During its third quarter earnings call earlier today, Sprint said that LTE is currently being built out in more than 200 cities across the country, including the 115 cities in which LTE is expected to officially launch in the coming months. Additionally, it says that over 4,300 Network Vision sites, which include enhanced 3G and 4G LTE, are already on the air, and over 13,500 sites are now ready for construction.
Sprint had other cheery numbers to report as well, including more net subscriber additions (900,000 to be exact), more postpaid growth, and losses that were under previous analyst estimates. Combine that with its expected cash infusion from Softbank, and it looks like things are finally starting to turn around for the carrier.
Of course, all of this talk of LTE and Network Vision is just smoke and mirrors until people actually start seeing improvements in everyday use. But at least Sprint looks like it’s still on track.
[Sprint] Thanks, Bill!
providence RI is one of them!! woot woot!!
Can’t wait for Chicago to come on line.
Chicago should already be up and running. I get it in lots of places around the city and suburbs. Funny story though; My suburb has it all over, except in 2 subdivisions, one of which I happen to live in.
Yes, chicago does have it, I can second that. I have the galaxy nexus with LTE. dont ask me why I didnt get the evo 4g lte. DOnt even ask. But I stayed on michigan avenue about 3 miles from the downtown and it had it. I did a speed test and was dissapointed with it. it barely got to 4mb down and 6 up. And that was in the middle of the night when less people were on. in contrast I brought my evo 3d as well with wimax and it has down of close to 10mb and upload of 7. So needless to say I think I’ll be clinging to the 3d until lte comes around, 3g everywhere is dismal! but lte isnt all I thought it would be either.. blah.. at least its unlimited.
Yeah all but where I live we have just bad 3G that hardly works ! Not fast enough Sprint next time build the network and then sell the LTE phones.
I know I shouldn’t be excited about this but I just ran a 3G speedtest and got 0.90 Mbps down – probably the fastest I’ve had in well over a year!
-Santa Clara, CA
Where in Santa Clara? I’m working over by SCU…still maybe roughly 150-200kbps.
At least it’s not as bad as where I live in South SJ, I’m lucky to get 10-15kbps…no kidding!
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Also, I’m still on a modded PRL, Sprint’s service is so weak in my area that it’s not worth not roaming. Their Airrave is garbage and they didn’t offer a replacement to the one that would send 100+ texts whenever it felt like, so, this is my only option.
San Jose is getting LTE quite fast. Take a look at this map:
http://www.sensorly.com/map/4G/US/USA/Sprint/lte_310sprint#q=sjc
All the purple just showed up in the last 30 days and it’s growing day by day.
Caveat. When LTE first goes up, the cell site tends to go up and down for a few weeks while it’s getting tested, so some of these purple areas did have LTE at some recent point, and if they’re down, they should be back up again in a few days.
I totally hope that’s what’s happening in Nashville… about to have to get another cell phone just to use data.
According to this, theres lte in the bronx.. and its actually close to my house will have to make a trip down to HOE Avenue.. (i am not kidding thats where the lte is lmao!)
I have spent the past month in areas without signal, or with intermittent 3g cutouts, and mostly useless 3G.
Today I went to check in on FourSquare in Metrocenter in Nashville and no data connection was available… I was 1X for a while. Yesterday on West End same thing. I’m starting to feel like Sprint is shot in Nashville.
Blazing 3G download speeds of like 4-11K – WiMax is still amazing here, but man… 3G is shot
I’m having a similar experience with 3G here in North Hollywood, CA. 3G has been so bad that I can’t even watch a YouTube video most of the time. And when I’m here at home the constant search for a decent network connection sucks the life right out of my battery.
Very disappointed with Sprint right now, but I still have faith… and another year and a half on contract. Hopefully they impress me before time to consider the alternatives.
The joys of living in KC.
Connecticut didn’t even make the list! Pitiful!
And let me guess…Phoenix, AZ, one of the largest metropolitan areas in the country, STILL isn’t one of them! Woo Hoo! Thanks for nothing, Sprint, again!
At this pace, if they actually follow through, they might surpass AT&T in LTE availability.
Hoping to see improvement on 3g soon
Im glad to hear sprint is doing well; I might consider them back if they get lte up and running here in Raleigh Nc. At&t has lte here, and im getting an average of 10Mbs down. So for now, sailing the at&t boat.
Come on ohio
Come on AZ!
I was at Costco looking at the Galaxy 3 on AT&T the other night. It was showing “4G” which I believe is the HSPA+, not the LTE which just got lit up a month ago (and would have LTE on the status bar). I brought up my Flickr stream side by side with my Galaxy 2 on Sprint 3G and made them race; when I photo loaded, I’d tap the link to the next photo. After a run of 5-7 photos on AT&T to every one on Sprint, I stopped. Ran Speedtest and AT&T was 7 times faster. I am so done with Sprint and the endless string of lies, er, promises that better network performance was just another year away, so be patient, don’t cut it anymore.
BTW, I’m in suburban Detroit. Been paying the “EVO tax” for nearly 2-1/2 years and have been on 4G about 15 minutes in all that time. Sprint can bite me.
Yeah, the vision is a little fuzzy here in San Diego. Looking forward to the fix though. Bring us out of this haze.
Got a glimpse of 4g in L.A. for a few hours on Friday. Did some speed tests at 11pm with more than 15 mb down and 10 mb up.
It doesn’t matter what cities Sprint puts LTE in, if yours is not one of them, who cares. I bought the original EVO when it came out, and WIMAX never came to our city.
Woke up Saturday morning at 3am to get ready for work, looked at my phone, saw a 4g connection that wasn’t there before when I was at my house! There moving.