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Sprint street level coverage maps coming soon

Discussion in 'Sprint Forum' started by larry, Aug 31, 2006.

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  1. larry

    larry Sprint loyalist and former mod
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    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.
     
    #1 larry, Aug 31, 2006
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    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 :wink: :wink:
     
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  3. larry

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    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.
     
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    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?
     
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  5. larry

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    Sprint put out those tower location maps instead but those turned out to be not very useful and plus they rarely ever updated them.
     
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    It baffles me why they wouldn't update them. Honestly...because isn't there ALWAYS something to update?
     
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    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.
     
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  8. larry

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    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.
     
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    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.:loony:
     
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  10. larry

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    What else would be nice is if they also show future coverage improvement locations as well. But we can't everything can we? ;)
     
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    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
     
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    Yeah like not being able to zoom in as far.

    By the way September 17th is the date for the launch of the maps.
     
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    Thanks for sharing that date, larry. Can't wait to see those maps.
     
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    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 ;)
     
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    hey thats really good. cait wait.
     
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    Thank's Larry! :):cool:
     
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    That's Awesome! They definately needed it.
     
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    They're supposed to be more like T-Mobile's street level maps. Cingular's look overly optimistic.
     
    #18 larry, Sep 4, 2006
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    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!
     
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    that would be cool, wish everone would do that.
     
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    I'm very curious to see those maps.
     
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    will they come out on Nextel also?
     
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    Yes they will.
     
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    yay 4 sprint:) lol
     
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    That's good that they are also releasing the iDEN maps at the same time. It will be nice to compare both networks' street level maps in areas both cover and see the differences.
     
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    This will be excellent when they add the street level maps, I would then be able to see how coverage would be, since I have been thinking about porting over, and if it's like T-Mobiles then it would really be a bonus.

    Thanks for the update Larry & can't wait to hear when it's been implemented.
     
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    It's still in the development stage but here is the early link to the maps:

    http://coverage.sprintpcs.com/IMPACT.jsp
     
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    they are a little on the rough side but im sure they will improve.
     
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    I cant get it to zoom in at all...is that jsut me?
     
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    Ditto here, can't get past nationwide.
     
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