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The delay used to be a problem back in the early days but the newer equipment makes the sync a whole lot easier. All stations that buy in to HD have to provide at least similar quality on the HD stream as their Analog stream by FCC mandate or face fines. The reception is purely based on the quality of the receiver. I bought one of the better (as far a sensitivity goes) in 2010 and I have few issues within 40 miles of the transmitting antenna which is somewhere in DC.

 

The quality is definitely improved when listening to music, definitely higher quality than satellite radio.

Yes I agree you need a good sensitive receiver, and about 40 miles is pushing it your right. I think I got mine back in 2010 too, and get the best one you could get at that time, but I am sure they got better ones out by now, but I still like mine and I still listen to the sub channels from time to time for a change of music.

MY biggest beef with HD radio is the coverage is not like the standard FM or AM signal, its a 10th of the signal (even with the 50K WATT stations), at least with CC (Confirmed in my area with the radio stations near me). Just like TV (even though TV is set up differently) its either there or its not, so if your near a metro and driving around great, if not it cuts in and out and can be annoying. Also if the radio station engineer sets up the station right MOST stations HD wont lag, if you hear a lag they didnt set it up right with timing. 

What map are you looking at? I live right in Victor and no LTE here. I have to go to the mall to pick up LTE signal. I'm not doubting you. just curious where you saw it

There is NO LTE in Farmington, NY its GMO (even though that doesnt mean much anymore) out there and I was just out there the other day and still hold true NO LTE, hes just complaining like usual. Sprint.com's map does not show LTE, just 3G. There is only one tower that serves most of Farmington and thats right by the State Troopers. Some of Farmington gets service by the other tower up the one hill going towards Victor.

I was informed by sprint customer service that LTE should be up and running in the Victor, Farmington area with in the year.

 

First time I have been given a actual time frame.  

LOL

This is interesting, I would like to see how well this works out for Sprint, it may work out well if they staff stores to do this. I like this idea!! (not sure how well it would do though if your not in a big city). Kinda surprised Cnet posted this, I have seen a lot from Cnet not giving Sprint good reviews on there services in the past.

http://www.cnet.com/news/sprints-direct-2-you-brings-the-device-upgrade-process-to-your-home/#ftag=YHF65cbda0

Net10 is vzw

No its not with Net10 and Straight talk, you can pick what carrier you want to be on based on the packaging, GSM means AT&T, CDMA means vzw (also can be found on the model as C or G usually at the end). With that being said more specifically Straight Talk did used to ALSO have CDMA S (Sprint) and GSM T (T-mobile) versions too but I havent seen them in well over a year. 

I am keeping my sprint service, but I cant use data whatsoever right now because of the upgrades.  So i decided to try alternative method until they are fixed.  Thats why.  Plus I dont have wifi at home currently.  cant afford it... plus the rental doesnt want the cable company to come in and do whatever it is that they do.  And the phone lines are messed up in the house right now.  So until they get them fixed for DSL im relying on my phone...

ok thats why, lol well at least its something even though its slow

Net10 is just like straight talk owned by Tracfone/American Mobli (I think thats the right spelling lol). I think its a crappy MVNO company but thats my opinon. Its not throttling probably its the way they have it set up, if I remember seeing that somewhere, I think Howardfourms. Anyways I know that info I just gave wasnt helpful but I saw this post so I thought I would say how I felt about it. Plus why dont you use your Sprint phone even though LTE may not be good? Also some of the new phones also do WIFI calling. Just a thought. 

The correct answer is neither Sprint nor T-Mobile.  Or, better yet, bury the BlackBerry in the ground and hope it grows.

 

With a BlackBerry on either Sprint or T-Mobile, you are going to have a less than optimal experience -- because no BlackBerry to my knowledge supports Sprint's band 26/41 LTE network nor T-Mobile's band 12 LTE network.

 

AJ

AGREED!! Topic done!! lol

I if I had to choose just between sprint and t-mobile it would be t-mobile (ONLY because of unlocked) but if there was a choice between the big 4 it would be at&t.

GMO lte. Don't you love it?

 

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yup lol

I really didn't only because I was expecting more in the speed department. So this highway lte is pretty much a quick lay and your mileage may very.

 

 

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I know what you mean they seem to say they lead in speeds

I got my test drive device today because I was taking a small road trip and the highway I took had lte according to sensorly. I will say lte was there but I bounced between that and edge. When I had lte the speeds were barely 1mbps and I got one at 5mbps. My Sprint phone had lte the majority of the ride with speeds no less than 9 but I maxed out at 30mbps. Could someone explain why I was experiencing what I did? I was really expecting more...kinda disappointed in a sense.

 

 

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LOL normal for them lol

its cool

Woah. I decided to check out the new map out of curiosity and it really is pretty bad. Absolutely no visual distinction between areas of strong and poor signal.

yup thats the route AT&T went too last year too

Will this discussion be moving to the new T4GRU.com website?

maybe lol

Already been mentioned there

Amen. They took away the signal gradients and gave us hexagons. Which we already had with rootmetrics. WTH?!

#UNunCarrier

They only did this to hide their coverage weak spots.

They are following At&t, and Vzw now lol

T-mobile has a new user generated map, its not any better, they should of kept the old one in my opinion lol

The new layout is awesome. I wish they would have revamped the coverage map first.

I already pointed that out lol

Same here, we still have XP on our Delta computers along with IE 8, yet the computers were made for Windows 7. >.<

We are getting new computers, so it hopefully will be better, other thing I hate is they are running off DSL (4 down and .0500 up and yes its def. .0500 they cant get it even close to 1 up I think once it got up to half a meg .500) LOL, DSL is OK but they could get better speeds if they went with someone else and it wouldnt be DSL LOL. For me DSL should be chosen if thats the only option you have (minus sat. way too expansive for the little GBs you can choose from). The place I work at they just cant get it past them that just because phones are good through the phone company doesnt mean the Internet will be too, they can keep the phones with the phone company and get a different provider for Internet but try telling that to them and the answer they would give me would be silent LOL

Got to give people crap about it. Hehe

LOL, its fine I dont mind plus I hate using it, forced to at work no other option (they wont let us download anything else, but they will soon have to now that its finally going away pretty much and will not be supported soon I think). 

One thing I am hoping for is on the side menu; instead of having to click on a specific item to get the sub-menu, I would like to see it popup if you just hover over it. Also, having an auto-hide feature to hide it after a few seconds of inactive use. Otherwise, I like to redesign.

I like the redesign too, like I said its nice to see something change, now they need to get a better coverage map, its way out dated in my opinion.

Ewwww that browser!

I used that browser because I was on an older computer at the time, other then that I use firefox (works good for me at least)

Clear your cache. Otherwise there is a direct link in another thread. 

Funny thing is I didnt have to clear my cache, it just popped up and I was like wow this is different lol

good ideas