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this second panel.. was taking off at the end of last year... and as of today added back on.. any ideas why???

 

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Wouldn't surprise me. It was a pretty huge event.

The local news reported that all carriers had to add capcity....becaue of all the social media, calls , text etc...

 

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Was down at UTEP today. Got some good speed there.

 

 

 

 

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Yes, sprint added some additional capacity there for the pope's visit we just recently had! They had a big event at utep about 50 thousand ppl attended

 

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What is "getting the tower ready for upgrades"? The towers are already ready for upgrades.

are you sure tho, that Sprint will make some investments by this summer here?

 

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What is "getting the tower ready for upgrades"? The towers are already ready for upgrades.

Well, such as permits and all the political stuff.

 

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I wouldn't say that late. This year there will definitely be improvements. Question is how much and how soon?

Exactly, who knows .. will it be actual upgrades.. will it be getting the towers ready for upgrades ..

 

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NOOO idea where you're getting that. Try not to spew negative speculation like that. You WILL see some investments this year, as early as this summer. Exactly how much is unclear.

Heard that as well, but it is unclear to what the investment will be. Will it be actual upgrades will it be just getting the tower ready for the upgrades... who knows! Now if you are sure about that then ill take your word for it.

 

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Sprint could catch up. But I wouldn't bank on that anytime soon.

 

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Honestly, from reading and conversatin in all the other forums. I don't see sprint doing anything here until the end of 2018.

 

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Oh not there are improvments that come with these new panels and ruus. I believe CA support is one of them.

 

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Ohh alright.. so, in order words verizon is making the network future proof. So, unless any of the other carriers invests heavily in this market, verizon will be number 1 here for a long time.

 

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They are changing panels to a 6 sector set up. believe they are using Ericsson. I dont know the specifics though. They have done this all over my market in the past 10 months

 

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So, its not for enhancements just a replacement

 

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Thats Verizons new set up.

 

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What are could they be adding?

 

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Just seen work done on a tower site... does any one know... who tell cell it??

 

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El paso in general likely needs more towers from all carriers.

 

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So, you think all carriers need to invest money in this market??

 

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Yes but thats rarely the case when they have no band 41 deployed. We know the other 3 carriers in el paso are using at least 40-80mhz of frequency. Will 20mhz and a large customer base really work? I dont think so.

 

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U are right.... but even verizon the only carrier here who has launched there enhanced LTE.... is starting to really struggle in this market...compared to when it was first launched...so im sure they probably need more for capacity..

 

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Im not in your market to say for sure but based on my experiences when band 41 is not present in a market they start to use band 26 for capacity. It helps a little but when most networks are already using 50-80mhz of spectrum and Sprint in your case is only using 10mhz another 10mhz will likely not do to much because the congestion is so out of control that they would need 40mhz just to see a big difference. Here in my city 3G is often faster than LTE until night time or in the suburb parts of town.

 

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Same here... my buddy said... if sprint does the load balancing correctly it would help.... to were b26 covers the ppl inside and b25 covera the people outside

 

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It will help. But it may not be a huge improvement. Just depends on how large the market share is.

Yes, virgin mobile, boost mobile and sprint... are used here a lot...lower income city.... the ppl look for cheaper deals. The people that travel across the border mostly use virgin mobile and boost mobile

 

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That nasty rootmetrics report for that city should have brought it to sprints attention. Im sure they know but now maybe el paso will be a little higher on the priority list.

 

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Honest opinion... from you..... if the average speed is that slow... band 26 wouldn't do anything to help out here.. correct?

 

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That nasty rootmetrics report for that city should have brought it to sprints attention. Im sure they know but now maybe el paso will be a little higher on the priority list.

 

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That's what im saying... the slowest download in the whole country...it's almost embarrassing! Can't really do much on the network

 

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about a year ago when i was on the phone with them. I was told the B41 and B26 were schedule to be done withing 180 days.. I knew at the time that that was not going to happen. I did talk to a crew supposedly doing the B26 upgrade. That was like six months ago. So i think they were misleading or did not know what they were doing.

Yes, i had a time frame for both as well at the beginning of last year! 6 months, but then it went to TBD and not scheduled. A friend of mine was saying," at this moment sprint's main focus are the bigger markets".. Chicago, Kansas city, vegas and austin etc... so, here in a bit im assuming sprint won't have anymore estimated time frames.. it will get there when it does type of slogan... same as T mobile they don't have estimated time frames...

 

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el paso tx still the lowest....it sucks

 

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Is this Sprint's first outright win?

 

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Yes, i believe so .

 

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Sprint reclaimed title 1H/2016 first place in all categories and outright first place overall in Las Vegas. Impressive with CA can't wait until densification is implemented.

Just saw this as well. Very impressive!

 

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Will need to watch how small cells benefit Sprint. If this is the work of small cells then Sprint should also see significant improvement in the coming months.

Yes, sprint really needs it !

 

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I'm sure they made great strides but why does RMs claim Sprint's national rating worse this year than last year?

 

Looks like everyone else got worse too, except Verizon.

Apparently, verizons small cell roll out is moving at a very fast pace... so, that probably helped them out a bunch.

 

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