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This is my current which is low compared to my normal speeds. I blame the Grammys and social media hogging the network.

 

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How can you blame the Grammys? They are in LA, not Indiana, lol.

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I'm in Visalia right now and tonight I have .93mbps down and .11 up. Pathetic for the upload, but the download is doing better, little by little.

I sure hope those chipsets will be battery efficient or at least have bigger batteries on the phones when they are released. I like better battery life. And do you think NV in Nevada will be this year, or next?

On Verizon CDMA/LTE devices, they are still activated like CDMA, but the LTE SIM card must be inserted. I had an LTE data card for a few months, and it was activated the same way a Verizon 3G card was. And LTE is based off GSM technology in a way, so as far as I know, it will require a SIM card for use.

Actually, it's not working on the website. And it seems to be affecting just your posts as the admin.

As detailed in the 2 articles linked below, Clear has now decided to brick the infamous iSpot. For those who still keep theirs active, no need to worry, you remain grandfathered on the $25/mo unlimited plan. This is the first part in the WiMax wind down as Clear is now preparing to replace the now antiquated WiMax network and replace it with the much more viable and more readily available LTE technology. I'm glad that I still have my friends iSpot service, as it is nice to have the 4G since my Evo Shift has a terrible 4G radio indoors.

http://www.phonenews...shutdown-19808/

http://www.phonenews...e-bricks-19813/

So if you have an iSpot, keep it going until the end of WiMax, and if you have one on vacation/suspension, reactivate it before February 10th, or it will be a white, shiny paperweight.

Greetings all... As a longtime GSM user who has migrated to Verizon's LTE system, there's another issue on WiMax devices that preclude them from ever being converted to work on LTE. USIM cards, or in the case of Verizon and Sprint, CSIM's (USIM's that work on CDMA). With no CSIM support, there is no way WiMax devices could work on LTE and no way they could use eHRPD for that matter.

 

Hope this helps.

As a former GSM user I forgot all about this issue too. Thanks for reminding me of that little hindrance to current WiMax devices and the conversion to LTE.

If the FCC doesn't control how the auctions for spectrum are done, a wireless duopoly would exist that only the rich could afford. I couldn't stand at&t's monthly service costs, so that's why I switched to Sprint. Smaller carriers exist to keep the big carriers in check from gouging customers too much. The FCC must continue to control the auctions so at&t & Verizon won't cheat consumers like they want to.

It's the million dollar question. I've asked some inside Sprint sources, they all say they don't know either. I find that hard to believe. So I'm left to think the worst. Although, I have two new leads I'm chasing down. I'm hoping that one of them will lead me to the pot of gold!

I thought that 800MHz LTE was going to be LTE Advanced? Or did I miss the standard LTE roll-out on 800MHz before the LTE Advanced upgrade?

I'm thinking LTE devices are coming sooner than that after this promotion ends. I would expect May at the rate things are moving along.

lol, you are probably right. Most crazy and awesome promotions are done before a major launch. And there are people who will never be satisfied. But Sprint shouldn't put a time frame on this promotion. They should leave it permanently. I don't see people using it every 9 months to upgrade to a new phone, lol.

I saw it for $100 on Amazon. That may have been for a new line of service though.

 

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The promotion will only be good in Corporate stores & the ET4G starting price is $249.99 with a $50 mir bringing the cost of the phone down to $199.99.

I'm glad you started a topic on this because I was just getting ready to ask the same question? I'm wanting to know what others think, and if it is a good idea, then I am going to take it and run and get an iPhone 4S or the Evo 3D.

Sprint is definitely giving effort in hopes of making it in the long term. And that was quite a few iPhones sold for their first quarter. Very impressive. I think they will be heading for growth and greater profitabiity by the end of this year with NV & LTE. Go Sprint!

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Has anyone else noticed that the description for Sprint's LTE landing page (Yahoo search "Sprint LTE") now says 22 communities by the first half of the year? Last I saw officially was 10 with 4 cities being announced already. Another typo or is Sprint building a lot more aggressively than they are letting on?

What Sprint did was imbed the 22 communities into the metadata for the LTE landing page. I'm sure that they intend to rollout LTE faster than they will tell people to make customers happy. I'm sure hoping that, anyway.

When you visit the landing page for LTE, right click on the page and click on 'View Page Source' (if using Firefox), and the 5th line down says: "meta name="description" content". That is where they put that line of code that shows up in yahoo and google searches for Sprint LTE.

Migrated from Original Forum. Originally Posted 28 January 2012

 

I didn't realize that they ever had PTT Blackberrys for Nextel. I thought that since Motorola owned everything about iDEN, the only handsets offered were made by Motorola. At the company I worked for, all the higher-ups had a Nextel for PTT and a Blackberry running on AT&T, I believe. If there would have been an iDEN Blackberry with 3G for e-mail, it would have been a huge cost savings. Almost makes me wonder why Sprint never pushed their dual network devices like the ic902. Is CDMA superior to iDEN? I guess I don't understand why they wouldn't have transitioned into using iDEN for voice and PTT on the 800 mhz spectrum from Nextel and data and backup voice on the 1900 mhz spectrum.

I have a Nextel Blackberry phone that was given to me when my friends brother migrated from Nextel to Sprint. It was a sturdy phone compared to his Palm Treo 700p at the time. (Right now he's saving up for an iPhone). I think Motorola licensed out iDEN to Blackberry because RIM wanted a goldmine market that they could make a quick penny on in the business industry. But I do agree that the lack of advanced data made it harder for Nextel when it came to business users using other companies for internet on their phones.

I do like the PTT concept and hope that Sprint Direct Connect will take off unlike the hybrid phones of the late 2000's.

Did I just see "stable" in the same sentence as a Windows product? Wow. I never thought I'd see this day!

 

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Actually, yes you did. LOL I had an HTC Trophy on Verizon for a short time and it really did work good. I know it seems odd to see stable in the phrase, but it worked very well. However, now that I just read that the customer preview of Windows 8 that's dropping this weekend drops the infamous start button, I will hold to the belief that Microsoft should be shot!

Microsoft has always been good at extortion. That's why they dominated the PC industry for years, and small companies like Be, Inc failed. But this time they fell behind and have to resort to more subtle forms of extortion ("incentives") to try to dominate again. It's really pathetic how they do that.

Don't get me wrong, I like Windows Phone 7. Haven't tried out 7.5 Mango yet, but 7 was really nice and stable. A first for me in all my dealings with Microsoft over the years. I've had Windows Mobile phones in the past that needed to be thrown under a car tire on more than one occasion, lol.

Migrated from Original Forum. Originally Posted 16 January 2012

I like the Galaxy Nexus, it's a very nice device. However, I would like to see HTC Sense overlaid on top of ICS and see how it looks. I just hope that Sprint releases an LTE 3D device. Now that would be sweet.

Migrated from Original Forum. Originally Posted 19 January 2012

Wow. Never realized how aggressive Verizon really is. I'm still wondering how long before at&t shuts down their GSM & EDGE networks and fully upgrades the existing network with 3G. At least 3/4 of their rural network that isn't partner roaming is still GSM & EDGE only. At least Verizon has a decent upgrade strategy. And now Sprint does too.

Migrated from Original Forum. Originally Posted 19 January 2012

It could take up to a year for chipsets to be perfected for the plans that Clear & China Mobile have. I sure hope that they don't make the mistake they all did with WiMax. We sure need devices with better battery life than the 5 hours of talk time I get now. I'm going to be patient with Sprint & Clearwire & China Mobile this time.

Migrated from Original Forum. Originally Posted 6 January 2012

So am I! I hope that those other markets will be detailed at CES this next week.

Migrated from Original Forum. Originally Posted 16 January 2012

Since LTE is a GSM technology, Sprint will use sim chips in their LTE devices as well. However, LTE sim chips might not read and register with other carrier LTE devices since they operate on different frequencies and interoperability and roaming with LTE isn't really much of a reality at this point. And due to the fact that MEID locking to carriers still exists, swapping devices that utilize both CDMA & LTE probably won't function like we would want it to.