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Not much better in Irvine and Lake forest.. still waiting on several towers to get any kind of NV in the locations I frequent. I see way to much <1MBs and quite often <0.5MBs.

For OC if you were lucky enough to get any WIMAX signal back in the day you have good service now. But if not (like Irvine and south) your still kind of spotty on service.

Yeah and don't even get me started on the extremely slow progress of tower upgrades in the Irvine and Lake forest area. I live half way between one tower that has been upgraded and one that has not and the phone can't decide which to connect so it keeps dropping signal and calls as it switches back and forth every minute...

Yes we do need it. My phone looses all signal as soon as I walk in the building at my office. But if I go 100 foot down the sidewalk I can get LTE at full bars.

great thanks,

I am sure this has been discussed before but I can't find it right now. I will be traveling out of the country next month and I plan on using a local SIM in my 32 GB Nexus 5 when I get there. If I do this is there anything special I need to do to get it back on sprint when I return to the US? Or is just swapping the SIM card and rebooting good enough?

Yeah I understand that. The area I was interested in nobody ever drives. (I am the only one who put 3G and WiMax mapping on sensorly for it). If you zoom in you can tell everyone turned before they got here. (the new section of Lake Forest Dr from Irvine center to the 133 and also Bake from irvine center to Lake forest)

I can think of one reason to buy from google instead of Sprint. If you get the one up plan it's only $65 for unlimited data and you don't and your not paying the extra $18.75 a month for the phone till you pay off the higher sprint price tag.

How accurate are the LTE coverage maps on Sprint's website? Looking in Irvine where I work is says I should have the "Best" LTE. Seems like wishful thinking since it only shows "Fair" voice coverage which is accurate on the good days. I have checked sensorly but nobody with an LTE phone has mapped the area recently.

Before the SoftBank buyout I personally didn't hold much hope of Sprint having enough cash to complete the vision with customers leaving in mass due to poor service while towers were being upgraded. But now they have plenty of cash to complete the project and as you said, subcontractors and local governments should be the only hold ups now.

Yeah, Looks like they are launching LTE for those where were lucky enough to already have WiMax. The rest of us who were not so lucky have to continue to suffer with the old network for a while longer. This is about the spot Clear wire ran out of $$ last time... Leaving Irvine at a snails pace.. I am hopeful that with the Softbank buyout it won't be a repeat of that with LTE roll out.

Anyone else notice that the Network Vision/LTE Deployment Running List has been updated showing that OC is launched as of 10/31/13? I really hope this is true, but they really need to speed up deployment in Irvine and south.. The NV sites complete maps look really spotty down hear for even 3G complete much less LTE.