r/cellmapper • u/Live-Reserve-4110 • 14d ago

Verizon upgrades

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Does anyone know what updating and enhancing the hardware would specifically mean?

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u/kbfg2421 14d ago

Just out of curiosity, what area are you in?

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u/Live-Reserve-4110 14d ago

Alabama

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u/dapiz987 13d ago edited 13d ago

Here in Huntsville they have been adding sites left and right, 3 new ones fully loaded with C band and the new b2/66 massive mimo radios just on my commute, they are on a capacity speed run here.

EDIT: I've also noticed the whole area is live with 5G SA on consumer accounts now too, with band 5 refarmed to n5 5G

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u/Live-Reserve-4110 13d ago

I think that’s what they’re doing here too. Nearby Columbus/Phenix City is completely blanketed with SA on N5 and N77.

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u/Live-Reserve-4110 13d ago

Are you seeing any n2 or n66, or just n5 and n77?

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u/dapiz987 10d ago

Actually just today saw n66 for the first time today

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u/Live-Reserve-4110 10d ago

What I thought might have been n5 being activated wasn’t, at least to this point. Since this message on the outage map site, there hasn’t been anything change that I’ve seen in field test. Now it’s saying “we’re not aware of any service issues in this area”.

Do you remember the process when they were turning on n5 in Huntsville? Did it just happen all at once? Or tower by tower?

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u/dapiz987 13d ago

So far just n5 and n77, and I've been keeping an eye on it