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The dude is a comedian. His primary goal is to create buzz by saying dumb things. I thought the Tweet was quite funny (especially the hashtag). Radioshack is definitely a sinking ship! I despise wireless retail stores, but our local Sprint store is actually quite nice. The Verizon stores (multiple) are all terrible. Always have a wait, so they started putting a greeter with a tablet at the entrance to schedule appointments. Anecdotally, the vast majority of people in my area are VZ or SBC d.b.a. AT&T subs though. Retail stores are nice when you need a SIM swap though.

Your point still works because Verizon is wildly more profitable than Sprint, but EBITDA is a terrible metric. It's mostly used in over-leveraged companies (like most telcos) because it skews the numbers in their favor. EBITDA is no substitute for true bottom-line earnings and a full cash flows statement. EBITDA can hide the fact that a company is debt ridden. Verizon is carrying over $100 Billion in long term debt (a lot of which is from the purchase of VZW from Vodafone). Guess which company, Sprint or Verizon, has a much more favorable Debt-to-Equity ratio? Verizon's cash flow statement is so messed up from the VZW purchase, it's almost hard to interpret. I know many investors disagree with me, but I don't think Verizon is all that healthy of a company financially. At least not enough for me to invest in. A big price war in the US and it's going to become mighty hard to service that debt load and keep feeding investors. I own AT&T stock because even though they don't retain a ton of earnings, their cash flow is decent (and will greatly improve if the DirectTV deal is finalized). Here's what is comes down to. Why is Verizon reluctant to give into the price wars? Why do they spout off about keeping a "premium brand" at every investor call? Because they have to. They collapse if they are making Sprint's margins.

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I'd say Sprint having lots of high frequency spectrum is an advantage. The lower frequency spectrum was pretty booked up before cell phone use (especially mobile data on cell phones) became common, leaving less lower frequency spectrum to be able to be used for phones. Honestly, high frequency 2.5Ghz will be great since Sprint will have great cell spacing to handle the rapid increase in data usage. Verizon 700Mhz was getting very bad before AWS was fired up (I have a 700Mhz only phone still) because the cell spacing they used was low.

Yeah I highly doubt they'll hand out single band LTE devices. Increasing 1900 LTE congestion even more isn't a very good idea.

Well then you have options. You can either deal with having the burden of unlimited data or go to verizon and get the cap you want. Or better yet switch to Ting or Republic, enjoy the Sprint network that we are all following the buildout of, and simply pay for what you use. You may be the only person to ever complain about being offered unlimited data (as a consumer. As enthusiasts we know there are some problems with unlimited abusers, but that doesn't apply here)

Nobody wants framily

Robert, are the finances of the site still lookin OK? I'd love to give more, but with being a college student, the cash flow situation during the school year is a little...erm...low.

This is probably just a move to keep them from steaming video and high quality music. Twitter, Mobile FB, and all the other plethora of social apps will work just fine on 128Kb/s (I've personally used much worse on Verizon's 3G before their big push to get everyone on LTE...the HTC Thunderbolt days were the dark ages of Verizon 3G)

I wish Sprint knew how to advertise. Their framily commercial makes me sad, especially when the Verizon More Everything commercial plays right after it.

If they are like Verizon, they won't require a switch simply for activating a phone. But if you finance a phone through them (Easy Pay) they will probably make you switch.

Framily can end up being more expensive than the old plans, but I personally feel that not having a 2 year contract and being a lot more transparent about what phones actually cost is well worth the few extra bucks. And maybe customers will start to see that their phone doesn't actually cost $99. It always irks me when people say "Yeah, I got this new phone for FREE!" or "This phone was only $99 and it's a really good phone!" Also, still having the option for unlimited is great. And before people start destroying me for saying that, my average monthly usage on my Verizon (unlimited) plan is 1.8GB. But there are months that I use 5 or 6 and don't really want to pay overages or have to bother with capped. But I understand that a lot of people don't self-police their mobile data usage on an unlimited plan.

LOL the Browns. Our owner is a complete douche. I only felt the need to bring it up because I read a lot of these threads and I see a very clear tendency that you have to berate people that aren't exactly like you in knowledge, wealth, status, etc. FWIW, I couldn't care less about T-Mobile or their crap network, I was just using it as an example.

You seem to have a liking for making a lot of poor people jokes. Just something I have noticed with you a lot, especially in the T-Mobile threads. Anywho, I'm in the "poor person" Cleveland market where we still use payphones, and I have never met a single person with Revol. The Spectrum will be better used with Sprint.

Sprint also needs a new website. The current one is completely dead last among the big 4 providers. Verizon is always making small changes to improve it, while Sprint's feels dated and cumbersome - it does not bring up an image of a modern wireless network