mgeb2000

Got LTE yesterday at SEHS in Bradenton. 4 bars, download speed of 11.30

well the speed is not too great even if its LTE

I'm getting Sprint LTE , (two bars) at St. Joe's on 26th St. in Bradenton

OH, HAPPY DAY!

 

I arrived at work in Bradenton this morning to find sweet, sweet LTE coverage from the corner of 14th St. & W. Cortez Rd. all the way down to about Walmart.

 

Sorry, can't map, on iOS.

Same friend also texted me at around 1 pm today that near the Palmetto Walmart she had LTE. I went right by there yesterday and didn't pick up anything, so maybe this may be another new one.

My friend just texted me that she got LTE briefly on I75 between SR 64 and Parrish! I don't have time to check it out myself, but wanted to post in case anyone is out that way.

Funny.... I went to the sprint store to pick up my new modem about 4 weeks ago and the sales lady was telling people that lte was done and just needed to be turned on. Then as I'm checking out with my tri mode modem she tells me the same thing. I smiled and said "I don't think so" she insisted, so I happy said have a good day and went on my way. Feel sorry for all the people that get the idea its right around the corner. Now I know whay there are so many people screaming where's my lte. Reps are so misinformed. This was the store at university by jason's deli.

I totally agree with what you said, as it happened to me. When the iPhone5 came out in I was shopping around carriers and went to the Sprint store on 41 in Bradenton, where they told me it was already on in Tampa, that they had been working on towers in Bradenton and they would be on by December. I figured no big deal to wait a few months for unlimited and went with Sprint. So far nothing. Come to find out that the truth was that back then LTE was just starting to come on North of us and not much if anything was happening in Bradenton. The people in the Sprint stores are misinforming customers and that's why so many people are upset when there is still no LTE yet in March in Bradenton. Hopefully we'll get it here soon!

It seems like work might finally be starting in Bradenton. Another unmarked truck at the cell site by my work today! I didn't have time to stop but I did notice it wasn't the AT&T crew that was out there last week.

 

Also, service quickly deteriorated as soon as I connected to the tower. I'm showing a 3G connection on my status bar but don't have an actual data connection. I went ahead and shut off iMessage and text keep failing to send at and interval of about 20 minutes or so. I don't make a lot of phone calls during the day so I don't know if or how voice service has been affected.

 

Will make a stop by the site after work to check out what's going on!

Where in Bradenton was this?

Thanks for the information. I'm not knowledgeable like some of the posters here, so I can't be very helpful when it comes to the towers, but I have been watching on my phone and will let people know if I do get 4G LTE and where it happened.

Does anyone have any more information on when 4G LTE is coming to Bradenton? Sprint told me when I got my iPhone 5 in the fall that it would be by Dec 2012. That date has come and gone.

Had a sign of hope today on my way to the airport in Tampa. There was a brief 1 bar 4G LTE (lasting no more than 5 minutes) on my iPhone 5 while on I-275 heading north just after crossing the Skyway bridge on the St. Pete side. Nothing else from there to airport or anything on the Bradenton side of the Skyway. Didn't get anything on the way back from the airport, so I'm wondering if it was just a fluke? Any reports on when it will show up in Bradenton?

Brief 1 bar 4G LTE on my iPhone 5.today while on I-275 just after crossing the Skyway bridge on the St. Pete side. I guess that's a sign of hope. Nothing else from there to airport.