anthony.spina97

I have literally tested and witnessed 3g handling 1mbps better than lte. When your in a slow lte area see for yourself. Even Robert has acknowledged this.

 

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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

What doesn't sit well with me is that sprint raised the price $10, and still not provide a stable data connection with speeds in the 2-5mbps - at least where I've used the service.

 

 

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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.

 

Thats not necessarily true. 1mbps does not go as smooth on lte as it does on 3g

 

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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

I put forth a conditional statement.  I said if Sprint service is usable, not that it is usable in Charlotte. 

 

AJ

Thank you for clarifying that.

 

-Anthony

However, if Sprint finishes a reasonably close fourth place and provides usable service, then that is not embarrassing.

 

AJ

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

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

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

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

I do apologize if this has been answered as I tried searching the topic thread for it before asking. But I got the iPhone 6s and 6s plus on my others lines and now. No more HD voice calls to those devices! Is this a known and rectifiable  issue as I read elsewhere that after ios 8.3 with WiFi calling enabled this became a thing with the phone for some Sprint users!

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

Tim?

Oops haha. Thought I saw his profile picture. 

 

-Anthony

With the sheer amount of 2.5 Ghz spectrum that Sprint has at it's disposal, is it really a REQUIREMENT for them to shut down the WiMax Network for them to be able to deploy a second B41 carrier?

 

Don't they have upwards of 100+Mhz of this spectrum across the entire country?

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

Having to do all three wouldn't be easy and would clearly take time. It doesn't happen over night, and I have seen improvement in Sprint within the past year; though they still have a very tough road ahead of them.

We have to think though, if Sprint manages to pull all three of these things off, that would be extremely impressive.

 

-Anthony

Apple released SIM free iPhones last night. I'm in the Apple store right now and they're trying to activate the unlocked 6So just bought over the phone, but the IMEIs apparently are not yet whitelisted.

 

Is there a way to get Sprint to manually add one to their whitelist?

 

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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

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

I vastly prefer USPS over UPS, which I despise more than a dozen cloned John Legeres running a dozen different T-Mobile MVNOs. So, that ought to show how much I loathe UPS. At least 95% of shipments I've received from UPS have been damaged.

 

Hence, I try to avoid UPS whenever possible, and go with either USPS or even FedEx. I've never had an issue with either of them.

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

Do we know which chip is going to be used moving forward or is it by luck which one you will receive?

Pretty much the latter case.

 

-Anthony

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

Does your number and information transfer over without messing with Sprint online activation?

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

Also trying to revive a stale topic.

 

Now that some Sprint phones are using csims, has anyone successfully done a sim swap between two Sprint phones? I'm wondering if it's working like Verizon now, with CDMA and LTE being authenticated.

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

So I went back today and the guy at the Apple Store says they don't differentiate phones by model number, just CDMA vs GSM. Soooo by that logic they seem to think it's normal to activate Verizon model phones on the Sprint network!

 

He said I was the first person to ever come in with an issue like this and basically told me to go to Sprint or call Apple Care. I'm a bit disappointed in the service I was provided today, I may have to tweet at Marcelo and tell him the situation. I can't imagine he would be happy with a bunch of iPhone 6's (and possibly iPhone 6s's) on his network that can't even take advantage of B41, if that is truly how Apple does things.

 

 

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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

For a top tier provider yes. For Sprint not sure... At least where I've used it. New England...

 

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Last I checked, Sprint was a top tier provider. Not sure when exactly they lost that status?

 

-Anthony

Metro has $50 unlimited.

And Metro is prepaid. You're not going to find a postpaid provider cheaper than $70 for unlimited everything.

 

-Anthony

well partially due to scale...

 

yeah they over charge people (its their job though)  but so is Sprint with $70 for unlimited, $50 is bearable - but $70 would send me to VZW or ATT (unless I was a data hog in which case idk) 

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

Verizons small cell densification project is beyond this world. So many damn small cells everywhere popping up without warning.

 

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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

Out of curiosity, where are you at?

From looking at the Speedtest server they are using, my guess is Hawaii.

 

-Anthony

According to the news release about the new $1 deal, a 6s plus with 128gb is $14.53 with your trade in of the 6 plus

The thing I want to know is do they lower the lease payment if you trade in a higher capacity device. If I interpret the news release correctly, then anyone who trades in a 16 GB Plus gets the same discount as someone who trades in a 128 GB plus. Seems kinda unfair, but I shouldn't complain. This is the best deal out there right now IMO.

 

-Anthony