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Hmm, my conversation with sales was very misleading... the was no mention of having to pay full price for all the lines I moved in for the first month.

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Mine is still showing $55 for the 2 lines.

 

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I see people are having trouble making the switch in store. Why oh why does Sprint not allow the plan change online? Do they expect people to buy an overpriced accessory during there store visit?

You can start a Framily by calling the Sprint support number. I find that working with the Sprint call centers usually goes more smoothly than going to a store.

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I switched to the Framily plan on Friday. I was told that existing Sprint customers lines that are eligible for upgrades can join a Framily. Existing Sprint lines under contract can join...but they will pay the subsidy fee (the fee is only waived for the lines that are merged in by the original Framily creator). I have not put the advice into practice yet... so I can't be certain it was correct yet. I should know within a day or two.

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The economics of the Framily plan depend entirely on how expensive the unsubsidized phones are. The one year old Galaxy S4 is listed on the Sprint site for $599. Amazon (and Sprint) is selling the he subsidised G4 for $49. Given those numbers the monthly Family plan subsidy is $23 per month. Swapping unlimited data for the 1gb cap and losing the subsidy kills the deal...

By my calculations, after buying the overpriced $600 phones the cost of my 4 line EFP plan is the same (per line) as a 7 user Framily plan... and replaces unlimited data with 1GB caps.

The deal gets better if Sprint were to sell one year old phones for a more reasonable $400-$500

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From reading other posts, it sounds like 800 LTE would be turned on only in clusters, not one at a time.

1x800 is voice only. 800 LTE is a ways away yet. I suspect Sprint will wait until a significant number of tri band phones are on the street. In the meantime many existing customers will benefit from the 1x800 voice.

 

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1x800 is voice only. 800 LTE is a was away yet. I suspect Sprint will wait until a significant number of tri band phones are on the street. In the meantime many existing customers will benefit from the 1x800 voice.

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I was driving around the east side mapping with Sensorly this afternoon. Overall it's a huge improvement. The only problem was that there were gaps in the coverage that kept forcing my G3 to 3G.

Something seems to be wrong with the east side Milwaukee st tower. It's broadcasting 4G but the speeds are old school Sprint 3G speeds (less than .1 mbps).

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The towers on the East and SE sides of Madison are broadcasting 1x800 and LTE. I got ~20mbps outside my office... and lost the LTE signal when I walked in.. Looking forward to 800LTE.

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Looking at the number of unaccepted towers with NV antennas on them in Madison, I wouldn't be surprised if the city about to be launched is Madison... happy thoughts

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Madison CtyRd AB Tower (*clip*)

McFarland Bocce Park (*clip*)

A quick update about the Madison east side towers. The tower by the south town Wal-Mart does not have any NV antennas yet. The McFarland, Monona water tower and Buckeye rd towers all have NV antennas mounted. I took pictures... I'll try to get them uploaded this evening

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The Johnson's Creek tower by the outlet mall is now transmitting a 4G signal. It's been shown as 3G complete for ages... not the greatest speeds though. On the south side of the mall, closest to the tower,I was getting ~2mbs. Next to the water tower I got ~15mbps

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The NV upgraded sites map works pretty well in Chrome browser on the S3. The 'All NV Sites map' does not work well. Perhaps the all sites map was created with an old maps api?

In regards to starring towers, the current maps app seems to have removed the ability to star exact GPS coordinates. It reverts to the closest street address. I reverted to the G3 factory Maps app and it was able to star the exact position... it was also way more convenient to star the address in the old Maps version. The more I use the latest version of Maps the more I hate it.

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Does anyone have a good way of viewing the NV Sites maps on mobile devices? I'm thinking about going on a tower hunt and it would be very convenient to use those maps on the run... as it is, getting to those maps on a phone is very clunky.

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1x800 has been working intermittently on the towers south of 94 midway between Madison and Milwaukee. Unfortunately, while data is greatly improved... voice calls are dropping more frequently in that area than in the past. It seems there may be problems with handoff's between the towers and weak signals.

I am beginning to see a pattern where sometimes the new towers are coming online with inexplicably low power output...

The interesting thing is, it seems the suburban/outskirts areas are getting lit up 1 tower at a time, yet the city centers have no towers. That is why i was thinking they would light up the city towers in clusters or multiple towers at a time.

The Milwaukee towers are being lit up individually....

It is marked as a 4G accepted site on the NV sites complete map in the sponsor forum.

A question about the acceptance process: will all sites eventually turn green on that map?

Where are you seeing that? Point me! Where is "today's post"?

I'll second that... what post?

You slackers in Madison need to step up your game on the sensorly mapping

 

Actually, you did say in... (runs away laughing maniacally)

sigh. O.o

There are no LTE towers in Madison...

I have noticed that the LTE signal can extend fat beyond my GS3's ability to reply to the tower. At the edge of a towers signal range a speed test frequently shows 4-5mbps download and then fails on the upload with a network error.

Indeed, I am not surprised that the Sprint maps on Sensorly are fairly well filled out compared to the other cellular vendors... check out the other maps sometime... it's n night and day.

Hello EJones,

3 simple steps to insanity:

1) Download the Sensorly app and use it when you drive (free).

2) Buy Signal Check Pro ($).

3) Download LTE discovery... until Signal Check Pro adds timed radio resets (hint hint developer).

Oh.. and 4, make strange detours daily to map out unmapped roads... much easier if you are not married.  If you are married, start working on your excuses lest you wife figure out that you are indeed insane.

In passive mode Sensorly will collect data until it consumes your configured max battery usage. The default is 10%. You can see how much the process has used by looking at the battery in the android options list.

In manual mode Sensorly will warn you if you try start a 'manual' scan with the battery below a configurable level. The default for that is 20%. Once you start a manual scan, I think it will keep scanning until it drains your battery. That has not happened to me yet (I keep the phone plugged in while scanning)... but I don't see a config setting that would stop a manual scan at a certain battery level.

Sensorly has been having problems the last couple of days. The website has been down at times (generating server errors) and none of my traces have appeared since the loop around the McFarland tower last Friday. There should be traces in Lake Mills and a few other places in SE Madison (picking up the McFarland tower).