RAvirani

What do you mean by coverage holes?

 

 

I mean like by my house. If they shut off the WiMAX and put on LTE panels later, for the time inbetween, I will not have service.

Sprint has not released that sort of information. If you become a Premiere Sponsor, the site does have historical data on Clear sites and whether or not they were scheduled to have LTE added. Plus, you'll be supporting a great community!

Also I do want to become a donor very bad - it's just that I can't right now. Soon though.

The rest of the conversions will probably happen after Nov 6th and Sprint will likely replace the antennas with Nokia panels. They'll probably get it going mainstream by mid 2016.

 

Sent from my M8

Are they planning to leave coverage holes from Nov. 6 until whenever they replace the panels because my house will be affected...

Hi. I was wondering if there was a website that maybe sprint ran where I could see which WiMAX towers were converted to LTE. There is a particular tower very close to my home which still has not been converted and November 6th is coming fast and I'm starting to get worried. So if anyone could let me know if a place like this existed that would be great.

I heard from around here it does, but I guess I misinterpreted it. So it's range will probably more similar to band 4? Or does band 4 get a reach advantage from the 1700MHz uplink?

Yea now does band 4 compare band 25 and band 41 range?

In anticipation of the iPhone 6S which I will be getting, I was wondering what the range difference was between B41 with 8t8r and B25. Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have it

AT&T runs 10x10 on PCS in the Washington D.C. area.

ATT runs 10x10 B2 (PCS) in Seattle as well. It's on very few towers now tho so I think they've just started the 10x10 PCS deployment - at least here.

It's Verizon. Most of the coverage shown in North Dakota has been there since Mid 2014. I even totaled a car going up and checking it out last October. There was no Sprint coverage present in any of the areas. I checked using a Sprint device and a spectrum analyzer. But the coverages did all line up with Verizon sites in the places I checked. Someone has a modified Verizon device that is falsely reporting as Sprint when going through the Sensorly app, as best I can tell.

Aww...I was hoping it maybe was a sprint employee working on project cedar or something :/

I don't know if any of you have looked at sprint LTE on sensorly recently but the phantom LTE threat used to be in just North Dakota has spread to Montana and Wyoming. Any ideas what this actually is? Project cedar, rrpp, Verizon?

Soon as in next year? Highly likely.

 

Sprint is about finished in all it can do on the American side. It's up to Canadian cell carriers like Telus and Bell to refarm and shut down spectrum on their side along with whatever public safety agencies are doing up north.

I hate the way that they haven't given us an actual timeframe ????. Soon™.

Oh I see. One other question - if Nextel ran iden in the SMR band, why didn't that interfere with PS in Canada? How does using the band for LTE or CDMA change anything?

Quick question - why is sprint not able to deploy 800mhz in ibez areas like Seattle while Verizon is? Shouldn't Verizon have the same problem?

Were there any details on the expansion in the conference call today? All I've heard is that densification has started, but that seems kind of vague to me.

Yea any news on projects cedar or ocean or RRPP/CCA roaming?

No, not for the time being. Too close to Canada.

 

AJ

Aww I was really hoping for something - the LTE coverage is pretty spotty without 800mhz.

REQUEST TO PERMIT WIDEBAND OPERATIONS IN PORTIONS OF WASHINGTON

 

On June 25, 2015, Sprint Corporation (“Sprint”) filed a request for waiver of Section

90.209((7) of the Commission’s rules1 to permit 800 MHz wideband operations in portions of the

Washington National Public Safety Planning Advisory Committee (“NPSPAC”) region (“Region 43”)

prior to completion of the 800 MHz Band reconfiguration in that region (“Sprint Waiver Request”).

 

2 Section 90.209((7) permits Economic Area-based 800 MHz Specialized Mobile Radio licensees to exceed Section 90.209’s channel spacing and bandwidth limitation in the 817–824/862–869 MHz (813.5–824/858.5–869 MHz band segments in the counties listed in § 90.614©) band segments in NPSPAC regions where all 800 MHz public safety licensees in the region have completed band reconfiguration.

3. In the Sprint Waiver Request, Sprint seeks to use the 866-869 MHz portion of the band for wideband operations in four out of the thirty-four counties comprising NPSPAC Region 43 where Sprint claims the public safety licensees have successfully completed their retunes.

 

4 The four counties are Clark, Cowlitz, Pacific, and Skamania.

 

5 Sprint states there currently are eleven licensees6 in the Seattle, Washington and

Eastern Washington areas that have yet to complete reconfiguration.

 

6 According to Sprint, the eleven licensees that have not yet retuned are as follows: State of Washington, Department of Transportation; State of Washington, Department of Corrections; Eastside Public Safety Communications Agency; City of Seattle; City of Tacoma; City of Puyallup; King County; Skagit County; Valley Communications Center; Spokane Regional Communications Systems (STA only); and Island County Public Transportation Benefit Area.

 

7 Sprint also states there are two licensees, Kitsap County and Snohomish County Emergency Radio System, that recently completed their retunes but have yet to remove their “old NPSPAC” frequencies. Id. at 1-2 n.2.

 

 

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2015/db0701/DA-15-775A1.pdf

Anything on King County, WA?

We'll hear specifics Aug 4th, on their Q2 earnings call.

Can't wait ????????????

Ok so no device issues it turns out and I have updated my PRL but still nothing. It's probably a faulty device. My contract is up in August/September so I'll upgrade to an iPhone 6S and hopefully that will be better because I don't really want to replace my current phone considering I will only have it for another 1-2 months. Thanks for all of ur help guys!

Tweeted at Marcelo to find out if I could get him to say anything about VoLTE, Sprint Care tweeted at me that no date has been announced but to "stay tuned"; this tweet had the CEO Line picture attached. Hopefully by year's end?

Sounds promising ????????????!

I see. I really wish I could access that because the constant drops to 3G are really annoying. People at the apple store said my phone was fine. Idk. Maybe sprint has my phone provisioned weird so I'll go and check with them when I get the chance.

B26 coverage is nearly equivalent to that of 1900MHz EVDO when properly set up & optimized

So like -90 3G would be -90 LTE?

Huh idk. The place I'm staying now is in Swanee. The DBM ranges from -102 B25 LTE to like -120 and I drop to 3G a lot. Taking it into an apple store today to get it checked out. I'll let you guys know what happens. Also out of curiosity, how much of an improvement is B26 compared to B25 and 1900mhz EVDO?

Oh. Does anyone know if the i5S supports 800mhz? On the website it says B26 is supported but idk considering that I haven't been able to pick it up.

I live in Seattle so I know not to expect b26 for a few years but I'm currently out in Atlanta and I'm seeing nothing but b25 (I don't have a spark phone) and i drop to 3G every so often which is really annoying. Maybe I should get my phone checked out? Could it maybe be that not many towers out here have 800mhz equipment loaded onto them?

So I've been traveling around the US a lot lately and I have yet to pick up a B26 signal and I was wondering if anyone had a list of markets in which sprint has started to or finished deploying 800mhz LTE because I haven't seen any.