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It's actually not a small lot..... There's 5 rows, ~50 cars per, bumper - bumper, in that part alone. There's more additional staff parking in their own little lots. Students, like me, get a 5 level garage + another huge parking lot. Good thing about the parking garage though. The 5th level is directly across from all the antennas on the water tower.

Look at the bright side. Even though t-mobile may deploy at a much faster rate in urban areas than sprint, they don't hold the SMR 800 trump card which will be the differentiating point for sprint. Coverage inside buildings!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution-Data_Optimized

Oh that sucks does Sprint even have HSPA+ ?

Sprint is a CDMA carrier. They run 1xRTT, EVDO, and LTE.

Here's the apparent USCC offer from sprint.

DId they already upgraded the backhaul for hspa+?

yep. They had to in order to achieve the speeds of HSPA+21 and DC-HSPA+42. All they have to do is give a call to the backhaul provider to increase the capacity / speeds in order to support both HSPA+ and LTE and they're done. Dont have to rip out old copper T1 lines and replace them with new lines etc.

T-mobile is concentrating on urban markets only. Sprint has contractors spread all throughout the State of NY working on both inner city and rural areas at the same time. In addition, T-mobile sites don't have to wait for upgraded backhaul so they can get their cell site sup and running much quicker than Sprint.

LTE Release 9 which is software upgrade able to Release 10 standards (LTE-Advanced). 

It's a little different in samsung markets. Due to the fact that CDMA 800 1x and LTE 1900 has never been deployed in this market (or any market really), the first thing they'll try to get up is 4G. There are no other active signal unlike CDMA 1x 1900 and EVDO 1900 so one does not need to coordinate a cluster launch in order to minimize disruption to customers.

If the contractors can get the 4G equipment (and the site has NV ready backhaul), they'll get that up and running ASAP and call for inspections. If they can get the 3G side up and running as well then they'll call for a 3G/4G inspection. But typically they'll do the 4G/ CDMA 800 1x side of things first if it needs to be a cluster launch for 3G. 

Definitely looks like Sprint has the best setup, followed by Verizon. Maybe I don't understand how much spectrum they have in each market but I've heard Clearwire had a TON in the 2.6ghz.

I believe AJ said most markets have at least 40 mhz of BRS but a variable amount of leased EBS spectrum which are fragmented and highly varies region to region so don't count on the fact that clearwire has a lot of spectrum on sheets to be an actual representation of how much clearwire could effectively utilize across the nation.

To my knowledge, all northern ct sites are gmo. So a full build is required to see 800mhz or lte. Most of the southern ct sites have been full build outs. I hope I'm misinformed lol

 

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All northern Ct sites to date have been GMO. Full builds are either starting or will start soon. There are no market where the majority of sites are GMO's. Western PA has the most GMO's though.

Could be. Take some pictures of it. A member of ours just started a permit map for Hawaii and found a bunch of permits that have either been issued or in the process of being issued meaning that Network Vision has begun in HI. The gear that's being installed are alcatel-lucent stuff with 6 panel connectors & 2 or 3 RRU's. 

How do I become a sponsor ?

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/1195-information-about-s4gru-sponsorship-levels-and-how-to-become-a-sponsor/

So, Davis is forgotten huh? Well hopefully if Sac's getting permits, then we should get some soon enough. BTW Jay, thanks for the new profile inspiration! 

Davis is sort of a special case. There's really 3 cell sites that serve it but the edges are served by the rural sites which don't require much in terms of permits. Not to mention, city of davis permit search sucks .... meh.

But just to tease you... here's something :}

more specific details in the sponsor area

Wouldn't surprise me as there are a lot of issued permits inside tucson that are not accepted for any NV upgrades yet. Crews are confirmed to be working so be on the lookout. If you become a sponsor, you can check out the tucson sponsor map thread where a fellow tucson person documented which sites are in progress, etc.

Network Vision is the complete replacement of Sprints legacy network. Everything is getting torn out. Old panels, old coax cables, old backhaul, base stations, etc. The new gear will have be installed properly and inspected and accepted for different technologies such as 3g / 3g CDMA 800 / 4g LTE. 

For Alcatel-Lucent, their modus operandi is for to get a site 3g accepted after 45-60 days of work and then 30-45 days afterwards will get 4g up and running. 

Permits has been applied on a good portion of Sprint cell sites in Tucson including that storage place. There are some sites accepted for 3g (which is the prerequisite for 4g acceptance due to the modus operandi of alcatel-lucent) in the greater Tucson area but any specific info is sponsor only.

Definitely not sprint. That's an ATT setup. Notice the 4 connectors and 1 RRU per sector with one side of the panels not connected. That side is where the connection to utilize AWS is located.

Mhm.. there is one around the public storage.

Got an address for us of the storage place? We have maps of every sprint site in the US in the sponsor area and it wouldn't be too hard to look it up if given an address.

A closer pic of the panels themselves would help.

Use an image hosting website like http://imgur.com/  or dropbox etc.

Ran a speedtest today in Hartford, about 1400mbps/1000mbps. Maybe we will start to see some NV towers working well soon. I'm getting about 700mpbs/700mpbs at my house in Enfield. Today the data speed issues definitely were better, but still some pretty high ping times.

1400 mbps?!?!! Holy hell! Are you sure you're in America and not South Korea?

Eh... They'll need a DAS system in the new arena for sure. TDD-LTE 2500 sure sounds nice and will be a godsend when they come online later this year.

Meanwhile.. Nevada is beating California's ass permit wise lol.