TheCUJuan

I've been seeing the outgoing call thing all day. It mostly has to do with out of town phone numbers. I haven't seen anyone come in with the problem that hasn't been a out of town number or calling an out of town number. 

I have an out of state number, so he was in deed calling an out of town number. Why is this happening?

that's near where I live. The towers around there have been literally in and off sporadically for the past few days.

 

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My friend works at Paradise and Universe and he could not make outbound calls. Kept getting a message that the call could not be completed or something like that. He could get inbound calls though...

TW Telecomm came and put in fiber (they had to break through the road and everything) about a month after we signed the contract with them.

for the towers around ABQ, many are already upgraded and waiting on backhaul. If they turned on LTE now, Downtown, Uptown, Nob Hill and most of the Heights would have a pretty decent blanket of LTE.  That being said, it is NOT sprint or contractors. It is all Centurylink.  They have not provided the backhaul Sprint needs for the LTE. 

 

Go look at most of the Verizon LTE towers and most have microwave backhaul.  I think they ran into the same thing and said F it and started putting up microwave.  Also, ATT has a very limited LTE coverage in ABQ. I assume it is due to the same issues.

See.. here's where I wonder why Sprint stuck with CL. At our offices we decided to put in fiber and while we looked at CL, we decided to go with TW Telecomm. Centurylink is definitely not the only fiber provider in ABQ... so why is Sprint putting up with them?! 

Clovis and Portales have LTE because the backhaul there was done by Plateau. El Paso has LTE because the backhaul there is ATT. Most of the rest of New Mexico has their backhaul by CenturyLink or Windstream. That pretty much answers what is taking so long. CL and WS are some of the worst ILEC's in the country. Painful to watch.

 

I was always told ABQ was going to be one of the last markets. All my comments in 2012 were about how ABQ would be at the end of NV. And then when work started last December with GMO sites and then late Spring with full build sites, I thought we may actually be ahead of schedule.

 

However, my fellow New Mexicans are now in limbo land waiting on these two inept phone companies to deliver a usable high speed connection to Sprint sites. I really believe you'll have something in the ABQ area in 30 days or so. But I also would have believed that 30 days ago too. And the 30 days before that.

 

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So let's hope for the next 3-6 months...

Great idea! I was thinking we should have a s4gru Do! Too bad Robert doesn't live here anymore

Patience, my friends, patience! 

I seem to want to agree with you. However, most of the sites i have been too in abq have no sign of backhaul at all.  This was all within the last three or four weeks that I have been visiting. I do hope this changes. 

I would hope that Sprint gets all the towers ready to go before the winter and then centurylink can bring backhaul to all the sites.

Has anyone been to the west side to see if any of their towers have begun work? I think last I looked, I only saw one tower in progress west of the river.

What if mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, grams, gramps, nana, papa, etc., do not have your holy chosen phone. Could an an OS agnostic app bridge that gap?

 

Hmm...

 

AJ

They all have the holy chosen phone 

So I have an iPhone... so I already have iMessage and Facetime... I really don't see the point of this.

With many LTE handsets supporting UMTS (and GSM) as well as TD-LTE starting to be incorporated, it might be nice for SoftBank to offer free roaming in Japan to Sprint customers. That certainly won't match t-mobile's 100 countries, but it's a start. They could also offer their customers free U.S. roaming on Sprint, but that would require their customer's handsets to have PCS & SMR CDMA as well as Band 25, 26 & 41 LTE so that doesn't seem likely unfortunately.

I think the Sprint's iPhone 5S is the same unit as Softbank's? 

There is no reason that Softbank cant enter new markets or expand others. While Sprint is an important acquisition it is not Softbanks only market.. 

And I'd hope they can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Two lines on the EPRP site is now 140 plus taxes and fees. 10 dollars less then going to the regular Sprint site. That's up 10 dollars from what it was with the old plans. We pay 130 plus tax. 

And you have to sign up for these when you sign up for service, right? Or are you able to switch to them once you have sprint?

Isn't "One up" a better deal anyway? (Unless you want to keep one of the old plans)

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been doing that little by little

Speaking of which... I was driving by Jefferson/Paseo today after lunch and once again must have been on that updated GMO 3G tower by balloon fiesta and got speeds of about 1.5 Mbps... can't wait to see that at least those speeds citywide! 

Sooo... since I work for the CU Assn of my state I called up the Assn in charge of the cu program... Here's the scoop...

The old plans are gone as of last night.

In the new plans, the data of each additional line gets the discount and you can have up to 10 lines. So you could potentially get the discount applied to $300 of data charges.

So if you have a ton of people on your account (or have abusiness account) and all of them have unlimited data, and you like having unlimited minutes, then the new plans are awesome. If you're like me or Jonathan and only have one or two lines, then they are not so good.

Certainly wish the sales guy had told us this....

That is because you are on a legacy tower that likely had insufficient backhaul in place. Once we start seeing lte turned on you will also see over 1mbps 3g speeds all over town pretty consistently.

 

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I've only been getting mostly sub 1 Mbps on Sprint in the city...

Just ran a test here at work and got .21 mbps down and .05 up...

So when my friend and I switched we were not told that only the data is discountable. He has a family plan with a relative. He was told last night that he gets the discount on both of his data plans. Can anyone confirm if thats' the case; that he'll be getting an employee discount on both his $30 data plan and his mother's? He was told last night the everything data plan was no longer available. 

Tmo is fantastic in ABQ and Santa Fe...in the city limits. It's all 2G EDGE everywhere else.

 

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But isn't Sprint basically 2G everywhere in NM?

To answer the above question, the discount is off of $110, no matter how many lines you have. So, for 4+ lines on Everything, My Way, the discount is off of a larger portion of the bill. This also makes a lot more sense. "The more you buy, the more you save", they likely will tell you.

So the discount is off $110 for two lines? I'm just a bit confused b/c you said "the discount is off a larger portion of the  bill... the more you buy the more you save..."

As far as My way, I am pretty sure the employee discount only applies to the data portion. For me (single line) it was a whopping $3 with the 10% CU member discount.  FYI, his employer gets 23%...

So another question... right now on the my all plans the employee discount only applies to the primary line's data... in the everything data plan, what recurring charges are discounted assuming you have two lines of service? 

If everything data goes away, you still have EPRP as an option.

 

http://www.sprint.com/everythingplus

http://mcguireslaw.com/2008/07/16/psst-have-you-heard-about-everything-plus/

Interesting... had never heard of that plan. But it looks like you can't get this plan if you are already a Sprint customer...  You also can't combine with a corporate discount.