JustinRP37

This is awesome news, and I am thinking they are already mobilized in NYC. There is one tower in the Bronx I connect to occasionally that has speeds up over 1.0Mbps on 3G and the connection has improved greatly. I live in Westchester and there have also been a few towers that are noticeably better.

Yes, we will have to see how this sorts out. If it is another blow against Sprint, then things will get tricky. The markets have not been kind to them lately and the current cash-flow is starting to disturb investors. Hence why they really need NV to be a huge success otherwise we are probably looking at problems within two years.

You would think Sprint would want to hurry up and get them out so that they could sign more 2 year contracts. Then again they often do not have the best management. I am still worried with all the negative press they have been receiving if they will be able to pull this whole NV plan off successfully. I am rooting for them, but now with Comcast suing them that will only hurt them more. However, Sprint does know that this may be their last chance and getting things right, so I firmly believe they will get it right.

I do not buy the whole 'unlimited will not last forever' because all the big companies have tiered plans. This is kind of like them saying, 'okay no more future technology growth'. If you think 2GB is going to tide over the 'average' user in a few more years, then you have another thing coming. I believe that if Sprint can pull this off then they can show that unlimited can work. I FULLY support throttling once you reach a reasonable threshold. I have never used more than 5GB. Hotspots should NEVER be unlimited as this encourages power users from using as much as possible. I don't know if anyone remembers, but Comcast tried to get the broadband industry to move towards tiered internet plans. This fell through before it even got off the floor because of customer complaints. Comcast still does throttle power users who try to download everything they can, because no one needs to be a bandwidth hog (seriously can someone truly watch every TV show out there?). Needless to say, even Congress said this would move our technology backwards. I think that the tiered system may not be here to stay if Sprint can provide reliable service at reasonable prices after NV, as it may be possible to get the Big Three to jump back.