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4G in Northern Colorado?

Anybody in Northern Colorado, or anywhere in Colorado, had success in getting some 4G coverage?
I just flashed to Baked Snack from cm6 to create a backup I can use while I'm in Vegas this weekend so I could test out 4G finally and was able to connect to 4G from my basement!
Ran some speed tests and performs better than the 3G here. I actually normally get 3G speeds in the 2000's at UNC which has a Sprint tower on one of the residence halls. At my house it's rather slow, the 826 download is 3G, the rest are 4G except the wifi.
Anybody have any luck in this area?

I am in fort Collins and have not managed to get 4G anywhere around here or in loveland. I am not really checking very often to tell you the truth. I hear there are areas in denver. Did you get 4g somewhere in northern colorado?

I've gotten pretty damn nice results with only 2 bars of 4G here in Orlando, Fl

Yes i live in Greeley, about 3 miles west of UNC and that's where I got those results from.
Ive never even bothered to turn it on before either until recently just to make sure the radio would work.
I'll keep it on during the day and let.you know how things are working.
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I guess I am just going to have to start randomly testing around here. I did not think it was in this area so I have not bothered even trying that much.

Try out Map Viewer on the market (Sensorly), you can see where other users are getting Wimax 4g in your area, you can also let it track where you're getting 4g. Also tracks GSM, CDMA, and wireless connections.
Some 4g in the downtown Denver area along I-25, US 6, up and down Alameda, Sheridan and Wadsworth.

Short Sprint outage in Greeley today = 4g coverage around 36 and 47th (the only area I have been in so far speeds as tested with Speedtest.net app = 1.5 down 800 up.

I've got 4G at home now. it has been off and on, but I've got it at home and at my office.

Denver Tech Center definitely gets it...haven't tried any other places.

Is it true that there are only a few locations that have 4G for sprint?

I was in a sprint store and the woman turned off my 4g switch and told me to not use it because we don't have 4g in my city. She said we only have 3g (crappy towers at that). Is it possible only larger cities have 4g? I've even attempted to find maps of where the 3g towers were in my city to see if I could test the connectivity but there's nothing offered. I'm honestly not sure what to do.

Check out sprint.com they have a map that overlays all there locations with 3g and 4g and what not. short answer to your question is yes. 4g is pretty limited to major US cities and even then not the whole cities. Over time they should get more coverage but we'll see how switching to lte over WiMax plays out.
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I live in the US - Raleigh NC area, they have pretty decent coverage here. But seeing as I just got my phone and Sprint about 3 weeks ago I can't talk about travel at a distance. Stormglove is right, check out sprints web site.

There are like 3 towers with wimax in the whole state of Arizona but Phoenix is the 5th largest city in the nation... Go figure
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I live in Louisville, KY. Apparently there are like 2 WiMax towers here. Connection is pretty poor though, even within range of WiMax I can get repeated connects and disconnects.

I dont get how they can even advertise 4g for Sprint. The amount of towers they currently have deployed probably dont even cover 10% of the usa i bet. Theres 1 tower in my state i beleive and its not even on the sqme island as me :-( they should advertise it as such.. "sprint, slow ass 3g and 4g thats probably not even within distance of a IBM missel" cause there 4g is a fricken joke
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I get great 4g in NYC 5MB/sec (in my house which is practically a dead zone for ALL phones >_>{LUCKY ME!!!!}) and 10MB/sec+ outside my house. hopefully LTE shows better results for the rest of sprint users. =(

Epix4G said:
There are like 3 towers with wimax in the whole state of Arizona but Phoenix is the 5th largest city in the nation... Go figure
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Us Mexicans can't build there.. we are not allowed in Arizona... duh!

I would just test it. I live in Prescott, Arizona, and according to sprint.com there isn't a 4g tower for miles and miles. However, on average I get 3 bars of 4g n a connection speed of about 12 mbps. So I would just flip it on every now and then and see
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Well in the case of when i was in Gurnee Ill around thanksgiving they actually lost 4g.
Thanksgiving 2010 they had 4g while i was down there, Thanksgiving 2011 they no longer had 4g the week i was down there...
Strange...

i get 4g in philadelphia... although as i go about town i'd say reception is spotty at best. if i'm in a good spot 4g blazes. if i'm in a car or certain areas, it's nil.
on another note, i think wimax is more or less dead on the water? there will be no more or few towers invested in by sprint since they want to be on lte by 2013. i could be recalling this info inaccurately; also since they piggyback off clear's wimax that doesn't mean clear will cease expanding their market - but i'm not sure about any of this, so take this post as speculation.

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I would just test it. I live in Prescott, Arizona, and according to sprint.com there isn't a 4g tower for miles and miles. However, on average I get 3 bars of 4g n a connection speed of about 12 mbps. So I would just flip it on every now and then and see
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I love that area and try to get up to oak creek canyon at least 3 or 4 times a year in summer
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Just go to clear.com and check the coverage map to see tower locations for your area since sprint is using them for their 4g coverage

raj7065 said:
Just go to clear.com and check the coverage map to see tower locations for your area since sprint is using them for their 4g coverage
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I wonder how accurate that map is, as i supposedly have 4g.
But its sparatic at best...
Although i suppose sparatic means coverage in that area.

I would consider sprint's 4g more limited in market area's meaning most major markets but not all. Im just outside nashville, tn (not a major market) and its here & have been since june of 2010 but coverage is more spotty than anything. I work in a all glass building and its up and down like a roller coaster trying to get it to stay connected vs switching to 3g. In my home it wont even connect to 4g but not a big deal to me. Personally i would have done some research to see which area's its in b/c paying $10 for premium data isnt quite getting your money's worth in a non 4g area.

To the comment about not covering more than 10 percent of the country. It is probably a lot less than that even. But, since 80 percent of our country lives in urban environments it doesn't matter.
You won't get any type of 4G when your cruising down I-70 in BFE. But, it works fine in St. Louis or Kansas City. Even on a bigger carrier you have a similar problem.

4G in my area.

I have a permanent home in Austin, Texas and have had 4G there for about 6 or so months. Today I'm at school about 30 miles south of Austin in a city that has never had LTE. About 20 minutes ago I noticed the little 4G symbol at 1 bar and about 5 minutes ago it jumped to full bars and I had a signal of -70dbm. I assume they are just testing but does anyone know how long the process is to implement LTE to an area after testing.
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No idea but check the speeds. Let us know how fast it is without anybody else on it

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No idea but check the speeds. Let us know how fast it is without anybody else on it
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Well I wasn't able to catch it when I had a signal of -70dbm. It's back to 1 bar -109dbm but I'm getting 6-8Mbps down and 1-2Mbps up with ping times around 90-110. Not that impressive but not bad for low signal.
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Aaaand as quick as it came, I'm back to 3G =\…
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Usually no more than a couple weeks (If that).

I live in Salem OR and my 4G symbol came on the other day. Its definitely not official launch market yet but my bars have been fluctuating from 2-4 bars sometimes the symbol goes away an comes back I'm sure in a few weeks it will be official and much more stable.

Same here. Its starting to creep through my town, very spotty. Though I keep watching it get better and better, so I know this year will be awesome when fully implemented across all of Long Island.

I live in Lancaster Pennsylvania, and I just got a 4G signal yesterday as well. Not sure if they're testing or what, but I'm getting between -80 and -70 dBm signal, which is 3 or 4 (full) bars. I'm getting roughly 20 mbps down and 10 mbps up right now in my quick testing. All I can say, is I hope it doesn't go away.

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I live in Lancaster Pennsylvania, and I just got a 4G signal yesterday as well. Not sure if they're testing or what, but I'm getting between -80 and -70 dBm signal, which is 3 or 4 (full) bars. I'm getting roughly 20 mbps down and 10 mbps up right now in my quick testing. All I can say, is I hope it doesn't go away.
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I'm in Lancaster too! Thanks for the heads up! I just switched on my 4G radio (was keeping it off to save battery), and i've got a signal of 85dBm (3-4 bars) inside my house. Speedtest shows 6down/5up
Running 4.0.4 with included radios.

I'm going to assume you are all using the CDMA version. Since nobody even mentions anymore.
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Ulatec said:
I'm going to assume you are all using the CDMA version. Since nobody even mentions anymore.
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Well that and we're talking about LTE too, also a hint at CDMA.

theherodrownd said:
I live in Salem OR and my 4G symbol came on the other day. Its definitely not official launch market yet but my bars have been fluctuating from 2-4 bars sometimes the symbol goes away an comes back I'm sure in a few weeks it will be official and much more stable.
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Last week I was traveling from Portland to Lebanon. As soon as I got away from Wilsonville, no 4g, which was typical since 4g came to Portland.
I then planned to move to Lebanon (though not the case, going to Salem now...). I called Verizon to ask if they could 'hint' to me the possibility of 4g in Lebanon and he said they can't give out (or know, yeah right) that information. A week later, I now get 4g all the way from Portland to Lebanon, although Lebanon is really weak, but when i does connect to 4g, I speedtest at 4-8Mbps.
I didn't notice any breaks in the signal all the way down I-5, so seems his story was accurate in thinking the I-5 would likely see it soon in Oregon since it appeared they were working the main HWY from North Washington down. On my trip, I hit the speed test a few times noticing anywhere from 34Mbps down to 4Mbps on Average on I-5. In Tigard I was getting the Max LTE speed of 43Mbps consistently. Up speed in all those test and in Tigard ranged from 4-18Mbps. Nice!
Anyhow, so I bugged Verizon 1 week ago and now it's down to Lebanon (maybe further, haven't traveled beyond on I-5 yet), so you should "Thank Me" for bugging them to get it down this far!!!!
I'M JUST KIDDING guys. But, it's great to see Verizon making excellent progress. Also, what I was told was that all the major cities were now basically covered. The next phase is all the major HWY's, such as Interstates, etc. Looks factual to me based on what is happening. My Unlimited 4g hotspot just gained more value! WooHoo!
Happy 4g'ing.
-Cybie

I've had 4G in my area and a few others cities around me that are miles apart since at least December and still no official launch announcement for these areas. Maybe they have just been grouped into Baltimore even though I'm about 30 miles from there?

So I narrowed it down to being on the 3rd floor of the Business building at my school. When ever I'm in my CIS class I have 1 bar 4G but when I go to the bottom floor or outside even, I'm back to 3G. Kinda weird and I hope that's not how it is when they officially implement it in this area.

Sprint LTE performance

So how happy is everyone with the LTE coverage so far? I was in downtown San Antonio today and couldn't get a whiff of it anywhere. Very disappointing. I haven't gotten a chance to use it until now as I spend more time in the outskirts of the city where I don't expect coverage to be very good. It's one thing to have no coverage a few miles out from the city limits, its another to have absolutely no signal across the street from the Alamo itself.

I live in San Antonio, and outside at my work downtown I catch it every now and then. Keeping a connection is difficult, it will show 4g then time out while trying to load something, and revert to 3g.
That's pretty much everywhere around town. I've also noticed that turning data off then back on will cause 4g to reconnect. I dunno if its the hardware, the network or what.
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I live in town Atlanta, first city to go live. Live my ass. Never had a whiff of it in most any part.
Evo LTE. Biggest disappointment of a new device ever. Throttled by the very worst data speeds of any carrier, Sprint.
Got me a T-Mobile prepaid account. Speeds are 10x faster and up.
In the words of Lewis Black......
f Sprint!!!
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4G LTE? I'd be happy with 3G ...
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I've hit good spots of LTE here in the houston area. As a matter of fact, about 1 mile down the road from where I live, I've gotten speeds as fast as 35 mbps down, but usually 15-18 mbps. The sad part of this is that I have to live 1 mile from this, where I am getting only 1 bar of consistently dreadfully slow 3g signal. I would say the LTE coverage is definitely growing, and I'm probably getting an LTE signal almost half the time I drive around town. It hasn't gotten to the point I expected it to be, but not the worst.
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[Q] does anyone have 4g?

hey guys i was wondering if any of u guys have 4g because when i got my phone i asked about the 4g and they said satelite wont be setup till late october or november and when i go to school and i enter my class on the 3rd floor i get 4g which is fastttttt but then when i leave its 3g or no bars does anyone have an idea when its coming or something?

You must get it on the fourth floor because you are closer to the satellite. As they upgrade the satillites you will notice it working on the 3rd floor then second, then everywhere.
Maybe telling us what city you are in to begin with would be appropriate?
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I do know they are working on the towers cause I started getting 4G about a week ago at my house in Fayetteville, GA
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No LTE in NYC
S3 isn't even wimax capable
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As Sprint continues their Network Vision deployment, 4G signal will become better and better. However, even with max signal outside of a building, you may still only get 3G inside (depending on the building). Since Sprint's 4G operates on the 1900 band, it doesn't have as much in-building penetration as Verizon/AT&T which operate at lower frequencies. Additionally, 4G simply cannot reach as far as 3G...and 3G cannot reach as far as 1X. This is just how the technology works, unfortunately.
Sprint's LA Metro area is scheduled to have all of their Network Vision (4G) tower upgrades done by January 2013. LA North was supposed to start in Jan. 2013, but it looks like they are starting early as of this month. Overall, Network Vision should be done by end of 2013.
In Chicagoland, 4G LTE has started appearing all over, even with official coverage in some areas. My phone usually jumps between 3G and 4G multiple times a day, depending on how much traveling I am doing.
As always, check out coverage.sprint.com for the offical 4G LTE coverage maps in your area.