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http://db.tt/YPV29Lzo a bunch of pictures of ALU equipment in the shentel area. Free to use.

 

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Much thanks for the pics of the older style setups. OP has been updated accordingly.

I was looking for a technical answer.

Apple will not allow sensorly to access the hardware (mainly GPS and other documentational stuff) information it needs. Nothing technical about that. It's Apple being Apple and not allowing apps they don't like.

What about the iPhones SDK precludes having a "full" version of sensorly?

Apple.

Best of luck! I'm still trying to find me a part time job...

Good for Reno I guess.  That does me no good though. lol. 

Gotta admit though. It's pretty impressive what Sprint can do when the local government and the contractors work together fluidly and without delay.

I can't wait to see what comes next month with building permits and info on LTE. Waiting for that sponsor thread map to start to light up next month. 

Gotta wait till probably the end of next week knowing how slow these municipalities take things. Probably have the Nevada ones on monday or tuesday though as they're super fast on posting their reports. Reno has already issued the permits for almost half of sprints cell sites in that area. Reno blitz is all but confirmed.

AT&T does serve a significant part of the market, yes, but the DeKalb\Sycamore area being referenced is not AT&T. AT&T does, however, serve McHenry and Crystal Lake. Now that's not to say that AT&T isn't just subbing out these other areas (perhaps at a loss) to get the big contract. *shrugs*

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z9u87aosolox1w6/lecmap.pdf

 

Around here, Windstream did Verizon's backhaul and I suspect US Cellular as well, based on who has built fiber to what towers. Frontier has done AT&T wireless's backhaul. I guess Frontier is doing the backhaul for a Sprint tower as well as no one else has started any fiber construction to it and it is several miles from anyone else. Frontier actually just built out 7.25 miles of fiber to get to this tower with AT&T and Sprint.

Possibly but the premier sponsor region holds the original network documentation that specifies who's the backhaul contractor for which market. It's fluid and does change but the point still stands that the vast majority of the market uses ATT backhaul and a select few other ILEC's.

 

It likely is not all being provided by AT&T. AT&T isn't the ILEC for the entire market. Frontier is much less aggressive with fiber and EoC. I'm not sure if they did, but they should have used Windstream or some BTOP fiber out in a lot of the Frontier areas. Comcast does some FTTT as well.

 

The vast majority of the Chicago market are backhauled by ATT if everything still fits the original network vision document information on the area. 

OP has been updated with additional images. 

I'm not sure how relevant the information is but a very pretty Sprint store employee told me the police and fire departments for the Denver metro area were told to discontinue the Nextel service by the 31st of June. After that date the towers are going to be reassigned. Thought it was interesting.

Not interesting to be honest. June 30, Nextel will be shut down for good and SMR 800 services will be rapidly coming online. That means widespread deployment of LTE 800 and CDMA 800 1xA.

Here are the Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) Network Vision equipment for Sprint. Their equipment consists of 2x base stations, 6 or 9 Remote Radio Unit (RRU) setups, and 1 standard NV antenna of with connectors on the bottom (4x PCS, 2x SMR). 

Below are images of Alcatel-Lucent equipment. In these images, you will find Alcatel-Lucent base stations, Sprint Network Vision antennas, PCS 1900 & SMR 800 RRUs, and their configurations.

Alcatel-Lucent 4x40w 25 MHz PCS 1900 B25 RRUs (Panasonic) [old]

Alcatel-Lucent  4x45w 1900 MHz B25 RRU 

ALU 2x50w B26 800 MHz RRU [KMW Communications]

Older Panasonic Setup [4x40w 25 MHz B25]

Standard Alcatel-Lucent Setup 

Utilizes 2x50w 800 MHz B26 RRU and 4x45w 1900 MHz B25 RRU and compatible antennas. 

Closer Look at the connectors on the bottom of the antennas

Special Case Mexican IBEZ Setup

Note the lack of 800 MHz RRUs though the antennas are capable of 800 MHz. 

High Capacity Setup

High Capacity no SMR 800 IBEZ setup

* Credits go to those whom took the images of these equipment. You know who you are."

Does anybody know if any other carriers will use TD-LTE in their networks?

No other domestic carriers. Foreign carriers though plenty... major ones are Softbank and China Mobile. 

Will T-mobile LTE coverage catch up with sprint? and att?

no. Mostly the same footprint as their existent HSPA+ networks. 

Makes sense cause Verizon is center stage for consumers, but will Sprint with Clearwire TD-LTE be available before they even finish 3rd round markets? Or is it too early to tell?

 

:edit: i wish there was some way to educate my self in this field.

Yes. They already have 2000+ TDD-LTE  sites completed and waiting to be activated / hooked up to Sprints MSC'. Sprint / Clearwire is taking it slow and steady until their future becomes clear and their plans are finalized. 

I never knew you could FF to a specific time on a YouTube clip.  That's neat.  Thanks!

 

Robert

http://youtubetime.com/

*Added images of the PCS only panels that Sprint is using in the Canadian IBEZ

Hmm...Clearwire was not a major deployment? I'll be damned.

Well massive for Clearwire, I would agree. Massive in terms of what's been going on with the big 4... not really in my opinion but I will edit to provide additional clarity.

Sprint is not samsungs first us deployment. . Clearwire has lots of samsung gear deployed. .

*edited to refer to the fact it's the first major deployment for any of the big 4.

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haha just for you!

That's going to be fun tracking the complete decommissioning of nextel sites. I've already seen a few applications and issuance to completely tear out nextel sites already. Going to be exciting these coming weeks!

So we really cant be sure if a gmo is being deployed? And at what times do workers typically work on said towers?

-GMO's are and have been being deployed. Majority are situated along the highways to South Lake Tahoe & Reno in the Sierra Nevadas. Robert gets updates (rarely nowadays for some reason) when his source reports them.

- any time where the weather permits and they feel like working.

Im in  a samsung market here in Utah. Can you explain the antenna you circled in green? It would help me in my hunting? And thanks for this thread it is great info and very clear images!

Thanks.

Legacy panels 

Pretty sure the antennas are the same. Contemplating if I should put the PCS only setups Samsung has in the Canadian IBEZ as well.

If you go to the members forum and look under the minnesota NV section, I posted a ton of pics of up close samsung equipment when they were doing the tower by my house. They built it on the ground before putting it on the tower. If you's like to, feel free to use any of those images. It's even 800mhz ready so it looks a little different.

I'll keep that in mind. Using mostly images from michigan and the in progress threads.

The device mapping reports no coverage. It's an issue that plagues several devices (galaxy nexus cough cough) but all it means is that the device did not detect coverage at that point.