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    in HTC

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    i have an EVO LTE and want to put on the prl for 800mhz has anyone tried it out and if so can you help me out. also i'm not rooted.

     

    Unless you are in Chicagoland where a few 800Mhz 1x advanced towers are live, it is not worth anything to you

    Stories from your local sprint store

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    One corp store in the area had bad experience buying my moms phone, the guy knew jackshit, I was in a hurry and she got stuck with a Samsung transform. They didn't even show her how to make or answer calls after I had left. She couldn't even unlock the damn thing. She was a brand new smart phone user (and I told them that). The salesman told them, after I had left, that she should just ask me questions because I knew more than he did.

     

    Sent from my CM9 Epic 4g Touch using Forum Runner

    WiMax ~vs~ TDD-LTE coverage at 2500Mhz

    in WiMax

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    Clearwire has big plans. They plan on keeping all their native coverage and adding TDD-LTE over it. However, it will take them a long time to do it. And they most likely will have to get profitable to do it too. Big plans, limited funds.

     

    Does that mean the WiMax protection sites will become LTE protection sites?

     

    In the mean time, Clearwire will continue to add LTE to their pre-identified markets, in a hotspot format. They also will in the future add hotspots to Non Clearwire markets on Sprint Network Vision sites when Sprint requests them.

     

    Robert via Kindle Fire using Forum Runner

     

    So let's talk 18 months from now when LTE800 and LTE2600 is live. Sprint see's that certain tower is just constantly hammered, they would request Clear to add LTE 2600 support to offload the high bandwidth users and support the tower? Or would clear come in and upgrade multiple towers in the area for that network support?

    PCMag Tests Sprint's LTE Network

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted · Edited by jefbal99

    I disagree. I bought my Epic because it was the best phone I could get, even though I don't get WiMAX locally. The Samsung Transform would be what I would have been stuck with had I bought my device based on connectivity alone, and I think that the Epic was the clear winner there.

     

    Dear god no, I made the biggest mistake ever buying that POS Transform for my Mom, what a garbage phone. I can't wait for her upgrade to get her something new (with a slide out keyboard ;)).

     

    As long as the Sprint rep or other saleperson selling device doesn't sell you a bill of falsehoods (I.E. upgrades soon, new software by this date, 4g in a few months, etc) to make the sale, then you should know exactly what your device can and can't do when you walk out of the store.

     

    Sprint is doing great things and we just need to be patient as the network rebuild occurs.

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    PCMag Tests Sprint's LTE Network

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

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    Sprint has promised to do this and has completed some work, but none of the sites are actually officially up and running, are they?

    Also, network.sprint.com does not even show the network vision upgrades, and official Sprint communication about when particular cities will be upgraded has been extremely sparse. Many areas will not see NV improvements for a year and a half, reviewers cannot in conscience recommend a phone sold on a 2 year contract under these circumstances.

     

    Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk 2

     

    NV and the upgrades listed at network.sprint.com are two completely separate projects, both improving the overall network. Users should only be buying new devices based on information that Sprint has publicly released (the five or six launch markets). If a user wants to buy a new device out of those markets, then they should expect only 3g and nothing more until their market is announced. I can say that those band aid fixes from network.sprint.com do appear to be showing improvements. I have better data coverage at my office due to an additional data carrier that was added.

     

    Now that being said, Robert has some excellent data here that gives better ideas when towers are coming live and when regions may be available. Sprint is completely rebuilding every piece of their mobile network from the ground up except for the tower structure, they don't know if their might be weather delays or equipment shortages or other issues. The current speculation of the LTE blocking is the EVO LTE having a connectivity issue. We don't know that is the only issue, but as reported here, there is something with that device.

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