Originally Posted by
Brandysull
Of course I knew LTE was going to be in your neck of the woods, FLOW had said they're covering the entire Kingstion city in coverage so... yeah, you were bound to get it! As for it disappearing, it might very well be due to testing but I do expect it to be up very soon. Ericsson has a excellent track record with getting sites on air on or before the targeted date. As for the other side of the island, still in testing... I suppose the acceptance testing probably revealed the obvious, they have large coverage holes for 3G in Montego Bay, Ocho Rios and Mandeville... of course, I'm not saying that's the actual reason why it's delayed but it does make sense as they've turned up the transmission power on every site in the area. I myself am seeing a 15% improvement in RSSI (not that it has any bearing on site throughput or capacity, just coverage, voice coverage... which is what we want from 3G when we configure CSFB procedures during an LTE rollout). Doing fallbacks to 2G require a lot more in terms of configuration & optimization... which is why I think they've paused progress and, again I reiterate, are working on improving 3G coverage. The necessity of doing so cannot be stressed enough... in fact, their LTE network coverage in MoBay actually bests their 3G 1900 MHz layer and in some cases, even 850 MHz as well!