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Went to a Sprint corporate store, and the manager said I still could sign up with the old everything data plans if I wanted. He doesn't know what's going on with the EPRP plans though.

What does EPRP mean?

 

I listed those two employee links as examples, many others exist for other companies.

http://sprint.com/sero

They were Sprint's employee referral plans. It stood for "Everything Plus Referral Program".

Really?  I see the link for the EPRP plans but how do you know that new customers can't sign up for it?

At least they can't online. I tried signing up for it, and when I got to the part to choose my plan, these new plans were the only option.

I'm a little surprised with the removal of the EPRP plans (for new customers.) I wonder if they will get new revamped plans later, or if they are just going to drop them for good.

So just buy your new phone outright, usually a bit cheaper from ebay or amazon or something.

Exactly, at that point I would just start buying my phones outright. I just hope they don't do something like, "All Tri-band LTE devices are only compatible with the new My Way plans."

Its up to you.  Either roll the dice and wait for the Note 3 in October OR settle and be safe now with the GS4.  For me I am rolling the dice for the Note 3.

I feel like rolling the dice. It seems like SERO and the employee referral plans are safe for now... but at the same time it just feels like any day now Sprint will say, to get a subsidy you'll have to bump up to the current eprp plan (which at $70/month isn't too bad)

I hope not.  I am still waiting for the Galaxy Note 3 before reupping my SERO Premium plan.

I'm waiting for the Galaxy Note 3 too, but now I'm wondering if I should go ahead and upgrade now to a GS4 to be safe, then sell it when the GN3 comes out.

You can make it work with some effort though. Go near a Sprint native coverage area (preferrably one with the same PCS license as what Sprint holds) and turn on the airave while connected to an uninterruptable power supply then leave it on and drive home. So long as the airave stays on it will continue to broadcast on whichever bands it was authorized to broadcast on in the area it acquired its initial GPS signal.

 

After you get home plug the UPS into the wall and move the airave where you need it. You will likely need to purchase the airave off contract too.

I feel like you've done this before 

You are missing out if you have not yet watched this video while thinking of these guys as potentially being Sensorly mappers filling in the gaps between city streets about which one recent poster complained.  The idea cracks me up -- I laugh and laugh...

 

AJ

If they had sensorly mapping, I would go visit them in jail lol 

From a technical standpoint, prima facie, the only difference I see between PCS/AWS-2 H block and PCS A-F block rules is that AWS mobiles are limited to 1 W (30 dBm) EIRP, while PCS mobiles are limited to 2 W (33 dBm) EIRP.  Since battery constrained mobiles rarely approach either limit, that criterion is largely academic.  But much to the chagrin of those of you who want to call this the "PCS" H block, it will probably be more appropriately classified the AWS-2 H block.

 

As for construction requirements, each BEA issued license will have a five year, 40 percent POPs interim benchmark, followed by a 10 year, 75 percent POPs final benchmark.  Compared to construction requirements for other PCS and AWS-1 licenses, both of those are fairly strict benchmarks for 10 MHz BEA (i.e. small to medium size) licenses.

 

AJ

In the future, would it be possible that Sprint could refarm a 5x5 block of their PCS A-F for LTE (to support earlier devices), and then combine G and H together for 10x10?

I don't see a future where tethering is included in any plans unless Masayoshi changes that (for which I would be grateful.)  I should start using the tethering add-on that I have been paying for though, It just seems all for nought when my coverage is generally spotty where I would wish to tether.

Do what I do, and only add the tethering option when you need it. If I need to tether, I'll add it to my account and then remove it when I'm done. Sprint will prorate it per day. Comes out to like $0.65/day for the 2gb option.

I don't know about the other maps, but the Lansing one isn't just generous on LTE. It's claiming LTE coverage in places where there is no PCS EVDO service at all (even according to Sprint's own maps).

 

If you flip between the two, the boundary lines for LTE claim to go out farther than Sprint's own map for voice service. It's showing LTE data coverage in places where they claim to only have voice roaming.

Whoops 

What does this havtgis do with Sprint adding a second PCS LTE carrier?

Absolutely nothing.

 

 

Please move this in another thread.

Would adding another carrier not help capacity issues? I posted this to suggest another 5x5 carrier could be helpful.

https://photos-3.dropbox.com/t/0/AADMDbnrWZTMlKc2yf_wLIhHOp-plZEoH8u-SpdZJT96lA/12/34538839/png/1024x768/3/1370649600/0/2/Screenshot_2013-06-07-17-37-44.png/tUwI8CJBbsSdwnihOowRGwZhe23lR_XhBHCYpqbyz8Q

Blackbob park in Olathe, KS

I take walks here frequently, and it seems every day around 5:00-7:00 PM my speeds drop to almost nothing. I have direct line of sight with the site (water tower), and my LTE signal ranges from -85 to -95 DBM. Today I couldn't load a picture on an email so I ran this speed test. I tried 3 different servers with similar results. Yesterday at 2:00PM I pulled 15mbps down in the same spot.  All neighboring sites have been 4g accepted so I don't think that would be the problem. 

I'm tired of this. Softbank/Sprint/Clearwire is the only future I can see Sprint becoming a major competitor. All I can see dish doing is ruining Sprint and wasting spectrum on mobile video.

Please not Dish. If Dish takes over, Sprint will surely become another At&t/Verizon.

Yes can you please block Gnex from mapping? Some of the points are so off it looks like they mapped in hotair balloons and such.

I map all the time with my gnex (cm10), and have never had any issues or inaccuracies.

http://www.businessinsider.com/t-mobile-does-have-a-montjact-2013-3?utm_source=mobilesrepublic&utm_medium=referral&utm_term=mobilesrepublic

If you get the Equipment plan to pay off your phone, you still have to sign a contract- and the contract even requires having service with T-Mobile. So this really is the same as before. Bring your own device and you can pay prepaid without a contract, or get a "subsidy" and be locked in for two years with the option of paying an "etf" to leave.

Simple answer is yes. You'll need ifile and tetherme to accomplish it - more details are in the Sponsor thread digiblur put together. On the same topic, any chance somebody could link 55xxx for us iPhone users to download and experiment with?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39614029&postcount=890

Yes, I would define this example as abusive. 334GB is too much for an unlimited account. If all that usage was on one site, that would be a significant amount of the total data the site even used in that 15 day period. Maybe even 15% to 20%. All to one subscriber.

 

Robert

My typical usage is about 2GB a month, but twice a year I visit my grandparents for about 2 weeks and they have no internet. We end up using about 10GB of phone data (no tethering.)

I chose sprint because I knew I would be using large amounts of data like this on trips. They are the most cost effective.

Abused women often stay with and even defend men who abuse them simply because the women lack other means of support. But that does not make the abuse right or acceptable. Sprint sells itself to abusers and allows abuse out of financial necessity. That does not mean, though, that bystanders cannot castigate that abuse in either situation.

 

My utmost hope is that Sprint's situation improves enough that Sprint can retire "unlimited" data or impose throttling/traffic shaping on those who use far more data than what they have paid for. Then, the abusers will have to own up to the reality that they cannot use as much data as they want, as fast as they want, anywhere that they want, all the time.

 

AJ

AJ in your opinion, at Sprint's current pricing, how much data usage on a phone would you consider abuse? You seem very knowledgeable and this is a genuine question.

I did find a PRL that has 3g roaming on VZW, 800SMR as high priority, and MCC records for PRL.

 

Will share when I get back home..

 

Sent from my C64 w/Epyx FastLoad cartridge

Do share, lol

I can confirm on the galaxy nexus, I am able to use a hacked Verizon-only prl (00001) to be on Verizon Evdo and Sprint LTE simultaneously. I can also be a dummy and try any other prl if needed.

LOL Sprint, you need to take a look at this asap.

Has this changed in the last 5 days? I'd like to get a new phone and my Mom lives around 99th and Roe. Thjis seems to be a dead spot for EVDO and Wimax. LTE might be better. I'd like some info before I change.

I was just down there a couple of days ago, no LTE there yet.