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I was in a rural area all day with a weak roaming signal. I upgraded your account but it must not have taken. You are now good to go.

 

Robert via Samsung Note II via Tapatalk

Thanks!

I made a first donation earlier today to hopefully see the interactive maps. Let me know if there is a problem. Thanks!

Every Sprint tower is recieving the Network Vision upgrades, which includes improved 3G performance, and the 4G LTE network. If you currently have good Sprint service (signal not speed) you will have LTE within a month or two. The Nextel towers are being shut down, I wouldn't worry about them. US Cellular in Chicago will probably be shut down, towers turned off. Clearwire WiMax towers are largely separate from Sprint towers, but if the deal goes through, Sprint will probably incorporate that spectrum onto their existing towers, and WiMax will be shut down in or after 2015. So the only thing you need to know is if you have Sprint service. Which I imagine you do, so it's only a matter of time.

 

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Well I wouldn't necessarily say I have "good" signal at all in my house. But it is signal and it hasn't hopped onto 1x from 3G like my old Verizon phone used to do. Luckily @ home I can just use wifi.

I did make a small donation though so hopefully I'll be able to see some of those upgrade maps soon

Just wondering about the iPhone 5 specifically, it supports LTE bands 1, 3 , 5, 13, and 25. Band 5 is in that 850mHz range. Will it not work with the netxtel frequency band?

I'm starting to get depressed here... At work, inside a building super far from any windows, If I take my phone out of my pocket, it recieves LTE reception at around -112 to -115dbm. good enough. But now I'm getting jealous that my home still has no LTE coverage, unless I'm outdoors carrying the phone open palm, sometimes the phone camps on the LTE network. I was happy because up until recently, there was only 3G signal in Evanston, and only 3G signal in Irving Park, but now they both have strong LTE signal!

With Sprint buying up all these other companies' infrastructure, when can I expect to get strong LTE signal strength in my house? I wish I could find out exactly where the Sprint, Nextel, Clearwire, and US Cellular antennas were so I could at least reassure myself that in a year's time, one of these other non Sprint LTE antennas will come online.