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right but not everyone is like, especially teenagers and clumsy people.

Leasing is ok if you don't mind giving your old phone back (and in good condition). Sucks if you want to keep or pass (or sell) your phone along to someone else, or if your phone is in poor condition (cracked/scratched etc).

yeah the line says that ~21 gig is worth about ~$80 a month. which comes out about $3.8 per gig. Looks like everyone needs to start repricing their data buckets.

need bigger battery for more games!

could it be some neighbors air rave that for whatever reason they only use during certain times?

I'm sure they want people to believe that.

If it's not sprint testing something, its probably a stingray used by the police/fbi/nsa/anyother3letteracronymagency.

So has anyone actually got a nexus 9 lte on sprint? If so how does it work? it's on sale $379/32gig/lte @ http://www.expansys-usa.com/google-nexus-9-unlocked-lte-32gb-indigo-black-268547/

i got my invite last week, however once I tried to sign up, I had to either get rid of my sprint integration/dual numbers or choose a different account. I thought that I could simply request a completely new unrelated number, however it doesn't work that way. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to take into consideration the existing invite when I created a new account to let me use my FI invite on it and now the new account is back in the FI waiting list. In other words, the FI invite is hard linked to your google account and the option to create a new account means you start over in the FI queue.

I'd agree, but we are way beyond months and into years for some sites/areas. I guess it call comes down to reasonable expectations. 2+ years into a project and upgrades (at any particular site) not completed? that is a mighty long time regardless of outside factors.

I agree completely, but that's what makes the still missing spots that much harder to take. Hopefully these remaining sites will be updated, and/or have newer/replacement sites brought on line post-haste.

Regardless if all the networks are in same or similar completion, I think the perhaps the biggest problem is that sprints network holes and weak spots are more apparent when you are in them. lte 1900 vs lower freq/wider bw, plus fallback to cdma vs hspa (in the case of tmo/att) makes it more difficult for sprint to cover weaker spots adequately. Also, what was adequate for 3g coverage, is not necessarily adequate for good lte service. Sprint simply has a more difficult position to fill and more restrictive mhz do it with. Yes yes I know small cells and upgrades continue.

That of course is your opinion, but do you have what empirical, indisputable, evidence to substantiate that view? How positive of an effect has it had on vzw/att network performance?

Ok I added additional option for each question, I didn't see any option on the poll to make either question optional, but obviously if it doesn't apply to you then I guess you can just not vote and hit view results.

(disclaimer, this is not a thread to argue about the merits of unlimited vs shared/tiered data, it's simply to explore the potential future where unlimited is no longer available and why you would or would not stay with sprint) So I ask all of those who are so anti-unlimited, why haven't you already left for those awesome tiered plans you keep raving on about ? And I ask myself, what is the point of staying with sprint without unlimited? I've been a sprint fan since the original EVO 4g, but If it ever comes where I am forced to switch to a tiered data plan, why would I continue to choose sprint instead of ATT/VZW ? Assuming TMO also was out of the unlimited business, I wouldn't choose TMO over sprint, while they may be fast in some places, they still lack coverage. But ATT/VZW both have better coverage in more places than sprint (but not necessarily always better speed or reliability), so unless sprint was significantly cheaper with their tiered rates, why would I pay the same or even slightly less, for less coverage (and/or speed/reliability)? What exactly would keep me or you with sprint, with only tiered data plans?

Almost all of the people I know who have stuck it out on ATT are still on legacy unlimited plans. Although a few went to family plans when they added phones for their kids. I would guess it has a lot to do with pressure from TMO. Former ATT customers can mostly easily have taken their ATT phone and directly used with TMO. ATT (probably) decided it was better to keep these users on att/unlimited than let them churn and take their att phone to TMO. VZW obviously has had mostly incompatible phones with TMO, and generally they didn't work with sprint either, so there was no extra pressure to retain unlimited customers because anyone churning would have had to pay out and buy all new phones, making it more difficult for the customers to churn. Plus, you know they had/have the so-called 'best network' and historically have not chased the bottom customers.

That's so Fetch!

I wish google would do something about a family plan for its music service. I'm on the initial 7.99 plan still, however I'd probably move to a family plan as long as it didn't suck pricewise.

that would make a killer animated gif file

turning wifi calling off on the phone, you can simply toggle it back on. it is not the same thing as removing the wifi calling provisioning. on your mysprint page, I believe you should be able to remove the wifi calling on the 'change my services' link. else, you may need to use chat or call in to have it removed.

Funnily, you can add international roaming to the 100 meg lte plan. This gives you unlimited 2g roaming data, while still only providing 100 megs domestically.

I think the design is ok, however 1) I gave up watches when I was a teenager, and 2) until they can make a smart watch last at least week with moderate use, I won't bother (with any brand). I wasted a bunch of money on google glass, which arguably is a better experience (while perhaps off putting to others), but the battery life was miserable if you used it much more than a few minutes. Heck I'm still waiting for smart phones to last at least a week, so I guess I will be without a smart watch for the foreseeable future.

this would have been a good promo to get people out to some of the new 'sprintshack' stores.

good point.

While I have no doubt the market will provide it, and that users will (want to) use it, I doubt anyone *needs* 4k on any type of mobile device. Heck I still have doubts on the need for 1080 mobile. In any case, when the max on sector is around 35mbs, that pretty much limits the number of active 4k streams to 2 (assuming the 15mbs netflix 4k stream) per sector. b41 and bonding will help, but not much.