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What's with the hair hanging off the tower about 3/4 of the way up??

Guessing that's the RF cables, and they are still waiting for the panels.

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Interesting. That tower isn't even listed as in progress in the top secret members only map. ......er...cough cough.

Huh. No sensorly data on it. I think we all know how this goes. . . "sensorly or . . ."  

See if it's there next time you're through there and for the love of Pete, map that mo-fo.

Actually, that's not TOO far from the LTE tower at Genesee. I suppose it could have been some random bounce through the canyon.

Edit...damn, can't ever get multi quote to work. This was a reply to this quote also"

mdholt21, on 30 Sept 2013 - 11:48 AM, said:

I was headed home on US6 yesterday and when I came to the intersection with CO-93 in Golden I had full LTE coverage for about a mile north on 93 and then I fell back onto the 3g network.

A man who had 2 sprint towers on his land got angry because of two late $800 payments, so he got a tractor and some cables, then he toppled the two towers. Caused $600,000+ damage.

 

This knocked out the planned 4g upgrade between Fort Collins and Grand Junction Colorado. Speeds have dropped quite a bit.... sometimes near dialup.

 

 

Also heard there was a plan to speed up some western towns in early October, but that this will slip back to Spring 2014.

 

This new bit deserves some additional input.

If this actually happened it seems to me there would be some report of it on a news site somewhere. I've done a quick search on Google and haven't come up with anything.

I notice that many of the sites Denver metro have been switching to EVDO on the weekends. What's up with that?

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Will sprint lte go up ? I went to Castle Rock and lte was nice but bit slow. I was expecting 30 mb but only got 4 mbs sometimes it wen up to 10 mbs

I can't speak for that site, but I've gotten 15 to 20 Mbs downloads on other sprint towers in Colorado Springs and Denver Metro..

Spend the day working at Falcon Stadium at Air Force Academy. I can report it is covered in glorious LTE, 4 bars and 20 Mb I mapped what I could on Sensorly.

Great! So basically we'll never see a top tier 4G system.

I think you need to explain.

The first three look like it could be a Samsung NV antenna. Without being able to see the connections at the bottom, can't say for sure. The last image is for sure not Sprint.

I had brunch at The Bittersweet this morning so I walked down the block and took a few more pictures of the install at 908 Main in Louisville. To my untrained eye there seem to be a few panels with enough connections on them to be NV.

http://i.imgur.com/G3PpWAf.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/elEaIa8.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/fWQNGrH.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/zGqb6pl.jpg

Doing a little detective work, Sprint does use Mastec based on this page:

http://www.sprint.com/companyinfo/scm/supplierdiversity/success.shtml

Sprint developed a $120 million dollar, multi-year contract with Mastec for telecommunications infrastructure construction services. Mastec is the Hispanic owned business that ranked #1 in the 1999 Hispanic Business Top 500.

 

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My god is Denver slow.  There are like no NV sites in the main metro areas of Denver.  I hope Sprint really picks up the pace soon.  While they might have LTE 2600 in Denver, the majority of LTE customers cannot take advantage of that right now since triband LTE phones have not been released.

Yup, it's a bit frustrating. Not all the cells are slow, there are some towers near my house that I can get over 1.5 Mb download speeds with 3G even thought they are not listed as being upgraded to NV. So far the NV project for Denver seem to have only hit a few towers in the NE quadrant of the metro area with none in the city limits.  They've also hit a few towers in Colo Spgs, Hopefully they'll get their a** in gear before the winter slows them down.

At US-36 and Pecos is probably one of the worst coverage zones I pass through on a regular basis. Something is wrong with their network around there since I always drop 3G while looking at the Signal Check app. My fear is that it's going to be that way even when NV takes over because it seems like a coverage black hole.

There is hope, As they turn on 1x800 voice (part of the NV plan) those frequencies have a longer coverage range and better building penetration. Most NV towers are listed as getting 1x800 voice. Long term, there will also be 800 LTE.

Here's an odd one. I'm running the test PRL 34010 (scans 800 test sites). Today I'm in Boulder County in my usual total dead zone where it constantly scans between 3 towers. SignalCheck Pro gives me an 1x800 alert. I look at the app and it claims I am connected to an 1x800 tower in Keenesburg. After about 5 seconds it goes back to a local tower. I did the math, that's 34 miles away. WTF?  If the new 1x800 towers get that kind of coverage I can hardly wait until they fire up something a bit closer.

Correct, except for the any sites that broadcasting the SIDs that are not in the PRL.  Such as the Utah 800SMR that is used around the US in some markets for testing sites.

So if I am in a market in the early stages of build-out like Colorado, could I possibly get more 800SMR by using the testing PRL?

 

6/28/2013 Update: 

 

As of this update in the stock PRLs (except for the 2xxx temp Note2 PRL) all of the 800SMR SIDs are included in the scans except for the following areas:........

Sorry to wake up on old post, but could you answer this question. Does this mean that there is no longer any advantage to using  the "testing" PRLs that were created to give access to 800SMR?  Will I have access to 800SMR on my GS3 using the latest stock PRL, 25015.  Thanks.

Yes, I did. I got solid TD-LTE 2600 signals all over Stapleton. In the Walmart parking lot I hit over 40Mbps on my new triband LTE hotspot. You can only get it on a new triband hotspot, though. The iPhone 5 is single band. LTE 1900 hasn't made it into Stapleton yet. Triband LTE smartphones should go on sale in a few months.

 

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Wait a minute....LTE 2600?   Are all the LTE towers going up in Denver LTE 2600? Is there any way to tell on the sponsor maps which are 2600 and which are 1900?

Ericsson? I thought all the Colorado sites were Samsung?

There are no 4G Airraves, and there never will be. It's called WiFi.

 

 

 

However, there are some Sprint stores with repeaters. Don't know if any Denver metro Sprint stores would have LTE repeaters.

Alright, so I got a few more hits today.  UNFORTUNATELY, Sensorly won't map this, I assume because I am in a building and it doesn't recognize me moving around, even when I get close to a window.  I tried to get outside to have gps notice that I was moving around, but I have to go down 18 floors in an elevator, during which time I understandably lost all connections.

 

IS there such a thing as a 4G Airrave? Are you near a Sprint store? Wonder if this is really a tower being built or something else?

Also, Sensorly is now showing small hits at I70 and Monaco, and Peoria north of Colfax. There's nothing on the tower maps showing any 4G or construction. Perhaps they have really pushed the Denver build into high gear.

i was in castle rock a few days ago and i have the htc one and it worked just fine!! just waiting for lte in colorado springs have they started work here in the springs yet??

Really?

Someone with a Sensorly app should take a drive up I 70 around the Genesee exit.......Just sayin

Dude don't call me dude I don't like that and also the new calling plans rock for sprint u nlimited everything is so nice for only 80 dollars and castle rock has lte why did they start there instead of the springs wondering?

There have been lots of discussions as to why certain cell sites go first. It has a lot to do with which areas are quickest to get permits, which areas are quickest to upgrade backhaul, plus Sprint seems to like to start from the suburbs, ring the area and then work their way in to the center of a metro area. Perhaps there are other technical reasons. Beyond that, only the logistics people know and they ain't telling. 

All the info is in the maps, you are a sponsor so you can see for yourself.

Thanks for your help. So all the red flags in the Colorado thread are 4g or potential 4g towers ? I live in aurora service is terrible. Trying to find closest towers

The red pins in Colorado are sites that have NV 3G accepted. These sites will also have LTE activated once the approprtiate backhaul arrives. 

Actually, the red pins in the Colorado thread are "Sprint sites that are slated to receive Network Vision upgrades in the Colorado, Utah and Idaho markets" according to the description. Basically a map of all Sprint Towers.

The red pins in the "NV Sites Complete map are sites that have NV 3G accepted but are awaiting LTE (again according to the descriptions of the maps)

Thanks for your help. So all the red flags in the Colorado thread are 4g or potential 4g towers ? I live in aurora service is terrible. Trying to find closest towers

There are 2 map threads that I would suggest. The first is called "NV Sites Complete". It is a map of the status of all upgraded NV sites. Zoom in on Colorado and you will see all the the upgraded towers to date.

The second is called "Network Vision Site Map - Colorado, Utah and Idaho Markets"

That one shows ALL cell sites slated for a NV upgrade. Not all but most NV sites will get 4G. I'm remembering off the top of my head but I think it's something like 99% of the sites will get 4G. \\

Edit: I just looked at the thread about NV sites not getting 4g There is a map that shows which sites wont be getting 4G, and none of them are in Colorado, so hopefully without breaking any rules here I would say every NV site in Colorado will eventually get 4G.