Sprint street level coverage maps coming soon

[larry]

In about one month or less Sprint will finally get the T-Mobile/Cingular type of street level coverage maps according to sources inside Sprint.

[TelcomJunkie]

Finally! Though I can tell you most of the coverage area in the San Fernando Valley and Santa Clarita off the top of my head

[larry]

Originally Posted by RobertF

Finally! Though I can tell you most of the coverage area in the San Fernando Valley and Santa Clarita off the top of my head

Speaking of Santa Clarita I hear Sprint finally added a new site near Valencia Blvd and the 5 freeway. That area has suffered from poor indoor coverage for years.

[Tadlock2699]

Originally Posted by larry

In about one month or less Sprint will finally get the T-Mobile/Cingular type of street level coverage maps according to sources inside Sprint.

WOW! Thanks for the info Larry I've been wondering when something like this would become available for Sprint users. Seems like their coverage maps have always been lacking in some way IMO. T-Mobile has had this type of map for quite some time now, wonder what's been stopping Sprint?

[larry]

Sprint put out those tower location maps instead but those turned out to be not very useful and plus they rarely ever updated them.

[Tadlock2699]

Originally Posted by larry

Sprint put out those tower location maps instead but those turned out to be not very useful and plus they rarely ever updated them.

It baffles me why they wouldn't update them. Honestly...because isn't there ALWAYS something to update?

[Yankees368]

Originally Posted by Tadlock2699

It baffles me why they wouldn't update them. Honestly...because isn't there ALWAYS something to update?

Updating these maps (which sprint even wrongly has it labelled as "wi-fi maps" would cost money and make customers like me happy. Sprint isnt in to that very much.

[larry]

Originally Posted by Tadlock2699

It baffles me why they wouldn't update them. Honestly...because isn't there ALWAYS something to update?

Yes. New towers are added at least every month in just about every major metro area. So the maps should be updated about once a month. The last update came in March 2005.

[Tadlock2699]

Originally Posted by larry

Yes. New towers are added at least every month in just about every major metro area. So the maps should be updated about once a month. The last update came in March 2005.

Yankee= Contrary to some belief's, *horrible english* Sprint does care about their customers. At least, they care about me :p

Larry= Wow. They're more than a year old. NIICCEEE.

[larry]

What else would be nice is if they also show future coverage improvement locations as well. But we can't everything can we?

[Tadlock2699]

Originally Posted by larry

What else would be nice is if they also show future coverage improvement locations as well. But we can't everything can we?

HA! Most definietely not. I do however throughly enjoy Cingular and T-Mobile's coverage maps. I hope Sprint doesn't crap out on us and make ours somehow inferior :-D. Optimism..no? :-D

[larry]

Originally Posted by Tadlock2699

HA! Most definietely not. I do however throughly enjoy Cingular and T-Mobile's coverage maps. I hope Sprint doesn't crap out on us and make ours somehow inferior :-D. Optimism..no? :-D

Yeah like not being able to zoom in as far.

By the way September 17th is the date for the launch of the maps.

[Andy]

Thanks for sharing that date, larry. Can't wait to see those maps.

[SmArTeStChIlD421]

do you know if Sprint will make them decent right away or are they gonna be like Cingular's where City and closer are gonna be bad until they get field agents to actually test the coverage.....

do you know what the companies could do.......the could give "compensation to people like us who actually enjoy doing something like this.......paying us to drive around and test out coverage and give them details to make their map better.....Cingular could definitely use it....

im not sure how Sprint's maps are gonna turn out so we'll see when theyre here

[walkguru]

Originally Posted by larry

In about one month or less Sprint will finally get the T-Mobile/Cingular type of street level coverage maps according to sources inside Sprint.

hey thats really good. cait wait.

[Tadlock2699]

Originally Posted by larry

Yeah like not being able to zoom in as far.

By the way September 17th is the date for the launch of the maps.

Thank's Larry!

[noahm]

That's Awesome! They definately needed it.

[larry]

Originally Posted by SmArTeStChIlD421

do you know if Sprint will make them decent right away or are they gonna be like Cingular's where City and closer are gonna be bad until they get field agents to actually test the coverage.....

do you know what the companies could do.......the could give "compensation to people like us who actually enjoy doing something like this.......paying us to drive around and test out coverage and give them details to make their map better.....Cingular could definitely use it....

im not sure how Sprint's maps are gonna turn out so we'll see when theyre here

They're supposed to be more like T-Mobile's street level maps. Cingular's look overly optimistic.

[viewfly]

Originally Posted by larry

In about one month or less Sprint will finally get the T-Mobile/Cingular type of street level coverage maps according to sources inside Sprint.

That's good news. Wouldn't it be great if they were overlayed with Google Earth? Then one could get a feeling of mountain or building structure interference!