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My car is going to be running near empty / on fumes till almost the end of the month thanks to ya :|...

It's little but I'm sure it's better than nothing.

[curse the $4.09 CA gas prices]

IIRC, Robert stated earlier in another thread where another person asked about SMR 800 in PR. PR/VI will not get SMR 800 at all at this moment. Another entity holds the spectrum there and is not to keen on giving it up so easily.

or i could be confusing it with something else but point still stands, no SMR 800 in PR any time soon.

Robert accepts any donation as any help will keep the knowledge we have here alive. $5 is fine. My first donation was $5 (i'm about to put in another one soon... being a college student makes you poor :[ ).

Hope to see you in the sponsor area and don't worry. Everything in the sponsor area is confidential and stays there.

Here's a tad more info...

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

S4GRU Membership Groups

 

S4GRU Sponsor. For members who donate money through PayPal to S4GRU to help fund the costs of Sprint 4G Rollout Updates, you get the S4GRU Sponsor title for six months from your last donation. Once you donate $100 or more in total, you get the title indefinitely and upgraded to Premier Sponsor (see below). S4GRU Sponsors get:

• Access to the S4GRU Sponsors Forum (contents subject to change, but includes some interactive maps)
  
• Allow profile customizations
  
• Larger profile photos (up to 250x250)
  
• Can edit forum posts up to six hours after posting (incognito)
  
• No limitations on auto signatures
  
• Not subject to flood control timeouts
  
• Store up to 250 Private Messages
  
• No daily limit on Private Messages
  
• Up to 10 People allowed in a Personal Message
  
• Can view who gave you reputation points
  
• Unlimited inline notifications
  

S4GRU Premier Sponsor. S4GRU Sponsors who donate $100 or more in total, get to keep the title indefinitely and you also get in addition to the benefits of the S4GRU Sponsor above:

• Access to the S4GRU Premier Sponsor Forum (contents subject to change, but includes NV schedule maps for many markets)
  
• Bypass word filters
  
• Can post HTML in posts
  
• No limit to number of people allowed in a Personal Message
  
• Unlimited PM storage
  
• Allow attachments in PM's
  
• Allow unlimited amounts of reputation points to be given
  
• Larger profile photos (up to 250x400)
  
• Can edit forum posts at any time (incognito)
  
• Can soft delete own posts
  
• Avoids any moderation queues
  

S4GRU Contributing Author. For members who write news articles for S4GRU, you get an even better membership group. S4GRU Contributing Authors get all the S4GRU Premier Sponsor benefits plus they get the acclaim of being in the S4GRU inner circle and access to Staff forums. After you become a trusted regular contributor, you will be given the ability to post your own articles directly up in The Wall. You can create drafts of articles and keep them stored until ready for publishing. This status will stay active for six months after you publish your most recent S4GRU article.

 

 

NOTE: The PayPal donation button is located in The Forums main page, at the upper right hand corner.

 

ANOTHER NOTE: For a speedier upgrade, please put your S4GRU screen name in the comments section of your PayPal donation.

 

After donation: Most donations result in an automatic upgrade within minutes. If you click on your profile and see that your Group now says S4GRU Sponsor or Premier Sponsor, then your account upgrade has taken effect. 90% of accounts are upgraded very quickly. Sometimes I am out of cell range and cannot sign in to upgrade your account, this may result in a delay for a few hours. Once your account is upgraded, you no longer need a password to access Sponsor forums, but you may have to sign out and back in, depending on your browser and its settings.

On another note anyone hear about Dish offering Sprint 25. 5billion to buy us. Sounds pretty good actually.

http://dealbook.nyti...-sprint-nextel/

Not good actually... read here to get the gyst of it...

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/3585-dish-network-proposes-merger-with-sprint-nextel-for-255-billion/

But on the other hand... that's good to know. Maybe you should become a sponsor so you can help contribute to our knowledge base with the info you're apparently getting. It tends to get lonely around these parts =\

What does that mean for people who are primarilly in those areas?

 

Isnt the rule that 50%+ of your usage must be not roaming or you get kicked out?

IIRC, people who lived in those areas were let go without ETF.

Just moved to Sewickley, spotted LTE at my address, on android I know I could track my coverage via sensorly but how do I do this with the iPhone? Usually sitting at -105 with peaks of 13m down and 9m up. If nothing else I can post a screen shot of speediest.

Iphones cannot and apple will not let you map on sensorly. It is just what it is with the locked down ecosystem that apple has.

Haha let's see 4 in vs 4.6 iOS vs android locked down os vs free vanilla android and I'm getting 30mb yeah I lost alright haha

 

Sent from my Sprint Galaxy Nexus rockin 4.2.2 using Tapatalk 2

My suggestion to you is to hush about Android Vs IOS immediatly before someone (cough) reports you for instigating another round of Android vs IOS (and iphone vs whatever). This thread has already been derailed before and I guarantee you that robert, when he returns tomorow, will not be happy and will be ban happy as everyone here has been warned again and again)

People. Please get back to reporting about network vision, your happiness or unhappiness with the rate of deployment or coverage/speeds/whatnot. Start going on sensorly trips or report new areas where LTE is being detected and whatnot that every other person in the thread in the market subforums talk about.

Jeez. Seriously guys, this is getting old.

Edit--- How's service around Manhattan (and surrounding co) and NYU?

Also new 21096 for the GS2 as well.

Looks like verizon is getting rid of their early upgrade. Bet ATT will be following in a few months...

Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) announced it will no longer allow customers to upgrade their handset at a subsidized price before the end of their 24-month contract. Previously, the carrier allowed some subscribers to upgrade their phones at a subsidized price after 20 months.

The action is likely an attempt by Verizon to improve its margins. The carrier, like most other wireless operators, offers phones at far below their actual value, and ties customers into a two-year service contract in order to recoup the cost of that phone subsidy. Those subsidies can cut into wireless carriers' profits.

Verizon said it will begin implementing the change in its upgrade policy on customers whose contracts expire in January 2014. Verizon pointed out that customers "may purchase a new phone at the full retail price at any time prior to the end of their contract."

 

 

 

 

Verizon also said that customers with "New Every Two" credits have until Monday to use those credits. Verizon ended its New Every Two handset upgrade program in January 2011.

Finally, Verizon said that customers can continue to share an upgrade with another person on an account "as long as that customer is purchasing another device in the same category." Verizon said a basic phone or a smartphone upgrade can be used to purchase another mobile phone, but customers can't transfer that upgrade opportunity to "non-phone devices" like a mobile hotspot or tablet.

This isn't the first time Verizon has tweaked its policies to protect its margins. The carrier last year began charging a $30 upgrade fee for existing customers purchasing new mobile equipment at a subsidized price with a two-year contract.

And it appears Verizon's actions are working: The carrier has said it expects its wireless EBITDA margin to rebound from a dip last year of 46.6 percent to around 49 to 50 percent this year.

Further, Verizon isn't alone in boosting its margins by tightening its upgrade policies. As Americans continue to snap up expensive smartphones, most of the nation's other major carriers have restricted their handset upgrade policies to boost margins. For example, AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) late last year said its wireless EBITDA service margin increased to 45 percent from 41.1 percent in the year-ago quarter due to changes the carrier made to its handset upgrade policy, as well as higher upgrade fees and altered pricing for mobile data.

 

 

Read more: Verizon tightens handset upgrade policy - FierceWireless http://www.fiercewir...2#ixzz2QJ37NyTb

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I was browsing around the sprint forum about lte in columbus ohio, and the very last comment stated that we will have it in the city by the end of Q3 of 2013.

 

Can anyone really confirm or even vouch for that because it sounds kinda sketchy? also the post even said that the crews are mostly working at night because it is less people on the network... I highly doubt that they would have people working on them towers at night but I guess you never know.

Sounds about right. The majority of markets are beginning now or will begin in the next 3 months as these are the bulk of the markets and coincides with the iDen shutdown and softbanks approval to purchase majority stakes in Sprint. The next 3-6 months will most likely have the highest numbers of cell sites being worked on and massive expansion of service on SMR 800.

And working at night seems about right. A lot of sites go on and off at night for testing purposes to minimize service disruption to customers. It's just like road construction crews working on the highway. Gotta work through the night if you're going to close the roads (take down the signal from the cell site) to minimize the impact on those that use the highway (sprints network).

just got back from visiting that tower, it was definitely a sprint site and had new fiber run to it! it did look like there were two carriers there though based on the equipment on the ground, the weird thing was that all the antennas were on the same level up top

 

 

is that normal for two different carriers to be sharing the same level? or maybe this is a shared Sprint/Nextel site? Can anyone tell from the pic?

 

anyway, will be stopping by this one on a regular basis to see if/when tower work starts, hopefully it will be sooner rather then later!

 

PS i really need to start carrying my good camera with me so i can get better pics!

Looks like a Sprint synergy site where they took off one iDen panel and slap on a pcs panel.

Notice the 3 narrow band panels and then the one panel that looks completely different?

Im guessing ur trying to tell me there is no approximate average, i was look for something like EXAMPLE (EVDO can go a mile LTE can go 1/2 of a mile)

What he's saying is that range is affected by multitudes of different factors depending on the users receiving device (phone), setup of the tower in terms of downtilt and how high up its placed, and environmental things such as topography.

Each site is engineered for special purpose and no two sites are ever identical so estimating a range of a cell site is impossible.

 

It just seems to me, it would make more sense to have a crew finish an area they are currently working, rather than send them all over, only to return to an area they've already been.

 

It actually does not make sense at all to wait on cell sites in a specific area when others cell sites in other areas are ready and waiting to be worked on. This 1) waste the time of the contractors who could be making money by working, 2) delays the rollout as that means towers that could be upgraded are left sitting there while contractors are waiting on others towers to be ready, and 3) delays network vision project.

The shotgun approach that sprint is doing may be inconsistent but it's far better than sitting on their asses and doing nothing. ATT and Verizon or T-mobile may have that luxury of waiting to complete an entire area but sprint has a failed legacy network that must be replaced as soon as possible. They cannot delay this project as it's their bread and butter for the future.

I want to see if Sprint is embellishing the truth.

 

I have had a ticket open for a year fighting with Sprint because their data crawls between 10-50kbps instead of the 400-600 they advertise. I kept getting told every month that the completion date keeps getting pushed out in the future. I have been in contact with someone who answers the dan@sprint.com email address.

 

She told me that NV is starting in our area which I don't believe since I think you told me one time that the Quad City area won't start until around fall '13. Has things moved up in this area?

 

Thanks for your time

GMO sites are in progress and that's part of network vision so yes, the person is correct. These sites may or may not get LTE initially if there are a lot of challenges or they cannot get backhaul ran to the site cheaply. If they do get backhaul to the site for cheap, then they'll get LTE up and running.

Are they doing full builds yet? No. That's still several months away.

How do i become a sponsor? id like to see LTE updates here in queens NY

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

^

Thus it fits into my estimates which correlates to the original estimates in the premier forums which (from what little members told me) have most of the work being done in the june-july-august time frame. Which fits into what jay says which is 2 months-ish.

 

 

I wonder if those that have LTE actually have the backhall in place ?

 

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3g can be accepted with or without upgraded backhaul. 4G will only be activated if they have upgraded backhaul. If a tower is 4g accepted then it has upgraded backhaul.

Easy. My estimates include what i can grasp from the limited info that premiers gave me and from what I figured.

A permit to work on a cell site takes about 3-4 weeks to get issued. At the earliest, if they've begun applying within these weeks, are middle to late may before crews can work. It takes on average 45-60 days to get the first signals up. Samsung may be aggressive so stuff may get some sites done in late June but the bulk of the work will most likely be worked on after July. Lower central valley is to be begun late summer so they won't wee anything rill probably the September time frame.

When it will get connected to the new backhaul will I notice speed increases immediately? And how long does it take for them usually to connect it after finishing the 3G upgrade?

When the local ilec decides it's "that time" to go trenching some fiber to the cell site. Possibly the #1 reason for the delays that seems to plague Sprint.

Expect blots of purple to appear in june - july time frame with the majority of work being done around july to august. Work has not started but will within a couple of weeks...

sucks but meh

O well i guess you do not get Sponsor so fast cause i paid hours ago with paypal and still nothing. Guess ill go to bed and check tomorrow . I really want to just see the cloest tower to my house on the map

You have to wait for robert to verify and upgrade your rank. He's currently on vacation to who knows where so he's in and out of data service depending on which of his devices he's using. He should get to it by tomorrow. If not, send him a pm.

first 2 weeks of may for Sprint. Last 2 weeks of may or early june for verizon.

Battery bulge problems on galaxy S2's have been recorded for many many months. It's nothing to do with the update. Just get an aftermarket one like Anker or go to Sprint and they'll replace it question free.

I believe stealing iphones in NYC is so prevalent that NYPD has a special task force assigned to hunting down people who steal iphones.

http://www.cnn.com/2...pd-iphone-squad

Lesson learned: Don't treat your phones as just "$200" devices because of the subsidy. Thieves can make an easy $400+ each stolen iphone if you are unaware and "look" like an easy picking.

Apparantly the one is the first phone to have a removable sim from sprint.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/08/htc-one-for-att-sprint-review/