marioc21

We used an ota antenna for almost a year. My wife was grumbling the entire time. The final straw was after we rearranged the living room and we could no longer pick up the local NBC or PBS affiliates. I called verizon shortly thereafter and got fios TV back. But it was great not to pay for cable for a while.

I've been thinking my next phone is going to be an unlocked nexus phone. Hopefully T-mobile still offers the plan in the fall.

Good to know. I'm really intrigued by the $30 month unlimited prepaid plan they offer. 100 minutes would be plenty for me, and I can deal with the throttling after 5gb.

As my Sprint bill keeps climbing, I've been reviewing all of my possible cell phone options. TMo currently offers HSPA+ 42 here, I believe. Never had a Tmo device so I don't know what kinds of speeds that translates too.

I would end up getting my lte through sprint, not directly from clearwire. Plus I doubt clearwire would have lte running before sprint.

I live in the burbs outside Richmond, and my data is fairly fast. Out here I average from 600-1000 kbps. That's been fast enough for everything but video streaming. However, in downtown the data speeds are terrible. They generally average less than 150kbps. Thankfully we have wimax. My 4g speeds in the city are in the 2-6mbps range.

Of course. Big reason I'm still on sprint.

I'm doing my part to bring Sprint's average up. Half way into my current cycle and I've used 2gb of combined 3g/4g data.

Well look at that. There's now an "attachments" button. Thanks.

I see you're using forum runner on CM9. Do you get the option to upload pictures to your posts? I don't on either my Epic with CM9 or my acer tablet which is running ICS 4.0.3. Wasn't sure if it was just my phone or a problem with forum runner on ICS.

You're right the included tethering is a nice add-in. Once you've capped total data there's no reason why it shouldn't include it. Now it would just be nice if the data caps were doubled. Then it would be great.

So today Verizon announced the new shared data plans that have been rumored and talked about for months. Here you are: http://www.engadget....o-live-june-28/ And Verizon's own site: http://solutions.vzw...lan_details.pdf The details: Monthly charge for phone type: Smartphone $40 dumbphone $30 usb/data modem/netbook/portable hotspot $20 Tablet $10 That charge gets you unlimited calling and texting. If you want data you'll buy a pool to share among up to 10 devices on your plan. Here are those: 1gb = $50 2gb = $60 4gb = $70 6gb = $80 8gb = $90 10gb = $100 Wifi tethering is now included in the cost. Plans are required for all new customers starting June 28. Still waiting for AT&T to announce what their shared plans will look like. So there's the competition. Will this give Sprint a leg up? Enjoy folks.

You know what. I completely misread the SEC filing. What the filing says is that Sprint is reversing their divestiture of 77 million shares from back in June of last year. They're paying Clearwire $7,700 dollars to get their get class B common shares back. So yes, Sprint is increasing their voting share back to the same level as their economic share. My mistake.

Here's where Sprint stood as of March 31, 2012. From the 10-Q filing: So to my reading, Sprint just sold down their economic stake down to 47.1% . We'll find out soon enough. I imagine Sprint has to file something with the SEC at some point. If not the second quarter ends this month and the earnings call will happen shortly their after.

Sadly I doubt that Sprint made money on the sale of those Clearwire shares. More than likely they either broke even or lost money.

Saw this today. Thought it was interesting. No mention as to what Sprint's voting percentage is now. I know it had been under 50% already. Wonder how much further this takes it. http://biz.yahoo.com...11/clwr8-k.html More info: Sprint's economic interest fell below 50% after Clearwire issued sold new shares recently. That dropped their ownership below 50%. So Sprint is selling off shares to match their voting share with their ownership share. Still no word on what those percentages are. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sprint-says-no-longer-clearwire-141552220.html

It may not be an option from Sprint. But I don't think there's anything stopping you from unlocking it yourself.

I imagine the reason is that they don't want customers moving from Sprint to Virgin. That would hurt their revenues and especially the ARPU numbers. $649 is a lot of money to pay for a phone.

Here you go: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/virgin-mobile-usa-offer-iphone-123000895.html 8gb iphone 4 for $549 and 16gb iphone 4s for $649. Pricey. But same plans as other virgin phones.

Here's the official word with dates and pricing. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/1136-virgin-mobile-usa-announces-iphone-available-on-june-29/

Technically, Sprint's end of the deal is paying at least $15 billion dollars to Apple. Apple doesn't care how many phones Sprint actually sells as long as it gets paid. Sprint's investors on the other hand....

Somebody needs to go back and search by I think there was a link posted to a story about Sprint eliminating the two week option.

I don't think the sell-through on the iphone has been lower than expected. Unless Sprint is out right lying on its earnings calls, which probably isn't a good thing for them to do, then they've matched or exceeded their sales estimates for the iphone. The iphone has been their number one selling phone since they released it on sprint. I'd be curious to see if that's still true with the EVO LTE now out. And of course once the next iphone is released and it has LTE onboard, then phones will fly off the shelf once again for a quarter or two. I"m sure Apple and Sprint will show record sales of iphones in the quarter following the release.

So according to the commercials sprint has sold 7 million evos? That's got to be all the evo branded devices right? The evo 4g, 3d, shift and design? That can't be just 4gs.