San Francisco Bay Area 4G

**ecaggiani** · 06-17-2010, 01:07 AM

I had the privilege of attending HTC's party in Francisco last night and talked with a Sprint guy who was there. He told me 4G was being tested in Palo Alto, and I can confirm that I get a signal from Palo Alto to Mountain View while driving down 101.

Furthermore, I asked him where in the Bay Area 4G would roll out. He said it would cover from San Francisco all the way down to Santa Cruz! That makes me happy as I live in San Jose and work in Redwood City.

When I asked when, he said October :-)

This is all coming from one Sprint guy at a party, so take it as you will. I tend to think there is merit in what he told me since he was right about the testing in Palo Alto. :-)

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**JERAVICIOUS** · 06-17-2010, 01:13 AM

Oh yea!!! It's coming to Santa Cruz too!!! Wow, I wouldn't think we'd get 4g here in Santa Cruz that fast. That's good to know, plus with the 4g in the bay too cuz i travel there a lot. Hmmm...I should be getttin my Evo this week and I will be in the bay area so I will def see if I can pick up some 4g signal.

**xorbe** · 06-17-2010, 01:25 AM

You know that the Bay Area just HAS to be a priority 4G roll-out area ... but still waiting!!!

**LipGloss712** · 06-17-2010, 01:53 AM

cool. who knows if i will still be in the city by then. i'm moving to philadelphia sometime this year.

**NorthBayX415** · 06-17-2010, 01:56 AM

So westbay and eastbay? What about the Northbay? Hope we get 4G signal!!!

**jds** · 06-17-2010, 01:56 AM

i have it at work i work near yahoo in santa clara and i have a strong signal

i don't have it at home in campbell though

**ecaggiani** · 06-17-2010, 09:57 AM

Originally Posted by NorthBayX415

So westbay and eastbay? What about the Northbay? Hope we get 4G signal!!!

No idea about east bay, etc. But I'm assuming those would be covered as well. The guy simply said all of the bay area from SF to SC. We'll just have to wait and see

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**JERAVICIOUS** · 06-17-2010, 09:59 AM

i have it at work i work near yahoo in santa clara and i have a strong signal

i don't have it at home in campbell though
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Wow, this is great!! First in Palo Alto now there's news that Santa Clara is gettin 4g signal. Shows that Sprint is hard at work gettin 4g rolled out in the bay. Oct seems like a reasonable deadline in gettin 4g in the bay, considering that the bay area is pretty large with SF, Oakland, the Peninsula area, San Jose, and all the way down to Santa Cruz.

**gotthelife4u** · 06-17-2010, 10:12 AM

Sweet, I guess its a good thing I have to wait untill mid August to get the EVO. 4G should be near up and running here by then.

**milominderbinde** · 06-29-2010, 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by ecaggiani

...He told me 4G was being tested in Palo Alto, and I can confirm that I get a signal from Palo Alto to Mountain View while driving down 101...

Sensorly Map Viewer now has detailed maps of where the 4G service is already on in the bay area. When you have Sensorly on, it automatically maps where the 4G is and is not.

**coolesnce** · 06-29-2010, 01:54 PM

I been getting 4G in Hayward and sporadically in SJ and Milpitas. Fastest speed i was able to test is 4.6 MB down 1 MB up during off peak hrs

**cliberti** · 07-04-2010, 11:09 PM

I was just able to pull a signal in San Leandro and tested the speed with wthe speedtest app. The speed is FAST. i don't have my phone rooted so don't have a screen grab. My numbers with 2 bars of signal are: 5454 kbps down, 985 kbps up, 137ms ping

**scubapilot2000** · 07-13-2010, 09:42 PM

Hayward, CA is where I was. Seems the coverage runs down Hesperian Blvd. I stopped in the parking lot yesterday and today at Chabot College and a few miles away at a local soccer field and got similar speeds both days as my EVO picked up the 4G signal:

4506kbps down
945kbps up

pretty consistent between 4M-5M down and 700k-1M up.

**Andrew Ruffolo** · 07-13-2010, 10:29 PM

Originally Posted by Adidude

I was just able to pull a signal in San Leandro and tested the speed with wthe speedtest app. The speed is FAST. i don't have my phone rooted so don't have a screen grab. My numbers with 2 bars of signal are: 5454 kbps down, 985 kbps up, 137ms ping

You don't need to be rooted for ShootMe to work on the Evo, just activate USB Debugging.

**mstrmxr2k5** · 09-22-2010, 07:17 PM

I can confirm that 4G is up and running in the city. Havn't had much luck in the eastbay, but it's blazing downtown at Oracle Open World.

**isosunrise** · 09-26-2010, 03:06 PM

I have 4G in San Francisco (Pacific Heights). Highest was 5 Mb/s.

**saleen2002** · 09-30-2010, 11:24 PM

any info on east bay area? like between concord and antioch? thanks

**PhantomPhreak53** · 09-30-2010, 11:40 PM

I have got very sporaticsporatic 4G in Walnut Creek and in Pleasanton. I will be in San Francisco tomorrow so I hope to see it.

**saleen2002** · 10-01-2010, 03:40 PM

yeah i just saw there was some in wc and spots....i hope they move it east some very soon. id really like to get it at my house!!

**PhantomPhreak53** · 10-02-2010, 11:25 AM

I was in San Francisco yesterday and had a very spotty 4G signal. I ran the speed test but then I realized the Speed Test Server was set to Kansas. Whoops!

**saleen2002** · 10-19-2010, 06:55 PM

spotty 4g in walnut creek. i got 5600 and 2k . not bad. cant wait till its everywhere.

**imtravis** · 10-20-2010, 01:25 AM

Originally Posted by saleen2002

spotty 4g in walnut creek. i got 5600 and 2k . not bad. cant wait till its everywhere.

Nice, I work in WC...
btw- From the name, you have a 2002 Saleen??

**saleen2002** · 10-20-2010, 08:13 PM

i did.now its an 01 gt. well for now at least.

**milominderbinde** · 10-22-2010, 03:10 PM

Sensorly is showing that a load of new 4G towers have come online in the past two months in the bay area. Sprint seems to be giving more love here than almost anywhere...