RichardXy

Is this number on top of the layoffs from the US Cellular purchase? There were over 600 laid off in Chicago alone.

And all of this happening as we enter the final two weeks of Clearwire's much ballyhooed TD-LTE launch "coming the first half of 2013" tsk tsk tsk 

I'm near Temple Heights and Oceanside Blvd. Just north of Temple Heights Elementary. Also, walking distance to the Oceanside Ale Works.

 

 

In some ares this works, in many more, it does not. It is highly variable.

This mainly works for San Diego. I went and did a quick cross reference with central jersey and it didn't work there. I did notice that a tower near my house got 2 speed upgrades yesterday and tonight I have LTE in my house for the first time.

If you see 2 or more "data speed upgrades" on a cell tower at network.sprint.com, it will also show up as a completed site on the NV site complete map on S4GRU. This has pretty much been the case for all of the towers in my area.

TMo had the fastest 3G in San Diego so I can't wait to see how fast their LTE will be. Also, they will have access to the MetroPCS spectrum that was never used in the San Diego market.

Maybe Softbank will make a cash offer for Clearwire to make Sprint less palatable for Dish.

You can check network.sprint.com for updates on the 3G improvements. If your area has less than 100 upgrades listed there then its pretty reasonable to say that LTE is not in your near future. When that site shows over 150 upgrades then you will probably start to see LTE popping up as well. Currently Sacramento is only showing 77 upgrades.

There was so much talk of it being mainly a software upgrade that it seems like they should be on track.

Yes, absolutely. The past is gone, there is only the present and the future. Things are getting better every single day, and it's not going to stop for a while.

 

And pretty soon here, we'll have 800 MHz voice, 800 MHz LTE, and 2500 MHz LTE. It's gonna be great.

Well hopefully they will approve 800 for nationwide roll out. I won't believe it til I see it. Supposedly the light squared deal was going to get approved but the government has a way of changing its mind.

My friends are consistently getting 40 Mbps download times on AT&T and I'm getting excited when the LTE icon comes on my ipad. Only time will tell if it was worth the wait. Until the LTE 800 is running it will be hard to make a fair assessment.

Sorry to hear about your plumbing. As I have long suspected, it's a lot easier to be patient when you are in an LTE area (like me!).

I'm getting an LTE signal indoors at my work. I'm right on the edge of the coverage area at El Camino Real and College Blvd in Carlsbad, CA 92008.

Gapple?

Goople?

Well there's always Google or Apple if the Softbank deal falls apart.

Over one hundred sites being worked on in San Diego. I think the first LTE testing signal will be within 45-60 days.

 

Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

I think 30 days max is plenty of time. I don't think they will want to stretch it into March. Sprint's customers are very angry in San Diego and I'm sure they realize that by now.

When Clearwire starts the TD-LTE expansion will they be using the same panels? A lot of the protection sites with the newest equipment were never really optimized for WiMax. If they start to use them for LTE wouldn't the WiMax also get enhanced because they would need to adjust the panels?

There aren't as many iphone users as one may think anymore.

 

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It's about 1.5 million per quarter with about 40% being first time iphone users.

Do you think that Softbank's forced divestiture of eAccess by the Japanese government will affect the Softbank-Sprint deal? Will it just give Softbank a larger war chest or will it make a merger with Sprint and Clearwire less desirable?

I haven't found any permits for Lake Havasu/Kingman, but that could mean that they don't need permits to do that. The announcement says "In the coming Months", so that could mean in the next 6 months. And it is possible that work has already started down there seeing as how Robert showed on a map that those sites will have Ground Mount RRU's. Ground Mount sites go much faster than regular sites.

If they are announcing 6 months out, i hope they will be announcing another hundred or more cities in the next few days.

I don't understand how Kingman and Lake Havasu can be announced when there haven't been any accepted sites in either city. These are in Alcatel-Lucent territory and the normal way things work is that the sites get accepted and then 3 or 4 months later the 4G is turned on. So this latest list must be talking about events that will happen in April or May 2013?

I guess that's fine as long as we get a cute Japanese mascot and some Panasonic, Sharp and Toshiba smartphones!

Maybe Sprint will become the prepaid brand and the rest of Sprint will get a new name like SoftBank USA after the buyout is complete.

Can you test it with Sensorly so it shows up on the maps?

I was in a Sprint store last night activating an iPhone with a friend (and it was 3G obviously) but the amusing part was that the in store Sprint wifi didn't work and the rep had to go to the window to get a signal from the free AT&T wifi at Starbucks.