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I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. LTE is fairly ubiquitous in the Indy area now (at least the areas I frequent - downtown and the south side).

I agree, it is pretty difficult for me to go somewhere without being in LTE coverage.

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So can I interpret that to mean the spotiness we have now will continue?

No, it would be the exact opposite. The sportiness will get less each and every week.

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Let us know if you come across a WiMax signal. I think you'll get LTE first, though.

Sweet!

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newboyx, your tower live yet?

It went live yesterday (at least I noticed yesterday, I just happened to turn off wifi).

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I just would like to know why Sprint has decided not to provide service to the 2nd largest NASA facility in the country among other things.

Because they have paid people to crush the numbers, and even though it is inconvenient to you, they have decided that it is not worth the money to build a tower there at this time.

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While the S4 is going to be announced in a few weeks, do we know when it will actually be released? Could be an additional 8-12 weeks.

Exactly, it won't be on Sprint until June/July. This has been the pattern with every other Galaxy phone.

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newboyx, your tower live yet?

Nope

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However, it doesn't not mean that LTE is being broadcast for public use. Sprint has the ability to block a live LTE signal from consumer devices.

Yeah that too.

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Does being on the Acceptance Report mean it has completed the upgrade or it is approved for the upgrade/testing to begin?

It means that Sprint has verified that the upgrade is complete and functioning as designed.

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So Google might announce an update to Android at Google I/O? What a great piece of journalism. BGR is amazing ;-)

I don't even have sprint service,but would like to donate but I can't because I don't have a pay-pal account. Without getting a pay-pal account how can I donate 20.00 buck's.

You don't need a PayPal account to donate via PayPal. Just follow the link and PayPal will facilitate the transaction. No need to sign up for an account.

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Anybody get any update yet? Word is one is coming.

 

http://phandroid.com/2013/02/07/lg-viper-4g-sprint-update/

 

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I checked my daughter's phone about an hour ago. Nothing yet.

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Just got off the phone with Sprint. they are working on towers in my area and that is the cause for the issue.

 

Progress. sometimes hurts

They took down my site for about 2 hours today while working on it.

Here we go again. I just closed the tab with all of this typed out...

The view from my porch

Now the good stuff...

The electricians are done at this site.

The crew that bolted down the new cabinets,built the new platform and installed the new panels/RRU anticipates being finished tomorrow.

Next up will be the "integration" crew. No time frame was given for when they would arrive. I am guessing that they will do something with this

Hopefully I can make it out of work early enough to enjoy the awesomeness that is Crane Day

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Looks like we have power to the cabinets

And a shot of the label on the crates. They moved them closer to the fence just for me.

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They use a crane.

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What's crazy is considering this needs to be done at ~38,000 locations!

I know. I wish that all of the chronic complainers would take a second to think about the insane amount of work involved. "My" site is very open and easily accessible, and involves a lot of time and effort. I can only imagine the work involved in some of the more challenging sites around. Doing this kind of work in a busy/populated urban area with lots of foot and vehicle traffic must be a royal pain.

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Stopped by today. The electricians are currently running power to the boxes.

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Of all the places to put at the end, why put the densest and most populous part of the largest city in the Midwest?

 

I'm not understanding this.

Spite.

Sprint doesn't like people of the loop.

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I am really enjoying watching the progress on a day by day basis.

Looks like we have some digging today, and some work being done inside the base cabinets. Overall, it just looks like a busy site. Miscellaneous tools scattered everywhere.

Still waiting to see inside the crates...

 

It's Black & Veatch.

 

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That explains why Google failing me

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And we have the beginnings of a new platform

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Went over and talked to the workers today. He works for a company named Sratos Communications. They are based out of Brownsburg, IN. They did some of the work in Chicago while waiting for central Indiana to be ready for work. His crew will be doing the digging (see picture above) but a separate group from his company (the Civil Division) will be doing the actual fiber connection. His crew will also be wiring up the base cabinets. They are going to be building a platform to replace the current structure on the tower. The crane is scheduled to arrive on Thursday. The panel/RRU are already assembled, but still boxed up.

Interesting side note of the conversation. His company is being contracted out by a company name "Black Beach" or something similar. I couldn't quite make it out with cars driving by and other background noise, This company (Black Beach) is behind schedule on deployment. From the way he described it, Samsung is getting a little impatient with "Black Beach" not getting the work done as fast as expected. If this company doesn't get caught up (I am not sure if he was referring to Indianapolis or all of Samsung's deployment area) by March Samsung will be taking back control of the roll out from that company and handle it themselves or through a different contractor.

Stratos Communications doing some work this morning.

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