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Yep, when you can come out of college and earn high five digits in many professional/technical areas, can own a house for $125 per square foot, pay $100 a month for energy and sincerely say that you love the taxpayer funded education system that your child attends then you learn to appreciate what the Midwest offers you. I love big cities and I've been to most of them but there is a mindset of self-importance that I find exists in many cases and in my opinion it comes partially from feeling like you have to justify what you have to put up with the live there. For example, sure we can talk about how big cities have great mass transit systems compared to the Midwest but on the flip side I can drive to my office in 10 minutes, maybe 20 minutes during so called rush hour. So I'm not sure why we are discussing cities not having mass transit systems that don't need them.

 

But this has strayed far from a discussion about Sprint and to be honest I think that guy is trolling. The bottom line is there is absolutely no evidence that I have seen that suggests that Sprint feels like they have any difficulty attracting talent in either the professional or technical ranks in KC.

It's not about being hipster, it's about jobs and opportunities. This discussion has nothing to do with style of living and suburban lifestyle. The argument was brought forth due to the idea that Sprint could have a hard time attracting talent to the Midwest. I don't know where being 'hipster' came into the discussion.

The discussion about Sprint having a hard time attracting talent in Kansas City produced absolutely zero evidence to support that contention.

 

Even your argument about jobs and opportunities has no basis in reality. You're speaking in generalities and absolutes. Obviously, there are more choices in a city like New York. With that choice comes consequences. Because the Midwest has numerically less choice does not mean it doesn't have opportunity. It doesn't have to support the same population.

 

I travel the world for business out of supposedly no opportunity Des Moines Iowa. The story is always the same. Next week I'll be in San Jose and the surrounding suburbs, a bastion of opportunity, culture and activity. But ask the locals when the last time they went to downtown San Francisco. The people I'll be working with out there for a week will tell you it's been 6 months or more and actually they avoided if they can.

 

The reality is, most of us all live in our own little version of Suburbia. Most of us live and interact in a small geographic island around us. So whether our daily lives are spent in an island surrounded by cornfields or an island surrounded by 10 million people, the distinction is less significant then you are trying to portray.

You really think Omaha is a destination city for young professionals? Outside of Ag majors, there are not many graduates rushing to Omaha.

 

(unless they're Nebraska Cornhuskers, but that's because they love watching corn grow and reminiscing about the Tom Osborne era with other fellow Cornhuskers. All they talk about is the mid-1990s and how Mike Riley is going to save them from the eternal irrelevance they live in.)

Believe it or not, there is a plentiful supply of young professionals that are educated in the region. The region doesn't necessarily have to draw from outside the region. Within 4 hours of Omaha there are approximately 275,000 college students going back to College next week. And yes my friend, many of them do want to stay here, intentionally.

Mid-major Midwest markets are a non-destination. No young, future graduate of an AAU university is dreaming of ending up in Omaha, NE. They're thinking of NY, LA, SF, Mia, Chicago, Boston, and other metropolitan areas. I would support your case for St. Louis and Kansas City, but Omaha?!

 

There's only 2 things to do in Nebraska: 1. Watch Nebraska football and 2. Watch corn grow. And with the recent terrible coaching change, its going to be watching corn grow all year round for that state.

I hope this comment is in jest because the ignorance is frightening otherwise.

Yep. It's my #1 and #2 complaint about the Midwest. There is no useful public transit in most of these cities, and no middle-class-affordable urban housing in most of these cities (unless you qualify for government subsidy). The design of life here economically coerces most people into owning a single family home in a suburb, driving everywhere, and working at that one job forever.

 

If you like all of that, if you want to live in a suburb next to Sprint's campus and work at Sprint for the rest of your life, then life is perfect and you wouldn't even know this was an issue.

 

But if you might want to change jobs in the next 40 years without uprooting yourself and/or family, or if you have a spouse who wants to find work in some other field, or you don't want to maintain a poorly-cheaply-constructed suburban house + lawn, it would really suck to be stuck there.

 

It's the big "Midwest" problem. It's a problem in Kansas City. But the exact same problem exists in Milwaukee, and Grand Rapids, and Toledo, and Dayton, and many other cities.

There is no coercion involved. It's a lifestyle choice. If you want the New York or Chicago lifestyle then you live there but to complain like it is a negative that these smaller cities don't offer that is nonsense. People live there because they don't want that. But in actuality, most of these smaller cities actually offer both options. I've spent 20 years in the small market of Des Moines Iowa, about 500,000 people in the entire metro. There is a huge growth in urban lofts and condos with more coming online every month and there is also growth in suburbia.

 

But this idea that the Midwest forces you into working for one employer your entire career and doesn't offer spousal employment opportunities in unrelated industries is just nonsense. I'm not even sure how to respond to that but to try would be to dignify a ridiculous comment.

$10 Marcelo is pushing for a move to Miami

 

Especially because its going to be hard to recruit strong candidates into Kansas with the current political team.

Huh? That comment makes it sound like Sprint is out in the Kansas plains. This is KC we are talking about. Recruiting talent in the Midwest is not an issue.

Unfortunately I've had really bad experiences with the m9 over the past month or so on Sprint. I simply did not have any data throughput despite having an LTE connection. Toggling into airplane mode sometimes worked but the only sure fire thing that ever worked was switching to 3G instead of LTE.

 

At the end of last week I finally called it quits and sold back my m92 to Sprint for the LG G4 instead and I can unequivocally say that in the exact same locations the LG G4 does not experience the same issues that my particular m9 did so therefore I conclude that it is not simply a network issue that was causing my problems but some sort of undefined issue between the m9 and the network that definitely in my case was not resolved with the latest updates.

while there is some new stuff coming in wdm, that B41 has been live for about 9 months now you can see which tower it is by searching that GCI in our spreadsheet in the premier section

Well, that is very interesting. I got fed up with my M9 and switched to the G4 and this is the first time I have seen B41 in this location. I assumed it was new because of that.

Got this sitting in Clive tonight (Dallas County) near Price Chopper near Waukee. First time I've seen this here that I can recall. Had it for about 15 minutes then it switched off it and hasn't returned.

 

Yes, the spark icon is spinning constantly but the apps aren't "obtaining" any data connection.

I'm having a lot of issues in the market with my HTC One M9. I'll have a solid LTE signal but no data connection. Sprint replaced my SIM card and I did a complete reset of my phone. I started having problems within 6 hours. If I force 3G I am fine. Same location on LTE I'll have nothing. But it's not constant. Sometimes an airplane mode toggle clears it up for awhile. Here is what I'm connected to:

 

Good data performance:

 

No data:

 

No data:

I just ran into one very bad experience with this service. The Des Moines Airport has Boingo hotspots with the boingo SSID but that airport apparently is not part of this program. The phone went nuts constantly trying to connect to that SSID automatically but then disconnecting when apparently it learns that it couldn't make the connection. There was basically nothing I could do because it is an automatic process.

I love the Kenu Airframe+ model.

I visiting the Austin market with a new phone (HTC M9) and still trying to sort out whether some of my experiences are network or phone related. I'm having a heck of a time in the SoCo restaurant area. I've got a really strong connection, usually on LTE800 but sometimes on 1900 but I've got basically no data throughput. I could calculate a route to the airport even. Is this a current issue in that area or should I be looking at my phone for any issues?

 

 

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In those circumstances that you describe above could I also change the phone settings to 3G only and get a usable signal rather than turning off LTE bands. Since I am visiting here I am usually in and out of trouble spots within a few hours.

 

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It's the HTC One M9. As strong as that signal was I guess I thought it would at least support the data for Google Maps traffic layer. This is not my area of expertise. Are you saying that I don't even have a 3G connection in that circumstance?

 

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I've been traveling around various cities in Texas and getting 800 quite often but typically was poor results. Here is what SignalCheck shows. In this case I had no data to speak of. Google Maps couldn't even populate its traffic layer. I've also seen it say LTE 800 in SignalCheck also with mixed results as to whether I have data or not.

 

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I am visiting the Houston area for the first time and was at the outdoor retail area across from the mall in The Woodlands. I had a very strong LTE signal but basically could not use data. Pings were >500ms, downloads speeds (when it could even connect to a server) were <0.2 maps and upload speed stayed at basically 0. Is that typical for that area? As I headed up towards Lake Conroe things seems to improve.

 

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Is your company publicly traded.

Nope. And I don't see how that makes a bit of difference in this conversation. The public owns 28% of Sprint. It doesn't really matter what they think about the short term.

 

 

Marcelo Claure is coming up on his 1-year anniversary as CEO, and the company has not fundamentally turned around (with some arguing it has gotten worse). Sprint is burning through billions of dollars in cash with no end in sight, has no clear path towards paying off the current $33 billion+ in debt or financing the more debt needed, lags in subscriber numbers, and still suffers from relative network weakness.

 

That does not mean the stock is a sell, but other shareholders and industry followers have clearly lost patience. I am surprised that Claure has not yet come under strong criticism. Masayoshi Son trumpeted Claure's hiring last year (and paid him a crapload of money), but seems to have since gone silent in praising the young CEO.

Wow. That commentary is more short-term-sighted than most Wall Street analysts. There is zero indication that Son is in this for anything other than a long term play. In a year Sprint has had a myriad of plan & feature improvements and developed and received approval for a network densification plan that hasn't even been executed yet. But we're supposed to draw conclusions already? It took my company of 450 people 9 months to plan, deploy and begin operating our last IT software system. It's only been a year at Sprint.

I received the update this morning. So far I have noticed a huge change in the phone not bouncing between LTE and 3G. I have an interior office in a building with a metal roof and I had a horrible time with the signal bouncing in and out of LTE. So far after this update it has been very stable and usable on LTE and I have only seen it switch to 3G once in the last 2 hours. My signal strength is around - 106dB on LTE.

Would S4GRU want a Sprint CSR / liason participating in the forum? Might be an excellent time to ask Marcelo for one.

Lollipop 5.1 OTA coming to Sprint starting 7/1.

 

"@moversi: HTC One (M9) Sprint Owners! We have received technical approval on Lollipop OS 5.1 which includes camera improvements. OTA to start on 7/1!"

By the way, this is another reason I don't like Fox News :

 

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/06/24/mammoth-study-finds-sprints-4g-network-is-worst-and-its-not-even-close/

 

That wording is not professional or even honest.

That isn't a Fox News story. That's BGR being aggregated to a Fox site.

Since no one appears to have any Sprint experience here I can tell you that in the convention center and arena it is a rough go for a Sprint customer. Battery life is about 4 hours on the Galaxy S6 and HTC M9 because the signal strength is so low indoors. Outside the signal is usable on LTE but speed is about 1 MB/sec. I'm having to run my phone on wifi calling from my Verizon mifi to use it for a whole day inside the convention center. Wifi is $10/day per device.