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However, after reviewing the schedule, it may actually pan out to be late August or the first of September. Sprint will likely announce a launch date for this market, and a few others like Austin, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles around the time of the first launch. Sprint's schedule for this market currently has 50 Network Vision sites complete.
This seems like an impossible production rate to us. S4GRU has examined the schedule in great detail in this market and sees that most of the sites will be complete by January However, there are several sites that will linger past the completion.
In our estimation of the schedule, AlcaLu is currently right on time, but may have issues meeting this rate identified in Sprint's schedule. Photo of Washington, D. Posted June 20, I was in the dc area two weeks ago but unfortunately I wasn't able to get a signal but this is great news. DC is my second most traveled to place so this is just wonderful.
Sprints 3G is a litter better within DC at times; however, in some places you cannot even stream Pandora, let alone check out a YouTube clip. Still way behind the competition in bandwidth coverage is fine.
Sprint is playing catch up. Remember that they still haven't turned on many towers even in the cities that are announced, which is probably because they need to test the network to make sure that all the towers function together well before they allow customers to start using them and find problems. I am sure that the later cities will probably allow towers to be used as soon as they are complete, but they are trying to make sure they don't screw up and ruin their image it can't handle much bad press.
Sprint changed their minds mid-stream. Just as the first LTE sites were being completed. They discussed several options and selected the best solution to implement. It was a last minute and hasty decision to block LTE. And it has nothing to do with the network and being ready. It's about a device issue that Sprint doesn't want discovered.
It would be figured out in two days if they allow their LTE network to go live. Thanks on keeping us informed robert. I am taking advantage of the new nv upgraded towers in the DC area and can attest to the much faster 3g speeds 1. It will be exciting when they flip the switch on these towers for 4G. This has been the best news I got this week seeing how my shiny new 32 gig white SG3 is delayed, but hey at least now my case will get here before my phone Woo Hoo!
Kinda surprised since I'm way down out in the far southern 'burbs. But it looks like they're really concentrating on the sites along the I corridor which is right in my backyard. Posted June 21, Thanks for this info! Maybe I missed it? But I desperately need a new phone now and I'm just not sure I can trust Sprint here to deliver on timelines.
From reading this, it sounds like we are talking about a city that has never been officially announced but we expect it to go live soon? I understand their need to get the initial infrastructure working before you let customers on, but the "Oh its coming" promise without actual launches makes me question go live dates.
I want to believe it But, then again im more of a lurker then a reasearcher on this. The info came directly from internal sources at Sprint, Clearwire, Ericsson, Samsung and subcontractors. S4GRU has been around for a year and all of our past reporting has panned out. We have over 4, members and followers. Many of them go out in the field and verify a lot of our info. If you pour through our forums, you would see a lot of that history.
And then you can decide for yourself. Of course, there is no guarantee that Sprint will do anything in the future. We just report. In this article we have reported a status of what has already occurred for this market, and what Sprint had scheduled for this market.
In this article series, we are not always showing just positive info. When we come across negative info, we publish that too. Yesterday I drove to visit my parents and then today I drove back. Has anyone heard anything more definitive on roll outs here? I'm in NOVA Herndon area and have the tower near my home completely useless - speed test just keeps saying try again. The tower directly across from my office visible from my window is almost equally as worthless.
Not ranting but almost 6 months of virtually no service is wearing on me. I'm in the B'more market frequently and know the wait will be worth it but the lack of service at the moment is more than painful. I keep thinking they will turn the switch soon but I've been holding my breath too long now.
Mapped it on Sensorly but couldn't pick it up as I headed east. Which side of Union Station were you on? It sounds like you were heading to H st Anyone work around the Capitol building? We're close guys. Perhaps closer than most markets. In this time of Thanksgiving lets concentrate on what we do have as opposed to what we don't.
Three of the four towers around my house are 3G complete already PWC. That's going to be sweeeet when they're lte complete - which I'm sure is right around the corner. You know. Having finally received my Ingress invite. This gives me an excuse to walk around the city for multiple reasons. I'll go for a walk during lunch and see if i can grow the sensorly map a bit. On the east side.
I think I would have gotten the one at 2nd and MD at street level if that were the case. There's another site on the unit block of I St NE but that one is not reported to be complete. Maybe it will be on next week's list. Between cycling airplane mode and turning on sensorly I was still able to grab a few points north of union station while on the train too. Other than the fact that it is actually pretty interesting and I love the fact that it gets our asses up and outside Not really.
Between this and hunting down LTE for Sensorly. There will be plenty of walking. Some must read before you start. Back on to subject. Wasnt able to pic anything up today. Curious how the antenna logic works now. No LTE in Reston again. I toggled airplane mode in a couple places hoping to get a whiff of the completed site there.
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