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Verizon LTE Coming to "a mess of cities and towns" Thursday

http://twitter.com/#!/VerizonWireless/status/59968063570837504
Anybody see a press release for this on where it is coming? I would love to see it in Springfield, MA! I doubt it though as I haven't seen it come on for "testing" as some other cities have.

Would love for Portland, OR to be one of them.

http://news.vzw.com/news/2011/04/pr2011-04-18.html

madzozs said:
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Hardly a "mess of new cities and towns". A mess to me would be 10-15+. Not 5...back to waiting I guess.

Stein357 said:
Would love for Portland, OR to be one of them.
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I've seen a couple of postings that folks around here (Portland) have had 4G on and off over the past couple weeks. Was in a VZW corporate store (Bridgeport) the other day and the tech person noted that it had been on and off lately--she assumed for testing.
It's been on at PDX for sometime, as I'm sure you know. I hope the signal spreads to SW of the city where I am.

inzandity said:
Hardly a "mess of new cities and towns". A mess to me would be 10-15+. Not 5...back to waiting I guess.
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I don't think that's it. Expect to see the vast majority of cities from the initial update to the LTE coverage list (not this most recent one) receive their connectivity on Thursday. And expect a lot more of those mini-press releases. They'll probably do one for each major area that gets 4G LTE turned on.
edit: Like I said, they've already got two more tweets up with areas that are getting it, plus two more mini-press releases.

sc4fpse said:
I don't think that's it. Expect to see the vast majority of cities from the initial update to the LTE coverage list (not this most recent one) receive their connectivity on Thursday. And expect a lot more of those mini-press releases. They'll probably do one for each major area that gets 4G LTE turned on.
edit: Like I said, they've already got two more tweets up with areas that are getting it, plus two more mini-press releases.
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Yeah I saw that...i keep refreshing my twitter feed waiting for MA to show
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Come to Utah 4g
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inzandity said:
Yeah I saw that...i keep refreshing my twitter feed waiting for MA to show
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Flint, MI, my home town, is one of the cities on that initial list I referred to. I have a feeling they'll light it up on Thursday, which is the same day I'm heading home for Easter. I'm gonna have to come up with some money for a Thunderbolt quick, haha.
I'm really curious to see what kind of LTE signal strength I get at my home, though. Currently, I get an average of 1 bar of signal strength on 3G. In one corner of my upstairs bedroom, 2 bars. Downstairs there are dead zones everywhere (including for voice. Mom still doesn't understand that she needs to stay in one place when she calls me on her cell phone from home, or else I can't hear her!). My understanding is that 4G LTE has a bit more range to it than 3G, and that you'll still get decent transfer rates when you have low signal strength due to the different way LTE sends data packets. I really hope I can finally get some decent data speeds at my house now.

I wonder what the I-78 corridor is, does that mean they are covering the highway between the 3 cities? Because I thought they were covering the whole area of the cities so it would be one big blob. The only other meaning I can infer is that they plan to cover I-78 for the extra 15-20 miles or so from easton to where their NYC coverage runs out. I guess we'll see exactly what happens on the 21st, I can't wait.

Come on austin, TX....
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They have been tweeting each new press release.
http://twitter.com/#!/VerizonWireless
Come on Sioux Falls

No Tucson?
Lame.

Man, talk about lame...
Columbia and Hilton Head get it, but I'm in Charleston

They dont have any sites in virginia. Northern va is part of the dc area and bristol is part of the bristol tenn area. So they have a very long freaking way to go here.
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xgonzox said:
Come to Utah 4g
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for real. I am in southern utah. At least I get 4g when I go to vegas.

Still no Little Rock, W.T.F.

Test in MOBILE, AL. "_BLAZING FAST_"
Test Date: Apr 18, 2011 1:42:46 pm
Connection Type: Cell
Download: 9.33 Mbps
Upload: 34.17 Mbps
Ping: 137 ms
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surreaL1st said:
Man, talk about lame...
Columbia and Hilton Head get it, but I'm in Charleston
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Pshh Columbia and Hilton Head who in the heck lives in Hilton Head i figured Greenville SC would get it before Columbia because Greenville is a major Market area

lol been on in the Lehigh Valley for 3 weeks now. Funny

4G in Milwaukee!!

Just got 4g turned up, I'm in Milwaukee WI!!! I'm in West Allis, a suburb of Milwaukee, about 10 minutes west of downtown.
It's faster by speed test than my cablemodem. how f'd is that?!

gsxr1kmatt said:
It's faster by speed test than my cablemodem. how f'd is that?!
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Ha ha yeah. It is. So far the only speeds that match it is Fios (and docsis3.0 speeds). but they don't have that everywhere.

I guess I should clarify.. I dont give a crap about anything faster than 5mb down...it's upload speeds that matter to me.
Cablemodem speeds. Road Runner btw
T-bolt.

This is GREAT NEWS!! I live in Racine ...just south of Milwaukee wonder if this means we will have it soon?! I work in Zion ,Ill and have 4g there. Anyways ...thanks for the heads up!

Ohh wow. That upload is slower than my dsl.
I wish ISPs would start focusing on upload speeds too. With all this talk about cloud computing and certain ISPs providing like 50GB of online backup space, you'd think we can get a decent upload speed.

gsxr1kmatt said:
Just got 4g turned up, I'm in Milwaukee WI!!! I'm in West Allis, a suburb of Milwaukee, about 10 minutes west of downtown.
It's faster by speed test than my cablemodem. how f'd is that?!
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That's great news! Unfortunately I'm not seeming to pick up a signal and I'm in Brown Deer (northern milwaukee county). I will have to try when I go closer to downtown tonight. Are you getting a consistent signal or was it only for a bit? I don't believe anything has been announced yet.
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Tosa was turned on today! I noticed Cudahy had it when I was there Sunday. That was surprising....

potcryan said:
That's great news! Unfortunately I'm not seeming to pick up a signal and I'm in Brown Deer (northern milwaukee county). I will have to try when I go closer to downtown tonight. Are you getting a consistent signal or was it only for a bit? I don't believe anything has been announced yet.
All of downtown, the third ward, and the airport have had it for at least the few weeks that I've had my TB. I dropped my wife off at the airport a couple weeks ago at around 5am. Pulled 28.8, 25, and 22 DL on separate tries. I picked her up in the afternoon the next day and got 10-15 DL. Very impresssed.
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I'm deeper into the city, not far from miller park and still not getting a signal. Do you guys have your phones set to CDMA/LTE auto or just straight LTE mode? I want my 4glte!
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There has been 4g in Milwaukee since the tb was released. It has been my experience that it goes west about to 35th and south to around College. I do occasionally get 4g going more south and west but it seems to be strongest in dt Milwaukee.

i'm in Waukesha. Considering buying this phone.

P-funk_droid said:
This is GREAT NEWS!! I live in Racine ...just south of Milwaukee wonder if this means we will have it soon?! I work in Zion ,Ill and have 4g there. Anyways ...thanks for the heads up!
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Cool, I live in Racine too!

4G is trash...at least for me...I live in Greenfield and even in strong areas of 4G coverage I cannot complete a single large download...tried different handsets, SIM cards, ROMs and radios...it's the towers.
Not impressed and wish I kept my Droid Incredible

Congrats I noticed 4G working in Green Bay about a month ago, if I member correctly I was drinking a lil so got more excited than I should of
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Speaking of LTE in Milwaukee...
Either a lot more are running on the LTE now in Milwaukee, or the radio's in our LTE phones are being capped. I've been noticing some pretty bad performance some days. Even with full strength, only pulling 2mbps down yet 13mbps up..

I sure hope 4G spreads all the way between Green Bay and Milwaukee someday - I am about halfway between the two cities and really wanting that extra G! Lol
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I'm kinda SOL when it comes to ANY stable data at house.
I live in semi-rural area of Racine, and my house is almost a Verizon dead spot.
I can sit in my house and only get 1-3 bars of 3G, and maybe 1.2mbps down at MAX.
However I can walk to either edge of my 8 acre property and pick up the LTE, and get 1-2 bars and pull 5-10mbps.

Same here but I live in the city of Milwaukee
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[Q] 3g/4G Coverage in Midwest

Hi all,
How is the Verizon/Thunderbolt 3G/4G experience in the Midwest? In particular, MN, IA, WI, IL, MO, MI, OH? Do you think it's a viable option for Voice & Mobile broadband needs for a traveling sales rep in the Midwest territory considering battery life and 3G/4G coverage in the area? Please share your experience...
Thanks

Although I don't get to Ohio much, I can vouch for the rest of the states. Coverage is excellent with a few exceptions.
SE Missouri is garbage. 1X still works pretty good...128k or so. You won't be stranded, but don't expect to be surfing the internets at light speed.
NE Missouri and far Northwestern Illinois (Quad Cities area) is about the same. I forget the details, but some other carrier has a corner on the market up there and won't lease towers to VZW.
Same deal as above in far NW Missouri and SW Iowa. I think it's ALLTel up there.
Not much coverage from anyone in northern WI or MI.
To be honest, Big red has the best coverage, by far, of any carrier period. I've used them all and keep coming back.
4G is great where you get it. (St. Louis, Chicago, Twin Cities, Central Ohio) To be perfectly honest though, I live in St. Louis, and generally have my 4G off. It's too hard on the battery even where you have fantastic signal. I still get 1.5 Mbps on 3G and get double the use out of my phone. For normal use, this is plenty fast enough.

I live in Wheaton which is a west suburb of Chicago. Speeds are good. I usually get about 5-6 mbps down. Speeds in the city are fantastic though. I get about 15 mbps at my girlfriend's place in the West Loop.

setk said:
Hi all,
How is the Verizon/Thunderbolt 3G/4G experience in the Midwest? In particular, MN, IA, WI, IL, MO, MI, OH? Do you think it's a viable option for Voice & Mobile broadband needs for a traveling sales rep in the Midwest territory considering battery life and 3G/4G coverage in the area? Please share your experience...
Thanks
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Whoever designated MN, IA, WI, IL, MO, MI, OH the midwest had never looked at a map.
Here is to hoping we get 4G in the "true" midwest of the country.
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If your worried about battery life and stable connection the tbolt isn't for you, at this time. Try Droid X, Blackberry, or dare I say an iPhone. LTE is still a work in progress.

rmoffitt321 said:
Whoever designated MN, IA, WI, IL, MO, MI, OH the midwest had never looked at a map.
Here is to hoping we get 4G in the "true" midwest of the country.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States

Thanks for the replies. I think we're going to stay away from 4G for now and wait til bugs see worked out and battery life is better.
Thanks

gatewayad said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States
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Thanks, gate. ;->

00negative said:
If your worried about battery life and stable connection the tbolt isn't for you, at this time. Try Droid X, Blackberry, or dare I say an iPhone. LTE is still a work in progress.
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Oh no, not the iPhone! Back to the trusty old BB. I find it still the easiest to manage in a corporate environment.

setk said:
Hi all,
How is the Verizon/Thunderbolt 3G/4G experience in the Midwest? In particular, MN, IA, WI, IL, MO, MI, OH? Do you think it's a viable option for Voice & Mobile broadband needs for a traveling sales rep in the Midwest territory considering battery life and 3G/4G coverage in the area? Please share your experience...
Thanks
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If you don't stray too far from the interstate corridors, 3G was fine between my home in Lafayette, IN to eastern Ohio on my trip 2 weeks ago. Western MD on into WV might as well be a 3rd word country - no 3G at all. Not even in Morgantown near the university.
4G in Lafayette and eastern Columbus, OH. Supposedly also around Cinci. Got a brief taste of 4G on the east side of Indy last week when they apparently were testing it, but not since. Lafayette rep said by fall there will be 4G from Indy to Lafayette and everywhere in between. Can't help you with southern IN, since I haven't been there since I came back from AT&T.

Lima, Ohio LTE testing

It appears as if Lima, Ohio will be soon joining the 4G parade.
a test deployment for over an hour and half went out last night. It popped in and out from about 1250 to 230 am.
to be noted, 3g speeds are currently ridiculously fast, reading 1667 dl/831 ul as tested by speedtest.

Your in west ohio right I'm in northeast ohio the youngstown/warren area and we haven't seen a nitch.
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brisdaddy1207 said:
Your in west ohio right I'm in northeast ohio the youngstown/warren area and we haven't seen a nitch.
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yes, NW Ohio, about 70 miles south of Toledo.
I know they are looking to expand Columbus and Cinci on Aug 18, maybe they will launch us then.
/waiting game

Dayton is covered too. And so is Bowling Green. And Fostoria of all places!

loonatik78 said:
Dayton is covered too. And so is Bowling Green. And Fostoria of all places!
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yes, the head of LTE deployment is a Buckeye fan
as for Fo-town, yes...perplexing, but I'm sure all the 4G phones sold there are bulletproof

obededom said:
yes, the head of LTE deployment is a Buckeye fan
as for Fo-town, yes...perplexing, but I'm sure all the 4G phones sold there are bulletproof
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Hmmm... It does seem Ohio has the best LTE coverage by percent than just about any other state. It's almost hard to avoid it now.

So far nothing for Newark.
Though Lancaster and all these other places have it around. Kinda ticks me off a little.
Ohio was more or less a test ground for 3G. When a lot of the 3G came out it was Nortel equipment as they had exclusive rights for verizon towers early on.

I just wish they would turn up the power in Toledo. I'm in Michigan and the damn signal dies about 200 yards from the house. Even on the Verizon map it shows where it dies and it is about spot on.

I live in NE Ohio in on the outskirts South East of the Cleveland 4G area. According to VZW map, I'm considered "extended 4G". I've owned the phone since launch and have never seen 4G in my home until this morning. It's been twelve hours now and I still have it. They must have cranked up something around Cleveland and Akron.

London ohio has 4g
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Dangit! I have mine on CDMA only and was wondering why I was stuck on 1x last night.
Where in town did you have it?

Dilpickle1 said:
Where in town did you have it?
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I'm north of Lima, Cairo area
last night, I'm hearing reports of 4g being tested 3am - 4am

obededom said:
I'm north of Lima, Cairo area
last night, I'm hearing reports of 4g being tested 3am - 4am
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I'm south of Lima.. Cridersville Area. Did you have it in cairo? Would love 4g to actually cover the whole town.

Well they must be screwing with something. I have NO data right now lol. I live just 4 miles west of Lima.

obededom said:
I'm north of Lima, Cairo area
last night, I'm hearing reports of 4g being tested 3am - 4am
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Did you actually have LTE in Cario or did you just hear about it?
My data coverage has been sporadic for the past few days North of you in Ottawa. It would be awesome if Ottawa and Cario was included in the Lima market.

yutzybrian said:
Well they must be screwing with something. I have NO data right now lol. I live just 4 miles west of Lima.
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I'm in the cridersville area and I currently have two bars of LTE.

to confirm and clarify...yes, I'm just east of Cairo and I had a strong 4G signal...for little awhile
good to see so may dudes in my backyard up in here. Peace out bros

We're not officially on until August 18th but I can tell you that pretty much the entire city of Memphis has been on since August 5th.
We'll all be lit up on August 18th though.
It's about damn time!

CanesDrew said:
We're not officially on until August 18th but I can tell you that pretty much the entire city of Memphis has been on since August 5th.
We'll all be lit up on August 18th though.
It's about damn time!
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11:55pm on Wednesday and I have two bars of LTE... again.

This is the 4th night they have been testing that I have seen dating back to July 27th. They have been more frequent in the past week. Lima is in the express lane for lte bc our area is tops in the country when it comes to vzw concenration and sales in data related products.

no 4g love in virginia

am i the only one who wonders why Verizon has added no lte to Virginia...not VA beach Richmond or north VA...any idea why?

There is 4g in Richmond, and DC I believe. I was at Busch Gardens yesterday and I had 4G. After the tunnel 4G died.

Shoot I'm in northeast Ohio and we have none. My buddy lives in chesapeake Va actually on landing creek and he has natelos wireless if I spelled that right and said his phone speed is soo slow. I told him that Verizon should have LTE there, but I guess I was bullshing LOL. Oh well.
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/me builds you a tower
did you complain to Verizon yet? That would be more effective.

Northern VA & DC have 4G. Richmond has spotty 4G. Richmond is supposed to be complete by October 1st...
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duckwizzle said:
There is 4g in Richmond, and DC I believe. I was at Busch Gardens yesterday and I had 4G. After the tunnel 4G died.
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4g in bg cool I will be there soon I will have to check it out, by the tunnel you referring to the hbbt? I
Wonder why verizon has so much 4g that is not marked on their coverage map?
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really? I was at Busch gardens on Saturday, and not only did I not have 4g, I barely had 3g.

Richmond VA has 4G mainly in Mechanicsville and the VCU area. Spoty in the North Highland Park area and the West End is straight 3G (although the West End got a glimpse of 4G for a day around the end of July)
In Northern VA it stops at around Woodbridge, a little spoty in Dale City however. Not sure how far west but I do believe Leesburg, Ashburn and Sterling all have 4G. If the person above is right who said Richmond would be complete around October, then it shouldn't be long after for Fredericksburg to be upgraded as well as its the mid way point between DC and Richmond on I-95.
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baronmxc said:
Richmond VA has 4G mainly in Mechanicsville and the VCU area. Spoty in the North Highland Park area and the West End is straight 3G (although the West End got a glimpse of 4G for a day around the end of July)
In Northern VA it stops at around Woodbridge, a little spoty in Dale City however. Not sure how far west but I do believe Leesburg, Ashburn and Sterling all have 4G. If the person above is right who said Richmond would be complete around October, then it shouldn't be long after for Fredericksburg to be upgraded as well as its the mid way point between DC and Richmond on I-95.
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All info about 4G being completed by October 1 was from a Verizon employee. He seemed like he knew a thing or two about all this.

I'm from Virginia too about 2hours away from Richmond and there's no 4g so like why even have a 4g phone
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im in between Los Angeles and San Diego and no 4G here on the beach... yet most of Los Angeles and San Diego have 4G.
Verizon is supposed to do another big 4G expansion on the 15th of this month so hopefully we're all included this time.

coolguy540 said:
I'm from Virginia too about 2hours away from Richmond and there's no 4g so like why even have a 4g phone
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I guess the real question is why buy a 4g phone if you don't have 4g coverage in your area???

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In Northern VA it stops at around Woodbridge, a little spoty in Dale City however. Not sure how far west but I do believe Leesburg, Ashburn and Sterling all have 4G.
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Going west on Rt. 7 or the Dulles Greenway, 4G drops out in the middle of Ashburn, and unfortunately does not reach Leesburg and towns west at this time. And at the point you lose 4G, there is a dead period of about 30 seconds or so with no network connection at all, so something isn't working quite right in the network handoff to 3G. I've also lost voice calls during this tower transfer as well, though it's not as bad as it used to be.
Even in Sterling near Dulles Airport, 4G occasionally drops, but is generally reliable, although resetting the Network Mode on the phone's settings is sometimes necessary to get 4G there when traveling from a 3G area. Probably due to it being a border region.

baronmxc said:
Richmond VA has 4G mainly in Mechanicsville and the VCU area. Spoty in the North Highland Park area and the West End is straight 3G (although the West End got a glimpse of 4G for a day around the end of July)
In Northern VA it stops at around Woodbridge, a little spoty in Dale City however. Not sure how far west but I do believe Leesburg, Ashburn and Sterling all have 4G. If the person above is right who said Richmond would be complete around October, then it shouldn't be long after for Fredericksburg to be upgraded as well as its the mid way point between DC and Richmond on I-95.
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I turned on my 4g around VCU today. I can confirm that it works.

I drove through the western tip of Virginia this weekend (around Rt 23/Interstate 26) and probably obvious to anyone that knows the geography of Virginia, there is no LTE there. I can't even remember if they have 3g there, haha. I don't recall any LTE until you hit either Charlotte, NC or Greenville, SC heading south and nothing until Columbus, OH or Cincinnati, OH heading north.

Blacksburg and Christiansburg have had total 4G coverage for over a month now, since before the semester started.
It seems like places with high profile athletic teams are getting most of this current expansion wave. Blacksburg was probably an ideal market for stress testing because the towns population triples when the students return, and then almost doubles again during football games.

ece4free said:
Blacksburg and Christiansburg have had total 4G coverage for over a month now, since before the semester started.
It seems like places with high profile athletic teams are getting most of this current expansion wave. Blacksburg was probably an ideal market for stress testing because the towns population triples when the students return, and then almost doubles again during football games.
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I guess it is good for us here in Richmond that VCU went to the Final Four.

I believe he is telling the truth. I have seen a lot of Verizon workers at tower sites around Richmond lately.
EDIT: this was a response to ghstrdr1985's last response. The quote didn't go thru I guess.
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nrage23 said:
I guess it is good for us here in Richmond that VCU went to the Final Four.
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If only we had actually won...we might actually have 4G by now.

Richmond 4G Update: I noticed stronger 4G reception in the Highland Park area today. And parts of the West End are getting lit up but once you get to West Broad/ Parham Rd going towards Short Pump, it goes back to 3G.
Anyone from the Richmond area want to help make a 4G map? VZW does not have us on their planned 4G roll out for 2011 and there is no indication of 4G on their map even though VCU has had 4G for about 2 months now. This user created map will help visitors and others know where to expect 4G signals.
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