Western Museum of Mining and Industry, Colorado Springs

This is a shrouded cell site at the Western Museum of Mining & Industry (Google Maps)

Carriers

Today it has AT&T and T-Mobile. This was a Sprint cell site that was still operating April 2023, well after the official Sprint LTE shut down. Then, it was converted to T-Mobile on/around July 2023.

The best T-Mobile signal on NR was -68 dBm on 8/9/23 at 39.02276796,-104.83116096.

See also the reddit discussion

Photos

photograph of cell as of February 2023

photo taken 4/7/2023

Photos from Bass Pro Shop parking lot

• Google Street View
• photo taken February 2023

Speed test

T-Mobile

2024-02-07 speed test on Galaxy A15 with Metro by T-Mobile over 1.3 miles: 727.99/54.77 Mbps, 16 ms (results)

Sprint

Here are screenshots and a speed test taken close by from the parking lot of Bass Pro Shop. The phone is Samsung Galaxy S22 using Google Fi.

• Network Cell Info Lite and Ping Monitor
• Service mode menu band 25 15MHz
• Cell Mapper band 25, -77 dBm
• 46.79/24.31 Mbps, 87 ms speedtest.net results

Another speed test April 2023

• 17.77 Mbps/19.76 https://www.speedtest.net/result/a/9188898867

Regulatory

FCC

• FCC stidy 2001
• FCC 1252259 constructed 2007 at 125 North Gate Rd
• FCC study 2013 Sprint
• FCC study 2021 Sprint
• FCC study 2022 Sprint
• FCC study 2022 Crown Castle

PPRBD

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Plan 162094

• 225 NORTH GATE BLVD, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, 80921
• 2023
• disapproved

Permit K19370

• 303 NORTH GATE BLVD, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, 80921
• Permit Status: Admin-Closed (Expired 5/13/2019)
• modification

93613

• 2018
• approved

Permit E20518

• 2001
• seems like initial installation