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    Network Vision/LTE - Kansas Market (including KC, Topeka, Wichita, St. Joseph)

    in Markets

    Posted

    Thanks for the reply.  I'll let her know she doesn't have to stump on her phone :)

     

    Although as of last Thursday/Friday now I am getting rock star signal (both LTE and voice) on my EVO 4G LTE.  Which building does she work out of?  I know the signals in this area are hit and miss at times.  Now I generally get a drop zone once I go northbound on State Line Road and hit the 95th Street and State Line Road hill.  Grr!!  But this is the price we pay for improvement then I am all in baby!  Have a great night.  

     

    Patrick

    Network Vision/LTE - Kansas Market (including KC, Topeka, Wichita, St. Joseph)

    in Markets

    Posted

    Anyone have network (Sprint) problems today in the Overland Park area?  Specifically off of Wornall Rd. My girlfriend said she was having problems making calls all day.

     

    Hey there!  Sorry for the delay but the week your girlfriend was having issues there was a tower either being worked on or down because where I got full bars and LTE it was roaming for a day or so.  I bounce off of the tower on 78th and State Line by the McDonald's on the corner of 79th & State Line (but not the newly built "stealth" tree looking tower).  It is the tower across the street near the suite of offices in the beige/light colored building.  I hope this helps you out!

     

    Patrick Wong

    CEO speaks of "phase two"

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    CEO Dan Hesse talks very high level about "phase two" of network vision.  

     

    http://www.wirelessweek.com/news/2013/08/sprint-revealing-phase-two-network-vision-soon

     

    Enjoy the reading!  

     

    Here is the more in depth article from the Barron's site from the above paraphrased article from WirelessWeek:  

    http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2013/08/27/as-sprint-cuts-jobs-can-it-eclipse-verizon/2/

     

     

    Patrick

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    Network Vision/LTE - Kansas Market (including KC, Topeka, Wichita, St. Joseph)

    in Markets

    Posted

    I am not sure if this is the right topic to put this under and I am sure I will be banished from the forums!  But I wanted to throw out there if anyone has this issur or not.  I am having tower handoff issues on the newly marked green dots (3G/800/4G) towers only as I drive along K10 to Lawrence from KC.  I keep dropping calls all the time and at the one spot off of I-70 (3G/800/4G tower only) as well a.k.a the "Chicago effect" (my personally coined term) ha ha.  I also get a ton of dropped calls while driving around in Lawrence area.  Is anyone else experiencing this as well?  I have the EVO LTE. 

    Sprint TD-LTE 2500/2600mhz Discussion

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    I am sure this has been posted elsewhere!  But I could not find this article with an analyst speculating with Steve Elfman's info about implementation and some more solid timeline on BRS spectrum!  I do not know how true the information is but just some food for thought for you 2.5Ghz folks!  

     

    http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/analyst-sprints-nationwide-25-ghz-lte-network-could-be-boon-tower-companies/2013-08-01

    After 1 Year of Sprint LTE

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    If you ever go to the Sprint Center, they got an indoor LTE DAS system recently, so that should be really nice.

     

    Last time I was downtown a couple months ago, service was pretty good. Still lost most service in Midland Theater though... I'm sure 800 will help tremendously with that.

     

    I know for sure the Liberty Memorial/National World War I Museum has an LTE DAS system as well.  I have seen the rack and saw the construction of it as well.  It is super nice to have almost 4 bars inside the concrete structure and have LTE speeds as well!  Although it will be nice to have the SMR band lit up in the KC area to cover some of the fringe coverage in non DAS areas.  I do know that Sprint is generally willing to do these things at minimal costs for the community.  Go Sprint and why I will not leave the network.  I have not seen or read of any other companies do this for their communities.  But please correct me if I am wrong.  

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    Sprint TD-LTE 2500/2600mhz Discussion

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    http://www.wirelessweek.com/news/2013/07/sprint-records-16b-loss-wake-iden-shutdown

     

     

    Although this article does not state timelines. It does reiterate the "importance" of 2.5 spectrum for Sprint after the Clear acquisition. It did state which bands the handsets will have coming later this year. Of course (drum roll!) the iPhone will not play ball and support all the bands of NV. I thought this would be good reading for everyone! I figured it was about time I added substance to the site! Have a great day everyone!

     

    Pwong

     

    P.S. In case (like me) are too impatient and lazy to read the article then this is what key takeaway from the article!

    "Elfman said the company will have a few tri-band handsets in the fourth quarter that will support the company's spectrum holdings in the 2.5 GHz, 1.9 GHz and 800 MHz bands. Beginning in 2014, all of the devices Sprint sells will support the 2.5 GHz band. But Elfman said that comment should be taken with regard to all devices except for the iPhone, which he declined to comment on."

    Network Vision/LTE - Kansas Market (including KC, Topeka, Wichita, St. Joseph)

    in Markets

    Posted

    Does anyone know if current work in the Kansas Markets (specifically Lawrence and KC metro) is causing dropped calls and delayed text messages?  I am curious because I personally have been experiencing much more dropped calls, lower/no signal in areas where I used to have 4G or 3G data sessions, and fewer 1x signal where it used to be a couple of bars on my HTC EVO 4G LTE.  Is this happening to anyone else?  I am just curious to see if anyone knew of reasons why this is occurring?  Are they going back to the nodes and adding 800 panels?  I appreciate everyone's input.  

    Sprint's Tarazi: Network Vision 2.0 is our HetNet strategy

    in General Topics

    Posted

    I think a better way to think of this article is to think NV 1.0 is more of a macro network level so think MANs & WANs then NV 2.0 is more of a micro level where you will fill in the gaps and leverage the 800/1900/2500 portfolio even better via Pico Cells and Distributed Antannae Systems (DAS) to increase coverage to where people always complain about like the nook and crannies of buildings & arenas. An example of this would be when I worked in a building as a contractor where the whole building was made of concrete and never got any good signal period. So I think this is not really anything different than what NV when done in its entirity was not going to be a sweet bad mother of a network! This is just more of my interpretation of the article. Please do not pelt me with rocks!

    EVO LTE has trouble reconnecting to 3g.

    in HTC

    Posted

    Hey Flyer, I get this on occasion too. I have to do one of two things oftentimes:

     

    1) Restart the phone

    2) Toggle airplane mode

     

    My observation is the phone is thinking of going to either 4G or 3G so it is "thinking" in my opinion. I would think AJ or someone with better knowledge of the inner workings to shed some more light on this. I am in the KC market and have 4G in about 75% of the places I roam around to in KC area.

     

    Patrick

    Network Vision/LTE - Boston Market (all of Massachusetts)

    in Markets

    Posted

    Hey guys, apparently Boston is getting a taste of some early LTE sightings. I would not necessarily classify this as a "goes live ahead of schedule category" but more of a few testing towers/deployed towers in an unannounced market. I just thought I would share this with the forum and our fellow readers in the Boston area! Have fun with the higher speeds!

     

    Patrick

     

    http://www.phonearen...chedule_id33146

    Network Vision/LTE - Kansas Market (including KC, Topeka, Wichita, St. Joseph)

    in Markets

    Posted

    I live nearby K7 & 95th Street area in KC area and have seen LTE on my phone since Monday but disappears after an hour or so. Then I go to sleep in the evenings with 3G and wake up to 4G data signal and have run several speed checks and averaging around 4-5Mbps. I have seen many other parts of KC that my 4Gindicator will magically appear. I just thought I would mention this and inform folks that 4G is probably go live soon in the KC zone as I keep getting a lot of non-blocked towers that appear while I am driving along in the Kansas City market. Just my $0.02.

     

    Patrick

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    Network Vision/LTE - Chicago Market

    in Markets

    Posted

    If he wants to term out anyway, why not? Beats dropped calls or an ETF...

     

    If I needed my phone and was getting 20-30 dropped calls a day, I would roam for a few months until NV blows through. After that, unroam.

     

    Or I would go prepaid and utlitze Google Voice number porting service and have it simulring the prepay phone (using another network of course ha ha!) This is a much more cost effective way of riding out the rest of the ETF.

     

    This is just my $0.02

     

    Patrick

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