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I just found some interesting information:  

See http://www.sprint.com/landings/iPhone

It indicates the iPhone6 is Sprint Spark capable.

Fascinating article: so basically, as time marches on and Network Vision is rolled out, technology is also marching on and Sprint is making attempts to accommodate the latest handsets.   Totally clearly understandable and interesting technically.  

Eagan on the other hand does have some LTE goodness right near Lone Oak and 77 near the Home Depot.

Anecdotally my local Sprint provider indicated that LTE would be activating by March 2013 in the Minneapolis area so to actually have live LTE in multiple locations as soon as late November 2012 in this area shows they are being realistic about widespread deployment taking a while.

And the biggest problem I suspect is they can't upgrade every tower nationwide simultaneously - it's a big job.

Any ETA's on the Minneapolis/St. Paul market?

Some towers are up now in the Twin Cities as of late thursday the 29th of November or Friday the 30th. See Sensorly's maps for the locations:

http://www.sensorly....t/lte_310sprint

The cool thing is that friday it seemed to be pretty sparse coverage but more was showing all of the time over the weekend so if this keeps up we'll be in good shape in short order I'd say.

I actually drove over to Eden Prairie to try it out and had speeds nearing 30k downloads and 8 k uploads. Was pretty nice.

Chanhassen!?!?!?! Eden Prairie! So close! I'm in Bloomington. Time for a little drive!

Yesterday in the Star Tribune there was an interesting article about Clearwire being one of the first 4G providers in the Twin Cities area and Sprint is poised to acquire 50.8 percent of their business. Interesting.

The pertinent quote was ""We continue to work with Clearwire on identifying sites and timing of their LTE network build, which we will use to help with capacity on our LTE network," said Sprint spokeswoman Stephanie Vinge."

See the article here http://www.startribune.com/business/180641171.html

I also am curious on any ETA in the Twin Cities area.

Nothing in the Twin Cities area thus far that I've been able to detect.

So my question is: when do these installs typically take place? During daylight hours or during off peak?

I'd be curious to see if these poor installer guys get bombarded with massive RF doing the installations while the older equipment sits at

full power right next to them.

I get the impression a lot of work is going on on getting the equipment and instrastructure installed prior to cutover.

I work in I.T. and generally when we are working on a server cutover we keep the old equipment running (but not live) alongside the new when we are configuring the new equipment but not yet ready to cut over 100%.

I take it this is what's happening here.