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July 26, 2012 07:11 pm GMT
Sprint seems to be taking the slow and steady approach to their LTE light-up, but it turns out that's not entirely by design. When asked about how confident the carrier was about meeting its goal of 12,000 live LTE sites by the end of the year, Sprint Networks Operations President Steve Elfman pointed out a particularly peculiar stumbling block."We've got several hundred sites that are done and ready to turn on and we're waiting for backhaul," he said. "We got several hundred others that uh, basically, we have birds nesting on them. Once the birds leave, we'll be able to turn those sites on."
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Sprints LTE Rollout Stymied By Uh, Birds As It Plans To Activate Four New Markets
Sprint seems to be taking the slow and steady approach to their LTE light-up, but it turns out that's not entirely by design. When asked about how confident the carrier was about meeting its goal of 12,000 live LTE sites by the end of the year, Sprint Networks Operations President Steve Elfman pointed out a particularly peculiar stumbling block."We've got several hundred sites that are done and ready to turn on and we're waiting for backhaul," he said. "We got several hundred others that uh, basically, we have birds nesting on them. Once the birds leave, we'll be able to turn those sites on."Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/7JK2re1lxY4/
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