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I've seen more towers in the Akron area getting a second panel put on. Is this for spark?

Having major dropped call issues in Akron today and yesterday. Hope it's resolved soon, as I'm unable to complete a call. Hopefully NV is in progress

Sorry if this question has been answered, but in areas of the cleveland market that do have WiMAX, will they still get band 41/25?

Isn't sprints roaming agreement with Verizon up soon? I'd think it would be in sprints best interest to try and renew it. Any thoughts? I often find my self roaming on Verizon, even in a native sprint area.

I spotted what appears to be a NV upgrade with a new panel on each sector. This is located in the valley, in Akron. Check out the top rack in the picture. 

Edit: That picture was awful, here's a better one.

Hopefully some Akron/cuyahoga falls gets some love soon. Only 1 tower has been upgraded so far that I can tell. Exciting stuff never the less.

Interesting, just got a new job in downtown cleveland. I Want to get a g2 and see if I can find any TD-LTE.

How far does the ibez zone go? I live in the Akron area, which should be able to use 800.

Here's something I've been wondering. Why are carriers spaces so far apart on lattice towers, but so close together on monopoles? There's a 280' lattice by me, with verizon and t-mobile way lower.

Anyone getting anything around akron?

 

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Haven't seen anything in Akron yet. No tower work happening that I've seen.

A lot of fiber routes by me are on poles, then split off underground when they go towards towers. Unfortunately there will always be outages no matter what.

No need to bump things.

 

They are working where backhaul is available. No area is really first.

Why pay for what you don't need? You've got 2x 5x5 FD-LTE (~222 Mbps), plus a 20 MHz TD-LTE carrier (200-ish for 3 sectors? somebody who knows this better help me out here), plus a smattering for EV-DO and 1X means we're still a good ways south of 500 Mbps. Until Sprint needs to start refarming PCS 1900 MHz from EV-DO/1X on to LTE, or they decide to go with larger TD-LTE carriers than 20 MHz, there's no point paying for an extra 500 Mbps that physically cannot be used.

It makes sense if they aren't using it, but it would be feasible to get gigabit to run maybe 2 or 3 towers via microwave rather than pay for 3 300 megabit connections.

Not so fast. Double that for 800 LTE and add some more for the EVDO.Sprint will quickly need 250mbps at most sites and that's not even counting TDD.

At that point they might as well get gigabit.

Here's a cool video of new panels being out up, thought I'd share. These guys seem to work well. http://youtu.be/asp5nzKB8F8

Did you say that LTE R12 would strengthen the airlink? Or is that only for VoLTE?

 

Can't wait for Verizon to release LTE-only dumb-phones!

What is the clearwire 2500 LTE footprint going to be? Current WiMAX?

So I would imagine you both see pretty good reception in larger buildings?

I usually don't have an issue in buildings, but in heavily wooded areas, LTE drops out and I pick up HSPA+ on 1900mhz. That's the unfortunate nature of LTE even on a lower frequency.

In my area AT&T has tighter spacing on their 700mhz LTE than Sprint does on their 1900 LTE. Same thing on the 850 voice/data side of things vs Sprint 1900 voice/data.

I can vouch for this as well. In my area at&t has many more sites, all which have LTE than sprint has. NV deployment is ongoing in my area, no LTE from sprint yet. At&t has the densest grid where I live in Ohio.

Just saw these new panels put up. They don't look like any at&t or verizon I've ever seen. Is this t-mobile?

LTE advanced is actually supposed to have improved performance at cell edge. We will see. http://www.3gpp.org/lte-advanced

Oh no, "loose 1900 MHz"? Now, I need to make yet another sign.

 

AJ

1900 MHz on the loose!? Better go catch it

17 sites accepted in the Cleveland market yesterday. All 3G. In the Sandusky/Huron/Vermilion area. It will be added to the Sponsor maps tonight.

 

Robert

This is exciting. I can't wait for them to move further south into the Akron area.

Honestly 1x is more usable sometimes than evdo is. I think it has a lot to do with congestion. Once NV is running here, I think things will really start to look nice. I had no problem sending mms on 1x the other night. I can't say the same when my att phone was on edge, edge absolutely crawls.

The way I see it, sprint is in a better position for the future than at&t, at least in my area. Right now at&t and verizon are running 10x10 LTE. Verizon has AWS for more capacity, at&t only has WCS which is years away. At&t has no 850 mhz on my area, verizon has it all. They might be able to refarm some 1900, maybe.