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And if u tell them you have LTE up in the Bronx and they check, they will tell you that it's not correct. They can't even see that on their systems.

 

 

LTE Advanced is just LTE, that happens to support additional MIMO, carrier aggregation and a few other minor items. The day your local site gets LTE Advanced, you will likely not see any difference whatsoever. Until devices are built that support greater than 2x2 MIMO or carrier aggregation, there will likely not be any performance difference. And these will likely be deployed on tablets first, where they have more room for additional antennas. There will be no increase in ping speeds either with LTE Advanced. It uses the same airlink technology and the same backhaul from the site.

 

I think LTE Advanced is much ado about nothing really. Sprint will upgrade their sites via software updates, and nothing will change. Not until Sprint either deploys carrier aggregation, or devices come out that support 4x4 MIMO or CA, nothing is really going to change.

 

Robert

When you say sprint will upgrade their sites via software, what do u mean by that? The sites don't have to get special equipment to upgrade the towers ?

Battery consumption from regular LTE is also pretty bad. I honestly think if reg LTE was the standard with all phones it would turn into 3G speeds. But then again, they can raise that limit very easily but it's costly.

 

 

They should. But I don't think they will in the next 12 months.

 

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Wondering the difference between LTE VS. LTE-A? I know the advanced LTE will be higher speeds. Will latency improve ? Is lte advanced just basically more back haul to the towers or just different spectrums?

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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Very possible that the 4g u were getting was at a test tower. Unfortunately since LTE is not officially launched yet in NYC, in not sure how much they are going to help u.

Couldn't help but notice that the completion date for NV in the New York City Market moved from 2014 to December 2013.

Did they originally quote a month with 2014 or did they just say 2014.

Also when on the sprint website and u search for NYC, it says coming in the next few months. I thought that was the official launch

Annoying. In crown heights area and I'm getting lte everywhere. I'm so jealous it's not by me yet. Btw anyone in ch area please map ch area it's so much bitter then it's on sensorly plus you will make the ny map look so much bigger

I have never lost 4G in the bx(posting this from my 4G connected phone) , what locations are you having issues in?

Nextgen, Do you get LTE on almost every block your on up in the Bronx?

Yes Sir! and that's also taking into account that Hurricane Sandy definitely delayed things!

If u think about it each borough takes 10 weeks that could up to a year for some boros that would suck for some but I think everything will spread out in the next coming months so I wouldn't worry

BK is definitely ramping up now..@ this point your probably gonna be covered very soon! I suspect less than 6 weeks BK will be well lit! Look @ the bronx, just 10 weeks ago was almost nothing.

Wow was it only 10 weeks ago when someone spotted 4g for the first time in the Bronx? Wow

I'm losing my patience waiting for 4g! Help!

The speeds seem good but the ping times are a little high for a nv upgrade. I heard pings should be in the low 40,s- 60,s

Let me try to understand what u mean. When they r doing Nv upgrades of service and upgrading 3G does that mean the qos or are they upgrading to more capacity so it will on par to Verizon ? Or does it mean 4g won't exist in these places and all and we will be getting a 3G upgrade instead?

As far as in concerned when they do the nv upgrade they will be adding 4G at the same time . Why would they do double work?

So all network vision sites that are complete are not also provisioned at the same time for 4g? I must be confused

In other words are u saying that sprint LTE will be the most consistent and reliable?

 

 

75% of Chicago market sites have received Network Vision upgrades. 46% have 4G LTE formally accepted as complete from Sprint.

 

55% of Baltimore market sites have received NV upgrades. 28% have 4G LTE formally accepted as complete.

 

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In Baltimore and LTE has been extremely spotty. U will pick up a signal and lose it a minute later. Baltimore is no way done. But if u drive around far enough u will find it

 

 

Not sure what you're asking.

 

Verizon has twice the spectrum that they are utilizing for their initial rollout of lte. However, in most cases, they are deploying widely spaced sites instead of on every cell site, as sprint is deploying. Verizon, and AT&T have employed the tiered pricing strategy to incentivize data offloading, and it appears to be very effective for them.

If they are widening it, wouldn't that mean less coverage or it means the signal is stretched? I see it takes less time to set up if its not as many sites. But even if I were to get 3mbps consistently I think I'd rather have that then pay per gb even if its overloaded. I hope it's not like me metropcs Lte. They have a 1x1 spectrum and in NYC speeds are at 1mbps. Just pathetic

I guess one of the reasons Verizon Lte is so fast is because no one will hog the speed when u have tired data. How many Lte blocks are they per ave block or does It not work like that?

 

 

The "thousands of people" comment is misleading. Whether one user is connected to the sector or a thousand users are connected to the sector, the total downlink throughput for that LTE sector·carrier maxes out at 37 Mbps. The airlink is the bottleneck, not the backhaul, so 1 Gbps is definitely not necessary anytime soon.

 

AJ

In other words if let's say 100 people do speed tests all at the same time, our speeds with be like a 56k modem?

Looks like it will be Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, parts of Manhattan slowly and Staten Island

Btw I noticed that by putting on airplane mode in iPhone 5 it kinda forces LTE when available but it should be automatic. Who knows ?? Any Feedback

Figured it out. What does this mean? In Baltimore btw http://i48.tinypic.com/34sf8ep.jpg

Quick question? Would anyone know an app to see the db for LTE for iPhone to see how strong signal is?

 

 

It's not everywhere. But it's covering more than any other large city in America, except for possibly Chicago.

 

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On highway now and have had it for miles. Will update u on how it's working when I'm in actual city