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Seems like another "screw the broadcasters and amateur radio operators because I want to download porn at blazing speeds."

Noticed a crew on the tower located near 12th and Fenton Rd in Flint. Flint area members might want to keep an eye on this site. For a couple of days I've been watching the tower off of Owen Rd behind the dealerships in the City of Fenton. The crew started a few days ago but I realized it wasn't Sprint when they were putting up 3 shorter panels per sector. Bummer. Still waiting for the site on the north side of Fenton to go live.

Already submitted as In Process but here's a better pic. Tower work was completed late last week or into the weekend. I-475 near Maple Rd in Burton.

Decent signal from the site located between Hartland and Fenton on Parshallville Rd near US-23. Picked it up southbound 23 at Center Rd and carried it to Hartland. It's a little hilly towards Hartland so the signal was too weak to maintain lock down in the valleys. I got off the highway at M-59 but I think I could've carried the signal a little further south. Picked up the signal northbound 23 near the Clyde Rd exit and carried it just over the hill north of the Center Rd exit. I am absolutely swamped with a final project for school else I would be mapping the heck out of that tower. In fact, I shouldn't even be spending time on this site since I need every minute I can. That's what late nights are for I suppose.

I'm looking to confirm the presence of nv panels.

Just drove by the tower at Grand Blanc Rd and I-75 and it appears NV panels have been installed on the Sprint rack. Can anyone in the Flint/Grand Blanc area confirm?

Back to regularly scheduled programming.... It appears work has been completed for a few days at the site on the north side of Fenton. Watching like a hawk watching for this one to go live.

I empathize for the most part. Samsung contractors seem be to employing the strategy of focusing on metro areas and freeways statewide. IMHO, Michigan is lucky to have the widespread deployment that is going on here that doesn't appear to be focused on one particular region. I've watched site go live that ring around my area. I've mapped a couple of these and let's say it's not just around my corner. That being said, no one should lose focus on the fact that LTE first went live in Michigan mid-January. It's only now mid-April. I haven't counted in a couple weeks but my estimation is Michigan has ~100 live LTE sites now entering the 4th month of deployment. Last update shows site completion percentage still in single digits. It's coming but people need to relax. I'm excited as anyone other Sprint slappy. What really frosts me, and it caught me in a grumpy mood the other day, is the holier-than-thou attitude. I'm not singling out any one person since it's sitewide and nationwide. But what makes someone in Hart or Howell or Big Rapids or Clare or Outer Nowheresville less important than someone in Metro Detroit or other large metro area? Just because you live in a big city? BFD! I mean, really, so what? About 90% of the sites in Michigan do not have live Sprint LTE. We're all waiting for it. Cripes, I mean really, it just got started. So, relax. Sprint has their reasons and methodologies for deployment. Some are known, some are speculation. We simply wait until it's our turn. Then when it hits our local tower, we map the s**t out of it on Sensorly. We're all in this together.

Really getting annoyed with the city folk and their entitlement attitude. What it really boils down is they are pissed when others have service and they don't - rural or otherwise. I remember metro Detroit members being fussy because other locations had LTE and they were "being ignored" like Sprint was doing it intentionally. I haven't been on the site forever but I can't even count how many posts there are of someone being fussy because they don't have LTE with the more informed members giving explanations that seem to fall on deaf ears.

I'm curious as to which phones map out no service areas. I've even shut off all radios on my EVO lte with Sensorly running and it flat out would not map points. Perhaps custom ROMs?

Fair enough. A couple weeks ago, Sprint service was down from a site outside of Fenton. Today it was a tower north of the Fenton area. Of course I'm hoping it's NV related.

If service is down at a site, is that typically indicative of upgrades in progress or just down for (x) reason?

I was at Al Serra for a good chunk of Saturday test driving cars around the dealership and got nothing. I mean I really wasn't looking but I do run Netmonitor to fill out my tower captures in the area and didn't score any LTE. Coverage from that site initially doesn't look like it extends up to Hill/Saginaw Rds that well though I am using the EVO LTE

Well, it seems a site went live out by Perry and Belsay. I'm not mapping in GB though. I worked the Holly area with the Belford/I-75 site. I'm waiting for the site to go live on the northern side of Fenton but there was still a crew on site and up on the tower as of this weekend. Have fun in GB!

Someone racked up some serious mileage mapping out the site in Shepherd. Props if it is a S4GRU member!

I don't know, none of it makes much sense to me. I mean it's okay for our government to force backdoor access into everything, warrantless eavesdropping, all communications filter through the NSA, Utah Data Center, etc and we're overly hyped that China *might* be spying on us??

Anyone notice on Sensorly that a site right in Brighton has an active LTE signal?

Site located just outside the northern Fenton city limits on Fenton Rd is in progress

Also in at least Michigan within the border exclusion zone that Sprint doesn't appear to be rolling out 800SMR so initial reports are panels are going up with 1 RRU.

The site located behind the Hartland Meijer (US-23 and M-59/Highland Rd) is being worked on. 1 panel + RRU per sector were installed. The crew wasn't coughing up any information. There is one other carrier on the tower but I'm not sure who it is. T-Mobile is located on the large flag pole on the hill across US-23 from Meijer. I believe VZW is on the tower just north of Meijer located on the Hartland fire station grounds. The only other occupant I believe on the Meijer site could be AT$T or Metro. Also, Sprint service was unavailable for a time today from the tower located in Tyrone Twp, Livingston County just SW of the City of Fenton. My wife's phone went into roaming and mine was picking up towers from Brighton, Hartland and Grand Blanc areas (per NetMonitor) when we crested the huge hill on US-23 by Center Rd south of Fenton. I'm curious if this was a random outage or hopefully related to an upcoming LTE upgrade. Just some notes for those in these areas.

While probably the best resource available to the everyday person, one still must be careful with Sensorly. Sensorly is only as good as the contributions made to it. What LTE is actually available in Michigan is *NOT* done justice by what is reported on Sensorly.

24 hrs is all you need to go from bouncer to Jeopardy champ.

I'm not a marketing person, I don't play one on TV, I'm not Unfrozen Caveman Marketeer and I didn't stay in a Holiday Inn last night so I'm not going to even try to figure out their strategy or armchair quarterback their moves. However, with my limited and novice insight, I could see a press release in the near future announcing the launch of GR, Metro Detroit, Flint and possibly TC, A2 and Lansing along with the Tri's already announced as Coming Soon considering the speed and breadth off the rollout thus far.

Sensorly.com or app is really your best friend in this case. Couple that with a sponsorship to this site and you'll get coverage updates and info on an almost real time basis. At least more real time than you will get even from Sprint. While Sprint has only announced the Tri-Cities as LTE coming soon, coverage is fairly widespread, though sporadic, across the lower half of the state. Take into consideration that Michigan sites just started going live with LTE in January.

Nowhere in Michigan is LTE "officially" listed by Sprint as available.