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Yeah, I've never bothered to stop at the McCall/Leonard site because it's readily apparent whether or not a monopole site like that has been upgraded.

Let's see if you can compose a post that has even a single period in it.

Lol, I guess you haven't been following my photographic escapades over the last few months. There's only two sites in the city Clovis that have not been physically upgraded yet: The one at the rodeo grounds and the one over by Home Depot at Shaw/Willow. There's also two sites in the county that haven't been upgraded yet, as far as I know: The one out on Bellaire that you went and took pictures of plus the one out on east Shaw, between Leonard and McCall, I believe. It has been about a month since I went to check those two out. As far as completed sites are concerned, the following Clovis-area sites are ready to go, hardware-wise: 1. Alluvial and Peach (this was the first hardware-complete site in Clovis; mid-september) 2. East Copper 3. Minnewawa and Shaw 4. Herndon and Tollhouse 5. Ashlan and Clovis 6. Academy and Shaw 7. Herndon and Thompson It's that stupid rodeo grounds site that is holding things up, I swear. The freaking permit is issued! EFFING WORK ON IT ALREADY

Lol, good point. Bakersfield should be next up for a launch of some kind.

Well, regardless, Clovis is getting pretty close to at least a 3G launch. If any users in the city of Fresno (which seamlessly transitions into Clovis, btw) got the text, then yeah it is definitely a load of BS because they're not getting squat anytime soon.

I finally got the "your new network will be largely complete within the next month" text. I would assume they're referring to Clovis.

Dun worry, I got this.

I'm not sure who the second from the top is, but I believe the second from the bottom is sprint.

That is the sprint site, but they're not working on sprint's rack.

I'm actually kinda glad because there is no real progress (cabinets or panels) in the city of Fresno. Well, there is one site that has been physically upgraded. It's over near river park.

Oh yeah, there's definitely hardware in the air down in BK. There's nobody down there that is neurotic about spotting, though, so the current upgrade density is unknown.

To make the claim that Bakersfield would have 100% 3G acceptances within 2 weeks is a big enough stretch. To throw LTE (and presumably 1x 800, too) into the mix just throws the whole thing into a realm of lunacy. I wish it weren't true, really. We all just need to be realistic. When it happens it will be great, but there's no point in getting all hung up on an impossible date.

Prepare to be disappointed.

I was in farmersville yesterday and it was crappy. The cell service wasn't very good, either.

Verizon is up top, but I dunno about the bottom rack.

Sprint is what's on the smaller tower. The permit is issued, but no work yet. I check that tower every couple of days because it covers the south end of my house.

Sounds to me like they're working on the tower.

Looks like it.

Adding to that, Clovis has multiple updated sites, as does Bakersfield. Fresno is unique because there's virtually zero site activity. Sanger doesn't have any progress either (as of a month or so ago, anyway) but that's not altogether unexpected because Sanger has exactly one site. Fresno has.... quite a few. For that many sites to be untouched, something "bureaucratic" is afoot, I think.

It's just as likely to be February 31. A hard date like that is on a level of optimism that exceeds that of most religions.

Clovis probably, but Fresno does not look good at all. AT&T's deployment of LTE in Fresno involved a metric ton of brand new stealth monopoles, which I suspect was mandated by the city in order to issue the permits. I can't think of why AT&T would incur that extra expense of replacing a bunch of towers unless they were forced to. Granted, there's some new AT&T stealth monopoles in Clovis, but not all of them were replaced. In Fresno, I can think of one or two existing monopoles (one of them being across Willow from the old Regency theater) that were simply upgraded with the new LTE panels. In case you want to see this site replacement ballet in action, check out behind the Savemart at the Herndon and Marks/Valentine area. Regardless, I am confident that the city of Fresno has only one updated Sprint site. This one site is not a monopole, either. I went on a drive yesterday to some sites that would, ostensibly, be easier to permit because they are in industrial and lower-income/lower-NIMBY areas. No dice. It also bears mentioning that there's usually a major delay between site upgrade and site "turn on," and even when it turns on, there's a good chance it wont be broadcasting LTE, at least initially. If I were in Fresno, I would be looking to change carriers.

Woo hooooo look at it go

Go take some pictures of the sprint tower and we can at least tell you if it has new LTE capable hardware on it.

There's permits pending for the Bellaire site but they are kind of ambiguous (could be for Sprint, but not certain) or they are for replacing the microwave equipment.

You can't cluster launch one site. Kerman will, in all likelihood, come online in the same manner as other small cities/towns with single sites.