4G in Tampa, FL - EVO 4G General

Hey everyone! As the title states...I'm getting constant notifications that 4G is available in Tampa. I work across the street from Raymond James and I get the notifications allll day. Unfortunately, my EVO just goes through a Scanning.... Connecting to Sprint... Obtaining IP Address... cycle and never actually connects.
Is anyone in the Tampa market able to successfully connect?
Thanks!

NOPE. I am also in Tampa. I get the signal between the hard rock and ybor areas as well as all over brandon but it will obtain the ip address. Maybe soon is all we can hope for.
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bobbynj81 said:
Hey everyone! As the title states...I'm getting constant notifications that 4G is available in Tampa. I work across the street from Raymond James and I get the notifications allll day. Unfortunately, my EVO just goes through a Scanning.... Connecting to Sprint... Obtaining IP Address... cycle and never actually connects.
Is anyone in the Tampa market able to successfully connect?
Thanks!
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There are threads addressing this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=720811&highlight=tampa and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=726430&highlight=tampa
But people in orlando, tampa, and miami are reporting 4g networks popping up. Someone said it is because of military use and some reports say Sprint is testing. Who knows? I just hope my little town here in Lake County gets a little 4g love.

4g in tampa works today!!!!
YES!!!!
I was getting the same obtaining IP thing and today I GOT CONNECTED. I am near USF area. Speeds are not lightning fast only about 2 down and 1 up but looks like progress to me!!!

I am at Bloomingdale and 301 in the Brandon/Riverview area. It said connecting several times but then went back to scanning. I'm gonna reboot and post back

I'm sitting in Eddie & Sams in downtown Tampa right now and have 4g at 6mbps down.
And only have one bar!!!

lucky! I still haven't been able to connect.

Wonder when is going to start popping up here in Fort Myers, FL. Can't wait, those are good sings if you guys are getting it up there.
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I'm sitting outside the St Pete Times forum waiting for the Storm game and there is 4g here too...

I'm near USF as well, but mine gets stuck at "Obtaining IP address from Sprint".

I was just on 4g in Tampa from mlk and i4 to adamo no problems.
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56th and Busch Boulevard. Connected, Obtained IP, poor signal. 300kbp down, 300kbp up. drops signal. It's almost here, but not quite.

I get a 4G signal now, and it connects decently well now around the USF area.

It still isn't working for me.....

Full 4g riding on Dale Mabry by Ray Jay stadium.
At Waters and Dale Mabry, and full 4g.

Hey everyone! As the title states...I'm getting constant notifications that 4G is available in Tampa. I work across the street from Raymond James and
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There are threads addressing this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=720811&highlight=tampa and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=726430&highlight=tampa
But people in orlando, tampa, and miami are reporting 4g networks popping up. Someone said it is because of military use and some reports say Sprint is testing. Who knows? I just hope my little town here in Lake County gets a little 4g love.
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Where are you located Blake? I'm in leesburg but I don't think we getting it anytime soon
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Down updated to 4Mbps.

tauzins said:
Where are you located Blake? I'm in leesburg but I don't think we getting it anytime soon
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I live in okahumpka but work in leesburg at our auction house. When I'm driving around town I always leave 4g scanning to hopefully get lucky. I thought I read some where that some one in leesburg area picked up on a 4g signal, was that u?

Anyone picking up signal is st. Pete?

thats great hoping it gets here in collier county but next weekend going to tampa to test 4g.

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4G in Pittsburgh

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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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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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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Data service in Florida is horrible today????

Anyone else having data problems around the state??? It is ****ty for sure.
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Near Orlando and I just got 4kbps down, 60kbps up and a ping of 791ms with speedtest's Tampa server. I've also been messing around with my phone trying to get my PRI updated all day so it could be caused by that.
Just a few minutes ago I had to restore a nandroid because I was getting the error 67 / invalid login messages.
Edit: Just tried again and the speedtest app said my download speed was -0kbps, somehow I doubt that is accurate
Sounds like you are having some of the same problems I'm seeing in AZ. Sprint seems to be having issues.
Have had trouble with my 3G for about ten days now. Sarasota/Bradenton area. Sometimes it functions normally, sometimes I can't get a bare bones map from Google to download. I'm on Sprint's network and I suspect the slow 3G speeds may have to do with 4G testing going on around the state. I know Tampa just went hot and the 3G speeds up there were horrendous for about 2 weeks prior to the roll-out. Whatever problems they were having seem to have been sorted out. I was driving in Tampa on Monday with no trouble on 3G.
I spoke with a Sprint rep today who indicated 4G should be live in this area by the end of next week.(Hope, hope.)
Nope, mine is running good today. Last night I went back to stock group deodexed whatever the update letter was. It's running good. Eating battery a bit more than cyanogen rc1, but I got tired of poor reception so I'm trying something different.
I'm over in Melbourne and it has been terrible all day. I'm glad it isn't just me.
Tampa here. Its been hit and miss. When 4G first hit, I could pull 5-6Mbps on 4g and 1Mbps on 3G. Now I can't even pick up 4G where I used to at work, 4G at Busch Gardens is about 2Mbps and 3G is running around 500kbps.
Definitely something screw the last 4 or 5 days.
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I'm over in Melbourne and it has been terrible all day. I'm glad it isn't just me.
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Seems like its been slow here all week. Its not as bad as it was earlier but around eau gallie and hwy 1 it's still running at a third the speed it was before.
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Seems like its been slow here all week. Its not as bad as it was earlier but around eau gallie and hwy 1 it's still running at a third the speed it was before.
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I'm usually home using wifi near US1 and babcock but I was up in Viera tonight and got better speeds while roaming 2g on verizon than 3g on sprint. I'm glad cyanogenmod has the "affiliated networks" option.
I live around the Tampa area but have traveled to north Florida for the weekend and the trip this afternoon was horrible for data. No data coverage from Tampa to ocala at all on I75 using my evo or the data card so I know its not a phone problem. It's the network.
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I am near Orlando and it has been ****ty 3g. I thought it was my rom. I called sprint and told them i couldn't connect over 3g so they gave me my MSL number and did a restore. Now i have an updated PRI and am getting about a 1meg down. This is double compared to what i was getting before considering where i live.
Yeah, there were times yesterday I couldn't even connect. It was making my Word Feud playing and Pandora listening extremely unenjoyable.
I'm in Miami. Near the airport. About a week ago I was riding to work and when I got to work I saw that it had picked up a 4g connection somewhere along the way. Haven't been able to find it again though
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I currently live in Jacksonville near Regency area , and have weak 4G service . I have been told there are currently two 4G towers in Jacksonville that are active . If they are I must be on the very edge of it so I dont even use it at this point .
yeah my 3g service is stuggling in Jacksonville
4g seemd to be working ok yesterday in tampa, just the 3g was crap.....Today is a brand new day, hopefully the system has repaired itself...Lets see....
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I currently live in Jacksonville near Regency area , and have weak 4G service . I have been told there are currently two 4G towers in Jacksonville that are active . If they are I must be on the very edge of it so I dont even use it at this point .
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UPDATE !
Apparently I tried sending two pic texts and the phone is having issues just sending those . I keep getting the unable to send message over and over again . Sprint what the hell are you doing ROFL
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I am near Orlando and it has been ****ty 3g. I thought it was my rom. I called sprint and told them i couldn't connect over 3g so they gave me my MSL number and did a restore. Now i have an updated PRI and am getting about a 1meg down. This is double compared to what i was getting before considering where i live.
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How did you update your PRI?
I don't know if he was referring to the thread about connecting you a different tower regardless of the towers provider..... But if you look around its in the site somewhere...
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And isn't jacksonville supposed to have 4g at this point?
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4G in Miami!

I work in downtown Miami, just turned on my 4G and it connected!
Averaging 3Mb down on the phone, not as fast as other areas but a lot faster than the 3G connection.
Just hope it stays on and gets better with time.
4G turns on, but it still shows I am on 3G. Where in Downtown are you?
Someone on here posted a while back that they were able to pick up 4G in downtowm Miami. Apparently, they are doing some beta testing of the soon-to-come 4G towers they have in place here or something. I work off of Flagler and Biscayne Blvd, and I haven't been able to pick up 4G; says "scanning" but never connects.
ort84: Is your phone rooted? My phone is and I've heard of some people's 4G not working right after certain rooting processes. I've never bothered to check if mine is working correctly since we don't have 4G here yet, but now I'm curious as to whether mine is messed up or not. Time to start digging through threads! lol
I'm running the stock 2.2 rooted yes.
I'm at nw 1st court, its actually considered overtown but considering how close it is to downtown its basically downtown area.
Just tried it and No 4G in Miramar... Ahhhh... Turned on but did not connect.
Well, I just checked and the WiMax MAC address on my phone matches the sticker behind my battery, so technically, my 4G should work if it is available. However, mine has been scanning for a good 15 minutes now and nothing. Lucky you, I guess. lol
Sweet!! No go in Doral, even though Im ridiculously close to the tower here on 97th n Fontainebleau
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Sweet!! No go in Doral, even though Im ridiculously close to the tower here on 97th n Fontainebleau
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By Miramar PK way and Dykes......NADA!!!
Just checked on Commercial and Broward to see... I'm inside a building and didn't pick anything up on my laptop nor my evo. On my home today I'll drive with the 4g turned on to see if I can pick anything up.
Nothing here @ work. I'm on Lincoln Road on South Beach
No 4G here in Broward (Dania Beach and Fort Lauderdale) yet...
Boca Raton
Aw, I'm in east Boca Raton, but no joy. Good to hear the towers are slowly trickling on!
Some area in miami with 4G?????????????
I thought to buy one but if the 4g is not working.
I was about to drive to the MIA man.... you cant be telliing people there is 4g in MIA.... you 4G teaser you....lol
I have 4g on pines rite next to 75 I have been using it
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Downtown has 4g but only the south side. From T-Mobile store all the way to brickell/start of us1. Bird road also has 4g but can't pinpoint where it starts and ends.
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I have 4g on pines rite next to 75 I have been using it
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are you serious.... is it up and running right now....
****UPDATE****
I'm gabbing 1 or no bar of 4G at my home next to the courthouse on the dolphin.
So far I'm impressed with the speed. Can't wait to see it improve!
Second test
Was downtown by the courthouse today and had 4 bars 4g, 4mbps download, solid connection, no drops, first time i've actually connected to 4g and had it work. Was around 13th Terrace and N. River Drive if anyone wants to check it out!

4G in Socal!

Ok, Socal is huge. We know it has been located in Costa Mesa, OC, & Westwood.
It's now in the SFV, Canoga Park.
Sprint's site indicates a 'future tower' around Chatsworth by the 118, maybe it's active now.
first of all the image i get is a speedtest app screen capture.,
second of all, scrpints coverage map shows "furure sprint 3g network tower" so im not sure where you are getting a 4g tower from.
waterboy, it's true...I get 4g in Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena, West Covina and Pomona......
They are definitely testing out 4G in the area. I've had signal in Irvine close to John Wayne Airport, in Anaheim near the 91 between 57 and 55 freeways, and in Los Angeles near the federal building. So yea, its coming.
i hit enter too soon.
i know that there is 4g up in other places i have gotten it in Burbank and around Staples center downtown.
I was in Chatsworth yesterday and there was no 4g yet.
also, is it safe to assume that any future tower is 4g compatible? or was OP looking at a different map.
I'm no expert with cell towers, but I made an assumption that they are probably backwards compatible. The 3G coverage in that area is sufficient to say the least, so another inclination to question them putting in another 3G tower and not 4G.
The screen cap shows the 4G signal and a speedtest show bandwidth speeds. Was that so confusing?
got some in santa ana!!
sent from my baby. . . the evo 4-gees
West side of garden grove is coming on line also. Can't wait cause my evo will be here in a couple days. Giggity!!!
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http://www.wimaxmaps.org/ here ya go...
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http://www.wimaxmaps.org/ here ya go...
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thanks. didnt know about that site before.
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The screen cap shows the 4G signal and a speedtest show bandwidth speeds. Was that so confusing?
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but the server is a texas server. i thought he meant to add a pic of the map and messed up. thats all.
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thanks. didnt know about that site before.
but the server is a texas server. i thought he meant to add a pic of the map and messed up. thats all.
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Ah, ya I was a little confused by that routing as well. Picked TX for some reason im unsure of.
I think Sprint is rolling them out in SoCal for sure... it used to be I can only get spotty coverage in downtown, now it's improved and in San Gabriel Valley area, they rolled them out as well. The furtherest WiMax coverage around SGV I noticed is as far as 19/Valley.
However I just don't see any signal on Huntington...
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Ah, ya I was a little confused by that routing as well. Picked TX for some reason im unsure of.
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Np. Thanks anyways. Hopefully it is up for good soon.
How far does the signal go. I live by shoup and Chase (major streets is roscoe and topanga)
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How far does the signal go. I live by shoup and Chase (major streets is roscoe and topanga)
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Representin' the 818 son!!
I'm in Canoga Park for work off of Roscoe and Canoga and I HAVE 4g .....
Ok i had 4g up til l about 10am then it went away hmmmm they playing with the towers again?
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Representin' the 818 son!!
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Hell Yeah Representin' 818
vinscuzzy said:
Representin' the 818 son!!
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Yep yep yep.
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I'm in Canoga Park for work off of Roscoe and Canoga and I HAVE 4g .....
Ok i had 4g up til l about 10am then it went away hmmmm they playing with the towers again?
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Hmm. I wasnt able to connect last night. I'll be trying again every day now though.
Thanks for the heads up OP
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Monrovia/Arcadia area I can connect to the tower but when trying to load any data it just kicks me back to 3G. Hopefully they activate them soon.
Jees, 10mb down.. that's twice as fast as my home internet.
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They need to start rolling out in Kern County... Bakersfield needs this haha

GA users...4g?

I'm in warner Robinson (mid ga) and appear to have 4g now. Speed test is around 5mbps but doesn't seem faster. Weird. Can anyone confirm this?
I'd like to know about this, I'm not in that area but will be soon!
http://clear.com/coverage
Looks like your in the testing phase and they are starting to roll out. Enjoy!
Yeah, it doesn't look like it's perfected yet in my area...in Atlanta 4g is amazing. Still sketchy even though I'm connected and getting upwards of 3mbps, it doesn't seem completely stable yet. Great news for us though. Hopefully testing will roll into "getting **** done" lol
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usually once the dark green gets on the map its 'official' and you will be able to actually connect indoors
This actually pisses me off somewhat. Looking at the map theyre installing in Macon, Warner Robins and LaGrange. LaGrange has a population of what, 50K? But they cant fill in the million gaps in coverage in Atlanta???
I agree. Atl is hit or miss with 4g coverage. Some spots, I've hit 11 mbs though. Inside its another story.
I'm just dumbfounded that Augusta doesn't have Sprint 4G yet. Hell, we just finally got T-Mobile HSPA+.
I was actually at the sprint store off of Russell Parkway this weekend getting my wife a new phone and asked about 4g. Like most people have said, they are definitely in a test phase right now, with no official announcement. The lady i talked to did say some areas have 4g coverage. I turn on my EVO's 4g in the store and got 7mbs download speed versus 1mb 3g. Unfortunately i'm never on that side of town and I don't get coverage at my house south by HWY96.
I get pretty descent 4g speeds down in Henry Co. On average of 6-8mbps. I was a little surprised 4G worked at my house but it does..
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I get pretty descent 4g speeds down in Henry Co. On average of 6-8mbps. I was a little surprised 4G worked at my house but it does..
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i get a wiff of 4g at my house up here in canton if i stand on top of the tv stand holding my son with a wire coat hanger in his hand... otherwise at work in the perimeter 4g is great
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I get pretty descent 4g speeds down in Henry Co. On average of 6-8mbps. I was a little surprised 4G worked at my house but it does..
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I'm in Henry as well but 4g is quite the disappointment where I am. I can't connect to it inside or outside but when I'm near Hudson Bridge Rd it connects.
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I'm in Henry as well but 4g is quite the disappointment where I am. I can't connect to it inside or outside but when I'm near Hudson Bridge Rd it connects.
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Yeah I can see that, like I said it works at my house but once I leave it tends to get a bit spotty. I rarely use 4G at my house even though it works, I like my Wifi much better.
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i get a wiff of 4g at my house up here in canton if i stand on top of the tv stand holding my son with a wire coat hanger in his hand... otherwise at work in the perimeter 4g is great
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Same for me in Canton. My phone will show I'm connected but its basically unusable. Go a mile down the road to Riverstone and get 8 Mbps.
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I'm just dumbfounded that Augusta doesn't have Sprint 4G yet. Hell, we just finally got T-Mobile HSPA+.
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Agreed. I'd like to see 4G there and service the nearby Fort Gordon area.
Lagrange are u kidding me. What about Columbus and Ft. Benning? That would have made more senseto me. Leopard in mind I'm partial because I live in Columbus ...
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I live in Woodstock and never turn on 4G. Its not worth it. half the time it is searching for a signal.
damn, i keep trying to get 4g different places and haven't had any luck since being at the sprint store...
Its also around the sandy run and moody road area. Also around Macon GA. I caught it near vineville and hardeman area recently.
I'm in Canton as well. I only get 4g on 575 starting at exit 11 going south but it's hit or miss like everyone else.

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