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Thanks for clearing that up for me. It makes sense now.

One thing I don't understand is I don't think my Note 2 has 2 data paths and no simultaneous voice and data but I connect just fine to a tower in a Ericsson market that is both 3G and 4G accepted and the triband phone users in my area drop LTE anywhere near it.

Thanks for the article Robert, as always great job. 

Its not a small moon it's my new phone....

No CDMA1x advanced then?

Lets hope few get GMO and they get upgraded to full builds. It would suck to have the full NV not cover the 99%+ I have been bragging it will.

I was hoping for a 2nd Missouri market start to prove to me Joplin wasn't a typo or just lumped in with the Kansas market due to proximity. I know, I have no patience. I guess I will wait some more. Maybe I am getting a little patience.

If your in one of these new cities have you noticed work or LTE yet?

Its been less than a month, it only feels like a year. I don't seem to wait very well. I hope some of these start popping up in the update lists soon. I guess the middle of December is more realistic that would give them a month of work and a month of waiting on stuff. That aways seems to happen no matter how well you plan. That lady on the pink motorcycle makes it look so easy.

PCS is PCS. No new radios will be required to use the USCC spectrum.

Thanks i Just now found the answer and was going to edit my post

It was in the wall post a while back about the note 2 (my phone)

I think its a typical phone.

• CDMA1X + EV-DO band classes 0, 1, 10 (i.e. CDMA1X + EV-DO 850/1900/800)
  
• LTE band 25 (i.e. LTE 1900; PCS A-G blocks)
  
• LTE 5 MHz FDD carrier bandwidth
  

Great job.

Do the phones shipping today that are LTE have a radio that will work with the added spectrum?

Stick a couple capacitive buttons on either side of the home switch and a microphone and call it the Galaxy Note 3.

"Purgatory Markets."

LOL Nailed it! Exactly how I felt.

Joplin is part of Sprint's Kansas City MTA PCS A block license and uses Sprint's Kansas City SID 04139. But not all market definitions match up. And Joplin, like Springfield, was an affiliate market -- first Roberts Wireless, then Alamosa PCS.AJ

Sounds like if you look at Joplin one way its in the KC group for NV, look another way its in the St Louis NV group. You guys fight it out and post which group the deployment thinks its in. I hoping for STL but I know my luck.

Two other things.

Its month since the list of 100 LTE markets, anyone think Sprint will start doing a list like this once a month?

The last thing is "market" is confusing. The Kansas market and the Missouri market are one type of market, big area with lots of cities verses the list of 20 markets that are basically 20 city/towns.

Just my 2 cents. Sorry couldn't stay away till January, I tried.

Found the quote from the press release about the next 100 cities. "During the pre-launch phase, customers with capable 4G LTE devices may begin to see 4G LTE coverage in these areas and are welcome to use the network even before it officially launches." I must say blocking them is a let down. I know when it gets here I would like to be on the cutting edge. I guess it helps keep down the "it sucks" in <your city here> talk when its really just not done yet.

Sprint has been pretty consistent in blocking LTE connections at completed sites after they accept the improvements from the Network Vision OEM/subcontractors.

You mean until the market is officially launched you can't use it? I thought I read were they were going to let people use them as they become usable.

I guess this further confirms ST Louis MO is not going to happen this year.

Would it be safe to assume if your not on the lucky 100 list you should not expect LTE for another 6 months?