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Here's something for ya poor fellows over there at those little islands.

yay! Finally someone mapped LTE over at Carson City! Also a few blips of LTE showed up over at Auburn, CA and Newcastle, CA on sensorly. Edit: LTE site accepted in Auburn,CA.

Can add Carson City, NV to the map. Someone actually mapped on sensorly! Auburn,CA definitely has LTE active. Zoomed in on sensorly shows a long streak stretching across the small city. Also might need to keep an eye on Auburn, CA as sensorly is showing a few dots of LTE in that area!

What this means is that Sprint may elect to immediately launch LTE 800 / CDMA 800 1x alongside LTE 1900. SMR 800 services does not need to be part of a coordinated cluster launch nor does it need upgraded backhaul and its propagation properties are nearly equal to ATT / Vz cellular 850 / 700. Practically every phone released within the past 2 years support CDMA 1x 800 (except Iphone 4/4s / photon ..) and would dramatically increase voice coverage & quality. I've posted about TD-LTE before in a previous post but to I'll type it again. Sprint, in the Sacramento region, has a continuous 40mhz BRS and plenty of leased EBS. They can utilize the BRS in a 20mhz carrier or 20+20 carrier aggregated setup. The first can do approximately ~80-100 mbps dl / ~20 mbps UL while carrier aggregation effectively doubles it. It would be a huge boom to high population density areas like downtown /midtown sacramento or other downtowns where a lot of people gather during the work hours. If sprint wants to do it quickly then all they need to do is replace the RRUs on existing antennas for new Sammy BRS/EBS ones and connect the hybrid fiber coax wires from old cabinets to the new Samsung MMBS cabinets that are being deployed.

Milan explained it better over @ hofo

Not all T-mobile sites are getting new antennas. The other reason T-mobile so rapidly deployed LTE was that they also utilized existing antennas and just added Ericsson RRU4s and RRU12s (same RRU's Verizon & Sprint are using) to existing sites due to a shortage of AIR 21's.

Nope. Current RRUs as deployed only support 862-869 mhz DL & 817-824mhz UL or the 14 mhz of SMR 800 spectrum Sprint utilizes. Nothing else. Not to mention between the UL and DL are cellular 850.

Asian corporations are all about efficiency which most of the time leads to vertical integration (cough LG / Samsung / Sony / etc). Looks like Son wants to bring everything back in house to increase the reliability and efficiency of their network management teams.

Nothing on the one in garbo yet. The stealth pole at the park by the fire station doesn't show up online.

Congratz on getting the job!

It's T-mobile ericsson AIR 21's up on the top rack.

There were three cell sites accepted for 3G east of Stockton along Hwy 4 and into Calaveras county. Locations are shown in the sponsor areas.

Can you be more specific with east? Like Granite bay east or just across the highway? Well... practically every cell site east of Roseville in unincorporated Sacramento county has building permits issued for Sprint contractors as seen in this preview of my upper central valley permit map which one can access via the sponsor forums. Expecting a good push by contractors in the coming weeks so it's a good possibility. Full information on who is doing the work, what work is being done, exact addresses, and other misc. information is available to sponsors.

Alcatel-Lucents deployment methods are not the same as Samsung who are very aggressive compared to ALUs modus operandi of waiting for a certain threshold before activating LTE (looks at Tucson/Yuma - Phoenix). The entire lower central valley market has a full 14 mhz of SMR available for one 5x5mhz LTE carrier alongside one CDMA 1x carrier.

Oh my... god dammit guys. Time out! I swear. Guys. Stay on topic please.

3G accepted = physical work completed and contractor can get paid. Does not mean upgraded backhaul is there nor if the 3G side of things are live or not.

Probably but complete coverage? Most definitely not. Major complaints on most of the t-mobile sections are still on the spottiness of LTE and 2G only areas.

Some affiliates are... lets say... more troubling then others. Shentel is on the ball with their deployment but swiftel, ntelos, etc...

They're about the same size. Big difference is the remote radio units located next to them that dictate the frequencies in addition to 6 antenna ports on the bottom compared to the 4 that everyone else have. In our market, ATT uses Ericsson while Sprint uses Samsung. See the following to identify Samsung gear. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/3906-how-to-spot-sprint-antennas-and-rrus-samsung-style/

Excellent! I've found the address and keep an eye on it!

Give me the approximate location. That is a Sprint Samsung Network Vision setup right there. SMR 800 RRU on top and PCS 1900 RRU on the bottom behind the antennas. If woodland is being deployed then Davis and the rest of Yolo county is not far behind. Edit: NVM - found the address on Yolo county GIS Parcel viewer.

Yep. it went to crap last month and went back to normal a day or two ago. Sent from my SPH-D710

AWWW YIS!

T-mobile began refarming in mid 2012 on their existing HSPA+ sites that already put out LTE-esque speeds. Their deployment is far simpler and easier than what Sprint is doing. It's also come to light that T-mobile has also been "cheating" in their LTE deployment by simply adding RRU's to existing sites to add LTE without changing anything else because Ericsson couldn't supply enough AIR 21 antennas. Simply, all T-mobile does is replace 6 antennas with 6 new & add 1 cabinet. That's all! Hell, sometimes they don't even need to do anything else other than add 3 RRUS12 or 3 RRU4 to existing antennas and they can get LTE up. Meanwhile Sprint has to do this -- Replace 3 or 6 existing antennas with 3 or 6 new, add 3 or 6 or 9 RRU's (depending on market), add 2 cabinets (1 modular and one backup battery), new hybrid cables up the cell sites, AND new backhual. Simply put, it'd be a colossal failure if t-mobile couldn't get LTE up faster on their existing HSPA sites than sprint. The biggest question now is what are they going to do with their non HSPA sites. Oh, and fun fact. Sprint already has more LTE coverage in the rural areas compared to T-mobile in Sacramento.

You sort of get more things done when you have a 1 year head start.