Ya thanks! I wouldnt bash em...Just want some real positive answers. lol
Can you kind of explain this though? lol Not sure what it all means? I assume it means by January 2014 my iPhone 4 data should be a bit faster?
Riverside/San Bernardino
Status: GMO's Completing/Full Builds Under Way
I'm no expert, so here's what I've picked up at S4GRU. Don't quote me on it.
GMO is Ground Mount Option. That's a cell site that's been installed on the ground. Full Builds means towers that are getting EVERYTHING replaced. New cabinets, new equipment. Everything on 38,000 towers is being replaced.
NV Sites Accepted = 62%
LTE Sites Accepted = 12%
62% of the towers in the Riverside/SB market have been upgraded to Network Vision 3G. The NV 3G is 3G that is connected to fiber, not the old T1 lines. That means faster backhaul which means increased 3G speeds above what the old 3G was capable of.
However, some NV work may have been done, but because backhaul (fiber) wasn't available to hook up at the time Sprint had to leave it connected to the old T1s. The vendor will come back and hook it up once the fiber has been laid in.
12% of LTE means that 12% of the total towers in the market have receieved the LTE upgrades, are hooked up to fiber and are broadcasting LTE. Sprint is turning on each tower as it goes, so as this number increases both speed and network capacity will increase over time.
Note that ALL tower upgrades are receiveing BOTH 3G and LTE upgrades.
Anticipated LTE Launch = Fall 2013
Original Scheduled Completion = October 2013
Current Production Rate Completion = January 2014
Anticipated Launch Date is the original date that Sprint/S4GRU expected Sprint to announce the market as "launched." Note that Sprint has a funny way of "launching" a market when it's not "complete." There's LTE, but when people hear the word "launched" they are expecting it to be everywhere and that usually isn't the case.
Original Scheduled Completeion is the date that the vendor expected to complete all the upgrade work.
Current Production Rate Completion means that at the current rate of speed S4GRU expects the market to be complete at this time. Note that this fluctuates heavily.
Lastly, note that Sprint is NOT doing any of this work. They have contracted with Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson and Samsung. Further, those vendors contract with the fiber backhaul providers for fiber. Depending on the market, those vendors can be AT&T and Verizon. You can only guess just how eager those last two vendors are to deliver fiber to Sprint.
