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    Network Vision/LTE - Toledo Market (Toledo, Bowling Green, Findlay, Lima, Port Clition)

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    Thats not sprints fault its the providers fault, however sprint could push a bit harder when dealing with these ISPs

     

    (oh sorry we didnt get that fiber to your tower can you give us 3 more months?)

     

    The reason T-Mo was able to get their LTE deployed so easily is because when they started deploying HSPA and + it required more bandwith so they were already set to go for their LTE conversions, sprint was not due to 3G not requiring such a back haul. and now they are forced to wait.

    Just wanted to add to this. It is not just a sprint problem either. Many places in the United States simply do not have fiber infrastructure. I also believe many ISPs are just waiting for DOCSIS 3.1 in the next year so they can just keep their current copper lines.

    Network Vision/LTE - Toledo Market (Toledo, Bowling Green, Findlay, Lima, Port Clition)

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    Just a quick update for the lima area (sorry for anyone looking for good news in lima)

     

    Still just a 5x5 deployment and starting to get overloaded even at night with UNOH (the college)  i have not spotted any B41 equipment anywhere despite Verizon launching their XLTE here. 1x800 is pretty much live everywhere but 1x on 1900MHz was fine already.

     

    There are still a few sites that were upgraded mid 2014 with all new equipment but are still 3G only.

     

    Well i guess thats all for the lima area.....dang.....

    Have not really seen much change around Toledo. Same couple towers still need work.

    Network Vision/LTE - Toledo Market (Toledo, Bowling Green, Findlay, Lima, Port Clition)

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    Looks like you guys have got some 10x10 B25 carrier. The upload is almost as good as the download in the speed test. 26640/8740 is where Columbus' is and where it is in Erie, Huron and Sandusky counties in the Cleveland market. I Did this test at the SR-2 rest area in Ottawa County. The numbers aren't super impressive because I didn't have a strong signal. I also saw it in Lucas County too, but I suspect you've got more counties in your market where this wider carrier exists. One site I tested in Columbus market got me about 50 down and about 30 up...pretty darn good for B25 and especially is beneficial in rural areas where B41 doesn't reach or isn't deployed. Has anyone found it anywhere else in your market? Most of the counties in the Cleveland market can't have 10x10 at least where Sprint is deploying it now because they don't hold the license for any or enough of the adjacent PCS C block.

     

     

    nice I just looked and yup 10X10. This at my house and I'm in Lucas county.

     

    Sent from my 0PJA2 using Tapatalk

     

     

    Both of these are from different towers in Toledo

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    Edit: Just got this one in the backyard

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    SignalCheck - Android app to monitor your Wi-Fi/2G/3G/4G LTE/5G-NR signal strengths

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    Sure, I will look into it; just to be sure we are on the same page, you are seeing this when you export a log with plain text timestamps, correct? When importing to Excel, conversions are handled by Excel so I cannot control how it appears. And the database itself stores date/time information as seconds from the Unix epoch, not plain text dates.

     

    -Mike

    Correct it is a problem in the plain text.

    I have been loading the log directly into notepad++ and using replace [," ] with  [,"] to remove the additional spaces.

     

    The space only shows up at the beginning of the month where the string length is a value shorter (1-9) than other cases (10+).

    Network Vision/LTE - Toledo Market (Toledo, Bowling Green, Findlay, Lima, Port Clition)

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    I decided just run my s5 on cdma only this triband radio struggles for signal, the phones are more advanced than the network itself so hopefully spark goes live because the lte current band range is proving to be a big problem right now but loving my 2 mb 3g speeds haha

    From your description either the network there is screwed up bad or they are still doing stuff on the back end. Having spent time in other markets I would say they are still working on the market.

    Network Vision/LTE - Toledo Market (Toledo, Bowling Green, Findlay, Lima, Port Clition)

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    It may or may not happen in Lima. But if you become a Top 5% usage customer, even if all that usage happens in Lima, then you're marked. And if you travel anywhere else on the Sprint network and run into a site that is in throttle mode because of high usage, you will be throttled. Toledo, Wapakoneta, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, New York, Miami, Hawaii, Key West...wherever.

     

    I'm just giving you the info. You can do with it whatever you like.

    Is the Top 5% a per market metric or a corp metric?

     

    Does Sprint throttle you only for the month after some point of usage?

     

    Isn't att or someone getting sued currently over doing this even when the tower is not under heavy load?

    Network Vision/LTE - Toledo Market (Toledo, Bowling Green, Findlay, Lima, Port Clition)

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    I believe Nextel bought the spectrum rights in the last couple rounds of auctions back in the late 90s and early 2000s. They should have had it for 10 years now.

    ESMR auction history can be found at bottom of page here: http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/index.htm?job=about&id=smrs

     

    I was thinking trying thr FCC website...but thats like trying to find a needle in a hay stack for me. Of cource if anyone else knows please share. We have two rrus up on every site in our market besides any GMOs. So 1x800 shouldnt be the issuse. But is the IBEZ still in affect for us having the 800 RRU up and north they just have the 1900?

    Want to say IBEZ only restricts the power output even if no deal was made with Canada (ie can run at any time with limited output power). I thought that IBEZ agreement was made.

    Network Vision/LTE - Toledo Market (Toledo, Bowling Green, Findlay, Lima, Port Clition)

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    Robert will you fill me in please, 800 voice in the region of Toledo Ohio is free from public safety. LTE 800 is in the higher band frequency and therefore cannot be utilized because public safety is using that. Getting you opinion would assure me that I am correct in what I'm saying?

    iirc

    Nationally both 1x800 and LTE 800 downlinks are centered somewhere between 862-869 MHz. This would place both in the non public safety region of 800 MHz

     

     

     

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    "From the spectrum analyzer RF sweep, we can see that this site has achieved SMR 800 MHz deployment completion. On the left is the 1.25 MHz FDD CDMA1X 800 downlink carrier at band class 10 channel assignment 476, which equates to center frequency 862.9 MHz. On this site, CDMA1X 800 was deployed earlier this year just prior to the Nextel iDEN 800 shutdown. But LTE 800 did not follow -- until now.

     

    On the right is the newborn 5 MHz FDD LTE 800 downlink carrier. Temporarily, connections to the LTE 800 carrier are not yet allowed, so an exact EARFCN cannot be determined. But frequency domain analysis suggests a downlink EARFCN 8763, which equates to center frequency 866.3 MHz and is smack dab in the middle of the EARFCN 8761-8765 range that I predicted in one of my engineering screen articles earlier this year."

     

    source: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-358-sprint-scores-an-800-on-the-lte/

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