JimPivonka

I will be following up early next week. I'll post the results when I have them.

AJ, that is correct. I've been a Sprint customer since divestment, in multiple locations. I did not change my services, which included 800 service, long distance service on both coasts at dual residences, and eventually cellular service, when I moved to Kansas. I moved my service address to Kansas when Sprint started working here. That was presumably at the time the Nex-Tech agreement originated.

I still maintain multiple "residences". (Don't look for houses.) I still need phone and data service at all of them, I still am at the residences for periods long enough that tempo hookups don't meet my needs. I use and need the kind of nationwide coverage I have had from Sprint, with "pseudo native" coverage in Rush County.

I am afraid I may have to maintain both Sprint and GoldenBelt/Nex-Tech accounts, for both cellular and data. I am not yet reconciled to that necessity.

I have been a Sprint customer since divestment. In that time I've lived on both coasts, and in recent years in Rush County, Kansas. I have, for the last several years, been getting both cellular and data services from Sprint in Kansas. And, since I travel a lot, to both coasts, the nationwide network coverage has been important to me.

Recent changes in Sprint coverage will have severe negative impact on the services I can get from Sprint. I wonder if anyone here can provide me information about the reason for these changes and how they relate to Sprint's network vision. I will have to be making some decisions about my service, and this information could be very useful to me.

Sprint's explanation of the changes are here http://support.sprint.com/support/article/Learn_more_about_network_changes_coming_to_portions_of_Kansas_and_Oklahoma/case-gz982789-20111212-190208/?ECID=vanity:coveragechange

EDIT: It seems to me that this has a significant bearing on the points and maps included in Andrew J. Shepard's January, 2012, article titled "AT&T's charges of Sprint's disinvestment in rural areas the height of hypocrisy". Comments?

Thank you for your time and help.