Jones

Gotta love those comments...Obola - now that's creative...

Anyone else on the old ED1500 get a fedex letter from Sprint about unlimited minutes and qualifying for the $5 phone lease?  Weird getting a letter, obviously pre printed and not personal, without a sprint envelope and in a fedex envelope and from Marcelo Claure.

Seems like a good way to keep customers who are on legacy plans from leaving and getting them to upgrade to new triband phones.

Excellent summary, that post is what makes S4GRU great. More high quality info from that one post than any of the other tech sites combined.

Thank you!

I believe it's some sort of lever and pulley system to get all that coverage underground

Someone flipped the switch in the Saaath Hills (if you go tru da tubes). Now all the yinzers can rejoice!

Kansas City is another example of an excellent network. With a second B41 carrier live, I was able to maintain 20-30Mbps downloads in Kauffman Stadium during the World Series! My coworkers with Verizon and AT&T timed out on 2 out of 3 speed tests. Why didn't anyone report on that!?

Legere did in a round about kind of way when he tweeted that the KC Royals couldn't @sprint to the top. Likely knowing that Sprint's network in KC and at the stadium was better than the rest. (But thats just the conspiracist in me) 

Is 6 down / 3 up really unexpected for a 5 MHz channel? I think it is performing as expected especially for the loads that NYC can put on a network. Given that we've learned that Band 41 can handle logarithmically more...it will get better.

There is no denying Marcelo will want to turn NYC into a "Tokyo like experience" for Sprint. NYC is too important not to.

I noticed as I was driving into work today that the antenna panels on the Fort Pitt inbound site are gone. I wonder if the site has been deactivated.

Subscriber losses, as we know by being members of this site, was largely to be expected as the new plans came out in the middle of this past quarter. Turnarounds take time (just like T-Mobile's) and the new plans make sense from a marketing perspective and actually are cheaper - even Engadget, Ars Technica, The Verge all agree - even though they like to write articles about how crappy Sprint is. Most likely because its click bait...

I grew up in Shentel territory and feel jealous of my friends back home lol.

Hooray for Shentel! They are a model for the communication industry and wireless deployment worldwide!

I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of new adds. When I went into a repair store tonight to have my livepro looked at, the store was packed at almost 8pm. Several customers were switching from Verizon and the contract buyout with the huge data bucket seemed to be the driving force. With the 60GB plans and more, unlimited data isn't even necessary for even a family of heavy users.

 

 

Its a little funny that ppl weren't all that enthusiastic about unlimited data but when Sprint offers 60 GB family share pack there is lots of interest.

I guess it has a lot to do with marketing in that Sprint is using Verizon/AT&T marketing to work for them (we offer more data! even though we offered unlimited 6 months ago) 

I dont think its a penalty against Android. The iphone 6 is a big ticket item that Sprint can make money off of by attracting new customers and reselling the devices later (for a premium).

Fear not people...In a quote from Bloomberg....Speaking of the Spark Rollout...

 

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-11/sprint-to-focus-denser-spark-coverage-on-3-to-5-initial-cities.html

So can this be interpreted that there will be 33,000 sites updated to 8t8r or just the urban centers/heavily congested sites thereby leaving the more rural sites 8t8r-less?

Because not enough care about their privacy anymore. It used to be an American distinctive. One we'd fight to protect. Now it's just accepted. I'm sure it will work out for us. There's no way this will backfire. Right?

 

Robert via Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

I think after 9/11 a lot of Americans have conceded that losing some privacy will ensure at least some level of protection.

I don't think it's dictated by the market.  These are a premium over similarly spec'd devices.  Google could have said they have to charge $550 instead of $350 for the Nexus 5, because that's the market.  But they didn't.  Apple could have charged $100 less across the board, or offered 32GB as the starting memory to add more value.  

 

This is pure profiteering.  And that's fine.  It's the American way.  But the market is not insisting on overpaying.  They just will tolerate it because of the subsidy model.

 

Robert

I totally agree. At the beginning of the event Apple talked about how they changed the world and alluded to us being better for it. Yet hiding behind that message is unabashed capitalism. Its the American way!

I remember reading an article a while back stating that Apple couldn't change the aspect ratio of their phones without breaking the entire app ecosystem. Is that true? If so it would make sense that Apple chose to lengthen the phone rather than widen (change the 4:3 aspect ratio).

Cumberland has some Sprint towers, otherwise you'll be on US Cellular. I drive I-68 often and that has been my experience.

Agreed.

 

I also concede that the $100 plan for new subscribers is a good deal.

 

Until after 2015, and it becomes ~$250. assuming 10 smartphones, however even that comes out to only $25 per phone, which isn't bad if you can live with a shared bucket and micromanaging your usage across all users.

If you have to micromanage 20 GB of data then you would probably be best served on an unlimited plan...which sprint still offers.

I did see a new B41 panel at the intersection of Bower Hill and Cochran today which would be my first sighting of anything related to B41 in Pittsburgh/suburbs of Pittsburgh. I was not able to get signal though from it...just B25.

Yeah I think the CA will be backwards compatible with older devices similar to USB 1.0-3.0. The older spec's just wont be able to take advatange of that speed

I was sitting in traffic on Crosstown Blvd. and picked up a strong (-85 db) Band 26 signal. I didn't run a speed test though as I was too close to the my data cap.

I did play my copy of Crosstown Traffic by Hendrix in the car.

How would the 10x10 block be divided by sprint and t-mobile if they won a bid jointly? Wouldn't it be split into 5x5's anyway?

I think emailing sprint care does help. I had messaged them several years ago about no service along the I-68 corridor and it was fixed not too long afterwards. I got a nice thank you message from the care team too.

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