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I just donated. How do I see the maps with active towers

 

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Go to the main Forums page, scroll down to the bottom section labeled : The S4GRU CLUB

In there you will find all the goodies, including: Interactive S4GRU Maps

Looks like I'm in luck it was the tower next to my house that they upgraded. I did a drive around the area with Sensorly running to get some data online. Does anybody know how ofter they update the map?

I think the maps are just about instant.

Sitting at Santiago's in Northglenn and I was getting crappy data service so I switched Airplane mode on then off. The little 4G lights up on my Galaxy S3! I did Sensorly it so it did happen.

You should look at the maps. You were pretty close to a new 4G tower.

I'm telling ya, drop a couple bucks and become a sponsor. You can see where all the towers are that are accepted as soon as Robert gets the acceptance reports entered in, which has been quite steady lately. This tower is in fact showing up on the completed map for sponsors. You can donate as much or as little as you like and it gives you access to better info and helps keep the site alive. 

I'm betting that sponsors have WAY better information available to them than most Sprint employees have. Is there any info on any of the forums about how this data is acquired and compiled, or is it like Fight Club (What's the first rule of Fight Club?) I only ask because I am quite impressed by the info available on the maps.

All these speedtests are useless without the LTE signal strengths to go with it.

I know that bars don't tell the whole story, but you can see on the speedtest that got about 4Mb that he was sitting on about 2 bars, while the 11 Mb speedtest had full bars. Would those signal strength bars still be showing 1xRTT, or are we getting voice over LTE on these towers?

Sensorly shows "4g" coverage in castle rock... is this true not wimax but 4g which I assume is LTE

Sensorly's map for Sprint 4G shows LTE only. They have a seperate map for WIMAX labled WIMAX.

Signal Check Pro app. You can set it up to alert you when you connect to LTE or an 800 tower. 

Thanks, just purchased.

I think I'm as excited about the 800 SMR switchover as I am about LTE. I live in a big gap in voice coverage, even roaming coverage sucks. Hoping that 800 will snake it's way around the terrain a little better and give me a few bars of service at home.

Sa-weet! 800 is already making its first appearance in CO. Had my first voice call over 800 a few days ago at ORD. Didn't really think there was much difference with quality of the call, but I certainly did have better reception in what used to be marginal signal areas. 

How can you tell you were talking over 800?

Everyone should donate. You get access to a lot of other information. I didn't know until I donated how much time and effort goes in to this site.

Agreed. I'll just say that the secret members only maps show several more LTE sites in Colorado than there were 2 days ago. 

So is sprint slow in getting pemits or not willing to spen money ? I just woner why new lte sites are so slow

A nationwide buildout isn't easy. I would bet their buildout is going faster than T-Mo or AT&Ts. Since the Network Vision project started in October 2011 they have rebuilt almost 18,000 sites according to S4GRU data. Almost 10,000 of those have LTE, again according to S4GRU data. As I understand NV, it takes a physical rebuild of the site with antenna changes and hardware changes at each site. Future upgrades should be much simpler, possible as easy as pushing software upgrades to each site.

So, rather than ask why it's taking so long, I'm impressed that they have been rebuilding over 200 cell sites a week for the last 18 months

(I hope I didn't break any rules sharing data here)

Is there a map that shows what sites will have voice using 800smr from the old Nextel ?

I just called employee care and they stated that there is no roll-out of lte in Denver. I guess you can get credit on your account like 25 x 4 when you have issues with service due to lte rollout. 

I did this to an employee the other day in the downtown store at 16 and tremont.  He stated that no LTE work had begun in the state yet, so I pulled my phone out and showed him a screenshot of my speed tests and said, "so how do you explain this then?"  He stared at it for almost a full minute and then says "must have been out of state."  

I laughed about it for quite a while, Sprint seems to keep a lot of their people very much in the dark on this.

Those of us who have been phone geeks for a while have been though this many times, which is why we spend our times at blogs like this instead of asking reps at Sprint.  Sprint hasn't officially announced the build out in Colorado, so as far as Sprint reps know there is no LTE in Colorado. Why Sprint isn't reporting the progress is beyond me, seems like the longer they wait the more subscribers in Colorado will run out of patience and bail over to Verizon or AT&T.

Did anyone had seen a denver post story about sprint upgrading denver to lte

Yeah.  A few interesting qoutes but no other real information.

"The LTE rollout is occurring in Denver, and throughout the country,” Sprint spokesman Dave Mellin said in an email Wednesday."

and

"Josh Weaver, who works in the IT department at Longmont University Hospital, said Sprint is connecting a fiber-optic line this week to an existing antenna that sits atop one of the hospital’s buildings."

The full article (pretty short) is here:

http://blogs.denverpost.com/techknowbytes/2013/06/19/sprint-confirms-4g-lte-is-finally-rolling-out-in-denver-area/10487/?source=rsshomeblog

Are there any resources around that will show us the progress  of ESMR to CDMA 800 conversions?  As someone who has 1 bar of CDMA 1900 at the house, I'm really hoping an 800 cell will improve service at home.  I don't see any way to even see the 800 band on Sensorly.

When we say 800, it can mean CDMA 800 and/or LTE 800. CDMA 800 has been being deployed for over 6 months. A dozen markets already have some CDMA 800 service live. It will be deployed even more widespread after iDEN shutdown.

 

LTE 800 has only been deployed in FIT areas so far. But starting this summer LTE 800 will start deploying in earnest. LTE 800 cannot go live until after iDEN shuts down at the end of June.

 

So it's closer than many realize. Sprint says they will start selling LTE 800 devices before the end of the 3rd quarter. So probably in September. CDMA 800 has been included in most Sprint devices the past two years.

 

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Thanks for the clarification. When I spoke of 800, I was speaking of 800 LTE, not CDMA. The roadmaps I read indicated that 800 LTE was the very last piece to be put in place and to expect it sometime in 2014 at the earliest. You seem to have information that it is being moved on earlier than originally planned.

I thought 800 mHz was a long term plan that was at least a year away. They won't even have the 800 mHz iden shutdown until June 30. Do they even have any phones that handle 800 mHz LTE? I think my Galaxy III is 1900 LTE only.

Yup, eHRPD is almost everywhere in Denver and northern Suburbs, and 3G data speeds have been improving. As long as I can get 2 bars or better I'm getting 1 to 1.5 Mb download speeds. Hopefully your guesses about LTE will come true.