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Sprint Nextel 'Powers Up' New Jersey Coverage, Capacity

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  1. larry

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    Sprint Nextel 'Powers Up' New Jersey Coverage, Capacity to Its Wireless Networks with A More Than $81 Million Investment
    Significant network enhancements made throughout New Jersey as part of a $7 billion wireless and wireline investment nationwide


    Newark, NJ — 11/20/2006

    Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) today announced enhancements to both the Sprint PCS Nationwide Network and the Nextel National Network(SM) in the state of New Jersey with an investment of more than $81 million through the third quarter of 2006 with more to come before yearend. These extensive upgrades are the result of additional wireless cell sites and equipment being added to the networks, delivering additional coverage and network capacity to serve customers.


    This includes an investment of nearly $34 million in Northern New Jersey, almost $33 million in Central New Jersey and nearly $15 million in Southern New Jersey.

    "The Sprint Nextel network team is constantly looking for ways to improve the customer experience in New Jersey and throughout the country," said Maureen Link, area vice president for Sprint Nextel's New York Metro Area. "We strive to make our wireless service the best where our customers live, work and travel."

    The following is a detailed list of the New Jersey areas benefiting from these enhancements to the Sprint PCS Network:

    Northern New Jersey

    Alpha
    Cranford
    Elizabeth
    Garfield
    Harrison
    Jersey City
    Linden
    Livingston
    Mahwah
    Millburn
    Montclair
    Newark
    North Bergen
    Orange
    Parsippany
    Pequannock
    Roselle
    Rutherford
    Secaucus
    Verona
    Wayne
    Central New Jersey
    Brick
    Basking Ridge
    Beachwood
    Edison
    Montgomery
    Ocean
    Point Pleasant
    Wall

    Southern New Jersey

    Clementon
    Merchantville
    Somers Point
    Trenton

    The following is a detailed list of the areas benefiting from these enhancements to the Nextel Network:

    Northern New Jersey

    Edgewater
    East Rutherford
    Harrington Park
    Montclair
    Paterson
    Secaucus
    West Orange

    Central New Jersey

    Beachwood
    Brick
    Edison
    Manalapan
    North Brunswick
    Riverdale
    Roxbury
    South Brunswick
    Warren
    White House Station

    Southern New Jersey

    Atlantic City
    Burlington
    Cherry Hill
    Trenton

    "Sprint Nextel is committed to delivering the highest quality network coverage, and this is just one example of our never ending efforts to optimize our network performance to provide the best customer experience," Link said. "Customers in New Jersey can expect to see expanded network quality as we continue our efforts to enhance and improve their wireless experience with Sprint Nextel."

    Sprint Nextel plans to invest $7 billion in its wireless and wireline networks nationwide in 2006.

    Nextel National Network
    The Nextel National Network, one of the largest all-digital wireless networks in the United States, is based on the integrated digital enhanced network (iDEN) always-on technology, which provides the world's fastest and most efficient walkie-talkie service. More people use the Nextel National Network for walkie-talkie calls than any other such service in the world. In 2005, the Nextel Network carried more than 100 billion direct connect calls.



    About Sprint Nextel
    Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers, businesses and government users. Sprint Nextel is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including two robust wireless networks serving more than 51 million customers at the end of third quarter 2006; industry-leading mobile data services; instant national and international walkie-talkie capabilities; and an award-winning and global Tier 1 Internet backbone. For more information, visit www.sprint.com.

    http://www2.sprint.com/mr/news_dtl.do?id=14441
     
  2. jones

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    WOOOAAHHH, Sprint Finally Joining the
    PRESS RELEASE Bandwagon.
    Hey, if you can't Beat them Join them.
     
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    It's good to see a bunch of area's by me in the Sprint Network list, I guess the Nextel side didn't see a need to improve coverage in this area, but we need that badly.

    Hopefully by the end of the year, their next release will show some more needed Nextel coverage as well as Sprint coverage in this area of the State.

    Thanks for the post Larry.
     
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    Yep....we still have no Sprint signal at work and at home is miserable on both Sprint and Nextel. Verizon and Cingular continue to be the champions here....Neeext! ;)

    BTW, it sounds like Larry is our resident Sprint press release poster, much like TNDan is for Verizon and Jones is for Cingular. So who wants to volunteer for T-Mobile?
     
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    I thought Matt was taking care of that? ;)
     
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    Or we could bring back Aiwapro to do it. :D
     
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    I'm Surprised that (many) of the Nextel sites didn't end up with a Sprint Panel. (& vice/versa). There are many areas that would benifit from this, but they seem not to be doing this .............
     
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    They will. Give it some more time. 2007 will be the breakout year for that very thing. It's already happening all over the place here in So. Cal.
     
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    So they finally started doing that? I remember you talking about one instance of this a while back in the gallery, but nothing recently...but I haven't been on this forum a lot so maybe my fault. ;)
     
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    Yes it's in full swing now. A CDMA-added-to-IDEN synergy site just went up last night just 1.5 miles from my house. :)
     
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    Awesome...was coverage there weak or was that for capacity? I know that the site on the hill right behind your house greatly helped your neighborhod.
     
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    This one was for coverage only. In fact it's a repeater feeding off another site about 3/4 mile away. So they didn't need capacity in the area. There's a few shopping centers there and I think the indoor coverage was a little weak.

    Yes the site they put up on the hill by my neighborhood helped alot except that they linked it off the wrong NID. So incoming calls go to voicemail quite a bit because the neighborring site (which is No. 1 in the neighbor list for handoffs) is on a different NID.
     
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    They seriously need to do something similar here in NJ, Nextel has been so bad lately, I almost threw it under a car a few times this week, I know someone else that was going to throw theirs infront of the fire engines a few times.
     
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    Wow, that is awesome. Next time I go to Southern Cali I will bring along a Sprint phone to compare coverage- I wouldn't be surprised if they are better than Verizon in a lot of areas with all their improvements(even though with all fairness I have always been amazed at Verizon's coverage and quality in Southern Cali as well).
     
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    LOL! Good idea! :D

    What about throwing it just on fire? ;)
     
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    There are places where each carrier has the other beat here. The GSM carriers probably have the very best coverage here now because they just keep putting up so many cell sites in areas where they don't even really need them. But as long as the service works I don't think it really matters if you have 6 bars on a GSM phone or 5 bars on a CDMA phone. lol
     
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    With GSM carriers do you mean both T-Mobile and Cingular or just T-Mobile? Lol.

    Last I heard a business colleague with Cingular went to Los Angeles and surrounding area and his phone worked very poorly and he had a lot of problems.
     
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    VZW has 3, plus MeatChicken and Andy84094
    So we may Need 3 for each Carrier.
     
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    Correct, Cingular in the Los Angeles area is horrible. The old ATTWS network here wasn't good and that's the one they kept. The old Cingular network that got sold off to TMobile was much better. In the LA area, I'd say the best coverage is between Verizon and Sprint, depending on your needs. In quite a few places Sprint is the only way to go and vice versa for Verizon. But from my experience, anywhere the GSM carriers have worked, one if not both CDMA carriers had excellent coverage.
     
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    I guess TM is the sole holdout then with the lack of press releases touting new coverage. If they ever do it, I'll be sure to pump them up :D
     
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    But the old ATTWS Network is 850 MHz
    Which has Better Building Penetration
    than 1900 MHz.
     
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    Irregardless newsie, it doesn't matter what frequency segment you're on if your original site spacing sucked and you never filled in the gap. They're having to bust their butt right now to fill in gaps that other networks filled in back in 1998. The fact of the matter is the original LA Cellular network wasn't too hot, when ATTWS bought it they never did much in terms of new site additions. Now that Cingular is using the ATTWS network, they're basically using a physical network from 1996.

    Sprint and TMobile are on 1900 and in the LA Market both of them well out perform the Cingular network.
     
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    I wish people wouldn't continually try to make those blanket, generalized statements about 800 Mhz having better building penetration. It all depends on how the network was build out and the cell site spacing. 1900 Mhz networks with the proper cell site spacing can have just as good or better penetration than that of an 800 Mhz system.
     
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    That is what I've heard too. I hear that the network is often overloaded and has tons of problems down there...doesn't surprise me, because one day Cingular decided to take all customers off the now T-Mobile network and put them on their own network. Is Cingular quick at filling in those coverage/capacity gaps? It seems like all that would take time, often years in this area...What are your thoughts?
     
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    You pretty much summed it up! They've been building a lot of new sites but they still have a long way to go. They'll get there, but right now in the LA market Verizon, Sprint and TMobile are the ones running strong.
     
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    However, Sprint is Weak in the East Coast.
     
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    Actually from a physics perspective, the wavelength of a 800 signal will have better penetration characteristics than that of a 1900 signal. It is simple science. That is probably the basis for such generic statements, because all things being equal, the 800 Mhz radio wave will penetrate better than the 1.9 Ghz wave.
     
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    You can say the same thing about any carrier, depending on WHERE on the EAST COAST you are talking about.
     
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    Like this is the Northeast Forum.
     
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    Of course we all know that. :rolleyes: But I don't think you can generalize that with all wireless networks because all things are not equal and it depends on cell site spacing. A well built 1900 Mhz network can have as good as or better penetration than an 800 Mhz network if the proper amount of cell sites are in place.
     

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