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no, see:

yeah, I'm on the phone with the Escalations Group right now.

Came back with the SKU and finally got them to give me a SIM (they had TONS in stock but had to convince them the nexus 5 sim wasn't special). Now, the MEID doesn't seem to be in the Sprint database yet - they told me that I can't activate it until November 8th. Sprint sometimes really drops the ball.

Well I got my nexus 5 and promptly went to my local sprint store. They said "Sorry, we do not have Nexus 5 SIM cards yet." I said I just need a microSIM and they told me "no, you need the Nexus 5 SIM and we don't have them yet." *sigh*

Trust S4GRU - not sprint employees. 4G LTE will NOT work without a SIM. Period.

You need a SIM card for LTE. 3G you do not.

Saw one guy on XDA already has his out for delivery - my fingers are crossed. I ordered a black 32GB at 11:03 and a white 32GB at about 11:12 - the black shipped, the white did not The misses will have to wait

Sadly, Boston is a wahhhhweeeee (huawei) market. We have huawei RRUs and basestations

It seems like that happened in some parts of Boston. Nice watching my speeds double.

This topic comes up again and again. Not sure why you would think that they have plans to end unlimited data when they JUST launched a new plan offering unlimited data. According to Dan Hesse, the CEO of Sprint, they added the "unlimited for life" because customers were concerned that they would switch and then Sprint would end unlimited like AT&T did.

I love how much attention is paid to the size of the battery but not how it performs in real world usage. If you can make it through a day of heavy usage with the Nexus 5, who cares? Wait till anandtech reviews it and stacks it up against other smartphones, then make an educated decision if the battery life will work for you.

Given the very short article, I don't think we can dive too much into it. He does have a point though - Sprint's network is a lot weaker in many areas than T-Mobile and T-Mobile's rates are a lot lower. T-Mobile has been very aggressive lately. Frankly, that's good for consumers, as the market remains competitive. Sprint needs to be aggressive with LTE rollout.

This is similar to where I live. I am in between 3 sprint towers with a clearwire tower in the middle. I know the pain, heh.

Honestly, I wouldn't worry about it. I would suspect that you could use at least 10GB/month before you should even worry. ROAMING though, that's what you need to watch.

Sprint One UP MY WAY, ALL IN WEGO Plans. So you get the One Up program, plus the Sprint My Way, plus you go All In, and bring a friend and join the WEGO. The WEGO plan is part of the "Together Forever, Unlimited" marketing strategy.

Sprint One UP MY WAY, ALL IN WEGO Plans. I thought everyone knew about this?

I'm starting to figure out that Sprint has been focused on other areas of MA. Downtown Boston hasn't had any upgraded towers for some time. There are some sites that have network vision hardware for over a year with no upgraded backhaul (and gobs of fiber surrounding the rooftop sites). It's odd, to say the least.

It's sad that Sprint ends up being the ONLY US carrier to lock their device and is the only US operator using a different model. I hope new regulation comes down the pipe that forces Sprint to unlock devices for other compatible networks once a customer has fulfilled their end of the contractual agreement. It's not customer friendly at all. I can go into an apple store and buy a T-Mobile/AT&T/Verizon iPhone 5S at full price and receive the phone unlocked. If I buy a sprint phone full price, it's locked. It's really sad to see sprint take this ugly non-consumer friendly turn.

I suggest you update to the latest version of android. MAJOR battery improvements. I used to have to charge very often, could barely make it through the day (if at all). Now I can breeze through 1-2 days.

Bad. Talking about ways to scam your way onto a plan that is no longer offered is not really tolerated here. Frankly, I am surprised this thread is still alive.

Interesting. I am on the same 5GB plan but rarely use hotspot, maybe a few MB here and there. It's nice to have in an emergency pinch. Thx for the heads up, good to know they monitor.

The one thing that Sprint fails to mention when comparing against T-Mobile is that the T-Mobile JUMP! program includes insurance. I agree with the other comments - these upgrade plans are confusing. This is not what Dan Hesse promised when he said he was simplifying plan structures. At any rate, everyone has embraced leasing phones - just like cars and other things.

No, it reverts to WCDMA preferred. I am sure there is a rom out there that changes the default. I only reboot my phone every week or two, so it doesn't bother me. Outside of that, the radio works flawlessly. What is odd, is I pick up some odd radio feedback when listening with headphones when LTE is on. When I am on WCDMA, no line noise. I can typically adjust the headphones cord and plug angle and it goes away. It always makes me wonder if that was the reason they decided not to enable LTE, lol.

I use LTE on my nexus 4 with the latest updates all the time. You can use the hacked together radios on XDA, it works great - voice works without issue. Just set to GSM/LTE and it is up and going. Just flash in recovery and you are good to go. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2087227 Unofficial hybrid radios See this thread for discussion/information on hybrid radios. Note: these are not stock radios. morrislee has done some great work: he replaced the core modem components in 0.84 with those from 0.33 and 0.27. See his posts here and here. This enables us to use LTE and yet have all the newer features (power management, audio on T-Mobile, etc.) from the newer radios. Hybrid 0.33/0.84 Hybrid 0.27/0.84

Good name! Better than "Verizon Edge". Sprint UP to the latest iPhone. Hopefully it is competitive with T-Mobile's VERY aggressive JUMP! program.