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All towers even legacy towers should have 3g already.  You must be in a fringe area or roaming or something.  Don't get me wrong I'm not saying legacy 3g is great and you can still get 1980's speeds or worse with legacy 3g sites but every sprint tower supports 3g.

Not all of Sprint's network is EVDO. The old iPCS areas were 1x. Regardless, western PA was also all 1x and recently got EVDO upgrades so they will convert these areas.

Just FYI, 2 towers are now 4G live in Lancaster.

Just got 4g near Park City in Lancaster, PA.

You're not a sponsor but in recent updates, Lancaster has been receiving some NV love. None were listed as 4G yet, so this is a great sign! 

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I don't believe you fit in here.

800mhz is Sprint's prized possession. It's the only thing that puts them on the same level as T and VZ. They would never get rid of it.

What do you mean ?

Average Revenue per User. If your customers are on plans that are dirt cheap, it's hard to believe Sprint maintains one of the highest ARPUs in the industry.

Hard to believe some of the ARPU numbers Sprint posts if there really are many SERO plans still out there.

Looking to get the 5S right when it comes out. Does anyone know if the new iPhone prl will have priority for 800smr?

We would have no way of knowing that but if we use history as a judge, probably not.

So then there will be a model specifically for China which supports band 41?

This is the one thing I absolutely love about apple, they announce a product and in less than two weeks its available to the masses unlike every other android oem who announces a product then take an addition month or two(if not longer) to reach the masses.

Agreed, here it is and it's available.

What ?

 

 

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Oh boy, you're showing your young age. Back to the Future, man!

I always though it was implied that they are. It's only mentioned regarding 800mhz because much focus has been placed on the repurposing of that spectrum.

This thread is the worst.

Sprint's coverage maps are now showing the old iPCS areas in Western/Central PA as being EVDO covered. If anyone can check this out, it would be much appreciated. I've been waiting for this, looks like they show all of I80 being covered.

Shentel seems to have that unique issue with 800smr and the Note2 that caused any 800smr to be removed from the PRLs on the Note2.

Is the implication you're pointing out that it is ALU equipment causing this? 800smr works fine on other devices including the S3 on their equipment.

Shentel must have bought all their equipment ahead of Sprint. I don't know. And I didn't say poor, I said too many projects. I feel they may have over-extended themselves seeing how they hired another company to build their 800RRU for them. (I have proof too.) They built their own PCS RRU, so I don't know what has gone wrong in their areas of Network Vision.

Shentel started buying equipment/deployment a considerable amount of time AFTER Sprint.

From what I hear, you just got lucky. Arizona has been a blunder as far as everyone is concerned. They haven't done too bad for Vegas deployment, and they have now hired another contractor to speed Vegas installations, but their 800 RRU updated with 800 LTE compatibility was the last of the 3 Network Vision vendors. I think they may have too many projects going worldwide.

It's not luck. Look at Shentel. They used ALU and are damn near complete with their rollout. I wouldn't point the finger at ALU as being a poor vendor.

I also saw that Sprint raised the fee they charge Shentel to 14% from 12%, the highest their contract will allow. I remember reading it was elastic, interesting Sprint chose to raise it.

I heard sprint is doing network vision in my area.Is this true?My zip code is 15473

Did you seriously just ask that in this thread? Did you actually read the posts?

YES....

 

Steve Elfman, president of network operations at Sprint, noted during the company's second-quarter earnings conference call that Sprint now plans to deploy Clearwire's 2.5 GHz spectrum on all 38,000 of its planned Network Vision cell sites and even more sites than that in a nationwide rollout. Previously, Sprint had said it would use Clearwire's spectrum as a "hotspot" LTE network to offload traffic in urban markets.

 

In an interview with FierceWireless, Euteneuer said SoftBank's $21.6 billion acquisition--which includes $5 billion in new capital and allowed Sprint to buy Clearwire--spurred Sprint to make the shift in strategy. The move will let Sprint add more capacity to its own FDD-LTE network, which it is still in the process of being built out. Euteneuer noted that Sprint and Clearwire originally planned to deploy Clearwire's spectrum on around 5,000 cell sites as an offload network in urban markets. Those plans are still proceeding this year, but Sprint now wants to expand that to improve the customer experience.

Read more: Sprint CFO: SoftBank deal lets us take Clearwire spectrum nationwide - FierceWireless http://www.fiercewir...0#ixzz2afIYaxzM

 

Well, more accurately, they WILL be shutting down CLWR sites where CLWR is co-located with Sprint. Wouldn't make much sense to pay 2 site leases when you are on the same tower but different racks. I realize the point your making but just wanted to point that out.

Did a little sensorly mapping this morning around ABE or Lehigh Valley Airport. I am going to go past the tower on 329 I think it is and check it out later today.

Much appreciated. I won't be back in the area until this weekend to get some mapping done.

No, I would call it a little bit of perspective, just as I had to offer some notable tech press on Twitter earlier today.  I am equating "repainting" and "remodeling" -- they are logically similar but on different scales.

 

Now, try this analogy:  have a child repaint the doorframe, while an adult remodels the whole house.  Who finishes first?

 

 

AJ

Too bad the adult in this example had quite a head start.

Think of it like this.  Essentially, Shentel is repainting one doorframe, while Sprint is remodeling the whole house.

 

AJ

I'd say a little bias is showing in this post. Shentel had to do all the same updates as Sprint, it's not like they did a network overlay. While they have less sites, they also have less resources and are a much smaller company.

Well if BRS goes nationwide at least we know GMOs will be taken care of.

In Network Vision, number of sectors tends to remain unchanged -- still typically two or three sectors.  Number of antennas per sector, though, is definitely changing.  In most cases, Network Vision antennas are being deployed at one per sector, while legacy antennas usually ran three per sector.  During the transition, one of the legacy antennas comes down to make way for the new dual band Network Vision antenna.  So, that loss of one antenna per sector could certainly affect legacy RF propagation.

 

We do have several existing threads here with pics of Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, and Samsung deployment antenna plus RRU configurations in various stages of completion.

 

AJ

But within each of the panels, they can adjust downtilt independently per antenna, correct? I would imagine if they needed to have antennas pointed in multiple directions, even if the number of carriers didn't call for multiple antennas, they would need to use 2 just to get the RF propagation where they need it.