Austin 4G WiMax Coverage

Austiniter · Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 6:19 pm Post subject: Austin 4G WiMax Coverage

I live in Northwest Austin and I'm very dissapointed with the 4G WiMax service currently offered residents here in Austin. This is very very poor type service for a carrier to implement in a new market. I'm in fact taking my card back for a refund and will just thether to my Sprint phone for notebook internet access. I'd recommend others sit back 6 months wait, maybe the carrier will get a hint they need to really fix their network in Austin before customers will come. :evil:

jfstx12 · 4G Newbie Joined: 25 Sep 2009 Posts: 7

The totally didn't focus west at all. You think they would have tried to at least get some of the Lakeway business. Nope. They better expand quick in Austin or it will be a waste of money for them!!!

sidsub · Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 6:11 pm Post subject: Re: 35 area only

jfstx12 · 4G Newbie Joined: 25 Sep 2009 Posts: 7

they still seem to be slow going. they really should have covered all of Austin proper off the bat. I think they have the potential in Texas to really add subs if they expand fast and far out enough

Osage4g · 4G Fledgling Joined: 08 Dec 2009 Posts: 11

Excuse me, Ausinator, but your complaint, valid as it may be is not the lesson I want to take away regarding the superior technology that 4G is.

All this tell me is that current Sprint deployment of 4G lacks the sufficient range to reach your location in North Austin. That may or may not change over time as it tells us all that Sprint will either have to add new cell phone
towers to reach you, or leave you in the class of the have nots. So you may be reduced to hoping that Sprints adds new cell phone towers while you are wise to quit subsidizing Sprint for service not delivered meanwhile.

But it tells me something else in my location where 4G of any kind is not yet an option. Namely that LTE that uses a lower frequency may offer the superior range.

jfstx12 · 4G Newbie Joined: 25 Sep 2009 Posts: 7

my co-worker's girlfriend works for sprint. He said that they are activating a tower near southwest parkway and hwy 71. I wonder how much coverage that will extend to the western parts of Austin?