Turgenev

 

 

Then I'll keep the faith this month and hope this comes true. I just wonder if the 3G problems will be resolved simultaneously to the LTE unveiling, or if the two facets are unrelated, leading to an odd disparity of coverage.

Faith still waning. ;( Just disappointed that other MD locations go hot on Friday while the DC market suffers.

As for DC, they are just about to start lighting up 4G all over the market. It will be a lot like Baltimore where there was virtually no LTE for a long time, then all of a sudden a whole bunch goes live right before launch. DC will have quite a bit of LTE sites go live in November.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 using Forum Runner

Then I'll keep the faith this month and hope this comes true. I just wonder if the 3G problems will be resolved simultaneously to the LTE unveiling, or if the two facets are unrelated, leading to an odd disparity of coverage.

This is not accurate. I spent four days doing LTE testing in a fully deployed area with several Sprint devices. It's as spotty as Sprint 3G and voice is now. It's nothing like WiMax. It will get even better when LTE 800 is added next year. It will be spotty in active deployment areas, of course. However, coverage should be uniform after deployment is complete in a market (except for maybe Baton Rouge ).

 

Robert

Quick time line for me.

Until Aug 2012: DC 'burbs (Germantown) was mediocre at around 50-100kbit/s on 3G, but it worked.

Aug-Sept 2012: Obvious 3G improvements. I get up to around 1.4mbit/s and it's stable.

Sept 2012-present: Suddenly, a challenger appears, and vomits all over the Sprint towers. I am LUCKY to get 5-20kbit/s in areas that get 4 full bars of 3G.

Sprint knows about it and says that "refunds will be issued when the problem is resolved". It's been broken since Sept. I got the GNex in May thinking "mid year 2012" was right around the corner. I had a Nexus S 4G and its connectivity ran circles around this phone.

I love my GNex, but Sprint's dropped the ball, badly, by taking not one, not two, but an order of magnitude TEN steps back in the DC area for service reliability on 3G, let alone 4G LTE progress.

Hearing that other markets are being fast tracked? Great, but if fast tracked leads you to where DC is now, then your fast track plan is obviously fubar.

The worst part? Verizon LTE is 4 bars everywhere I go, with 15-20Mbit/s steady.

If I weren't on a family plan, I'd have left already. I get that they're building a possibly better market environment, but when they reduce the existing one to tatters for months at a time, with no timeline to hope?

Faith wanes.

What about Washington DC! sheeesh.

This. Service in the DC 'burbs has been atrocious for nearly two months now.