jamesinclair

I think Sprint's image is unlimited and they aren't going to do anything anytime soon to change it.

Right, but doing this keeps the unlimited while still offering a way to save money.

If this were a contract option, we'd put my dad's line on the cheapest, because he uses no more than 100mb a month, while still keeping the rest of us unlimited.

According to this article

http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/10/metropcs-unveils-simpler-4g-plans-with-unlimited-data-for-60/#comments

MetroPSC is launching plans at $60, $50 and $40, the big difference being where you get throttled. IE: You save $10 a month if youre willing to be throttled at 2.5GBs.

Many have asked what Sprint will do if they have to move away from unlimited, and I think this is a very good option.

"Yes sir, we can cut your bill be $10 a month. You still get unlimited data, but no more 4G after 2.5GBs, just the very usable 3G"

Any thoughts on Sprint potentially copying this rate system?

Some days my phone yells at me that I'm roaming over and over. I'd say over 100 times a day on those occasions. I'm in a metropolitan area, so that shouldn't ever be the case.

Worst part about this is that it was introduced with ICS. Even if you disable roaming notification, the damned triangle keeps popping up. Absolutely hate it.

Ive found that my sisters iphone 4s gets service in marginal areas where my galaxy 2 does not.

It's there but doesn't work well with CDMA voice networks. We're trying to get it to work.

If you look at GSM maps, you will see a little.

Any form of timeline on this? Just wondering if its a priority or something that may at some point show up, but also may not.

Sprint signal is always preferred and unless you force roam, your phone will continue searching for a sprint signal even when it has a strong roaming signal in non-sprint areas. As a result, battery life suffers. This is one benefit to the roam control app, (maybe not for you due to rare circumstances in florida), you can force roam onto the stronger carrier and the phone will not scan for Sprint until you manually enable it again.

 

Like I said earlier due to the coding of the app and your location the roam control app may not work for you. On the Galaxy S 3, the app force roams onto 850 signal which no carriers have in your area except AT&T (GSM, so no roaming). On other supported devices you can roam onto PCS 1900 signal as well as 850 so it would help.

 

The developer for roam control should figure out a way to get PCS roaming working on the GS3, that would help you out.

 

 

Does that require modding the phone? I go to the mountains sometimes where theres no sprint and would like to conserve battery while still using the verizon signal if I need it.

Are the NV running list percentages going to be updated to reflect the 200 sites that were accepted last week? I guess since its so close to new week that the number of sites can be lumped into this upcoming week and be updated. Hoping to see more progress made in LA Metro and NYC since Sprint needs to get those markets closer to being launch ready as well as major progress in Chicago so that they can hurry up and move its crews to other Samsung markets which are in need of getting started.

It looks like the running list is being updated every 2 weeks. In the past it was just monthly I think.

Good grief, you, too, are missing my point.

 

Do you understand that you may not represent most cellphone users? And do you understand that many cellphone users think that they cannot effectively use their devices if their signal bars are low?

 

Heck, I would like for engineering screen readouts to be standard on the home screen, but that does not mean my wish is appropriate for all users.

 

AJ

I worked at a cell phone customer care call center. I think I have a pretty good understanding of what the average cell phone user thinks, considering I talked to 70 of them a day.

TMI. Too much information for the commoners. And that is probably for the best. Nearly all mobile phone users need info on the level of a one bit binary value. Will the device work at this time in this location? Yes/no? Any info more granular than that just causes them needless agita.

 

AJ

I dont think its too much information at all.

I think not knowing why voice works but data doesnt is a bigger deal.

I dont understand why they dont have two signal bar. Wimax with a separate 4G signal bar was perfect.

I was looking at my gfs verizon samsung galaxy 3, and under her settings, status, it said she was at -115db with 2-3 bars. 4G was indicated at the top of the phone. I was surprised because I was under the impression anything worse than 110 was no service. I read this thread to see that for LTE its different.

Does that mean verizon phones show the lte signal strength while sprint phones show the voice strength?

True, although its only usable outside

Connected to the fresno wimax signal again.

2188 up

31 down

139 ping

No typos.

Damn, never gotten higher than 8.

The weekly store ads (best buy, walmart etc) are still pushing the galaxy 2 on sprint strongly.

I would have thought Sprint was number 1 in Baltimore, simply because they built wimax and lte in baltimore first.

Id love to have a number for Fresno. Wouldnt be surprised to see cricket in the top 3.

If that is true it's the exact opposite of Sprint. Everything is captured by Sprint for reasoning when an account is canceled. It doesn't make any immediate difference in the interaction, but all of it is collated and sent up the chain for the executives to determine what course to take for the future.

Associates at verizon fill in some info, just very little:

IE, reason for termination, death, competition, domestic dispute.....and like 20 other categories that are pretty much not used because they overlap or make little sense. If competition is selected, then one is to select the name of the other company from a dropdown, but no further info (ie price, signal etc).

In most cases, associates just choose "domestic dispute" as it results in the fastest transaction. Death is also chosen when needed as its the only options that allows a refund of the unused portion of the month.

Please be sure to tell Verizon that you're switching to Sprint because they got rid of unlimited data and all of their old customer incentives like early upgrades and cheaper upgrades if you decided to keep unlimited data.

 

Well that's what I told em' anyway.

The associate you speak to will make sure to jot it down.....but that info goes nowhere.

Extremely little data is collected when service is terminated.

Just as an update, I did call sprint, and they upped me from "house" to "mansion".

Has improved the signal from 96-101 to 86-91 in the bedrooms.

Sensorly, why did the "grey" feature go away?

That is, previously if you mapped wimax, it showed purple, and if wimax fell, it would map grey (for mapped, but no wimax). Now, new wimax and new LTE simply show no mapping in areas with no signal.

Sorry for the multiple typos up there (ie, I have, not won a phone). Oh the dangers of posting at 2:30am.

I won an Epic 4G Touch.

Ive been wondering if its my phone, or some kind of general issue with wimax technology...

Basically, on some android aps, if Im using 4G, the app wont pull data. 4G will stay "sleeping". On 3G the app works, and some apps work on 4G, but not all.

Its a curious issue.

It's most apparent on a bus tracking app. On Wimax, it wont pull in the bus data feed to show me where the bus is. Have also had the issue with facebook where things wont load, and the 4G is "asleep".

Any thoughts?

Interesting that no one figured this out yet with all the Sensorly devotees around, but I'll help you out.

 

When you open Sensorly, go to the settings, and scroll down to General. Chances are you have both "Scan WiFi networks" and "Force WiFi on" checked. Just uncheck those, and all will be well.

Was indeed checked, will now disable.

Anyone know why the dominican republic shows sprint 3g coverage reported by users?

I would have to say network coverage and reliability have been the most important things that I have considered when cell carrier shopping. The clarity of a phone call is not even on my radar...

Thats because the clarity universally sucks.

Its not a marketing feature because there hasnt been anything to market, yes.

Think of the millions spent on "the largest network/4g network" ads.

98% of america doesnt leave their home town in a given year. Having a large network means diddly squat for them. If verizon has coverage in farmsville, ND, and AT&T doesnt....who cares? You'll never go there. But yet its a feature that can be marketed.

One thing that might happen if you get a new contract wimax phone today....

Theres a good chance sprint will let you upgrade to lte early. Not guaranteed of course, but thats what carriers do when they want to shift people off one network to another.

Verizon, for example, is at this point pretty much paying people to dump their altel plans.