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There are 8 Chase buildings in Columbus, you're going to have to be more specific, also, you have access to maps that will tell you if this site is Sprint or not.

Sorry for that vague post but I am at the chase at 1000 Polaris parkway

Across from the AMC movie theatre. I'm not able to check the map on my phone due to it closing out. But will check once I get home.

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Not sure if this is a sprint tower but I work at chase and my building is right by a cell tower and there are currently people working on it.

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Not sure if this is a sprint tower but I work at chase and my building is right by a cell tower and there are currently people working on it.

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It's pretty interesting to see the comments on tmobile stories at other sites. Johns gimmicks are definitely getting the attention he wants. I see people saying ... As soon as my AT&T contract is up... I'm gone.

 

 

What I wonder is how many people who have jumped ship from AT&T, Sprint or Verizon to tmobile found out it's not always greener on the other side, and jumped back to their original carrier?

 

 

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 I was one who jumped from Sprint to T-mobile.....Its great service in the city but I left the city one weekend and that was a complete rap for me with them. As soon as I got home I called up sprint and reactivated my account. Ill put up with the network upgrades in Ohio. Sprint is getting better here.  Sometimes cheaper is not always better. Honestly when you look at it. I was paying about the same amount or close to with T-Mobile that I was with Sprint. 

I do not have a update BUT Sprint has a small victory over Verizon. Today I was at Tanger Outlet with my friend who has Verizon and the whole time we were there she had problems with a slow data connection while I had LTE the whole time with speeds of 26 mbps. The highlight was when she wanted to use a coupon that was in her email and she had issues pulling it up and she emailed me the coupon so she could show the cashier cause I had great data services. Even coming back to Columbus she had issues with streaming music which I didn't take as much only cause of the constant switching of towers while I stayed with a consistent data connection on LTE or 3G. But all in all I just informed her about what Sprint is doing and she is really considering switching back to Sprint once NV is competed more in Ohio. Sprint is on its way to being a real competitor again.

With the FCC and Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon have agreed to this new unlocking policy. How does this effect sprint phones such as the IPhone. I have heard that Sprint can unlock your phone but you can not take it to other carriers such as Verizon and the IPhone can only be used overseas.  (Correct me if I am wrong). I am glad that this has finally happened. But when it comes to Sprint how would this work?

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I don't remember where I saw that post on this thread about someone's fried who works at jp Morgan chase at Polaris and they don't get lte within the building. But I also work there and I get a great lte signal inside the building and it's pulling about 8 up and 3 down

I just got off the phone with my friend and he told me about the survey and I grew irritated with it being brought up AGAIN. I have both T-Mobile and Sprint Service and I still root for Sprint at the end of the day.  He told me T-Molbile is where it is at and I had a thought and i told him yea they are good but due to fact it is the holiday season and people are starting to travel more this could slow down T-mobiles growth cause people will see that once on the highway data is useless and people could leave. But I told him I think this survey was done in area's where NV is not complete and/or not in the area completely. But also I think a lot of people are on the notion that if it is not Verizon it is not good. Sprint is not at its best right now but by the summer you will see a difference within the network!

I am excited for this! I just do not see the need for all the bad comments on these websites like Engadget on this topic. My thinking is is you do not like you sprint service then leave. Sprints not keeping you there you can easily pay you ETF and be on your way. If you seriously do not like something most people don't see price. I think 50-60 mbps is awesome even though I wouldn't need all of that 10mbps serves my just fine. But I hope Ohio well Columbus is on that list to get Spark.

I was at The Rusty Bucket today in Gahanna and to my surprise even though there is no LTE to my knowledge there the 3g speeds were really good. So I guessing this is the NV 3G?

1.You can pay the phone off at anytime.

 

 

2. If you pay it off you are not required to do a give back to get a new phone.

 

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Thank you for the info!

With the One Up program. You pay a monthly fee for the phone on top of your regular rate plan. My question is 1. Is there a option like T-Mobile to pay the phone off quicker than the 24 months lets say for instance 12 months? 2. If I pay the phone off is it required that I have to give the phone back? Couldn't I just pay the phone off in a year and then get another phone under the program without giving up my phone?

Not sure if this topic has been discussed but with the changing of Sprints plans and the unlimited data promise for life. Is this the first stake in the coffin for Sprint offering unlimited data once their 4g lte network is completed? I guess once everything is completed, Sprint will have a comparable network to AT&T and Verizon but it wont spot on be the same. Since SoftBank has more than 50% ownership in Sprint, they want to make Sprint turn a profit every quarter.  I think at this point Sprint need a marketing overhaul to repair their damaging reputation.

I signed up for T-Mobile service and it has been great but this weekend  went out of town to Cincinnati and dropped down to edge leaving the phone unusable besides calling and texting the whole ride to and from. I still had my sprint phone with me and was able to stream music. Sprint may not have the best network but what I will say is that Sprint is on the same page with Verizon and AT&T as far as data coverage out of major cities. T-Mobile is a great in city but I do not see T-Mobile being a major threat to Sprint UNLESS they do something about their edge network. 

Keep in mind speed tests are not 100% scientifically accurate. There are hundreds of different little things that affect the overall speed you receive and the algorithm used to determine it. Packet size, tower load, overall test payload size, the specific server you are connecting to, the sector on the tower you are on, etc. Speed tests are decently accurate to get a general picture, but are not scientifically accurate in any way, there are too many variable that you cannot account for.

 

The above posts are evidence of that. a 5x5MHz LTE carrier is theoretically limited to 37.5Mbps. This is in optimal lab conditions, you likely will almost never get that in the real world. Any tests showing speeds above that are impossible and a glitch in the speed test being performed. The speeds are likely close to what it says, with a margin of error, but any tests you see above 37.5MHz are not possible on either Sprint's 1900MHz or 800MHz LTE networks. Now, if they happened to be connected to a Clearwire 2600MHz site, that's a different story as you're seeing potential speeds up into the 90MBps range, but no phones support that band currently, only mobile broadband hotspots and USB cards.

 

All of that being said, likely if you are getting 4-5Mbps you won't notice a difference from 30Mbps speeds unless you are downloading a large file. The main thing that you will notice however, is ping time. How long it takes from when you click on something until the signal for it actually reaches the server, and then how long it takes to get back after the server processes it. You can have a 50Mbps connection, but if you have a 150mb ping it will feel much slower than a 40ms ping on a 4Mbps connection. For 90% of users, the ping is the major factor in what they perceive as speed on a mobile device when browsing, playing games, etc. True bandwidth throughput is only perceived as speed when they are doing speed tests or downloading a file.

 

Sprint is focusing on ping and consistent speeds with Network Vision. They are not trying to have the fastest overall, they are trying to have the most stable. This is much more likely possible with LTE spread across 3 different frequencies nationwide. The idea is users will connect to the highest frequency available, leaving the lower frequencies for others that aren't in range.

I would rather have a quality network over the 30mbps that I am getting now with T-Mobile. At times when I am on the web it will hang up and take a little longer to get the info to and from. Even on spotify my music at times will stop as if I had a bad data connection. But like you said your not gonna notice too much of a difference if you were getting 4mbps or 30mbps except in downloading a large file but even then is the difference really that great but for sprint to focus on its ping is the better move than the speed. Verizon may not be as fast as At&t and T-Mobile but there is a difference in how fast info comes and goes and I witnessed that on my friends phone and his speeds on lte was slower than mine. I would have a burst of speed then it hangs up finishing out the loading where his would flow through with the loading. For sprint and even verizon the speed will come at a later time after they tweak their network the way they want it.

When you are in a completed area I'm sure it's 5-12 mbps on average. I have seen as fast as 39mbps in my 5x5 market. If you just use the web, apps, etc it will be plenty fast.

Thats about all I need, I stream music and watch netflix but on Tmo HSPA+ which capped at 10mbps for me I was doing them things with no effort or buffering. But the lte speeds for sprint are kinda in line with what Verizon offers in real world situations.

 I do not know if there is already a thread for this but I left Sprint back in June due to the horrible speeds after 10 years with them I went to T-Mobile. I plan on switching back before the year is over once NV is more blanketed in Ohio more so Columbus OH. But for anyone who has a good amount of LTE in their state, How are you LTE speeds. Currently I am pulling in 30mbps on T-Mobile which is nice but I do not need all that. So how are Sprint's LTE speeds and how consistent are they?

I miss Sprint soooo much but I had to leave and jump to T-Mobile. Dont get me wrong T-Mobile has very fast LTE in Columbus Ohio and the HSPA+ is wonderful too. I have yet to test out the network on the highway (which I dont think will be too hot E all the way). But T-Mobile is not all that to be honest I do get service at my job now as far as data goes but as soon as NV has more of a coverage in Ohio I will be switching back. My sprint IPhone is just waiting to be reactivated!  My loyalty will always be with sprint. But T-Mobile's downfall is when you leave the city atleast with sprint I got 3g when I would travel and was able to stream pandora...Spotify well that was iffy. 

What app are you using? Is that Sensorly for iPhone? I'm wondering why they made objects on the map, the same color as mapping. Example: they made CMH Airport purple.

Yes I am using the one for the iPhone. Where the airport is there is a light purple small line at the top of it but you can't really see it until you zoom in some. But I don't know why they have certain places labeled in purple cause that adds to the confusion. If they are going to make them places purple atleast make the color for lte a different color.

I don't know if this was answered or not but I just happened to check sensorly and I see a whole lot more purple and my question is, the purple that is now shown on Bethel and by the Osu airport and in gahanna are them different towers or is it possibly from that tower on the NE side?

Speedtests are really irrelevant except for troubleshooting a site. Do some real world stuff, YouTube, etc and see if the data is fine.

I was over by that tower today and I tested out YouTube and It loaded with no problem and was in HQ and I also used my Spotify and changed to audio quality to extreme and it worked with no hiccups.

As stated earlier by another, YouTube is darn near flawless. Can't wait for expansion.

 

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Yeah that's basically it in a nutshell... Not to mention that pre Nextel merger Sprint had the reputation of being the 'ghettofabulous' carrier as they had the lowest credit requirements of all the postpaid carriers (unless you were basically an illegal alien you could qualify for service with no deposit--and even if you were, the deposit topped out at around 2-300 bucks)... they also had some annoying 'payday loan crowd' type practices like trying to force you through an automated system at all costs (she even had a name, Claire) and if you absolutely had to speak to a rep, it was like 3 bucks if they didn't deem your reason for speaking to them 'worthy'... So you had a mix of people who could qualify anywhere but loved the cool technology, plus those that probably should have been on prepaid--yet absolutely loved the 'bling' factor of said technology...

 

Once the Nextel merger happened, Sprint took over the Nextel credit requirements (probably the most stringent in the industry) - - which was a good thing, but by that point were letting their network stagnate to where people if faced with a 1000 deposit at Sprint or 500 at Verizon would take Verizon... back when Nextel was the thing to have, people with even just 'medium' credit would fork over a huge deposit just to have PTT.

 

 

Then the data issues began and it just snowballed...

 

I seem to run into 3 kinds of Sprint haters...

 

1. Eww Sprint is the ghetto carrier... drug dealers use Sprint.

 

 

2. Damn their data is slooowwwww. How can you put up with that?... or they were promised WiMax that never showed up.

 

 

3. I had Nextel... it was awesome. Then Sprint bought them and it went to hell. F Sprint.

 

 

It also didn't help that they decided to 'purge' a number of customers who called in to CS too often about stupid things, or people that asked for too many freebies/gamed the system around 2008. It was probably a good thing, but it was handled poorly, put a public relations PITA on their hands, and people still remember it--it was only like 10,000 customers--but I hate to say it, ghetto folk who feel slighted are some of the most vocal folk there are.

 

 

 

Once Sprint gets NV up and running WELL they need to launch one hell of a cool marketing campaign that fires on all cylinders and reaches across all media, both traditional, social, and even guerilla.

 

 

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Well that makes alot of sense that the past has hurt sprint in the eye of customers outside of data. Now back when I was in high school I did hear someone say that sprint was for ghetto people and I never understood why someone would say that but I guess before the merger with Nextel that Sprint had low requirements to get service so anyone could just sign up with them like you stated. Sprint has some good things from the past but I guess the bad overweighs the good. I was talking with my friend who has verizon and he told me whats the point of have unlimited data if it not too usable except at night. He said I would go to tmobile before I go to sprint and and tmobile has less coverage. I do agree with him on the theres not point of having unlimited if you can barely use it. But I just hope that once NV is up and more stable that Sprint markets the heck out of it because in a way it will be their make or break for them.

I get the same reaction people dont see how I do it. People speak about sprint like they are last on the list and sprint always get the short end of everything and I just do not get why it is like that.