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  1. lilotimz
    According to user experience from all over the forum, yep. That's part of the growing pain. They're probably doing a hotswap with your cell site since you get no service at all.
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    Maybe try using a visa gift card or something as a last resort?
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    Better hope you're in east davis!
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    Pittsburgh is a Samsung market who is one of the more aggressive vendors for Sprint. Typically, they tend to bring up 4G LTE first as there are no other LTE 1900 signal to coordinate unlike EVDO 1900 which has to be turned on in clusters. Sprints deployment is a shotgun pattern where crews will go to wherever a site is ready to be worked on instead of waiting to work on a certain area. As rural sites are easier to get permitting and backhaul, typically crews begin there. As time passes by and more urban sites are ready, they'll transition from the rural sites into the urban areas. Depending on the red tape from the local government, site owner, and backhaul provider, Samsung gets everything up and going 30-45 days after they begin (if backhaul is available). For a city the size of Pittsburgh and the amount of sites in it, in addition to Samsungs aggressiveness, I'll say around end of summer for a good portion of the city being covered.
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    Why don't you guys start your own permit map as well? Should help keep your mind off things
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    Ohh... interesting... a permit issued for a full build davis site... very interesting indeed.
  7. lilotimz
    In urban areas, Sprint has to work delicately with the cell sites in order to minimize service disruptions to subscribers. As such, they will do cluster launches on the 3G side of things. In the meantime, the legacy 3G equipment will continue to be in service.
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    Early 2012.. Government --> Lightsquare -- " NOPE! YOU NO USE SPECTRUM! YOU DISRUPT SATELLITE!" Lightsquare --> Bankruptcy court , Sprint bails. Circa summer 2012 Dish -> Sprint-- "Hey Hesss--ehhh, how about this. You host our spectrum on your Network Vision towers and we'll let you use it to offload from your network!" Sprint -> Dish ... " I'll think about it..." Softbank -> Sprint " Awww! Let's get on this silk bed and ... talk about our future..." Sprint -> Softbank " *smooches*, let's get clearwire in here as well.." Dish -> Sprint / Softbank "FUUUUUUUU... I'll buy CLEARWIRE!!!" Sprint Softbank -> Dish "Fu, majority ownership bish" Dish -> Softbank "FUUU, I'll BUY SPRINT! HESSE! YOU BISH, COME HERE AND WIPE MY SHOES!" Softbank -> "F U! Time to use le maths to prove you are a bish"... ~ May 2013...
  9. lilotimz
    3G Completed indicates the acceptance for the physical work in putting up antennas, rru's new coaxial / fiber cables from ground cabinet to RRU's, and that the equipment is powered up and capable. Depending on backhaul capability, they may hook up legacy T1 backhaul while waiting for upgraded backhaul. The only 100% confirmation that upgraded backhaul is in place is if the site is 4G accepted as 4G will only be accepted with upgraded backhaul.
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    I doubt that Samsung or Sprint will release a tri-band GS4 in the fall as that would easily cannibalize GN3 sales as that's the typical time frame for a new GN3. It shouldn't take too much to modify a GS4 for tri-band / dual mode operations as Samsung already has experience with TDD-LTE in their China Mobile TDD-LTE GS3. Might get surprised by a late summer refresh. Probably similar to how T-mobile has a GS4 HSPA+ variant and then a later LTE variant.
  11. lilotimz
    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.
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    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!
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution-Data_Optimized
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    Sprint is a CDMA carrier. They run 1xRTT, EVDO, and LTE.
  15. lilotimz
    Here's the apparent USCC offer from sprint.
  16. lilotimz
    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.
  17. lilotimz
    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.
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    LTE Release 9 which is software upgrade able to Release 10 standards (LTE-Advanced).
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    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.
  20. lilotimz
    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.
  21. lilotimz
    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.
  22. lilotimz
    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.
  23. lilotimz
    http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/1195-information-about-s4gru-sponsorship-levels-and-how-to-become-a-sponsor/
  24. lilotimz
    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
  25. lilotimz
    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.
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