Sprint's LTE Network Arrives in Boston As Well As Austin, College Station, & Fort Wayne, Indiana Monday Jan 28 2013 10:21 EDT Sprint this morning announced that their faster LTE network has now come online in portions of Boston. The company says the new network will be available in Barnstable/Hyannis/Mid-Cape, New Bedford/Fall River, and Peabody areas of Massachusetts. In addition to Boston, Sprint today stated they launched LTE in Austin, Texas; Bryan/College Station, Texas; Columbia, Tenn.; Emporia, Kansas; Fort Wayne, Indiana; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; and Western Puerto Rico (including Aguadilla, Isabela, Cabo Rojo, Mayagüez). Sprint says that with these launches, their LTE network is now available in portions of 58 markets. |
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Is in many unannounced citiesI was in LA area last week and Tampa a few weeks ago and saw Sprint LTE in many areas. Check sensorly map, reported by users..
http://www.sensorly.com/iframe/s4gru.com/map/4G/US/USA/Sprint/lte_310sprint#q=burbank, ca | |
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en103
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2013-Jan-28 5:01 pm
Re: Is in many unannounced citiesExcellent! Sprint beat AT&T out here in SoCal to Santa Clarita and Lancaster. | |
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kd6cae
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2013-Jan-28 5:11 pm
Re: Is in many unannounced citiesHas Sprint officially announced any Southern california areas. I'm totally blind, but I'm interested to know what areas around me have LTE. I live in Palmdale, and I don't think any sites here have anything yet, but I believe there is at least one area of Lancaster that has it, but I'm not sure where in Lancaster that is. I currently have a 3G only phone, but this summer I can upgrade, so it's kinda cool to watch the rollout through my roomates phones when he tells me he saw LTE coverage in spots. | |
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Re: Is in many unannounced citiesAccording to link above, Lancaster is up and running. If Palmdale has anything, no one has reported with the Sensorly app yet. | |
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I haven't seen any work done directly in my area (site 1 1/2 blocks from me), but the sensorly map shows the signal 'stong' over on the other side of town at the Valencia Ice station site ( I think they had large/new panels up a couple of months back). | |
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Re: Is in many unannounced citiesDaughter was at LAX a couple weeks ago. She text me "Dad, I what does the LTE thingie mean". She was happy to use it for 3 hours before heading to the WiMax state (Hawaii). But heck, I'm paying for (iPhone 5) so by george, it better work when it's there. Short lived. Back in Michigan.. tick tock, tick tock. | |
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iansltx
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2013-Jan-28 10:40 am
Hmm...Austin...I live there, and while LTE is rapidly expanding in the city, there are still large swaths of territory, most notably downtown and the UT campus area, up to Hyde Park, that weren't covered as of between a few days and a week ago. Maybe some sites have gone live with 4G since then in those areas, and I hope that for Sprint's sake they have, but I kind of doubt it. | |
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iansltx
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2013-Jan-28 12:51 pm
Re: Hmm...Austin...I know...I built that estimate. However that's running on numbers that are a week old. The completion date may jump a bit with this week's site update. At least, I hope so. | |
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2013-Jan-28 10:58 am
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That's typical for how they've been doing it. They get street-level LTE coverage up in enough areas of the city and then press "go." Bob Azzi explained the strategy a while back: » www.lightreading.com/lon ··· 40138907Key point: 4G on the street Bob Azzi, senior vice president of Networks at Sprint, talked to Light Reading Mobile about the operator's LTE strategy Friday in the wake of its initial launch in 15 markets. "We weren't planning to wait until we had all our cell sites covered," explained Azzi. Instead the cities went live "when we determined that we had a sufficient footprint that enough people could find it in enough places." Azzi says Sprint uses LTE propagation tools to look at coverage before launch and doesn't "have a firm percentage" on how much of a market is covered before launch. "We focus on street-level coverage ... although it obviously has in-building coverage in there as well," Azzi says. Rather than launch on a specific percentage, Azzi explains, the operator's teams look at whether the coverage available will "prove a useful enough experience for our customers for us to launch it." Just FYI. Dan Jones Site Editor, Light Reading Mobile | |
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Re: Hmm...Austin...this is why I decided to port out of Sprint... too much talk of upgrades, and less action as providing upgrades. | |
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Re: Hmm...Austin...said by johnner1999:this is why I decided to port out of Sprint... too much talk of upgrades, and less action as providing upgrades. Ignorance is bliss! | |
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What do you mean, they are doing at least a thousand sites every month. You can't go from zero to 34K sites in a year. They are behind VZW/ATT because they started the LTE rollout later. There are also doing a major cellsite overhaul, not just adding LTE like ATT/VZW are doing. So it takes longer per site and involves more equipment - some vendors have longer lead times. | |
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anon anon
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2013-Jan-28 11:53 am
Re: Hmm...Austin...said by xenophon:What do you mean, they are doing at least a thousand sites every month. You can't go from zero to 34K sites in a year. They are behind VZW/ATT because they started the LTE rollout later. There are also doing a major cellsite overhaul, not just adding LTE like ATT/VZW are doing. So it takes longer per site and involves more equipment - some vendors have longer lead times. So? Why should he wait? If his area might take 2 years to get upgraded why can't he go with another carrier for 2 years then come back to Sprint when they can actually provide the service he wants? | |
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AVD
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2013-Jan-28 11:58 am
Re: Hmm...Austin...said by anon anon :said by xenophon:What do you mean, they are doing at least a thousand sites every month. You can't go from zero to 34K sites in a year. They are behind VZW/ATT because they started the LTE rollout later. There are also doing a major cellsite overhaul, not just adding LTE like ATT/VZW are doing. So it takes longer per site and involves more equipment - some vendors have longer lead times. So? Why should he wait? If his area might take 2 years to get upgraded why can't he go with another carrier for 2 years then come back to Sprint when they can actually provide the service he wants? hopefully S will reward loyalty and grandfather some rates. | |
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Re: Hmm...Austin...I doubt that. I live in Oregon and have an S3. That means I can't use their 4g wimax or the lte. Meanwhile i'm being charged an additional $10 per month for 4g/lte service. I tried discussing this with customer service and their response was that smart phone users use the network more in general soo.... | |
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Re: Hmm...Austin...said by beavercable:I doubt that. I live in Oregon and have an S3. That means I can't use their 4g wimax or the lte. Meanwhile i'm being charged an additional $10 per month for 4g/lte service. I tried discussing this with customer service and their response was that smart phone users use the network more in general soo.... You're paying more for unlimited data on a smartphone. Even 3g only phones pay the extra $10 | |
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Yeah, I agree if your market is later than sooner then some won't want to wait. He said that Sprint isn't doing any upgrades, but they are at a pretty good pace considering it's a major overhaul of every site, just not everywhere at once. | |
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said by anon anon :said by xenophon:What do you mean, they are doing at least a thousand sites every month. You can't go from zero to 34K sites in a year. They are behind VZW/ATT because they started the LTE rollout later. There are also doing a major cellsite overhaul, not just adding LTE like ATT/VZW are doing. So it takes longer per site and involves more equipment - some vendors have longer lead times. So? Why should he wait? If his area might take 2 years to get upgraded why can't he go with another carrier for 2 years then come back to Sprint when they can actually provide the service he wants? Exactly! Enough is enough. Fuck Sprint! In June, I bought the Evo LTE on release day at full retail price, since I was still under contract with Sprint and not eligible for an upgrade for another year. Fast forward a few months later, the Saturday after Thanksgiving, I did the unthinkable and left Sprint for Verizon. I ported over two smartphones and a USB data card. I really hate Verizon and Verizon Wireless, and as a company I really like Sprint, but I couldnt take it anymore. With no announcement of LTE insight for any of the markets in Upstate NY, combined with piss poor 3G speeds, I had to leave. It hurt. Believe me it hurt. It hurt financially, I had a phone that I paid $650 for five months prior, along with an ETF to pay, and it hurt from a personal standpoint with hating Verizon and having been a Nextel and Sprint customer for a decade. But what good is unlimited data when youre at dial up speeds? What good is unlimited data on a phone with a 720p display when you cant stream high quality YouTube content unless youre on wifi? Hell or steam anything period unless youre on wifi. Heres the sad part, I would get much better speeds roaming on Verizons 1X network, then I would with full bars on Sprints native EVDO signal. With Sprint I was paying $200/month for two smartphones with unlimited mobile to mobile, 1500 shared anytime minutes, unlimited texting and unlimited data and 6GB worth of data on the USB card. With Verizon Im paying $203 dollars for 10GB worth of data shared between two smartphones, the USB card, unlimited calling, unlimited texting and Visual Voice Mail on one of the phones. The difference, I can actually use the data Im paying for with Verizon, whereas on Sprint, near the end I might as well been capped to 2GB, as thats all I could use due to the slow network. I can live with a 10GB cap, especially, when you dont have to wait forever for things to load. I use the air card sparingly. Only when Im away from home with my laptop. 6GB on it with Sprint was overkill, for me I could have lived with 2-3GB, but the 5GB, that eventually turned into the 6GB plan, was the lowest they offered. Paying for something your able to use, is a lot better than paying for something you cant use. At the end even the USB modem was a joke. I could be in major suburbs, and bounce back and forth between EVDO and 1XRTT three or four times within a 10 minute span, making the thing damn near useless. Sprint customers, in the two months Ive had my Droid DNA on Verizon, I have yet to encounter any buffering, at all, no matter where I am, even on 3G. Do you know what thats like? No buffering on Pandora, Shoutcast or Sirius XM. No buffering on You Tube or DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket Online. When Sprint has a real 4G network, provided they have a decent handset selection, I will be back. But until then, fuck 'em! | |
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chip89
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2013-Jan-28 5:04 pm
LteThis is a good thing now if only it will come to where I live. | |
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CodeeCB
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2013-Jan-28 6:50 pm
Sprint was FIRST to have 4gPeople seem to forget that Sprint was the first carrier to have 4g. Granted it was WiMax and that ended up being the wrong technology to embrace, they had 4g before anyone else. And as others have said, it is a COMPLETE rebuild from the ground up. New back haul is the biggest delay.
Side note, I'm seeing more and more LTE on my galaxy iii every week now in Mn. There is a steady stream of sites popping up! | |
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