Sprint Nextel 'Powers Up' New Jersey Coverage, Capacity

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.

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Or we could bring back Aiwapro to do it.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

Of course we all know that. 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.