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AirlineFlyer

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  1. Nice! Also, I didn't previously catch on to this design easter egg. Love it!
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  6. I was there last October and noticed this site. My iPhone pulled 333 Mbps down, 53 Mbps up on LTE. Pretty good!
  7. 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.
  8. Looks like eNB 875868 was a high capacity Sprint site with a sector pointing at Citi Field. Wonder what T-Mobile does with it.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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)
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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?
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. mmWave oDAS is here...and it looks nothing like what NYC approved as the design
  21. 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?
  22. Oh, huh! The Verizon pin is on the wrong side of the street on cellmapper then, while AT&T is missing entirely. Thanks!
  23. A few sites of interest here in Fort Greene, Washginton Ave at DeKalb. I know the first is Verizon eNB 84421, running LTE only on those small antennas. But unlike T-Mobile with a similar site in the area, speeds are very good, 200+ Mbps. Across the street, though, I'm not sure who this is. It's not mapped on Cellmapper. I suspect it's AT&T but mapper for that carrier is weak. Any thoughts? Verizon Unknown, maybe AT&T?
  24. Really weird to see a co-location like that. Does anyone actually use Spectrum Wi-Fi outdoors? It's has been universally awful in my experience. Maybe Spectrum Mobile phones prefer it over cellular? I'd love to see Verizon start to co-locate its equipment on some of the many rooftops that Spectrum has its junky old Wi-Fi equipment on, though.
  25. Looks like another Verizon site with mmWave is up in Brooklyn. Flatbush and 6th Ave. Also does it look like it's sporting LAA on the side focused right down Flatbush? eNB 84402.
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