area. Verizon and AT&T have 4G in this area. With Sprint you're phone is irrelevant. Sad.
I'm just a very fed up customer and whenever I call customer service they say they're 'working on it'. Is there anything on these two locations?
1. There will absolutely be LTE in Sharon, PA & surrounding areas. No ifs or buts. There absolutely will be.
2. The "state college build" is a ground mounted site in the area (not necessarily inside the city) which means no SMR 800 service for sure and may or may not have LTE depending on the ease of getting backhaul to the site. There is no full build sites to my knowledge in progress in the area except those around Pittsburgh but they are just now beginning the market so progress should rapidly expand.
3. So the Sharon/Hermitage area has a pop of over 30,000? Big deal. The area that I live in, the Sacramento region (upper central valley), has over 2.5 million pops and we haven't even gotten anything done yet (infact they are in the earliest stages of anything being done... aka procuring equipment and manpower) so suck it up, there are many many huge metros and areas with no upgrades still and you're not the only one waiting anxiously for better service.
4. http://s4gru.com/ind...-aka-the-rulez/
Also about the last part of your post...
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And here I thought coding rays, switch's, while ifs, loops, running totals, etc was hard...
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I agree, but I'm not certain that the old Ericsson RRU's will be able to work with TD-LTE. If they are able to get a Permissive Change for that, then I'd lean toward sticking toward the old. If not, then I'd look toward the AIR's. I'm not wanting Ericsson panels stuck in Samsung areas. That would be dumb.
AlcatelLucent is a big provider of TD-LTE for China Mobile, so I'm sure they have some sort of RRU improvement or replacement that can be done.
Oh I'm clearly expecting Ericsson and Alu to have their own TDD-LTE setups as well just like how Samsung has their own TDD-LTE setup but as I said... another topic
...Back to the scheduled NYC NV discussion xD
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Click on "The Forums" tab on the top left to get to the forum directory then scroll all the way down to the S4GRU sponsor area.
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So I just made a small donation... What does that entitle me to.. If anything? It was only 25 bucks...
Scroll all the way down to the "The S4GRU Club" and you'll have access to the Interactive S4GRU maps and S4GRU Sponsors forum. I think you'll like what you find inside of there.
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That would kind of have to defeat the point given that you'd then have multiple vendors in certain areas. If Sprint could get custom AIR panels like that, you'd deploy them mainly in Ericsson areas. Now for Samsung zones, it absolutely makes more sense to use Samsung RRU's. That I agree with.
You wouldn't need to get the old panels ripped out for incremental gain in the areas where no TD-LTE is implemented. I think that would be dumb, but I'm hoping that TD-LTE gets deployed over way more than 1,000 sites.
I'm sure AlLu has a solution for this too, but trying to get information on them has been like pulling out teeth.
I think you misunderstood what I'm trying to say. What I'm saying is that it's far more prudent to just stick with the equipment that's currently deployed as each vendor already has a standardized setup and most likely have replacement items and other misc. equipment stocked up in the case that something breaks. Adding another new panel just because it's a slight improvement in some aspect is just complicating things and needlessly expand how much more additional parts they must acquire in case the newer and different panels breaks. Much better to stick through with the current setups and not have a hodgepodge of different models strewn about.
On the part about the TDD-LTE, I too would love to see an expansion of that service and filling in of the coverage holes but that's a whole other topic.
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How many markets are at 0?
Your market, my market, his market, their market, that market.... uh... which market are we talking about?
~~ I would venture and say more than 1/3-1/2 of Sprints markets have not begun yet or is in the very earliest stages.
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I was at my friend's apartment in Oak Park today and there is a Sprint tower on the roof of the building. In the laundry room was an electric meter labeled "Sprint" and some other equipment that appeared to be Clearwire, but don't know if it was shared. There were many phone lines being fed to two boxes with transparent covers over a large cable with numerous pairs. The two boxes had 6+ dsl modems each...each modem was on a card that seemed to share a common backplane. I would imagine that some kind of channel bonding is being used to get one really high capacity logical connection for use by the tower. The box that the phone lines were coming from was labelled "AT&T", but that might only be because it's the local phone company. Covad and others offer service in the area over ATT infrastructure. Is anybody else aware of DSL based backhaul at any other sites?
If half a dozen DSL lines can serve as backhaul probably with PPPOE (and I don't see why that wouldn't work just fine), it def makes one wonder why Sprint is so behind schedule. I'll add pictures next time I'm there.
ATT is the one of the main backhaul suppliers of the market. ATT is part of a duopoly who is taking Americans from behind with lube and have vested interests in keeping Sprints network vision project delayed. There's a reason backhaul was one of the main reasons for the 3+ months average delays.
/shrug
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I wonder why Ericsson is with tmobile in the east coast but sprint in the west/Midwest.???
Ericsson is a vendor that wants to make money. If t-mobile wants them to work on the east coast then they'll work on the east coast. If sprint wants them to work on the west and midwest then they will work there. All that matters to them is that they're making money and they could care less about who they're selling their items to.
Furthermore, I don't see Sprint using any Ericsson AIR panels any time soon as they've practically standardized on their current setups and the RRU's are already prepared for SMR 800 service which means they don't need to do much work to get SMR 800 up and running.
Having a standardized network with a unified system of equipment is much better than changing everything for just minuscule single digit percentage improvements in certain aspects. It's both better in keeping upkeep costs down due to uniformity of equipment and adjustment of the network. Standardization saves money. Either way, it looks like Samsung is the one who will be providing the TDD-LTE panels if what they submitted to the FCC is any indication.
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Take some pictures of said boomer tower along with some of each individual rack and base station so we can identify what belongs to who etc. Oh and welcome.
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100 bucks does it?
$100 gets you a premier status where you get additional interactive maps with the original network vision deployment plan (from 2012) which gives a sense of how Sprint is expecting things to go but they're more of a guideline than actual plan nowadays. Other than that, you get a lot more other goodies that regular sponsors do not have, discussions on stuff, etc etc.
About the nextel decommissioning. To our knowledge, all Nextel iDen cell sites will be officially shut down on June 30th or around that date with only 100 being converted from iDen to Sprint NV. We do not know if there additional plans to expand as they can get quite pricey and we'll unlikely hear much about it til Softbank takes over and washes Sprint with the glorious wave of pure competitive vision ( and billions of dollars...) that many US corporations lack.
Edit: 12,500+ cell sites with Network Vision work on it and weekly updates by Robert (s4gru) that document how many sites received NV upgrades that week (about a thousand or so per week now).
Edit 2: Samsung contractors are slowly creeping down i75 towards higgins i think... (looks at the maps)
Edit 3: It seems that Higgins is just barely over the 100km exclusion zone with canada so you will likely see SMR 800 service for CDMA 1xV and LTE.
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So, donation is clearly in order... Im thinking 20-30 based on the info ive obtained prior to my reception of lte...is fair...
Are you guys really this dedicated? I presume sprint doesn't directly employ you...so I'll add this much. If sprint hired employees on the cust serv side who were about .001% committed as the crew on here.... They'd be on top of the fortune 500. The knowledge base alone, and the quality of information is light years above the 2nd or 3rd level of support sprint can supply.
We have maps of all 38,500+ cell sites in every Sprint market and we have a map with over 10,000 documented cell sites that have received some sort of network vision upgrade. Does that sound dedicated enough?
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I don't have the time to read everything in hindsight to get up to speed... In one sentence... What do I need to do to make donation and dive in head first? I am a quick study...
On the top right of webpage when you're viewing "The Forums" should be a donate button.
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Sprint will most likely ride out the leases for the EBS spectrum. A huge majority of Clearwires "160mhz" are leased spectrum from educational institutions and are not continous across the US like that 40-60 mhz or so of BRS.
Also, Sprint & co are not to keen to work with Dish especially since they're throwing a tantrum now after 1) failing to free load off of sprints network vision project by having Sprint deploy for them in exchange for utilizing the service [not helping out in deployment at all] , 2) going after clearwire after Sprint and softbank made their move in december, and 3) going after Sprint itself in order to delay everything and give a headache to Hesse and Son.
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Thanks for the info guys. I just get the feeling Sprint works well in cities that don't have population sizes of over 100,000 or is that just me?
It doesn't really matter what size city it is. If its a cell site in any environment that is not a rural area /low usage area then it's going to be bogged down by smart phones. T1 backhaul is not the best thing ever for a lot of users using data hungry smartphones. The answer to that is upgraded backhaul running of Fiber or AAV that could be adjusted in the future and modern equipment to utilize said upgraded backhaul. This is what Sprint is doing and what will soon be in full swing as summer approaches.
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Here's the relative information from Robert.
Your perspective is all wrong. First, I can't help but contrast this to another prevalent comment I see...why does Sprint sell LTE devices if they do not have LTE in my area? If you make devices for a not yet built network, people complain. If you don't sell devices for an upcoming network, people complain.
The answer to your question is, Sprint is not ready to sell them. TD-LTE 2600 is a new band using TDD technology instead of FDD-LTE technology that Sprint is currently using. There is a lot of work that is being done to coordinate handoffs of these technology and getting the device ecosystem ready. While LTE 800 is FDD and not quite having those same challenges, Sprint only somewhat recently received authorization from the FCC to allow LTE in the 800 band. They just started testing that band in an FIT in Minnesota. These bands will be added to devices later this year, when Sprint and the OEM's are ready. It's just that simple.
It's not that it is so difficult for Sprint, as if they are inept. They are adding bands that are not mature and not currently supported by anyone really yet. Sprint is having to do all the heavy lifting with getting these two bands off the ground.
Also, I can't help but think of the original EVO LTE, Galaxy Nexus and GS3. People said the same thing. My phone is going to be outdated right away. Yet, here we are, they did not outdate and their upgrade cycle is already coming to an end. Sprint is not an exception to this. Up until recently, no Verizon devices supported LTE AWS, and still offers very few. T-Mobile still sells many device that do not support LTE at all. AT&T is the best when it comes to supporting multiple bands, but there were a lot of people mad who bought AT&T 4G flagship phones as LTE started being deployed.
What you are describing is not a problem with Sprint, but an issue with evolving wireless networks. And there is no end in sight. It is the nature of the business.
Robert
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What's worse is that CA gas stations started doing a BS trick with their price signs. I don't know what rule change happened but in the past, there is usually one giant sign that showed the gas price of Normal, Midgrade, and Premium and you pay that price. But recently, every other gas station has the giant sign in addition to a really small sign for CREDIT/DEBIT that is $0.10-0.20 more expensive than the price on the giant signs. Really lame as you can easily miss that small sign and pay an extra 10-20 cents per gallon...
// little off topic.... back to donating! Yep! Donate donate donate donate donate!
[Don't donate human body parts though....]
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http://mitchribar.com/2013/02/how-to-stop-youtube-sucking-windows-guide/