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Is there carrier aggregation in Hawaii? -Anthony -
I am in slow LTE areas all the time. My home area is basically at the edge of where Sprint actively tries to cover in Charlotte, and two Sprint sites are shared among my entire town (population ~12,000). 1 mbps LTE works about as well, if not better, than my 1 mbps 3G connection, because the LTE pings are much lower than the 3G pings. For some reason, in the outter Charlotte area, Sprint has yet to figure out how to get 3G pings to be consistently below 150 ms. When I am on a congested LTE tower in my area, I am still able to pull sub-100 ms pings, which leads to a better experience than 150+ ms ping 3G. I wasn't speaking out of pure opinion, but experience as well. The only time that 3G feels faster than LTE for me is when my LTE pings are higher than my 3G pings. And in a market that has the 3G ping problem that I stated, that is not very often. -Anthony
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This is a textbook case of an anecdotal experience that is not representative of the entirety of the Sprint network. How many times has it been discussed that one person's experience is not representative of the network as a whole? Your poor experiences in the areas that you frequent cannot be used to shoot down the $10 price hike. I have read a lot of people stating this, but I don't see how that is possible. I think it is more of a placebo effect rather than that actually being true. People see LTE and expect it to be blazing fast, but instead it moves at 3G speeds. People see 3G and expect it to be painfully slow, but it runs at a healthy 1 mbps, which is pretty darn good for EVDO. The LTE FEELS slower because you expect it to be extremely fast. The 3G FEELS faster because you expect it to be extremely slow. It's all in your expectations. -Anthony
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Thank you for clarifying that. -Anthony
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I do not call Sprint's results in our market embarrassing, but the bolded statement, for a lot of areas in the Charlotte market, is untrue. There are many areas where you will see the device at -103 (or lower) 1x. And there are many areas in the suburbs, and even the metro areas, where people will be roaming. That, in my opinion, is unacceptable, and is a little embarrassing for a city like Charlotte (the second largest financial city in the country). But Sprint's performance in this Rootmetrics test? Far from embarrassing. They actually scored better than I thought they would have. -Anthony
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I highly doubt we have gained many Sprint customers in the Charlotte Market. Too many wholes in coverage make Sprint a no-go for a lot of people. -Anthony
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A big problem here in Charlotte is we don't have high enough density of macro sites. That's one big problem for why drops to 3G are so frequent here. Another thing is Band 26 in our area isn't properly tuned yet either, which is even worse when coupled with out site density problem. -Anthony
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By the way folks, the Pangu jailbreak for iOS 9.0-9.0.2 has been released, and it supports iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. If I didn't like iOS 9.1 as much as I do then I would downgrade and jailbreak. -Anthony
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If you have WiFi calling enabled or have had it enabled before, you will have to go to Settings>Phone>Wi-Fi Calling>Update Emergency Address, and then when the page loads up you have to scroll all the way to the bottom and you should see a check-box that you can check that says something along the lines of "remove WiFi calling from the device" and you need to check that check-box. Then you should be able to finish the process, turn off WiFi calling in the settings, and your HD Voice should be back. -Anthony
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Oops haha. Thought I saw his profile picture. -Anthony
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Yes, they do have a lot of 2.5 GHz spectrum. BUT, the way WiMAX was deployed, each sector used a DIFFERENT 10 MHz slice of spectrum. So one site used 30 MHz, and other sites may use other 10 MHz slices of spectrum also, so even MORE spectrum is used. Therefore, a lot of spectrum can get used very easily. So yes, WiMAX does have to be shut down in areas that not much thinning has been done in order to launch a second carrier. Edit: DK got his post out before mine -Anthony
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We have to think though, if Sprint manages to pull all three of these things off, that would be extremely impressive. -Anthony
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What is the problem you're running into? I remember when my family and I went and got our SIM free 6's that they tried to use our sim cards from our 5s's and we kept getting an unable to activate message. We had to go to the Sprint store to get new SIM cards for the SIM free versions for whatever reason. -Anthony
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Yeah to be honest, if/when I get my 6S Plus, as long as it lasts as long as my 6 Plus does on iOS 9, then I'll be happy. Couldn't be more satisfied with my battery life. I unplug when I wake up, use it as much as I want, and plug back in when I go to sleep. Never have to worry about battery unless I'm going multiple days without plugging in. That's how smartphone battery life should be, IMO. -Anthony
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I guess I'm a one-off case, but I've never had any trouble with UPS, USPS, or Fed-Ex. Packages are almost always on-time and I have never once received a damaged package. I guess I'm just lucky. -Anthony
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Pretty much the latter case. -Anthony
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I mean, my 6 Plus "just works". Ever since iOS 9 came out, basically every problem I've had with the phone has been fixed. -Anthony
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Define Sprint online activation. When I swap the SIM's, my fathers number transfers to my device and my number transfers to his device. I confirm this by checking in the Settings app and looking at the phone number for the device, and also doing test calls/test data tasks. Didn't even have to do anything online to get it to work. -Anthomy
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I may be anwering this question all wrong, but I have successfully swapped mine and and my father's SIM's before. We both use iPhone 6 pluses, and I have been able to remove his from his device and put it in my phone and it works perfectly. They are both unlocked Sprint variants. Then again, that may be how it's supposed to work, and this is just a pointless post. ???? -Anthony
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iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus User Thread
anthony.spina97 replied to COZisBack's topic in Apple/iPhone/iOS
To my knowledge, that is not how Apple does things. It seems you are dealing with some bad "geniuses", and I would consider contacting Apple directly to see if there is anything to do. That is not acceptable customer service, and if you can, when you contact Apple, see if there is a way to report that store or the person who "helped" you, because that is not how they should have handled that situation. -Anthony -
Last I checked, Sprint was a top tier provider. Not sure when exactly they lost that status? -Anthony
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And Metro is prepaid. You're not going to find a postpaid provider cheaper than $70 for unlimited everything. -Anthony
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Really? $70 for a plan that, in the bigger picture, shouldn't exist anyways, is too much? Frankly it should cost much more than 70 bucks when you consider what it is. It's still the cheapest unlimited plan on the market, and good luck getting a better deal on a different carrier. -Anthony
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As much as I despise the duopoly, I am glad that this is happening. It tells me that they are trying to keep their network somewhat top-notch. -Anthony
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From looking at the Speedtest server they are using, my guess is Hawaii. -Anthony
