JohnHovah

stranger danger

I've never gotten kinky with sensorly, ymmv

socal living

legion we are

Methinks all of the amazing things alluded to by Masayoshi include future rural coverage. Congratulations on taking the job as the new Hesse-man!! Sorry, idle speculation is unlike idle hands, can't spend time at the genitals! Not that we had an old Hesse-man or anything

Or a Hesse/Son/Page/Brin mash-up..... maybe you could get some googleoons with td-lte panels.

I hereby gladly accept the position of Hesse man (pun on yes-man) if it carries even 25% (hell 10%!) of his compensation package.

When I finally make it up to the Half Year Sunshine state, it would be nice to have some coverage. Realtors are always trying to sell me dirt cheap land up there, but I want the mineral rights too. hehehehe. EDIT: After 10 seconds of reflection on the above, I suppose if I (and others) decided to purchase some of this dirt cheap land, we could later lease it out for a new cell tower sites thus making the investment worthwhile.

I don't know if anybody really pays attention to the fine print in Sprint emails or on the Sprint homepage but my eagle eye did catch the following excerpt: :jester: (13 stages of network coverage loss) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Network Coverage Change Effective 10/1/13, on-network coverage in Alaska will change to roaming (off-network) coverage. For details and roaming restrictions, see sprint.com/termsandconditions and for coverage details, see sprint.com/coveragechange. ------------------------------------------------------ I remember when calling Alaska incurred roaming charges and there was no network coverage there. It appears that for every two steps forward there will be one step back. @S4GRU, do you know what is going on in the Alaska (non)market? We didn't sell it back to Russia did we? EDIT: Here are the full terms, it seems the coverage loss was negligible Learn more about network changes coming to AlaskaLast Updated: Jul 22, 2013 Effective October 1, 2013, Strategic Roaming Alliance (SRA) “on-network” coverage in Alaska will change to roaming (off-network). Customers with Sprint-branded devices will be impacted when using services in the affected areas. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) How will this change impact my billing? This change may impact your bill, depending upon the features included in your plan. Almost all Sprint plans since 2008 include roaming as do most of the popular plans since 2005. Therefore, if you are on one of these plans, you should see minimal impact unless you have exceeded Sprint’s Terms and Conditions for roaming. Some older plans and the Sprint Month-to-Month plan do not include roaming in the plan and there may be incremental charges for calling activity while in this area. Also, customers who rely on Sprint Mobile to Mobile, or Any Mobile, Anytimecalling features will now use Anytime minutes and may incur additional anytime minutes charges. If you have a Mobile Broadband device (Data Card, Tablet, etc.), you may incur additional data roaming charges when exceeding the data roaming usage cap - overage $0.25 per Megabytes (MB). Please review your plan details to assist in determining the impact of this change. What are Sprint’s Terms and Conditions for roaming? There is a limit to the number of voice minutes (800 minutes) and megabytes of data (100MB or 300MB) depending on the plan selected that can be used in roaming areas for postpaid customers. For Sprint as You Go customers, these limits are 400 voice minutes and 100 megabytes of data. See Sprint’s Terms and Conditions for additional restrictions and details. How will I know if I am roaming? Sprint devices notify the user that they are roaming via a roaming indicator of ‘Δ‘or an ‘R’ on the device. Some devices may display a roaming banner. If you prefer not to roam, you can change the settings on your devices to “Sprint” or “Home” Network. On newer devices, there are settings to“disable domestic voice roaming or domestic data roaming”. By changing the settings to only connect to the Sprint Network, the device will not automatically roam when you are outside of Sprint on-network coverage areas and you will lose coverage in any roaming area. Changing or keeping the device setting to “Automatic” will allow the device to roam and there may be additional costs associated with roaming depending on your rate plan. See your User Guide for assistance on changing these settings. What impact does the coverage change have to my wireless services? Postpaid customers will continue to have voice and 3G Broadband data available; however some voice and data products/services indicated below are not available in a roaming environment. Sprint As You Go customers will have access to voice and data (1xRTT). Voice Sprint Mobile to Mobile & Any Mobile, Anytime plan features; minutes will be billed as either Anytime or Night & Weekend minutes (depending on call begin time) or may incur roaming usage charges (depending on current plan). Calls using certain *(star) and # (pound) symbols will not be available. This includes making calls using StarStar Me. To reach Sprint Customer Care while roaming, dial 1-888-211-4727 (4PCS). Phone Connect devices will not operate in roaming areas. Data Sprint Music Plus will not be available for downloading or purchasing music content. What areas are impacted? The maps below illustrate the changes in coverage. For specific city impacts, please visit www.sprint.com/coverage after October 1.

I would settle for even Dual Band LTE at this point considering it will take just as much (if not more) time to have ubiquitous 2.5ghz TD-LTE coverage.

But can anyone find the full video?

So when are we going to get 32gb and up models for sprint? Sammy never delivered on a Note 2 that was higher than 16gb and the moto x seems to be launching with the same hollow promise. WTF?!?! Anyone else bothered by this?

The only thing that we didn't already know was this tidbit at the end, which may be cause for some worry depending on which way those prices and plans are going in the future. I can only believe that Softbank will try to undercut the competitors but who knows. "He said the 2.5 GHz rollout could allow Sprint to explore "what's your premium services vs. what's not a premium service."

Permit modifications would make sense in these scenarios. No sense in going out and completing clear only permits and then have to go back and do an NV permit

Why would Sprint not want BYOD support? It will save them billions in contractual (prepaid/negotiated) obligations to OEM's (think $15.5B obligation to Apple over several years). Not to mention that Sprint (like every other carrier besides select T-Mo plans) does not offer a rate plan that is lower without a subsidy. Whether you buy the device outright or at the subsidized rate sold through them (e.g. $199 for a GS4, $249 for a GNote2) you still pay the same monthly service fees.

Almost perfect until SVDO and SVLTE support absentI almost had a nerdgasm.

Perhaps I should have gone into a store and submitted an insurance claim for my goddaughters sgs2, insurance sent a new one last week because the other was broken.

that might help extend life of wimax devices that are still being sold.... hmm... i don't see any other way to really use all of that spectrum fully considering most devices cannot use more than a 10mhz channel or maybe a combined 20mhz or 30mhz w/ CA

maybe i will pm you to check out my account one of these days.

Wasn't there big news update about the Upgrade Now program being cancelled back in December 2012?

never trust a russian eskimo?

I remember when calling Alaska on Sprint incurred additional charges