catpowrd

Does anyone have any regional carriers in mind who they think could be a "match made in heaven" for Sprint to work with? USCellular, Cspire, Leap, and Metro come to mind for me... but... Leap and Metro are cash strapped like Sprint, Cspire owns a blanket of 700mhz coverage in all the areas it wishes to service , and USC seems to be wedged pretty far up Verizon's arse when when it comes to roaming... They're all ideal roamers for Sprint's native network, but I have no idea if any of them would want to build and sell LTE with Sprint's spectrum anywhere ?

There is a small carrier that sprung up after the Verizon/Alltel take over called Element Mobile in central Wisconsin. I was told that Verizon can’t sell service in this area and Element already has some kind of connection with Sprint using Sprint towers and I think some of the old Alltel towers.

I wonder if the newly gained areas would be considered roaming or not? Although I never go over 2GB per month on my data card I do have problems with the 300MB cap on roaming and with LTE you could blow through that quickly.

I might be interested if it was $20 per line since I have 5 phones and 1 data card that would be $120 per month or $1440 per year off my bill. I usually upgrade about 2 devices per year so I think I would save a few hundred per year.

Does anyone know if this unit has a removable antenna so I could split the output to both sides of a steel wall?

Anyone have any idea if they are going to fix this Admiral defect or am I stuck having to reboot my phone several times a day for two years. I did try toggling airplane mode once but did not turn SDC back on only reboot seems to fix

We have a couple of the new Admirals since they were released in Oct. They work nice if you never loose sprint coverage. Once you roam SDC will not work anymore even after returning to sprint coverage. You have to reboot phone to use SDC again. Sprint did not plan this very well. Even though Nextel had limited coverage at least when you got back to a Nextel area you could use SDC without having to reboot all the time. The phones are nice but can only make use of DC about 60% as much as with the old Nextel phones we had. A new PRL helped a little so sometimes SDC will return after a few minutes but still need a lot of reboots. I tried waiting over night and still no SDC

I live in an area of central Wisconsin that only has Nextel towers near by and no Sprint towers, any idea what they would plan to do here. I hope they will just become Sprint NV towers. I have one old Nextel phone with a number locked to the Nextel market and the map says these towers are up for review in April.