Sprint Adds Baltimore, Kansas City to LTE Launch List As Company Preps for Mid-Year LTE Launch Last month Sprint announced that their first LTE launch markets would arrive sometime mid-year, including Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and six other smaller markets. In a press statement, Sprint this morning announced that they'd be adding both Baltimore and Kansas City to that initial launch list. The company is conducting a $4-$5 billion network upgrade that involves retrofitting every Sprint cell site, eliminating the refrigerator-sized cabinets for each technology (800 MHz, 1.9 GHz and 2.5 GHz) in favor of small, more energy efficient multi-mode base stations allowing them to offer Mobile WiMax and LTE for the foreseeable future. Sprint says their goal is to cover 123 million "pops" (potential users) with LTE by the end of 2012, and 250 million by the end of 2013.
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 | | I hope Sprint has a backup carrier... To build the LTE network cause they are going to need it especially with the government squatting on LightSquared. | |
|  | | | Re: I hope Sprint has a backup carrier... Sprint doesn't really need LightSquared. They'll use their own 800Mhz (get rid of iDen), 1900Mhz and then if LS fails, which it obviously will, they'll likely tack onto Clear's spectrum for LTE.
2.5Ghz will probably work out better to augment 800/1900 rather than 2.5Ghz as only band, which their WiMAX is today. | |
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| | Sprint As a 12-13 Year customer of Sprint, having jumped ship to try out cingular one time but hating them, I think Sprint unfortunately remains the best option. Their service use to be horrid but has improved SOME. I am truly disappointed they dropped support for their extras like radio, etc. However, pandora and similar services easily replace the loss. That said, Sprint remains the ONLY company with truly unlimited plans.
If Sprint wants to remain a MAJOR PLAYER, Hess better start advertising the heck out of that one. I'd be running 24/7 adds showing a bar going up and slowing with Sprint going on forever. Sprint can capitalize off their competition's failures. | |
| | | | Re: Sprint am a sprint 15 year user, and am on the sero plan.. in a good coverage area near orlando.. well. sprint fails hard.. dont talk on the phone a lot. do text a bit..
and yep i use a bit of data.. my data speeds on a good day.. with 4 bars.. 400 kbs..
as a test, got a tmobile phone used.. am on the 100 min, unlimited texts and 5gig of data at 4g..
well. phone and txt work fine.. at my house i get ~6to 7 mbs. for 30 bucks a month no taxes..
my sprint sero plan 30 bucks plus taxes.. 37 at the end..
no you cant go get my sprint plan, but in todays world sprints data rate sucks!!!!!!
wimax blah, blah. anyone anywhere getting anything better than 500kbs download?
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Saint Clair Shores, MI | Re: Sprint Wait till you replace your phone. Then, you will get will hit with the 10.00 smart phone upgrade unless you get a 10 key (or BB service), then another 10.00 for prem data. I have (well had) 4 old employee accounts. I got for 10.00 what sero users paid 30.00 for, but I got nav and tv service and totally unlimited data/web. Now, it's 30 for a normal phone, 40 for smart/bb plus 10 more for data making it 50.00. I started with 6 sero's, not I have 5 and one of them just got ported to Republic Wireless. The rest are soon to follow. 13 years with Sprint. They are no different the other top telco's so time to explore.
Using Speedtest on my Motorola Admiral XT603
WiFi: ping 21ms, down 15.38mbps, up 4.11mpbs using 802.11n
3G/EVDO. reva: ping 702ms 0.06mbps, up 0.72mbps (sad, really sad)
Using another android app to check tower location and power:
Ping: 3204ms, down: 218kbps, up 408kpbs
I live 1 mile from the tower (as a crow flies). My tower only shows 37% signal at -97dBm at the time I did the test.  | |
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| | Smaller Markets What are these smaller markets? Anyone know | |
| | | Markets The smaller markets are probably suburbs in Kansas, as Sprint would rather get LTE near it's home campus vs markets that would actually make it money. Sprint is horrible at investing money. | |
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