4g lte is fast!

[joshwithachance]

The "bars" display on your GS3 does not reflect your 4G LTE signal strength, only the 1x signal strength (for voice, etc.).

I did NOT know that! Thanks for posting
Also, is there a way to have the phone say "LTE" instead of "4G"?

 

[NewYorkChic]

For New York to be a big city, we sure get things last!! But I can hold on, my 3G works great

 

[paga912]

Me either...I heard its coming "in the coming months" lol

 

[mc_gusto]

Don't forget to use sensorly to report your lte coverage. You can also see where other people are catching 4g in Boston.

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[efyoiphone]

I live out in La Place. Sprint's network went down but I was able to use my phone roaming on Verizon's network during Isaac. NOLA is on the list for the next rollout. Hopefully LTE will reach far enough out for me to get a taste of it.

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[jimmiekain]

I'm picking my Galaxy S3 up tomorrow... I hope we get LTE soon. Live about 45 minutes from Los Angeles in San Bernardino County. I think sprint calls it the Riverside / San Bernardino market. I havent seen them announce anything about my market yet but we got Wimax about 2 months after the Evo 4g came out and they never announced it.

 

[boomerbubba]

I'm picking my Galaxy S3 up tomorrow... I hope we get LTE soon. Live about 45 minutes from Los Angeles in San Bernardino County. I think sprint calls it the Riverside / San Bernardino market. I havent seen them announce anything about my market yet but we got Wimax about 2 months after the Evo 4g came out and they never announced it.

Wimax was done by Clearwire, and the LTE project is not at all comparable. And hope is just that.

According to the schedule projection at S4GRU.com, which has the most throrough information about the Sprint LTE rollout, the "Anticipated Launch" date for this market is April 2013, and Anticipated Completion" date is October 2013. Deciding whether you can live with that wait is up to you.

 

[jimmiekain]

@boomerbubba

Damn! that blows... Anybody know how I can find out if 3g will be improved in my area any time soon?

:'(

 

[boomerbubba]

@boomerbubba

Damn! that blows... Anybody know how I can find out if 3g will be improved in my area any time soon?

:'(

The best guess, in general, is that 3G speeds should improve at about the same time LTE service rolls out. The primary reason 3G speeds are slow in most places is the overloaded backhaul of Sprint's legacy network, which has to be upgraded big time to support LTE. It is all part of Sprint's Network Vision project, which is a complete rebuild of the entire network, and nationally the project will not fully complete until early 2014. The frustrating fact of life is that some areas will get upgraded sooner than others. If you want to understand and track all this stuff, go join S4GRU.com and read everything.

The only other thing that might help your 4G service is the possiblity of some "band-aid" upgrades of the legacy Sprint network, which sometimes are occurring in parallel with the larger project.

 

[Sehtam]

So far Sprint has set up LTE all around the state of Oklahoma, but Wimax never came here either. who knows?

 

[web0rama]

I'm in Framingham. No signs of 4g here yet. Although the ham was listed on the rollout site list, it gives me hope. Where exactly is the 4g icon?

are you sure you have the lte antenna turned on?

settings > more settings > mobile network > network mode > LTE/CDMA (mine came with only CDMA checked)