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  1. Most of South Bay (Mountain View / Sunnyvale / San Jose (Northern in particular) has LTE with 1x800 too. From the Bay Area markets, I'd say that this will be the next announcement. Unfortunately, it seems like they are saving SF for last.
  2. BTW. Could B41 be working, but SignalCheck Pro is just not able to properly detect it? I saw the following note that came out with the update today: Version 4.171 (11/6/2013): Removed recognition of Sprint LTE Band 41 connections. Feature will be improved and included in a future release.
  3. I suspect that the Clearwire 2600 network is up around SF. If you have a tri-band phone, give it a whirl. It might work well outside. Frequently, the LTE towers in downtown are overloaded or signal is weak, but your phone still picks it up. In those cases, i turn off LTE and use 3G which works fine - certainly better than 3G in Omaha, Nebraska.
  4. Yes!!! Downtown Mountain View site finally got accepted! Only with 3G/4G (not 1x800 yet), but I'll take that!
  5. Back to the original question though. It looks like all the action right now is in San Jose. Just look at all the "white pins" of towers in progress. I wouldn't be surprised if San Jose got prioritized above San Francisco. I hope I'm wrong since I live in SF.
  6. Thanks for the info. I was under the impression that it might take a while for the phone's antenna to retune from 1900 to 800 and connect to the tower quickly enough without dropping the call.
  7. There's lots of 800 in northern San Jose. I'd guess there's not enough accepted towers to give you a good 800MHz coverage.
  8. Looks like deployment in SF has slowed recently. Would love to see some new towers and 800 MHz signal
  9. There's lots of 800 Voice in South Bay. The problem now is that my Galaxy S3 drops a call when switching between 1900 and 800 towers. The 101 & 237 interchange is particularly a bad spot for calls getting dropped.
  10. Regarding SFO and northern cali, is the 800 SMR hosting LTE too, or just voice? Is 800 LTE deployed anywhere?
  11. I don't think all towers around MV are upgraded yet. Some definitely are, as I do see LTE periodically, but even if you're standing outside at the Caltrain station, there's no LTE in sight.
  12. It's usually a sign of work in progress. Things should settle down in a few days. Then a week or so later, you might see LTE. However, with towers spaced as close as two blocks apart, you might be seeing a lot of flakyness. The site is predicting LTE launch for SF in February. While that might be optimistic, there's still much work left to be done. Where exactly in SF are you having problems?
  13. Nice find. Looks like some of the workers sent east to help after Sandy have resumed their work.
  14. Judging by lack of any new towers in SF and peninsula showing up on sensorly, my fear of slow progress has been confirmed. The "Current Production Rate Completion" date was just updated from June 2013 to May 2014 on the Deployment Running List page. (http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/212-network-visionlte-deployment-running-list/) Also, no progress in terms of "Sites Complete" has been made between 2.5 weeks of Mon, Nov 12 and Wed, Nov 29th in San Jose markets and SF markets. *sigh* :( :( I'll try to stay optimistic and hope that there's lots of work in progress that will all get lit up in the next few weeks, but grrr...
  15. Are those for all of SF market, or specifically within city limits? Also, does "21 tower upgraded" translate loosely into 1% of towers upgraded? Still seems like a slow pace, but glad it's faster than what I thought.
  16. So I was comparing the rollout status page this week vs last week for all markets, and "% of towers complete" went up by only 1-2% for most locations in a given week. At 1%-2%/week, rollouts will take at least a year in most areas. Given that many expected "launch dates" (like LA area) or just a month or two away, is the rate expected to accelerate at some point soon? For example, when i look at San Francisco sensorly map, I haven't seen a single new tower lit up in at least 3 weeks, yet I'm that even at a rate of 1 tower/week, the rollout will take years. (ok, that's me speculating at this point, since I don't know how many towers Sprint has in SF proper)
  17. I was on a Halloween boat cruise. Takes a few days for the dots to show up. I went wine tasting on Friday, and found LTE in V. Sattui and Korbel. Yes, you roam on the road to Korbel, but get LTE once actually there. You'll find a dot there on Sensorly. The planning department must have many wine lovers.
  18. I haven't seen much expansion is this market for the last two weeks. It used to be that you could find new towers weekly, but hard to say if work is done to prep more towers or if people and equipment have been sent to help out LA and other markets.
  19. They way I read this is that Sprint will have only 14MHz after rebanding from iDEN in the 800MHz band. If they move 1x/EVDO to that band as well, how will they have room to also migrate LTE in that space. 14MHz seems rather crowded for both LTE and 1x/EVDO.
  20. That wasn't me, although I was happy to turn on my phone last week upon landing and watch it go straight into LTE.
  21. Hmm... in that case maybe there's just more Sensorly users on 101 than other areas.
  22. Added more 237 towards 101 side. I wish that sprint would put more priority towards along caltrain and rail lines rather than over highways. I can easily use the extra bandwidth on the train, but if I'm driving, 3G is fine for Waze and SoundCloud. I'm sure it's a matter of weeks before both are covered, but just my 2 cents.
  23. Walking wouldn't affect it, but people who walk, have less opportunity to charge their phone during class, so might be less inclined to run sensorly vs those who run them in the car while charging and at their desk during work. My theory anyway. On the other hand, i totally agree that pedestrian areas should be covered sooner. Those that are driving, don't need as much data since they need to drive. Waze, Gmaps and SoundCloud seem to survive fine on 3G.
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