techfranz

I thing GMO must have happened in my area, because we have eHRPD everywhere, but the tower panels seem unchanged. Speeds seem better than a few years ago but remain between 400kbs and 2mbs.

Can Sprint have Shentel manage the nationwide network?  They may have macro sites first!

Yes I was thinking the same thing, that Shentel should be given more markets,...maybe not Nationwide but at least the Northeast. Shentel seem to do an excellent job.Shentel seems to be committed to Sprint.For example a few years back they created an initiative to completely cover I-83 with 3G from York to Baltimore. It is an amazing stretch of excellent Sprint Coverage. I used to run out to the Loucks Road Sprint Store in York, PA as well, because it was a very nice store and had great customer Service.I would be happy if Shentel would come east a bit of Harisburg and take over the Lancaster,Ephrata, Reading area, but that is probably wishful thinking as we will probably remain in the Philadelphia Market.

Just discovered this cool sprint tower map.....https://network.sprint.com/

There used to be real old version of this map with colored dots on it and planned and future towers on it.

A couple overlapping Sprint mixed with reconditioned Nextel Towers would be great in Ephrata/Leola area of Lancaster, PA, especially running the SMR800.

For example the municipal Tower on Quarry road still has it's Nextel Panels, but it does not show up on the map, while other towers in the area have had their Nextel Panels removed.

When AT&T and Cingular merged it seemed like we got twice the GSM coverage. 

And Nextel 800mhz was slightly better and more bouncy (bounce in and bounce out of signal...) than 1900PCS.

So even if there is some overlap in a covered area -the denser coverage would be a plus.

Then again lots of opportunities to colocate on other carriers towers around here as well.