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    Framily Plan Service Charge

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    For you guys that are on Framily that upgraded on 2yr contract prior to 2014 are you all seeing any significant savings by switching to framily?

     

     

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    I certainly am. I went from paying about $190 for 3 lines to about $100. But I was able to hit the magic 7 number. 

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    Network Vision/LTE - Richmond & Southern Virginia Markets

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    Just something to keep in mind....this comes directly from someone in the know regionally who was kind enough to share this info with me ...when a new LTE site starts broadcasting or shows up as 3G/4G on Robert's maps, there is still about 60 days' worth of optimization work on that tower that must take place. Remember, Sprint has not yet added Richmond to their list of 4G launched markets....there is still a lot of testing and optimization going on for both NV 3G and 1900 MHz LTE. The earliest we'd see an 80% launch is end of July.  Full Spark rollout (triband) is TARGETED for end of November of this year...provided weather and other factors (looking at you, backhaul providers) cooperate. I know things feel frustrating even still but a tremendous amount of progress has been made in RVA since just December of 2013. We are the last major East Coast U.S. market to receive NV1, which Sprint is really trying close out nationwide. Good things are right around the corner....I promise. 

     

    I'm not complaining.  My major complaint early on was that calls were dropping left and right when you'd go from upgraded towers to legacy towers.  That's been pretty much fixed.  Looking at the last update report just about every tower in the richmond area is at least 3g accepted.  Now just sitting back and seeing LTE get lit up in more places.  Would like to see 800 start to roll out though.

    Framily Plan Service Charge

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    The only time limit was having done an upgrade before January 10. I upgraded my phone back in November and switched to framily in February. I haven't been charged the extra $15. Sounds like something was misapplied in the billing system.

    Sprints 'Happy Connecting' Event

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    iPhone 5S test drive and music services (lots of them) streaming for free, regardless of data allotment. 

     

    Also of note, MetroPCS customers were counted in their customer gained statistics.

     

    Was there something about free music streaming? All I've seen Is that some streaming services will no longer count against your data cap.

    Sprint to join Rural Operators Roaming Hub (CCA and RRPP thread)

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    A roaming cap should provide a reasonable amount of data for the LTE age. Say, Sprint and other providers provide 1GB of roaming over LTE. Anything over that gets throttled to 256 Kbps. Want more high-speed data? You can buy another LTE bucket of 1GB for $10. Simple pricing for roaming even a technical retard can understand.

     

    My only quibble is for those on already capped plans like Framily.  Roaming should simply be part of the cap.  If you only have a 1gb of data in total then roaming data should just be part of it.  

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    Softbank - New Sprint - Discussion

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    (Reuters) - Germany’s Deutsche Telekom AG is willing to keep a minority stake in a deal to sell T-Mobile US Inc to Japan’s Softbank Corp, but other details such as price and financing remain to be worked out, according to sources familiar with the situation.

    Softbank owns a majority of Sprint Corp S.N, the third largest U.S. wireless carrier. Deutsche Telekom owns 67 percent of T-Mobile, which has a market value of $27.6 billion and is the fourth-largest U.S. wireless carrier.

    Earlier on Thursday, Kyodo news agency reported that Deutsche Telekom had agreed to a Softbank plan to buy T-Mobile.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/29/us-softbank-tmobile-idUSKBN0E917A20140529

     

     

    Honestly think the only reason for this is to keep acquisition cost lower for SoftBank.  I'm sure Masa son would prefer to buy out the whole company.  

    Softbank - New Sprint - Discussion

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    If DT is planning on selling their ~67% stake in TMUS, why would they even care what the resultant company is called?  :blink:

     

    My guess is that they are not going to sell their entire stake.  They may end up keeping a minority stake in the combined company.  I can't imagine it'll be that large a stake though.  

    Sprint Wifi Calling

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    I wonder if there is a list of sprint Phones that have WiFi calling already.  I have found Samsung Mega and S4 mini.  

    I am sure that WiFi calling lag stems from speed of the sever that processess the call and the phones speed to transmit and receive the data and processe it from and back into sound from a digital file.

    If you go through this thread you should be able to piece it together. It's not that many.

     

    http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/5700-wifi-calling/?hl=%2Bwifi+%2Bcalling

    Sprint and NTelos Announce Extension of Strategic Alliance

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    Well, finally some news.  Looks like Sprint and NTelos finally agreed on a new deal.  The new extension will go through 2022.  

     

    Highlights:

     

    • nTelos remains exclusive provider to Sprint in current territory.
    • Sprint customers gain access to nTelos LTE network.
    • nTelos will gain access to Sprint 800, 1900 & 2500 spectrum.
    • nTelos will continue buildout of its 4g network throughout its territory according to Sprint's Network modernization program.
    • nTelos says the network improvements will be substantially complete by May 2017

     

    A conference call will be held at 8am ET.

     

    Sprint's Press Release:

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sprint-ntelos-extend-strategic-network-100100325.html

     

    nTelos' Press Release:

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ntelos-holdings-corp-host-conference-100200833.html

     

    Call is here: http://ir.ntelos.com/CorporateProfile.aspx?iid=4110676

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    Network Vision/LTE - Richmond & Southern Virginia Markets

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    Just got back into town and my rants appear to be answered. I was passing the tower closest to my neighborhood on 360 when signal check dinged to let me a Lte signal was present. My phone tried to connect but couldn't. I was happy. Then I saw the next tower up had a giant crane next to it. Will have to see if I can see work being done tomorrow.

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - Richmond & Southern Virginia Markets

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    Has there been no activity on the towers? It could be that they just have not been accepted yet.

     

    Unlike Samsung in Cleveland, it seems that ALU is building from the inner city out to the suburbs. Interesting approach, but I do feel for you all. There was a point during the District roll out (we still have two large chunks untouched) where my phone was more useful as a hand warmer than a phone.

     

    It always possible.  I'm out of town this week so no way to test.  Was just hoping to see something pop up in the next update report for this part of town.  

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