JonnygATL

Thanks man. I see that means no 1x800 here yet. Oh well...in time.

I have the authority to make CDMA1X 800 acceptance reports and have made plenty in my home state.  So, if you want more CDMA1X 800 acceptance reports, all you need to do is pay me to come to your town because I have the spectrum analyzer, engineering screen know how, and S4GRU street cred.

 

AJ

Ha ha, yes, then come to Atlanta!  Can I pay you in fried chicken and/or waffles??  But, seriously, if I'm connected to 800 and running signal check (lite), then my screen should display the signal strength on line #1 for "1x800" instead of "1xRTT," right?  Because right now it's showing "1xRTT."  

To be clear, if I'm connecting to 800 then signal check (even this lite version I'm running) would tell me, correct?

Whoa. That was a jumbled statement(s?) if ever there were one. But I think that, after sifting through the verbal wreckage, I was able to catch your drift.

I'm fully aware of that. I think you totally missed my point.

Whats the Difference? Sprint's WI-MAX was Setup by clearwire and not sprint themselves

WiMax is sort of like WiFi so its capable of delivering high speeds too.

Here is some irony for ya.  I live in Atlanta.  I waited one full year after LTE deployment began to get an LTE phone just so that I'd have a reasonably consistent experience.  It works fine but my old GS2 on wimax - where it could get it (let's be clear here) -  pulled consistently higher speeds toward the end (as compared to what I get on LTE).  Much higher, in fact.  

But, I recently moved to another area of the city and I can hardly get a Sprint signal here at all.  My roommate has a Clear spot for wifi here...and now, guess what?  I'm back on the wimax network for data here at the house (wifi)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  LOL.  I guess I've come full circle!

It has yet to show up on my Sprint Galaxy S4.  I even tried to force it manually.  So far, crickets.

Yeah the Fourth holiday slowed down progress all across the nation.  I wouldn't fret though..I'm sure this week will bring lots of new updates, especially now that the Noah's Ark flood of 2013 seems to have finally loosened its death grip on the Southern Tier.

^ what he said.

Also, regarding "penetration," I recommend a particulary slick and long lasting personal lubricant.  

Mount Everest (Chomolungma) is far taller than 5200 m above sea level.  Bad reporting in the article.  Oddly enough, the base station is at base camp -- at best.

 

AJ

PRECISELY what I was thinking.  The top of Mount Everest sits around 28,000 feet or better.  Base camp is just above 17,000 ft...which would more closely correspond to the 5,200 meter elevation provided.  I mean, seriously....we need to get with the SI program in America.  The last absurd holdout.  LOL.  Go figure.

No words.  I swear sometimes I think there is no hope for humanity.

I got it now thanks.. Another question now that it has been accepted should we expect it to be broadcasting 4G from now on?

Sometimes yes, sometimes now.  This just means that inspectors from Sprint have approved Ericsson's work.  It may or may not be currently live.  It likely is or will be very soon...but sometimes they can sit for several days or even weeks before broadcasting LTE.  Maybe someone should drive by with sensorly on and get to mapping some purple in the Bluegrass!

Which map should it be posted on? I live very close to this area and would like to go check out the location.  Also I just made a donation via paypal

Once you're approved as a sponsor, just got to the Sponsors Forum and search for interactive maps.  It's under Network Vision Sites Complete Map.  

Again, you'll have to be approved as a sponsor to view it.  Since you say you've already donated, it shouldn't be long before you're approved and ready to delve deeper into the site!

Thanks

Well it still has to go through FCC approval, of course.  But I don't imagine there should be any issues there.  But, still, saying it's "official" that Softbank will acquire Sprint is inaccurate.  The shareholders may have approved it, but we still must have FCC approval (even if it's likely it has not happened yet).

It won't show up on the map until the next refresh.

Thank you, sir!

You guys do realize that an LTE site supposedly went live in the East Kentucky market this week, right?  I tried to find it on the map but it doesn't seem to be showing.  I've contacted Robert for further clarification.  The information is on the latest acceptance reports from yesterday. 

The guys that work on the cell tower said all everything is in place and the two weeks they will be testing them sheet that they are going to turn on evening on at once so they checked in last night you where value place in furn creek is that's what they see staying

It's extremely difficult to read posts with blatant grammatical errors.  Please try and use proper punctuation and spelling when posting comments.  Otherwise, your message gets lost in a confusing sea of mistakes.

The Muffinman is correct.  This thread is entirely dead because it no longer warrants discussion.  4G LTE in Atlanta is now fully ubiquitous.  It has been for some time.  The only areas that could be termed "spotty" now were "spotty" before as 3G goes, given deployment for both (for the time being, anyway) is at 1.9 ghz.

But, yeah, I think only Atlanta, Chicago and Houston can claim essentially wall to wall coverage at this point.  Probably Indy, too, given its extremely forgiving terrain.  

Sprint's moving up and it's been worth the wait!

If it smells like sh-t, it probably is.

Well, not that he needs any defending, but his post does say minutes. But, anyway, not sure that's not even accurate. ... lolz lol ah

Oh crap.  I think I misread that then.  Oops.  

If I eat something that disagrees with me, I sometimes experience a Cornhole Mass Ejection.  And those do travel surprisingly fast.

 

AJ

Barf, Beavis.  BARF.

LOL..yes, it does look eerily similar.  But it's awesome, agreed.  Especially noting that the only true BB strongholds (and I use this term rather loosely here) are in the Greater Toronto Area (no real surprise there) and some also in Miami, NYC and Los Angeles...all places with massive international communities.

Uhm no? Lol it happens every 10 years. It's 2 years late well 2 or 3. But it's going to happen over the next year or two. During the solar maximum, the sun will emit tuns of solar flares and some will be sooo bad, It'll fry circuit boards. Which means, we'll loose power for a very long ass time. Not just a town, but the whole nation will go dark. Solar flares emit EMP's. If one big enough happens, it takes 30 minutes to reach earth and if we aren't prepared. We're going to be back in the dark ages aka super duper 

http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2013/solarmax/

Nothing you are saying even begins to make sense, even at a basic level.  You're implying that Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs, not the EMP electromagnetic pulses a la Matrix that you seem to believe are real) can now travel in excess of the SPEED OF LIGHT?  I assure you that this is nowhere near being the case.

For reference (and I fear this may be a wasted effort on my part), light travels at roughly 186,200 miles PER SECOND.  That's incredibly fast and is, in fact, the ultimate speed limit in the universe (as far as we know).  The only thing known to move faster than that is the actual expansion of the universe itself.  

Light traveling from the sun takes a full EIGHT MINUTES to reach earth.  That's because the earth is a long way from the star we call our sun.  90 million miles, there about.  So, even at 186,200 miles per second, light still requires EIGHT MINUTES to make its journey as a photon from our sun (Sol) to the earth.  CMEs could NOT POSSIBLY move faster than that.

Where in the hell are you getting your greatly misinformed "information?"

Not quite.  However, 800 equipment is being installed with the CDMA 1900 and LTE 1900 equipment at each site.  And it's believed that there will be a lot of CDMA 800 sites that will start being accepted rapidly after June 30th.  However, we are not expecting thousands of sites to go live immediately.

 

Robert

Robert - 

Thanks..that's precisely the sort of information I was looking for.

As strange as it sounds, I almost have to wonder if Sprint marketing's cartography department does not have the ability distinguish between CDMA2000 RSSI and LTE RSRP. Robert, what was the figure of merit that we saw Sprint determine for the edge of LTE coverage, -119 dBm RSRP? Could it actually be that the maps are being projected out to -119 dBm RSSI instead?

 

AJ

This is extremely interesting and possibly a colossal "did I do that?"