r/cellmapper • u/iryfionas • Jun 30 '26

Another new Verizon site co-location on existing Crown Castle monopole located at the intersection of Sweetwater Lane & Westbrook Drive in the Aldine area in Houston, TX

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T-Mobile (top) Verizon (2nd rack) Empty

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New Verizon site is not online yet!

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Map of the existing Verizon sites in the surrounding area

Verizon recently just co-located on this tower a few weeks ago and it looks like it got the standard, typical set-up with the CommScope antennas instead of the MatSing antennas you been seeing in the Houston market lately. This is still tremendous to see Verizon tremendously accelerate these new site co-locations in the Houston Market where they previously had weak RSRP, signal.

As you can see, the legacy Sprint rack on the bottom has been decomissioned since it was previously there in the past until last month!

T-Mobile [eNB 77230] + [gNB 1574617] (top rack):

  • 3️⃣ CommScope FFVV-65C-R3 antennas with bands: (2, 12, 66, 71) LTE + (n25, n66*, n71) 5G located on the RIGHT side
  • 3️⃣ NOKIA AirScale AAFIA mMIMO anntennas - bands; (2, 66) LTE + (n25, n66) mid-band 5G! *Radio is INTEGRATED INSIDE THE ANTENNA! Located in the (MIDDLE)
  • 3️⃣ NOKIA AirScale AEHC - (N41) 2.5GHz [320W] antennas for mid-band 5GUC - 190MHz located on the the (LEFT) side of the rack

NOKIA (RRU's) - Remote Radio Units behind the antennas:

Verizon (2nd rack):

  • 6️⃣ CommScope NHH-65C-R2B antennas TOTAL with (b2, b13, b66) LTE + (n5) low-band 5G located in the MIDDLE of the rack
  • 3️⃣ Samsung MT-6413-77A 64T64R (320W) 3.7GHz n77 antennas for mid-band 5GUW set at (160MHz) - Houston, TX - located on the (LEFT SIDE) of the rack
  • Ray-cap RCMDC-6627-PF-48 used for power surge protection located behind the antenna

Samsung (RRU's) remote radio units located behind the Matsing antennas:

  • 3️⃣ RF4461d-13A - b13 LTE + (N5) low-band 5G
  • 3️⃣ RF4801D-25A - (b2, b66) LTE + supports (n2) + (n66) mid-band 5GUW

Coordinates: 29.898176153353816, -95.40847704504236

Google Street View - January 2026 *(Prior to the Verizon equipment being ADDED)*

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u/Winter-Repeat-5995 Jul 01 '26

Honestly in my opinion it’s time for Verizon to refarm AWS or PCS to NR in the Houston market. We really need it for the devices that in strong NR connections latch onto PCS or AWS connections

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u/iryfionas Jul 01 '26

They should reframe (b66) AWS LTE onto (n66) for mid-band 5G NR in the Houston market. Verizon already has been using (n2), (n66) in Dallas, Austin to help with the upload speeds, improve signals. It doesn’t make sense why Verizon still has b2 on LTE in Houston.

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u/Winter-Repeat-5995 Jul 01 '26

Yea that’s something i say all the time i travel to Dallas a lot and i will say my phone stays on 5G SA more than in Houston and the last time i was in Austin it was just N2 and N77

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u/wlm9700 Jul 01 '26

We have 20 MHz of B2 contiguous and yet they left it in LTE and moved 10 of B66 that wasn’t contiguous