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

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    http://www.rcrwireless.com/20150813/carriers/att-trumps-t-mobile-verizon-and-sprint-in-purchasing-satisfaction-tag2

     

    Sprint continued last place for "purchasing satisfaction". I'll be honest, I avoid local Sprint stores (corporate and non-corporate owned) at ALL costs. They are absolutely horrible to deal with. They always have computer problems. It easily takes over an hour to upgrade your phone in store. Every time I walk in a Sprint store, they add insurance to my line without my permission. Buying on tele-sales or online is a much better experience.

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    General Investing Forum

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    Here is some good investment news about Softbank buying some additional shares of Sprint :

     

    http://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-increases-sprint-stake-by-nearly-87-million-1439424844

     

    I'm glad to see this, which hopefully means more about Softbank having renewed interest in Sprint.

    I bet this is directly related to their earnings and the info that Masa wanted out. Trying to calm fears.

     

     

    Sent from my SM-N910T using Tapatalk

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    Sprint Name Change Ideas (With Poll)

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    It's been awhile... I remember years ago, Radio Shack exclusively sold "Cellular One" service in Maryland. With the Sprint Shack now a thing...revive Cell One?

     

    I remember when Bell Atlantic became VZW years ago. Sprint seems to be one of the oldest names still in use?

     

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    T-Mobile LTE & Network Discussion V2

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    Generally in the United States region.  (All over.)

     

    - Trip

     

    I guess this is the evidence of T-Mobile's organic network expansion finally happening...not sure it's early enough for anything significant in 2015 to match those maps they were bragging about in January though...lol

    T-Mobile LTE & Network Discussion V2

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    T-Mobiles LTE coverage in LA seems a little overstated because my iphone is spending more time on 4G as on LTE especially along the Interstates.

     

    5S or 6? I've found the 5S to be an extremely weak on band 4, while the iPhone 6 is noticeably better. Plus I think T-Mobile's maps include Band 12 coverage, which no iPhone supports yet. I wish they would differentiate the two, but as every phone in the future likely adds band 12 support, it shouldn't be a problem.

    Sprint "Open World" plan (replaces International Value Roaming)

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    Agreed. By the time I go through the trouble of shopping for carriers that provide coverage, do the cost benefit analysis of which one to use and then buy a SIM card, load it up and pay $50-$100 and then end up buying too much data that I don't use completely...well, on Sprint I can just use 2 or 3GB for the same price and not have to go through all that. And pay only for what I use.

     

    I helped a friend arrange a 3 nation tour a few months ago and he had to get three separate SIM cards. One he paid more than $30/GB. It took me an entire day to figure out everything he needed and pre-order them. In one country, he could not preorder and had to buy after arrival.

     

    Sprint's solution with a reasonable roaming data fee and just be able to use your own device and not change SIMs is very convenient and useful.

     

    Using Nexus 6 on Tapatalk

    Agreed! I travel overseas for work frequently, sim swapping is a pain. Those things are tiny, a pain to deal with, and often inconvenient to find. These roaming agreements are MUCH more preferred by me. Sometimes it takes a while just to figure out where to buy sims locally...especially if you don't speak the local language. I have a time or two where it was impossible to find one. Thankfully for imessage and facetime calling over WiFi, I made do.

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

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    This makes my brain hurt. So if you want a new iPhone each year, you are doling out $264 over the course of a year for that ability (plus it's not 'your' phone?)

     

    Vs paying $200 for a phone on a 2 year 'contract' and then you 'own' the phone?

     

    I always do the 2 year contract thing, and frankly have not looked into the other options. Guess I should research more...?

     

    I'm guessing Sprint will stop offering phone subsidies on contract in the very near future.

     

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Sprint/comments/3giqzx/sprint_may_be_next_in_line_to_cut_2year_contracts/

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

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    From what I was told Sunday in the store, you can end a lease at any time by paying off all remaining payments plus the buyout price, which still doesn't let you keep the device. You have to give it back, but you'll again be upgrade eligible. You can't, however, just give back the device at anytime and get a new device without paying.

     

    That's not how it works. If you pay the "buy out" price, you get to keep the phone.

    Samsung Galaxy Note 5 & Edge+ Rumor Thread

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    I thought they were pretty snappy, they weren't live though so i couldnt test signal. Our Samsung rep brought them by. I don't have an upgrade but i am hoping to get selected as a samsung advocate so if i can a free one I certainly will use it. [emoji2]

    Performance comparable to a S6 you think?

    Sprint Earnings Report for First Fiscal Quarter 2015 scheduled for August 4th

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    So the leasing company Sprint and Softbank will set up is supposed to arrange and finance handset leasing. The leasing company operates at net 0 profit but will take a significant load of payments off of Sprint's books thereby creating + free cash flow.

    Masa had said that he did this with Softbank and it has worked very well for his company.

     

    That's what I got from the financial part of the transcript. Did I interpret it correctly?

    Correct

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

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    Why need lowband if you gotta densify a lot anyway? 800MHz penetrates buildings, the only other perk of low band is coverage but if you densify enough, you make up for the coverage with 800MHz and higher frequencies like PCS and BRS. 600MHz is gonna be insanely expensive and it makes no sense to just throw money at it & be totally unable to use it when Sprint can just build the densest network in the U.S. Besides, if "5G" is gonna be what it sounds like it might be (absurd 60GHz networks), it's better to be dense cause that low band will have no picture in it.

     

    I'm guessing most of the efforts to increase the density of Sprint's network will be focused in urban/metropolitan areas...which will be a huge improvement for Sprint, and one that is definitely needed. But outside of urban areas, I spend more time on band 26 than any other band, even in areas fully blanketed by band 41 with 8T8R panels. Band 26 is too congested (speeds around 1Mbps)...adding a 10x10 low band carrier will help with congestion in areas Sprint won't increase the density of their network.

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