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bruce

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  1. I know that it has been mentioned too many times about backhaul being the main culprit in holding things up. It seems like something that should shift the blame away from sprint onto the backhaul provider, but after a year who is to blame? In my area, optimum is the provider. At&t uses them too and every site of theirs has lte with a speed capability of more than 50mbps. Most cell sites in my area are on top of buildings that have multiple carriers. So if a roof that has Verizon At&t and Sprint sites, why would optimum put backhaul for one and not the other? It just seems so backward...if Sprint wants to be competitive and gain customers, they should make sure to persist with the backhaul to get out there and just do it. There should be no reason to have 3g sites sit dormant.
  2. Very True. There are updates happening every month, but some sites are just sitting on 3g, one for more than a year now. He was probably just trying to give me insight as to why sites are sitting and by the time May rolls around, he hopes it will be 4glte
  3. I have noticed in my area that there have not been updates for a while. I spoke to a sprint business manager that supposedly sits in on meetings with management and he told me not to expect anymore updates in Long Island until May. Should I believe him?
  4. I agree, the article also said that coverage was non existent for a large part of the trip.
  5. Thank you for replying to my post. The thing is, when I tried out sprint last month, I had many issues with dropped calls. I kept on telling my friends that its going to get better in the future. I asked someone on sprint how often he drops a call and he said when he drives, he drops one every other day. My friends said to me that is not how phones are supposed to work, esp in our day and age. Many people have grown to live with it and think its normal, but coming from verizon, it was something I have not experienced ever. If you say that there will always be complaints of patchy calls, I have not made one call to verizon in 13 years about a downed tower. But in my first week with sprint I filed 2 network tickets. Is it possible that it has to do with the amounts of sites verizon has vs the amount sprint has?
  6. Does this mean that in a year from now, there will be no complaints anywhere about dropped calls and patchy lte? Everyday there are new posts on the sprint community website about service issues and obviously we all know the standard response from the social care. Should we expect that in a year, that website will no longer be full of complaints? I want to switch back, but if a year from now they still say generic lines like "90 days" or "within 6 months" its going to be hard to believe.
  7. I just said that a few days ago. I wish it was true, but I think Verizon has the best site spacing. Bars don't really matter, because with Verizon on 1 bar you could do more than with a lot of Sprint sites on 5 bars. Add the fact that verizon is building platforms and new sites every week ( I know the person that builds most of the platforms for the Long Island and Manhattan areas) I tried sprint and it did not work out. Hopefully it will work in the future.
  8. The phone in question is a basic phone, so no apps If it was a smartphone then whatsapp is what I would use. I don't want to be like a troll, but my questions was skimmed over. The main point was not the out of orderness, but rather the time delay of minutes to hours, vs the seconds it took on verizon.
  9. True...Messages sent within the US from Verizon to Verizon will come in as one unbroken message. From Verizon to other carriers, its broken up but sent right away so the messages are put in order. Also, from Verizon to Canada its one long message. From Sprint to Canada they were broken up and out of order and delayed to many minutes apart.
  10. I wonder if anyone has insight into this one. I have verizon and tried out sprint for a bit last month. With verizon I am able to text friends in Canada and we both receive the messages instantly with no problems. When I was using sprint, my friend told me that the messages were coming in, but in block form like 160 characters and then another 160 characters. The messages were broken up and also coming in 1 minute, sometimes 5 minute intervals, so and not in order. So it was hard for the recipient to tell the order that the message was supposed to be in. On my end, I was getting the messages in minute intervals and sometimes a few hours later. Messages coming locally had no issues, and I am in an upgraded area as well, so this does not seem like an issue that playing the waiting game will fix. Why is their such a difference in the way verizon processes international text versus Sprint?
  11. Question with this student plan. There does not seem to be any information regarding rules with this plan besides for the fine print. Best buy is now offering the kyocera kona for 49.99. You can go and get that for for that price, and technically get 1 year of free service (plus tax) Can you go ahead and switch the kona for a phone that you currently own or bought at ebay? Because then you theoretically have a year of free service for 49.99 The one thing that I can think that prevents this is the basic phones activate on a plan that has unlimited talk and text, with no data. If you try to activate the other phone, will it change to the other free plan with 1gb of data, or completely kick you off to the fully paid plan?
  12. and bryce, thank you for taking the time to reply to my question, I really appreciate it
  13. I hope you are right about that. I have not seen any plans of sprint expanding coverage to the size that verizon has...will this likely happen? Also, the question about the ability of verizon to build new sites with the new platforms in a matter of a week has still yet to be answered. Verizon also puts generators on every new build, does sprint do that?
  14. I would love to believe this but I currently have verizon and tried sprint for a week and a half this past month. I am in the Long Island area and had many dropped calls, something that I have never experienced with Verizon. A lot of times the phone went to 1x and roaming when inside a house. I understand that upgrades are happening, but its a very slow process, at least that is what I have learned from asking around. Not to sound like a troll (because I do want sprint to get better) why does it take so long to change over equipment, get from 3g to 4g accepted? There is a site that has been 3g accepted for a year and people say its permit issue or backhaul issue, thats why its not lte accepted yet. But that is not true because every other carrier is on that same roof and they all have lte with no backhaul issue. Another thing is I have a friend who I see every week. He is in the steel business and he builds platforms for cell sites. Every week he tells me he put up a new platform for verizon. He must have put in at least 3 platforms a month for the past year, all for verizon. Why does verizon not seem to have the same issues as sprint (permits, equipment, wire, backhaul)
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