4G in Kalamazoo, MI - EVO 4G General

My wife just turned her evo's 4g on and it connected! only 1 bar inside my house but hey. Just googled it and it says western michigan university just had it turned on on the 10th.

thmgombosi said:
My wife just turned her evo's 4g on and it connected! only 1 bar inside my house but hey. Just googled it and it says western michigan university just had it turned on on the 10th.
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That marks 3 cities that have 4g before Detroit.
Sounds about right though, I wouldn't waste my time putting 4g in Detroit and I've lived in the suburbs all my life.

issafram said:
Silly xxxxx, Detroit already has 4G.
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Your named calling not-withstanding, you're right, it apparently does.
But not anywhere near me.
Actually that's hilarious....the coverage is in the poor areas.
Hamtramck, Detroit, Eastpointe, East Dearborn....oh and don't forget part of Windsor....

I dont think portage has it yet, I'll check downtown later. What area of kalamazoo are you in?

Good to hear about Kzoo. Detroit does not "officially" have 4g either. It works around Wayne State University, and that is about it. They seem to be testing it around the city, but it is far from consistent.
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mattykinsx said:
Your named calling not-withstanding, you're right, it apparently does.
But not anywhere near me.
Actually that's hilarious....the coverage is in the poor areas.
Hamtramck, Detroit, Eastpointe, East Dearborn....oh and don't forget part of Windsor....
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Detroit is Detroit, poor or not poor. I'm gonna need you to show some respect for the hard working people that lives there. I'll admit it's a few bad areas, but which city doesn't have crime?

Spiderman313 said:
Detroit is Detroit, poor or not poor. I'm gonna need you to show some respect for the hard working people that lives there. I'll admit it's a few bad areas, but which city doesn't have crime?
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When people say Detroit they are generally speaking of the suburbs.
Since no one practically lives in the city anymore.
As far as your crime comment please point me in the direction of the part of my post that talked about crime.
Here was the point of my post :
It is a FACT that most of the city of Detroit is empty.
People have moved to the burbs and that's all there is to it.
Windsor isn't even in the U.S. and the other cities I mentioned aren't any better off than Detroit ...so why waste your time and START in an empty area??

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Seriously?? I live about 20m from Kzoo i'm gonna have to go check this out.

mattykinsx said:
When people say Detroit they are generally speaking of the suburbs.
Since no one practically lives in the city anymore.
As far as your crime comment please point me in the direction of the part of my post that talked about crime.
Here was the point of my post :
It is a FACT that most of the city of Detroit is empty.
People have moved to the burbs and that's all there is to it.
Windsor isn't even in the U.S. and the other cities I mentioned aren't any better off than Detroit ...so why waste your time and START in an empty area??
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Well tell that to the 715,000 people who still live there.

Spiderman313 said:
Well tell that to the 715,000 people who still live there.
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A number that is likely still an overestimate, a good majority of those people likely don't even have cell phones.
I can't find any kind of breakdown unfortunately though.
At any rate, the point is this, they are rolling it out in areas that are largely empty.
There's been estimates that 40% of Detroit's city limits are empty for god sake.

mattykinsx said:
A number that is likely still an overestimate, a good majority of those people likely don't even have cell phones.
I can't find any kind of breakdown unfortunately though.
At any rate, the point is this, they are rolling it out in areas that are largely empty.
There's been estimates that 40% of Detroit's city limits are empty for god sake.
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It seems you have a problem with Detroit. I find that hard to believe that Detroit is "empty" as you say. All I on a positive not is that I'm glad Detroit and other cities in Michigan are getting 4G.

Spiderman313 said:
It seems you have a problem with Detroit. I find that hard to believe that Detroit is "empty" as you say. All I on a positive not is that I'm glad Detroit and other cities in Michigan are getting 4G.
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Why would anyone have a positive thing to say about that city?
And if you don't believe me look it up.
They've talked about it on the news a bunch.

I'm in the city all day, every day. Seriously, it is like a 3rd world country in my opinion. There is maybe a square mile or two of pretty nice stuff.
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So I did some digging WMU actually had it up and running since mid March. I live in the Oakwood neighborhood and its spotty in my house. But outside I get good coverage.
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thmgombosi said:
So I did some digging WMU actually had it up and running since mid March. I live in the Oakwood neighborhood and its spotty in my house. But outside I get good coverage.
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What are your speeds looking like?

Toledo please hurry up and get 4g
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Rob the plumber said:
I'm in the city all day, every day. Seriously, it is like a 3rd world country in my opinion. There is maybe a square mile or two of pretty nice stuff.
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mattykinsx said:
Why would anyone have a positive thing to say about that city?
And if you don't believe me look it up.
They've talked about it on the news a bunch.
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Its sad to see people think this way. I'll take it you both are Caucasians?

Spiderman313 said:
Its sad to see people think this way. I'll take it you both are Caucasians?
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Please do not bring race into this.
This has nothing to do with race.
All I'm saying is...why bother STARTING in an area that's generally vacant?
Seems to me, especially in Sprint's position, they want to service as many PEOPLE as possible, not just area.

If you have a problem with detroit then maybe you should move so that you don't have to live next to us. As far as the empty land goes we're starting a reverse annexing plan. Soon those empty areas will be a part of oakland and macomb countries.
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no 4g in wyoming, mi where i am. closest i get it is in downtown grand rapids.

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4g cupertino, ca -> 7512kpbs

I did a "speedtest" and reached 7512kbps. Hope they cover the whole bay area soon.
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ok...........
Sunnyvale... 8309 mbps I'm with u my boy. Waiting for bay to be covered....
Seems like a tower is on valco mall... or the sprint store on Lawrence ....
that's the "innovation network", which is basically a freebie so that the bigtime nerds can play with 4g, but it's the only thing running near the bay area for now.
SF people might be very happy by the end of the year, though.
Whatever it is.... it seems to be growing. Notice much more coverage heading toward San Jose... can't wait for my house to be covered....
pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeee san francisco
sweet. I'm a Cupertino humanoid.
Except at my house (near MV High) when I active 4G is just sits in scanning mode. I'm getting the expected crappy 3G down/ up (of less than 1mbps each way)
Ohhhhh, the irony
God damniiit the bay area needs it! Emeryvillleee
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what I want to know is how stockton got it before the bay ??!?!
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God damniiit the bay area needs it! Emeryvillleee
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im with you man im in alameda waiting for it
Peets coffee on castro street in Mountain View: 5000kbps
Borders in Palo Alto: 6200kbps
Time to buy sprint stock and sell comcast?
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rican408 said:
Sunnyvale... 8309 mbps I'm with u my boy. Waiting for bay to be covered....
Seems like a tower is on valco mall... or the sprint store on Lawrence ....
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8309 mbs/? DAYUM, they must have added a warp drive for that
Lmao for real. And it wasn't full signal either. I have a screenshot n send it to my iPhone friends haha
cire001 said:
what I want to know is how stockton got it before the bay ??!?!
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Most likely they wanted to start in an area of lower population density for 4g devices then converge towards san francisco, kinda like wading across the shallow end before trying the deep end.
Yeah, the towers are definitely going up weekly in the bay, and we'll have full service by October/November/December at the latest.
oxeneers said:
Yeah, the towers are definitely going up weekly in the bay, and we'll have full service by October/November/December at the latest.
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still to late need it now!!!!

4G in San Francisco bay area?! (Fremont)

Was just playing with my phone in bed and noticed I got 4G in the bay area. Just a bit surprised and wanted to share. I'm located in Fremont.
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still NOTHING in SF itself or daly city
leeh41 said:
Was just playing with my phone in bed and noticed I got 4G in the bay area. Just a bit surprised and wanted to share. I'm located in Fremont.
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I got a full 4G signal driving from Oakland to Hayward on the 880 last week. I think it's been there for a while, but since I live in SF, it doesn't really help me much.
yeah, if you check out the map of 4g coverage youll see that the bay is pretty well covered along the major highways (880 and 101) on both sides of the bay. As far as fremont goes we have it inside the city in pockets, mostly near offramps of 880. So its coming, but its neither strong nor complete as far as coverage here in fremont goes.
And as far as where the map is, i forget. Google sprint 4g map or some such im sure youll be able to find it.
I get pretty solid 4G in downtown mountain view, and in Santa Clara it's pretty good... I have to step outside to get it at home, though.
I'm just hoping that this is the initial phase, and by the time 4g is official the coverage will be a lot more complete.
I get it in Mt. View and Walnut Creek.
supposedly there is 4G in Union Square, but that's it so far.
kniteshift said:
supposedly there is 4G in Union Square, but that's it so far.
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This is not true. I have scoured our great city for any lapse of 4G and so far, there is nothing. Sensorly agrees.
oxeneers said:
This is not true. I have scoured our great city for any lapse of 4G and so far, there is nothing. Sensorly agrees.
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My friend told me he got it on his EVO. I was excited too
kniteshift said:
My friend told me he got it on his EVO. I was excited too
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Was just there earlier today, and checked 4G. No way Jose.
oxeneers said:
still NOTHING in SF itself or daly city
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yeah tell me about it. isn't SF on the list for the end of this year with regards to 4G availability?
i work in sunnyvale, just off of 101 and lawrence, and i catch between 1-3 bars of 4G. it could be the signal that seemingly travels up and down 101, as i'm only 1/4 mile away from the highway, if that.

4G turned on in Lansing, MI

Turned on 4G downtown Lansing today and its connected, getting about 500kBs down and 125kBs up.
Confirmed by the airport and down in Holt too.
I've been seeing WiMax towers for awhile and I check once a week, but its live in testing
Here are two screen shots, I changed the Speed test setting to kB/s from kpbs
I've reinstalled Sensorly Map Viewer and will begin collecting 4G data and hopefully get a good map on there.
First off, I hate you... Not really but damn. I guess we are just a bunch of broke asses in metro detroit. I hope you enjoy it, I know I would!
No connection in East Lansing, just off campus
Those are some very slow speeds for Wimax. I get around 5-6mbps in Phoenix.
splmonster said:
Those are some very slow speeds for Wimax. I get around 5-6mbps in Phoenix.
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I dont know if weather effects speeds but we are getting pounded by some snow
Hope we get it in Detroit soon!!!
Spiderman313 said:
Hope we get it in Detroit soon!!!
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You know, I am really getting pissed off about this crap, if you look at the clear.com/coverage, it shows FLINT having 4g. FLINT!!! Detroits ****ty cousin (j/j)! No offense to anyone in flint but like 25% of michigans population lives in wayne county. </rant>
Sprint is probably testing smaller populated areas first. Theres a lot of Sprint customers in Detroit so they need to ramp up for it. Sprints Feb. 9 "magic trick" better be nation wide 4G. They were the first to start advertising it and will be the last with nation wide coverage.
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mordbane said:
They were the first to start advertising it and will be the last with nation wide coverage.
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LOL, its so funny because its probably true
Or sprint just hates detroit
elegantai said:
sprint just hates detroit
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i feel and believe this sometimes. very upset with them, they put it in grand rapids. grand rapids is full of rejects and nobodys. no disrespect to anyone
splmonster said:
Those are some very slow speeds for Wimax. I get around 5-6mbps in Phoenix.
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if I run speed tests in mbps rather than kB/s it makes a major difference. Note that kbps and Mpbs and kiloBITS and megaBITS while kB/s is kiloBYTES. Remember 8 bits in a byte
here are back to back bit speed test
wimax is definitely in testing and I expect to see everything jump up and more towers go live in the future.
Can anyone near Eastwood towne centre confirm if that tower is live?
Edit in: I just looked back at my pictures of the Tower at Eastwood Towne Centre and it DOES NOT have WiMax panels
If they're still in test mode there's no way Eastwood will have it in the crappy blizzard. I'm not going anywhere today, haha. Maybe tomorrow ill check.
splmonster said:
Those are some very slow speeds for Wimax. I get around 5-6mbps in Phoenix.
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420kBps is 3.5mbps
kaoss_11 said:
i feel and believe this sometimes. very upset with them, they put it in grand rapids. grand rapids is full of rejects and nobodys. no disrespect to anyone
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Hater!
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silverjack said:
Hater!
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Your right, it's not grand rapids fault that the local government helped pay to implement wimax, therefore setting the standard that the metro-detroiters government should help pay to have it set up here! lol
But i think everyone in michigan can agree, why the HELL is flint getting it? lol
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Help me help you help me!
Get a dropbox and we both get extra space!
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Detroit used to get everything first in michigan while us in GR was aways like the redheaded stepchild.
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silverjack said:
Detroit used to get everything first in michigan while us in GR was aways like the redheaded stepchild.
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Lol
I hope it gets to Detroit soon
GR has the best concert venue around, AND the #3 beer bar in the world. Pretty awesome place, no?

4G popping up everywhere

It looks like Clearwire has been putting in some work, after almost a year of having a 4G phone I just found out tonight I can actually use it now. And looking on sensorly map viewer it looks like it is popping up everywhere.
Anyone else just get it? Now seems like a good time to go hunting for it.
Nope
I live in the metro-detroit area.
I don't blame Clearwire/Sprint, I wouldn't waste my time either.
mattykinsx said:
Nope
I live in the metro-detroit area.
I don't blame Clearwire/Sprint, I wouldn't waste my time either.
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I'm really surprised Detroit doesn't have it yet, Sprint must not be very popular there I'm guessing? Next time you're outside somewhere try holding your phone from the bottom right corner and seeing if it tries to connect to Sprint, when I was driving around earlier there where a bunch of places where it would say Connecting to Sprint but disconnect and sitting the phone down or blocking the wimax antenna killed the signal like no other.
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I'm really surprised Detroit doesn't have it yet, Sprint must not be very popular there I'm guessing? Next time you're outside somewhere try holding your phone from the bottom right corner and seeing if it tries to connect to Sprint, when I was driving around earlier there where a bunch of places where it would say Connecting to Sprint but disconnect and sitting the phone down or blocking the wimax antenna killed the signal like no other.
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I would say Sprint is pretty popular here in the Metro Detroit area. Everyone I know has Sprint. I just can't believe how they just randomly pick areas to turn on 4G. Makes no sense to me.
Memphis here, by the time we get 4g it will be a thing of the past...
still nothing here :/
In Alabama, no 4G yet, probably will get it 2 days after the apocolypse.
Check www.clear.com/coverage and zoom in on your city, they are turning on random towers all over the place.
Darn it... I'm surrounded by 4g on all sides!!!
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Man, I cant believe we dont have it in Coffeyville Kansas yet. WTH,
I have the Epic and I've been seeing this happen too... they just lit up 4g in the Lansing, MI area.
I wonder if their Feb announcement is going to be SVDO, cmda iPhone or 4g nationwide coverage.... what's your gut feel?
According to the map, Bowling Green, KY has 4G coverage???????
But not the major Kentucky cities?????? Wow!
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Check www.clear.com/coverage and zoom in on your city, they are turning on random towers all over the place.
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Strange, that map shows downtown Memphis lit up light a Christmas tree with 4g, guess I'm gonna have to drive to the ghetto and see if it's for real......
dmoses1969 said:
Man, I cant believe we dont have it in Coffeyville Kansas yet. WTH,
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**** i live in wichita and there ain't no 4G that i've found yet. Hopefully we get it before Coffeyville does!
Well just drove downtown Memphis and its for real, 4g is on here, now why the hell they turned it on in that part of town instead of out where all their customers are is beyond me....
I'm 1000% sure you will have it long before Coffeyville does. I'm just happy I have 3G and that its a lot faster than Verizon 3G in this area.
Sprint and Verizon has the only 3G in my area.
Neipas09 said:
**** i live in wichita and there ain't no 4G that i've found yet. Hopefully we get it before Coffeyville does!
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We arent even mentioned on clearwire's map yet but I'm sitting here with a signal right now
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I have the Epic and I've been seeing this happen too... they just lit up 4g in the Lansing, MI area.
I wonder if their Feb announcement is going to be SVDO, cmda iPhone or 4g nationwide coverage.... what's your gut feel?
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my guess would be a 3d phone and an announcement about LTE 4G or using Nextel's band for 4G as well. My friend still has a nextel phone and he just said last night he was starting to have a hard time finding a signal where he didn't before.
According to the map, Bowling Green, KY has 4G coverage???????
But not the major Kentucky cities?????? Wow!
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Maybe Sprint just likes Corvettes.
DanWalker said:
I would say Sprint is pretty popular here in the Metro Detroit area. Everyone I know has Sprint. I just can't believe how they just randomly pick areas to turn on 4G. Makes no sense to me.
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Whether they can get the 4G turned on in specific areas depends on a variety of factors - including obtaining the permits from the local cities, easement rights from the property owner if they're not hopping on an existing tower, etc.
Places they WANT to provide service versus where they're ALLOWED to provide service don't always go hand in hand.
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Check www.clear.com/coverage and zoom in on your city, they are turning on random towers all over the place.
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Just like the Sprint map it says I'm covered, but the damn 4g signal sucks at penetrating buildings. I have to be next to a window to get a "poor" connection on my phone.

4G Youngstown Ohio

Got a little 4G love in downtown Youngstown Ohio today for the first time. I attached a couple of images of the speed test results I got. Not the best speeds EVER but darn better then 3G. Thank You Sprint.
in Springfield here and i get nothing
Wow, didnt expect 2 ppl from NEO on here. Anyways, I dont think sprint cares much for anyone not in the three C's. I really thought we would get wimax here in akron when CLE went live.
Y-town? Nice. That's my hometown. Been in VA for about a year now though.
I tried in Campbell and got connected and got an IP. Signal quality was poor and I was only able to get 822kbps down. I couldn't even web browse because I was losing signal.
I got home on the south side and couldn't even connect to 4G.
Will we receive a text message from Sprint or any other indication when 4G is fully live here?
Went to YSU here, why the heck would sprint/clearwire waste money on 4g in Youngstown before Akron.
wildgillis said:
Went to YSU here, why the heck would sprint/clearwire waste money on 4g in Youngstown before Akron.
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Obviously, because it's the home of Al Bundy.
Actually we have a thriving tech hub downtown. Makes sense to me.
zone23 said:
Got a little 4G love in downtown Youngstown Ohio today for the first time. I attached a couple of images of the speed test results I got. Not the best speeds EVER but darn better then 3G. Thank You Sprint.
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Really!? Youngstown gets 4g before Akron?... Not cool sprint, not cool.
Seems most of us geeks are from Ohio.
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wildgillis said:
Went to YSU here, why the heck would sprint/clearwire waste money on 4g in Youngstown before Akron.
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I would hardly consider it "wasting money". How about because its between Cleveland and Pittsburgh and they probably want 4G between the two. Seems to make sense to me. I love how some people feel their city is more important than all the others. Akron is not that great sorry.
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Seems most of us geeks are from Ohio.
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It would seem that way. Must be the lousy weather.
skylar.sutton said:
Really!? Youngstown gets 4g before Akron?... Not cool sprint, not cool.
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Maybe that's why Lebron left! No 4G!
Good one except they have had 4G in Cleveland for a while now.
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zone23 said:
Akron is not that great sorry.
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Never said it was... but I will say this:
Akron (inc. Metro) Population: 700k
Y-Town (inc. Metro) Population: 100k
It seems pretty obvious which NEO area should be next in line for 4G
skylar.sutton said:
Never said it was... but I will say this:
Akron (inc. Metro) Population: 700k
Y-Town (inc. Metro) Population: 100k
It seems pretty obvious which NEO area should be next in line for 4G
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Don't feel bad, SE Michigan towers over any other part of michigan with half the states entire population @ ~5 million people. No 4g love for us , and sprint just turned on 4g in flint, which is the most broke ass city in the state.
I am going to have to take a trip down to toledo to scope out their new 4g. At least you lucky bastards have like what 5 or 6 major cities covered
skylar.sutton said:
Never said it was... but I will say this:
Akron (inc. Metro) Population: 700k
Y-Town (inc. Metro) Population: 100k
It seems pretty obvious which NEO area should be next in line for 4G
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If I had my way I would turn on the whole state. I don't get it at my house so I would have to go down to the University to use it. We are renovating a plaza downtown so I might get to use it.
zone23 said:
I would hardly consider it "wasting money". How about because its between Cleveland and Pittsburgh and they probably want 4G between the two. Seems to make sense to me. I love how some people feel their city is more important than all the others. Akron is not that great sorry.
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I dont even live in Akron I live in Cleveland and could care less about either city.
From a business standpoint I wonder why Youngstown would get 4g before Akron. I lived in Youngstown for 4 years for college I'm not trying to trash it. If they were actually going to add 4g all the way along the turnpike I would understand that but considering clear is teetering on bankruptcy I don't figure they have the money for that. And as someone else pointed out Akron has a significantly larger population and likely a similar area to cover although I haven't looked that up.
zone23 said:
If I had my way I would turn on the whole state. I don't get it at my house so I would have to go down to the University to use it. We are renovating a plaza downtown so I might get to use it.
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Whole state sounds good to me but isn't happening anytime soon.
Honestly I see most metro areas of the state getting it soon. I am in Springfield which is in between Columbus & Dayton. Dayton doesn't have it yet, but Columbus does. I hope they build towers west instead of going straight to Dayton. They will probably have Dayton go live and then fill in between. I could never expect my dying city to get 4g before Dayton. Maybe Sprints big announcement is going to be live 4g everywhere. A lot of places have been popping up lately & a lot of them are smaller too.
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They should hit all of the cities around universities first -- the younger generation are the ones using the data the most and thus the ones that need it.
Next up should be: Akron and Kent.

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