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    Sprint to end 2 Year Contracts

    in General Topics

    Posted

    I see. Currently my employer gives a discount of 15% and the Federal Credit Union I use gives a 10% but the offset on that is the activation fee or upgrade fee is waived with the Federal Credit Union.

     

    I was simply curious on who gives the 25% discount. That's really good!

    My wife works for a hospital system that currently gives a 25% discount (up from 23% a year or two ago) so our lines are under her name.

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    iPhone 6S/6S Plus User Thread

    in Apple/iPhone/iOS

    Posted

    So here is my timeline on my iPhone 6 -> 6s exchange under iPhone forever. 

    1) Oct. 1st Order placed 

    2) Oct. 6th Device arrives

    3) Oct. 6th Sprint doesn't know where the Return Kit is

    4) Oct. 7th Get text warning me I have 10 days to turn in my iPhone 6

    5) Oct. 7th See $430 balance due on 10/20/15 

    6) Oct. 7th Get annoyed at Sprint

     

    If this gets charged to me due to a slowdown in warehouse receipt at their end they better not offer me account credit back. I pretty much left Sprint about 3 years ago over a billing fiasco where they erroneously billed me $700 and it took me threatening a chargeback and a 3 way call with my credit card company and Sprint billing to get the $ back. 

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    Google Nexus 6P by Huawei (was [Rumor] Huawei Nexus phone?)

    in Google

    Posted

    You are wasting your refresh.  You are not going to see any significant movement on the Nexus 6P until the Nexus 5X is shipping, maybe even in the hands of buyers.  The earliest delivery dates for the Nexus 6P were all 1-2 weeks later than those for the Nexus 5X.  Just wait until Nexus 5X buyers start reporting shipping or delivery.  Then, you can start checking on the Nexus 6P.

     

    AJ

    Yeah I turned it off already. I attribute it to extreme boredom at work as too many people are out on vacation/visiting customers for me to get anything done here.

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

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Your analogy is not a good one. The highway department is a government enforced monopoly, consumer have no choice but to highways run by the highway department. Consumer do have choices when it comes to wireless and ip providers. That allows them to shape the market the way they prefer. All that is happen with the net neutrality debate is content providers are trying to use the government to make sure the profit distribution remains where it is currently even though the market might want it structured differently.

     

     

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    Of course it isn't a perfect analogy. I suppose a better one would be to compare it to a tollway such as the one near Austin which is privately owned. Customers do have choices between carriers, for sure. However, it blurs the lines when certain carriers such as T-Mobile (and now a Sprint subbrand) offer data limits with certain activities not counting against that limit. 

     

    To me it is problematic that certain companies get to pick and choose winners. What if Verizon said that their new Go90 (stupid name) video streaming wouldn't count against bandwidth caps? Wouldn't that be a disincentive for Verizon subscribers to use other competing services?

     

    The bottom line is it distorts competition while also interfering with consumer choices which is kind of the whole point of net neutrality rules, right? 

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

    in General Topics

    Posted

    That sprint subsidiary and net neutrality was talked about some in this thread:

    http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/6765-sprint-supporting-net-neutrality-with-condition/

     

    Basically I am against it because it is like the highway department making a deal with GM/Ford/Fiat to get free gas (unlimited data) for anyone driving a GM/Ford/Fiat vehicle. Sure, that is great for customers: My mileage on the highway doesn't increase the cost of ownership of my car (cellphone service) and I can spend the pay miles on city roads (other internet services) so I can drive more there!

     

    However, it also negatively impacts other players in that market Nissan/Honda/Hyundai/etc by making their services appear more costly

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    Google Nexus 6P by Huawei (was [Rumor] Huawei Nexus phone?)

    in Google

    Posted

    http://imgur.com/claOLhY

    It's being seen on all accounts today. Mine as well its just a check to see if funds are available.

    It is interesting that my original auth dropped off like 4 days ago. Maybe they are preauthorizing the accounts every week since it has been 7 days since I placed the order. Good to know I wasn't the only one though!

     

    edit: I may have a problem. I set up automatic notifications for pending charges.

     

    edit2: now I have auto-refresh running on my browser tab with my order status open. I'll never make it through the month at this rate guys.

     

    edit3: charge has disappeared 

    LG V10

    in LG

    Posted

    Anyone interested in this? I am.

    LG V10. Can someone elaborate on the antenna?

    "It’s also the first commercial device to employ Qualcomm’s QFE2550 closed-loop antenna tuning solution, which will allow for better voice quality and much wider network coverage compared to other smartphones on the market."

     

    http://www.androidauthority.com/lg-v10-specs-price-release-date-645871/

     

    Sent from my LGLS991 using Tapatalk

     

    So this qualcomm antenna tuner as I understand it is a voltage controlled capacitor that basically they pre-load with some situations to try to prevent "antenna-gate" style problems. They can preload a solution for how it is held in either hand or if it sees a problem, etc. I thought this was already included in the Snapdragon 810 because I remember reading about it months ago but this is the first I have heard of someone actually utilizing it.

     

    I find the phone concept really neat but I wish the extra screen was at the BOTTOM of the phone where I could check it one handed or something.

    T-Mobile LTE & Network Discussion V2

    in General Topics

    Posted

    To provide some technical insight, the conflict is more vaguely reminiscent than closely connected.

     

    The LightSquared vs GPS issue dealt with basically adjacent channel interference. Adjacent spectrum uses need to be of roughly similar power levels. The problem is that LightSquared downlink would be on terra firma, while GPS downlink would be coming from thousands of miles in outer space. Being adjacent to one another, that meant LightSquared downlink right next door to GPS downlink could overwhelm it in GPS receivers.

     

    In this case, T-Mobile has no adjacent spectrum to that of SiriusXM. Presently, T-Mobile's highest frequency licensed and usable spectrum is in the AWS-1 1900+1200 MHz band at 2155 MHz, while SiriusXM operates in SDARS dedicated spectrum in the S band at 2320-2345 MHz. Only AT&T band 30 WCS 2300 MHz is closely adjacent to SiriusXM and could cause adjacent channel interference.

     

    No, this is intermodulation interference. Various T-Mobile frequencies in the PCS 1900 MHz, AWS-1 1900+2100 MHz band, maybe even the Lower 700 MHz band are unintentionally combining together at the transmitter, creating sum and difference frequencies called intermodulation. I would have done the math myself, but a commenter at the WSJ article already beat me to it. So, I will quote Mr. Wilkus:

     

     

    Everyone, though, should read the article and most recent comments. Well done.

     

    AJ

    Actually this isn't the first time I have heard of Sirius radio issues. I have heard of past Sirius having issues with aviation and government 2 way radios and also radar spread spectrum bursts. From my understanding Sirius had some issues with "muting" when they started working with car OEMs whereas before it had previously not seen as a pressing issue. Where I work I was talking with some older engineers who remember the Sirius receivers having to have special notch filters in place after this exact type of interference was found to be an issue (we do some sat-com and high frequency RF work for some government programs). I think Sirus and the carmakers' solution was a wideband filter that is still in use today (my coworker said it was a Murata product). From my point of view T-Mobile saying it is Sirius' fault is really disingenuous because they ALREADY went beyond requirements and provide several dB worth of rejection for this type of signal interference.

    Moto X 2015 "Pure Edition" [users thread]

    in Motorola

    Posted

    Well, well, everything went buttery smooth! Apart from being delayed 2 days because of US Customs. Activation was a breeze.

     

    I didn't have to remove ANY of my add on. I simply wrote in my imei number (left out last digit), wrote in my sim card number, clicked activate, and i didn't even have to chat with anyone! Phone was activated instantly.

     

    At a quick glance, the signal strength for LTE on this device is AMAZING.

     

    Here's some eye candy ????:

     

    Nice color combo!
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    iPhone 6S/6S Plus User Thread

    in Apple/iPhone/iOS

    Posted

    I was looking at this chart yesterday, and it desperately needs to be fixed. 2-5 business days or 9/28-10-2? Today is 10/1, so it's a bit confusing.

     

     

    Sent from my iPhone 6+ using Tapatalk

    Chat rep said it was updated last week and remains true for this week as well.

    Sprint supporting net neutrality with condition

    in General Topics

    Posted

    I don't think the net neutrality supporters (such as myself) have been silent here at all. Really I just have never seen this thread before until I went to "New Content" on a whim.

     

    I'll be just as consistent as others here: Picking and choosing favorites is just as much of a violation as outright penalizing certain data or asking for certain data to be priced differently. The complaints are, of course, loudest about T-Mobile because it started this whole bullshit of what I like to call "benevolent violation" They claim to mean the best by whitelisting data from certain music services and speedtests but in reality they further marginalize the sideline players in those industries and provide disincentives to new entrants. The real issue here is that while outright charging more for a certain service has a quantifiable and noticeable effect...whitelisting damages (such as what I just outlined above) are much harder to quantify. How do you measure negative pressure to enter a market due to this? It'd be just as easy to lump it into the melting pot of established competition/low margins/etc when doing any type of analysis.

     

    It doesn't matter if Sprint or it's subsidiaries are simply reacting to the perceived success of this strategy of net neutrality violation by matching the T-Mobile offers or providing similar offers. It is still against net neutrality. Mostly I just did not know Sprint was doing this on one of it's subbrands. In this case ignorance is a reasonable excuse to any claims of 'silence' on the part of people who are net neutrality supporters and Sprint customers.

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