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Check the map I have and look for that lone point in Rancho Cordova. Side note- If they're working in Rancho Cordova then they're working in Lodi, Davis, Yuba City, Elk Grove, Reno, Carson City, etc etc! Most exciting!

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Congratulations! You found the first full build site in the Upper Central Valley! Bottom rack is ATT with an LTE add with the single RRU. Second rack looks like some stuff that metro pcs uses. Top has legacy Sprint nortel antennas and it seems they're doing a hot swap of 1 to 1 panel replacement. Great job!

Yup.

nomnom at shabu Japanese fondue by a certain cell site =) Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 2

Pretty sure that's roaming.

You kind of have to give up trying to argue with them when they dismiss *s4guru* as a fanboy site that lies and inflates numbers. Biggest offenders are usually Antenna and Morphling who both actually goes into the sprint area of HoFo and bash Sprint with information that's been thoroughly debunked by us. It usually begins a mass amount of "sprint sucks" messages... that kind of behavior is prevalent on many other websites as well on anything that mentions Sprint. Be it Theverge, Androidpolice, androidcentral, reddit, facebook, whatever. Just gotta laugh at their ignorance and focus on the relevant topics at hand. Note: I did have T-mobile service since 2006-7 until late 2011 so I can talk on equal terms to many of them

Actual member observation and FCC documentation that gets dug up by fellow members. The best RF performer probably is the GS4 which is as good, if not better, than that of the Galaxy Note 2 which is a RF beast. In addition, the LG's aren't slouches either. The Iphone's are typically fairly decent in not being horrible but not being the absolute best.

Seattle and Phoenix has different vendors with different methods of doing things. Seattle is a Samsung market whose contractor tends to bring up 4G upgrades first and then 3G upgrades up in clusters. Pheonix is an Alcatel-Lucent market who brings up 3G upgrades first and then 4G upgrades. That and backhaul for seattle was most likely easier to acquire.

It's just building permit for non building structures from nearly every permit i've encountered. In fact, I've found permits in nearly every municipality so far for Sprint (Sacramento, Davis, Lodi, Yuba City, Reno, Carson City, etc etc) that posts permits online so Stockton must have some applied or issued that I can't find. Most apps that tell you what sites you're connected to are inaccurate as it's based off 1x signals. Our markets GPS seems to be offset a bit away from the cell sites so it isn't complete accurate but gives you a sense of a general area of where it could be. I hear ya on the slow speeds and high latency. It's coming now and i'm tracking them all!

Might want to head over to the UCV thread http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/3476-network-visionlte-upper-central-valley-market-sacramento-stockton-redding-eureka-renolake-tahoe/ and my permit thread for info. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/3724-upper-central-valley-market-network-vision-permits/ I only recently figured out Manteca, Tracy, and Modesto but nil on stockton. Another member also lives works in stockton / lodi area and I've given him instructions on how to physically find Stockton permits if you want to check my permit thread.

The Galaxy Victory 4G LTE is actually a really good RF device that could give most flagship phones a run for its money. iirc, it's RF characteristics are right around if not slightly above the GS3. The HTC One's RF characteristic is slightly below the GS3.

20mhz that can be carrier aggregated with another 20 mhz and so on (20+20). 10:1 ratio that Clearwire uses for Wimax probably means theoreticals of ~100 mbps DL and ~20 mbps ul.

T-mobile Ericsson AIR panels.

They do just not things we end users can easily find. It's probably all in their backend monitoring especially the new upgraded software they gotten from the manufacturers. A perk of having an all new modular digital network.

We call it CDMA 800 1xA here for a reason.

Yes. Basically every phone with CDMA 800 support has been on the market since mid 2011 minus the iphone 4/4s.

Excellent! Rancho Cordova does not post their building permits online so I haven't been able to track that part of the state of applications there (they actually have a web page... that's incomplete...).

Sponsor info if you want specific dates and information as I did spend many man hours trying to find all these permits but I'll tell you within the past 3 months.

Sprint will have CDMA 800 1xA on all NV cell sites. LTE. 800 will initially be on 75-80% of cell sites but they can and will activate the rest when needed to. Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 2

Anytime within 180 days as that's how long permits last. Typically within 3-4 weeks they'll start working on it after the permits issued.

Clearwire is already deploying TDD-LTE / Wimax capable BRS 2500 equipment in the Midwest markets. In addition, LTE 800 is also slated to begin deployment in the midwest markets in the next 3 months. It isn't too hard to see that clearwire tdd-lte hotspots will possibly also go live in this time frame as Clearwire already has 2000+ sites completed for TDD-LTE but awaiting permission to hook up to sprints MSC.

If my family completely upgrades in the coming month (when all of us are eligible for early upgrade), I'll probably grab a GS4 and sell my old GS2. Then when tri-band phones come out, I'll sell the GS4 and utilize the funds from the sale to acquire the tri-band device.

Please elaborate? I've explained this elsewhere but there is a major difference when we're talking about something loading. The biggest factor in hunan perception of fast or slow on Internet connections is the latency or ping. A 5mbps connection with 60 ping will 100% of the time be faster than 30mbps with 200 ping. The greatest factor we can physically observe is the time it takes for our input for an action to go to the server and return. That is what we think of when we say fast or slow. Not the connection speed. Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 2

Extremely close (within 1 mile). Become a sponsor and you'll know exactly where it is.. (it's along 2nd street). Might be good news as 3 weeks passed since it's been issued! Come! Join le dark side and be a sponsor!