DanielB

Er mer gerd. Having so many issues with this 6s Plus. Waiting another 30 minutes for my Sprint store up the street to open. Got it yesterday, activated it, worked fine on LTE when I went out last night - no, worked great, actually! Got into the office this morning and only showing 1X (all my other Sprint phones show LTE/3G in about an 80%/20% split here, respectively). Got on Chat with Sprint and they tried to reset and reactivate, and so on and so forth. Apparently, it activated incorrectly. But now I see you guys posting about a bad carrier bundle. I'm feeling down on the 6s at this point.....hoping the Sprint store can help me get it straight here in a few minutes!

I absolutely agree. This is fantastic. Their operating costs are way too high when compared to their other "big four" peers. I've helped turn around (much smaller!) businesses in this position before and cutting operating costs is one of the first steps that should be taken. They took too long to do it but it's still a great move on their part. Happy to be an investor in S.

From what I can see, they have "sufficient" low band spectrum. Their in-building penetration is usually great....data speeds (because of congestion), not always so much. The biggest issue for Verizon and AT&T at this point is capacity - something low band spectrum can't provide as well as mid or high band. This is why, for instance, you've seen VZW get really aggressive with their 1900 MHz "XLTE" roll out over the past 18 months, and AT&T start to roll out their 2300 MHz WCS spectrum beginning earlier this year. The duopoly has coverage nailed for the most part - now they need capacity. So they're almost in the same boat as Sprint (especially AT&T) - they could spend another $10-12 Billion on new spectrum, or deploy and densify what they've already got. Folks talk about AT&T being spectrum-deprived, but I think they underestimate the power of its 2300 MHz holdings once fully deployed (much as they do Sprint's 2500-2600 MHz BRS/EBS spectrum).

UH has many campuses, but I'm guessing the speed test server is located on the Honolulu campus. EDIT: Derp. Nope. Probably Manoa. In terms of Maui coverage, I'm waiting for native coverage in Hana....but I don't think that'll ever happen!

I ordered a 128GB 6S Plus Space Gray yesterday, and it shipped yesterday.

Link loaded Ok for me just now. Maybe they put it back?

Don't quote me on this, but nearly all of the phones released in 2015 support 2x CA. This includes the LG G Flex2 (I think it was the first to do so), HTC One M9, Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, Note 5, and S6 Edge Plus, LG G4, iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, and I know I'm probably missing some others.

I noticed Sprint no longer even lists the iPad Air 2 on their site. Have they stopped selling it, or are they just temporarily out of stock of all capacities and all colors?

We. Killed. Them.

Oh God, yes. Thank you, Sprint!!!

I have to concur. Was talking to my brother this morning - I on a landline and he on an AT&T iPhone. He's in Chicago for work right now. Couldn't hear a thing half the time! Cut in and out constantly. TERRIBLE!

Coming to Sprint on 9/3!

Can I interest you in a Galaxy S6 Edge+?

I concur with AJ. I have always been a fan of HTC's work, but their phones border on unusable on Sprint lately.

Had a derpy moment yesterday. Have always used SignalCheck Pro, lol. RSRP now holding pretty steady in my office around -108 dBm (15 asu). Don't remember what it was on the One M9. But in general, this phone is holding signal much better than the M9, which is a real shame. It was the iPhone on which I don't know how to measure RSRP.

Thanks!

Whoever moved my post is in total error - they moved it to a thread regarding the Galaxy S6 Edge - my post is in regards to the S6 Edge PLUS. Different devices.

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/sprints-saw-our-network-densification-wont-be-traditional-slow-and-expensiv/2015-08-19 Sprint's Saw: "Our network densification won't be 'a traditional slow and expensive build'"

Unfortunately, that's the one question I cannot answer as I no longer have an iPhone on Sprint. Not sure how to measure this on an Android device. Having said that, sitting in my office where my HTC One M9 with Sprint got a weak signal at best (and pulled 6 Mbps down at most), the GS6E+ is pulling downloads of 20+ Mbps. Haven't done much testing yet, though. I've had this thing activated for about 18 hours. Would not activate when I received it, and spent 3 hours on the phone with Sprint trying to get it done. They finally concluded it could not be done until Friday, the official release date. I drove to my favorite Sprint store in Short Pump and Noley got it activated within 5 minutes.

I received my Galaxy S6 Edge+ yesterday. If you have questions, ask away! I'll be posting a review later (or perhaps tomorrow), too.

Any idea on a release date for this one yet?

Agreed! I have long disliked att and Verizon's tacky approach to posting their ugly-ass carrier logos all over every phone they sell.

Used to be this way in my area (Richmond, VA), too. However, I now frequent 2 corporate stores (Short Pump and Midlothian, for any locals) that do an absolutely outstanding job - used to suck but they really turned it around. A third corporate store (Willow Lawn, for locals) is still absolutely abysmal.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenharner/2015/08/12/softbanks-masayoshi-son-vows-to-turn-sprint-around-announces-massive-buyback/ Mostly what we've already seen, but figured I'd share since this isn't a paywall source...

Not a bad price on the 15 and 20 gig buckets, though, in all honesty. Not competitive with Sprint, but better than AT&T's pricing in the past....even more so with my 22% corporate discount! lol