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Nope. Not a Sprint cabinet at all.

Nope. NV uses 2 cabinets.

It's actually in the range of 250k -> 1 million dollar per new cell site once you take into the cost of building it (easily $120-150k for physical work) then you gotta get the backhaul (another $50-100k depending on availability and ease to get it) and negotiating lease with the owner of the location you put the cell site on ($$$$). There's a reason T-mobile will not touch the rural sites before the urban sites.

Seems to have gone out nation wide as many individuals got the message.

This is and is not true. Latency is a big part when the page is comprised of lots of simple elements. Some of these modern pages, however, have +1MB data to load per page. Once the size per item begins to overshadow the number of items, the relevant statistic becomes bandwidth and not latency. 200ms to establish connections, which conclude 200ms later after carrying 150K each, would be rather fast. Think of if you had 80ms latency but to load each 150K item took 400ms. Overall, you are still feeling slower, despite the lower latency connection. That is why I say 5 mbps. I've done another post elsewhere as well that explains this. There is a certain limit (around 6 mbps) where connection speeds become mostly irrelevant for most things to do on a cell phone. Sent from my SPH-D710

Yes except for a hundred or so sites where they can't negotiate backhaul or other things for a reasonable price. They'll probably relocate these sites to somewhere more favorable or it'll just stay as is.

Your message states that the other vendors do not care about upgrading 3g and only focus on 4g which is incorrect. All cell sites in every city and rural area is getting 3g/4g upgrades. Vendors just do it in different orders.

That is incorrect. All three vendors are doing 4g and 3g upgrades but in a different manner. Ericsson and Samsung tends to bring 4G up first (if possible) due to the fact they do not have to care much for interference issues as LTE 1900 has never been deployed and they don't have to go trouble shooting for coverage issues such as working on EVDO 3g. Thus Ericsson and Samsung launches 4g predominately first or 4g/3g at the same time in areas where they do not have to launch in clusters. In high density areas, they'll have to launch 3g in clusters in order to minimize impact to customers. On the other hand, Alcatel-Lucent does 3g upgrades first and then 4g upgrades. Doing so gets the physical work done at a tower quickly regardless of the backhaul situation as they can and will utilize legacy backhaul for 3g whereas 4g can only be accepted with upgraded backhaul. Alcatel-Lucent also does 3g launches in clusters iirc.

It won't be long. Typically takes 2-3 weeks to get building permits if everything is done correctly and the fees are paid. Keep having the same mistakes on applications and I envision the contractors will get fired and new ones hired that know how to do things around these parts. Note ** This is for Sacramento, the city, itself. The surrounding localities to the east, northeast may be separated into their own little municipalities with its own rules and departments. Work may or may not be undergoing deployment in those areas as we speak but I do not have knowledge of it. Most of them are too lazy to post building permits online or requires fees to see said building permits...

Better hope that the contractors file their building permit applications correctly and follow through on payments for inspection fees. Every application so far has something wrong or missing which prevents issuance and any work from beginning.

http://forums.xbox.com/xbox_forums/general_discussion/f/3817/t/1362841.aspx nuff said.

Heh! Some things are best not said in public areas for all to see.

The panels house the antennas. There are multiple antennas housed within the new Network Vision panels. Increase in efficiency and advancements in design allows for multiple antennas to be configured via a RRU and remotely adjusted. No longer do they need multiple panels / antennas on a rack to be pointed in a certain way to get specific coverage or alleviating load. Everything can be configured in one panel which saves money from tower leases and assorted other misc costs.

I'll assume antennas = a network vision panel which contains the antennas. The majority of cell sites have 3 sectors with one new network vision panel per sector. In very high capacity cell sites or sectors, the Sprint may choose to utilize a second network vision panel in order to utilize more carriers. I know for a fact that Samsung will use two panels for a high capacity sector and the other vendors likely does the same. So the answer is multiple antennas per sector usually indicates a high capacity sector which requires additional carriers.

Move to sponsor / private chat. This is getting a little to specific for public views!

Contractors need to get a move on things!

The Sprint maps includes both legacy bandaid fixes and Network Vision progress. Virtually every one of those listed is legacy band aid fixes and there's no way to positively discern the difference. Only guarantee is Roberts sources.

You win the award of probably getting the first LTE signal in the market in the coming weeks! I've already marked it on my progress map. We have the exact locations of every Sprint cell site in the entire nation in every market and it's not that hard for any of us to easily determine where cell sites are given an approximate location. If the backhaul is ready at that site, I'll say it'll be up and running in 2-3 weeks. In your video, the contractors were removing the old PCS antennas. The coaxial cables to the base stations were rolled up in second rack so all they need to do is to install the new panels and RRU's and hook it up. That should take about a working week. -- Some crews are just unfriendly when they're in the middle of something and someone comes up and yells at them so they probably just wanted you to leave. It's always best to play dumb and ask them what they're doing so they can feel like a superior and "teach" you about their work.

Spring is when upgrades were confirmed to begin and it's been extremely accurate with the information I've found and the reports that are trickling in. June - July is when it's expected that the first full build cell sites will come online. Most of the work is to be done over the summer.

A bunch of antennas on a tower or on a building. Sometimes they're on roofs or stealth sites which make it hard to find.

You can find it online.

Nope. Look here.

Yep. Samsung typically gets a 4G signal up and running after 30-45 days of beginning work on a cell site. They bring up 4g first and then 3g upgrades later on in clusters to minimize impact to users as they need to adjust the settings to match that of legacy equipment and prevent dropped calls etc.

Well you kinda need building permits in order to work on a tower

Anything above $1 (else paypal will take most of the money). Robert typically needs $20 per new sponsor but he appreciates anything and understands that the financial situation with many people aren't the best.