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Sprint 4G expansion plans revved up

Sprint just put out a press release announcing more markets to be upgraded to 4G this year.
With 27 markets already equipped with 4G and more being planned for this year, Sprint is fulfilling its promise to light up major metropolitan areas with speeds that are up to 10 times faster1 than 3G.
Newly announced markets that will see 4G in 2010 are Cincinnati, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Miami, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City and St. Louis. Earlier this year Sprint announced that it planned to launch 4G in Boston, Denver, Kansas City, Houston, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., in 2010.
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Now I'll be ready when we get that Hero 4G upgrade on Mar 26th.

cmccracken said:
Now I'll be ready when we get that Hero 4G upgrade on Mar 26th.
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Ha Ha, funny guy you are!!!

OMFG HERO IS GONNA GO 4G!!!!!!!!!!???????????

Good to see St. Louis finally added to the list.

illogic6 said:
Good to see St. Louis finally added to the list.
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My thoughts exactly.

Anyone catch the Make Your iPhone® 4G commercial by Sprint? It had me ROFLing for a good long time.

cmccracken said:
Anyone catch the Make Your iPhone® 4G commercial by Sprint? It had me ROFLing for a good long time.
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lol thats funny...i work at a sprint store and thats the pitch im going to use to add internet cards!! lol is funny but money making...

Boston market here. Excited. holding out for the supersonic as i use my tether tons!

Hope they add Baltimore but do you really think the upgrade is coming on the 26th

pop1234 said:
Hope they add Baltimore but do you really think the upgrade is coming on the 26th
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Baltimore was the first city with sprint 4G

Dallas here. Have had 4G for a while. Now I just need the Supersonic to take advantage of the speeds!

david279 said:
Baltimore was the first city with sprint 4G
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Bam!! Yeah, that just happened. LOL

I just wish they'd finish building out their 3G network first!
I'm sitting here in my living room and roaming at 1x speed....

aversusb said:
Dallas here. Have had 4G for a while. Now I just need the Supersonic to take advantage of the speeds!
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Same here. I won't buy into Clear as a "home and travel internet replacement" yet because it's quite expensive for just 6Mbit.
However, I'd love to have a WiMax phone
WiFi tether would mean no extra cost for WiMax on the go.

Cincinnati, Cleveland
what about the rest of us in the middle

Here in Austin, the cost of Clear for home and away is the same as ATT uverse home internet with the same speed. That being said, I don't use a laptop so, I'm pretty hyped about a wimax phone! Unfortunately, I have to wait till December for my upgrade

How about the ville? We have Churchill Downs... Doesn't that count for something?

Is_907 said:
Same here. I won't buy into Clear as a "home and travel internet replacement" yet because it's quite expensive for just 6Mbit.
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Actually, their pricing isn't that bad, but they're going about it ass backwards. They're rolling out to major metropolitan areas where high speed, wireless Internet is already easy and cheap to come by.
In the town I live in, people are still paying $50 a month for a 512 kbit connection. If they were to put up a 4g tower here they'd sell several thousand units the first day they turned it on, not to mention taking phone business away from the only cell carrier that has decent coverage here but is WAY overpriced.
Sure, they wouldn't have the millions of potential subscribers like they do in large metro areas, but at least they'd be marketing to people who see the product as appealing.
Don't get me wrong, I do understand the appeal of large cities, but from a business perspective I know I'd personally have an easier time turning a profit with a thousand eager customers than a million who see my offering as a joke.

Sporkman said:
Cincinnati, Cleveland
what about the rest of us in the middle
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I couldn't agree more. Two low tech towns that I bet have half the number of users using data cards then Columbus. (I say this as I stare at the 3G indicator on my overdrive). Watch, they'll give it to Toledo and Youngstown before Columbus.

From what I have read, Sprint and Walmart have a deal to put up 4G towers on top of all there stores. Seems to me like just about everyone could have some decent coverage if they did all these first. Everyone has a wal mart around...except for maybe south florida. I don't think there is one any where near South Beach Miami.

Orlando 4G?

Anyone know when they are planning to get 4G up and running in Orlando Florida? It is really surprising that Orlando wasnt one of the first 4G cities considering that clearwire is headquartered in Orlando

Afaik they are talking about late summer. Do a search on google you will find some info on it. Part of the reason that Tampa and Daytona got it first is because of Sprints sponsorship of NASCAR and the NFL.

mntbkr said:
Afaik they are talking about late summer. Do a search on google you will find some info on it. Part of the reason that Tampa and Daytona got it first is because of Sprints sponsorship of NASCAR and the NFL.
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Can't wait!

mntbkr said:
Afaik they are talking about late summer. Do a search on google you will find some info on it. Part of the reason that Tampa and Daytona got it first is because of Sprints sponsorship of NASCAR and the NFL.
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late summer doesnt sound to bad, cant wait!

Not sure but I've been picking up signals in both Downtown and the Waterford Area.

superandroidhero said:
Not sure but I've been picking up signals in both Downtown and the Waterford Area.
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Really?! Hmm... I'll give it a try this weekend. Thanks for the heads up!

There is a 4g signal in orlando but it will not obtain an ip address, same as tampa.
Sent on my Sprint EVO using 4G speed

What ever happened to the rumor saying Walmart Stores will have 4g towers????

Yeah, but I still get excited to see that pop up saying it's available.

Mcdonalds have free 4g service with a happy meal purchase.
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skantman69 said:
Mcdonalds have free 4g service with a happy meal purchase.
Sent on my Sprint EVO using 4G speed
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I hope you weren't trying to be funny because that was pretty lame.

When I purchased my phone in June, the Sprint Store (Ocoee) said that they expected 4G by the end of June. So, I purchased the phone. I was able to connect 4G from day one but, like everyone else, was unable to obtain an IP address.
Since it is now the end of July and there still isn't a way to obtain an IP address, I contacted the store again. They said that there are birds nests at the top of the towers and that is stopping them from getting the upgrade completed.
All I have to say is, "Now I have heard it ALL!". Never believe your Sprint stores. They are all full of s**t!
LD

if im not getting 4G signal now without it finding an IP, does that mean there wont be one in my area when it goes live? Living in the Windermere area

hotdog32836 said:
if im not getting 4G signal now without it finding an IP, does that mean there wont be one in my area when it goes live? Living in the Windermere area
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At this point, it doesn't mean anything.

LordDavon said:
When I purchased my phone in June, the Sprint Store (Ocoee) said that they expected 4G by the end of June. So, I purchased the phone. I was able to connect 4G from day one but, like everyone else, was unable to obtain an IP address.
Since it is now the end of July and there still isn't a way to obtain an IP address, I contacted the store again. They said that there are birds nests at the top of the towers and that is stopping them from getting the upgrade completed.
All I have to say is, "Now I have heard it ALL!". Never believe your Sprint stores. They are all full of s**t!
LD
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LMFAO!!!! Um yea.... i have been reading (google) and for some time now i have found comments about being on the first week of august. If there isn't an elephant sitting a top of the tower that is...
Sent telepathically via my Evo.
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Well, today it started connecting to Sprint again and trying to obtain an IP address. Obviously, it never gets one but, for the past few weeks, it couldn't connect to Sprint at all.
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LordDavon said:
When I purchased my phone in June, the Sprint Store (Ocoee) said that they expected 4G by the end of June. So, I purchased the phone. I was able to connect 4G from day one but, like everyone else, was unable to obtain an IP address.
Since it is now the end of July and there still isn't a way to obtain an IP address, I contacted the store again. They said that there are birds nests at the top of the towers and that is stopping them from getting the upgrade completed.
All I have to say is, "Now I have heard it ALL!". Never believe your Sprint stores. They are all full of s**t!
LD
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Bald Eagle nests... It is a felony to touch them so you have to wait for the babies to leave and get a permit to take it down. You can have one die in your backyard and it is still illegal to touch the carcass.

LordDavon said:
When I purchased my phone in June, the Sprint Store (Ocoee) said that they expected 4G by the end of June. So, I purchased the phone. I was able to connect 4G from day one but, like everyone else, was unable to obtain an IP address.
Since it is now the end of July and there still isn't a way to obtain an IP address, I contacted the store again. They said that there are birds nests at the top of the towers and that is stopping them from getting the upgrade completed.
All I have to say is, "Now I have heard it ALL!". Never believe your Sprint stores. They are all full of s**t!
LD
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Ocoee is quite far from downtown orlando.. i heard 4g radius is pretty small compared to all the other technologies. Do you think when they mean 4G in orlando do they mean they will have towers all over orlando, or do u think they will just have one towerr?

blakeboys said:
What ever happened to the rumor saying Walmart Stores will have 4g towers????
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I heard that the deal fell through. There hasn't been any word of it really since January when the rumor came out. So no way to say for sure.
TurboX2 said:
Ocoee is quite far from downtown orlando.. i heard 4g radius is pretty small compared to all the other technologies. Do you think when they mean 4G in orlando do they mean they will have towers all over orlando, or do u think they will just have one towerr?
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I would think they are trying to get all of Orlando covered because as it has been posted it has been seen in downtown and waterford. I have seen UCF area get signals, and I get signals where I live in SW Oviedo by Aloma and Dean, and I have even gotten signal in southern Winter Springs.

It's not that far really but, I do get a signal sitting in the office at work and I work in Ocoee. I have heard some people say they can't connect indoors but I was able to.
Well, I am no longer connecting to a signal tonight and I live in Orlando. Maybe they really are working on them.
As for the nest excuse, I would be a believer if I wasn't able to connect and just not obtain an IP. Isn't the tower already upgraded if I am connecting to a 4G access point named Sprint? Maybe they just need to tune everything and the nests are stopping that. Who knows?
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AT&T puts 4G at Orlando International Airport?

So get this AT&T turns on 4G at MCO (orlando international) but they can't turn it on for Orlando itself... come on att
http://www.localwireless.com/wap/ne...4646&cid=17148&scid=2442&ith=0&title=Business
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Hurray for me, I work at the airport!

Link for those not using their phones at the time - http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-oia-4g-towers-20110331,0,748379.story
I'm waiting for this too..... let's GO already, Orlandonians!!!

I'm going to orlando at the end of april, can't wait to try it out!

I'm with you guys they need to turn it on in Orlando, especially by ucf
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Seems, even by what is stated in the Orlando Sentinel article, that the network was put into place just to "fill gaps" in the coverage as it was pretty pathetic before. I was just there on April 1st, and I wasn't seeing any difference there than I do at my house over closer to downtown. However, it is nice that they decided to build it out to support the capability...when our phones can actually use it is another story altogether.
I've got an Atrix and I get around 3Mbs down and around 300k up both at home and at the airport.
From what I've read, it seems that a phone update will be required to turn it on anyway...but if ATT can be believed, we might get to see it this month sometime.

REDFOCZ said:
I'm with you guys they need to turn it on in Orlando, especially by ucf
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i-drive is going to get it first
then downtown may be
florida mall might be after
ucf can only wait

Can anyone link to a deployment schedule/map for AT&T 4G ?

WhyBe said:
Can anyone link to a deployment schedule/map for AT&T 4G ?
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That unfortunately doesn't exist. We can only hope to get it soon. I had one of the att reps back in december tell me that my signal had gone from good to absolute crap because orlando was a test market for 4G so one can only hope that a simple flip of the imaginary switch will give us 4G aka 3G+
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I went to disneyworld two weeks ago, and the internet was sloooow there. Compared ot the 4.5mbps I get at home i gt like 1.2

Techcruncher said:
I went to disneyworld two weeks ago, and the internet was sloooow there. Compared ot the 4.5mbps I get at home i gt like 1.2
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There's signal issues at disney I think there might be some issue with att putting up towers on property. Similar to how the airport used to be but att pays MCO a decent amount to have put up the towers up
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I don't know about you, but is anyone else a little surprised by how many Central Floridians there are posting in this thread? That means.... using an Atrix and knowing a thing or two about making it better! Pretty cool, I guess none of you "feel safe enough" or "like Orlando" enough to list your location on the profile to display with each post though! haha

I have orlando listed in my info, have since day one of joining this sight.....
And in regards to a 4G coverage map they dont realy exist.... I work for AT&T and do customer service in the call center by UCF and there is no info in regards to when the update will be released for the Atrix/Inspire .... Or what the coverage looks like
All I know when I check are network coverage tool and look at the towers in the downtown orlando area none of time are listed as HSPA..... They are all still reporting UMTS only, and there is no info about the backhaul or updates to the towers that I have checked...

Sitting in MCO as I post this. Have worked here for the last 4 years and will say that they have made vast improvements on the tower infrastructure here. Used to be that you would get no reception out at the 1-60 gates end of the airport. That's all fixed. Of course still getting the typical 3mbs down .3 up here so will see when ATT lets the update go. I sure it is a simple update that won't require me to go though what I did with the last. Not that the last was hard, just a pain....

Its impossible to deal with account services for an airave...

I called 1888-211-4227 requesting an airave in order to fix a coverage issue I've been having for the past 3 months.
It started out small but today it got on my nerve, the problem is that all 4 phones would show full 3g signal but when I tried to place a call and send text messages I got a network failure.
Today I was expecting a friend who drove 80miles to bring me a textbook my son needed for college and he told me he would call me when he was at the security gate of my neighborhood.
Security told him to leave because they couldn't reach ANY of my phones and after 2 hours he was able to reach me.
It pisses me off because when I called account services, I got to talk to 5 people who sounded like they knew what they were doing but it turns out they were idiots.
All of them transferred me to the same department over and over until their network failed and the call was dropped.
I got pissed and sent them an email demanding an airave and service for the damn premium data ad on I pay for with 100kbps 3g service.
sorry if I sound like a douche but damn it pisses me off that everyone says they improved customer service when its still the same idiots on the phone.
/end rant

The airrave doesnt always pull your calls when someone tries to reach you .. my ex called me like 5 times in a row and on the 6th it finally rang... better than 2hours but ya never know..
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Yea, I will be completely honest, I got an airave, and it was WAY more trouble than it was worth. It kept HOGGING by bandwidth, and I have a 20mb connection, it would slow all computers down to 5kb/s. It would randomly go off and on, texts would come in late (i would get no texts for hours, then i would get 50 all at once). And it messes with the gps on the phones, so its impossible to use Google Maps to map out a route.

damn, I really don't know what sprints deal is, I live in a very populated area where AT&T and Tmo have 4g and 3g without issues, somehow sprints been sucking and they haven't bothered to fix it.
I have full bars of 3g on all of my phones and I can see some cell sites from the roof of my home...I think the 3g tower is close to a 1x tower and the evo keeps connecting to both or something so it cant make up its mind of which tower to use. I'm stumped.

gab2012 said:
damn, I really don't know what sprints deal is, I live in a very populated area where AT&T and Tmo have 4g and 3g without issues, somehow sprints been sucking and they haven't bothered to fix it.
I have full bars of 3g on all of my phones and I can see some cell sites from the roof of my home...I think the 3g tower is close to a 1x tower and the evo keeps connecting to both or something so it cant make up its mind of which tower to use. I'm stumped.
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I wouldn't say that sprint hasn't bothered to fix it. Trust me they are in the process of doing major tower upgrades, and improving their spectrum. We will see at least a 70% improvement of coverage.
Source: I'm a sprint employee
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Got any proof to back that up? Pics? Leaked Memos? etc.
AT&T is going to buy Verizon.
Source: I'm an AT&T Employee.

MTsol said:
I wouldn't say that sprint hasn't bothered to fix it. Trust me they are in the process of doing major tower upgrades, and improving their spectrum. We will see at least a 70% improvement of coverage.
Source: I'm a sprint employee
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all well and good, but my data speeds and network connections have been getting worse and worse and worse for several months.
unlike these other people, i won't wait any more. i've decided to pay my ETF and go back to TMo.
This entire 'we are fixing towers, sorry about that' thing has been going on consistently during my entire 1.5 year tenure. i'm done with it. when i'm standing in the middle of Manhattan and am getting 0.15mb/s down, i wonder why i am even paying my bill.

github said:
Got any proof to back that up? Pics? Leaked Memos? etc.
AT&T is going to buy Verizon.
Source: I'm an AT&T Employee.
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This article doesn't go into too much detail but wait till tomorrow when I can pull up the page at work.
newsroom.sprint.com/press_kits.cfm?presskit_id=19
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That's not a source. lol. Sprint employees say lots of things. doesn't mean they are telling the truth or have any idea what is truely going on. They just believe all the lies they read in their emails that they are required to read and believe. Sadly you're on that believes them. lmao. So what about wimax? so tell us, are they going to fix wimax too? lol. The second they signed the deal with LTE, THEY COMPLETELY stopped upgrading towers in my city. lol. AT&T's network is much faster than Sprint. Verizon's 4g is much better than Sprints. lol.
Sure Sprint will upgrade just a little, but only to shut us up long enough to sign a new contract. lol

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This article doesn't go into too much detail but wait till tomorrow when I can pull up the page at work.
newsroom.sprint.com/press_kits.cfm?presskit_id=19
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omg. lmao. yeah, he's reading his company emails. LMAO!!!!! I can't say who I work for but I see the same emails. then I talk to the ACTUAL employees that work on the towers and they do less than 2 hours of work a week. They actually told me they know about towers that haven't worked right in a year and won't go out their and fix it. lol oh well.

runcool said:
That's not a source. lol. Sprint employees say lots of things. doesn't mean they are telling the truth or have any idea what is truely going on. They just believe all the lies they read in their emails that they are required to read and believe. Sadly you're on that believes them. lmao. So what about wimax? so tell us, are they going to fix wimax too? lol. The second they signed the deal with LTE, THEY COMPLETELY stopped upgrading towers in my city. lol. AT&T's network is much faster than Sprint. Verizon's 4g is much better than Sprints. lol.
Sure Sprint will upgrade just a little, but only to shut us up long enough to sign a new contract. lol
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Of course it isn't because the real information is available on our employee intranet. 4G, 3g, and cdma networks are all getting capacity and spectrum increases.
You're the one that doesn't know what your talking about. These aren't lies or emails that we AREN'T "required" to read.
As far as Wimax goes, Sprint doesn't exactly know what they are going to do with it. They are either going get rid of it completely and use LTE. OR use both Wimax and LTE.
Unless you have anything to back up your information then I suggest you shut the f**k or take your whining somewhere else.
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omg. lmao. yeah, he's reading his company emails. LMAO!!!!! I can't say who I work for but I see the same emails. then I talk to the ACTUAL employees that work on the towers and they do less than 2 hours of work a week. They actually told me they know about towers that haven't worked right in a year and won't go out their and fix it. lol oh well.
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What I'm talking about is not company emails you idiot. It is news available on OUR employee website that has information not available to losers like you.
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Someone takes things a little too serious. Welcome to XDA.
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In the spirit of the OP, I'd like to say I'm curious to hear if you get your AIRAVE eventually, and what it takes to actually convince them to send you one.
I live in a valley where the closest Sprint tower is shamefully far away, and services a staggering number of people. Calls rarely drop, quality is fine, and data speeds are okay, but I'm lucky if my cell signal ever surpasses -96dBm. I spend so much time rubbing up against -105dBm that my Evo idles to death in about 10 hours. I compared mine to a brand new stock Evo, and they both fail equally.
So, I tried calling Sprint for an AIRAVE, and while one rep confirmed that I am indeed in a low-coverage area, everyone I spoke to after insisted that nothing's wrong and I should take my phone to the store if I think otherwise. (I'd say with my cell signal, and an average EVDO Ec/Io around -18dB, they'd have to offer me a 100k salary before I'd call my area anything BUT low-coverage.)
On that note, the first rep I spoke to warned me that only the technical support department can comp you an AIRAVE, and technical support warned me that their computers need to indicate a problem before they're allowed to do that. Also, you might want to be ready for a fight if you expect them to waive the monthly fee - I got a few 'no's about that before even being told I couldn't have an AIRAVE.
Anyway, good luck, and let us know how it goes!

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omg. lmao. yeah, he's reading his company emails. LMAO!!!!! I can't say who I work for but I see the same emails. then I talk to the ACTUAL employees that work on the towers and they do less than 2 hours of work a week. They actually told me they know about towers that haven't worked right in a year and won't go out their and fix it. lol oh well.
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Wow, cakewalk job
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bezeek said:
In the spirit of the OP, I'd like to say I'm curious to hear if you get your AIRAVE eventually, and what it takes to actually convince them to send you one.
I live in a valley where the closest Sprint tower is shamefully far away, and services a staggering number of people. Calls rarely drop, quality is fine, and data speeds are okay, but I'm lucky if my cell signal ever surpasses -96dBm. I spend so much time rubbing up against -105dBm that my Evo idles to death in about 10 hours. I compared mine to a brand new stock Evo, and they both fail equally.
So, I tried calling Sprint for an AIRAVE, and while one rep confirmed that I am indeed in a low-coverage area, everyone I spoke to after insisted that nothing's wrong and I should take my phone to the store if I think otherwise. (I'd say with my cell signal, and an average EVDO Ec/Io around -18dB, they'd have to offer me a 100k salary before I'd call my area anything BUT low-coverage.)
On that note, the first rep I spoke to warned me that only the technical support department can comp you an AIRAVE, and technical support warned me that their computers need to indicate a problem before they're allowed to do that. Also, you might want to be ready for a fight if you expect them to waive the monthly fee - I got a few 'no's about that before even being told I couldn't have an AIRAVE.
Anyway, good luck, and let us know how it goes!
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Thanks for the reply, right now it kinda blows since I had to buy skype credits in order to be able to work...
As the others said about sprint fixing their towers, we are going to be the last place... do you know why? Everywhere around the island everyone has either an iPhone from AT&T or a blackberry curve 8530 from local gsm carriers, and every time someone asks me about my cell provider, they say its crap because of their service. Sprint stores are always empty when I walk past them in the malls. People here don't see sprint as a national carrier, instead they see it as a local cdma provider.
Sprint took forever to actually begin testing WiMax here and it sucks hard, I hope they get it at full power soon when its officially announced. 3g has always sucked, there are like 5 CDMA carriers using the same towers...(Sprint,Virgin,Boost,Open Mobile,Centennial, etc) This is the cause for network overload, also I would love a data cap, maybe thats what people need in order to let others have at least 500kbps download speed.
I was about to switch to tmo...and the day I went to do so the merger wasd announced so I'm kinda stuck with sprint for now.

If you do decide to bail on Sprint, I saw a pretty hot tip in the Evo 3d section earlier that may help you.
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Yeah I saw it, its regarding some increase or something, I'm going to go check out tmo and see how much 4 android phones will cost me a month, if I get a nice comparable deal I will drop sprint.

All I had to do was call customer service, say I can't make a phone call from inside my house and it's been like this since the service started. Three days later I had an air rave, no cost to me. I didn't have to threaten or even get angry. In fact, it was one of the best customer service experiences I've ever had.

Its a chance game, you got a good rep, I got 2 dudes and 2 girls who had no idea what I wanted or an airave was...

Sprint LTE Coverage Area

Will this make you finally change your Evo?... check it out and hopefully your area is getting hooked up....
http://tinyurl.com/888mbhx
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I was looking at that last night and thinking, no matter how great the EVO x is my EVO still holds it's own. Since Michigan will be blanketed in LTE by 2014, I am going to wait, Sprint has great plans, but lightsquared drama has to negatively impact their LTE roll out.
And why buy a phone in 2012 when I can't use 4G until a year or 2 years later. I did that with EVO, and assumed a Verizon kind of roll out.
I really hope Sprint stays on track with LTE roll out and they may retain me otherwise VZW with unlimited data might get my business (yes if u try hard enough u can get it)
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Yea, it says they will be ready by 2014, but with no specific rollout dates for my area, Michigan, I will be switching to Verizon in the next few months, once they get a nest gen phone like the One X or something similar. Verizon has had working 4g for over a year in my area now. There's no way I'm waiting another 2 years to get it here, and have dial-up speed 3g in the meantime. I gave Sprint 12 years of my business, and I hate to leave, but in today's world data is everything, and I need that to be able to do my job.

With the announcement one the HTC EVO One for Sprint, I am puzzled as to how they decide what cities to start their rollout of LTE. San Antonio? Baltimore? Kansas City?
No New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, etc.
OK, so Houston and Dallas. Meh.
With an LTE iPhone possibly coming out later this year, how many iPhonies do they think will hang on waiting while both Verizon and AT&T (yuk) are offering LTE in the biggest markets?
Sure, they're saying just wait, but really, how many people have the discipline? I probably will, but only because returning to AT&T is not an option as far as I'm concerned, and I hear horror stories about big red nickle and dimeing their customers.
What incentive do I have to get the HTC EVO One when there won't be any LTE here in LA, while my old EVO can still use WiMax?
On an unrelated question: does anyone know if LTE phones automatically switch between 3G and LTE? One thing I always hated about WiMax is having to manually turn it on every time I want to use it!

Pretty sure LTE would require manual control just like WiMax.
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leebo said:
OK, so Houston and Dallas. Meh.
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Hey now! Some of use are awful excited that Dallas is on that list!
But seriously. I'm wondering if the Dallas choice was because of the AT&T headquarters and the fact that Sprint phones are getting MURDERED by att speeds. (At least where i'm at)

Nothing against Dallas. Texas is a great country.
I just think Sprint needs to make a big splash about LTE if they want to limit churn. Dan Hesse has done an outstanding job so far, imo. But if I were in charge of Sprint, I would make NY,and LA, among the first cities, just for PR purposes.
Even aliens know to blow up one of those two cities when they first invade Earth!

SilverStone641 said:
Hey now! Some of use are awful excited that Dallas is on that list!
But seriously. I'm wondering if the Dallas choice was because of the AT&T headquarters and the fact that Sprint phones are getting MURDERED by att speeds. (At least where i'm at)
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At&t damn sure will drop a call where I am at if it even goes through but those damn internet speeds are damn lovely.... I hate them for that! LOL

I live in Overland Park. The reason it might be coming to the Kansas City area is because the world headquarters is located in Overland Park, KS? Just a guess lol. (btw, KS has more than tumbleweed in the streets lol)

Am I the only one who thinks the state outlines on this map are messed up?

ronartest2005 said:
Am I the only one who thinks the state outlines on this map are messed up?
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It's the larger states they don't have much coverage in, so they generalize more.
I'm personally going to switch to the new Evo when it comes out. LTE IN JERSEY AND PHILLY YEA! FIRST PICKS.

monkeychef said:
It's the larger states they don't have much coverage in, so they generalize more.
I'm personally going to switch to the new Evo when it comes out. LTE IN JERSEY AND PHILLY YEA! FIRST PICKS.
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So maybe you could tell me, does it look like southern indiana is covered?

ronartest2005 said:
So maybe you could tell me, does it look like southern indiana is covered?
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Looks like it to me. Don't know if its first or second round though.

monkeychef said:
Looks like it to me. Don't know if its first or second round though.
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My area is first round starts in may I'm super excited!
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leebo said:
On an unrelated question: does anyone know if LTE phones automatically switch between 3G and LTE? One thing I always hated about WiMax is having to manually turn it on every time I want to use it!
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Wimax does automatically switch, as long as you leave the 4g radio on all the time - which kills batt like a mofo
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http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/212-network-visionlte-deployment-running-list/
FIRST ROUND MARKETS (14):
First round markets have no preceding markets before them. NV OEM's will mobilize in these markets and begin deployment. These markets will deploy slowly as there is a significant learning curve to Network Vision. Most first round markets started between December 2011 and March 2012.
Atlanta/Athens* Link
Houston* Link
DFW* (Dallas/Ft. Worth) Link
San Antonio* Link
Baltimore* Link
Kansas City* Link
Chicago Link
San Francisco Link
Boston Link
Washington, D.C. Link
New York City/Westchester Link
LA Metro (Los Angeles) Link
Central Jersey Link
Austin Link
SECOND ROUND MARKETS (27):
Second round markets start based on First Round markets completing before them. There is a lot of variability of when Second Round markets start, between June/July 2012 and December 2012. It will all depend on how quickly the First Round market deployments go. Some preliminary work is being done in advance in these Second Markets as well. It's possible that if delays begin to occur in the First Round markets, NV OEM's may hire up additional subcontractors and get some key Second Round markets going. Stay tuned to S4GRU.com for updates.
South Bay (San Jose) Link
West Washington (Seattle) Link
West Michigan (Grand Rapids/Lansing) Link
Oregon/SW Washington (Portland) Link
Charlotte Link
Nashville Link
New Orleans Link
Philadelphia Metro Link
Southern Connecticut Link
PR/VI (Puerto Rico/Virgin Islands) Link
San Diego Link
Northern Jersey Link
Orange County, California Link
Raleigh/Durham Link
Orlando Link
Miami/West Palm Link
Riverside/San Bernardino Link
Indianapolis Link
East Michigan (Detroit) Link
Norfolk (Hampton Roads) Link
Long Island Link
Tampa Link
Jacksonville Link
Memphis Link
Minnesota Link
South West Florida Link
Ft. Wayne/South Bend Link

I also heard that maybe just maybe the Note may be coming over as well the HTC One... Sprint may be stepping there game up.. After reading up on the new HTC phone I may be coming back as long as though LTE speeds kick in like they should in my area...

Michigan part of the 2nd wave and no Ohio, c'mon man! This is why I hate Ohio, can't wait to move..LOL
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I don't know about the rest of you, but forget LTE coverage -- I'm just waiting for Sprint to get regular coverage on the tower that's been my in my neighborhood like they promised (and their coverage map showed) for the last 3 years!
I have found the Wimax coverage in Florida to be more than adequate. No, I can't get it at my house, but I have WiFi there. But just about everywhere else when I'm traveling or in even small local cities, I get Wimax.
Sprint is about two years behind on LTE. Not very enticing to stay with them after my contract is up in the Fall. The only reason why I didn't demand early contract termination is because I like my EVO 4G phone and don't feel like spending another $300 on a new Verizon phone at the moment.

Nah Verizons, and att switches. So sprints will prob
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