davem2020

I got the following text from Sprint yesterday- Which links to- We do indeed get LTE at home (near cheesman park) but speeds are less than impressive, around 3mbps.

Here is the email- Also last friday I got a text from sprint linking to this page- http://sprint.us/www/2014/network-towers/?v=2&ECID=MA:SMS:US:20140318:NTV:B2C:TT:vnty:networkupdate5 I thought this was just standard sprint boilerplate but maybe something is actually about to happen.

LARGELY complete does not mean just a few isolated spots over a mile from my house and I see no indication that this will change in the next 2 weeks. The text encouraged us to upgrade to 4g phones, advertising 10x data speeds, so this does imply we should be able to use them within a month. Also, I am not a lawyer, but I am pretty sure a coorporation cannot make you sign away your rights when you use their product. I have given Sprint the benefit of the doubt for the past year which is why I am still with them, but if they are advertising a mostly completed network with 4G in the next month, they better deliver.

If that's true, I foresee a big class action lawsuit. Telling cusomers that their network upgrade will be completed in 30 days and encouraging them to buy a lte phone that they will not be able to use is quite deceptive advertising. In the past, sales reps would use this line but at least then sprint had plausible deniability. Now we have it on record.

No, attach it behind your router. You just need to change the qos settings to fix the speed- https://community.sprint.com/baw/message/406246#406246 I had no reception at my house and spent a couple weeks fighting with sprint to get a free airwave. At first they said they were only allowed to provide it to customers with at least 4 phones on the plan. After threatening to leave several times (wife was pregnant and could not make or receive calls on our entire block) they shipped the device. Reception has been mostly good in the house since then.

P.S. I live near first and broadway and require an airwave to even be able to receive calls. There is no 3G data on my block.

Mine said- "SprintFreeMsg: Over the next month, the new network will be largely completed in your area. See new phone offer at http://sprint.us/upgrade1" There is very little ambiguity about this message. Either way it would be pretty rotten for sprint to encourage you to upgrade to a phone that you won't be able to use.

This text links to a promotion for LTE phones advertising "10x data speed compared to 3G." If the network upgrade is not mostly complete in my area in the next month as the text promises, this would be pretty blatant false advertising. But it is weird that I am getting this text when sprint has otherwise refused to give a date for Denver rollout.