joshnys8913

Leave it be as Sprint

WiMax has been killed off, are there any alternatives to something like Clear/ClearWire with a fair amount of data and cost?

hasnt here yet

You're not going to find something similar to the data cost of Clear but there are great metered plans out there.

 

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I agree

One sounds like a good idea, but secondly, you do realize how many millions of subscribers cell phone companies have right? As of today s4gru's site only has 24,918, and even if everyone who is on this site gave feedback that would be a drop in the bucket and probably would not even be looked in reality. I am just saying how I see it. Its just my opinion. 

Darn, lol. WiMAX worked well at my place.

cool!!

dont get the vent ones lol

First off welcome to S4GRU's site!! We are here to help you, if we have information. Sprint is adding about 9,000 more towers in the areas you mentioned and some old Nextel and Clear sites as well (information is available on here which you said you have looked at). I dont think anyone has any specifics yet but every carrier adds sites to its foot print where it thinks it is most needed. 
 
Hope others can give you more information then I can right now, but welcome again, hope you enjoy the site!! 
 
Also a small donation can give you access to sponsor maps!! (Just putting that out there for you it COULD help). 

Yeah, the Sprint Board failing to allow Hesse to buy Metro was one of the biggest wireless blunders of all time.  Sprint having that spectrum now would be golden, and Sprint would greatly benefit for Tmo not to have that spectrum.  And missing out on Leap was just icing on the cake.

 

If Sprint could have wound up with Leap and Metro, they would already be Number 2 in many markets as AT&T and Tmo would not have had nearly as much spectrum to compete in many key markets and keep their performance numbers up.  And if Sprint capitalized on those assets appropriately.  Which really, therein lies the rub.

I live in a area where Leap (Cricket CDMA) was but not Metro PCS CDMA, but still the extra spectrum would of been nice. 

Looks like Sprint is replacing its CTO to carry out Marcelo's NGN plan.   

 

 

 

 

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/sprint-cto-stephen-bye-resigns-company-amid-new-network-densification-progr/2015-06-23?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Editor&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

Lots of changes past year or so lol

Sprint covers most interstate highways well, with the exceptions of the Upper Midwest and Upper InterMountain West as noted above. How well they are covered is highly variable by region.

 

A review of coverages is really important. A coverage map review will give a general idea. A review of specific site locations in our Sponsor maps will give a better indication of service.

 

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Thank you, you summed it up better then I did, lol

Is it a barren wasteland for lte?  Is there acceptable 3g?  I ask because I have a relative that drives trucks and travels across the country and wants to get unlimited data for movie watching.

Upgrade and you can check out the maps on here....

Depends. Is he a regional driver focused on a specific region or does he drive nationwide? Sprint has some major gaps in the north part of the country (North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, and Nebraska). Most interstates in those states lack native coverage and users rely on roaming partners. Outside of those states, they mostly have major interstates covered.

 

Check the Sprint website to see specific coverage. I know they have the southeast and Texas locked down with 3G in every interstate. Even Verizon doesn't cover all of I-10 in West Texas while Sprint does.

Sprint's website is not always up to date, S4GRU's site is usually more up to date then the horrible coverage maps on Sprint's site.

Not enough though lol

The new future is not having unlimited so everyone might as well start getting used to it, but if you have unlimited keep it as long as you can!!

http://www.wirelessweek.com/news/2015/06/sprint-ends-throttling-unlimited-plans

 

I did not see the other policy of overloaded site based limits for the biggest users as totally bad, although the throttled levels were severe.

It does say Unlimited is not to stay, so keep it if you got it while you can!!

I hope that Rochester can get back on its feet. New York has virtually one notable city. Being the 4th largest state in the county (in terms of population) it sucks that when you ask somebody about NY, they tend to immediately think of NYC. 

 

I hope that one day people will think "NYC, Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers..." the same way we think about California, Texas, or Florida and are able to list a bunch of large notable cities.

Yes I agree, when I go and vacation I always have to say the city in NY state I am closest to (Rochester) because if I just say NY or even upstate NY people still think NYC. 

That's what this lady mentioned. Largest employer was now a university? I chuckled a bit and she said that included 'University' hospital(s). ROC airport is comfortable at least

The U of R is the biggest Employer in the Rochester area yes. 

It's still a pretty noteable optics hub, and is economically more diversified than most other cities in New York. I live practically right next to Murphy's Law and I've never dropped LTE around here on my Nexus 5, not even in Murphy's Law. I have issues with slow ass speeds during the day because the network is crowded as hell, but other than that I can't say I've shared your experience around this specific area.

Sometimes it depends on your device, I agree.

If anything, Rochester was not a Rust Belt city -- or it was an anomaly in the Rust Belt region.  For many years, Rochester was something of a Silicon Valley of the Northeast -- with an emphasis on imaging technology.  Headquartered in Rochester, Eastman Kodak and Xerox were world leading giants in their fields, but both failed to keep up with technology and have fallen on hard times.  Rochester has severely felt their pain.

 

AJ

I agree!! Unfortunately Kodak is almost gone, Xerox is not doing as much as what they were really known for (copying and such). Technology took over a lot, and Kodak was into film, not many people use film anymore but if you want a taste of history, Eastman Kodak has a awesome museum, I haven't been to but its not that far from me but I plan on visiting soon. Also, like I said before taxes and cost of living in NY state. 

Yes, but my understanding is that the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology became well regarded science and engineering schools in large part because of the local presence of Kodak, Xerox, etc.  With those companies fading, will the schools continue to thrive?  Or will they take hits -- funding, reputation, enrollment -- and start to decline, too?

 

I think that Rochester may be remembered as a 20th century boomtown.  But sooner or later, the gold runs out.  For Rochester, it was George Eastman who yelled "Eureka!"  And it is the gold colored boxes of film that have run out.

 

For wireless relevance, Rochester is forever frozen in time at the FCC as CMA034 -- the 34th largest Cellular Market Area at the time of the 1980 Census.  Now, almost no one thinks of the Rochester metro area as that prominent.  Indeed, if current figures were used, Rochester would be 51st.

 

AJ

yup!!

Rochester...a tale of two cities. It used to have a thriving middle class. Like most major rust belt cities. The middle class fled with the jobs, leaving just the poor and the upper middle class/wealthy class.

 

Rochester still fared better than most other rust belt cities because it had a much larger white collar base than other similar cities. Otherwise it could have been a lot worse. But if it had diversified better in the 70's, it could have fared much better, retaining more of its middle class, and preventing the middle class holdouts who didn't leave from dropping into the poverty zone.

 

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I agree Rochester has faired for the most part, one thing that drives people away is taxes and the cost of living in NY state is bad (NYC hurts upstate). The other thing is Winter, the great lakes make it worse here.

Had a good talk with some folks from the area.  They mentioned Kodak and Bausch and Lomb massive layoffs in the past 10-15 years that essentially turned the city into a dump.  Too bad - because it seems like it could be, or at least used to be, a really nice area.

Jobs are coming back but its mainly health related jobs, some manufacturing. Kodak is well under 1,000 people there from what I hear. B&L well thats a sore subject for a lot of people in Rochester.... B&L got bought out by some company in NJ and laying off people in Rochester. 

I have had no issues with Sprint in Rochester (with the exception of the Perinton area), but I have in Buffalo. Again I tell EVERYONE this, its a WIRELESS device, its not going to work 100% EVERYWHERE. There are some spots AT&T and Verizon are bad and Sprint is great and other places the opposite. There is no way cell phone companies can cover EVERY hotel room, every house, restaurant, etc. Its just not going to happen, there will always be gaps. However, Rochester and the area is getting a help with small cells (not going to mention which company until its announced publicly, its a private source that is reliable).

Also the problem with Sprint in Rochester is 800, there is still no 800 YET, this is maybe with you were complaining of poor service and I can understand that, I wish 800 would be turned on in Rochester but I fell like it maybe very late 2015, early 2016 before we even see that. 

If it makes you feel any better I have a friend I hang out with a lot and this person has t-mobile and I did some testing with the phone and I have to say T-mobile is not as good as T-monile says they are, they have 700 in Rochester but its really not any better then Sprint and I did this testing in various places in the city and suburbs. I wasnt impressed with T-mobile other then all there towers in western NY are broadcasting LTE (I wish Sprint would get all the towers broadcasting LTE but thats going to take time).

I am not making you feel bad or anything to offend you but it could be worse, some cities and areas have more towers and antennas then other cities. Its all good shaferz. Your probably used to 800 in your cities near you. 

Well, this certainly is a great aspect of Sprint I'm happy about :

 

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sprint-named-one-of-the-best-places-to-work-for-disability-inclusion-policies-and-practices-2015-06-15?reflink=MW_news_stmp

cool

I think this is the reason we need sensorly.

100% AGREE!! Sensory is the best out there in my opinion. 

I think 800 on 1X only improve existing coverage. It does not go beyond Sprint's existing footprint (maybe a little bit but not huge)

yup!!

I was curious as to how many POPs Sprint's whole network covered whether it's 1x, EVDO, FDD-LTE or TD-LTE. I looked online and could not really find a straight answer to this question probably because no one cares about 3G anymore. Does anyone know?

Its been discussed in other topics on here

I'm sure it's over 300M pops...but I don't think Sprint has mentioned total voice coverage since they've done 800Mhz 1x over most of their footprint.

Its been discussed in other topics

Back haul doesn't seem to be upgraded in the Syracuse area, or connections are being artificially limited to about 50mbps. Network performance is still quite good though, it's consistently faster than Verizon and AT&T wherever b41 is available and more importantly relieving a lot of congestion on b25. I think the lack of b41 coverage downtown is what is preventing Syracuse from being an official Spark market. I wonder if it's site issues, or part of the change in network deployment a while back.

Probably, Rochester got Spark a long time ago and they still havent finished it lol 

I read what you wrote, I don't know anything about T-Mobile base station equipment. However I do know about Sprint, their stuff is meant to be outside. It lowers operating expenses by not having it in an air conditioned hut. The radios and everything else is cooled by ambient air.

 

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How do you know this? lol