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hi Roger Cheng cnet and we're here at a hotel in Manhattan we're about to head up to a roof to check out a sprint cell tower and talk with the sprint executive iya taurasi about his progress in 4G LTE why it's taken so long to get LT here let's check it out we're on top of a building in New York on fifty-seventh Street this right here is a cabinet for Network Vision inside it you will see equipment that's both 3g and 4g two sets of spectrum 801 dot 9 and this basically is a cabinet that's pre-built for lte-advanced it is the cabinet that we use to launch our LTE service and we're doing literally tens of thousands of these around the country a thousand plus in New York at the same time this right here behind you is the cabinet that is equipped today for wimax 40 and it's being upgraded as we speak for LTE on the top 5 spectrum I asked Ian why sprint is taking so long to deploy 4G LTE in Paris in the competition there's a lot to do we're upgrading 3g we're upgrading 4G we're integrating two flavors of 4G or are creating the backhaul and at the same time we're investing significant capacity when we started this program a couple of years ago we calculated that there will still be a lot of 3g devices customers were still carry a lot of 3G and voice will still be on 3g things like 900 testing have to be done we upgrade the back call we upgrade the equipment a lot of work now at the same time we truly understand that customers want the service and wants us to finish as soon as possible and would like the construction cone out of the highway as soon as possible we recognize that and no one at sprint understands it's better than the network team and all the effort energy or putting in to get through this transition as soon as possible the network rollout a big city like New York is complicated but he odd said the company's making progress 4G is coming to New York this month we're announcing today the Bronx and Brooklyn we feel that enough deployment has happened in these barros where you get to see 4g in a lot more times and you're able to expect it and see it and depend on it however if you go anywhere else in New York you'll see a lot of 4G active and you're able to use it we're just not at a point where we feel enough of it is out there and these other boroughs that we can tell you depend on it and see it then expected for CNN news and Roger Cheng you