Fraydog

Yep... agree. I'm not suggesting that Sprint plops equipment on every USCC tower in the affected areas. There is actually a fair amount of overlap when it comes to USCC and Sprint in this this general area, but my specific area/zip code is one that is seriously lacking.

 

Do I think Sprint would be able to grow subs if they placed Equipment on a tower here? Absolutely. Do I think sprint would be able to retain subs who are considering jumping ship to a different provider? Absolutely. I obviously cant place any hard numbers on them (market research is not my specialty) - but I do think Sprint could gain some traction here if they actually had reliable service.

 

I'll continue to sit here and cross my fingers and complain on a weekly basis to Sprint - and hope to hell they come through.

Here in Chester people are so damn locked on Verizon that Sprint would roll out here with the works (800 CDMA and LTE, 1900 CDMA and LTE, and 2600 TD-LTE), offering the best service in the world, and people wouldn't budge a damn bit. 98% of people here are on Verizon, the other 2% on AT&T.

Can't blame AT&T for that. Either buy European markets for mobile which are still growing, or Dish, which has run out of growth possibilities in TV and with limited spectrum? Gee, that's a hard choice.

I can only hope that Sprint becomes an aggressor in 2014 not just in speed but also in growing their networks.

Samsung and Sprint didn't do this to spite people. Likely it was because they ran out of time and didn't know what was going to happen at the end of the Dish debacle. Calm down everyone.

Sorry. I don't see any situation where these plans help out. At least Sprint's offers a discount on the plan. Frankly it's less bad than the others. US mobile consumers should be pushing carriers to provide better off-contract plans. If I could get a cheaper non-contract shared plan, that would be more attractive to me. Look at what 3 UK does for their plans. I wish Sprint would look at that model.

They do!!! The screenshot of the screen on the landings page has their own 4g LTE icon on it!

To my knowledge, Sprint hasn't put it on the carrier software for any phones yet.

And to be fair, I like the AT&T 4G LTE logo. It's a nice change from the other carrier LTE logos which almost all look robotic.

For the 5S/5C, the only SKU that is truly different is the Sprint version of the 5S/5C. Sprint has the Asia/Pacific model while the other US carriers got the NAM version which has the other US relevant LTE bands (2,4,5,13,17).

glenavo34 is walking the line very close to violating forum rules.

Please keep all criticism constructive in nature.

I'd take the Thornton job too lol.

NV can't give sprint the best coverage. They don't have nearly enough towers compared to Verizon. If they ever announce NV 3.0 and plan to add 20,000+ towers, maybe then they'd have a chance.

The ex-Nextel spectrum gives Sprint a chance against VZW and AT&T's massive swaths of 700 MHz spectrum. That's something T-Mobile doesn't have, and wouldn't unless DT sold TMUS to SoftBank.

Great timing.

I'm sympathetic because I live in an area where there's no Sprint coverage. That said, if Sprint can't make coverage out in certain areas where coverage is not extended, then what happens when service is shut down on USCC's towers? Is it expected customers just transfer to Verizon or AT&T?

I think Sprint integrates with them really well and if they have to be acquired I hope it's Sprint.

Now that SoftBank is in charge here, we can only hope Sprint snags USCC before AT&T does, or at least drives the price up for Stephenson to insane levels.

Element goes to AT&T on that chart too.

Well, my guess would have been that it would be too much of a pain in the butt to get SVLTE going with TD-LTE and FDD-LTE on the same device. I'll take the Dave's answer though.

Any explanation for why Tri-Band devices lack SVLTE?

Robert, like myself, is off the grid. Although to be fair I can order Sprint service here, it's just that 1X on ATNI roaming is like nails on chalk. And there's the whole Golden Ticket thing.

I'd pick VZW since their devices are for the most part unlocked and you can insert AT&T SIM's in for testing too.

If Stephenson and Legere were in the hunting party, I would take the risk of some collateral damage.

 

AJ

No Lowell McAdam?

Dick Cheney is probably available.

 

AJ

The problem with that is all the accidental targets Cheney would hit.

You're a brave man, but Engadget's comment section is probably beyond anything you could do for it.

Bingo, the solution I could see for that site's comments involves a can of gas and a match.

All carriers pull this to some extent.

This is just carrier being carrier. Nothing outside of the normal that I can see.

This is one of the few rural acquisitions I'm OK with by AT&T - the other being ATNI's Alltel properties. Element was a terrible carrier. VZW had placed a target overbuilding on Element anyway.

I wish SoftBank would have tried to go for a buyout on these guys but they have their hands full with Sprint.

State Department

Mine installed without the iTunes beta. I was kind of surprised. 

I'm likely upgrading to the 5S with one of the Duopolists, because where I live there isn't a choice.  Sorry I'm not counting Alltel because I still think that's going to AT&T even with the prepaid phone hiccup. 

Sprint can't work where I live because of this coverage.  

If anything I'm doing Sprint a favor by not getting a phone here although they do sell to 62233. It is advertised as limited coverage on Sprint's site.