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I am actually glad to hear this might actually happen.  I know a lot of people hate subsidies and I dont blame them, they were good for back in the 2000s but this is 2014 and A LOT has changed since then. I think Claure is on to something and he is willing to put up a fight with the other carriers and thats good!! I am all for change if it makes sense and it helps out current customers and potential new customers with pricing and phone selection/installments. 

http://www.cnet.com/news/sprint-ceo-says-he-may-drop-phone-subsidies-in-2015/

All of PS should move to 700MHz. Actually all of public safety should move to the 450-470MHz but that's another discussion for another day. Anyway, PS has way too many frequency bands occupied: VHF, 450MHz, 700MHz, 800MHz. Just consolidate on one contiguous band and be done with it. The 700MHz PS band should be it. 

Thats the FCC/Government for you, they use what they want to use.... Proven fact!! LOL!!!!!!!!  

cool!!

Softbank uses W-CDMA a.k.a. UMTS, not to be confused with our CDMA. Among other significant differences, I believe W-CDMA uses a GSM core.

Thats right , opps, I forgot that W-CDMA is another technology. 

They are CDMA too....

Good for him. I already read that Russian wants to ban him because they think they're going to get AIDs or Ebola. It's amazing how tiny minded, disgusting, and ignorant people can be.

Its unfortunate what world we live in and people acting the way just like you said "tiny minded,stupid and ignorant". The gay community seems to still be viewed wrong.

Yes! This made me incredibly proud this morning! You should see my fb post about it. Find me on fb.. Jonathan Gaines

I tried by name and tried narrowing down to your city but couldnt find you.... 

Doesnt sound like it would be....

I am seeing the news today that Apple CEO Tim Cook is now publicly gay, I am not an Apple fan, but I am glad to see more and more people are starting to come out and are not being afraid of who they are. I myself am and proud of it myself, just like in all the articles I have seen "Let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay...."   http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/30/technology/tim-cook-gay/

No. It's a voice compression issue. AT&T tends to favor codecs that are of the lowest bandwidth to maximize capacity. At the expense of quality. If they used the best possible, it would be completely different. And AT&T has not really embraced HD voice. It is only available in Chicago, Milwaukee and Minneapolis. I haven't tried it yet.

Funny how #2 (AT&T) is just getting to HD voice and #3 (Sprint) has had it for what a year now (maybe not everywhere/nationwide but the roll out was pretty fast for Sprint once they got a market up and running with NV 1.0 complete if I am not mistaken).  I think Sprints standard voice call quality is top of the line best between all carriers and has been for years in my opinion. 

Glad to know I have never tried T-mobile then, and yes the other post I made is what I experienced, shockingly out of the big two carriers AT&T was overall better at performance for MY area and needs, but still Sprint rocks either way. I am not bashing any carrier, just putting in my experience in lol. 

Yeah and with their mistake (my credit was on the rise when I got service with them, it's now in the very good range) I am now getting 20% off a month and no ASL makes my bill extremely cheap.

same here

After constant battles with Sprint I have won, I am no longer on a ASL account. I was told when I signed up the charge (then $5.99, now 7.99) would be removed from my account after 12 months of on time payments, well that never happened. When I called about it they said they never remove it even if you're on time every month for your entire contract. Well one thing led to another and I was promised a 20% credit on my account for the next two years because of the ASL things yadayada, their notes never showed this so several phones calls today I finally got it all sorted out (after being hung up on and passed around like a joint) I arrive at this. Thank you Sprint for finally doing what was right.

I had a Account Spending Limit too and I think that is ONE of the WORSE things to do to a customer, my credit dipped just slightly because I applied for something. I know why they do it, but that $5-7 charge is ridiculous!! I fought and fought too and finally got it taken off. I feel your pain!! I am glad you got yours resolved too!!

But AT&T hasn't offered unlimited plans for years and does not have to keep them forever.  These are all grandfathered customers who's unlimited contracts expired a long time ago.  AT&T can cancel all unlimited plans tomorrow and be within their rights.  I expect if the FTC keeps pushing them, that's what they'll do.  They'll just drop the grandfathered unlimited plans.

 

These people all agreed to revised changes in terms over the past few years.  They all have had opportunities to cancel their contracts at renewal periods if they didn't like the new terms instituted back in 2011.  Yet they agreed to them.  I hate defending AT&T, but I'm still amazed they kept unlimited plans even grandfathered.  And they even still allowed upgrades, unlike Verizon who made customers pay full cash price to keep it.  This will just be the catalyst to scrap unlimited completely.

 

As for AT&T doubling the data now...it's not a sign they have a lot more capacity.  It's a sign of desperation to keep from losing customers.  Speeds are going down noticeably with these new higher data caps.  My 40-50Mbps is now 15-25Mbps in just the past 3 weeks or so on the 10MHz channel.  And it's now dropped from 5-8Mbps to 1-3Mbps on the 5MHz channel.  AT&T didn't want to give up their capacity, but they have no choice.

 

They will be able to rebound in time with their network.  But it will cost billions just to pay for the additional capacity needed in the long run.  At least these new double limit customers still at least have a finite amount of damage they can do to the network.  Unlimited customers can do far more damage to capacity than double bucket customers.  

 

People who have hung on to unlimited on AT&T and VZW through all the changes and much cheaper plans coming around do so for a reason.  They use it in massive quantities.  Because AT&T prices back in 2011 were much, much higher than they are today.  You would need to use more than 30GB per month to justify staying on AT&T unlimited.

I USED to be one of the people that had an AT&T unlimited plan and it was getting expensive, so I came back to Sprint and have NEVER looked back. I have a friend who works for AT&T and he said even him/other employees can be booted off unlimited so its not just the general customer.  I never had any big problems with AT&T other then dropped calls or calls that would not connect.  I have way worse issues with big red V, constant loss of service, calls/ and texts wouldn't go though I broke my contract with in a year it was so bad, and all my friends seem to thing big red V is so great, well not at my place its terrible lol.  

I just wish Sprint could afford more towers for more coverage, even though I dont travel outside Sprint native coverage much, but I hate roaming. Sprint it the best call quality compared to every other carrier (except T-mobile since I have never even tried them).  My speeds are generally consistent with Sprint, I dont get throttled, but I do notice during peak hours speeds slow SOME, but not noticable to a normal customer I would say. 

Yeah, I don't think AT&T did much wrong here. They were allowed to do this in their Terms of Service. They announced they were doing so publicly which garnered a lot of media attention. And they notified customers who were being throttled. I don't understand the big hullabaloo.

 

What I believe this is about is that someone at the FCC, possibly even the Chairman himself, has been throttled using AT&T. And they don't like that.

 

AT&T doesn't even have to keep grandfathered unlimited plans. So I'm not sure what the FCC's goal is here. AT&T may just choose to change the terms back on unlimited plans to shut up the FCC. And then cancel unlimited plans all together. They aren't forced to keep unlimited.

I am surprised they have not canceled them yet. 

This map, or a previous official map?  http://maps.eng.t-mobile.com/

 

- Trip

I am talking about there pink map on there main site, that link you shared with me those are MUCH better!! (I call it there old green and yellow maps lol)

On that last count, why not?  Why is the "uncarrier" unwilling to advertise its advanced network coverage map against those of any of the other big three?

 

 

AJ

I agree!!

Just like Ts map is they are hiding there 2G EDGE sites, they only give you the street coverage for 3G, 4G, and 4GLTE.  They show the 2G is dark purple but they wont show you zoom in other then you have 2G.  There green maps used to be much better. 

Looks like the Binghamton market non-GMO sites are finally all LTE! Network.sprint.com is showing an LTE acceptance on the downtown Binghamton "problem-site" finally. About time. Downtown was the most unusable place in our whole market. 

 

Hopefully 800 LTE is activated... quickly. It's been dismal there for 2-3 years, I hope they didn't lose too many subscribers because of this. 

 

Also, maybe this will spur on the LTE800 optimization this market has needed since mid-Summer. :-) We've been slathered in non-optimized B26 for quite some time now. 

Your in the same boat as the rest of us, give it time....

I guess no one is in Buffalo anymore Robert lol!! 

If you're seeing this while you are actively mapping and uploading to Sensorly, it is because your device will not look for LTE until the data connection goes idle. If you're streaming music, uploading to Sensorly, etc. it will probably never flip back. Either pause your data session for a moment, or use something like LTE Discovery or SignalCheck to restart your mobile connection -- that will also do the trick if LTE is present.

 

-Mike

For some reason it takes Sprint phone longer then other carriers to show LTE, just something Ive noticed, but that may be my area. 

Worth it man, and the g3 is a pretty sweet phone too if you like the one you've got. I haven't even got normal lte where I live yet, I'm too far south. It's a bummer :-(

Too far south? I am in Canandaigua, I am sure we will get it soon, but they probably got to do the big city first.  I am lucky, I live near one of the towers and I get LTE in the house. I was thinking of LG G3 

Yeah, I've been running the Nexus 5 for a while now. It's a great phone, totally psyched for Android 5.0 update.

 

I went to visit NYC this past summer and I got some crazy speeds on the Spark network, excited for it in Rochester.

Awesome, Ive been holding onto my LG OG, I love it, but time to get a phone so I can get Spark, but its not quite down where I live yet, but I could always take a trip up into Rochester and visit a friend just so I can test Spark. 

This makes more sense. I guess if there's a significant cost difference and they figured the radios would be sitting there doing nothing for years on end. It's a pity for them that they have to gut their equipment, but I'll take an earlier than schedule 800 network :-D

Do you have a Spark enabled device? 

Wow MB! Look at that map!