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Noticed in the strip district, downtown and north side today that 4G is on in Pittsburgh. Was pulling 3.5-4 down, 1 up. Still limited deployment in the city but they must be getting ready for the full rollout.
miseryriver said:
Noticed in the strip district, downtown and north side today that 4G is on in Pittsburgh. Was pulling 3.5-4 down, 1 up. Still limited deployment in the city but they must be getting ready for the full rollout.
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NICE...i wonder how far north when 4g is fully deployed that it will work. I really doubt it will reach all the way up to the Wexford or Cranberry
knives of ice said:
NICE...i wonder how far north when 4g is fully deployed that it will work. I really doubt it will reach all the way up to the Wexford or Cranberry
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I also heard rumors of 4g on in Monroeville... so suburbs on major roadways hopefully will get 4g. The farthest north that I noticed 4g active on 279 was the Hazlett/Venture exit.
I live just outside of the city in Sharpsburg and I have 4g turned on now and not getting any signal.
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I live just outside of the city in Sharpsburg and I have 4g turned on now and not getting any signal.
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unfortunately its probably too far away.
my brother had 4 bars today in downtown and couldnt connect
knives of ice said:
unfortunately its probably too far away.
my brother had 4 bars today in downtown and couldnt connect
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cool im gonna try it tomorrow when im in town. Hopefully this means they will be rolling out 4g very soon
andybess22 said:
cool im gonna try it tomorrow when im in town. Hopefully this means they will be rolling out 4g very soon
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I tried the 4g while driving through the city this morning and no go. I guess it was only on Saturday for testing. Will keep watching the 4g icon though.
4g was definitely on last week in Monroeville. Hopefully it will make its way around town including the South Hills!
While driving through downtown around 5pm, I was able to pick up 4G. However, it could never finish connecting. It would say scanning, connecting, authenticating, obtaining IP address, then flash something very quickly (perhaps "disconnected") before starting the cycle over. Not sure if it's an issue with my phone or just issues with the 4G since they're obviously still testing it.
Ingenium13 said:
While driving through downtown around 5pm, I was able to pick up 4G. However, it could never finish connecting. It would say scanning, connecting, authenticating, obtaining IP address, then flash something very quickly (perhaps "disconnected") before starting the cycle over. Not sure if it's an issue with my phone or just issues with the 4G since they're obviously still testing it.
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I'm getting the same here. It keeps finding a signal, but can't do anything with it. In any case, it's exciting.
Really exciting but doubt I will see it here weirton,wc we usually get what Pittsburgh gets but in this case think we will be too far
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I live out in Elizabeth, hopefully it will reach out here.
I'm still getting the no connect but I can find 4g signal all over Pittsburgh
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I don't know people. I'm out here in Turtle Creek, basically in a stones throw from Monroeville Mall and I'm not even picking up a 4g signal at all. Is there anyone out here who can confirm a signal?
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yglup said:
I don't know people. I'm out here in Turtle Creek, basically in a stones throw from Monroeville Mall and I'm not even picking up a 4g signal at all. Is there anyone out here who can confirm a signal?
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I have not been able to connect to 4g downtown since Saturday. Was probably only on for testing. Though I do get signal alerts when driving through the city. I'll be giving it another try this weekend to see if the 4g is back on downtown. No idea about monroeville or turtle creek.
just in monroeville today for dinner. the duck pond there was signal. by the bmw dealer, by the mall, by target, on the parkway from penn hills exit to the monroeville exits(turnpike). i couldnt connect at all. my phone is rooted and been flashed many times so i thought my 4g was broke but my 2 kids and wife have the evo (UNTOUCHED) and they couldnt connect either so it must be not ready yet. heres to hoping it gets better tomorrow. lol
oh and forgot was in turtle creek today for kids dentist appointment and right by the citizens bank my phone picked up signal but couldnt connect
Good info guys. Well lets hope turn the switch on everywhere in August.
Sounds good, I wizards at BestBuy today by the mall, but didn't think to try. Well 2morrows a new day!
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I spoke to a Sprint rep yesterday. She said that the appearance of the signal was a side effect of them testing the market, but she couldn't find anything on an anticipated rollout date yet. So she recommended to keep the 4G radio off for the time being, and to check back every now and again and watch the websites to see when it would be officially deployed. I was hoping it'd be deployed near this Froyo rollout, but apparently it's not to be.
By the Monroeville Mall again today, and i actually did pick up the 4 g signal. But like earlier stated it would connect to Sprint and then kick me out and start over. Good sign people, good sign!
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Thought it was weird that my college town, Rolla, Missouri has 4G Wimax coverage.
Any other weird choices for rollout?
No fair.
gx1400 said:
Thought it was weird that my college town, Rolla, Missouri has 4G Wimax coverage.
Any other weird choices for rollout?
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h8 h8 h8 !!!!
Because rolla missouri has a very well known university that is known for technology and sciences amf they probably pushed for it.
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According to multiple Sprint reps I've talked with, "4G will be available in the end of the December, 2010 in the whole US" "Everywhere".
indagroove said:
According to multiple Sprint reps I've talked with, "4G will be available in the end of the December, 2010 in the whole US" "Everywhere".
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As awesome as that would be... it won't happen. There's still plenty of places with just 1x, like where I live.
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jkinnison90 said:
As awesome as that would be... it won't happen. There's still plenty of places with just 1x, like where I live.
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Go to Sprint's site and open a chat with a Sprint rep and see what they tell you and report back please.
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Go to Sprint's site and open a chat with a Sprint rep and see what they tell you and report back please.
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Bro, I respect your opinion and knowledge. I used many of your roms in the diamond days. Where I work, we lease land to some tower companys, three of these are Sprints. The Sprint field techs I have spoke with have no knowledge of any immediate 4g upgrades, and no sign of any upcoming tower work has been present. No underground service alert markings, nada. Our companys own Sprint rep told us back in June, we would have 4g within two months. Nope. I will only believe the 4g hype when I see a man-lift sitting at one of those sites, and Sprint techs working on it. BTW, my local area is home to around a quarter of a million in SoCal.
Im just glad my town of 7000 at least has 3g. Im fine with that.
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Thought it was weird that my college town, Rolla, Missouri has 4G Wimax coverage.
Any other weird choices for rollout?
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Nothing but snitches in rolla! Caution
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shortbus182 said:
Bro, I respect your opinion and knowledge. I used many of your roms in the diamond days. Where I work, we lease land to some tower companys, three of these are Sprints. The Sprint field techs I have spoke with have no knowledge of any immediate 4g upgrades, and no sign of any upcoming tower work has been present. No underground service alert markings, nada. Our companys own Sprint rep told us back in June, we would have 4g within two months. Nope. I will only believe the 4g hype when I see a man-lift sitting at one of those sites, and Sprint techs working on it. BTW, my local area is home to around a quarter of a million in SoCal.
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I'm not saying that it will or won't be everywhere by the end of the year -- I'm just telling you what Sprint is officially telling customers. If I were you, I would go to Sprint.com and ask a rep via chat yourself. That way, if/when it's not "everywhere" by the end of the month, you may have a valid argument for some sort of credit to your account.
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According to multiple Sprint reps I've talked with, "4G will be available in the end of the December, 2010 in the whole US" "Everywhere".
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Yeah not true sorry
check out their coverage of Washington state... I live in Yakima Wa and we had 4g from day one. Also most small towns in Yakima county have coverage I thought it was very strange but never argued with it.
Im from springfield, mo and rolla is closer then st Louis. I might have to make a trip to rolls to test out my 4G.
Saint Joseph, Missouri here. Really hope we get some 4g love soon.
indagroove said:
According to multiple Sprint reps I've talked with, "4G will be available in the end of the December, 2010 in the whole US" "Everywhere".
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That money I owe you ... the check is in the mail
GaryJ51 said:
That money I owe you ... the check is in the mail
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Great, glad you finally put it in writing just like sprint does. That way when you and sprint don't deliver I have legal recourse.
natelw said:
check out their coverage of Washington state... I live in Yakima Wa and we had 4g from day one. Also most small towns in Yakima county have coverage I thought it was very strange but never argued with it.
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This makes me rage so hard. Yakima and Tri-Cities have 4G but they skipped the entire Spokane region and refuse to give out any sort of date to expect coverage.
From time to time, I flip on my 4G in a very small hope that the small city of Rome, Georgia with a population of about 30,000 will get 4G within the next few years. Today, I was a Starbucks having coffee with a friend and talking about 4G and how long we think it will take for Verizon or AT&T to get their 4G here. I've already dismissed Sprint ever getting it here because Sprint just closed their only store in town a month ago. Verizon and AT&T are the main providers here. So, I was telling them that 4G has to be turned on within the settings of the phone and demonstrated how to turn it on. I put the phone down and picked it up a few minutes later after receiving a text and I had to cover my mouth to prevent the very loud "WTF?!?!?!" that came out of my mouth as I noticed the 4G connected symbol in the status bar! What on Earth is 4G doing in this little town? Of course, I got online to see if I could find Rome listed on Sprint or Clearwire. It wasn't on Sprint, but sure enough, it was now listed on Clearwire as having 4G. It isn't listed as the super fast 4G area like Atlanta, but 4G nonetheless. I am getting 6.1 Mbps with one bar at home. I'd like to know when this network went up. And if it will stay. Anyone know where I could find some info? I chatted with Clearwire to see if they could tell me when it was activated, but they couldn't tell me. I'm going to tell everyone about it now. We have 4G before a lot of major cities... I'm super stoked!
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Been almost a year and my 3g service is poor outside, and still no 4g in my area of south jersey. I really luv this evo, but my girl has thunderbolt from verizon and her service is amazing with no signal problems! Sorry had to vent, but sprint needs to get there 3 and 4 g up to speed or im making the jump to verizon! They should not advertise 4g when its not even available!
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fierceeagle2003 said:
Been almost a year and my 3g service is poor outside, and still no 4g in my area of south jersey. I really luv this evo, but my girl has thunderbolt from verizon and her service is amazing with no signal problems! Sorry had to vent, but sprint needs to get there 3 and 4 g up to speed or im making the jump to verizon! They should not advertise 4g when its not even available!
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Huh... Clear map says you have coverage... take the 4g issue up with them. Call Sprint with your 3g issues, you might get a credit. ALso, if you jump ship remember SPrint own 3times as much spectrum then Verizon or Att. Eventually when their networks are congested, Sprint will have plenty more to play with.
i agree..3g here has been horrible since november of last year and verizons service here is awesome..on top of that verizon lte will be in my area in a few months...even more of a reason to jump ship..
Hey, 4g is in philly, not south jersey, we get the ****ty outcast signal , i want 4g all over south jersey! Were now in quarter 1 of 2011 when this phone has been out for almost a year! They need to stop [email protected]$%* and fix the problem, and ive been with sprint since 2000 long time custy , they need to do whats right!
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Huh... Clear map says you have coverage... take the 4g issue up with them. Call Sprint with your 3g issues, you might get a credit. ALso, if you jump ship remember SPrint own 3times as much spectrum then Verizon or Att. Eventually when their networks are congested, Sprint will have plenty more to play with.
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Yea and by the time Sprint actually implements that spectrum and puts it to use itll be years from now.
I just jumped...well tomorrow my tbolt will be here. Wanted to stay but couldnt take the data issues. They waved my etf cause ive been complaining once a wk since nov. It wasnt easy getting them to wave it. Others are jumping to.
I downloaded Firefox 4 today - it took a good 30 minutes. Ridiculous.
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I just jumped ship from TMO to Sprint because I couldn't get 3G anywhere near home here in Oklahoma but every single other carrier had it. I have had great experience with Sprints 3G. What are you guys speeds? I download at a consistent 1mbit or better.
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I just jumped ship from TMO to Sprint because I couldn't get 3G anywhere near home here in Oklahoma but every single other carrier had it. I have had great experience with Sprints 3G. What are you guys speeds? I download at a consistent 1mbit or better.
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<500kbit in NYC. Usually around 300, used to get 1.5 mbit about a year ago.
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Even if you get 4g in your area it still sucks as far as building penetration
Award Tour said:
I downloaded Firefox 4 today - it took a good 30 minutes. Ridiculous.
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Dude.....if that takes 30 mins, then you should switch RIGHT NOW. i love the EVO and all of its glory but you should at least get a phone that is enjoyable to have.
I guess I got it good in Houston. My 3G speeds are good, 4G is even better. If they were as you are describing I would have ditched sprint a long time ago!
I'm a long way from you guys, near Toronto, well, between Toronto and Detroit. I did a quick speed test tonight and my hsupa speeds were faster than when I'm home on wifi!? I'll post some #'s momentarily.
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I'm a long way from you guys, near Toronto, well, between Toronto and Detroit. I did a quick speed test tonight and my hsupa speeds were faster than when I'm home on wifi!? I'll post some #'s momentarily.
Bah, made a liar out of me! Must have been the area I was in! 3.3 mb/s on wifi, 1 mb/s in home, wifi off, hsupa on. Oh well.
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dowmace said:
I just jumped ship from TMO to Sprint because I couldn't get 3G anywhere near home here in Oklahoma but every single other carrier had it. I have had great experience with Sprints 3G. What are you guys speeds? I download at a consistent 1mbit or better.
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Same here...
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.
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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 ?
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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
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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
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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....
Just left the sprint store. phone has been flakey since I got a replacement. Rep claimed sprint is having network problems in Indiana for sure and 2 other states at least. Im pretty sure he said Kentucky was one of the other states. Anyway problems have supposedly been going on for 3 weeks. For real, or was he just trying to get rid of me?
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Just left the sprint store. phone has been flakey since I got a replacement. Rep claimed sprint is having network problems in Indiana for sure and 2 other states at least. Im pretty sure he said Kentucky was one of the other states. Anyway problems have supposedly been going on for 3 weeks. For real, or was he just trying to get rid of me?
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I have had issues as well. The network has become oversaturated with users in a few areas bringing the network to a crawl. You could try someone else's phone to see if they also have that issue. If they don't then you can request a new phone.
I have really slow data in my area. I'm hoping it gets fixed soon.
Soon isn't in Sprints vocabulary. Our data has been unsable since July 2010...yes 2010. Estimated fix from Sprint? December 2011!
Make sure your prl is 60680
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pgriffy said:
Just left the sprint store. phone has been flakey since I got a replacement. Rep claimed sprint is having network problems in Indiana for sure and 2 other states at least. Im pretty sure he said Kentucky was one of the other states. Anyway problems have supposedly been going on for 3 weeks. For real, or was he just trying to get rid of me?
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he is not lying. Ever since the national sms outage the networks had trouble catching up. In fact, we even went so far as posting a sign on our store's door stating the issue
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Yeah. Can't update prl or profile. Showed them that while there. Said that was because of the network problem too.
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As the network guy told me...don't expect much done to the network until network vision hits your area. Some areas could be waiting a couple of years.
Sprint was already behind from their last network update freeze. They did a few upgrades but all the new phones ate through it. Now they are further behind than before. Network vision needs to hurry.
No kidding. At home (suburb MN) I got decent 3G speed, but at work (downtown Minneapolis) 3G is basically unusable. I am just glad I am on SERO so I don't feel as ripped off by the slow speed..
So...is it normal that sometimes my 3g will drop to 1x?
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So...is it normal that sometimes my 3g will drop to 1x?
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Yes. Mine does that when the 3g becomes so unusable it falls back to 1X