JonnygATL

Yeah, that really sucks. Big time.

I'm not convinced it has a gender. Lol. Glad you're still​ alive.

Haven't seen you around in a while. Thought maybe Fabian Cortez found you and tied you up in its basement!

Oh how I wish we had a map of planned (band 41 mini macros and small cell) sites like before (with NV). It would be amazing. Sources, come silently forward!!

I don't think a greater retail presence is the most important issue, either. Also, soccer just isn't the massive phenomenon here in the United States that it is in Latin America. As much as Marcelo loves the sport, he's barking up the wrong tree. Sprint and its storied and highly frustrating history of being "almost there." Or maybe "trying too hard"?

I don't think Marcelo was referring to VoLTE when he said "next couple of weeks." I think that was in reference to the other requests unless I'm reading that wrong.

I've had the same thought.

I was mostly kidding. Taking a satirical stab at an unfortunate financial situation. We can cool our jets.Given this use case, I'd really, really love to see these blanket Lexington, KY in band 41 goodness as they really need it. I have heard some isolated reports of folks connecting to it but whenever I am in town I cannot seem to find any. As a rapidly growing city and home to a major university, they could use the added capacity these mini macros would bring.

#rachet

Perhaps I haven't looked recently at the Sprint coverage maps for middle and south Georgia but, to me at least, it looks as if Sprint is showing much more rural coverage between Macon and Valdosta along the I-75 corridor. I've not driven that portion of 75 in years - partly because brown skin doesn't do well in those parts (I've seen "Get Out," thank you very much) - and partly because Frontier airlines has dirt cheap fares to Miami. So I'm usually flying over it. For any that have driven it within the past year, would you say that the actual coverage improvements match Sprint's estimates or is this overstated 75 corridor coverage?

They do need to execute better. For that, they definitely need more $ though. I guess it's sort of akin to Tmobile's initial focus on urban markets (to gain more customers and, ergo, more $ to funnel into capex) before moving into suburban and rural areas. I'm glad for Tmo...I really hope they do meet or even, ultimately, exceed Verizon's coverage footprint. It would be an interesting development as it pertains to competition. But to revisit Gunther's "70%" remark, I honestly never found that the least bit confusing. It was quite clear and obvious what he was referring to, as others have also pointed out. He was not at all talking about 70% of total Sprint sites but, rather, solely 70% of Sprint's sites that were LTE-enabled at that point, as he clearly said. So, say only half of Sprint's sites are LTE enabled (the # is greater than that). Say that # is 25,000. So 70% of 25,000 (LTE enabled sites) is 17,500 (sites with band 41 enabled). So if Sprint's total site count were 50,000 then that means that some 35% of ALL of Sprint's sites have band 41 active. This is all fairly simple math. I don't understand why anyone found that confusing. But, yes, that # needs to expand greatly..and quickly.

Agreed. I find this honestly just...bizarre. It leaves a general taste of profound "WTF???" in one's mouth.

Every carrier has their shitty areas. If I lived in an area where Sprint were shitty, I simply wouldn't have them. Lucky for me, Sprint is fantastic here in Atlanta. So why don't you just switch to a carrier that performs well in your area? Only seems logical.

Me niether. I-75 all the way from Atlanta to Dayton, OH is mostly LTE. Small patches of 3G. Significant portion is even band 41. Except for parts of Kentucky where you'll stay on bands 25 and 26. But no Sprint signal at all? I haven't encountered that in years (outside).

That's f&$#ing ridiculous...in a good way! I was just there a few weeks ago in Louisville (love that city, btw!!) and regularly stayed north of 45 mbps and even hit over 65 mbps on one occasion but as my GS6E is not 3xCA capable, I never saw anything close to this craziness. Glad to see it though.

Wait. Ok. I agree that Jacksonville should have better coverage. But you are ignoring one exceedingly important fact. The Jacksonville metro area is far smaller than the Miami or Tampa metro areas. And substantially smaller than Orlando's. City proper population and metro population are two wildly divergent figures. For example, the population of Louisville is nearing 800,000. The pipuyof Atlanta is nearing 500,000. However, the Louisville metro population is around 1.2 million while Atlanta's is nearing 6 million. Who's more important in your financial (ROI) book? Yeah, Jax is definitely far behind Miami and Tampa and a bit behind Orlando in that regard. Metro areas. Not the city proper alone.

Reading many of these posts in this 1000+ page long thread makes my eyes cross. And that isn't (solely) due to lack of brevity on the authors' part. *Sigh

That pretty much sums up Atlanta proper.... In more ways than one.

Jesus Christ. Yes. This. I have seen some of the most egregious instances of horrific grammar on this site. And here I thought one of the common threads we all shared was above average intelligence.

The only thing worth any hype would be the announcement of a plan to begin installing band 41 equipment on the vast majority of sites still lacking it. But that is most definitely not what we'll be hearing.

Correct

I detect sodium chloride. On a side note, I've been in Lexington and Louisville all week. Louisville has awesome band 41 coverage in the city with fantastic speeds averaging over 40 Mbps (DL) while Lexington still struggles with no band 41 but widespread band 25 second carrier. Speeds here in Cat country are much slower but still quite usable, averaging 5-8 Mbps.

To what? I was hoping the "surgical" thing was just temporary and that they still were planning to put 2.5 on most every site, medium term. At this point from where we began, I would call this medium or even long term. I guess my hopes have been sufficiently dashed.

The best thing about Lewisburg, West Virginia (and there are likely few good things) is that it's only 60 miles from Snowshoe via U.S. 219. God, I love that place. Snowshoe would be amazing right about now. Of course Snowshoe is too close to the Green Bank Radio Telescope Observatory and is, hence, in an RF National "quiet zone." Hello Wifi calling!

I read that report earlier today and was surprised and disappointed to learn of Sprint's (non) performance. Granted, 7 Mbps is entirely usable but with Sprint's massive spectrum holdings and deployment I'd love to see them performing at least at parity with the other guys (maybe not in terms of coverage/ Percent availability but at least in terms of speed).I wonder if Sprint really is this far behind or if something in their testing methodology could account for this..For example, the proportion of Open Signal users on each network or some other variable. Thoughts?