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I think you have us confused with Sprint. We are not affiliated with Sprint and if you took the time to read the content we have created, your ignorant question would be answered. Now, I suggest you quit trolling and go complain to Sprint. If you want to stay here, check out the S4GRU Posting Guidelines especially this section:

Interesting that you would say this. I think that communication is pretty important in my line of work also, maybe more important. Amazing, all the other power plants that don't have this vital communication system. They don't seem to have major communication issues. It boils down to this: nobody is saying that Southern needs to put their employees at risk to save money. What we are trying to say, is that there are much more efficient ways to ensure reliable communication. You think that any of the carriers would say no if Southern wanted to foot the bill for a cell site on their grounds? Doubt it.

What is going on here? I don't even know where this conversation has gone...

So in other words, southern company has a monopoly, they set the price of power because power is infrastructure, and has no competition. It really doesn't matter what kind of irrational, poor business decisions they make, because nobody has a choice. The customers pay for the poor decision making of southern company. To put this in perspective: So to break it down, according to a press release on Southern Linc's website Southern Linc has more than 32,000 devices operating on their iDEN network of more than 800 cell sites. Sprint was spending an estimated $70,000 annually per nextel site. If they jettison their non-employee customer base, which is almost guaranteed once they lose roaming on Nextel. $70,000 x 800 = $56 million in yearly costs to run an internal communications network. There are other costs with running a cellular network, as it requires continual upkeep (which would only get more costly as time passes and iDEN becomes more obsolete) as well as a full staff to manage the network etc. $56 million spread across 32,000 devices is $1750 per year or nearly $150 per month, for a phone that is nothing more than a glorified walkie talkie. If they decide to throw down somewhere in the ballpark of $700 per iDEN hybrid device, they could thin out some of their cell sites and save some money on operating expenses, but they have to pay another carrier for GSM/CDMA service on the devices for them to be useful for anything other than PTT, and to use them outside the small service area. They could have nationwide service through any of the major carriers for a third of what they would pay to continue on with Southern Linc. Especially when you consider they would get a hefty discount when they bring the power of 32,000 lines to the bargaining table. If they signed on with Sprint as a partner, they could likely maintain their stranglehold on maintaining their own towers, and deploy NV equipment, giving their employees nationwide service, as well as voice/data on devices that have much better economies of scale. Is it worth flushing something like $40 million down the drain per year, just so Southern Company can operate an iDEN network for their companies? True, if you balance that $40 million across their 4.4 million customers, it amounts to less than $1 per customer per month, but what company wouldn't want to save $40 million per year? And what customer would like to see an additional $1 fee tacked on to their monthly bill because the company wants to maintain an inefficient communication network for its employees? There was enough customer outcry when Verizon tried to charge a $2 convenience fee for one-time online payments that they decided not to institute that fee. And that was just for select customers, and it was easy to avoid the fee by sending a check or signing up for auto-pay.

They have a ton of sites that have been upgraded, but none in the city. If Sprint officially launched the "Chicago" market, the actual city of Chicago would have no LTE and everyone would scream that Sprint is awful.

Chicago has yet to launch. The only thing that has occurred there is that they are no longer blocking access to every completed site.

And I probably would have merged them lol

Unless someone purchased the EVO LTE off contract for $650 and has an upgrade credit on their account, this plan is not going to work. I think it is reasonable to expect Sprint to "fix the issue" with the EVO. Whether it is by software update, or by swapping the phone, the consumer purchased the phone in good faith that it would be able to access the network, and it turns out it is not. HTC is ultimately responsible, but Sprint shares some blame, since as you stated, the engineers were aware that there were connection issues before it shipped. Sprint could have forced HTC to fix the issue if they refused to accept shipment until the issue was resolved, but then all those off-contract customers could have been lost. Not to mention, everyone would be up in arms about a delay.

Merged topics.

Voice will not really be affected by the 4G network until VoLTE (voice over LTE) comes into play (which is years off still). For now, all voice is still handled by the Sprint CDMA 1xRTT network and in some upgraded areas, CDMA 1xAdvanced. Prior to the start of Network Vision, all voice was broadcast on 1900MHz PCS spectrum. With the rollout of NV upgrades, in certain areas where sufficient Nextel thinning had occured, 1 channel of CDMA 1xAdvanced started broadcasting in the 800MHz SMR spectrum that was previously in use by Nextel. This gives better building penetration and range when needed, saving Sprint on roaming fees incurred by customers losing signal in buildings and on the fringe areas of current service areas.

???? uh, nothing... Look here

A Foxconn factory reportedly employing approximately 79,000 workers in Taiyuan was shut down after approximately 2000 workers were involved in a riot after security was observed beating one of the workers. While there are surely many other companies being supplied by this factory, Apple's name was the only name tossed into the mix. Does Apple need to look elsewhere for manufacturing than Foxconn? The Chinese manufacturer is not good for their image, and are notorious for mistreatment of their estimated 1 million employees. Where would Apple look for manufacturing muscle if not Foxconn? They can't really afford to have their name inserted in the articles every time there is trouble at Foxconn, but some might say that Apple is already synonymous with Foxconn... http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/rioting-sweeps-chinese-apple-iphone-5-factory-171230302.html

Yeah, it does kinda suck. I really haven't missed the MicroSD card, except in the Nexus 7. Thank goodness for USB OTG.

As much as I am not a fan of HTC... if they made a Nexus Phone/Tablet, I think I would have to buy it. There are several reasons to pass on it: it is a first generation device EVO LTE connection issues less impressive specs than the note no "pen" (stylus) But there are reasons to love it too: Nexus device, AOSP!!! AOSP AOSP Hopefully better radios than the Samsung Nexus devices Once this rumor is confirmed or debunked, I'm sure we will see some specs and find out more on this. I would love to bring another nexus into my device stable, even if it is a HTC (shudder) I saw this rumor earlier today, and was going to post it, but forgot. I'm glad you posted it, as I am now super excited that I might not have to deal with touchwiz on the Note 2.

community.sprint.com would be a good place for them. Or dan@sprint.com would be another outlet.

When did I imply that? What I said was that you were unhappy with their service, and very vocal about it. You were not only costing them potential revenue by them giving you service credits, but you were tying up their CSRs every month, costing them money, and depending on your location, the end was not near. Then, you ask for an early upgrade to the iPhone 5... Was an early upgrade credit to the iPhone 5 going to solve your data speed problem? No, not a chance. Their offer was reasonable IMHO, either they continue to give you service credits, or "here's the door, ETF free." You have every right to expect the advertised service, and every right to call Sprint and complain. They have every right to end their business relationship with an upset customer.

Even the official updates tend to be buggy.

Tower envy? I suppose California has the biggest and thickest towers too?

I don't know what the plan breakdown was, I cancelled back in February.

Could be... I don't know why they would still be blocking access on the other sites in the market though.