I gotta email from sprint telling me that they are beefing up covrage and sprucin up there cell towers. What does this mean for people in poor coverd areas? Like the woods? Will we hav better service? Or will it just be better in the coverd areas
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Depends on how far out of the coverage area you are. In theory, 1x coverage will be getting a big boost, since they are going to beef up the segment to allow voice and data to be used at the same time.
If you have 3g, in theory you will also have 4g LTE when they are done with their upgrades.
This is all part of Network Vision.
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Post a picture of teh email.
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I got the same email. Sprint is upgrading their base stations. I'm hoping for better signal. I wonder if these new stations will be upgradeable to LTE Advanced.
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i received the same email last week. im in a -91 2 asu average area. my typical speeds are 10kb to 120kb max. today i was pushing 800kb but an upload of 55kb.
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Coverage map looks the same as Clear/Sprint...
http://www.timewarnercable.com/dallas/promotions/neo/rrmobile_may2010.html?cid=neod000000017048
I'm pretty sure time warner, comcast, Cox, and google are all part owners of Clear. Sprint just owns the most at 51%.
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Wikipedia will give you full details about the company including owners. I think your list is correct but I am too lazy to look it up right now.
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I'm pretty sure time warner, comcast, Cox, and google are all part owners of Clear. Sprint just owns the most at 51%.
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I'm a tech for Clear, and I heard about Comcast using our network back in the beginning of summer.
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I have Clear for my internet provider and it works pretty good at home but I do not receive 4g on my phone at the same location. Why is that?
For lack of better words, Sprint hasn't tapped into the backhaul of Clearwires 4g network yet on the cell tower that is feeding you your 4g on the computer. If you are getting 4g on your phone in other places around town, than its just a matter of time before Sprint integrates their services with clearwires 4g at your house.
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Sweet.. I'm running cm6 with snap turbo.. I check xda everyday hoping they integrate it in asop some how.. so I wont know when clear and sprint merge their 4g :sadface:
I can't wait to move... I'm gonna base my next home on my 4g signal.. lol I'm cheap and wanna use wifi tether to play on xbox live..
So they are doing network vision updates in my area.
The area's that are done are pretty nice. No boost in signal which is fine, but the data speeds are fantastic! Unfortunately that's downtown only. The rest of the city on the other hand though had it's tower's taken offline for the upgrade and the towers serving us is now just the ones downtown. At home i went from 4ish bars to roaming missing calls, texts and such. Wouldn't care but I missed a few phone interviews today and pretty livid about that.
Hopefully I'll be reaping those benefits soon, and hopefully they are deploying lte not just upgrading the cdma.
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There are some of us who experience no signal all the time and it's not from towers being taken down to be upgraded as well so cheer up
im0rtalz said:
There are some of us who experience no signal all the time and it's not from towers being taken down to be upgraded as well so cheer up
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Word. I second that.
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My "4g" experience with sprint, is 600ish Kbps at best down, yet somehow 1.2-1.4 Mbps up. Eh, at least I get descent call quality.
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Lock into roaming! You won't miss a thing!
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Calls here at school in Fresno, CA have taken a dump but I didn't know Nv was coming so soon
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abegoods said:
My "4g" experience with sprint, is 600ish Kbps at best down, yet somehow 1.2-1.4 Mbps up. Eh, at least I get descent call quality.
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99% sure upload is throttled to 1.5 Mbps. Being the total capacity of each tower is not being hammered for upload you usually see the 1.4* Mbps like I do. Download on the other hand is getting hammered.
Before anyone compains omg throttled. That is how it is supposed to be done, when you have a limited resource you qos throttle it.
4g in my area LA works well. In doors its pretty **** but 3g is terrible
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morphis568 said:
So they are doing network vision updates in my area.
The area's that are done are pretty nice. No boost in signal which is fine, but the data speeds are fantastic! Unfortunately that's downtown only. The rest of the city on the other hand though had it's tower's taken offline for the upgrade and the towers serving us is now just the ones downtown. At home i went from 4ish bars to roaming missing calls, texts and such. Wouldn't care but I missed a few phone interviews today and pretty livid about that.
Hopefully I'll be reaping those benefits soon, and hopefully they are deploying lte not just upgrading the cdma.
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There are some of us who experience no signal all the time and it's not from towers being taken down to be upgraded as well so cheer up
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Because there are some of us that check coverage maps, before we sign a carrier's contract.
That is obviously Sprint's fault.
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Because there are some of us that check coverage maps, before we sign a carrier's contract.
That is obviously Sprint's fault.
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The coverage map for my area still shows Wimax as being available. 2 years later still nothing. So.... Some of us do check, and get done in by false or misleading info. Which ironically is sprints fault
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The coverage map for my area still shows Wimax as being available. 2 years later still nothing. So.... Some of us do check, and get done in by false or misleading info. Which ironically is sprints fault
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Too many people making excuses for corporations these days.
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azyouthinkeyeiz said:
Because there are some of us that check coverage maps, before we sign a carrier's contract.
That is obviously Sprint's fault.
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Because their coverage maps are soooo accurate.
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Is it me, or has the 4G been lost in Tampa? It could just be my phone, but I haven't been able to connect to 4g in over a week.
It was working (at half the speed I usually get) 2 Fridays ago. But, if I'm not mistaken, isn't Tampa scheduled for LTE by the end of the year? If so, they could be working on the towers in your area.
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I'm in Tampa as well and there is 4g its just hard to find. I live over in Seminole heights and there is a tower less than a mile from me and I've gotten it but its very weak. My 3g was giving it a run for its money...
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Binary Droids said:
It was working (at half the speed I usually get) 2 Fridays ago. But, if I'm not mistaken, isn't Tampa scheduled for LTE by the end of the year? If so, they could be working on the towers in your area.
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If I understand correctly, 4G Wimax towers (owned by Clearwire) should have nothing to do with 3G CDMA / 4G LTE towers (owned by Sprint).
I have to turn 4G off and on a few times to get a decent connection and when I do it disconnects a minute later.. best places I've seen are near USF and on 275 between Westshore Blvd & downtown. Everywhere else sucks. Also I've never once had a good connection indoors
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I move around quite frequently and I find a decent amount of areas that have 4g, even in places that you wouldn't think it would be. If your near a Sprint store then most cases there will be 4g available. Inside the Tampa Pitcher Show, across from Sprint store, you can get service inside easily. Places out in Brandon and Valrico as well, in fact I was using 4g yesterday in IHOP out on 60. If LTE is covered as much as the current 4g then I'll be very happy... Oh and I thought I read that it was coming here this summer according to that unofficial sprint build out site. I won't contemplate even getting an LTE phone before then since 4g is so readily available for me, and we know how good the 3g can be at times.....
Noooooooo you guys are all wrong. 4G is there but its just incognito and invisible.
Im just messing.
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I was just in Tampa yesterday and got 4G. Also got 4G in St Petersburg also.
is there a way to reset the 4g? for some reason I can't connect to it at all, after a data reset, network refresh, everything I can think of. is it possible to try to change the realm to clearwire instead of sprintpcs?
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is there a way to reset the 4g? for some reason I can't connect to it at all, after a data reset, network refresh, everything I can think of. is it possible to try to change the realm to clearwire instead of sprintpcs?
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Mine seems to be working fine when Im closer to downtown.
I get it over in Seminole and I haven't had a problem yet. Maybe they're just working on towers
Im in the carrollwood area and my 4g works fine
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Odessa/Citrus Park area 4g fine, Tampa Intl airport, 4g was screaming fast. I was shocked.
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Im in the carrollwood area and my 4g works fine
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you have signal at all in carrolwood?
i just moved out of northdale. i was roaming there all the time.
Shout out to all my down south Florida boys!
Orlando in da hizouse!
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saint pete, we have full wimax coverage over here
psst a little birdy told me july is when to look for some lte pickin's
So far, the only areas where i've gotten good 4g connections is near downtown, or closer to Oldsmar. I live in T-N-C and 4g is very sparatic (i think i spelled that right )
I have noticed its like that over on the east end of Fowler and Busch.. I'm not to sure why though.
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Update your prl that might help. R u running a custom rom or are you stock?
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Ok so I have had this phone for a few weeks. Tried every radio my signal is get but on a speed test best I have got is 35k down and upload will not even test!!!! I can send pic msg cause the connection is to slow. I can surf the net but it tajes forever.. is there sumin i am missing?
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Ya depending where you are there isn't even T-Mobile service up there. If there is it's only the slowest edge version. Your in vzw territory.
Casperi
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casperi said:
Ya depending where you are there isn't even T-Mobile service up there. If there is it's only the slowest edge version. Your in vzw territory.
Casperi
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I second this. You must be in Verizon land. I was up in Tocoa not too long ago and had to fight to get a signal. You can see from my sig that I get decent speeds. That was an old test I did with my HD2 about a year ago. I get MUCH faster speeds now with my SGS2.
Yup all gsm coverage ends at 400/60 at the shell station. Beyond that the only place you will catch a stray signal is at the top of blood mountain on hwy 129. Anyway from dilangoga "sp" is all vzw. You lose a signal again if your on vzw going out of town and.then pick it up again for a few when u get into suches. Then lose it until you get into the most corrupt police town in the US Blairsvile.
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I'm at the Austin, TX ACL music festival, and and Sprint is worthless! Sure I have signal.... But I can't text, and can't make calls, and the internet does NOT work on 3g or 4g LTE. My friends have a mix of Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile... They have no problems with anything... Except for the AT&T... They have intermittent problems....
When you walk around and look around, everyone BUT Sprint brought in temporary towers to provide service for the festival. Sprint has a nearby tower that gives me 3-5 bars, and but it's FAR overloaded. There are 75k people here today, give or take...
All I'm saying Sprint, is would it kill you to bring in a temporary tower or 2 for the 3 day music festival of 100k people or so...?
Ok...... Sorry for my rant..... I'm getting fed up with nothing working...
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Do they have a first aid station? Sounds like you need to find the waaaaaahmbulance.
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Lol! Ya, they do.... Maybe they have some kotex
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Orrr change carriers. Reading all these "Boo Sprint" threads are getting old. If you don't like it, move on!
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I'm at the Austin, TX ACL music festival, and and Sprint is worthless! Sure I have signal.... But I can't text, and can't make calls, and the internet does NOT work on 3g or 4g LTE. My friends have a mix of Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile... They have no problems with anything... Except for the AT&T... They have intermittent problems....
When you walk around and look around, everyone BUT Sprint brought in temporary towers to provide service for the festival. Sprint has a nearby tower that gives me 3-5 bars, and but it's FAR overloaded. There are 75k people here today, give or take...
All I'm saying Sprint, is would it kill you to bring in a temporary tower or 2 for the 3 day music festival of 100k people or so...?
Ok...... Sorry for my rant..... I'm getting fed up with nothing working...
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At the big golf tournaments here in Florida or at any Football stadium, the towers are always oversaturated. In some markets, AT&T provide Sprint's backhaul so it's possible those were related.
I have nothing against sprint. I love them and have had them ever since the early 90's. I just think they could have been a bit more proactive..... Like there competitors were...
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Wait... so you are on XDA and on the SG3 with Sprint and you didn't think to change your PRL to a Verizon PRL to get signal and 3G? You deserve to have the issues you have cause you had every opportunity to address the problem before hand and during the festival.
This is a big FAIL!!!
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I'm at the Austin, TX ACL music festival, and and Sprint is worthless! Sure I have signal.... But I can't text, and can't make calls, and the internet does NOT work on 3g or 4g LTE. My friends have a mix of Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile... They have no problems with anything... Except for the AT&T... They have intermittent problems....
When you walk around and look around, everyone BUT Sprint brought in temporary towers to provide service for the festival. Sprint has a nearby tower that gives me 3-5 bars, and but it's FAR overloaded. There are 75k people here today, give or take...
All I'm saying Sprint, is would it kill you to bring in a temporary tower or 2 for the 3 day music festival of 100k people or so...?
Ok...... Sorry for my rant..... I'm getting fed up with nothing working...
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Its ok. Sprint defence force is out and about today. Sprint sucks..I have to flash a roaming prl for decent speeds. Def waiting for that letter.
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I just wanted to make a funny joke, not being insulting. I will note that at a recent major sporting event in an LTE market I was getting 1mbps down on my GS2 on 3g (unfortunately was there a week before I got my GS3). Others in my group on other carriers were getting the typical sporting event zilch. I am hoping this is a sign of things to come.
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Sounds like its your device. You wrote "My friends have a mix of Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile... They have no problems with anything... Except for the AT&T... They have intermittent problems"
So your friends with Sprint didnt have problem. But yet you did.. So seems to be your device and not Sprint.
Unless you meant to say your friends with Sprint ALSO had problems.. in which case the network operated normally. It was a festival with over loading. It happens.
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Wait... so you are on XDA and on the SG3 with Sprint and you didn't think to change your PRL to a Verizon PRL to get signal and 3G? You deserve to have the issues you have cause you had every opportunity to address the problem before hand and during the festival.
This is a big FAIL!!!
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Lmao
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