markjcc Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 http://mobipcs.com/ Known as Coral wireless, is this a MVNO of sprint? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richy Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 No, iirc, they have their own network here and roam on sprint \ metro pcs and cricket in the lower 48. Edit: Just checked reboot, they have their own spectrum here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markjcc Posted September 10, 2013 Author Share Posted September 10, 2013 No, iirc, they have their own network here and roam on sprint \ metro pcs and cricket in the lower 48. Edit: Just checked reboot, they have their own spectrum here. Any idea of what spectrum they run? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawvega Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Any idea of what spectrum they run? Mobi PCS has (not surprisingly) PCS spectrum licenses in Hawaii. They also have one AWS spectrum license for Guam & the Northern Mariana Islands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
808Bill Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 No, iirc, they have their own network here and roam on sprint \ metro pcs and cricket in the lower 48. Edit: Just checked reboot, they have their own spectrum here. I came to Sprint from Mobi. Although you do get nationwide roaming, it's only for voice/text. No data roaming. Service was pretty good. Coverage was a bit better than my current Sprint coverage. Hopefully that will change soon. My problem with Mobi was the lack of high-end devices. Their current flagship phone is the S3 which was just released last week. In order to have a reasonably good piece of hardware, you'd have to buy a good used phone on Ebay or Craigslist, then pay $50-$75 dollars to have it flashed to Mobi. Okay for one person, but with a family of four, it just became a royal pain in the ass. Last August, it was rumored that they were to be sold to Sumitomo, but no word on that ever came out afterwards. We left because I spending a small fortune on trading used phones, and they had absolutely no announced plans for LTE. I think they were able to build their infrastructure using Federal Rural grants, and now that those are dried up, they don't have the capital to build up their network. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markjcc Posted September 10, 2013 Author Share Posted September 10, 2013 How are the data speeds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
808Bill Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 How are the data speeds They were typical 3g speeds. Perhaps a bit faster than what I get on Sprint, but nothing spectacular. And their "Unlimted Data" is a bit misleading as they instituted data caps and will throttle you if you exceed them. In the words of the great Inigo Montoyo, "You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means." The rate you pay on a single plan is very good. But when we did the math, for a family plan compared to Sprint, it was not much more per month. And I have a nice new HTC One to boot. I'll be patient and wait for the LTE and will be a happy camper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markjcc Posted September 11, 2013 Author Share Posted September 11, 2013 Do they use the same frequency as sprint because it seems they have sprints old phones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawvega Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 They use PCS spectrum as mentioned earlier and Sprint uses PCS spectrum. Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
808Bill Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Do they use the same frequency as sprint because it seems they have sprints old phones I was able to flash both Sprint (Photon) and Verizon (Razr Maxx) phones to their network. They also offer Verizon old phones (Milestone X... seriously, that phone is so old). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markjcc Posted September 11, 2013 Author Share Posted September 11, 2013 Interesting, it does seem though that they are making some sort of capital because there adding new 3G sites Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
808Bill Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Interesting, it does seem though that they are making some sort of capital because there adding new 3G sites Oh, I'm sure they make money. But they really made a killing with Hawaiian Homeland subsidies. Recently the FCC substantially cut those back for Mobi and Sandwich Isle Communications. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/May/27/ln/FP705270372.html Bottom line is they haven't said a peep about LTE. And even if they did, I'd take it with a grain of salt. They've been promissing the iPhone for years now, and released the S3 last week after promising it a year ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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