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Has anyone stayed at the omni?  If so, were you able to get 4g lte inside your room?  If so, was it fast?

I've been to Toronto and Vancouver.  If you have unlimited texting plan, then texting is free within/to/from U.S. and Canada.  Data will cost you extra and so will voice roaming.  Once you get there, you will get a text from sprint saying that it'll cost you the following:

Without add-on, Txt sent: $0.20, recvd:$0.20,

Calls:$0.59/min,

Data:$0.002/KB unless on plan.

When I was there, all I did to communicate back home was texting and there was no charges.  The last time I went to Canada was this past August.  Hopes this help somewhat.

I missed the deal!!! Can I still get it?

Not everyone will like to hear this, but some in building locations well within the Sprint LTE coverage footprint simply will not get reliable LTE, maybe not ever.  Even band 26 will not be a panacea.

 

Now, that is less of a problem for VZW, while it sticks with SVLTE capable handsets, and AT&T, where it has W-CDMA 850 for fallback.  But it is something of a problem for Sprint, as it shifts to all single radio e/CSFB devices.  Unreliable LTE in building, thus, can mean missed e/CSFB pages for incoming calls.  And Airave type femtocells do not always work well with single radio devices.

 

This is one of the reasons why we have witnessed Sprint start to push Wi-Fi calling capability in the latest round of tri band handsets.  And it is the right move.  We have to realize that, more so than ever, mobile networks are for the truly mobile.  In building service will oft require small cells, and we are going to have to provide many of those small cells in the form of Wi-Fi.

 

AJ

I was actually hoping either the tilt change or Band 26 would help with in-building coverage at my house.  ;(

The tilt from one of the tower by my house needs to change.  The tower is a little less than half a mile from my house but I don't connect to that tower for LTE; instead, I connect to a tower that is a little over a mile away for LTE.  Because of this, my LTE connection is spotty around my house.  

Yup, seems like they are focusing in the Inland Empire, I been waiting patiently for the tower next to my office to go LTE live but its been a while and its the only one left with no LTE... Signal and speeds are really slow after 8am so not able to use my phone when I want to surf the web. Hope it changes soon

Same here.  I've been waiting patiently for the tower next to my office to get LTE and it's the only one near by that hasn't gotten LTE yet.

What's up in the OC?  Things have pretty much come to a halt here...

Got back from my trip yesterday.  I did get strong 4G LTE singal in Arlington but no data was moving to my phone so I had to change my phone setting to use 3G only.  Coverage in DC was good.  I had a good time.  Got to see some really cool things while I was there.  

Where are you planning to be in DC?

I'm going to be staying in Arlington about 1 to 2 miles southwest of Arlington Cemetery.  I'll only be there during the night as I have plan fulls days in Washington.  I'll be within a 5 miles radius of the white house.  Also, any suggestion while I am in DC from any local people there?  You could just pm me.  Thanks.

I'm planning on going to DC in 3 weeks.  How is the 4G coverage?  Is it spotty.  I don't want to base it off the map but on people who live or been to DC recently.

You'll have a strong enough signal. I have yet to ever see mine go below -76 dBm on 3G. Sounds like you have the tower up your ass.

 

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lol.  My office is on the second floor and when I look outside my window I see the tower about 1000 ft away at the same level as me.  

No. EV-DO and LTE use different signal strength metrics.

 

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-308-rssi-vs-rsrp-a-brief-lte-signal-strength-primer/

 

AJ

I see, so I should maybe expect  -80dbm from LTE?

At work, I get -60dBm on EDVO.  When that tower I connect to gets LTE, will my LTE strength be around -60 dBm too?

Okay.  It seems this morning when I check online, the sprint/clearwire-combined tower that is about 0.6 miles from me is now LTE.  I went to check my phone but it is still connected to the LTE tower that is 1 mile away.  Could it be possible that the LTE sprint/clearwire site is on 2.5ghz LTE so my old galaxy s4 can't pick it up?  I was hoping for better signal and speed since the sprint/clearwire tower is closer; am I wrong to assume this?

no its from a few months ago. so he needs to wait for the update from sprint? So Spark is in his area then?

Spark is on a lot of the old wimax towers.  If there are wimax towers in Yorba Linda, then there is likely Sprint 2500-2600 LTE (Spark).  The old S4 is NOT Spark enabled and will not be enabled as it does not have the radio's.  Spark will be on newer phones that have been released in the last few months.

Yup, his s4 will not be able to get spark because it doesn't have the hardware for it.  The new triband s4 that came out in 2014 has the hardware for spark.

OC is slowing down.  The last acceptance update posted is depressing for OC.  Hopefully it changes soon.

Is it the new s4 that just came out at the beginning of this month?  If it is, he should be spark enable for the phone.  If the s4 was from 2013 than it's not spark capable. 

With deployment of LTE, will sprint/clearwire-combined tower be the last to get LTE on it?  I am currently connected to a LTE tower exactly one mile from my house.  Now, there is a sprint/clearwire tower with wimax on it that is about 0.6 mile from my house that I am hoping for LTE but have not seen anything done to it yet.  Will it be last to get LTE?  

Looks like the 4G acceptance update for OC is slowing down the past couple of updates.

There's a tower that is 1000 feet away from my office that I can see clearly from my window that I am hoping will get upgraded soon.  I tether because I don't want the company knowing what I am doing and 4G will help alot.

The map for orange county is looking better and better every update.  

Yes, that site is a comounted sprint clearwire site.

I went out for some field work today and took some pictures.  Can you tell me what are on each of these towers? LTE?

Do you know which tower is 4145/3/760?

Does the app tell you which tower you are connected to?