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Worked well for T-Mobile to do that with tablets.

http://support.sprint.com/support/article/title/315d1dfb-7fe2-4e5a-b633-36db2003ecc8?INTNAV=LP:RMB:01092014:QA Over 1,500 words in the FAQ before you hit how the hotspot functionality works. I mean, I get the goal - increase subscriber count, reduce churn, lower customer acquisition costs - it just seems like they could have made it a little less cumbersome since that was outlined as a goal by Dan Hesse. It's a lot of leg work for the average non-caring consumer. It definitely accomplishes the goal of reducing churn - you leave the framily and you make everyone's bill go up is a strong incentive not to go.

This seemed a lot more exciting at first. I wonder how many customers are going to get confused. For Dan Hesse to say "we want to offer simple plans" and then offer this... makes me scratch my head a bit. I get what they are trying to do (lure customers to join and entice them to stay with sprint) but I think they missed the mark.

I am surprised that more people aren't talking about the WIN verizon landed on this deal. They picked up 10MHz of PCS and 10 MHz of AWS in spectrum-starved San Francisco. Not bad, not bad at all. T-Mobile really wanted sub 1GHz spectrum and it shows. They should have just waited for 600MHz, but with possible years of waiting... I guess they wanted to get started.

I second this. The ASUS RT-AC66* is a very good router. There are some fancier routers that have juiced QAM on the 2.4 but no clients to even take advantage. You can score a refurb'd RT-AC66 for just over a 100 bucks or a new one for around 160, making it the best value out there.

Not sure why anyone would want this. Both, on their own, have enough spectrum to be challengers to AT&T and Verizon. T-Mobile gets some action on the 600MHz auction and we can have four long-term players in the space that keep prices down. Only reason why Son would want to buy T-Mobile is to get rid of their biggest competition.

How do you have both at the same time? Please explain!

Tell that to Sprint employees that were on some self righteous mission to prevent SIMs from being tossed into the fiery hell known as an unlocked Nexus 5. It was awesome going into a Sprint store and being lied to my face that they had no SIMS with the SKU 760492013536 in stock and having to go back and argue for a SIM. What is a fellow to do when he is lied to by the store? Point being, it's a SIM card - his local store wouldn't give him one because they were improperly trained, improperly informed, and not doing their job. Let's not make a big deal out of something that is not. T-Mobile regularly offers free sims to customers and certainly gives them to Apple for free.

www.sprint.com/asyougo Sprint as you go plan?

Total Debt 50,025.335 USD Total Issues 62

Yup. Everything is lumped under TMUS now.

Hard to compare the two, but here you go. T-Mobile has a great debt structure. Year Amt(Mln) 2018 1,500 2019 1,250 2020 2,250 2021 3,000 2022 2,250 2023 2,350 2024 1,000 Total Debt 13,600 USD Total Issues 13 Issuer T-Mobile US Inc Group Current issuer and its subsidiaries

They are already paying 2.282 billion in annual interest - what's another few billion. They got softbank backing. ha ha ha

Year Amt(Mln) 2014 181 2015 500 2016 2,300 2017 3,015 2018 3,000 2019 1,729 2020 2,500 2021 3,250 2022 2,480 2023 4,250 2024 2,500 2028 2,475 2032 2,000 2040 629 Total Debt 30,809.903 USD Total Issues 24 Issuer Starburst I Inc Group Current issuer and its subsidiaries

good to know that the 4.4.1 radio is a fail. Wonder what they changed...

If you aren't taking pics with HDR+, you aren't taking pics at all. it's slow, but only way to currently get a decent shot with the N5. Turn on HDR+ and take that same photo.

Yeah I had some issues with that, took a couple tries and had to manually force reboot by adb reboot PRL will stick

I'll tell you that band 4 (T-Mobile AWS) has actually worse reception vs. the nexus 4. I used to get decent service at home/office with the Nexus 4 on T-Mobile. With the Nexus 5, coverage is noticeably worse. Definitely some band 25-specific optimizations.

It's posted on XDA - I pasted the link. You need to be unlocked/rooted. download the boot.img, then load the boot.img (fastboot boot boot.img) Then your phone will reboot make sure you load the posted LG drivers then: adb devices (you should see it shows device as connected and serial #) adb shell su setprop sys.usb.config diag,adb once you enter "setprop sys.usb.config diag" it will load those drivers in the background (your phone will do nothing) then, you can connect to COM port and update the PRL as posted in the G2 method. It sounds a lot harder than it is - really just a few steps.

If you roam, the EVDO roaming is NICE. If not, definitely not worth the hassle. It's actually not that bad. I just really wanted it to get 3G roaming on the subway. My phone gets all jammed up roaming on 1x and gets stuck when I get out of the subway and won't flip out of roaming because of the backlog of data stuck in queue.

I successfully followed the instructions and now have a proper PRL. A big thanks to the guys who figured this out

yeah, seriously, I only plan to modify once and move on. I just need 3G on the subway for all of 5 minutes, or about 10MB data/month.

Woot woot, looks like they figured out how to modify the nexus 5 prl http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48038275

It's insane, right? We told you! There are some issues with the weak signal, did you try the FCC speed test app to monitor packet loss when you have weak LTE? I end up missing calls when I have weak lte due to packet loss (my working theory anyway). The eCSFB fails, I miss the call.

FIOS, from a technology perspective, is far superior to DOCSIS (cable). I would jump on FIOS, if I had the opportunity to do so.