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Update: I now see LTE down in tiny Jordan Minnesota!

I'm going to do some mapping over my lunch hour here!

Update: does the sensorly maps on the phone get updated before the actual website? I'm seeing purple spots near the flying cloud airport, the MSP international airport as well as the Crystal Airport. I am not showing these on the actual website looking on my computer here.

Sensorly map is interesting: it's showing LTE from as far west as 212 and Powers Boulevard and as far east as just east of a point past Eden Prairie Road. Then it goes as far south as Halla Greens Executive Golf Course going north on 101 past Chanhassen all the way to near Kerber Pond Park! So if anyone lives in Bearpath (gated community) they've got it for sure!

Then, there is a funny little purple blotch right near Willow Park off country road 39 - must be just one tower since it's separated by a few miles from the farthest LTE spot on in the initial batch.

Come on guys, just a little farther East to Bloomington/Edina.

Keeping a big eye on this today!

Very nice pictures - I get the willies with the pics at the top of the tower though - heights freak me out a bit.

I'm going to be running past a particular location tonight that might have gone live or at least was tested briefly today - more later.

I'll be doing that as well. I'll keep an eye out to see if anything interesting is afoot.

The nearest sprint tower to my house is on the side of an assisted living/senior housing type building and it looked like there were some new antenna pods the last time I went by but couldn't tell for certain that they were LTE because everything was painted brown to match the buildings trim on the balconies.

We have our first LTE sites in Minnesota in the update this week. Stay tuned.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 on Tapatalk

Robert: you made my day. Thank you! I wondered if it was going to be on or around 12/1.

When I drove thru Chicago on my trip in mid to late October there were noticeable more LTE connections on the way back thru about a week and a day later. It couldn't have been an accident - they must have switched on more towers.

I took a cross country trip with a friend in October and had my 5 along with his Android phone and work issued Blackberry. When we were way out in the sticks (went from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio etc) the iPhone5 routinely got a tower much more consistently than the other two phones along with and at one point the 5 was able to receive and make calls when the other two weren't. The only thing I can say about that is they obviously improved the antenna design over past iPhones and/or it was at least 2 years newer than the droid and 3 years newer than the blackberry. Anecdotally.

The local Sprint store I bought my iPhone5 in had a great signal in the store but it was not an LTE repeater. I've yet to see LTE anything in the Twin Cities with regards to Sprint.

I was east of Downtown St. Paul yesterday and saw no LTE so yeah, the news it was TMobile/AT&T doesn't surprise me.

I guess I'll just keep an eye out.

No problems on mine either although it could be you are exactly equidistant between towers causing your phone contention as each tower struggles for supremacy.

Keeping a big eye out in Minneapolis/St. Paul where I live. So far no sightings but I've got my Sensorly ready to go. Come on Sprint!

I literally drove within 50 feet of my local tower (my phone was practically glowing red in my hands due to the signal strength) and it was showing Sprint 3G only. No LTE yet. I took pictures of the cell tower if anyone cares.

I moved from AT&T on an iPhone4 to Sprint on an iPhone5 and was SHOCKED at the increase in voice call quality.

Those railroad people really knew what they were doing when they put the voice side of the network I must say.

Regarding the user reporting 4G in Bloomington - I live in Bloomington and have seen nothing. Might have to drive along the 494 strip where most of the towers are to see if something kicks in or the two other towers I know of in south central/west Bloomington.

Took a driving trip all through Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania,

I also visited Toronto, Canada but didn't have a data plan there so could check that out.

I took along my new Sprint iPhone5 32 gig.

The LTE spots I saw were north of, through and to the south of Chicago, Illinois and it was a true joy to use.

I was a passenger in a car and routinely saw 30 megabit download speeds and upload speeds verging on 10 megabit.

Everywhere else it was either 3G or roaming or no data but 3G was pretty readily available along the highways during my travels.

Looking forward to LTE in my home area.