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Sprint upgrading towers near the Whitestone Expressway DMV and should be running by the 11th

Is this lte or just nv??

There is a few more places that have LTE towers some they havent been mapped!! Become a sponsor so that you can be able to see the update map and see where those towers are at.

how much do you have to donate? is there a set amount?

i am no expert in anything regarding setting up the towers for lte services but this seems very slow. it has been more than couple of weeks after the brooklyn tower lit up and i honestly do not see anymore updates on sensorly for the past 2-3 weeks.

They have sites complete in Queens, Staten Island, Brooklyn and Manhattan. They are just getting to whichever sties are ready to be upgraded first. For whatever reason, the first cluster of sites ready was in the Bronx.

do you know where it queens?

 

 

Become a sponsor and you will be able to see where they are all located !!

sorry for my lack of knowledge in wireless services but i have some questions after getting note 2. i really do not know the difference between ehrpd, cdma, evdo. i was checking my phone status and sometimes it shows evdo and sometimes it shows ehrpd. what is the difference? and the signal strength shows -85dbm and 4asu and the numbers seem to change. i know dbm is decibel and lower the number is the better the signal. but what is ASU? thanks in advance. sprint have to work faster in NYC although i see good improvements in 3G speeds.

Ran speed test on my friends tmobile phone. 25mbps down.... wow.my new galaxy note 2 got 0.1 mbps down. I was embarrassed with the slow speed on a great phone. Sprint must bring lte fast!!

You mapped it?

it looks like he did

finally getting my galaxy note 2 today. was going to wait for LG optimus G 2 or galaxy s4, but couldnt use my galaxy s any longer. i will try to go around parts of queens and see any place has LTE lit up.

if you want to complain, complain here. http://community.sprint.com/baw/community/buzzaboutwireless/network-and-coverage

there are sprint reps replying and trying to resolve issues and sometimes, they will credit you for the inconvenience

I've been w/o 4G for wks now. I called sprint and asked if there is an outage. No outage, 3g in my area is horrible. Next step is emailing Dan. This is ridiculous.

 

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4g lte hasnt been released in nyc yet. consider yourself lucky to live in bronx. i have never seen a glimpse of lte in queens yet

Ok I'm in long island and I know this isn't the proper place but I didn't see a topic formed yet but these are a speed test I got out here

 

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where in long island is this?

Flushing Queens PLEASE!!!!

I don't live near Bally's but here is another screen shot of my speed.

 

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looking real good. hope queens gets those speeds soon.

i guess queens is the last stop for developing LTE. do you guys know why they deployed Bronx first?

what about NYC? samsung or ericsson?

when do you guys will be the most likely date of LTE deployment for NYC?

What do you mean 3G towers only? Every sprint tower is getting 1900 LTE. (with only about 100 exceptions).

 

 

 

We don't know enough about Clear's plans for LTE yet, but it will likely be only in high traffic areas, and not necessarily on every WiMax tower, at least initially.

if every 3G towers are getting 4G LTE 1900mhz towers on it, does that mean if you used to get crappy 3g speed, you will likely not able to fully utilize 4G LTE from that tower since they have same frequency?

But little neck is part of Long Island that will come maybe in the summer

little neck is in the borderline of queens and nassau. but little neck is still in queens.

i see some good improvement in 3G speed in queens NY. however, they need some work to do near little neck and close to long island. it is very odd that sometimes in little neck, i get under 100ms ping and around 1mbps download speed, but if i run the test again few minutes later, i get 500ms ping and .05mbps download speed.

80% of every tower. The exact sites given upgrades to LTE800 are unknown.

wow 80 percent sounds promising with lower frequency band. clearwire's LTE will be on every wimax towers? i see that wimax has so many towers due to its high 2500mhz frequency. i've read on this forum that clear is not trying to make the coverage wide spread as they did with wimax. I am very interested in what will happen now. thanks for your comment.

awesome news. we really need LTE on our new phones. thanks to members on this forum, i didnt switch out to other carrier and ordered airave for free and good deal on galaxy s3. so far, i am happy with my choice. but we need LTE soon.

let me ask you a questions. is sprint building 800mhz LTE tower on every 1900mhz LTE or on sprint 3G towers only?

I don't really have time to rebut this but much of it is wrong. Lower frequency does not mean greater speeds, it means greater signal strength. That would technically be shared by more people but Sprint is not removing towers, they are keeping their 1900mhz density. Also lower frequencies are less prone to weather interference. Lastly, 2500mhz will be used as an overlay of hotspots to offload users to.

he is not entirely wrong. i am interested in 2500mhz LTE from clear and how that will affect LTE users.

LTE is being released on every tower, also, it'll be about the same signal strength as your 1x signal is. If you have a dBm value of higher than -95, LTE will be almost non-existent in your apartment complex. NYC is lighting up with LTE though on the 1900 mhz band and will begin it's 800mhz deployment mid-year, 2013. 800Mhz frequency allows for much better coverage radius and building penetration. Tmobile I hear is very reliable in big cities but in rural areas, you'll have a hard time. You have 14 days to try them out.

 

If you can put up with the GSM voice quality, then it sounds like T-Mobile is your best option. Both Sprint and T-Mobile have a bright future. There's nothing wrong with going to T-Mobile if Sprint doesn't meet your needs. I do think that Sprint is trying to make their current customers with this repaid LTE deployment.

 

I recall somewhere that the new NV equipment will increase coverage by up to 20% (could vary from site to site).

thank you so much for your comment! Do you know around when sprint will start rolling out 800mhz and 2500mhz capable devices? I am only seeking out for my best option and inquire about sprint network upgrades that will be available in coming months. i know some of you guys are very avid sprint fans and spent precious time to help out other people with your knowledge.