Voicestream in Buffalo - Rollout Progress?

Sounds like you were talking to Florida. That is Voicestreams worst calling center, remember their the ones that couldn't find the hole. The best in my opinion is Bethlaham PA. I always get good results there. I would give voicestream a call back or talk to a dealer in your area.

 

Jason,

I asked that exact question to a VS rep who trolls the yahoo finance board - I'll let you know if he replies.

 

Text I think Voicestream will have coverage in Buffalo/Rochester by 2004

 

There is now limited coverage in Rochester! A user reported it last night here

 

He may have used his other phone; since all the other carrier have service in this area...

 

I read a late-2001 press release that Voicestream was going to spend alot of money building up that area of New York. Maybe they put the money in another part of the state, or they have built the network up in that area and just haven't launched it.

 

I saw your review on usenet. Acutally, it is VS policy only to light up a limited number of sites for roaming use only, until the launch. The Cleveland towers have been up since december. All 22 of them. But we should not expect to see ANY more until the actual day of the launch. This comes from an engineer I know who is building them. This is the same as New Orleans launch was last year. Someone (Don Newcomb from usenet) was there the day before (maybe 2 days) and had nothing except for the same roaming towers. On Monday, it was all up. Not that I agree with it, but that's just how it seems to be......

So you can't judge contsruction, at least VS, by the number of sites.

 

matt

is there anyway that you can get me some more info on the voicestream rollout in cleveland. Aiwapro was able to use his voicestream phone in downtown cleveland (his home market is toledo) also they are supposed to have close to 300 towers in the area.
my main questions

Is September still the tenitive date?
Does the engineer that you know have a map of all the voicestream towers and will there be service all down I71 to connect cleveland to columbus

Very interested to know more.

Hope you can help

Jack

P.S. On a side note I wonder what cell services the engineers etc are using

 

P.S. On a side note I wonder what cell services the engineers etc are using

Great question.

 

Jack - I'll ask and let you know what I hear. The Engineer I email with uses VS - he is currently testing 6310i I think, recently had Samsung r225 for a while.

 

Let me add I'm sure he has access to the tower locations, but doubt he'd be able to share that info. I'll ask about the I-71 coverage. The 300 number is correct for the rollout.

 

Jack - I-71 will be covered as part of the Cleveland buildout. Erie is part of the Cleveland buildout, but may not be ready at the same time. I've also heard that the soft launch will hopefully be much than originally planned, but I don't know if I can share that or not. But it's good news nonetheless.

 

Do don't have to give details, but when you say "much than originally planned;" Do you mean that alot was originally planned or that alot wasn't originally planned.

 

OOPS! I missed a word, "earlier" - corrected version is:

"I've also heard that the soft launch will hopefully be much earlier than originally planned, but I don't know if I can share that or not."


I can't say anything else. sorry. There are no guarantees - it's "hopefully"

 

That sounds alot better, you don't have to say anything else. I understand it now.

 

Matt

Please find out if you can share that information.

are we talking soon or really soon

Jack

 

Jack, I cannot say. Sorry. It's not tomorrow, (wow- already May!) but it's not September either. Perhaps (probably) as it gets closer I'll be able to say, but since the date is not confirmed (they might not be ready in time - trying to get all the equipment in place) I have to keep quiet.

 

Jack, here's some more info from usenet (this is 100% reliable info, if you know what I mean )

From: robb
Date: Today, 6:53 AM
Also Posted To: alt.cellular.attws
In Response To: Re: Cleveland OH AWS/VST GSM Trip Report Yesterday, 9:44 PM by dr_rags
Top Message: Cleveland OH AWS/VST GSM Trip Report Sunday, 11:39 PM by Jason

Well, your close, there are 32 sites on the air in Cleveland,
Voicestream sites I mean to say. In the next 30 days you will see
another 70 or so go on, the sites are built as far as the civil's are
concerned, just waiting on site base station's to be delivered from
Nokia.....