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I've been with Sprint for 13 years and am thinking heavily about moving to Verizon and the S4 mainly for better coverage and data speed. Who has come from Verizon and what phone features didn't you have with Verizon? I have heard that Verizon doesn't have visual voice mail or google maps navigation. I don't want to go through the hassle of switching if Verizon is so stripped down you can't use the phones.
You'll lose unlimited data. You've been with Sprint for 13 years now, are they not providing good service in your area? Be aware that later this year Sprint will be adding voice carriers on 800Mhz which will greatly increase your voice coverage. Later on they will be adding LTE carrier(s) on 800Mhz as well as part of network vision 2.0 which will greatly increase LTE coverage as well.
But if big red can offer better service for your needs then that will clearly be the better, more expensive, option.
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With Verizon, you'll likely experience slower updates and a couple extra hoops to flash custom ROMs.
If Verizon didn't screw me over in the past, then I'd probably give them a chance again since in my area, they offer the best coverage for data.
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You'll lose unlimited data. You've been with Sprint for 13 years now, are they not providing good service in your area? Be aware that later this year Sprint will be adding voice carriers on 800Mhz which will greatly increase your voice coverage. Later on they will be adding LTE carrier(s) on 800Mhz as well as part of network vision 2.0 which will greatly increase LTE coverage as well.
But if big red can offer better service for your needs then that will clearly be the better, more expensive, option.
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Verizon is light years ahead of Sprint in every aspect of radio technology. Verizon's S4 is the first phone compatible with their AWS network. Sprint is a freaking joke compared to Verizon. Radio technicians completely rag on how bad Sprint is.
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bndfishing said:
I've been with Sprint for 13 years and am thinking heavily about moving to Verizon and the S4 mainly for better coverage and data speed. Who has come from Verizon and what phone features didn't you have with Verizon? I have heard that Verizon doesn't have visual voice mail or google maps navigation. I don't want to go through the hassle of switching if Verizon is so stripped down you can't use the phones.
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Google Maps Navigation is a app from Google, Verizon can't stop you from using it. If you want Visual Voice mail just download something like Google voice.
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Verizon is light years ahead of Sprint in every aspect of radio technology. Verizon's S4 is the first phone compatible with their AWS network. Sprint is a freaking joke compared to Verizon. Radio technicians completely rag on how bad Sprint is.
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Google Maps Navigation is a app from Google, Verizon can't stop you from using it. If you want Visual Voice mail just download something like Google voice.
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I've heard radio technicians rave about att, but I don't care. They still are the evil empire IMO.
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Verizon is light years ahead of Sprint in every aspect of radio technology. Verizon's S4 is the first phone compatible with their AWS network. Sprint is a freaking joke compared to Verizon. Radio technicians completely rag on how bad Sprint is.
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Care to elaborate on what makes Verizons' radio technology so much better than Sprints'? Why do you think AWS is going to be great? If it's any indication from T-Mobile, AWS has absolutely terrible building penetration in metro areas. I don't deny that Verizon has a decent network, I used to use them for my carrier. When they started the tiered data plans and only letting you grandfather unlimited plans by paying for the FULL price of a phone, they started feeling too anti-consumer to me so I left. Having to worry about how much data I use in 2013 is awfully draconian.
We get that Sprints' legacy network is old, slow, and overloaded. Network Vision is replacing EVERY site with new hardware and backhaul. Even 1x only sites will get the full Network Vision treatment(800Mhz CDMA/LTE and 1900Mhz CDMA/LTE). With that said, I've NEVER had one issue with voice coverage with Sprint, only slow data in metro areas. /anecdote
With 800Mhz 1xAdvance/LTE on the horizon, Sprint will be even better.
I've been with Sprint for a while... I 1/2 thought about changing to Verizon this year when my contract was up (I HATE AT&T so I won't switch to them) but honestly it wasn't worth it for me. I have unlimited data, my coverage has been very good. Yes I only have 3g, but for what I use my phone for most of the time, it's fine (I don't surf the web much on my phone or watch Youtube, so...). They are also in the process of putting 4g in my area, although it will probably be a while before it is complete. I also get a discount though work with Sprint so it would cost me a lot more to go to Verizon. Every time I have had to call Sprint Customer Service they have been very helpful (which is only a few times).
In the end, it just wasn't worth it for me to switch.
You'll lose unlimited there customer service sucks there phones are so bloated and have locked bootloaders your Better off going with tmobile it is about the same price as sprint and there hspa+ network is as fast or faster than Lte and it is all ready nation wide.
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Same thing happend to me so I left vzw.
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It all depends on your area to what carrier to go with. That's why they have a 14 day period to cancel service. Ask friends and family about different providers and check out the sensorly app in the Play store for real coverage.
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It all depends on your area to what carrier to go with. That's why they have a 14 day period to cancel service. Ask friends and family about different providers and check out the sensorly app in the Play store for real coverage.
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Unfortunately if you're using an EVO lte the coverage map means nothing because I rarely get 4g where the map says I should have 2 bars. Even with airplane mode toggle I still can't pick it up. I usually use my wife's turd viper to check and almost always she has it. When I do have lte my wife's viper still gets better speeds. That's probably my main reason for getting s4 over the one because it's supposed to have the same problems. That's probably the biggest plus for the plastic over aluminum.
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With Verizon, you'll likely experience slower updates and a couple extra hoops to flash custom ROMs.
If Verizon didn't screw me over in the past, then I'd probably give them a chance again since in my area, they offer the best coverage for data.
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OMG, this & you can say bye bye to your unlimited plan, locked bootloader, terrible customer service. Verizon is just a big headache. They gave me horrible nightmares.
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Verizon is light years ahead of Sprint in every aspect of radio technology. Verizon's S4 is the first phone compatible with their AWS network. Sprint is a freaking joke compared to Verizon. Radio technicians completely rag on how bad Sprint is.
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To be fair, going by history, they'll probably push the AWS software enable update to their S4 about 9 months after the AWS launch and have a 500Mb data cap.
Currently (and will PROBABLY stay a Sprint customer), however, as for 800MHz LTE, as far as I know, there's no current phones that will be able to take advantage of that once it becomes available (unless Sprint is planning something similar for the S4 and they just haven't advertised it yet). 800MHz for voice will work for virtually everyone... but no phone out there right now is going to see an improvement data-wise from that spectrum. Pretty sure they announced at CTIA that only the new phones coming later this year will be able to take advantage of it.
I personally moved away from Sprint even with having LTE coverage and discover the world of MVNO and haven't regretted it one bit.
I've always thought prepaid service was for those with bad credit but oh boy was I wrong, times have changed.
Now I look at those who are under contracts and over paying for service as suckers.
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Currently (and will PROBABLY stay a Sprint customer), however, as for 800MHz LTE, as far as I know, there's no current phones that will be able to take advantage of that once it becomes available (unless Sprint is planning something similar for the S4 and they just haven't advertised it yet). 800MHz for voice will work for virtually everyone... but no phone out there right now is going to see an improvement data-wise from that spectrum. Pretty sure they announced at CTIA that only the new phones coming later this year will be able to take advantage of it.
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Correct, there are currently no Sprint 800Mhz LTE phones available. The current S4 cannot do LTE on 800.
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I personally moved away from Sprint even with having LTE coverage and discover the world of MVNO and haven't regretted it one bit.
I've always thought prepaid service was for those with bad credit but oh boy was I wrong, times have changed.
Now I look at those who are under contracts and over paying for service as suckers.
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Do you get cross carrier roaming on Sprint MVNOs?
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Do you get cross carrier roaming on Sprint MVNOs?
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Cross carrier roaming is allowed between AT&T and T Mobile if you choose a GMS phone.
From what I heard Verizon and Sprint allows cross carrier roaming through Straight Talk. If you choose to use a CDMA phone.
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Correct, there are currently no Sprint 800Mhz LTE phones available. The current S4 cannot do LTE on 800.
Do you get cross carrier roaming on Sprint MVNOs?
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ting lets calls/text on roaming but not data
but at 36 bucks a month for any sprint device you already have for what compares to the 30 dollar tmo plan
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Cross carrier roaming is allowed between AT&T and T Mobile if you choose a GMS phone.
From what I heard Verizon and Sprint allows cross carrier roaming through Straight Talk. If you choose to use a CDMA phone.
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ting lets calls/text on roaming but not data
but at 36 bucks a month for any sprint device you already have for what compares to the 30 dollar tmo plan
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Good to know!
Funny because I just left Verizon for Sprint. The data speeds are unbelievable but there too expensive. I also have a 27% discount through my employer with Sprint, so that is a plus. I gotta admit I'm loving this unlimited data thing.
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I switched from AT&T to sprint. Unlimited data is cool, but unfortunately it is SO SLOW in the areas I travel to it is pointless. And that is even in some of sprints LTE areas.
And the voice coverage sucks in the areas I go to for business too.
Sprint has great plans, and if you have good coverage they are hard to beat. Problem is that their voice and data network coverage is crap compared to Verizon or AT&T...
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http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/10/...imited-global-data-roaming-at-no-extra-charge
Look at that... What do hmu guys think?
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I should have bought an unlocked phone grabbed a tmo SIM and be on my marry a$$ way instead of dealing with this dinosaur spead 3g ....golly ...good grief!!
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this is awesome, hopefully sprint catches on and does something similar. Sprints international rates are atrocious! Although the One does have removable SIM capabilities, it would cut down the hassle of acquiring one in a different country and possibly having to cut it to microsim specs.
I regret my decision of staying with sprint every day. It takes me over 2 minutes to do a simple Google search on sprints network in my area that is supposedly in an LTE zone. The network is atrocious and they keep saying theyre upgrading the towers but it's been almost a year and if anything it's only gotten worse. The only thing that stopped me from going to T-Mobile was their terrible coverage in Michigan. Here's hoping this announcement gets Sprint moving to finally deploying a data network that is usable.
This is awesome, not because it makes me wanna switch to T-Mobile, but because it makes other carriers have to step up their game to compete on a level playing field
I for one like sprint. Except when I have 3g. Then it just plain sucks. Thankfully I have LTE almost everywhere
You do know that sprint may buy out T-Mobile
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Somebody should leak T-Mobile
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Somebody should leak T-Mobile
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Haha that my friend is the quote of the day !!!
Haha good job
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Tmobile is great haha just switched over and still using my sprint HTC one highest I've seen on speedtest is 6.9 mb/s Download keep in mind this is 3G
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How the Hell did T-Mobile beat sprint I'm the LTE ROLLOUT?! SERIOUSLY
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CNexus said:
This is awesome, not because it makes me wanna switch to T-Mobile, but because it makes other carriers have to step up their game to compete on a level playing field
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^^^^this^^^^
Look at what happened when the $5 hot and ready pizza came out. Everybody changed pricing or menu items to become more competitive... :thumbup:
Or fast food 'value' menu's, suddenly every fast food chain had one...
Or 60 second abs, soon it only took 45 seconds!
Kudos to T-Mobile for doing something new.
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How the Hell did T-Mobile beat sprint I'm the LTE ROLLOUT?! SERIOUSLY
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Someone should leak LTE for sprint
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Haha omg ^^^^ this guy good
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Coverage needs improvement but I get good speeds
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Damn you Sprint!!! All I want is LTE....is that too much to ask?
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You do know that sprint may buy out T-Mobile
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This is not going to happen. T mobile is on a roll. There network is better. There plans are better and there upgrade plan is better. They are taking the other threes customers daily. They are going to surpass sprint very quickly if they haven't and their lte coverage has already surpassed sprint. Sprint still doesn't care and sprints lte network as a whole is terrible. Yeah some people post some big speeds but for the most part most of us are not impressed. If t mobile has the monetary status to roll out their lte network like this so does sprint. T mobile was almost dead a year and a half ago. Sprint put in an lte network to say they are lte. Nothing more. Sorry sprint. T mobile has +42 hspa and lte. Why are we still here? Contract up in June and I'll bet t mobile has lte before sprint where I live so this is my last with sprint. End RANT!
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This is not going to happen. T mobile is on a roll. There network is better. There plans are better and there upgrade plan is better. They are taking the other threes customers daily. They are going to surpass sprint very quickly if they haven't and their lte coverage has already surpassed sprint. Sprint still doesn't care and sprints lte network as a whole is terrible. Yeah some people post some big speeds but for the most part most of us are not impressed. If t mobile has the monetary status to roll out their lte network like this so does sprint. T mobile was almost dead a year and a half ago. Sprint put in an lte network to say they are lte. Nothing more. Sorry sprint. T mobile has +42 hspa and lte. Why are we still here? Contract up in June and I'll bet t mobile has lte before sprint where I live so this is my last with sprint. End RANT!
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What T-Mobile is doing for pricing and their offering is amazing. I really hope it spurs some real price competition from Sprint. Their 3G coverage in my area is total crap though, EDGE only in all of Bristol TN/VA and pretty much the entire areas around Johnson City and Kingsport. My biggest beef with T-Mobile is trust though. How do you trust a carrier that tried to sell their customer's out to the death star (AT&T)?
I do think Sprint is going to continue bleeding customers to T-Mobile unless they can do this:
-Provide some kind of similar free throttled international data, at the very least to Canada and Mexico.
-Go "no contract"
-Add sites to fix terrible 1900MHz LTE coverage in many areas where all their current towers have been upgraded but coverage still sucks, or hurry up on the tri-band phones and rollout of 800MHz LTE
-Lower the prices a bit
-Family plan price changes. Sprint's family plans are the worst deal out of the 4 carriers, and it's hard to make a worse deal than Verizon.
-Wifi calling on their phones would be better than the Airave program that I know costs Sprint lots of money
Basically, if Sprint would copy a lot of T-Mobile's ideas and fix serious issues with their LTE rollout, they'd be in a much better position. Sprint customer service is already better than T-Mobile, and that's pretty much the only selling point compared to T-Mobile besides superior non-LTE coverage. If things don't change soon, those selling points may become moot.
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What T-Mobile is doing for pricing and their offering is amazing. I really hope it spurs some real price competition from Sprint. Their 3G coverage in my area is total crap though, EDGE only in all of Bristol TN/VA and pretty much the entire areas around Johnson City and Kingsport. My biggest beef with T-Mobile is trust though. How do you trust a carrier that tried to sell their customer's out to the death star (AT&T)?
I do think Sprint is going to continue bleeding customers to T-Mobile unless they can do this:
-Provide some kind of similar free throttled international data, at the very least to Canada and Mexico.
-Go "no contract"
-Add sites to fix terrible 1900MHz LTE coverage in many areas where all their current towers have been upgraded but coverage still sucks, or hurry up on the tri-band phones and rollout of 800MHz LTE
-Lower the prices a bit
-Family plan price changes. Sprint's family plans are the worst deal out of the 4 carriers, and it's hard to make a worse deal than Verizon.
-Wifi calling on their phones would be better than the Airave program that I know costs Sprint lots of money
Basically, if Sprint would copy a lot of T-Mobile's ideas and fix serious issues with their LTE rollout, they'd be in a much better position. Sprint customer service is already better than T-Mobile, and that's pretty much the only selling point compared to T-Mobile besides superior non-LTE coverage. If things don't change soon, those selling points may become moot.
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If their service was better in the first place. We wouldn't need it so much. So as for this being a selling point. No good. T mobile has already surpassed sprint in their lte rollout. And at the pace they are moving they are definitely putting improvements from monetary gains immediately back in the company. It won't be long at this pace and the approach they have in winning customers that they will continue to move quickly in their customer gains and ranking. Their lte just came second to att and beat att in 20 markets. Sprint is doing nothing but putting lte on existing towers. Therefore until they actuall will not improve coverage but just provide lte when we are close enough to a tower. Softbanks acquisition of sprint hasn't showed any improvements of the speed of deployment of lte. We already have the networks vision implemented where I live and there is honestly no improvement in call quality nor 3g speeds other than once in a while. I live 1.6 miles from a tower that has the netwot vision improvements and I have to use an airrave. Makes my stomach turn honestly. I've asked them why I need the airrave. The tower is literally on my street and I can't make a call from home without the airrave. T mobile has made improvements where I live and many people I know have moved from sprint to tmobile.
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If their service was better in the first place. We wouldn't need it so much. So as for this being a selling point. No good. T mobile has already surpassed sprint in their lte rollout. And at the pace they are moving they are definitely putting improvements from monetary gains immediately back in the company. It won't be long at this pace and the approach they have in winning customers that they will continue to move quickly in their customer gains and ranking. Their lte just came second to att and beat att in 20 markets. Sprint is doing nothing but putting lte on existing towers. Therefore until they actuall will not improve coverage but just provide lte when we are close enough to a tower. Softbanks acquisition of sprint hasn't showed any improvements of the speed of deployment of lte. We already have the networks vision implemented where I live and there is honestly no improvement in call quality nor 3g speeds other than once in a while. I live 1.6 miles from a tower that has the netwot vision improvements and I have to use an airrave. Makes my stomach turn honestly. I've asked them why I need the airrave. The tower is literally on my street and I can't make a call from home without the airrave. T mobile has made improvements where I live and many people I know have moved from sprint to tmobile.
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I live 3/4 of a mile from a tower and only get 1-2 bars inside without the Airave. I feel your pain. My T-Mobile friends cannot use their phones in my house at all unless they switch it to Wi-Fi calling.
T-Mobile is an absolute joke in this rural area. Right now they're only a serious option in cities, and nothing has changed regarding their coverage in my area or surrounding areas, so I have no reason to suspect this will change. Sprint has 3G all along I-81 even in rural southwest VA, whereas T-Mobile has only EDGE in SWVA for 3 hours from the state line, and they have only EDGE between the Tri Cities and Knoxville. Sprint has also added LTE to much of this area, for example the Greeneville, TN and Bristol, TN/VA markets have LTE from Sprint but only Edge from T-Mobile. T-Mobile LTE has not touched any region within 3 hours of me besides Asheville NC. My friend just drove up to Athens, OH on T-Mobile and was roaming for 5 hours of the 7 hour drive because T-Mobile has crap rural coverage. There is Sprint 3G coverage on that entire drive and 4G for the first hour.
If you live in a city T-Mobile may be great for you, but it's still not an option for most rural or semi-rural people.
I figured I'd post this here
http://pocketnow.com/2014/06/07/softbank-usa
As John Legere, the future CEO of Softbank USA has said, Uncarrier is here to stay!
I hope this means that I get Tri-Band on my Nexus 5!
-A T-Mobile Customer.
I have no problem with this even though my Sero plan will probably be going away as long as Dan Hesse gets canned and John Legere takes control with the TMO way of doing business.
this sounds awesome
Not a big fan of the name. SoftBank USA sounds more of a bank name than a carrier name.
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Not a big fan of the name. SoftBank USA sounds more of a bank name than a carrier name.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftBank
SoftBank is a Japanese telecommunications company who owns Sprint and soon T-Mobile.
I hope they keep unlimited data.
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Hope they merge to a all GSM network, instead of a hodgepodge of all the different tech used by Sprint and T-Mo.
Wouldn't the logical and smart name for the company be SprinT-Mobile?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftBank
SoftBank is a Japanese telecommunications company who owns Sprint and soon T-Mobile.
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I'm aware of what soft bank is.. I was saying that I'm not the biggest fan of the name because it sounds like a bank more than a carrier name.
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Seriously, what does this mean for us N5 users? With the addition of Sprint Spark, the N5 can connect to literally EVERY band both companies have, 3G, HSPA+, T-Mo LTE, Sprint Band 25/26/41 LTE, etc...Will SoftBank issue new SIMs to utilize both networks? They might consolidate into GSM, but Sprint Spark is significantly more advanced then HSPA+/T-Mo LTE, and I think that they'd want to utilize that...Either way, should be interesting...
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Seriously, what does this mean for us N5 users? With the addition of Sprint Spark, the N5 can connect to literally EVERY band both companies have, 3G, HSPA+, T-Mo LTE, Sprint Band 25/26/41 LTE, etc...Will SoftBank issue new SIMs to utilize both networks? They might consolidate into GSM, but Sprint Spark is significantly more advanced then HSPA+/T-Mo LTE, and I think that they'd want to utilize that...Either way, should be interesting...
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T-Mobile also has 20x20 LTE which is pretty fast. They're most likely going to go to VoLTE route.
in the end i dont really see a down side to any of this. just really hope they dont do away with unlimited data.
May the Mobile Data Gods be with us!
If you don't see a downside to this, you have never been on Sprint (lucky you). The absolute worst network has been hemorrhaging customers for quite a while for a reason, me as one of them. I am glad to see the rumor mill is for T-Mobile CEO to take the lead job, but I see great potential for my wonderful T-Mobile to be harmed mightily. Lets hope for the best
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If you don't see a downside to this, you have never been on Sprint (lucky you). The absolute worst network has been hemorrhaging customers for quite a while for a reason, me as one of them. I am glad to see the rumor mill is for T-Mobile CEO to take the lead job, but I see great potential for my wonderful T-Mobile to be harmed mightily. Lets hope for the best
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Speak for yourself. T-Mobile has 2G coverage in my town. Sprint(which I'm on) has 3G, and in the city next to me, Sprint has blanketed LTE, while T-Mobile has spotty HSPA and barely any LTE. In the sticks, Sprint is almost always better than T-Mobile, hell AT&T has more deadspots around my area than Sprint...
I'll be ok with the merger, as long as its like T-mobile taking sprint over, and not the other way around. Get rid of all sprint higher ups, and keep t-mobiles, because obviously the current t-mobile is much more capable then sprint has ever been since the sprint/nextel merger.
And i better get to keep my $30 100 min, unlim text 5gig data plan.
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As long as they keep unlimited data and the UP phone upgrade program, I'm all for it.
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Hope they merge to a all GSM network, instead of a hodgepodge of all the different tech used by Sprint and T-Mo.
Wouldn't the logical and smart name for the company be SprinT-Mobile?
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The most likely course of action is that the networks will remain as is and the combined company will transition to all LTE and eventually shut off the CDMA/GSM/UMTS networks completely.
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Considering they will most likely have 800, PCS, AWS and the spark band; they could take one of those bands and use a third for voLTE.
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Speak for yourself. T-Mobile has 2G coverage in my town. Sprint(which I'm on) has 3G, and in the city next to me, Sprint has blanketed LTE, while T-Mobile has spotty HSPA and barely any LTE. In the sticks, Sprint is almost always better than T-Mobile, hell AT&T has more deadspots around my area than Sprint...
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Where I'm located (Houston Tx) T-Mobile sucks. I work w/ some guys who have great flagship devices and they have Tmo and are always getting dropped calls and data is spotty as all get out.
I'm in Biloxi Mississippi now and I have LTE about 70% of the time on Sprint. I have it 90% of the time in Houston and have for a while now. They have come a looooooooooong way. Guess it just depends on where you are located.
I hope the deal goes through. [emoji41]
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If this is seriously the final verdict of the merger...I have to say I'm terrified and excited all at the same time. Sprint is right next to Verizon with me..and I hate both of them, no opinion of AT&T though.
But I'm excited because as long as Legere is still CEO I don't think us original T-Mobile clients have to worry too much (been with T-Mobile since 1999)..and hopefully we end up on a grandfathered plan so we don't lose features or have an insane price hike... Because the most important thing to me on my plan is unlimited data.
Edit : this makes sense now and it goes along with Uncarrier 5.0... Legere wanted to increase revenue...so he got did away with 15% discounts with programs like Triple A (AAA) and made it so only government and military workers are the only ones capable of getting a discount)
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Hello guys,
I've been with sprint for about 20 yrs and I'm thinking about leaving because the promise of better coverage and LTE has been lack luster. I would like to hear from you guys on Tmobile if you like their service, do you get good LTE and are they still throttling data?
The only reason I'm still with sprint is because I think they offer the best in monthly options with their prices, never had a bad customer experience and real unlimited data for $20 with Tmobile I see that's at $45
So for those who switch to T-mobile are you happy and anything to look out for when dealing with T-mobile?
Thanks for any input
I left Sprint for T-mobs least year and haven't looked back. Prices are actually cheaper and was pleasantly surprised to go to Europe and found I had data and texting for no additional fee. The JUMP! program is pretty nice as well. Really it comes down to your location and who has more towers in the area.
And we, Canadians, are paying C$40 for 300MB per month... *cries internally* *cries externally* *cries uncontrollably with jealousy*
I have been on Tmo for quite some time. I like it. Not as good of coverage as Verizon and maybe Sprint when you get up in northern Minnesota but then again when I am off exploring in the north I don't wish to be constantly tethered.
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And we, Canadians, are paying C$40 for 300MB per month... *cries internally* *cries externally* *cries uncontrollably with jealousy*
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lol Steven I feel you but you guys have free Health Insurance lmbo.. But you did put things in prospective, $40 is $40 and for 300MB that SUCKS!
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I have been on Tmo for quite some time. I like it. Not as good of coverage as Verizon and maybe Sprint when you get up in northern Minnesota but then again when I am off exploring in the north I don't wish to be constantly tethered.
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Hmm, From their map I should be good here in the East cost.. philly area, but then again sprint map said I should be good also but clearly on a good day I will get about 60% LTE if that.
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Hmm, From their map I should be good here in the East cost.. philly area, but then again sprint map said I should be good also but clearly on a good day I will get about 60% LTE if that.
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I had sprint for 6 years and switched to tmobile when I got the s6. T-Mobile was working better indoors than sprint. Plus having GSM in my opinion is better than CDMA because you can just pop the sim into another device.
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Depends on your coverage area. I'm a 10 year TMO customer and I live in the Los Angeles area. My reception SIGNIFICANTLY improved when I got my S6, which is my first band 12 phone. I used apps like LTE Discovery to monitor when my phone switches from band 4 (TMO's old LTE band) to band 12. I found my phone stays in band 4 most of the time. My band 4 reception is significantly better. I work in the center of a office building (no windows), where I got no reception with my old Galaxy S4. Now (on band 4) I get perfect reception for calls, text, and data. TMO really improved their LTE service.
I went from Verizon to tmoblile in may of last year. I'm in NJ so both really have great coverage but the WiFi calling was the deal breaker along with a gsm network.
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YES.
It really depends on where you live.
Believe it or not, Sprint actually has some really good service areas.
I just have never lived in one. Tmo kicks their butt in my area.
Edit: I never had bad signal from Sprint here. But I could have full bars of LTE, and still only get 2-6KB/s of data. The only way to get Sprint to work here was to force roam on VZW.
T-Mobile just got crap load of new towers so yeah come to T-Mobile. It's been perfect for me for a few years now. Left Sprint for T-Mobile.
T-Mobile Buildout 2016
WolfsFang said:
I went from Verizon to tmoblile in may of last year. I'm in NJ so both really have great coverage but the WiFi calling was the deal breaker along with a gsm network.
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I switched around the middle of last year. I miss Verizon's network strength. I've had a lot of issues with Tmobile's coverage. They seem to be more concerned with marketing and building a consumer base than investing in infrastructure.
I left verizon for t-mobile a couple of years ago and haven't looked back. If you live in and don't often leave a metropolitan area, tmobile's coverage is really good. I got on the $30 prepaid Walmart plan. 100 mins, unlimited text and data with the first 5GB at 4G. http://www.walmart.com/ip/39081494. Google $30 Walmart tmobile plan for more info.
socal87 said:
I switched around the middle of last year. I miss Verizon's network strength. I've had a lot of issues with Tmobile's coverage. They seem to be more concerned with marketing and building a consumer base than investing in infrastructure.
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I haven't really noticed that, some areas verizon has better coverage and in other T-Mobile is better. But in most cases both networks I would have full bars lte.
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I left sprint two years ago for tmobile and am so glad I did. Sprint sucks in California.
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AT&T now has service in my area and everywhere else around me. I'm cheap so obviously I want to choose Cricket over AT&T or GoPhone and yes I'm aware there is 8mbps cap for LTE and 4mbps for HSPA but that doesn't bother me.
Anybody using Cricket? Calling/SMS/MMS/Data reliable? I've seen mixed reviews on Cricket.
I use Straight Talk on AT&T towers. $50/month after taxes for 5GB of data and unlimited everything else. Plus, the speeds on Straight Talk AT&T are not capped, so it's well worth to me.
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
I use Straight Talk on AT&T towers. $50/month after taxes for 5GB of data and unlimited everything else. Plus, the speeds on Straight Talk AT&T are not capped, so it's well worth to me.
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I considered straight talk and att gophone but I need 3 lines. 3 lines on Cricket would be $90 for 3GB data per line, $120 for 8gb data per line, or $150 for unlimited, taxes and fees included so it's the cheapest MVNO. Prices would go down even further getting 2 more people in and doing the group sharing. 8mbps is plenty for me and the other lines, we don't download large files on cellular and 8mbps is capable of streaming audio/video no problem.
Dopamin3 said:
AT&T now has service in my area and everywhere else around me. I'm cheap so obviously I want to choose Cricket over AT&T or GoPhone and yes I'm aware there is 8mbps cap for LTE and 4mbps for HSPA but that doesn't bother me.
Anybody using Cricket? Calling/SMS/MMS/Data reliable? I've seen mixed reviews on Cricket.
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Yes, almost two years now, very happy. I switched from Straight Talk due to poor communications and many local network outages (central coastal California halfway between SF and LA).
I'm on a plan for $45 a month ($50 without auto pay) and get 8 GB per month, no family, no mulltiline. Again very satisfied with Cricket.
Dopamin3 said:
AT&T now has service in my area and everywhere else around me. I'm cheap so obviously I want to choose Cricket over AT&T or GoPhone and yes I'm aware there is 8mbps cap for LTE and 4mbps for HSPA but that doesn't bother me.
Anybody using Cricket? Calling/SMS/MMS/Data reliable? I've seen mixed reviews on Cricket.
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Been with Cricket for over a year now. Love their unlimited plan. Usually go over 15GB no problem. Plus the hotspot workaround makes it even more worth it. Service and customer service are great. Much better than Straight Talk.
Perhaps I've simply been lucky with Straight Talk. I've never had a problem with their customer service when I needed it. As for the service itself, I use the AT&T side of things so it has been excellent for me. However Straight Talk uses all four carriers, so your mileage will vary, especially if you use Sprint.
I've given thought to switching to Cricket in the past, but I cannot get past the throttling aspect. To me, throttling LTE to HSPA speeds means you aren't truly getting LTE. You're not getting everything you're paying for. LTE = speed, and I don't want to be stuck in the slow lane.
Dopamin3 said:
AT&T now has service in my area and everywhere else around me. I'm cheap so obviously I want to choose Cricket over AT&T or GoPhone and yes I'm aware there is 8mbps cap for LTE and 4mbps for HSPA but that doesn't bother me.
Anybody using Cricket? Calling/SMS/MMS/Data reliable? I've seen mixed reviews on Cricket.
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yep, I am on Cricket Wireless and have been for 3 years. I use to juggle different prepay plans until I found Cricket. Works great for me no matter where I go.
Dopamin3 said:
AT&T now has service in my area and everywhere else around me. I'm cheap so obviously I want to choose Cricket over AT&T or GoPhone and yes I'm aware there is 8mbps cap for LTE and 4mbps for HSPA but that doesn't bother me.
Anybody using Cricket? Calling/SMS/MMS/Data reliable? I've seen mixed reviews on Cricket.
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I've used mine on Cricket with zero problems for over a year.The LTE caps haven't been an issue and I get good speeds consistently.Im on the $70 plan and used 64 gigs last month with no slow down.My average use per month runs around 30 gigs.I myself think they are far superior to straight talk but that's just my opinion.
So the current word is the Google Nexus 6 running Android 7.0 works 100% on cricket besides LTE band 30 for better indoor quality?
Does the hot-spot work fully without any hacking on the unlimited plan and does VoLte work with Cricket?
TIA
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gabe.ulrickson said:
So the current word is the Google Nexus 6 running Android 7.0 works 100% on cricket besides LTE band 30 for better indoor quality?
Does the hot-spot work fully without any hacking on the unlimited plan and does VoLte work with Cricket?
TIA
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Also considering the nexus 6p
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Dopamin3 said:
AT&T now has service in my area and everywhere else around me. I'm cheap so obviously I want to choose Cricket over AT&T or GoPhone and yes I'm aware there is 8mbps cap for LTE and 4mbps for HSPA but that doesn't bother me.
Anybody using Cricket? Calling/SMS/MMS/Data reliable? I've seen mixed reviews on Cricket.
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I am using Cricket on the Nexus 6 and everything is running great! I live in northern California and I get almost full bars every place I go. Just be sure to change your APN settings because the stock cricket one is iffy at best
narithlot said:
I am using Cricket on the Nexus 6 and everything is running great! I live in northern California and I get almost full bars every place I go. Just be sure to change your APN settings because the stock cricket one is iffy at best
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Would you care to place a copy of your current apn settings up on the forum so that I can try it out with my phone once I get switched back to cricket.
And TBH I have noticed that cricket stock is iffy at best. Due to LTE aggregation it works faster than 8mbps on standard LTE but when using hot-spot my ps4 seems to get like no speed at all, took 13+ hours to download bf4 but that was also with an avg. 2 bars in my house as most of crickets phones do not have band 30 LTE so they don't normally have good indoor coverage in any place but tons of towers where pretty much every carrier and tower has full signal or 4 bars
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gabe.ulrickson said:
Would you care to place a copy of your current apn settings up on the forum so that I can try it out with my phone once I get switched back to cricket.
And TBH I have noticed that cricket stock is iffy at best. Due to LTE aggregation it works faster than 8mbps on standard LTE but when using hot-spot my ps4 seems to get like no speed at all, took 13+ hours to download bf4 but that was also with an avg. 2 bars in my house as most of crickets phones do not have band 30 LTE so they don't normally have good indoor coverage in any place but tons of towers where pretty much every carrier and tower has full signal or 4 bars
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here you go.. this has worked flawlessly for me
narithlot said:
here you go.. this has worked flawlessly for me
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So basically you have it set to att apn instead of cricket
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gabe.ulrickson said:
So basically you have it set to att apn instead of cricket
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yup! i tried all the cricket ones and they were not reliable. When i change to the ATT APN everything worked great, no problems what so ever
narithlot said:
yup! i tried all the cricket ones and they were not reliable. When i change to the ATT APN everything worked great, no problems what so ever
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I did this with a T-Mobile one on metropcs, usually a 3 Mbps boost but sometimes it'll read 16 on metro mmsc and 22 on tmo
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Cricket has been good for me so far, I was on fi then switched to mint because I'm always looking for a deal or promotion and I switched to cricket got a free phone that I sold on eBay. They use at&t towers which have been fine for me.