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Ericsson is a vendor that wants to make money. If t-mobile wants them to work on the east coast then they'll work on the east coast. If sprint wants them to work on the west and midwest then they will work there. All that matters to them is that they're making money and they could care less about who they're selling their items to. Furthermore, I don't see Sprint using any Ericsson AIR panels any time soon as they've practically standardized on their current setups and the RRU's are already prepared for SMR 800 service which means they don't need to do much work to get SMR 800 up and running. Having a standardized network with a unified system of equipment is much better than changing everything for just minuscule single digit percentage improvements in certain aspects. It's both better in keeping upkeep costs down due to uniformity of equipment and adjustment of the network. Standardization saves money. Either way, it looks like Samsung is the one who will be providing the TDD-LTE panels if what they submitted to the FCC is any indication.

Take some pictures of said boomer tower along with some of each individual rack and base station so we can identify what belongs to who etc. Oh and welcome.

$100 gets you a premier status where you get additional interactive maps with the original network vision deployment plan (from 2012) which gives a sense of how Sprint is expecting things to go but they're more of a guideline than actual plan nowadays. Other than that, you get a lot more other goodies that regular sponsors do not have, discussions on stuff, etc etc. About the nextel decommissioning. To our knowledge, all Nextel iDen cell sites will be officially shut down on June 30th or around that date with only 100 being converted from iDen to Sprint NV. We do not know if there additional plans to expand as they can get quite pricey and we'll unlikely hear much about it til Softbank takes over and washes Sprint with the glorious wave of pure competitive vision ( and billions of dollars...) that many US corporations lack. Edit: 12,500+ cell sites with Network Vision work on it and weekly updates by Robert (s4gru) that document how many sites received NV upgrades that week (about a thousand or so per week now). Edit 2: Samsung contractors are slowly creeping down i75 towards higgins i think... (looks at the maps) Edit 3: It seems that Higgins is just barely over the 100km exclusion zone with canada so you will likely see SMR 800 service for CDMA 1xV and LTE.

We have maps of all 38,500+ cell sites in every Sprint market and we have a map with over 10,000 documented cell sites that have received some sort of network vision upgrade. Does that sound dedicated enough?

On the top right of webpage when you're viewing "The Forums" should be a donate button.

Sprint will most likely ride out the leases for the EBS spectrum. A huge majority of Clearwires "160mhz" are leased spectrum from educational institutions and are not continous across the US like that 40-60 mhz or so of BRS. Also, Sprint & co are not to keen to work with Dish especially since they're throwing a tantrum now after 1) failing to free load off of sprints network vision project by having Sprint deploy for them in exchange for utilizing the service [not helping out in deployment at all] , 2) going after clearwire after Sprint and softbank made their move in december, and 3) going after Sprint itself in order to delay everything and give a headache to Hesse and Son.

It doesn't really matter what size city it is. If its a cell site in any environment that is not a rural area /low usage area then it's going to be bogged down by smart phones. T1 backhaul is not the best thing ever for a lot of users using data hungry smartphones. The answer to that is upgraded backhaul running of Fiber or AAV that could be adjusted in the future and modern equipment to utilize said upgraded backhaul. This is what Sprint is doing and what will soon be in full swing as summer approaches.

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Here's the relative information from Robert.

What's worse is that CA gas stations started doing a BS trick with their price signs. I don't know what rule change happened but in the past, there is usually one giant sign that showed the gas price of Normal, Midgrade, and Premium and you pay that price. But recently, every other gas station has the giant sign in addition to a really small sign for CREDIT/DEBIT that is $0.10-0.20 more expensive than the price on the giant signs. Really lame as you can easily miss that small sign and pay an extra 10-20 cents per gallon... // little off topic.... back to donating! Yep! Donate donate donate donate donate! [Don't donate human body parts though....]

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/

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 =\

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

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.

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... http://www.fiercewir...licy/2013-04-12

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).

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?

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 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.

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.

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