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Looks like the ink has been layed down. Verizon will install LTE in two markets this year with the FOA's being seattle and boston.
4g coming at yea verizon people. At&t wont have anything for another year (even starting). Testing for V. LTE should be done by the fall, and buildouts next winter/spring. Sounds like the equipment will provide for speedy buildout too.
Lucky Bastards! bah you can have your verizon. Ill stick with my dropped calls, bad handoff plauged At&t till they pry my Rapheal from my dead cold fingers.
I live in the seattle market, and have been a verizon customer for 10 years or so. I am excited to get world standard 4g rollout. Hopefully I can get a next gen device with evdo and LTE. wouldnt that be sweet. Maybe then Verizon will start lowering their plan costs so data won't be so f'in expensive.
Ive never even checked between the two main ones here (att/verizon) -
cost me an extra 30 for my data but its unlimited. Are you paying more then that?
Yea with atT saying 2012 till 4g, almost makes me wonder what my costs would be to switch up in the next year. Think ill see how the progress goes first.
Yeah, I pay more than that as I also pay for tethering. I know, I can get it free but it is more just to cover my ass if I get caught I would switch to ATT, but they just don't work in alaska outside of anchorage. ACS is a cdma provider up there, and Verizon even Has EVDO roaming agreements with them, so I am covered. I travel up there oftenso it is important to me.
Hopefully everyone will go LTE. Screw Sprint and its WiMax!
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Looks like the ink has been layed down. Verizon will install LTE in two markets this year with the FOA's being seattle and boston.
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...and what device are you going to be able to test your 4G speeds on
You didn't hear of the super secret touch pro3 slated to come to verizon? it has a/b/g/n wifi, bluetooth 3.0, 500 hour battery life and a 1280X800 screen. Also has pnemonic input so you can think commands to it. Of course Verizon will cripple the RAM, cutting in half to only 2gb.
This is all speculation, theory and dreaming.
Don't know if anyone has drawn attention to this (my searches of the forum yielded no results), but Alltel very quietly added the HTC Hero to their lineup of phones -- the first new handset they've offered since November, I believe. It's shipping with 2.1.
Has anyone picked one up?
-Philip
Didn't alltell merge with verizon a long time ago?
Yeah I got an Alltel hero yesterday, and yeah Verizon and alltel merged but in my area, Carlsbad NM, our Alltel was bought by at&t . So they're upgrading to cdma and gsm towers
The merger with AT&T was supposed to be complete in December, but there hasn't really been much news. I was told there would be no new handsets past December, and the release of a legitimate Android leads me to believe the merger isn't close to final at all.
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audiophyl said:
The merger with AT&T was supposed to be complete in December, but there hasn't really been much news. I was told there would be no new handsets past December, and the release of a legitimate Android leads me to believe the merger isn't close to final at all.
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ATN bought AT&T's share and Alltel is Alltel again
jake044 said:
ATN bought AT&T's share and Alltel is Alltel again
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Not at all true, I work for Alltel and the story so far goes that Verizon had 105 divested markets from Alltel that it had to sell. They sold 79 of them to AT&T and the remaining 26 markets were sold to Atlantic Tele-Network. Only these 26 markets will remain Alltel the other 79 will be converted to AT&T.
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Not at all true, I work for Alltel and the story so far goes that Verizon had 105 divested markets from Alltel that it had to sell. They sold 79 of them to AT&T and the remaining 26 markets were sold to Atlantic Tele-Network. Only these 26 markets will remain Alltel the other 79 will be converted to AT&T.
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oh ok. so us people in the AT&T markets will have to buy an AT&T phone when everythings complete?
Ive seen one in the wild and had a hands on... any thoughts on root?
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Ive seen one in the wild and had a hands on... any thoughts on root?
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Could try our exploit, but I doubt it would work.
Other than that they could try a goldCard, but it seems HTC has gotten rid of those.
Sadly the Sprint rooting trick does not work on the Alltel CDMA phones, I wish I knew how to even start trying to help at finding a workable solution to this.
-- Mia
Seen this thread?
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Not sure if this should go here or not.. But I've been watching the One since it was announced.
And I'm currently on the old $30/month plan from Tmo with an HTC Amaze..
Unfortunately I to get the one from Tmo the require $379 down which is a lot of money at once and will also up my bill to $70
But I also have the option to get one someones Sprint plan and get a One for $99...
But just looking thought the forum, its looking like the GSM One is getting better Dev support
Along with Google ports.
An another possible problem that comes to mind... is CDMA..
I was on sprint awhile ago and Had a HTC Hero and the battery drain was HORRIBLE compared to the my Magic. Not sure if that is still an issue with the new LTE stuff...
But yeah, my real question is, should I go for the Sprint One or hold out a bit and get the Tmo One?
Vonrottes said:
Not sure if this should go here or not.. But I've been watching the One since it was announced.
And I'm currently on the old $30/month plan from Tmo with an HTC Amaze..
Unfortunately I to get the one from Tmo the require $379 down which is a lot of money at once and will also up my bill to $70
But I also have the option to get one someones Sprint plan and get a One for $99...
But just looking thought the forum, its looking like the GSM One is getting better Dev support
Along with Google ports.
An another possible problem that comes to mind... is CDMA..
I was on sprint awhile ago and Had a HTC Hero and the battery drain was HORRIBLE compared to the my Magic. Not sure if that is still an issue with the new LTE stuff...
But yeah, my real question is, should I go for the Sprint One or hold out a bit and get the Tmo One?
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To my knowledge, you're not going to have a significant battery difference between CDMA and GSM. Updates will almost always be slower for us in the Sprint world because GSM variants tend to be more common worldwide, but the devs here work plenty hard. I'd check the forum though yourself to see if there're any ROMs you actually like the look of instead of taking someone else's word on how "good" dev is.
Price-wise, you might be better off going prepaid on T-Mobile, but then you'd need an unlocked GSM One, and that's dicey stuff.
Tmo is the way to go imho. I thought about getting the one when I got my nexus....it's about the only phone I'd consider other than my nexus. I chose the nexus because of the bang for your buck factor and dev support. I'm happy with my choice but I still love the one! Really a beautiful phone, with the guts to match....good luck
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Get tmo. Gsm gets a lot more love
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Yeah, go Tmo. Once you go CDMA, you shall never escape...
T mobile if you can afford it.
You can fully convert it to GPe or dev unlocked edition. It gets more support.
I read somewhere that only Sprint has working Google Wallet, though.
Coverage wise, it depends. Tmo is fantastic here (at least, the HSPA was), but Sprint doesn't even cover some of the places it says has "Good/better 3g".
As someone above said, you should check out the prepaid plans. It might be cheaper/better in the long run if you buy unlocked and just put in a prepaid card. Even if you will go over the data/minutes, the overages may still be cheaper than a contract.
http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans Check out the $30 one at the bottom. Only 100 mins, but 5GB data.
Using my sprint one on T-Mobile lte
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Using my sprint one on T-Mobile lte
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What PRL are you using to get that?
Thanks
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Using my sprint one on T-Mobile lte
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Yeah right
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flex360 said:
Get tmo. Gsm gets a lot more love
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Yep. I think we'd all have T-Mobile over Sprint if we had our choice. But we all have reasons... It's cheaper to stay on Sprint, etc...
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Yep. I think we'd all have T-Mobile over Sprint if we had our choice. But we all have reasons... It's cheaper to stay on Sprint, etc...
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Personally I'm staying on Sprint because they are making moves to make a triband network, as opposed to tmo which is a single band network. But at the moment Sprint is just terrible.
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I got mine 2 weeks ago from tmo and they only ask me to pay $100 down and $70 monthly
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I got mine 2 weeks ago from tmo and they only ask me to pay $100 down and $70 monthly
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Tmo base everything off of your credit check when they run it. For example, my cousin was told he he had to put down $500 and I was told $100.
However I chooses to come back to Sprint because I think they have good things coming ahead and plus Tmo service here where I live is little to nonexistent
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I'm on the $30 plan right now. But to finance a phone for me its 3xx down and sixty something a month.
And those 100 minutes burn up FAST.
In the long run sprint is actually going to be cheaper because I'm getting on an existing plan for 20-30 a month for unlimited everything.
But I'm still not sure I want to go CDMA...
I live in Columbus so coverage for both sprint and tmo is great..
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Interesting read right here!
UPDATE 1/16/14- Sprint securing $50 billion in funding from banks for T-Mobile purchase
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Interesting read right here!
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this is old news, there were talks about this over the summer
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this is old news, there were talks about this over the summer
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Source?
Its bigger now because the Soft Bank purchase went through so Sprint has a ton of cash they are sitting on.
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It was talked about even earlier than the date of this article. Is been in talks for a good part of the year now
www.fiercewireless.com/story/t-mobile-cfo-thinks-deal-sprint-possible/2013-09-26
Theirs a bunch of articles on this. Like I said old news. It was talked about heavy when the att t-mobile merger fell through
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Its bigger now because the Soft Bank purchase went through so Sprint has a ton of cash they are sitting on.
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Yes there has been talk about Sprint & T-Mobile for well over a year, but with SoftBank owning Sprint and they have deep pockets. It is now more about global domination and SoftBank is not letting down. Like any merger it will have to pass the FCC to succeed!
I don't really understand how aquiring Tmobile will help us Sprint customers.
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I don't really understand how aquiring Tmobile will help us Sprint customers.
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Obtaining a new source of money other than the massive soft bank purchase. Plus getting all of the customers T-Mobile has making very more competitive vs ATT and Verizon. Hopefully resulting in cheaper rates in the future. Plus Sprint users I'm assuming would now be able to access both CDMA and GSM frequencies making its coverage a lot better as GSM has better building penetrating power.
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I don't really understand how aquiring Tmobile will help us Sprint customers.
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It's not about helping the customers; it's all about the shareholders.
I wonder if they would put out an update if this happens for people with world phones that allowed us to be on gsm networks and cdma . Better roaming. data coverage.
I doubt the FCC would let it happen.
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I'm for it! Sprint coverage suuuuuucks in my area. T-Mobile, however, has great coverage. I know it's still pretty much rumor status and it would take a while for the merger to happen and whatnot, but I think it would greatly improve my coverage and data speeds.
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I'm for it! Sprint coverage suuuuuucks in my area. T-Mobile, however, has great coverage. I know it's still pretty much rumor status and it would take a while for the merger to happen and whatnot, but I think it would greatly improve my coverage and data speeds.
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+1! That's why I was so happy when I saw this haha.
I wouldnt mind seeing that hot t-mobile girl in some sprint commercials
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I wouldnt mind seeing that hot t-mobile girl in some sprint commercials
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This... i want this
I have one Sprint line and I got the HTC One on AT&T but the data restrictions were ridiculous. I unlocked my SIM and went to T-Mobile $70 unlimited everything plan and it has been great!
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I'm already on Sprint so if it provides better coverage and doesn't make thinks more expensive I hope it happens
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I have one Sprint line and I got the HTC One on AT&T but the data restrictions were ridiculous. I unlocked my SIM and went to T-Mobile $70 unlimited everything plan and it has been great!
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Let me hop on that unlimited plan with T-Mobile
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Updated OP with some new news.
So I'm all for this, but I'm wondering... If you are off contract with tmobile and they got bought out, would you be required to sign a contract or grand father in a no contract?
Hmm. Maybe this will boost my coverage with Boost Mobile.
so with all the news coming out of CES this year, the biggest thing i saw was the new incentive to switch to T-Mobile, where they will pay for your ETF from any carrier like Sprint. i live in Tallahassee and i know i get 3g half the time and 4g only at my apartment. article from the Verge Here:http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/8/52...-you-up-to-350-to-leave-your-existing-carrier so who thinks this is a good idea? plus its 20 dollars cheaper and i was going to buy a nexus 5 anyways. Sorry in advance if this is the wrong forum Mods, i havent really posted before, usually just read and watch. :good::good:
How is T-Mobile coverage in your area? If its good then its a good idea
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better than sprints sucky 3g. i just got sprint before moving up here in may and it was good 4g all the way back home, but up here its almost alwasy 3g or 1x when im at the university.
How is it 20 bucks cheaper?
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How is it 20 bucks cheaper?
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because its 90 dollars a month on my sprint contract for unlimited text and data and 450 anytime minutes, when its 70 for the same with T-Mobile with unlimited anything. plus I get a military discount of 20% off.
military discount with sprint is 15% I think. buy yeah if T-Mobile is cheaper and has better signal then go for it. Just know that you HAVE to trade in what ever phone you currently have with sprint. and you are in a small contract because you are trading in a phone where you get credit towards a new one so T-Mobile is financing you.
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