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I also have seen a 3g speed increase. I live on the south side of columbus and both my galaxy note 2 and my iphone 5 have been more pleasant to use. I pull almost 1meg. Also when Im at school at osu I exceed 1meg. Sprint has really started its NV work here based on what Ive seen so work is underway I suppose.

I couldn't agree more. I was on campus the other day and was consistently pulling 1.5 Mbit and was able to do just about anything while on a conference call in a parking lot. Sure makes my job more enjoyable, .

You went to the meet? Pretty ironic, i'm actually a senior at davidson this year, and I have the worst service in the building :-p

You caught me... I knew I was going to get the school name wrong. I was at Hilliard Darby, not Davidson my mistake. The service at Darby was great. Made the meet much more enjoyable, can't wait until LTE so I can stream the higher quality video.

Amen to this... I just was at Hillard Davidson all day for a gymnastics meet. I was able to get a consistent one meg bit down on my phone and tethered perfectly all day. Used spotify without any buffering problems and watched some big Ten basketball. It's amazing what only one meg can do. Just cannot wait for lte, ;-).

Feel free to check out the sponsored section (Columbus, OH Permits) in which I've posted some new permits that are in fact pulled in Newark, OH. Earliest permit was pulled in early February. It's possible although unlikely that the work is already done.

Updated the Columbus Permit Map, figered out the Lockbourne site and added one more to it

Thanks keelerman8042. Appreciate the help in mapping these. Can't wait until more start popping up and we start seeing completion dates moving from TBD.

Just FYI, in the sticks of eastern Columbus in Pataskala we are now rocking ephrd. Had to have went live within the last couple weeks. Can't wait for NV!

Don't know what is going on on the far west side of Columbus today but everywhere I went I carried around a paper weight. I was stuck on 1x. If someone sent me a text it was taking ten to fifteen minutes to get it. I missed a couple of phone calls and when i tried to make one my phone wouldn't connect. I understand that the network is overloaded but that's just not right. Sprint says there are no outages in my area. Now, at least, I'm back on 3G but I ran a speed test a minute ago and had 1369ms ping, .04Mbps down and .00Mbps up at 8:30. I read other people complaining about getting .5Mbps down and I'm almost jealous of them. Is anyone else having data issues this bad in Columbus? It could be my phone I guess. A few weeks ago I was a little frustrated because I couldn't send a picture. I just thought oh well, NV is right around the corner. But, not being able to make or receive phone calls is a real issue. I have never had issues like this with Sprint. I have been with them for 13 years and have always had great service at home. I hope there is just a tower issue or something. J

Unfortunately, I can confirm bad service on the north side (back at my work in Westerville) again. I'm bouncing off of 1X and 3G, with apparently missed multiple phone calls from my wife... This is getting frustrating especially the missing calls part that we are all now experiencing. I wish we this just meant NV upgrades, it's disheartening to think that this is just a random network issue.

Thanks again for everyone's insight!

Well, a minor update since the other day. My office now appears to have 3G back online and no more intermittent 1X signal. I didn't receive any phantom voicemails today either, however, it appeared to be a more quiet day than usual... I did run a couple speedtests to see if the 3G service was any better and although the ping was better than normal (160ms) the download was .4 Mbps and .2 Mbps on the best run. Per the standard around here . Even more jealous when a coworker brings in his shiny new iPhone 5 with AT&T LTE that was pulling 15 Mbps and 4 Mbps down with only a couple bars of service. LTE can't come soon enough.

Consider yourself lucky. My work has the wifi encrypted to work approved devices (no Android... ). Also, don't move any farther east. I live in Pataskala and while service is great for the commute as soon as I get home I have to switch over to my airrave for bearable call quality. Can't wait for some NV upgrades.

I work on the Northeast side of Columbus in Westerville and the service has been TERRIBLE the last two to three weeks. I've been losing 3g to 1X and losing data altogether from time to time. I've also noticed that I'm receiving voicemails without any missed calls. Initially when I called into Sprint when it started happening three weeks ago, they mentioned that a tower was down in my area and they were fixing it, should be all set in 3-5 days. I called back 5 days later to confirm that everything was up and running and they confirmed that it was. That day, of course, the service was back to it's normal 3-4 bars of 3G with about .2-.5 Mbits if I'm lucky. Today it was back to it's terrible little to no data all day. I mentioned this to another coworker who works more frequently on the North side of town around Powell area and when he called into Sprint they said that they are currently undergoing an upgrade on all the towers in Columbus due to a network upgrade. I told him that this was just not true because I had been following this site and we would definitely have heard about it first here. Long winded I know, but are the issues we are facing due to the upgrade of 3G services around the US that Sprint announced a little while back or are they in fact the very preliminary steps of NV? I'm sure they are just 3G service upgrades, but I'll take anything at this point. I had a taste of 4G in Chicago and simply can't wait until we get it here, fingers crossed . Thanks Robert for all of your insight and help. This site is great!