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vryan44

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  1. Here in southeastern Michigan it is pretty common. Can't speak for other areas though.
  2. Verizon does not have the site density for contiguous lte in the AWS band here in metro detroit. With the speeds i'm seeing on family/friends/coworkers phones, AWS is already needed on most urban sites. After that, the lte on AWS will only be like "hotspots". Too many people are on Verizon around here.
  3. At&t has some sites around here with some intense downtilts. I can recall seeing three towers within one square mile from each other, each equipped with their 700 mhz panels. Each panel facing the other two sites are pretty much pointed directly at the ground. Personally, I believe they could have achieved full coverage by installing the lte equipment on one or two of the three sites. Verizon achieved it by only using one site. But Verizon's lte speeds have been plummeting, so maybe that was a good move on at&t's part. I should add sprint is collocated on the same three sites at&t is on, all of which have had the new IBEZ network vison panels added. Of course the downtilt is nowhere near what at&t's is, but thats obviously because 1900 mhz doesn't need that kind of downtilt.
  4. I dropped sprint and signed up with AT&T almost two years ago, and the difference between the two networks is tremendous....for now anyway. Other than a few dropped calls, which knock on wood only occurred during the first two months or so after signin up for their service I have been more than happy. There was a 2-3 day power outage last year in my town and att was the only carrier that had service. Even verizon was out. Att was the only carrier that even bothered bringing generators to the two or three sites that were out. I do plan on switching back to sprint once network vision is completed, although I'm rather disappointed in the fact that I live in the IBEZ and that sprint isn't even deploying equipment that supports the 800 service in my area. I really hope they come back after and add 800 capable panels to the sites because I want to be able to brag to everyone I know with verizon when my future sprint phone has a stronger more usable signal than them. But really from what I've heard of how great it is it just really bums me out. Oh well I better stop complaining. Lol
  5. But it is stated that before the merger they had 51,000 sites. That's almost as much as att with a much smaller footprint.
  6. I'm not sure I believe t-mobile having 51,000 towers....
  7. In the past year I have seen almost a dozen at&t sites go up in about a 20 mile radius of my house, some rural and some urban. It has helped make at&t coverage almost perfect everywhere I go. If they are doing the same in other areas, they may not be bluffing about that 10,000 macrocell number. I guess we will see.
  8. Verizon's voice quality always seems to be more tinny than sprints, in my experiences.
  9. A ton of sites should be coming online soon in east michigan. I know of at least a dozen towers in macomb county that have the nv panels up but are not yet accepted.
  10. It will be interesting to see which sites sprint will choose to have TDD-LTE deployed on.
  11. I would think that once network vision is complete this problem wouldn't be an issue anymore, with all the sites having the same hardware
  12. I have seen some sites like this in northern michigan along some rural highways, with two panels facing in each direction of the highway. Probably att as well.
  13. Hmmm I always thought an airave had to be using an unused portion of Sprints licensed spectrum. Thank you for clarifying.
  14. Does anybody know what kind of plan Sprint has in deploying small cells? In this article, I am assuming at&t has already started deploying small cells around Wrigleyville. Based on how the author describes the mobile sites. They are being "placed on existing structures", and can be as small as a laptop." To me it sounds likes a small cell rather than a macrocell. I could be wrong though. http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20130401/wrigleyville/att-adds-more-internet-service-wrigleyville
  15. I've always wondered, while in an area with all the possible carriers deployed on the macro network, is it even possible to use an airave? And if so, how will it work without creating a bunch of interference?
  16. Hope you had a great birthday and Easter Robert. With all the hard work you put into this website, you really do deserve it.
  17. Oh wow I didn't even notice, I apologize.
  18. Verizon and att aren't ripping out and replacing their whole network, like sprint is. All they are doing is slapping an lte panel on the towers. They aren't even touching their 3G network which is the reason they aren't dropping calls. It really bothers me that people always whine about how sprint isn't doing a good enough job with their network rollouts and then compare it to verizon or att. Please do you homework before you continue your ignorant statements.
  19. Adding to that, even sprints lte 1900 will penetrate better than tmobiles lte on aws I would guess. Then again, tmobile has the greatest site density at least in metropolitan Detroit, compared to any other carrier by far. So that may make up for it. As for rural areas though, completely different story. Tmobile is an urban carrier and that's what they seem to be focused on. Att and verizon are really the only options for rural customers, tmobile isnt planning on overlaying their current edge network, but even if they do, there is no sub ghz spectrum for adequate coverage. One day sprint may be a 3rd option for rural customers with smr. But more towers will be needed to fill In the gaps.
  20. I'd also like to mention every time I see a sprint ad on facebook, the comment boxes are always filled with completely negative thoughts. One person wrote "im with sprint worst mistake ever i hope this company dies in a fire" Sprint needs to explain to the country what they are doing to their network a lot better than how they are now. And thats one thing they have failed terribly at.
  21. On facebook I just saw a sprint advertisement with some pretty angry customers commenting on it. Thought i'd share it with you guys.....
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