jamesinclair

Amusingly enough, the tower closest to my moms house has not received 4G or 800. She left to Verizon this Spring, hopefully the tower is complete when I go for Christmas. Its the Nextel site.

Ive been bitching about the terrible pricing to Latin America forever now. Two weeks ago, I tweeted Marcelo about it. ...I guess he listened! THANK YOU! The website only talks about the new plans though, I have to see if their systems can activate it on an everything data plan.

From nothing to almost everything! I dont think anyone had money on October 2014, but its good to see they finally did it. Now onto 800 and 2500!

Good job with the sensorly mapping in Fresno guys, its very clear what the tower ranges are from it

Cricket?

Are the price is right rules in effect? If so... I'm thinking between 100,001-200,001 adds

Great to see it finally happened. Sadly, most of us here had been hopeful for September....2013. What I dont understand is the towers that went LTE live. I thought the whole point of waiting for a cluster launch...was that it was all systems go? That doesnt seem the case. Or am I confused about that? Not quite yet. Site spacing is still poor, especially downtown and in the new neighborhoods (ie, anything build post 2000) Next step is more towers. Ironically, the one location that has had 4G since 2009...

It just doesnt make sense. Its not like theyre trying to stockpile millions of the things for a massive launch. It should be a reasonable, but slow seller. No one is going to line up over night for this. Every day they wait they get closer to the Nexus 5.1 which will probably blow the specs away at a competetive price.

Yup, everything after ED1500 has been a price increase for my family, which is why we've stayed with it. And don't forget, most of the time you don't pay $200 for the top of the line phone. Amazon is always significantly cheaper, and places like Target always have fantastic discounts during the holidays. Last year, even the Iphone was discounted via gift cards as part of the purchase. While the post above me shows you do save money if you elect a lower cost phone....you sure dont with the iPhones and the Galaxies that are still ~$700 off contract. And that's what most people want anyway. Don't ask me, ask the sales numbers.

If the next Nexus comes to Sprint next month, that might just kill this phone, assuming they stick with the previous pricing for the Nexus line.

I hope this is not true, it would be an idiotic move. The entire reason upgrades are 20 months for a 2 year contract is to hook you in again before the competition has a chance to steal you away. If the upgrade and contract end date are the same, you're free to get your new phone on any other network. Upgrading 4 months early is a huge incentive to stay where you are.

I bought the day after the bottom. Oh well, cant be perfect

I still dont understand why at the very minimum rates to/from/in Japan didnt see a massive change on day 1 of Softbank.

I like this new CEO guy. He's saying all the right things. It sounds like he understands perfectly what was wrong and what needs to be changed. I hope action matches the talk. Im going to tweet him next week about the international plans, which he hasnt talked about. Sprint is 5 years behind everyone else with their international rates.

I just dont understand why Apple doesnt take their older models (ie, the free and 99 subsidized price points) and make them competetive off-contract as well. I guess the answer is, because they don't have to. Samsung also looks at Apple for everything, which is why they also keep their prices high, and focus their low-end models on international markets. I just cant see the subsidy model ending any time soon because the two biggest companies, Apple and Samsung, have no incentive to do so. Nexus 5 was groundbreaking in going high quality-low price....but I personally have never seen one in the wild. I dont think it tore up the sales chart, which will only reinforce the idea that subsidies are required. I think Sprint was smart is sticking with 2-year as an obvious option.

I was told that the movement away from contracts would put a downwards pressure on off contract pricing...

Apple is never going to let 2-year pricing die. The 6+ 128GB model is going to be like $1,000+ off contract if it's $499 on a two year

Where is phone

I mean the bug being that calls cant be made with airplane mode when wifi is on.

Hopefully that was just an oversight that a software update can fix.

Why hello there Full article at: http://online.wsj.com/articles/sprint-to-sell-next-sony-xperia-phone-in-u-s-1409305019 This Softbank thing might be pretty cool.

Because you cant use it with airplane mode, if you are abroad, you should be able to turn on all the roaming guards, turn off all roaming, and make wifi calls without fear of latching onto a roaming network right?

Finally. http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-releases/traveling-overseas-with-sprint-has-never-been-easier-with-international-wi-fi-calling-to-the-us-us-virgin-islands-and-puerto-rico-at-no-additional-cost.htm Why isnt the single band GS4 compatible?

I havent heard of any stores getting demos.... I hope so.

Hm, well that would be a barrier. Well, Sprint doesnt allow Virgin/Boost phones to come over a lot of the time right? That should be an instant fix.