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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:
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AT&T is definitely getting going with C-band upgrades in NYC. In the last month the site on Hicks St at Clark St in Brooklyn Heights has had new antennas added. The site still isn’t on Cellmapper so I don’t know the eNB.
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Found another one of those weird non-confirming oDAS nodes with mmWave. This one is in Brighton Beach, in Brighton Beach Ave at Brighton 6th St.
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Stupid way to find this kind of thing but there's one of the new oDAS sites at 4th Ave and 36th St in Brooklyn
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I went to check it out and yea it’s not online yet. There is n77 in the area and my phone eventually connected to that, but the node isn’t yet operational.
