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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.
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Nice! Also, I didn't previously catch on to this design easter egg. Love it!
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I'm not yet sure if they're working on the Verizon or T-Mobile equipment, but a team is up on the roof of the building near the corner of Ashland Pl and DeKalb Ave in Fort Greene. The site is currently lacking n41 for tmo and n77 for Verizon (it already has at least mmWave), so I'm interested to see what happens here.
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So it seems like CityBridge has a single test site up in LIC. It doesn’t have the LinkNYC kiosk but the 5G mini tower and antenna shroud is there. I hope one of us makes it out there soon. This thing is fugly. https://www.thecity.nyc/2022/3/20/22985681/linknyc-5g-tower-lic?utm_content=buffer45c52&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=buffer
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I was at Industry City yesterday and one of the buildings has a Verizon n77 site located on it. I was able to get a 2 bar n77 signal inside with speeds hovering around just under 200 Mbps and pings around 30ms. Nothing very impressive seeing as the site was right next door. I wasn't actually able to test outdoor speeds because anytime I went outside my phone latched on to mmWave, so the 200 Mbps I was getting clearly wasn't a backhaul issue. I have not been impressed with n77's range or speeds so far.
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The city's small cell approval data has been updated again as of a few days ago if anyone wants to take a look https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Mobile-Telecommunications-Franchise-Pole-Reservati/tbgj-tdd6
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I was there last October and noticed this site. My iPhone pulled 333 Mbps down, 53 Mbps up on LTE. Pretty good!
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I think all of those restrictions are fair and necessary. There are parts of Manhattan with four or five Links on a single block, it's crazy. And these 5G Links are stupidly ugly, so the fewer the better. It's nuts that we can't just string up some mmWave antennas on existing poles like Verizon is doing in so many cities. They're really unintrusive.
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Looks like eNB 875868 was a high capacity Sprint site with a sector pointing at Citi Field. Wonder what T-Mobile does with it.
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For all the hemming and hawing Verizon did about how dire the need for C-band spectrum is they really didn't seem to focus on NYC, like, at all. It's really weird. I guess they are content with the service delivery as it is for the time being. Why rush to 500 Mbps when 100 Mbps is fine.
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I know this is primarily a T-Mobile/Sprint forum, but has anyone seen any evidence of Verizon C-band in NYC yet? As expected, nothing so far in Downtown Brooklyn since none of the sites have the hardware.
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Spotted what I believe is some Verizon C-band on Long Island for the first time. Co-located on the same building as T-Mobile eNB 40458 in East Rockaway. 5G NW was pushing 200 Mbps at the site before C-band goes live next week.
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A monopole in Hewlett right at the LIRR station has been upgraded in the past few months to a full n41 array This was a few months ago (top Verizon, middle was Nextel, Clearwire, then Sprint, bottom started as Metro PCS)
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I think it’s still just Verizon right now, but Boingo activated LTE in a portion the LIRR tunnel between Atlantic Terminal and Nostrand Avenue. The rest of the tunnels between Nostrand and Jamaica are still dark. What’s online now, though, is stupid fast for LTE.
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I always suspected those protrusions were covering antennas but never knew for sure, thanks! It looks like the antennas are facing towards the BQE and away from the Park, unfortunately. And I don't see a third sector anywhere actually facing the park. Hopefully T-Mobile changes the config a bit to boost park coverage.
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That’s great. T-Mobile is always so weak and slow in Brooklyn Bridge Park. I didn’t know Sprint was on this building, are the antennas visible from anywhere? Are any other carriers on it?
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Clearwire had small cells?! 🤯 There is so much legacy Clearwire stuff around the city, it's crazy. But I never knew they used small cells.
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It’s funny, that Valley Stream site was the exact one I was thinking of. The top section for T-Mobile hasn’t had the cover over antennas in years. The Lower larger portion, I believe, is a Verizon addition. Some of these also had Metro latched on the exterior. I highly doubt Valley Stream allows a full replacement to monopole since these do sorta blend in nicely, so T-Mobile’s network is always going to struggle here until it can figure out a replacement plan.
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Going to be fun to see how this plays out on Long Island, specifically through Nassau and Valley Stream. T-Mobile has a ton of these flagpole sites that just can’t fit modern antennas and there really aren’t many suitable sites to move to. Wonder where they go from here.
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Verizon site 81345 by Prospect Park on Ocean Ave at Lincoln Road appears to have C-band ready to go. Looks to have shrouded mmWave but I was unable to find that signal. There’s also a Verizon site with mmWave right by Barclays Center on Pacific Street that isn’t currently on cellmapper. Wish I could map with iOS.
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mmWave oDAS is here...and it looks nothing like what NYC approved as the design
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The data was updated today: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Mobile-Telecommunications-Franchise-Pole-Reservati/tbgj-tdd6 NY SMA (Verizon?) looks to be installing a really dense network in Staten Island. Could this be a mmWave deployment?
