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Anybody have any more specific information when 4g is dropping for Minneapolis?
I grazed across an online article that mentioned August 2010. I can't find it buried in my browser history and I'm not quite sure where they got the month from to begin with, so don't hold me to it and take it with a grain of salt. The general consensus is that it should be dropping IN 2010 though.
I've heard it's starting to pop up, but can't confirm, and when I leave 4G on in the Downtown area, all I get is disappointment and a dead battery. Doesn't help, but keeping my eye out.
I have heard at worst by end of 2010, and at best fall 2010. Here is hoping its fall 2010, also if anybody has gotten 4G in mpls let us know and where!
I have heard rumors of Brooklyn Park being a test area for the 4G roll out. I have yet to verify tho.
Anyone know?
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Live in Coon Rapids, work at the airport, I haven't picked up a signal anywhere inbetween
Why MPLS? Why not Saint Paul? We're the state capitol! Damn you Sprint!
througAugust. Directly from sprint rep.
There was a test i heard. It happened at the sprint store last week on launch day. Don't quote me on that. But the guy at sprint told me in august for sure. They got an email from corporate last Thursday. I asked them specifically because I didn't want to get the phone if 4g wasn't on the horizon.
a buddy of mine works for Sprint in corporate sales. The last he heard it was "by the time the leaves change".
There is (or at least was, I haven't checked myself) a 4g tower on the Holiday Inn in DT Mpls. He said they were testing the signal for about a mile radius around the hotel. If anyone checks it out let us know!
I will confirm this in a couple of hours will be right next to that building.
I have heard that it's starting now (including that tower in downtown MSP) and will be done by fall from a tower engineer on the project.
Cool, that's sooner than I thought. I guessed it would be around November / December.
FWIW, I got my Evo on launch day at the Minnetonka corporate store. I was told both September and summer. Also, the guy at the phone kiosk at SAMS in St Louis Park said July or August. I think no one knows for sure. I'm hoping for July.
I can confirm 4g in Minneapolis at south second st and south second ave near bobby and steves... the upload is at 1.3 and the download is at 3.87 megs it makes the qik app actually work.
nicholasbithell said:
I can confirm 4g in Minneapolis at south second st and south second ave near bobby and steves... the upload is at 1.3 and the download is at 3.87 megs it makes the qik app actually work.
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please tell me your not lying???
Gotta know!
I'm going to check this out today. I will be on my bike and will see in about two hours.
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please tell me your not lying???
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Nope not lying... I kept hearing rumors about people getting a 4g signal in minneapolis... and rumors about ther being a 4g repeater on top of a holiday inn. So i kept my 4g on while going through minneapolis by bobby and steves and BAM 4G! Enjoy if you get to go by that area!
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Nope not lying... I kept hearing rumors about people getting a 4g signal in minneapolis... and rumors about ther being a 4g repeater on top of a holiday inn. So i kept my 4g on while going through minneapolis by bobby and steves and BAM 4G! Enjoy if you get to go by that area!
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One more confirmation for good measure. Almost couldn't believe it. I drove around the U area and had pretty good signal - strongest right outside of Carlson. My download peak was around 4 with a lower average and upload peak was about 1.5. I just hope when they say "Minneapolis" that they really mean downtown and the surrounding 'burbs (EP, pref. ).
Yeah I would assume they'd mean the whole 694 494 loop but who knows
I also live in Minneapolis area, and heard July-august for 4g.
So in a few areas including my work which is off of falkenburg and mlk. I can't get past obtaining ip.today I just get connecting.I've tried different things but no go...anyone else in tampa area
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Thats interesting because I was recently in Orlando,Fl (East Colonial for fellow Floridians). I was playing with my amazing EVO and stumbled across a 4g network. I tried connecting but it wouldn't obtain an IP. I figured maybe my 4g on my phone was broken from a ROM or something. Or could it be a wireless network that the 4g is picking up? I have an Airave (free ) and that only sends 3g signal so where is this mysterious Florida 4G coming from???!?!?!?!?!?
I have been playing with this tampa signal for a while now. From what I understand there is a 4g like signal coming from some military communications system, also I have been told its the same thing in orlando. The orlando signal has something to do with the military and the lockheed martin plant there. Not sure how true it is but my source works in communications in central command at macdill afb. Fyi clearwire is the provider for this military system.
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Same thing here in orlando, The 4g signal is pooping up everywhere, Sources tell me it will be live the first week of august. Right now in time, the only people that can connect to it are the technicians that can manually connect to the IP for testing. It will be offically live in september, but they will open the ip adresses in the first week of august. And Yes you are right on the Clearwire thing, thats the signal we are picking up.
I can't pick it up bc of broken 4G due to a custom ROM but my coworker here in Maitland, close to Orlando, picked it up today. I'm heading home after work to fix my 4G :-D
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Well if sources hold true that'd be great! Too bad I live in Lake County No 4g n probably never will here but wicked fast 3G in Okahumpka!
i live in the st. petersburg area and i keep getting the same thing as well :|
Driving home from work tonight, I-76 in Denver between I-70 and 88th ave exit(this is where I got off the interstate, so the network could have went further east) I was getting 4G network connection that whole stretch of the interstate. Once I got off the interstate I lost it pretty quickly, but there was not a 4G network (as far as I know) last week in this area, so I am not sure if this means it will be soon that Denver is finally getting their 4G network. I sure hope so, since it seems like we are one of the last cities to be getting our 4G network.
I have been noticing more 4g spots in denver too, I'm thinking its clearwire rather than sprint
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4g area is growing, I work in Englewood and have 4g in my office now. I left it on and had 4g on Santa Fe all the way south from Alameda to Arapaho Comm. College. Mapped it using Sensorly (Market Application for tracking and showing 4g availabilty).
I've heard there are locations downtown and in the Tech Center already. The sprint reps I've talked to in the last couple weeks said full-blown 4g by end of year.
I've connected to 4g this morning, dead slow. 3g is kicking its butt. Of course Sprint is still in the "Test Mode" so I'm sure it will be up and down until they say it is LIVE. Oh well, still nice when it works.
I get 4G in lodo/16 street mall
Im seeing pockets of 4G popping up all over Louisiana on clears website. Anybody getting it on their phones? It looks like slidell, hammond, B.R., lake charles are all lit up in green. Anybody?
http://www.clear.com/coverage
Amazing! Good catch. I just checked last week and and there was nothing.
Haven't been in any of those areas to give it a try and just flashed CM thinking we would never get 4G...go figure.
New Iberia before metro NO? Weird. I guess I am going to have to go back to rooted stock soon and be on the lookout!
I'm very tempted to go slidell to see whats up? It looks like clear is adding places everyday. I'm always in the walmart at [email protected]
I think I am gonig to nandroid back and see if I can get anything in harahan. Doubt it but looks like they are flipping it on quickly. Will report back if I can get anything here.
Anyone tried this in any of those spots? I'm in Metairie, but it would be nice to know that at least places near me are getting 4g.
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Anyone tried this in any of those spots? I'm in Metairie, but it would be nice to know that at least places near me are getting 4g.
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Best buy on vets is selling a bunch of laptops with wimax included so it may be here soon.
Ill be in slidell on Saturday, so I will see then.
Ha, I'll have to check it out on my way to Dibbz! Maybe one of the employees knows something we don't.
Works in lake charles. Max 5 down 1 up. Not much coverage with one tower. I don't expect to see any added anytime soon
I have been waiting for this for a LONG time I'm in Metairie BTW
I had my wife check in Lake Charles - says 4G is working
didn't expect it to come to LA for a couple of years
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Does Lake Charles even have sprint 3G? The last time i was there in the summer i could barely get 3G. New Orleans better be next.
It does but experiencing the same issue as others with slow data 200-300kbps down , voice echo on some calls.
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Does Lake Charles even have sprint 3G? The last time i was there in the summer i could barely get 3G. New Orleans better be next.
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Yes Lake Charles has 3G and according to the coverage area - Fort Polk/Leesville has 4G -- all before New Orleans.
Never saw that coming
Mule
I would think it would take less time to setup 4g in leesville than in new orleans. Clears getting the smaller cities out the way first.
Swyped from my evo 4g using the xda app.
Anything in Covington? Or Madisonville area?
Lake Charles
Lake Charles got 3g January 27 2011, don't know about 4g. After waiting for years for 3g you would think they would just upgrade the system to 4g this late in the game.
Lake Charles does not have 3g yet. and every time i call i'm told it will be the end of the month since i got my evo when they came out. 4g would be nice but i live in moss bluff just north of lake Charles and work in Sulphur just west of it. Luckily sprint did not put me on a contract like they were supposed to when i got my evo so im just waiting for a better phone with a network that is in my area.
Got 3g in Lake Charles 1/27/11 absolutely positive without a doubt. Now 4g I don't know
4G in new orleans finally!
I try all the time. Living in metairie and working in old metairie I don't get it. For the 1st time yesterday in new orleans I connected on St Charles in between Julia and Girod as well at our condo on julia & baronne 2 blocks away. So could everyone around me with evo's and the samsung one. It worked great!
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The clear 4g map shows 4g alive in new orleans. Its mostly downtown but thats a start.
So I went to an AT&T store yesterday to get my Atrix replaced (which went very well) and I got on a conversation with the manager about 4G in Tallahassee, FL (where I live). He told me that in Tallahassee, AT&T will have HSPA+ by Q4 2011 and full LTE by Q1 2012. He also told me a lot of the other major cities in Florida (think Miami, Jacksonville, Tampa, and Orlando) are going to get both HSPA+ and LTE by Q4 2011. Just thought I would share...
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Wish i was getting that same news in my area (Outskirts of Denver) Not much coverage outside of that area and in the mountains
I'm half way between Miami and Orlando. While I'm currently a TMO customer I guess that will (very unfortunately - I love my unlimited data plan and the price) be changing in the not-too-distant future. But in order to take advantage of 4G I will have to put down my beloved HD2 (sigh). Maybe I'll hold on to 3G a while longer - not like I'm downloading NetFlix 3 times a week or something. Would love for the government to squash this merger as definitely not in the best interests of consumers...
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So I went to an AT&T store yesterday to get my Atrix replaced (which went very well) and I got on a conversation with the manager about 4G in Tallahassee, FL (where I live). He told me that in Tallahassee, AT&T will have HSPA+ by Q4 2011 and full LTE by Q1 2012. He also told me a lot of the other major cities in Florida (think Miami, Jacksonville, Tampa, and Orlando) are going to get both HSPA+ and LTE by Q4 2011. Just thought I would share...
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Can't wait to see LTE in Tallahassee, just gotta hope for a LTE iphone by then or I may go Android.
i live in houston and i get the H arrow up and down signal
does anybody know waht this means?
i have an htc inspire...
4G Tallahassee
I live in Tallahassee, FL and they told me it may be the very end of Q4 since the T-Mob deal is slowing down some things.
royalomega said:
I live in Tallahassee, FL and they told me it may be the very end of Q4 since the T-Mob deal is slowing down some things.
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Here we are at the start of the new year and no HSPA+ for Tallahassee with AT&T. 2011 has come and gone, but I'm not really surprised it didn't happen.
I switched to AT&T from Sprint back in September and my service started getting really shoddy the past few weeks at random times. I'm wondering if maybe they are working on upgrading their network, or if that was unrelated.
Either way, I hope it happens soon. Having one of these "4G" phones feels a little worthless without being able to achieve advertised speeds.
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