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    It's all good.
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    Should begin any day now. Rumors have it Samsung are getting ready to deploy.....
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    See the /s at the end? It denotes sarcasm.
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    Much thanks to Motorola for designing excellent cellular equipment back in the early to mid 2k's for the Chicago and surrounding areas. Thank god it's highly compatible with new modular equipment that Samsung is deploying and doesn't drop calls when transferring from an old tower to an upgraded tower. Those drop calls is Sprints damn fault! Psht, Verizon and ATT can do it without disruption and so can T-mobile. Sprint sucks, I'm leaving! /s
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    What the hell is this? I mean... yes we have a lot of delicious tomatos when it's the season but Sacra-tomato????? =\... Darn teens from the bay area (or near the coastal mountains)! But typically we people from the city of trees call our hometown sac , sactown, or just plain sacramento.
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    Your link didn't work so I quoted your post..
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    No. They're only modernizing ~37,000 out of ~51,000 sites of which the majority are those that are in urban areas with HSPA+ already deployed.
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    Sprint will not be #2. Not this year. Not next year. Not the year after. Does sprint have the opportunity, backing, and network to damage ATT and Verizon by offering a nation wide LTE network that doesn't bend the consumer over? Yep. Will millions upon millions of ATT or Verizon subscribers pay an ETF to leave for sprint in 2014? No. They will take notice and keep the option open and tentatively test out the network to see if sprints network is not utter crap thanks to forsee & crews incompetence.
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    I've been seeing applications for 5-10 t-mobile modernization sites in Sacramento every 2 weeks now since last november. These NSN panels are definitely LTE capable and blocked as PCS HSPA/+ still does not cover most of my city yet. Funny thing is, there's this church bell structure on my secondary route home that I pass by all the time. Only recently did I find out it was a stealth site that was getting modernized.
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    T-mobile uses a mix of 5x5 and 10x10 depending on location and availability of spectrum (AJ can answer this for you). Sprint is using 5x5 for both LTE 1900 and LTE 800 with probably 20 for Clearwire's TDD-LTE. T-mobile uses two vendors iirc. Ericsson and Nokia Siemens. Their ericsson panels are called AIR and it's basically an all in one solution. The NSN panels do have RRU's and I've been seeing them be called TMU's. Looks to be 1 TMU per panel installation in the permit records that I've been looking through.
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    There are some things CEO's and planners cannot control and that is what their competitors do. When you have ATT, Verizon, T-mobile, and local carriers doing LTE upgrades or overlays at the same time, you're going to get a lack of trained individuals to do your own upgrades. Tower crews are a very specialized work force and they are in high demand by the Big 4 all of whom are competing fiercely to roll out LTE. Then there's the fact that sometimes your backhaul providers are related to your competitors (cough att / verizon land lines cough) that intentionally stretch out the time frame of delivering back haul to a cell site. There's a lot of work to be done and not enough people to do it. Plain and simple.
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    The biggest problem with T-mobile is not the speed of their LTE deployment (which should be faster than Sprint in metro areas as they don't have to wait on backhaul) but is the fact that their LTE will only overlay their HSPA+ footprint. The majority of their network outside metro areas are still Edge / 2g. The difference for a T-mobile LTE subscriber will be immense dropping from LTE to edge whereas Sprint at least has 3g on the rurals and LTE coming soon.
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    http://mobile-review.com/review/samsung-galaxy-s4-camera.shtml Pictures look mightily impressive.
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    Wimax is by definition 4g along with the first iterations of LTE. As we all know, wimax never took off and LTE took off and was further developed while wimax got abandoned.
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    pictures pictures pictures
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    Upper Central Valley. It's literally right at the border with the lower central valley market (which is slated to begin in the summer). UCV is confirmed to begin in the spring and full builds should begin any day now.
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    Only their urban areas where they have HSPA+. Rural areas have no plans as far as I know.
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    Sponsor only maps. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/1195-information-about-s4gru-sponsorship-levels-and-how-to-become-a-sponsor/
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    ftfy.
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    T-mobile doesnot have the spectrum to deploy LTE on the PCS band and LTE concurrently nationwide. Meanwhile they have at most markets at least 10 mhz of aws and 20mhz in many others. aws is 1700/2100
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    That's the boomer with sprint and others on it alright. Upper Central Valley market is serviced by Samsung as the market OEM for network vision. A full build is basically replacing all legacy equipment and replacing it with new gear and backhaul (aka connection to the internet). The other type of NV upgrade is a GMO which is basically a site where they do the minimum work because it is low priority or high cost for minimal gain as described here http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-340-sprint-deploys-special-ground-mount-option-network-vision-sites-in-some-low-capacity-and-high-engineering-locations/ but I don't believe yours is. Anyways, take some good pictures!
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    1)Is it directly across from a house? 2) Is it situated on the side of the road where it's nothing but fields in all directions. If so. You may have found one of the first Samsung full builds in the upper central valley market. That is unless Verizon and ATT is doing something in the area... T-mobile is a non factor as they have no plans on upgrading rural sites. Pics of the panel & the ground equipment would be best though.
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    Is it on a Boomer? Aka giant metal frame many many feet tall (over 30').
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    Where exactly is the tower at? The area between Clements Road and N. Tully is quite large... I'll attach a google maps image with the area you pointed out (closer to Lockeford) and multiple circles... There is exactly ONE Sprint tower in the area on a boomer... Details! Side Note to Ascertion -- Nextel decommissioning hit the region pretty hard last fall / winter. A lot of Nextel panels and other equipment have been removed long ago. P.S. Take some photos of it if you can. Multiple photos of the Panels itself and make sure you have the connecting wires on the bottom visible and any RRU (box like thing near the panel) in view.
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