Tuesday, May 22, 2012

iDEN/Nextel Coverage Changes: Albuquerque, Phoenix, Tucson/Yuma, Oregon, Washington

Our normal Monday/Wednesday Update for iden tower decommissionings:

  • In preparation for Network Vision, Network Ops will continue decommissioning a number of existing iDEN towers throughout the country..

    • On the evening of 5/21/12, in the following markets: Albuquerque, Phoenix, Tucson/Yuma.

    • On the evening  of 5/23/2012, the following markets will experience coverage change: Inland Northwest, Oregon/ SW Washington, West Washington.



  • Tower decommission continues every Monday and Wednesday evening through June.


Network Vision:

  • Decommissioning eliminates excess capacity and has minimal customer impact.

  • Retuning/decommissioning towers WILL NOT shutdown the iDEN market service in 2012.

  • Customers who rely on in-building coverage near a decommissioned tower may experience in-building signal strength changes but street/in-car coverage should remain the same.

3 comments:

  1. i'm excited for the 2nd phase of LTE deployments. Portland, Oregon is on the list. Are we talking early 2013?

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  2. You know they should be more aggressive on killing off iDEN back in years ago, and offered upgrades to the PTT CDMA version. Could've freed all that spectrum for LTE

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  3. they tried..I was one of the early adopters with a Sanyo SCP 5500...but side by side with iDEN it couldnt compete

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