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Any update on 3G in Upstate/Central NY?
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Posted by: jeffx

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Originally Posted by I have a phone

Upstate is some time mid '07

Any update on 3G in Upstate/Central NY?

Posted by: clauretano

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Originally Posted by jeffx

Any update on 3G in Upstate/Central NY?

When I was waiting in line at the Rainbow Bridge (Niagara Falls) getting back into the states I was sitting on AT&T 3g for about 3 hours.. because that's how long the line was. I'm still not sure if my phone was just way confused and calling it AT&T even though it was still Rogers 3G or what.. but I used the heck out of it and it was blissful.

I haven't gotten a glimpse of it anywhere else though.

Posted by: EtniesRIT

I was at the AT&T store today and the rep said 3G will start in Buffalo in mid October. It will work its way east, turning a new area on each week after that. (Rochester, Syracuse, then Albany)

Posted by: ZacUSNYR

I can't wait for it to hit the capital district, they better not do a half *** job of just getting albany on 3G. We need coverage up I87 to Saratoga. Otherwise Sprint/Verizon still have this area. We have EVDO coverage in the sticks in Renn/Washington County!!!!

Posted by: jeffx

I emailed my ATT business rep earlier this week. He replied that he will find out what information he can and get back to me.

A promise of 3G to come along with the soon-to-be-released ATT Tilt will be all the motivation I need to say farewell to Vzw.

Posted by: Fuzzlet

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Originally Posted by ZacUSNYR

I can't wait for it to hit the capital district, they better not do a half *** job of just getting albany on 3G. We need coverage up I87 to Saratoga. Otherwise Sprint/Verizon still have this area. We have EVDO coverage in the sticks in Renn/Washington County!!!!

Oh man I sure hope 3g gets good coverage out here.... I'm about 20 miles west of Saratoga, and I'm getting a n95 soon!

Posted by: Cyberwulf

I'm about 60 miles south of Syracuse. I don't suppose 3G will venture out from the urban areas at all? I am in a rural region, but I have an AT&T tower only a mile away, and I'm about 20 miles from I-81. Please give me some hope here.

Posted by: ctalmadg

I was told late October for Rochester.

Posted by: clauretano

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Originally Posted by ctalmadg

I was told late October for Rochester.

And I was told early June :P then I was told late July, then late August, then September... I'll believe it when I see it, and be sure that I will post here the moment I see the miracle of 3g in Rochester.

I'm sick of going to Canada and using 3g on Rogers, it's so good but costs me so much

Posted by: jeffx

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Originally Posted by jeffx

I emailed my ATT business rep earlier this week. He replied that he will find out what information he can and get back to me.

A promise of 3G to come along with the soon-to-be-released ATT Tilt will be all the motivation I need to say farewell to Vzw.

I emailed my rep again last week, still no reply. To bad ATT has some of the newest phones but the slowest network.

Instead of waiting around indefinitely for ATT to roll out 3G I'm heading over to Sprint who already has 3.5G in this area.

Posted by: mjbanks

I'm in Saratoga... I'd love some 3G here. I miss the fast speeds from having EVDO when I was with Verizon

Posted by: clauretano

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Originally Posted by mjbanks

I'm in Saratoga... I'd love some 3G here. I miss the fast speeds from having EVDO when I was with Verizon

You do realize the iPhone doesn't support 3g --at all, right?

sorry to be a downer

Posted by: jeffx

I've given up on getting a response from my rep. Looks like I'll be signing up with Sprint and getting the HTC Touch (Vogue) come December.

Posted by: PPCMD

My co-worker picked up a couple of Tilts yesterday, and the rep stated after the sale was done that Nov 1st was the 3G date for Syracuse. I know we all take a store reps word with a grain of salt, but may all major cities will go live right around the same time. I am waiting to pickup up the Q9h and a Razr2 V9 soon.

Posted by: jkb246

It's funny that most of the area is covered by Verizon EVDO Service while ATT can't even run 3G up the Thruway. What is ATT doing? You would think they would break up this upgrade by regions so that the South isn't competing against the NE and visa versa.

It's crazy that most of NYS isn't served by 3G including most of Westchester $$$, Big parts of the Island $$$$. And most of Northern Jersey $$$$

Posted by: formercanuck

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Originally Posted by jkb246

It's funny that most of the area is covered by Verizon EVDO Service while ATT can't even run 3G up the Thruway. What is ATT doing? You would think they would break up this upgrade by regions so that the South isn't competing against the NE and visa versa.

It's crazy that most of NYS isn't served by 3G including most of Westchester $$$, Big parts of the Island $$$$. And most of Northern Jersey $$$$

EVDO requires only a 1.25MHz carrier channel (2.5MHz paired) and is data only
UMTS/HSDPA requires a 5MHz carrier channel (10MHz paired) and is both voice and data. Calls MUST be able to hand off to GSM networks, as in most places, 1 channel isn't enough for voice and data....and it has to be done in a way that a whole lot of 3G users don't run out of capacity and drop calls. It pretty much has been deployed first where there's plenty of spectrum (Texas, east Florida) or AT&T Wireless original 3G networks were deployed.

Posted by: linuxnut

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Originally Posted by formercanuck

Not sure it's a spectrum problem here. Sure there's not unlimited bandwidth but they have enough. They have the same amount of spectrum in NYC as they do in the suburbs, it's all the same market. They are using PCS A3 for 3G anywhere they have it in the NYC market. Anywhere 3G has not been deployed yet PCS A3 is not being used at all. Its not a problem with lack of spectrum in this case, it's just that att is dragging it's feet here for who knows what reason. I believe ATT has the same PCS A3 spectrum that it is not using in upstate NY as well. In addition, in Albany for instance they also have PCS D. So there is more bandwidth in Albany than NYC. If they can have 3G in NYC with the same or in some cases less spectrum, there's no reason they can't launch it everywhere else. This is not a bandwidth issue in upstate NY.

The only thing I can think of is that they are worried about the 1900 MHz thing since the network is spaced for 850. But that should be less of an issue since a weak signal on 3G will hand off to 850 GSM. I don't know what the deal is...

Posted by: formercanuck

Hmm... I thought AT&T had 55MHz of spectrum in NYC.
In So-Cal (Los Angeles), AT&T has Cell A, PCS D and PCS B3.
In San Diego, AT&T has Cell A, PCS D, PCS F and PCS C3.

San Diego was deployed years before Los Angeles.

Los Angeles uses Cell A, PCS D for GSM and PCS B3 for 3G
San Diego uses Cell A, PCS F and PCS C3 for GSM and PCS D for 3G.

with the Edge Wireless spectrum, markets such as Denver should have the same amount of spectrum as places like L.A.

It still took a LONG time for them to deploy in L.A., and it still isn't stable.
They invested +1 billion in upgrades here, and it still doesn't work well.
Handoffs from 3G to GSM work better when the signal is 'weak' vs. what I think is capacity issues.

I will have a weak signal hand off to GSM
However, I can have a call with 'decent' signal start to cut up on 3G, then the signal will go to 'full', then the call will drop.

Posted by: jeffx

and now we return to our regularly scheduled program. . .

I went to my local corporate store yesterday and they stated that 3g will go live in Syracuse in the next 2 weeks, and then the surrounding areas to follow.

Posted by: PPCMD

That syncs with what my friend was told when picking up a pair of Tilts. Nov 1st for 3G which would be great if the Q9h gets out by then. I will be a happy customer.

Posted by: clauretano

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Originally Posted by jeffx

and now we return to our regularly scheduled program. . .

I went to my local corporate store yesterday and they stated that 3g will go live in Syracuse in the next 2 weeks, and then the surrounding areas to follow.

if it goes live in little syracuse before Buffalo/Rochester I will hate you forever!!

The reps here are saying Nov 1st too but.. I know that they know a lot less than we do until the date is actually near and they have to be trained for stuff.

Posted by: EtniesRIT

Buffalo was suppossed to turn on Oct 15, but of course it didn't. The local at&t rep now has no clue, but did say there is a big 3G launch at HSBC on Oct 29th. He said it should be on by then.

Posted by: clauretano

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Originally Posted by EtniesRIT

Buffalo was suppossed to turn on Oct 15, but of course it didn't. The local at&t rep now has no clue, but did say there is a big 3G launch at HSBC on Oct 29th. He said it should be on by then.

so I'm not the only one at RIT with that phone

Posted by: EtniesRIT

former RIT student

Posted by: JasonYng

My rep said it will go live in Buffalo by the end of the month and they work its way across the state to Rochester, then Syracuse, then Albany.

Posted by: EtniesRIT

So much for 3G in Buffalo in October. Maybe they meant October 2008.

Posted by: formercanuck

You might be able to pick up Ft. Erie / Niagara Falls Canada 3g on Rogers

Posted by: clauretano

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Originally Posted by formercanuck

You might be able to pick up Ft. Erie / Niagara Falls Canada 3g on Rogers

You can. But I know when I was waiting in line at the peace bridge border crossing, I had 3g and it said AT&T on my blackjack still.. but I think it was probably just confused. Rogers 3g is fast, but not worth paying like $9.something for 333KB of data.

Posted by: formercanuck

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Originally Posted by clauretano

Very true... Canadian roaming is expensive.
Back in the AT&T Wireless days, voice calls were $9.99/month to use your minutes. Now it $0.59/minute on a discounted plan.

Posted by: clauretano

I probably only use 10 canadian minutes a month and try hard not to use data when I'm there (a couple times a month, though almost every weekend during the summer).. so far so good without any special international roaming plan. Rogers 3G is so fast though, it's tempting.

All my Canadian friends really hate Rogers though, aside from the whole 3 year contract thing I guess they also have really expensive data plans.

Posted by: EtniesRIT

Has anyone heard anything? I called the AT&T store in Cheektowaga and all the rep did was laugh. He said one day it will just be on.

Posted by: Cyberwulf

I'll believe it when I see it.....

Posted by: jeffx

I gave up getting a response from my AT&T business rep and just signed up for Sprint SERO with the new Touch this Sunday

I need my 3G and Sprint has the fix for what I need!

Posted by: PPCMD

In Syracuse they must be testing it I noticed the 3G on my Q Global briefly, great phone now the 3G will be a lot nicer.

Posted by: eliminator

3G is on in Buffalo in the University area! My Treo 750 is displaying 3G all the time and H when sending and receiving data.

Posted by: eliminator

On the dslreports mobile speed test 765 kbit/sec 0.313s latency 11.021s d/l time with the 1mb file

Posted by: clauretano

OMGGGGGGG

3g is live in Rochester .. West Brighton at Friendlies. I only live about a mile from here i'll test speed when i get back. phone keeps switching from 3G to H

Posted by: wnapier

I'm a resident of Brighton, a suburb of Rochester, NY and my AT&T 8525 just established its first 3G connection here this afternoon. It's been functioning for a few hours.

Test at globequest is showing 837.78 kbps and a 1meg test at dsl reports mobile test showed 517 kbit/sec.

wnapier

Posted by: mulveyr

I'm in Penfield, and just noticed the 3G on my 8525!

Posted by: EtniesRIT

It's finally here. The northern boundary of Buffalos 3G goes about a mile into Grand Island. No 3G for Niagara Falls, NY. Anyone know the East and South cutoffs?

Posted by: clauretano

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Originally Posted by wnapier

I'm a resident of Brighton, a suburb of Rochester, NY and my AT&T 8525 just established its first 3G connection here this afternoon. It's been functioning for a few hours.

Test at globequest is showing 837.78 kbps and a 1meg test at dsl reports mobile test showed 517 kbit/sec.

wnapier

I got 880kbps in IE but can't get faster than 480/500kbps in Opera Mobile 8.65. :'(

Posted by: Strecker25

869 kbit/s in greece, suburb right outside of rochester not more than 15 minutes from downtown. The coverage has been solid since last night now and has only switched a few times to edge.

Posted by: eliminator

In Buffalo it makes it at least to the Niagara Falls Blvd mall area and out to Cheektowaga. I went south from downtown this morning but forgot to check where it stopped. I'm making the same trip tomorrow, hopefully I'll remember to check.

Posted by: RYOBI

Just got back from Nantucket and noticed 3G is live in my area. I live in Farmington, not far from Fairport/Perinton area, but I noticed it was also on in Victor, by Eastview mall.. 3G all the way baby....when I traveled to Macedon tonight, switched back to edge.. no 3G for you..... LOL

Posted by: clauretano

It's edge for me right now (downtown Rochester just off Mt Hope south of Highland ave)

it has been for a couple hours too..

Posted by: eliminator

in buffao 3g makes it down to atleast parts of Hambrg along the lake.

Posted by: Strecker25

cant believe the rochester poster isnt getting 3G, mine hasnt dropped off yet in greece. Sure you didnt change your phone to locked to edge/gprs? the only place mine fades is all the way down to the lake near hilton area

Posted by: clauretano

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Originally Posted by Strecker25

cant believe the rochester poster isnt getting 3G, mine hasnt dropped off yet in greece. Sure you didnt change your phone to locked to edge/gprs? the only place mine fades is all the way down to the lake near hilton area

confirmed with my two roommates.. we changed nothing, and it hasn't gone back to 3g still. I got less than 24 hours of 3g before it went away haha.

Posted by: Strecker25

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Originally Posted by clauretano

confirmed with my two roommates.. we changed nothing, and it hasn't gone back to 3g still. I got less than 24 hours of 3g before it went away haha.

Weird, id suspect downtown to have the most support. Still i would expect it to be up within a day or so

Posted by: clauretano

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Originally Posted by Strecker25

Weird, id suspect downtown to have the most support. Still i would expect it to be up within a day or so

I should just go visit the tower.. I think it's at Cobb's Hill Reservoir last I checked the AT&T towers site. That's less than a mile from here.. I'm assuming it's also the tower that serves all of Brighton.

Posted by: PPCMD

3G testing is taking longer than originally stated in the Syracuse market. I actually had 3G show up on my phone for a few minutes in the early AM today and I live in the country.

Posted by: Cyberwulf

I live about 50 miles from Syracuse (between Auburn, Cortland and Ithaca)...any hope of getting 3G out here?

Posted by: clauretano

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Originally Posted by Cyberwulf

I live about 50 miles from Syracuse (between Auburn, Cortland and Ithaca)...any hope of getting 3G out here?

Honestly I wouldn't expect it for years. Like Cable/DSL it'll come to urban and suburban markets years before everywhere else.

There's still plenty of population 1 million+ metropolitan areas that don't have 3G

btw 3G is back for me. Also confirmed in W.Henrietta at RIT's campus.

Posted by: PPCMD

Well I live near Skaneateles, NY and I had the 3G icon early am 5:45am so they are testing even out that far. My guess is they will light up the market at one time. The question is when.

Posted by: PPCMD

Tonight I noticed the 3G icon on my phone was live and stayed live so it finally hit the Syracuse market. Whoo hoo.

Posted by: clauretano

i figured i'd check as i was driving and sure enough 35 is live through the syracuse area on the NYS thruway. It still seems to go back to edge daily at my place in Rochester

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Originally Posted by PPCMD

Tonight I noticed the 3G icon on my phone was live and stayed live so it finally hit the Syracuse market. Whoo hoo.

Posted by: relaxin25

it appears as if 3G has finally reached the Syracuse area just in time for the holidays.

Posted by: Cyberwulf

As of 11/16/07, 3G has arrived in Ithaca NY!! Whoo Hoo! Unfortunately, I live about 13 miles away, and I'm still on EDGE, but at least its 3G at work!

Posted by: EtniesRIT

Anyone heard if and when 3G will be in Niagara Falls?

Posted by: formercanuck

I can only say that its available in Niagara Falls, Canada (I like the horseshoe falls) on Rogers. I'm somewhat surprised that it wasn't launched with Buffalo.

Posted by: Cyberwulf

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Originally Posted by Cyberwulf

As of 11/16/07, 3G has arrived in Ithaca NY!! Whoo Hoo! Unfortunately, I live about 13 miles away, and I'm still on EDGE, but at least its 3G at work!

Update: 3G is now off again. Looks like they are testing it before full deployment. Had a full signal all weekend, now back to EDGE on monday.

Posted by: relaxin25

Are you located in Syracuse, NY because I'm thee and my 3G has been up and running since this weekend. It has not yet fallen back to Edge.

Posted by: Cyberwulf

I'm in Genoa NY, but work in Ithaca. 3G is back on full strength in Ithaca today. Still nothing out here in the boonies (although I am only 13 miles away)

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3g is now officially on in albany ny. getting some good speeds on my n75 and tilt

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cant wait to try some tethering

Posted by: JoeyDee

According to my AT&T rep (I work for Radio Shack), the Albany area is supposed to be one of the first markets AT&T is deploying 3G on 850MHz... NOT 1900MHz... so if he's right, there shouldn't be any spacing issues here. I'd love to see if that has an effect on performance though...

I got 3G from Latham, south on 787 then east on I90 untill exit 11, thats where EDGE switched back on (where I live).

Is AT&T planning on covering thier whole network with WCDMA in the near future? The reason I ask is Verizon beat everyone to the punch here with "3G", I think they beat sprint by 8 or more months if i'm not mistaken, Sprint poped up EVDO Rev.A in April and just blew away Verizons coverage in only about a months time. Right now I've gotten EVDO wherever i've gotten sprint reception in this area, from warrensburg, all the way down to coxackie. At my house though, theres never been Verizon EVDO though, only 1xRTT, so it seems they arnt planning on getting EVDO everywhere in the near future.

Anyways, do you guys think AT&T is going to pull a Verizon and not spread it across the entire albany areas, or should I expect 3G at my house in Schodack like I have now with Sprint?

The reason why I'd think about switching to AT&T for my laptop card (if I get 3G at my house soon) is because the Sprint tower I'm connected to only has 1 T1 for data (My DL speed never gets higher than 1.25MBits/s, and I can't imagine them putting a 2nd on since I'm basicly the only one using it. AT&T however owns the T1s (i think), so i'd assume they'd use more than 1 T1 per site, or maybe even a T3, so AT&T 3g theoreticly will only bottleneck itself if i'm the only one connected like sprint, not the data lines to the cell site like with sprint (theres been 2.5+Mbit/s speeds recorded in some areas with sprint)... Also latency is a big deal, if 3G is 'quicker', but the DL speed is the same, i'd still switch.

Also, is there a way to tell what type of 3G they're deploying? Like how theres different revisions for EVDO?

Posted by: panrispter

supposedly because we got delayed by 5 months, they were supposed to jump us right to HSDPA and not leave us sitting with UMTS. i highly doubt we got the 3.6MB/s upgrade to HSDPA, probably only deployed the 1.8MB/s version. So it probably wont top out much faster than your sprint. I havent received any info if thats what we got, but ill ask around.

Posted by: ZacUSNYR

No crap. I'm right off exit 13 and have edge like usually. So it didn't make it's way up the Northway or even into Saratoga county.

Can't wait to check it out though heh

Posted by: JoeyDee

Hopefully its the 3.6Mbit version, it wouldnt exactly make sense to put up an older tech, which is why sprint poped Rev A EVDO in albany instead of Rev 0, then upgrading later.

i'll try to tether our store demo phone to my laptop and put up some speed tests. Is the blackjack 3.6 capable or just 1.8mbit?

Posted by: formercanuck

HSDPA 1.8 to 3.6 is a software upgrade, if I'm not mistaken on the network end.
Many datacards are HSDPA 3.6 with software upgrades to HSDPA 7.2.
At this time, I suspect that things are being done in parallel.
I.e. 'buildouts' are continuing, and upgrades are happending across the board (i.e. upload speed increases).

Posted by: ZacUSNYR

It's up in Albany. I picked up my first 3G signal right about Exit 8A on the northway. I lost it heading out of Guilderland on Western Ave. Worked well in most spots in Crossgates mall - my V3XX would be on Edge in my pocket - and then would switch over after a few seconds of having the screen open.

I thought Edge was fine for simple web surfing - but damn 3G is sweet. I'm able to load 400k Myspace pages with barely any wait!

Posted by: panrispter

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Originally Posted by panrispter

supposedly because we got delayed by 5 months, they were supposed to jump us right to HSDPA and not leave us sitting with UMTS. i highly doubt we got the 3.6MB/s upgrade to HSDPA, probably only deployed the 1.8MB/s version. So it probably wont top out much faster than your sprint. I havent received any info if thats what we got, but ill ask around.

ok got the info. we did get full HSUPA 3.6 here in Albany!! havent done any testing yet, but thats the info.

Posted by: JoeyDee

I'd love to see some speed tests from speedtest.net from your guys... Would AT&T utilize enough T1s or a T3 to each site to take advantage of that 3.6MBit potential though?

Posted by: aak274

3g is on in baldwinsville out side of syracuse... driving through today I had a nice strong 3g signal on the v3xx... I also picked 3g up near palermo... which is odd because that is a very rural area....

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looks like the greater syracuse area is live. i am getting a nice strong 3g signal at occ as i type

Posted by: Fegul

So is there 3G in Ithaca now? I have a direct line of sight from my balcony to a cell tower but my phone doesnt come until next week so I have no idea if its here yet.

Posted by: venenzi

Yes, confirmed 3G in Ithaca on Ithaca College's campus. This on a blackjack - 900k down first test.

Posted by: clauretano

I saw 3g near albany... any confirmations?

Posted by: ZacUSNYR

Yes in this thread and in the latest markets launching thread and in a new thread titled "Albany NY 3G"

3G is live in Albany NY.

Posted by: Fegul

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Originally Posted by venenzi

Yes, confirmed 3G in Ithaca on Ithaca College's campus. This on a blackjack - 900k down first test.

Perfect

Posted by: NewYorkYanks6

i have a place up in deposit NY, and didnt even get an edge signal when I was up there in mid November...I was lucky to get regular cell service..

I'm still stuck on EDGE in Rockland County NY (about 30 miles north of NYC)

Only place I've ever hit 3G is in Westchester...

Posted by: Tacamo

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Originally Posted by NewYorkYanks6

I'm still stuck on EDGE in Rockland County NY (about 30 miles north of NYC)

Only place I've ever hit 3G is in Westchester...

I feel your pain. Unfortunately most of Westchester is not 3g yet. I was hoping since they were deploying farther upstate they'd take a two pronged approach and take care of the lower/mid Hudson river valley areas too.

Posted by: SD69

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Originally Posted by Tacamo

I am in pain too. Yes, most of westchester and north bronx. almost 1 million people in high population density and no 3G in sight

Posted by: NewYorkYanks6

Yep, same in most of the areas in the Bronx I goto also...hopefully we'll see some relief from the hell that is EDGE in Q1 2008...

Posted by: Shqiptar

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Originally Posted by NewYorkYanks6

i have a place up in deposit NY, and didnt even get an edge signal when I was up there in mid November...I was lucky to get regular cell service..

I'm still stuck on EDGE in Rockland County NY (about 30 miles north of NYC)

Only place I've ever hit 3G is in Westchester...

Hey! I too live in Rockland. I was once an AT&T user waiting for 3G....was excited when NYC and Westchester got some. After waiting a while, I decided to give in and get EVDO 3G from Sprint (SERO Plan). It is not a bad solution if you need 3G. Since moving to Sprint a year ago, Sprint added 8 new towers in Rockland with a new one about be lit up soon on exit 14 of the PIP.

Posted by: JoeyDee

can anyone in albany post some speed tests? :P

Posted by: jabsr

Hell...I am so frustrated, Buffalo NY and Rochester NY has 3G. I'm right smack in b/w Rochester and Buffalo (Batavia NY) and we don't have 3G yet. Although our Cellular One just switched to ATT last wkend.

Posted by: Stolenvw

jabsr dont feel bad i am in the middle of white plains and albany and no 3g and the tower 2 miles from my house still has the dobson cellular sticker on the box

Posted by: JoeyDee

I'm in east schodack ny, exit 11 off I90, all the towers before the one in schodack from albany are 3g :P

That's what i'm waiting on to switch to at&t for my laptop since I have only 1 sprint tower i connect to here... no backup.

Posted by: relaxin25

3g in syracuse

Posted by: NewYorkYanks6

I hit 3G in the Bronx (Zerega and Soundview sections) and then in NYC and Westchester...but nothing in rockland county, and its starting to be pretty bull that like Right over the Tappan Zee Bridge (Rockland to Westchester) is pretty much the cut off for 3G near me

Posted by: relaxin25

Has 3G been upgraded in Syracuse, NY? I'm noticing speeds are faster than normal. Anyone else in Syracuse noticing these faster speeds. Have an 8525 and have been getting avg download speeds around 900 kbps consistently.

Posted by: clauretano

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Originally Posted by jabsr

Hell...I am so frustrated, Buffalo NY and Rochester NY has 3G. I'm right smack in b/w Rochester and Buffalo (Batavia NY) and we don't have 3G yet. Although our Cellular One just switched to ATT last wkend.

seriously it might be years before you have 3g. The NYC north suburbs will get it LONG before batavia does.

It's only cost defective to deploy it in populated areas of the state.

Plus the 3g in Rochester is hell. Almost every night it goes back to edge and my phone reverts to interfering with every set of speakers in the house (the blackjack is especially bad with this).

Plus it's really messing up my data connections, I keep having to reboot the phone to get exchange mail to sync up.

Posted by: mulveyr

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Originally Posted by clauretano

I suspect it's your phone. I'm in about the worst possible place in Penfield - the bottom of a stream valley with no line of site to any tower - and my 3G is rock-solid, even inside my basement. Anywhere I go in Rochester is also solid 3G; East side, west side, city, you name it.

- Rich

Posted by: clauretano

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Originally Posted by mulveyr

Penfield = not the same tower. I'm in the U of R / Highland Park area. There's 4 3G phones in the house (only one other is a blackjack) and they all do it.

Even if I just drive more into downtown it's fine, but here it isn't.

Posted by: mjbanks

Given the fact that Saratoga Springs is one of the most populated areas in the state in the summer, I'm surprised we don't have any 3G here

Posted by: clauretano

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Originally Posted by mjbanks

Given the fact that Saratoga Springs is one of the most populated areas in the state in the summer, I'm surprised we don't have any 3G here

Sadly still less populated than New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, etc. Just tourists :P

Posted by: ZacUSNYR

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Originally Posted by mjbanks

Given the fact that Saratoga Springs is one of the most populated areas in the state in the summer, I'm surprised we don't have any 3G here

I hear you. This area needs to be blanketed by 3g.

Posted by: mjbanks

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Originally Posted by ZacUSNYR

I hear you. This area needs to be blanketed by 3g.

Still waiting in Saratoga Springs. The 3G service they deployed in Albany only goes to a little north of Clifton park, which is still a ways off from Saratoga. Hopefully they extend the area soon. I really want simultaneous voice and data.

Posted by: sharksfan

Any info on the former Dobson Cell One part of NY?