I was driving by my very rural tower this morning and their were two trucks, one had a trailer filled with new panels, grayish in color. It's a very fast road but I did see it and it is usually a tower that is quite progressive (one of the first to get WiMAX in the country), I don't know why that is, maybe because it is a vacation spot. That tower is on the map for Lte slated in may. It's the tower on 2722 south of the big lake near new braunfels Texas. I am going to pick up me evo lte today and will keep people posted.
I thought the switch to lte was software based but I could be wrong. I might be thinking about evdo rev b.
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Hey to all in San Diego,
I noticed 4g coverage strong in north county, National City, Marimar base...and around SDSU...what's your result?
Now and then I get 4g around downtown. Sprint guys tell me by end of summer we will be covered and the problem seems to be the military bases here in town they must make sure it does not interfere with communications. End of summer my butt, yea right...it's still not here totally but we are slowly getting more coverage.
P.S...Chargers...Stink...
First of all...Chargers rule!!
Yeah, the only place I've been able to get a consistent 4G connection is the SDSU area. I've gotten connections Downtown now and then, but they're pretty flaky. I've gotten the same response about making sure it doesn't interfere with the military equipment, but that was months ago.
I live just outside the SDSU 4G area, so hopefully they switch on some more towers soon.
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Seems central coast, central inland are without 4g. The most congested but least covered.
Why is a dollar bill better than the chargers?
Because a dollar will give you 4 solid quarters....
I do like the chargers.
Just got my Photon last night. I've noticed at home (in CB close to downtown), It says I'm connected to 4G!!!. Getting ~5Mbs download speeds.
Anyone else in Omaha seeing this. I didn't think Omaha had 4G...
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We have 4G, but only overflow from CB in a small area of downtown Omaha, about a mile radius around 114th and Dodge (Sprint Store) and the new baseball field in Sarpy County (Sprint Sponsorship). No plans to expand and no sympathy for people with 4G phones and no 4G.
Nothing against CB, but who in the world made that decision over Omaha!!???!!!
I was actually at the sprint store last week and the guy I talked to said Omaha is number 3 on the list to get 4G next. LTE anyways!!!!
Take it as you will but that is what he said and he was very confident with his answer.
not gettint it till 2012 2013 when lte comes
t-Mobile has any 4G phones FREE on Fathers Day, I'm considering switching from Sprint to T-Mobile.
I'll probably get HTC one S.
Any insight that might enlighten me would be greatly appreciated since it would be a 2 YEAR COMMITMENT. tan tan TANNN!
I live in Long Island and Commute to NYC for work. I would use the phone the most on the LIRR any long dead spots from E. Rockaway to pen station?
Thanks in advance.
pvaldeben said:
t-Mobile has any 4G phones FREE on Fathers Day, I'm considering switching from Sprint to T-Mobile.
I'll probably get HTC one S.
Any insight that might enlighten me would be greatly appreciated since it would be a 2 YEAR COMMITMENT. tan tan TANNN!
I live in Long Island and Commute to NYC for work. I would use the phone the most on the LIRR any long dead spots from E. Rockaway to pen station?
Thanks in advance.
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Cannot tell about E. Rockaway, but next to NYC Penn station signal is great
Looks NYC and LI completely covered, but there lots on places in NJ without any:
http://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/pcc.aspx
I live in Northern NJ. Jersey City to be exact. I have an Amaze on T-Mobile, a One X on RedPocket (at&t MVNO) and my husband has my Rezound on Verizon. In my area, the Amaze and Rezound have the exact same amount of bars and signal (78dbm on average). Also, voice and sms work pretty much everywhere here (even in those pockets with crappy data). Note: YMMV as anything can (and in my experience will)affect signal. Things like the type of construction the building you're in has (chicken wire, used in a surprising amount of walls is terrible for signal and WiFi strength), trees, location and distance from said cellular tower and the guy next to you belching....
#justsayin
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NYC and long island have great coverage, long island has the 42mbps network and some parts of NYC have as well, so yeah you're pretty much covered, I'm yet to complain about coverage.
FYI
I live on the east side of downtown Houston. When the LTE launch came and went, I had no LTE in my house. I thought for sure being this close to downtown I would have it on the launch date. The weekend after the launch I attended a Houston Dynamo game at BBVA stadium and was pleased to pick up a LTE signal. The stadium is about a mile from my house.
Last week I started receiving a strong LTE signal at my house. Usually somewhere around 15 down and 15 up for speeds, with max around 22 down and 18 up.
Anyways, if you are in Houston or another launch area and have yet to pick up consistent LTE, I wanted to pass this along. Maybe this gives you hope or helps you to channel your patience.
PS - Running Mikey's latest MeanRom
I wished I lived as close to town as you. I live a lot further out east and I can only get a 4G signal on I-10 going home and of course at the Sprint Store at Freeman and I-10.
I took my phone it to see if maybe there was a problem and it was working great! I'd love to see the speeds you are. Maybe this year hopefully.
Lets all hope they continue their LTE rollout in Houston. I experience horrible service in the Northwest side of houston
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Came across LTE at work in Greenspoint Thursday. Even got it inside work for a couple seconds.
Well for me I can pick up a signal quite often but literally for about 10 secs. Then its gone. I gave up on actually trying to download something and use the LTE, instead I try and open up speed test to see what kind of speed there are but the signal never holds to finish the test. I guess it can only get better from here.
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I guess there is hope for just receiving the signal. Ive been several place from constellation field in sugarland to 59 and Beechnut as well as near Reliant Park. I always receive a signal but the speeds are similar to wimax
yeah, me too. In SLC, we've always had really good GSM and HSPA service from at&t, never matching the horror stories from the likes of chicago, sanfran, and NYC. However, they decided to pull a market-driven cluster-**** and only delivery a bare-minimum of market penetration so instead of a regular 4-5bars, I see usuall just 2. But that's not all. My phone has a supreme hard-on for the LTE and will choose the LTE tower 5 miles away over the one right next to me which results in some hysterisis and rapid HSPA/LTE changes. This may or may not be responsible for periodic loss of my data connection which I don't find about until hours after i missed that important email or text (google voice). awesome.
I put up with this for a couple weeks 'cause i'm used to the S&M relationship US mobile customers have with their wireless providers (post-paid, anyway) and finally called to ***** a little. turns out that while at&t would rather we all suffer at the hands of their inept decision making by removing any kind of switch from our devices, they will make manual adjustment for those who cry loud enough. If you really want LTE gone, you can ask for an 'inset lock to 2g/3g' which will prevent your device from seeking out LTE towers to connect to. I made mention of APN's and at least one rep indicated that this made that change, but I couldn't be sure this is an actual edit to the APN on your device.
LTE is nice for the 2% of the time I can actually use it, but the other 98% it sucks donkey ballz... at least the way at&t has done it in SLC.
hope this helps someone.
The roll out in Arkansas of all places has been awesome. I get 4 bars like, sometimes 5 everywhere within 15 miles of my house. I average - 85 dbm 52 asu signal. It's awesome. I'm sorry your lte in Utah blows.
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I love ATT in CT. LTE just became official in my city but its been working great for almost a year before it launched officially.
DeathmonkeyGTX said:
The roll out in Arkansas of all places has been awesome. I get 4 bars like, sometimes 5 everywhere within 15 miles of my house. I average - 85 dbm 52 asu signal. It's awesome. I'm sorry your lte in Utah blows.
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undoubtedly there are some people close enough to LTE towers that they aren't having quite the abysmal experience I am, and other people's positive experiences in other cities could indicate that at&t will eventually get it right here. I can only hope.
LTE here in Hawaii is awesome. Then again Hawaii is so small that a few towers can probably cover most parts of the island. Hopefully att can cover your area better.
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i've been very impressed with AT&T's LTE network. it's a lot better than sprint's 4G/WiMAX network.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33826576
LTE is working fine here in Central NJ. The issue with your battery isn't AT&T's rollout of LTE, it's LTE itself. The simple fact is, it's not as power efficient as HSPA (yet) and phone manufacturers haven't upped the battery specs to compensate.
Now, what AT&T IS at fault for is not giving their LTE customers an LTE/HSPA toggle.
DeathmonkeyGTX said:
The roll out in Arkansas of all places has been awesome. I get 4 bars like, sometimes 5 everywhere within 15 miles of my house. I average - 85 dbm 52 asu signal. It's awesome. I'm sorry your lte in Utah blows.
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Yep. I was quite surprised with LTE coverage. It's virtually everywhere in central Arkansas, even between cities in areas that you wouldn't expect LTE.
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LTE is working fine here in Central NJ. The issue with your battery isn't AT&T's rollout of LTE, it's LTE itself. The simple fact is, it's not as power efficient as HSPA (yet) and phone manufacturers haven't upped the battery specs to compensate.
Now, what AT&T IS at fault for is not giving their LTE customers an LTE/HSPA toggle.
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I wish that were the case in SLC. the problem is that LTE is not available everywhere in the coverage area, and when it is, it is frequently at much lower signal strength so it's quite apparent that at&t did not roll out LTE to all of their HSPA towers in the area. With phones preferring LTE, they are connecting to towers that are frequently farther away than the closest HSPA tower and thus requiring more power. For example, both my home and work give me 4-5bars of HSPA, but only 2bars of LTE. Some parts of the city give no LTE at all. Its currently an incomplete roll out.
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yeah, me too. In SLC, we've always had really good GSM and HSPA service from at&t, never matching the horror stories from the likes of chicago, sanfran, and NYC. However, they decided to pull a market-driven cluster-**** and only delivery a bare-minimum of market penetration so instead of a regular 4-5bars, I see usuall just 2. But that's not all. My phone has a supreme hard-on for the LTE and will choose the LTE tower 5 miles away over the one right next to me which results in some hysterisis and rapid HSPA/LTE changes. This may or may not be responsible for periodic loss of my data connection which I don't find about until hours after i missed that important email or text (google voice). awesome.
I put up with this for a couple weeks 'cause i'm used to the S&M relationship US mobile customers have with their wireless providers (post-paid, anyway) and finally called to ***** a little. turns out that while at&t would rather we all suffer at the hands of their inept decision making by removing any kind of switch from our devices, they will make manual adjustment for those who cry loud enough. If you really want LTE gone, you can ask for an 'inset lock to 2g/3g' which will prevent your device from seeking out LTE towers to connect to. I made mention of APN's and at least one rep indicated that this made that change, but I couldn't be sure this is an actual edit to the APN on your device.
LTE is nice for the 2% of the time I can actually use it, but the other 98% it sucks donkey ballz... at least the way at&t has done it in SLC.
hope this helps someone.
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you could move closer to the cell tower
would you like some cheese with your wine,lol