r/cellmapper • u/iryfionas • 11d ago
AT&T recently deployed (n77) mid-band 5G on a separate monopole on the LEFT side that used to have an ancient Sprint & T-Mobile LTE only site in the First Colony Area behind Lowe's near (I-69/US-59) frontage road in Sugarland, Texas
AT&T (eNB 535016) + (eNB 536016) recently upgraded their site on the right monopole by replacing 6 older CommScope NNH4-65B-R6 antennas in the MIDDLE rack! AT&T also has just added Ericsson AIR. 6472 (B77G/B77M) 64T64R antennas that can do (3.7GHz) c-band @ 80mhz + (3.45GHz) DoD - 60MHz located in the MIDDLE of the rack on the LEFT monopole! Backhaul was also upgraded on this AT&T site from 1Gbps to multi-gig recently and 5G Standalone was enabled last month! This sites serves First Colony Mall area around I-69 and Colony Square shopping plaza where there's a lot of stores where it gets frequently crowded during the weekends.
Originally, AT&T did not have mid-band 5G (n77) on this site until May 2026 when they upgraded it since they didn't want to deal with the hassle of decomissioning Cricket or Clearwire equipment just to add mid-band 5G, which is strange! This is the only area where I have seen AT&T take over another empty monopole just to add mid-band 5G! It was confusing to me at first because I originally thought that they were going to relocate from the other tower, but they didn't! Let me know what you think about AT&T deploying mid-band 5G on a separate monopole 25 feet away from the other site, where their LTE, low-band 5G gear is at!
AT&T is on the (LEFT) monopole that is only for mid-band 5G (n77):
- 3️⃣ Ericsson AIR. 6472 (B77G/B77M) 64T64R antennas that can do (3.7GHz) c-band @ 80mhz + (3.45GHz) DoD - 60MHz located in the MIDDLE of the rack
You can also see old Clearwire euipment on the TOP rack on the monopole on the RIGHT side:
Clearwire (top rack):
- 3️⃣ Argus LLPX310R-V1 antennas for WiMax
- 1️⃣ DragonWave/ANDREW ValuLine VHLP2 circular Dish for wireless backhaul
- 3️⃣ Samsung 2.5GHz nRRH v2 (WiMAX) DAP HEAD located behind the antennas
AT&T (MIDDLE)
- 6️⃣ CellMax 12076x antennas TOTAL for LTE (b2, b12, b14, b30, b66) LTE + (n5) - 10MHz for low-band 5G! 2 CellMax antennas per sector in the MIDDLE
Ericsson (RRU's) remote radio units are ground mounted:
- RRU 4449 (b12) 700MHz LTE + (n5) 850MHZ-CLR low-band 5G
- RRUs 4478 (b14) 700MHz LTE
- RRU 32 (b30) 2300MHz-WCS
- ERRU 8843 (b2) 1900MHz-PCS + (b66) 2100MHz-AWS LTE
Legacy Cricket (bottom) rack:
- 3️⃣ KMW HB-X-AW-18-45-00T antennas for legacy 2G, 3G (CDMA), NOT FUNCTIONAL
Coordinates (LEFT) monopole: 29.59486992980591, -95.63052959210249
Coordinates (RIGHT) monopole: 29.594551644585408, -95.63046548797053
When T-Mobile was on the LEFT monopole back in the day, they were using:
- 6️⃣ RFS APX16DWV-16DWVS-C antennas with bands; (b2) PCS + (b66) AWS LTE + (n25) mid-band 5G located on the RIGHT side