Sprint Says Chicago-Area Network Improved
Only took how many years?
Chicago was one of the very first WiMAX and very first LTE cities announced, this was nearly half a decade ago...
So if Chicago is the ONLY city being announced to be fully completed with upgrades, this means Sprint is 10+ years behind on Network Vision, and it will not be completed by 2014-2015 as they claimed.
From my understanding as well, customers in Chicago are still having a plethora of issues with data speed, dropped calls, and diminished coverage in many areas.
So if Chicago is the ONLY city being announced to be fully completed with upgrades, this means Sprint is 10+ years behind on Network Vision, and it will not be completed by 2014-2015 as they claimed.
From my understanding as well, customers in Chicago are still having a plethora of issues with data speed, dropped calls, and diminished coverage in many areas.
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you post is incorrect, other carriers just got LTE in those cities in last 2 years, sprint started a year ago and finishing
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agreed, LTE is still fairly new. WiMax is abandoned. So "network vision" is based on the rollout of 1900 3G and LTE. (and spark etc) LTE should be 60 - 70% close to completion in most areas.
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vercetti said:
you post is incorrect, other carriers just got LTE in those cities in last 2 years, sprint started a year ago and finishing
No, YOU are wrong.
Sprint began its WiMax 4G rollout 4-5 years ago, that failed, so they sold the WiMax 4G part of their business to Clearwire (along with boatloads of Nextel-owned 2.5 GHz spectrum), then Clearwire failed, and somwhere in that series of FU's, Sprint decided WiMax was a dead end and started switching their 4G network from WiMax to LTE.
Sprint did indeed begin its pathetic 4G history 4-5 years ago, a full 2-3 years ahead of Verizon & AT&T, but Sprint completely blew its 2-3 year LEAD and as a result is now 2-3 years BEHIND the others.
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You need to check your history. Sprint started Wimax because the FCC forced it. They and Clearwire had a boatloads of 2.5Ghz spectrum that they would lose unless they put it into use. Having no other 4G option they opted to deploy Wimax so that the FCC would not take their spectrum back. They called those Wimax deployments Protection Sites.
Lack of money from Clearwire ultimately made the deployment proceed slowly, eventually the industry as a whole moved to LTE which forced Sprint to move itself to LTE, which basically means that they had to start from scratch.
This time around they are replacing all the equipment in the towers (previously they just added more antennas and the appropriate back-haul). Since now they have the billions ...
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Lack of money from Clearwire ultimately made the deployment proceed slowly, eventually the industry as a whole moved to LTE which forced Sprint to move itself to LTE, which basically means that they had to start from scratch.
This time around they are replacing all the equipment in the towers (previously they just added more antennas and the appropriate back-haul). Since now they have the billions ...
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