Newport News, Hampton, Norfolk, Virginia Beach tower upgrades. - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III

Not really sure if this should go here but I'm getting a Galaxy SIII soon. Today I received a "no CDMA network could be reached" message on my Moto Photon so I call my buddy that works at Sprint and he confirmed that tower upgrades are live in our area and we will probably have a rough time of it until complete.
I'm pretty excited about this and can't wait till I have the SIII in my hands. Stupid WiMax lol.

Torisen said:
Not really sure if this should go here but I'm getting a Galaxy SIII soon. Today I received a "no CDMA network could be reached" message on my Moto Photon so I call my buddy that works at Sprint and he confirmed that tower upgrades are live in our area and we will probably have a rough time of it until complete.
I'm pretty excited about this and can't wait till I have the SIII in my hands. Stupid WiMax lol.
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Yeah I'm in virginia beach, near redmill, and my signal bars look like a pole dancer. All they do is go up and down lol. Plus my speeds are slower but that's worth it for LTE in my house
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Let's hope that we have lte here asap
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Glad to hear I won't have to wait to long.

http://community.sprint.com/baw/com...-in-over-100-more-cities-in-the-coming-months
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I'm in the Pembroke area near Town Center. I'm looking forward to LTE as well. Never experience it before.
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llfloyd79 said:
I'm in the Pembroke area near Town Center. I'm looking forward to LTE as well. Never experience it before.
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I did opening weekend In Georgia! It was amazing!!!!! I was sad to be back on 3G. :'(
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jamcar said:
I did opening weekend In Georgia! It was amazing!!!!! I was sad to be back on 3G. :'(
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I hate you and I hope you burn
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xCovErtWolFx757 said:
I hate you and I hope you burn
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Plus the tower my phone is on,when I am home, will be one of the towers getting LTE when it turns on.
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Anyone else having terrible reception in the LA area?

i can barely pick up one signal bar as of late and its getting really annoyng because i ant even receive texts since i text alot so its a big issue now, but im on wifi so i cant tell unless my phone is being quiet lol. what can it be?
Network Vision is occuring in LA, you'll have 4G LTE soon. Just hang in there, it's tower maintenance.
Wow just earlier this month I searched for 4g lte in LA and I couldn't find anything. I searched Network Vision and see that we will probably have it going this September. Awesome. Thanks for letting us know.
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Overstew said:
Network Vision is occuring in LA, you'll have 4G LTE soon. Just hang in there, it's tower maintenance.
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Eeeeeee nice thanks for letting me know what it was
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Dont forget, you can always dial *18, its usually good to give u atleast one extra bar.
don't hold your breath but i was told the same thing and two months later nothing just saying don't get your hopes up.
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After I dial that what else do I have to do??
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Wearespacepeople said:
Wow just earlier this month I searched for 4g lte in LA and I couldn't find anything. I searched Network Vision and see that we will probably have it going this September. Awesome. Thanks for letting us know.
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Not going to happen in September, probably more like October or November at the earliest.
XxSilent.NightmarexX said:
i can barely pick up one signal bar as of late and its getting really annoyng because i ant even receive texts since i text alot so its a big issue now, but im on wifi so i cant tell unless my phone is being quiet lol. what can it be?
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I'm in LA and both cell reception and data has been godawful lately.
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Not going to happen in September, probably more like October or November at the earliest.
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I'm just going off the articles I found. Still this is sooner than I expected.
and I thought I was tripping... couldn't send txt for the crap of it all day yesterday
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Shoulon said:
and I thought I was tripping... couldn't send txt for the crap of it all day yesterday
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yea same here its rare for me to get signal now :/ im running on wifi right now but i can barely text
Same here. At home I get full bars, but when I go to school, I lose signal quite a lot. I live a couple of miles away from downtown, what about you guys?
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IronReaver17 said:
Same here. At home I get full bars, but when I go to school, I lose signal quite a lot. I live a couple of miles away from downtown, what about you guys?
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I'm in Sherman Oaks.
My signal has been spotty as well all up and down the 605.

Sprint lte 4G speeds Boston

Not bad eh?
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Pretty good i say.
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Not bad eh?
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Just curious. where in Boston? I am in east boston with nothing
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Not bad eh?
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In the words of Wolverine from the first X-men movie: "Holy sh¡t"
Lol, the swearword gets edited. I did not know that.
anth75 said:
Just curious. where in Boston? I am in east boston with nothing
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It was at Brookline near Harvard Ave
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In the words of Wolverine from the first X-men movie: "Holy sh¡t"
Lol, the swearword gets edited. I did not know that.
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That's from the second one, actually. When he fights the chick with his abilities.
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Zeinzu said:
That's from the second one, actually. When he fights the chick with his abilities.
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Oh yeah, you are right! Haha, I need to watch those movies again.
These were the other day. I'm in the southwest suburbs of Chicago, and its been polling up all over. The speeds vary in different locations, but I haven't seen anything really bad yet. And its not even "officially" on yet.
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Not Verizon LTE speeds, but much better than Sprint 3G.
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itsalexaye90 said:
Not Verizon LTE speeds, but much better than Sprint 3G.
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Honestly, my speeds with big red weren't really that far off. I've very seldom gotten over 30 down and 10 up w Verizon. They're about the same as far as the speeds I've seen. Its the coverage that's scketchy.
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Not Verizon LTE speeds, but much better than Sprint 3G.
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Carrier pigeon is faster than Sprint 3g, so it doesn't take much.
But yeah. Those are pretty good speeds. Glad to see Sprint picking up their game.
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I get 1-2mbps 3g and 6-12mbs 4g but this is in the Baltimore area.
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i'm trying to locate a good place to buy Sprint Nexus off-contract, mint-condition used or new to use on Sprint network without signing/extending contact. i currently have gt-i9250 on t-mobile, while my friend has htc evo on sprint, i wanna switch him over to nexus experience without singing another 2 year contract.
Anyone knows a good place in Boston/Mass/NH or online where i can buy SPH-L700?!
Thank you in advance
and sorry for not creating separate thread.
Not to be a downer, but when I got the TBolt (First Verizon 4G Lte phone) my speeds were constantly 35+ Mbps everywhere I went. Now that everyone and their mother has a 4G phone I am lucky to get about 10 - 15Mbps in most places. Saturation is a killer.

Lte!!!! Holy poop nugget

Well I was sitting at work and bam, 4g came on, way to go sprint!!!! (Shentel for my area) So glad I hung in there, screw the haters!!!!
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Those are some damn good download speeds!
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Not bad at all
I know, it's on, but I still feel like they're testing it, still goes off and on from time to time, but when it's on..oooohhhh boy is this fast,lol
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I remember my first lte speed test. .lol
On the wife's sgs3 we've been 30mbps. Yet I haven't had better than mid-twenties.
Enjoy your speed
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epicnoob66 said:
I remember my first lte speed test. .lol
On the wife's sgs3 we've been 30mbps. Yet I haven't had better than mid-twenties.
Enjoy your speed
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I really wish there was like a toggle or 4g switch like it was with wimax, this luck of the draw 4g kills me, but my main thing is I hope tethering comes back, sprint really blocked it this time
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A2CKilla said:
I really wish there was like a toggle or 4g switch like it was with wimax, this luck of the draw 4g kills me, but my main thing is I hope tethering comes back, sprint really blocked it this time
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You know you can turn it off in settings right?
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fryingpan0613 said:
You know you can turn it off in settings right?
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Yea, you can change the phone to non lte mode, but I'm sure you know what I mean by a toggle/scanner like the wimax phones have
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Yea, you can change the phone to non lte mode, but I'm sure you know what I mean by a toggle/scanner like the wimax phones have
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Ya I know what you mean, I just wasn't sure if you knew you could turn it off since other carriers force you to have it on.
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A2CKilla said:
I really wish there was like a toggle or 4g switch like it was with wimax, this luck of the draw 4g kills me, but my main thing is I hope tethering comes back, sprint really blocked it this time
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Does it work with EasyTether?
Yeah its really spotty and on/off for me. Weird observation though... I get 4g with my note in places I don't with my Galaxy Nexus.
Darn them, talked to a shentel rep (people that control sprint towers where I am) and these lte siting are just the test sites -_- but hey, at least full lte will be out at the end of the year for me at least, but hey for test speed of anywhere from, 8-20mb down?! I can't complain, but hey, I saw the same speeds with my wimax 4g, so to each his own
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With Note 2 i get LTE everywhere in Dallas Ft. Worth. Even traveling to other cities through tolls where development is not really there. Just alot of trees. I even get LTE in most people homes. Nexus never had this strong of a signal and if LTE switched the phone would freeze. I can honestly say this is a good phone.
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Does it work with EasyTether?
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Yes indeed.
On my $3 but I got great LTE tests in my area today done inside the bank
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hayabusa1300cc said:
On my $3 but I got great LTE tests in my area today done inside the bank
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[email protected] you Texas!!!!! Lol, but great speeds man, I still haven't seen anything near that in good ol pa, shentel needs to hurry up!!! But for the test site, I pretty much get lte in the majority of areas I go to, and at least get 2mb down at home if I'm not using wifi for 3g
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I am also seeing very little battery drain from 4G. The radios in this phone are amazing (especially compared to the Nexus).
I havent gotten my note yet but I was also really concern on how would lte and the battery would play. Are some of you guys noticing big drains or small drains with lte on?
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yellowman82 said:
I havent gotten my note yet but I was also really concern on how would lte and the battery would play. Are some of you guys noticing big drains or small drains with lte on?
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Depends, since a lot of areas are tests sites, lte does drop on and off for me, but battery still lasts all day, I say Samsung got it right with the battery, hope other manufacturers follow suit
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They have recently expanded their signal here in dallas, texas and now I get 4g on my work which I never usually got any 4g signal because of this old bulding but now I get some strong 4g signal. Props for sprint but my speeds are not that fast, I usually get max 5 or even 6 thats it :S
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Sprint offers to buy Clearwire outright ....

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/12/1...ssionid=18DAED29E38F128E821C71B42815FFC4?f=24
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Posted this on E4GT thread but this is great news.
Puts them in a position to have an LTE compatible device that could work in Japan, China and US.
For Softbank (and Sprint) that's big.
i though sprint had already bought them out? and it wasnt clear anymore it was just sprints network and their control?
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i though sprint had already bought them out? and it wasnt clear anymore it was just sprints network and their control?
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they took control with 70%...this would be full purchase...combined with new articles on a dish network/google deal yesterday
all good news
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This deal gives sprint about 5 times more lte bandwidth. ... Just kind of a formality since sprint owns a majority of it already but it would make it easier to roll out lte and they would answer to no one else ... cox and a couple other companies are owners of clear also
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This deal won't fall through. Sprint is trying to low ball Clearwire. Sprint offered to buy Clearwire out for $2.90 a share but the stock is already over that amount @ $3.25
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Hopefully this move will speed up LTE rollout plans.
::selfish rant starting::
It was supposed to be in Nashville already and I'm still stuck on 3G.
::ends selfish rant::
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emeraldayotte said:
Hopefully this move will speed up LTE rollout plans.
::selfish rant starting::
It was supposed to be in Nashville already and I'm still stuck on 3G.
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Phoenix is the 6th most populated city in this country and has no 4g at all...
ac16313 said:
Phoenix is the 6th most populated city in this country and has no 4g at all...
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It's coming. They complete more and more here in Dallas every week. I now maintain LTE for my entire commute. I streamed football via slingbox the entire ride home today without interruption. ..something I have never accomplished on 3g...and rarely accomplish on my ATT Note 1
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shook187 said:
This deal won't fall through. Sprint is trying to low ball Clearwire. Sprint offered to buy Clearwire out for $2.90 a share but the stock is already over that amount @ $3.25
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looks like the deal is going to go through
http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/17/sprint-buys-clearwire/
jyan_osu said:
looks like the deal is going to fall through
http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/17/sprint-buys-clearwire/
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Guess not - it went through:
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/sprint-reaches-deal-to-buy-out-clearwire/
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Guess not - it went through:
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/sprint-reaches-deal-to-buy-out-clearwire/
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I meant to say go through.. not fall through
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It's coming. They complete more and more here in Dallas every week. I now maintain LTE for my entire commute. I streamed football via slingbox the entire ride home today without interruption. ..something I have never accomplished on 3g...and rarely accomplish on my ATT Note 1
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I have been noticing it getting progressively better around DFW in the two months I've had my note2 as well
bankheist said:
I have been noticing it getting progressively better around DFW in the two months I've had my note2 as well
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whats up guy. headed over to the shop tomorrow am btw.. dropping off your 3d
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LTE in Grand Rapids, MI

Just wanted to let you guys know i was getting LTE on Leonard by the corner of Seward and Leonard, all the way up to Target/Khol's on Alpine! Works great indoors and out, in Grand Rapids, MI (i have also heard of people getting it in Byron Center)
And here I am, stuck in Ann Arbor. Oh well.
Nice! Still waiting for sprint to turn on lte in Winston Salem.
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MTsol said:
Nice! Still waiting for sprint to turn on lte in Winston Salem.
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And it makes the unlimited data on Sprint allllll worth it =] it's amazing, i get it on my couch now! I still use Wifi for the sake of battery life and better consistency though!
Congratulations to my northern brethren. It's coming on down in Battle Creek too.
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There is a small and I'm mean SMALL areas in Flint, MI where 4G pops on for me, I went to the Sprint store right by that area and the rep told me that they are installing for the area but are not announcing it since it isn't supposed to be live yet till later this year, but that it was working in some areas....
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And here I am, stuck in Ann Arbor. Oh well.
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A friend that lives in Ann Arbor says they're working on the towers right now and that's why you when u stream music it cuts out, they want 4g up by spring apparently he heard through his contact at Sprint which was just a guy at a Sprint store.
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A friend of mine that works for BestBuy mobile was told by his Sprint rep that their goal was to have most of the larger cities along the 94 corridor up by the end of q1. I would think that A2 falls in that category.
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Any Michiganders reporting LTE in the Kalamazoo area? I'm still on the OG Epic with Wimax, but trying to get a feel if maybe some tower work is going on over here for LTE.
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I haven't even seen Winston Salem on the list of cities currently in the upgrade process but the sprint store people say it is coming in March. I don't have a lot of faith in that though.
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A friend that lives in Ann Arbor says they're working on the towers right now and that's why you when u stream music it cuts out, they want 4g up by spring apparently he heard through his contact at Sprint which was just a guy at a Sprint store.
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Good news! Even though there are like three square feet on u of m's campus that aren't covered by wifi, I'm kind of depending on 4g+wifi tether to satisfy all my off campus apartment Internet needs lol. Rent around here is obscene.
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Any word on midtown Detroit?
Oh man LTE in GR? Any idea if Holland is going to be coming up soon?
Not yet, but my source told me it was supposed to come on around the same time as Battle Creek. So far there is only 1 tower up here, so I think it's just in the testing phase right now.
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Yeah, they are testing it now, to be officially "launched" they need 2/3 of the city covered, so when they actually do launch Grand Rapids, it'll be a lot more than just Alpine, and at this point, they could turn it off any day since it's not official
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Look what I stumbled across while passing through Lincoln Park/Allen Park! (ignore the Ann Arbor city on BeautifulWidgets, it's not on geolocation weather)
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bay city, saginaw and midland!
I too have picked up a LTE tower in Flint, and between Brighton & Howell. Slowly but surely!
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