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You didn't say exactly where.  Is it Mission Beach, South Mission Beach or Mission Bay?  

Mission Beach It's one of the last places in San Diego to get NV installed. There are 2 very important sites that will serve the beach that don't appear to even been started.  I checked a few days ago and saw nothing new. Today I got very poor 3G with no working data near Belmont Park.  In Sprint's defense, all major carriers have had issues in Mission Beach.  Most likely for the same reasons.  This is a case where WiFi will come in handy.

The news might not be all bad depending on where exactly you will be located. There is also a chance that the new equipment might be installed before August.  

San Diego has the usual NIMBY stuff, fussy building owners & slow city approvals like anywhere else.  California ALSO has the "Coastal Commission" which is bureaucracy at it's stifling best (worst).  They have a "slow" say in anything that happens within roughly a mile from the ocean. 

Hello San Diego! I am heading out there in August as my sister in law will be getting married. My wife and I are getting a beach house on mission. How is it out there? Excited to be out there.

I must have missed that news.  Thanks.

We already have some confirmed sites with 800 RRH installed in San Diego County.

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From what I can see, yes they are updated as new data is added.

Do you know if the Sensorly maps update as more data comes in for areas already done? A lot of the mapping was done pretty early on in the LTE deployment here.

The beaches are still pretty sparse for good or even any LTE. A fair number of sites not even started for NV.  OB seems to be an exception and is fairly well covered now from what I have found.  The key to Mission Beach and PB are a couple of sites on tall hotel buildings.  When NV is finished, they should kick butt.

Just check out sensorly. San Diego is pretty covered except Clairemont area. Most places get LTE with low signal strength. Lots of fine tuning needs to be done by Sprint RF team.

I agree.  The Coastal Commission is involved in all beach area sites along with the usual players.  Building owners, City of SD, Mission Bay Park (City II), AT&T fiber etc, etc, etc.....  Still waiting for Bahia Hotel & The Catamaran Hotel to be started as well as the Hyatt to be accepted.  I have, once only, received a kick ass LTE signal from the Hyatt but it went away almost right away.  That site is nearing 8 months since they started trenching for fiber.

According to Sensorly, once the Bahia and Hyatt are turned on along with North Ocean Beach, Sprint should have by far the best coverage in Mission Beach and offshore.  It's an area that has had poor coverage from all carriers but has a bunch of locals and way more tourists.  Gotta be a good thing for Sprint. 

The easy to convert sites have already been converted in the past year. Now it's the long slog to get each site up one by one.

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Where was this picture taken from?

It was taken at Hospitality Point near the lifeguard office.   Lucky I took it when I did because all the equipment in now hidden behind a sort of screen they built about 8' or so out from the building's wall. The equipment on the other side of the building is behind the same kind of screen.

A crew is working on a high capacity site near where you were, by Sea World. Maybe their testing is interfering with data. Voice seems solid but data drops out and back again.

I just ran a test and got 0.24 Mbs down. Usually it would be 1.5 - 2.25.

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To me, they look like Alcatel-Lucent TD-RRH8X20-25s from the pictures at the top but I am not sure

No idea, I was going to ask if anyone (of those who like to go thru FCC docs) knew what the antenna for the Al Lu TD-LTE looked like?

Is this a picture in the wild?  San Diego. Mounted today.

 

Alcatel-Lucent TD-RRH8X20-25

Perhaps they were committed to buying a specific quantity of original S4s so they were able to add a new color to fulfill the pre-order with the hope that a new color might pick up additional buyers.

...why would best buy order more s4s in a different color so late in the year. artic blue. Strange.
 

As I said....

At least San Diego is now officially on the list

 

"Sprint 4G LTE is now available in 300 markets, including today’s additions"

 

http://newsroom.sprint.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=11245

At least San Diego is now officially on the list

"Sprint 4G LTE is now available in 300 markets, including today’s additions"

http://newsroom.sprint.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=11245

Thats about right with the IBEZ, I believe it was close to the OC/SD and the SD/Temecula line.

 

I've heard rumors of a possible agreement to lower the IBEZ to the 8.  South (where I live by 1 mile) would still be in the zone... but nonetheless I think thats a fair compromise.  of course, these were unconfirmed rumors and are dependent upon Mexico and their networks and legislation.

 

EDIT:

 

Notice how San Ysidro is now next to valley center? Interesting.  LOL.

The yellow on the Spark map is referring to the 2.5 GHz not 800 in the Dana Point area.  The IBEZ extends way north almost to LA, certainly way north of most of Orange Co.

Wow, it looks like K.E XII is right.  The LTE map has been updated to include Western San Diego County. Can a formal announcement be far behind?  Before Christmas or at least the New Year?  

The same map has OC/LA pretty much yellow, meaning Spark, as far south as Dana Point.

Can some of you gurus tell me what I am looking at here?  

This is in San Diego and is right next to some current telecommunications construction in Mission Bay Park.   There has been an ongoing trenching and construction project for the last month which might well be to bring fiber to the Sprint site on the Hayatt hotel .  In what seemed like overnight, these 2 sites located on brand new street lights appeared.  I'm fairly sure that one of them is Verizon but would appreciate feedback about what I am looking at here.  I'm trying to figure this out.  I'm guessing that some other carriers are taking advantage of the fiber backhaul that Sprint is bringing to the area.

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Construction Project with Hayatt in the background...

I like it and I like the new version of Sensorly even more.  Just released today

How do you like the new version of the speed test app?

Did some mapping in PB and MB today.  Only PB showed up with LTE active at around the Rec Center on Diamond.  I have been checking for the last few months since I mapped a weak signal at Crown Point which is now stronger and also a signal on the east side of Fiesta Island (via bicycle).  It's clear from looking at the Fiesta Island Sensorly map just how effective the 6' high sand dunes/berms are at blocking the LTE signal.  

Anyone in PB?  Any LTE signal there?  There is a site there with "2 data speed upgrades"

 

From my observation since we started getting LTE, all "2 data speed upgrades" are confirmed in San Diego with LTE.

I also mapped some new LTE on Voltaire near Catalina in OB last week....it's spreading.  Voltaire speed was 8.73 down.  This is the first week that it has shown up so I'm hopeful for the near future

Here is the Speedtest from Voltaire

Samsung has announced new Galaxy S4 handsets that will automatically switch between different 4G networks worldwide.

This doesn't mention Sprint but it seems an obvious place for it to end up in the US.  Third Q date sounds good too.

http://www.zdnet.com/samsung-tweaks-galaxy-s4-to-make-it-simpler-for-global-travellers-to-use-4g-7000018794/

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Samsung plans to release new versions of its Galaxy S4 and S4 mini smartphones that can automatically switch between 4G networks across the world that use different LTE standards.

The new devices will be able to switch between networks based on the TDD (Time-Division Duplex) and FDD (Frequency Division Duplex) variants of the LTE 4G wireless technology.

Samsung says the move is designed to make it easier for travellers to use data services in different countries without disruption.

While most of the world relies on FDD-LTE, adoption of TDD-LTE is expected to grow in the US, China, Australia, Middle East, Northern and Eastern Europe, and Southwest Asia.

According to market research firm Strategy Analytics, the global LTE market will increase 20 percent annually on average, from 270 million devices in 2013 to 680 million devices in 2017. The TDD-LTE market is expected to take up 18 percent of the entire LTE market by 2015.

Samsung will launch the dual-mode LTE handsets in countries worldwide from the third quarter of this year.

There is a NV site site on Turquoise near Cass that just showed up a few days ago.  Not LTE yet, but it's a start.

Not sure what's going on in Pacific Beach & Mission Beach, but it seems like that part of San Diego is a black LTE hole.