GiantJay

So this weekend I was plagued with lots of 1X and roaming phone signal. Battery life suffered pretty bad because of it. I stayed primarily in Natomas and downtown. Wondering is this is a prelude of something good to come. My understanding is that coverage becomes a little worse before it becomes a lot better.

Sounds like normal coverage in my area. And most places around me. I only pay $30 a month or I would have been gone from this terrible service.

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I have the S4 and I get great reception. As good as Sprint provides that is.

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I sure hope so... I'm down in stockton and speeds have been getting progressively worse over the past month. I used to get .5-1.25Mbps down/up but now I'll be lucky to get much higher than .2 Mbps down/up

 

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My signal strength has always been fantastic, full bars almost everywhere..And here at work, I'm on the 4th floor of a 5 story building, so that helps too I think.

 

 

I'm getting overly anxious for LTE to hit us

I know some Verizon stuff is getting worked on down there. My friend was working down there. Not on Sprint though.

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So I just got home from work and saw my phone had full bars, I get between 1 and 3 more on the 1 to 2 side ussually. And it was staying at that for a while and I was not roaming. I looked at my dbm and it was -74dbm it pretty much hangs around -94 to -102dbm on average. I hope this is a good sign of things to come.

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Looks like the Kings are staying in Sac town! I also got some other good news today looks like I have a job lined up for radio technician ads soon as a position opens up. Which will hopefully be by the end of May, but really could be any day. Today was a good day. I really hope I will be working on the Sprint towers seeing how it will be fairly close to my house, but it doesn't really matter I will do anything and go anywhere.

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There is a cell tower going up at this park. Orangevale Community Park, Orangevale, CA 95662 I don't know what carrier though and somebody more capable would be able to find out easier or faster than I would.

My radio tech friend is coming over, I'll see if he has heard anything new. Like maybe a job for me soon.

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Not good actually... read here to get the gyst of it...

 

http://s4gru.com/ind...or-255-billion/

 

But on the other hand... that's good to know. Maybe you should become a sponsor so you can help contribute to our knowledge base with the info you're apparently getting. It tends to get lonely around these parts =\

Will $5 count me as a sponsor. Money is beyond tight right now for me. I can still only say so much though until I had permission about what and how much I can say. I don't want to get anyone in trouble with the company I'm about to get a job at, hopefully.

I spoke to my friend and he spoke to his friend. And there's not much I can say other than the whole lte deployment is happening and under way. We should see lte popping up here and there by June or July. Not much else to say, I know some specifics but I don't want to get into them. I know 3g is getting better around me and everything will get really bad before it gets better. Just remember if you see our notice no service or abnormally bad service near you late at night, that's a good sign. <img src='http://s4gru.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='<img src='http://s4gru.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />' /><br /><br />On another note anyone hear about Dish offering Sprint 25. 5billion to buy us. Sounds pretty good actually.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/dish-network-makes-25-5-billion-bid-for-sprint-nextel/

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Thus it fits into my estimates which correlates to the original estimates in the premier forums which (from what little members told me) have most of the work being done in the june-july-august time frame. Which fits into what jay says which is 2 months-ish.

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Yes I hear June or July is when the mass deployment will start. I will know more when I get in contact with the right people.

The thing that really sucks is that for the past year I have receiving dates for launch, and then the dates come, and new dates get issued.

 

It is like when your parents promise to get you something or take you somewhere and you keep asking about it and they say next weekend, and the next weekends keep coming.

 

I just want a solid date and have them stick to it.

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I have word from Samsung and radio techs this is happening within two months. This stuff depends on a lot of factors though. Weather and inventory, manpower all has to come together to be deployed on time.

Just throwing this out there with all this talk about Sac, I hope everyone here is fully supporting and contributing in some way to help the Kings stay here. Our city has lost a lot of jobs between all these big companies that have left recently Campbells soup, Comcast, Hostess, I don't think our, or my city will do so well if we lose our Kings. Even if you just click to like stuff and share stories of people like Carmichael Dave and the Playing To Win Tour, it helps. I'm going to the last game of the season April 17th, and I truly hope just the season. Sorry for the little rant but this is something near and dear to me and I think economically it would be devastating for the UCV. See how I tied that all in, in the end. Lol. GO KINGS!!!!!

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Should begin any day now. Rumors have it Samsung are getting ready to deploy.....

I have this confirmed.

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I spoke to my friend who is friends with a guy that works for Samsung and they are doing all the planning and ordering of equipment for LTE in the UCV its happening. And he starts with his new company Monday and I hope I will be very shortly too. Hopefully working on this stuff. It would be a great time to come in and learn from the get go on how to upgrade and overhaul everything to the new LTE standard.

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I will try. Most likely I will go over their and scope it out with my friend who works on this stuff and ask what he sees. I will check back but he is out of town working, until tomorrow I believe. I think I will see him this weekend.

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There has been people working on the tower right next to my house but I'm not sure what carrier. I checked my monthly usage from the Sprint Zone app and it says I used 6kb of lte this month

I am waiting to hear back. I had the interview 2 of my friends got jobs but they are already experienced radio techs/journey men etc. They are both going to bug the guy in charge of hiring that interviewed me, as am I. I would be a apprentice so they have to have a very experienced person to train me one on one. So I didn't expect to here back right away because they are crazy busy all the time. It will take them a bit to find who and when they can train me, I hope. It sounds pretty good from both my friends point of view though, so that's good. One of my friends also had some coworkers that got hired too, so hopefully they can all throw my name around. I did also apply at Sprint in the mean time though, I saw some postings for some local stores that just popped up. Lol. So I will hopefully be doing something with this stuff. I got some good info from the presentation they put on before the interviews. Pretty interesting stuff. Nothing about the ucv though, more general stuff about work they do and what not. I appreciate the thoughts and good wishes. I was unemployed for a couple years in the past and that was very tough. At least right now I am fortunate enough to have a part time job while trying to find something better.

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I'm going to a interview tomorrow. Sounds pretty promising.

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I think he meant completion in 6 months.

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I talked to my friend today who works on towers for work and he said lte is being deployed now in the ucv, it will likely be 6 months before we see it though. I am turning in my resume Monday and I will hopefully be working for his company very soon. I will try and keep you guys informed about anything I hear.

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I was in Vacaville a couple months ago and I know it has lte. But that is the bay area region which is separate from Sac.

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I know I am getting exceptionally better and faster signal around my house.

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My mistake no new towers. They changed the max zoom level on the map so the towers looked closer and more of them. I am for sure getting way better service around my neighborhood though.

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I'm pretty sure I just got new towers put up around me in 95660, no lte but more towers is always good

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I will ask my friend if his company is involved or if they have heard anything then.

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