Manny789
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Dial *3001#12345#* in the Phone app and press call. Under Serving Cell Info the important things are Physical Cell ID and Cell Identity. Each sector of a site has a separate ID, but from what I can tell, the first 6 digits of the Cell Identity are a tower identifier. You have to do your own detective work to relate a tower identifier to an actually site though.
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I did some checking using the iPhone's Field Test and it turns out that the signal I see in this area is still from the Bell Shoals site. Per Robert's suggestion, I am keeping a log of the LTE sites and sectors that I connect to, which is the only way I way able to figure this out..
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I suspected Lithia Pinecrest near Lynx Paw Trail as the source of new LTE in the area, but your site jives with my findings. I still suspect Lithia Pinecrest/Lynx Paw, only because I get LTE as far as Boyette and Dorman. And that's on an iPhone, so you know that the tower must be relatively close.
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I stro I strongly suspect a tower*, but no one has been over there to confirm/deny.
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From Sensorly, it looks like the Brandon Mall area signals are coming from a tower* near NW corner of the I-4 & I-75 interchange.
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Without knowing what tower we're actually connecting to, it hard to say. There seems to be a number of towers in the wild that are not yet on the updates, that we only know about cause someone had physically seen the work being done.
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The tower I'm talking about is across from Lithia Springs Elementary, though, east of the Bells Shoals site. So I'd imagine those signals are coming from somewhere else. Either the newly completed sites by I-4/Fairgrounds or the Seffner site, or even site not yet on the update.
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My iPhone is getting LTE on Lithia Pinecrest in Valrico. The in-progress tower may have lit up.
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Figures that area would light up after I'd already went back to Brandon... Surprisingly, nothing in that area was in the latest update. Perhaps a sign that Sprint is moving faster than we can track them? This bodes very well.
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I've been wondering why my iPhone drops to 2G in that area. Mystery solved.
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The one on Fowler near the Sprint Store?
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My hometown before Brandon... Good hunting!
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Just got one bar of LTE on my iPhone at Dover & Durant near Valrico/Dover. That's either LOS from the Bell Shoals site or a nearly activated site.
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Your logic pretty seems pretty sound to me, based on the in-progress sites..
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Bell Shoals is the closest site that is active at this time.
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Just realized that I didn't answer your exact question... The Lithia site will expand Valrico area coverage to the east, but since you're west of this area, nothing should change for you, barring a closer (to you) site becoming active.
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When it become active I'm sure that the entire area with super 4Gified.
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The greater coverage is due to no downtilt. They will add downtilt later as they add more towers.
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I think that the Bell Shoals tower is current set to broadcast the heck out of some LTE since it's the only active tower in the area. Your phone picks up the highest (LTE vs 3G vs. 2g) network it can, which is a weak LTE in your case. Turn off LTE and you should have decent 3G signal.
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The recent update has a tower off Lithia Pinecrest, south of Bloomingdale, listed as in progress.
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Well, 4G complete at least.
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It's listed as complete now.
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A change in the initial deployment is my secret hope because a single northern tower and a single southern tower for all of the Brandon area is not going to cut it.
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The nearest tower that is in the initial launch list is off of N Valrico near Sefner.
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I think all of that is coming from the Bell Shoals tower, since it goes just as far south with similar signal strength. Although Sensorly doesn't show it, that signal also extends east on Fish Hawk Blvd to just past Osprey Ridge Dr.
