jamesinclair

Um...let's follow the money. Brightline is a higher-speed rail system under construction in Florida. It is being developed by All Aboard Florida, a wholly owned subsidiary of Florida East Coast Industries (FECI Florida East Coast Industries (FECI) is Florida’s oldest and largest commercial real estate, transportation, and infrastructure holding company. FECI was purchased in 2007 by equity funds managed by Fortress Investment Group, LLC. https://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2017/02/16/parent-of-brightline-train-project-to-be-acquired.html Hm, Softbank, where do I know them from...

Apologies if this has been covered already, but the Sprint sponsorship of Pokemon Go is finally paying off. Background: Pokemon Go had an event where 20,000 people went to a single park to use their game Problem: 20,000 people accessing a data-intensive game in a very small area is bad news Situation: Sprint was only provider to deploy COWs (I assume thanks to my tweet) Problem: Event was a complete disaster because the only people who could play were Sprint and Tmobile users. No one else could connect. And now the Pokemon Go community is furious at Verizon and AT&T but speaking well of Sprint https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/6pqgmg/so_apparently_verizon_chose_not_to_deploy_pop_up/?st=j5mm6260&sh=74febf81 Dat word of mouth tho.

My GF switched over. There was trouble at first, because they said her phone was reported as lost/stolen, and it took 2/3 calls to AT&T to get it resolved and made available to Sprint. So not as easy as just sliding a new SIM card in. But she is very happy with her new unlimited data, loves the HD voice calls, and has had no issues with service.

Maybe not sell off your Nextel holdings next time?

Pokemon Go is having an event in Chicago later this month for 20,000 people. Ticketed event. Sprint, obviously, is a major sponsor. Any word on them bringing in the COWS? Would be highly embarrassing if the event fails because no one can connect. Conversely, would be good marketing if only Sprint customers have a good connection

Indeed. My mom switched from Sprint to Verizon 2 years ago, and I wont even bring up the new free offer because Sprint still hasn't done anything to fix all the issues in her market (Fresno). According to the map on this website, a significant portion of the towers are still 3G only (in 2017!) and that doesnt even get to the issue that they havent added any towers in what looks like 10 years. Meanwhile, where I live, my gf will be switching to Sprint this week because the service here is good. Sprint competes nationwide, but performance is very regional.

Hm, Im seeing a good amount of reports on Reddit on people being able to switch from prepaid. My gf is going to switch next week from AT&T prepaid so I hope its not an issue. Im also curious about how this will affect the stock price.

Remember, once you drop Open, its gone forever. Do you have any plans for Latin America? 1GB free 3G + free calls is not matched by the new plan at all.

Theres no specific thread about the new free plan right?

RE: Airave LTE Thanks guys, I guess Ill look into upgrading my dads unit eventually. 99% of the airave is for him to make calls that dont cut off, so while those LTE improvements sound good, theyre not a must have right now.

I still dont understand. If I am at home, my Wifi speed and LTE-from-airave speed will be the same right, since theyre both limited by my Comcast speed?

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Whats the point of LTE on Airave? If you already have Wifi, why do you need your home data turned into LTE? For someone who has an Airave because without it calls get cut off, would the 3 be an upgrade?

I didnt realize Verizon was including Mexico and Canada too these days. Thanks Tmobile!

My sister has been in Colombia for 3 weeks. I told her about the 1GB limit. She is at .56 So I am not speaking in hypotheticals here. Our current cost is $0. The new plan would be $75. Thats outrageous.

Because calls are no longer free. Also, it is $25 per WEEK. The $30 was for the entire month. If you use 1GB over the course of a month, it would now be $100, vs $0 before. That's a massive price hike.

Incorrect. It's called offering options. Which Sprint has done for years with the Open World OR Global Roaming Plan. For Latin America, this is a price hike, plain and simple.

WTF This is a huge downgrade for Latin America which was 1GB free with 3G speed.

Im happy for T-mobile. The more pressure on Verizon and AT&T the better

Wait, really?

Yes I noticed that! It loads the old interface and a second later the new one pops on top. I've never seen that anywhere before!

Maintenance is "sorry the website will be down from 1am to 4am" This is a horrible mess. I finally got to where I wanted to...services. Took 2 extra screens to reach and the page itself is in the old format. Who updates a website page by page?

WTF have they done to the website. It has gone from bad to an unusable mess. It just had me sign on 3 times, it flickered back and forth between the old and the new inter phase, I was forced to enter an 8 digit code twice, and now apparently 15 days into my cycle Ive sued 0GB, 0 minutes, and 0 texts.

Read the comments. The spreadsheet is not correct. I have an ED plan. I have done the math myself an used the online optimizer. If I switch within Sprint my price goes up. If I were to switch to Tmobile, my price would go down.

So Sprint did nothing for ED subscribers right? The online optimizer shows a price hike for me... and thats before we start adding phone costs