uh60james

If that's the case then I guess the work is being done on T-Mobile or AT&T's rack and not Sprints.  Interesting.

Alabama, so Ericsson equipment.  Those wires are insane, yesterday they were all just hanging freely when I took a look.  I don't have the antenna ID skills some of you have so I still have no idea if this is Sprint only.

Here's a picture, I don't remember the lighter color antenna(s) being on the bottom rack yesterday but they may have been.  If that's the case then I suppose the top rack may not even be Sprint so this would make more sense.

P8140177 by uh60james, on Flickr

I am not positive.  I will try to get a picture in the morning.  It did appear that the Network Vision panels were on there own rack though, perhaps the lower rack previously housed Nextel antennas.

So I noticed that work is underway on a 4G tower in Birmngham, AL (finally) and decided to take a drive over to take a look.  I couldn't get close unfortunately since some road work was going on in the area.  The site appears to be a typical Crown Castle site common in this area and it is a monopole that appears to be exclusivly used by Sprint.  I had perhaps falsely assumed that when a tower was upgraded with Network Vision that the old antennas and equipment were removed and replaced by new antennas and equipment.  This site has active legacy antennas at the top of the mast and about a third of the way down has new antennas with wires hanging.  Is this normal?  Would this not reduce the coverage area?  I will try to remember to bring my camera to work and snap a pic if needed tomorrow.

So... get back to work

Haha I did just that!

Sent from my HTCONE using Tapatalk 4 Beta

Talked to AT&T today and my 23% discount would work on the data portion ($120 for 30GB) but not on the phone piece ($20).  So at least that's better than Verizon.  I was thinking to switch home phone anyway, and was going to do Sprint Phone Connect.  But with these better data options on AT&T I've got some thinking to do.

 

I with Sprint would do something similar or even just lower their overages on their mobile broadband plans.  $50/GB is just way too much.  And I'm not getting 1900 LTE at home anyway right now, so Sprint's not an option until 800 LTE starts rolling out.

I'm not sure there is much Sprint can do right now, I'm sitting at work and cant even look at apps in Google Play because the connection keeps timing out.

Sprint already offers home phone service, outside of aircards and hotspots I think home internet is a bad idea.  Clearwire did this and that 4G network ended up slowing too a crawl in many places.

Ahhh, ok.  We are talking about two different programs.  We used to have Sprint Premier and you would be either silver or gold and get early upgrades.  Then they came out with the Upgrade Now program which seemed to be pretty short lived.

There wasn't a fee, it was actually pretty awesome.  If I recall correctly you had to be a Sprint customer for 10+ years OR be on a plan $89.99 or greater or a month.

It doesn't really matter if these early upgrade programs are a good deal, it's all about perception to the masses.

For some reason I am not able to quote.

@maximus1987 Chances are I would switch to a prepaid provider, most likely Virgin or Boost.  It would be tough losing access to the latest phones but I'd get over it.  Sprint's native coverage in it's current form has me covered 99% of the time, I can't say the same for T-Mobile and I have avoided both VZW and AT&T due to the cost for single line subscribers.

@TyrellCorpse I totally agree with what you're saying.

Unless I missed something late in this thread that appeared to still be disputed but honestly I don't really care because I doubt Sprint will be forcing anyone to switch for awhile.

circuit board

Very interesting thread and it's amusing to see the panic of many.  Sprint has not typically forced people to move to new plans for some time after removing old plans and I'm not sure why many assume it will be different this time.  Additionally as long as both the base price and data package are discountable my bill would basically not change (single line.)  The only thing I would lose (if eventually forced to switch) is 200mb of roaming which is not an issue since I leave data roaming disabled unless I really need it.

Even though at&t is almost twice the size of sprint I highly doubt they sold twice as many one x's as sprint sold evo's. I wouldn't be surprised if it was about the same between the two carriers.

Thanks for the updates on Alabama. I'll come back to Sprint proper when Birmingham gets some love, on Virgin for now.