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  1. jeffcarp
    Most of the drive from northwest of Des Moines, IA up to Okoboji, IA is in US Cellular roaming territory. However, for most of the drive despite being connected to US Cellular LTE, I had no data connection whatsoever.
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    I've connected to US Cellular on my Note 5 in eastern Iowa often, along 151 between Cedar Rapids and Madison. I was also deep inside a control center in Urbandale earlier this week and was LTE roaming on US Cellular inside the building.
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    Sorry poor choice of words. I wasn't including Canada and Mexico in my comment. That link, other than Canada and Mexico, only references Latin America while the other link shows it being in most of the world.
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    To make matters even more confusing, this page refers to Open World as limited to Latin American countries: https://www.sprint.com/landings/openworld/index.html?ECID=vanity:openworld Sent from my SM-T710 using Tapatalk
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    Does this phone not have the Sprint Wireless Connection Optimizer? Is there anything 3rd party that will connect to and automatically acknowledge T&Cs of a hotpot like at a grocery store without user intervention?
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    LG G4
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    I experienced what I believe to be LTE roaming on US Cellular today on us-151 about halfway between Madison Wisconsin and Dubuque Iowa. The data performance was very solid.
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    No, iWireless is owned by Iowa Network Services and has a partnership with T-Mobile. From the iWireless website: Iowa Network Services is privately owned by a group of 127 Independent Telephone Companies that serve 500,000 rural Iowans.
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    How are you determining what the "average consumer" wants?
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    The issue is Facebook itself, not a comparison between the different carriers on Facebook. The user that feels the need to complain on Facebook is not the typical customer. That's like saying that political caucus participants represent the typical voter.
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    Customers ranting on Facebook do NOT reflect a representative sample of any company's customer base or their concerns.
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    Doing a listening tour for internal improvement and publicizing the fact that you're doing a listening tour for promotional marketing is not mutually exclusive. Both can be accomplished from the same activity and it would be dumb of Sprint to not promote that he's out talking with customers. You taking exception to the publicity isn't realistic in my opinion.
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    No one said "ghetto people use T-Mobile." She said the T-Mobile service was ghetto. Big difference and big misinterpretations of that word based on where people live. It's still a dumb ad to run but the critics need to calm down.
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    The problem with that is there are very few if any examples of that kind of success and competence in the modern era. FAA systems? Nope. The IRS' computer systems? Nope. Management of freeway infrastructure? Nope. Can't think of a single govt-run program on a massive scale that demonstrates any level of technological competence let alone superiority.
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    Consumers are generally smart enough to decide for themselves what is reasonable and what is not reasonable. You can't, as an admitted AV enthusiast, impose your tolerance on everyone else in terms of defining what's good/better/best/acceptable/etc. I get that there is a small percentage of people that despise MP3 in any form. But the facts are that the vast majority of people couldn't care less if they are listening to a compressed stream. Same goes for video. A number (resolution) means nothing to most people. All they know is if what they are looking at on the screen looks good or not. There's a place for enthusiasts in every industry but part of being an enthusiast is the realization that you represent a very small minority of the consumer's interests.
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    Global roaming is working great in the Bahamas (Nassau and Paradise Island) on two LG G4's, a Samsung S6 and an iPhone 6s. We all got the 3 welcome texts before we even got our bags at the airport and it's been very solid service since. Of interest is that Paradise Island is not listed as having service despite Nassau having it. That seemed highly unlikely and it turns out it was.
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    As important as we all like to think Iowa is (born and raised here myself, still live here) with all due respect, I-380 isn't on anyone's radar in terms of a heavily traveled interstate. I understand why it is where it is on Sprint's priority list.
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    iWireless also complicates the issue in some parts.
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    That's an interesting map. It's no wonder why it seems like the general sentiment about T-Mobile in the Midwest doesn't match the enthusiasm about them elsewhere in the Country.
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    That makes a lot of sense. This just started a couple of days ago in a location that I am at every day and has had a very solid 2xCA service for a while. The last couple of days the service has been bouncing all over the place between different bands and even back to 3G so they must be doing something in the area.
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    I see. Thank you. Some of these threads get so long it's hard to sort through. Am I on a particular band when this bug occurs?
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    I'm seeing something new in my neighborhood and not sure what to make of what SignalCheck says it is. It's reporting it as 1xRTT which historically would mean horrible performance in the pre NV 2.0 days but my speed test is decent. What am I seeing here?
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    Partner with one phone manufacturer to provide an Android upgrade guarantee similar to the Nexus devices but with full Sprint support (i.e., Sprint Zone, international roaming, wifi calling, etc)
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    LG issued a free worldwide replacement campaign for any phone suffering from the problem starting today.
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    Likely customer reports from Sprint Zone as well.
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