dantheman

I'm going to be over on Oxford Valley Rd tomorrow across from the mall. I wonder if I can pick up some LTE signal. I'll be crossing that intersection going home.

 

Any idea where the tower is producing that signal?

Not sure, It's weird because the two tower's within that area show 3G upgrades only. I know it's a test phase but it's a good sign!

a new bit of LTE just popped up by route 1 and woodbourne road in Langhorne pa. Just went up probably just a test tho

I drove right next to the Neshaminy HS water tower yesterday where LTE was accepted last week and toggled airplane mode a few times. No LTE on my EVO. Did they turn it off? I still have yet to see my device catch any LTE signal .

It was live last week Wednesday-Friday and went dead over the weekend and is still back to it's boring, slow 3G.

Unrelated note, Speedtest.net App has been updated to have iPhone 5 compatibility with a new icon and other stuff. Finally haha

I'm surrounded by LTE all under 5 miles from me yet still nothing for me lol.

For me it was here and now it's gone already. My tower was up for like three days last week I think Wednesday-Friday now it's back to being terribly slow.

Out of curiosity I was checking out Verizons 4g coverage on Sensorly and downtown Philadelphia is completely covered. Outside of that, however, the coverage seems very spotty. Northeast Philly doesn't have much, it's on all the main roads, but even then, it is 1 bar at most. Sprint absolutely has better 4g coverage in this area, and if they keep up this pace,I wouldn't be surprised if they surpassed Verizon, in this market at least.

Not everyone maps they're journey's off of roads, I would assume they just map it when they're on big roads or roads they frequent. You know what I mean?

My dad said he got it in Southampton, Bucks, PA. IDC if they're just testing it, i'm happy as can be.

Hahah sorry, it's been a few months since I had it in Miami and it's even better cus it's near home

I GOTT LTE UP IN THIS!!!!!! Im dieing! RT 1 near neshaminy high school that was poppin LTE IS AMAZING WHEN YOU GET IT!!!!!! And apparently some other towers got it too cus im getting a pretty wide range of LTE coverage!!!!! Im dieing!!!!!

I talked to Sprint and they told me the tower by the Giant at Flowers Mills in Langhorne, PA has been down since end of November and that they were working on it.

The fiber backhaul connections I am assisting in installing, we are not connecting to the MMBTS itself; that is another contractor's job (me and my friend was talking about how there was still several other contractors doing things that him and his team can do quite easily and in one shot). As it sits now, just about all of the Philadelphia Metro Area is done on the Physical side with only a handful of sites not done because of either permits or locations, the fiber backhaul is in full steam although behind schedule since all of the Alcatel-Lucent contractors and techs was sent to Long Island to rebuild after Sandy. After the fiber is hooked up, all that is left is someone to come by with a laptop and do final programming before the tower is lit up.

Do they got to use the laptop to flip on LTE or just the 3G+backhaul?

It wouldn't surprise me if there are more LTE sites live but they're just not being reported to Sensorly or these forums just due to lack of knowledge about this site as well as interest in Sensorly. AT&T currently has my area blanketed in LTE but is omitted from AT&T 4G LTE as reported by sensorly. Not even a single road within 5 miles of where I live shows it on Sensorly however I know very well that this area is covered.

Tower next to Neshaminy High School, in Langhorne just started pushing 1.5mb/s download and like 1mb/s upload. As of like 2-3 days ago, i check speedtest once in a while while in class. It's just so damn inconsistent and i can never even download a tiny app, i'm most likely switching to at&t by the end of the month...

I'm gonna find the damn switches, and flip them myself.

Bordentown and most of winding wood is bathed in LTE ! This is exciting, I hope it keeps expanding. I've been using sensorly to map it as well

 

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Bordentown Township? Is it still like that, cus nothing on sensorly has been reported for that area. If it is live, I wanna take a drive over there to experience it again!!!! :lol:

Now i'm just a little pissed that the tower only a few hundred yards away, is complete NV but they won't flip the freaking LTE switch. come on really

Only thing is who knows when they will turn that switch on.

 

Everyone is anxious I am sure.

I'm sure the 5 people actively on the Philly subtopic can't wait, PHILLY STAND UP.

AlcaLu had a pretty large update of accepted sites in the Philly market this week. They really haven't switched to 4/G mode yet in their deployment. The one site live is a brand new site and was built with 4G from the ground up.

 

AlcaLu will likely switch on a lot more LTE at completed sites in the next 30 days. And then it should be steady after that.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

PRAISE JESUS

bump.................haha

As much as you may disagree with it, to utilize their spectrum and reduce costs, Sprint needs to overhaul it's whole network. This means they're not going to single out certain cities and focus all of their attention there. Complaining about it isn't going to help. They're hitting their stride with updates. If it works you up that much about their strategy then by all means pick a provider who does things you can live with.

Says the man with LTE.

Although we keep saying it, Sprint also addresses the issue of smaller cities and rural areas in this article we posted today:

 

http://s4gru.com/ind...with-employees/

 

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I see you essentially answered the question I have regarding moving crews to bigger population areas, but I think it would have been more appropriate if they were to use an example of lets say a rural crew that is closer to a major city center. The way it was phrased by using Wichita, KS as the crew they would stop using wasn't really what I was thinking, I think the answer would have been different if the question posed by whomever was "Using your example above if we were to stop work in Lancaster could we launch Philadelphia sooner?(for the sake of this thread)"

I don't think that Sprint favors tiny towns, but at the same time people are working on those projects why not pull them off to focus ALL man power on the biggest markets?

I have some insider news from a friend, he says Philly's 4G LTE can still be a long wait. Couple months to half a year.

Why is it such a big deal if i know their timeline? or at least attempted timeline. All the competitors have it in Philly already, it's just Sprint without it and if they want to at least make me happy just tell me what they're TRYING to do. I don't care if these tiny towns get it because they have fewer cell sites, send those crews over to the big cities and get cracking. Government permits and equipment I doubt is holding them up.

What are the signs that it's coming to your area? Cause i'm in an recent NV complete area and I thought if you were getting like terrible signal strength, dropped calls, and texts/data that won't go through. Is that what happens? because that's was has been happening to me. And can i right to my local municipality to try and get them to sign off on these permits quicker maybe so they can get the ball rolling? I guess it doesn't hurt to try

why doesn't the iphone 5 just support wimax and LTE, there are still networks using wimax too so why not just make everyone happy.

I was in Miami last week, I'm from Philly so this is amazing to me.

I got this while on 91.