Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

[TheCUJuan]

To what part of the bill is the employer discount applied to on these unlimited plans?

[RedSpark]

To what part of the bill is the employer discount applied to on these unlimited plans?

 

This new plan is non-discountable.

Unlimited My Way has the discount applied to the Data portion only.

Everything Data has the discount applied to the entire price, if I recall correctly....

[Matt.NY.Tech]

If no one else gets around to it, I'll show my math later but...

 

Switching to the new $150 UL plan from my ED1500 with 4 lines and new phones would cost me aprox $300 more over the next 2 year cycle. 

 

I used the current pricing on the LG G4 for the comparison and I currently have a 23% discount. Your milage may vary. 

[Matt.NY.Tech]

Everything Data has the discount applied to the entire price, if I recall correctly....

 

Just the primary line cost before the 4G charge. 

[RedSpark]

Just the primary line cost before the 4G charge. 

 

Thanks for clarifying that!

[utiz4321]

So I notice on the announcement it said that it included sprint global roaming. Does this mean if I switched to this plan I can't use open world. Even though I had to reset my iPhone to get it working and then do it again when I got back to the states, once it was working it was pretty awesome to have access to 3G service while traveling abroad. Thanks

 

 

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[ingenium]

So I notice on the announcement it said that it included sprint global roaming. Does this mean if I switched to this plan I can't use open world. Even though I had to reset my iPhone to get it working and then do it again when I got back to the states, once it was working it was pretty awesome to have access to 3G service while traveling abroad. Thanks

 

 

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My interpretation is that it's enabled by default, whereas when it was initially announced you had to manually add it to your plan.

 

I doubt this would prevent you from removing it to add open world, but I could be wrong... Or they may change open world to be stackable with global roaming (ie not have to remove it first).

 

For what it's worth, I haven't been able to log into Sprint for the last hour. I keep getting bad gateway saying that the proxy received an invalid response from an upstream server. Site upgrades I'm guessing... But you'd think they'd do this at night like most companies...

 

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[MacinJosh]

My interpretation is that it's enabled by default, whereas when it was initially announced you had to manually add it to your plan.

 

I doubt this would prevent you from removing it to add open world, but I could be wrong... Or they may change open world to be stackable with global roaming (ie not have to remove it first).

 

For what it's worth, I haven't been able to log into Sprint for the last hour. I keep getting bad gateway saying that the proxy received an invalid response from an upstream server. Site upgrades I'm guessing... But you'd think they'd do this at night like most companies...

 

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Are you using Firefox? I have that problem all the time.

[nexgencpu]

From the horses mouth!

 

https://twitter.com/marceloclaure/status/698008449314004993

[markjcc]

Can someone help identify whose on these towers?

 

http://imgur.com/a/VsCgF

[clbowens]

I think one thing is going unnoticed with this new pricing.  The price for 1 line is going up again to $75 from $70.

Yep, according to their website, the price for a single unlimited plan is now $75

[RedSpark]

From the horses mouth!

 

https://twitter.com/marceloclaure/status/698008449314004993

 

That's so awesome to see. Sprint's DAS capacity upgrades and the addition of two channel CA was a big help!

[dnicekid]

My question is how do we really know?

Sprint confirms they are the fastest? Tmo confirms they are the fastest......

Tmo was 38 how was sprints 23 and Tmo last?

Tmo barely edged out sprint in their test and now Tmo is last?

Makes u go hmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

Good for sprint, wouldn't surprise me if vzw and att find Data to suggest they were the fastest

[utiz4321]

My question is how do we really know?

Sprint confirms they are the fastest? Tmo confirms they are the fastest......

Tmo was 38 how was sprints 23 and Tmo last?

Tmo barely edged out sprint in their test and now Tmo is last?

Makes u go hmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

Good for sprint, wouldn't surprise me if vzw and att find Data to suggest they were the fastest

Who cares. The point is they provided usable service. If they are both claiming, it must mean: one, that it is close and two they are using different measures.

 

 

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[gusherb]

So I was downtown today and saw this at Ontario and Wabash:

 

[jreuschl]

http://www.walmart.com/cp/Spark-Reviewer/1228708

 

This is interesting.  Wal-Mart actually uses the term "Spark"  I wonder if they and Sprint had any issues and that is why Sprint is dropping the Spark name.

[laqn1283]

Marcelo tweeted Sprint average speed nationwide for the past 14 days is 20MB highest among the 4 carriers and 40 MB in Florida!  Hopefully part of these claims are true.  

[newboyx]

So I was downtown today and saw this at Ontario and Wabash:

 

Right next to the T-Mobile store

 

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[tyroned3222]

Marcelo tweeted Sprint average speed nationwide for the past 14 days is 20MB highest among the 4 carriers and 40 MB in Florida! Hopefully part of these claims are true.

I saw this as well. If it is 100 % true.. it would be very impressive!

 

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[nexgencpu]

Don't know if this was posted before, but here is the link to the Superbowl DAS results Marcelo tweeted.

http://dasgroupprofessionals.com/?p=587

[Johnner1999]

Don't know if this was posted before, but here is the link to the Superbowl DAS results Marcelo tweeted.

http://dasgroupprofessionals.com/?p=587

 

 

 

i think portion speaks louder...   Sprint users passed the least amount data.  compared to the big two, huge difference.  the sprint network should have been faster by 3x

 

 

 

• AT&T –  5.2 Terabytes
• Sprint – 1.6 Terabytes
• T-Mobile – 2.1 Terabytes
• Verizon –  7 Terabytes

[Overstew]

Marcelo tweeted Sprint average speed nationwide for the past 14 days is 20MB highest among the 4 carriers and 40 MB in Florida! Hopefully part of these claims are true.

Probably in areas where only Sprint offers B41. Similarly like how Sprint said they're the fastest nationwide from Nelson studies.

[nexgencpu]

i think portion speaks louder... Sprint users passed the least amount data. compared to the big two, huge difference. the sprint network should have been faster by 3x

 

 

 

 

• AT&T – 5.2 Terabytes[/size]
• Sprint – 1.6 Terabytes[/size]
• T-Mobile – 2.1 Terabytes[/size]
• Verizon – 7 Terabytes[/size]

I dont think it's that simple.

[Overstew]

Is anyone noticing this?

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Sprint/comments/45keb5/sprints_finally_brining_the_heat/czyjatr

 

Sprint is also doing low key 4x MIMO deployment on 1900 LTE if your in a Ericsson market, should see around a 30% gain in signal performance.

[Johnner1999]

I dont think it's that simple.

 

 

agreed

 

but neither are the speed claims... 

 

 

it would be better leveraged if we knew how many devices connected by each carrier.  (maybe even brown down by cluster... maybe more Sprint users in one portion of the arena?)... along with a breakdown of hourly usage -- over played with the throughput and speed logs from above.