Terrell352

While I agree that Sprint will eventually have the most advanced network I don't think they will be first with LTE advance even if its easier for them to do it than Verizon or AT&T because tmobile can upgrade just as easy since they are using release 9 too. Sprint is far behind the other carriers in deploying LTE because they way they are doing it just takes more time so about time sprint is finished with its initial deployment of LTE the other carriers probably would have got the jump on LTE Advanced 6-8 months before hand That's the fastest 4G LTE signal you've gotten in the Jax area? What was your signal strength? LTE is very signal strength dependent. LTE has been great pretty much everywhere in Jax for me and has gotten a lot better even within the last week. With a LTE signal of -110 to -114, I can easily pull-down 6-12mbps and 1.5-5mbps uplink. Once I get a signal better than -104, my speeds increase drastically, sometimes upwards of 25mbps downlink and 8-10mbps uplink. Just give Sprint some time to fill-in coverage holes and also get 800CDMA turned on. After that, you'll see better overall overage (especially for voice due to 800CDMA) and should see much faster LTE speeds due to getting better signal from having the towers all converted to NV. You'll also see your 3G EVDO speeds increase drastically once those towers are converted to NV. I easily get 1.5-2.5mbps downlink on EVDO now on the NV towers. They easily beat Verizon's speedtests on EVDO most of the time (I have devices on Verizon and AT&T). If you experience slow LTE speeds, it's most likely because the site your connected to is the only one in your area and is serving a large swath of people trying to connect to it (or you're not getting a good signal). Once more sites get converted to NV, the congested towers will be less congested. Once 800mhz LTE and 2.5/6ghz LTE gets lit-up in Jax, you'll really start to see Sprint shine (if you have a Tri-band LTE device). I'm already starting to Sprint's consistency rival Verizon and AT&T's in my area. Verizon might have faster burst speeds than Sprint's but Sprint's stays pretty consistent and Verizon's can really slow-down, almost as slow as 1mbps. AT&T is no different. Coming from somebody that has devices on all three carriers, there is no perfect carrier. Sprint is really starting to impress me and this time next year, Sprint will have the most advanced network in the industry and will probably be the first carrier to launch true 4G (LTE-Advanced). Sent from my Sprint iPhone 5, not the old one (using Tapatalk 2).

This is true the EVO seems to search for the better signal when the LTE is on the edge. In my case both can be unusable when this situation happens. Makes me want to get a flamethrower and torch my phone lol

Oh snap. Thats not good. Thanks for informing me. I don't really care about 800 cdma much as I rarley drop calls now as it is. I care about LTE 800 and since my phone is not capable of that I don't believe this issuer is much of a concern right now. LTE 1900 right now I'm my area is terrible at building penetration anyways. In almost every case I go from 97-110 dBm LTE outside to ehrpd inside. Could be a EVO issue as my girlfriends gs3 goes farther on the LTE signal but its unuable when she does

Actually this doesn't affect me in the least. There is no 800 mhz frequency in my area. I would actually prefer to use my bands manually because once 800 mhz is wide spread that's where I'm staying and I just got this replacement phone like 2 weeks ago so a factory reset doesn't bother me. It's still switching between LTE and EV-DO just fine and that's all I care about.

Question. In the engineering screen of the EVO LTE I found a way to force 1900 PCS, 800 roaming and 800(secondary) and I tried all three. I get no bars on the 800(secondary) so I'm wondering if this is sprints 800 cdma and a way to force it. http://db.tt/VAbrf8Ip

Correct if I'm wrong but I thought GMO sites are not capable of LTE 800 or CDMA 800 quote name="tybo31316" post="172673" timestamp="1374458444"] Well all the nv towers deployed is capable of CDMA 800 and LTE 800. LTE 800 requires a trip to the base stations but CDMA 800 does not. It can be activated remotely it just requires 911 and interference testing. So it's only a matter of time before the LTE 800 is activated since the shut down of iden.

Do you think all of these thunderstorms Florida is getting pounded with almost everyday is affecting the speed of Network Vision?

Me too and everyone is amazed when I use it too

I hear that the nexus 7 only supports Verizon LTE and no cdma so if this is true does that mean Google didn't give the nexus 7 sprint lte because there LTE is to spotty right now and there will be no 3G support?

Its actually very spotty but where you can get it its good. I was in and out of lte a lot and it did a number on my battery life

The problem is in dense areas Sprints LTE is slow from the get go in most hours of the day. Less than 2 mbps down

I do. site 2 on I75 and one on NW 20th st

I'm talking about the Ocala, Fl area. They had 3 towers accepted with LTE and none have been on in weeks. The newest one was a 4G only tower and it was accepted Monday and went live today. Site omitted

One of the 3 towers went live today so that's good considering it was accepted Monday

At that tower it could be century link, cox, or brighthouse

One of the sites has been upgraded for almost 3 weeks 3g/4g and its still not on. Its a i75 site tho don't know if that makes a differnence

Something strange is going on. In the Ocala area Robert has 3 LTE towers that have been accepted this month and none of them are live. I have been to all 3 and can see that the new panels and ruus and fiber is present but I wonder why they are not on when normally they come on right away

I know all of these are just scams and they make it look like a amazing deal but I'm saying it helps in a way with people that have phones that does not hold good value like my EVO LTE. HTC phones are notorious for not holding there value so for me it would be damned if I did do the upgrade plan or damned if I just sold my phone and paid the $400. I don't do used phones or refurbished because I have had way to many problems with them in the past.

That's not always a good idea. My HTC EVO LTE only goes for $200-230 on craigslist meaning I would still have to pay $400 or so to get a new phone that way. If Sprint had something like Tmobile where I could trade in my evo and get new customer price for my new phone I would save a lot more money

Nextel BRUTAL FATALITY!!!!! Sprint ULTRA COMBO!!!!

You summed this up perfectly dude. Perfect

But something is still up with that one tower that is 1/4 away of that from a Walmart and I get no 4g lte signal even in the parking lot. Neither on my EVO lte nor on my girlfriends GS3