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So it has been that way since at least 2020. I guess the franchises don’t get out there and inspect these things very often, if even monitor for degraded performance. That’s disappointing.
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Spotted another damaged oDAS antenna on 5th Ave and Dean St in Brooklyn. Not sure which carrier it belongs to but I emailed the extenet NOC and they replied within minutes with a ticket opened. This is right by Barclays Center and probably happened as the scaffolding around the adjacent building came down after seemingly a decade
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Hey wow, a new Verizon macro site in Downtown Brooklyn! It’s sandwiched between Flatbush Ave Ext and Fleet Pl, and Myrtle Ave and Willoughby St. It’s just two blocks south and one block west of existing sites, but will still fill in a weak spot around City Point on Flatbush and hopefully boosts coverage inside the complex. Installation still ongoing but it looks like the typical LTE/NR antenna, c-band, and mmWave/CBRS to be shrouded. Very good for me since this is basically across the street from my apartment.
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As if the city needed more stuff to strap/mount/bolt/hide cellular antenna on to, now MTA is getting in on the action at station entrances by hiding antennas inside the globes of stairways. Those globes aren't exactly very high up so I'm really interested to if anyone ever utilizes this idea.
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That building, specifically DeKalb Market, installed its own DAS repeater system for the four carriers. It's really odd and interesting. Cel-Fi has a whole case study on the installation here: https://www.cel-fi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/ebook_RCR12.pdf Annoyingly, T-Mobile works great inside the Trader Joes but Verizon and AT&T are totally dead. Not sure how AT&T Passpoint Wi-Fi is managed, but it's a nice option since the building's own Wi-Fi captive portal really doesn't work.
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What’s with the high mmWave ping times on T-Mobile?
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They finally got around to installing the oDAS node on the pole used in renderings by the city and…it’s the older version lol. Elsewhere Brooklyn, Verizon managed to squeeze c-band on to a site in Fort Greene that previously only had two antennas per sector. Nice to see that, but still plenty more to go in the area.
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Tested this site with an iPhone 12 from the same vantage point as this photo. Couldn’t quite break the 1 Gbps barrier, but it was close.
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Spotted a Dish site in Brighton Beach, co-located with T-Mobile eNB 894983.
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Thanks for confirming that my switch to Verizon a year ago was still the right one 😂
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Here's a better shot of that one. And yea, it's literally a block away from a T-Mobile site that even has mmWave. This particular site would fill a nice mmWave gap for Verizon, though. But as of this weekend I didn't notice any real change from it.
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Ericsson AIR 6419 just replaced an older AIR 32 on this site in Fort Greene. eNB 56195. Guess that explains why HSPA vanished last week 😂
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Is T-Mobile's 3G HSPA network still alive and kicking? It was last week but now my phone doesn't seem to see it anymore
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I really can't figure it out. I mean, I've seen these damaged by building scaffolding in the past, but usually the antenna breaks off or is at an angle. But this one had nothing around it. And the sheathing broke off entirely! Street View shows it broken since at least when they last went by in July. I emailed Crowne Castle's DAS NOC, we'll see if they ever fix it.
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So that’s what the inside of an NYC oDAS Omni directional antenna looks like! Crowne Castle node at Jay and Sands St.
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Another Link 5G, on Vanderbilt Ave at Myrtle Ave Fort Greene/Clinton Hill. What bugs me the most about these things, aside from the hulking nature of them, is the placement. This particular area needs no help with cell coverage. In fact, it’s directly under a Verizon macro site with 2 Gbps mmWave. T-Mobile has 3 sites within just a few blocks. Even ATT is just three blocks away. Unless Dish intends to use these things for its rollout, most of the Links are likely going to be empty forever.
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You also snagged a shot of the new oDAS in there, too. I also spotted one while on LIRR above Atlantic Ave. They’re starting to really get rolled out now.
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A whole lot going on at eNB 48052 at Park and 31st. Anyone know if the extra panel above the n41 antenna is c-band?
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A legacy Sprint site inside the LIU Brooklyn campus in Downtown Brooklyn has been dismantled in the past month or so. T-Mobile has its own site on the campus and a large building was built directly in front of the Sprint antennas so no real loss here. It was never mapped for LTE or 5G but it may have been eNB 565 in the CDMA map.
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This is what bugs me. Link is going to be installing these giant things regardless of whether or not any carrier is interested. I'm betting many of them, probably a majority, will never have any carrier equipment installed at any point and we'll just be stuck with them forever.
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One of those awful new Link5G towers is located at East Broadway and Rutgers in Manhattan, directly underneeth T-Mobile eNB 47000...a site that even has mmWave lol
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This may take years to actually result in anything, but we can expect to see the carrier have access to MTA right of way to install antennas in the near future. They're going to be expanding the Transit Wireless network into the tunnels, but the contract also have a provision to build out carrier coverage on MTA ROW. So think something like antennas mounted on above ground structures, or monopoles on ground level sections. We shall see!
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Meanwhile, when I went through JFK T5 last month with Verizon I actually had fantastic C-band coverage all over the airport, much to my surprise. Inside T5 I was getting nearly 500 Mbps down. I guess T5’s DAS now has C-band. https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/5106801625
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An unmapped AT&T site at 47th St and Vernon Blvd has also gotten C-band equipment
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Just barely over the NYC border in Valley Stream LI a T-Mobile tower that once has T-Mobile up top, MetroPCS in the middle, and Clearwire converted to Sprint below has recently has the Sprint equipment removed. Yet for some reason the Metro equipment remains in place. Sorry about the bad night shot. Back in 2020:
