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Cringing after reading the comments on this. Good article though.

At least a hand full of sites here in Louisville use AT&T for backhaul. Probably more but most of them it's hard to say.

Voice is all I can confirm. I do not have a Tri-band device yet. I do have an LG G2 preordered though.

Thanks for the heads up. Everyone be on the lookout for some 1X800. Seen some testing this week in Louisville.

Couple of things here. Check your LTE signal strength when you are near the other towers, make sure you use something like signal check as your bars only show 1x signal strength on stock Samsung phones. On Sensorly, I don't see the dark purple of strong signal anywhere except in the vicinity of the known tower. Most sites do overlap other sites to an extent. For example, In Louisville one of our first live sites was in Newburg, but that signal covered a huge area between the Waterson and the Gene Synder, and from I-65 to Bardstown rd. Also, remember that there is more to backhaul than what we see at the site. There are two ends to every connection, just because it is done on the tower side doesn't mean it necessarily is on the other end. Some sites site for months before they start broadcasting. The one way to tell without a shadow of a doubt that you are on an aditional tower is to go into your engineering screen and check your serving cell. Your profile says you have an S4, to check open up your dialer and type ##debug#, if it asks for a password it is sprint. Find LTE engineering on the list and tap it. Serving cell should be an item on this screen. Each tower has three unique serving cells, one for each sector, N,SE,SW. Typically 1-169 is the N sector, 170-338 is SE and 339-507 is SW. Being in an Ericsson market the trend is for each sector to be 169 from each other for the same site. For example, 44, 213, and 382 would be from the same site. Remember that you can be connected to 1x on one tower and LTE from another. Good luck, and please let me know what you find out.

They shouldn't have to climb the tower for that unless there is an issue. LTE 800 equipment was installed at the same time as 1900. It's installed as a package. That's way the LTE 800 deployment should move a lot faster than the first round as all they have to do is put in the carrier card and test it. They do not have to wait on back haul this time around. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

I've got a a spreadsheet of ky sites that I'm keeping track of. I have every East/West KY site in a map with the associated LTE serving cells for sites that have been reported. My map and spreadsheet are sponsor info, but the stats are info Robert gives out. Since its been awhile I thought I'd update everyone. Looking at my map I'm surprised Lexington hasn't been launched yet. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

Progress update for East KY NV Completion: 63.87% LTE Completion: 43.70%

West KY completion update: NV Sites Accepted = 32% LTE Sites Accepted= 24% Enjoy

Did you try cycling airplane mode? Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

Should have seen the reports from a year ago when Chicago was in full swing. One week period, Oct last year: Chicago (217),

For those in the area of Shelbyville Rd and Hurstbourne, I noticed on lunch today that 3g seemed to have improved a lot. They must have done a legacy speed upgrade, as there is no NV accepted there, yet. Noticed that my phone was very responsive and actually loaded S4GRU on Tapatalk. Normally everything times out here. So while I waited for my lunch at Jason's Deli, I ran a quick speedtest. .80mbps down at 12:30! Enjoy. (Normally to use data in this area I have to use my T-Mo hotspot.)

Thanks for the report. If you have the Sensorly map installed on your phone you should map out the coverage if you go through there again. There are currently three sites near Evansville, and one farther north a bit. More will be coming soon.

It'd be nice if they did, but I doubt it by next week. There are sites in Louisville that have had the physical work done for months but still haven't been accepted. There is more work to be done that we don't see. Hopefully none of those sites will be in donut mode when they are accepted. We have a few here that are still not working right. Seems to be one certain area that the sites are in donut mode. Most of the other sites are working within two or three days of being accepted around Louisville. Bullitt County and very southern Jefferson county for some reason seems to be a problem. Out of four accepted sites around me, only one is working normally, and it spent a month in donut mode. Most people don't even know we have LTE in this area yet because they can't connect to it normally.

We should have a social media campaign and get every member to post the article to their site(s) of choice. With six degrees of separation we can make some noise. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

Something is finally live in Bowling Green. Someone did a little sensorly mapping. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

Assuming this is the sprint version, anyone think they might reintroduce a triband version of the note 3 like we heard about for the s4? Maybe after the first of the year? Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

Patience, Evansville just got their first sites this week. Went from nothing to 4 lte sites. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

Louisville, Lexington, and E-town aren't on the list either. Look at the progress we have.

I'd be happy with Ericsson fixing the two donut sites in my county. Going on two weeks now...

For those wondering, we are up to 17 sites that have LTE accepted in Louisville as of today. Locations are on the NV sites completed map here: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/517-nv-sites-complete/

Thanks for the report. That site was just accepted the other day. Nice to know it is broadcasting and not in donut mode like the two sites by me. There has been a good amount of progress made, but that is one of the first sites in that part of town. Sent from my Galaxy S3 using Tapatalk 4 Beta.

I can answer this better now that I am at home. That sort of information is kept for sponsors. It is on of the many benefits of supporting this site. Info on becoming a sponsor here: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/1195-information-about-s4gru-sponsorship-levels-and-how-to-become-a-sponsor/ This: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/517-nv-sites-complete/ is the sponsor map that shows all of the sites with some form of acceptance (3g, 4g, 1x800)as well as sites reported in-progress by members. I myself have reported many sites. There are also the legacy network maps that show every existing sprint tower nationwide, useful when hunting for in progress sites. I also have a map that I maintain in the KY sponsor thread (Link below for sponsors) of accepted Louisville sites with their associated serving cell IDs, useful when trying to figure out which LTE site you are connecting to. Currently I have all the reported sites for Louisville and immediate area, as well as a few down south that have been reported to me. Premier sponsors get even more good stuff like lte 800 and TD-2600 maps for select cites. There is some very useful stuff in the non-sponsor area such as Digiblur's How to spot Sprint NV panels and RRUs. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/2902-how-to-spot-sprint-antennas-and-rrus-ericsson-style/ There is also the daily acceptance reports here: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/3913-network-vision-site-acceptance-report-updates/ Though without being a sponsor you won't know where the update took place at. Hope this helps.

that's in the sponsors section. Sent from my Galaxy S3 using Tapatalk 4 Beta.

No one Knows when a sites going live until it goes live. Some are weeks after they are accepted, some go live before acceptance. Common reason for a converted site not being accepted is back haul. Sponsor section has maps of all sprint sites nationwide as well as all sites with network vision work accepted or reported in progress.