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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    You need to take into account what proportion of USCC subs are in its major markets:  Milwaukee, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Tulsa, Knoxville, Des Moines, etc.  USCC already competes against the big four in those markets -- except for Omaha, where T-Mobile has just pussyfooted around for over a decade.

     

    AJ

    people dont get USCC because they live in those markets, they get it because they want service when they travel outside of those markets to the other small towns in the area. For example: when you live in Des Moines and you want to take a day trip down to Knoxville (Iowa, not Tennessee) and visit Peace Tree Brewery and go boating its nice to have a usable phone signal instead of 1 bar that's on roaming with data service that's too slow to even register and drains your battery superfast.

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    Network Vision/LTE Market - West Iowa/Nebraska Market (Omaha/Council Bluffs/Lincoln)

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    hello and welcome :) no lincoln isn't an "official" spark city but B41 is deployed almost everywhere in lincoln. with those kinds of speeds and 0 to 1 bars you were probably on B41, the max you could get right now on B41 on an unused sector and full bars is around 78meg down.

     

    for the most part yes its normal for 3G to have more bars than 4G, there are many factors to this but the main one is there are 3 different frequencies that LTE runs on and only 1 frequency 3G runs on, so depending on what band of LTE you are on you could have a stronger or weaker signal than 3G. for the most part though even a weak LTE signal is going to be faster than a strong 3G signal.

    3 months ago you said "Not all towers in Lincoln are getting B41" Now you said "B41 is deployed almost everywhere in Lincoln" Did something change?

    Samsung Galaxy S6 Preview Thread (was "Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge pre-order page up.")

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    Sprint handset upgrade policy change applies retroactively! 3/1 changed to 7/1

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    Does anyone really believe a phone under contract is subsidized? Look at the note 4, its freaking $300 bucks. Note Edge is $430. They have tablets with similar specs or better for less.. There are phones like One Plus One selling with no contract for that range. Etc. :)

     

    It is more like price fixing. The price is fixed high to lock you to one phone, one carrier, unable to afford to switch and making you stay put due to payment plans in place or contracts. $300 by itself seems like full price for Note 4 quality device, but they take it a step further claiming it costs $720 which is triple to four times its actual cost to make.. Apple does that too, in the realm of iPhone it typically sold for $200 under contract but an identically spec'd iPod Touch cost $200 with no contract. Now the new payment plan versions cost $700 somehow. Yep, looks like they want us tied down to a payment plan for years unable to afford the cost up front so that we can't switch carriers as easy, same old BS. If you try to switch they will slap you with the termination fee, the rest of the cost of the device. Lol

     

    Somehow they are selling decked out tablets like the moorefield Asus memo 7" or the kindle fire hdx 7" for <$200. The Kindle even has built in LTE modem. Showing these $800 dollar cellphones couldn't possibly cost that much without some type of anticompete price fixing scheme being in place.

    They're subsidized in that the customer isn't paying $600ish that Sprint or VZW or ATT pays Samsung or Apple for the device. It is fairly obvious that Sprint ATT VZW are marking up the devices which should push more people away from buying them from those companies. If cellphones were a digital item they'd be pirated more than movies and music. The consumers lose when dealing with monopolies.

    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    I'm guessing that people having such terrible signal on B41 is a result of poor/non optimizations yet. while there are only 3 towers with B41 installed around here, the signal from them has been excellent. I can get B41 in my house from a tower thats 4 miles away. I also picked up B41 in a nordtrom rack store from a tower that is also about 4 miles away. and i'm not talking -120+ signals just to say it connected, i was connected anywhere from -105 to -115 with speed tests of 15 to 30 meg down.

    It is interesting that you have only 3 towers, but they've been optimized.

     

    I hope that happens to my area. I'm often in the -110 or higher range and that range kills my battery.

    Network Vision/LTE - Kansas Market (including KC, Topeka, Wichita, St. Joseph)

    in Markets

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    I have been telling this to folks since the beginning of time for cell service.  You want stealth no problem but you will probably see stealth like service (e.g. tower inside a church attic as you can only emit so much radio signals) and they wonder why cell phone service is not the best!  You can't have your cake and eat it too!  

    If the cell phone companies would have an open dialogue with customers/residents they could probably get more towers in optimal places accomplished. There are tons of places to put towers that'd be of limited eyesore.

    LTE Plus / Enhanced LTE (was "Sprint Spark" - Official Name for the Tri-Band Network)

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    So I finally have band 41 turned on in my area and one of my main towers and am regularly seeing it in the last few days. However I have noticed that my signal strength on my phone is rarely less than -105 db and the side effect of this is my battery is draining MUCH faster.

     

    I have the LG G2 and the battery is pretty strong on it. Often I'd end the day with 50% left, admittedly my usuage varies, but I'm definitely a heavier user of my phone, in the last few days I have consistently found myself in the 10-20% battery life range.

     

    Hopefully phone companies realize this and offer larger batteries due to this side effect of faster cell service, but it doesn't look like that is going to happen with the Galaxy S6 which is rumored to have just a 2500 mah battery.

    Any Updates on Rumored End to Phone Subsidies?

    in General Topics

    Posted · Edited by lilotimz

    Sprint ONLY rebuilt their entire network. /s

     

    Seriously, there's still lots of improvement that needs to be made, but to say nothing was done? That's simply not true.

    For many years from 2000-2011/12 when ATT and VZW were investing BILLIONS on their network SPRINT did NOTHING. I guess if you call skipping the spectrum auctions doing something then yeah Sprint did something. Or maybe you want to brag about their achievements with wimax? While other companies were setting themselves up for success Sprint was doing NOTHING. That is simply true.

     

    Edit: I forgot they did buy Nextel. Maybe you'd like to use that as an example...

     

    4G data services are more complex. That's a big reason costs go up. These massively redone networks are set so everyone has better coverage and data everywhere. So prices go up. So does quality of service. Sprint is exponentially better than it was and people still rag it. It is what it is.

    4G networks are also more efficent so costs to the company are actually less... Be exponentially better than piss poor doesn't take a lot. The reason people rag on it is another topic entirely. And I don't think it has to be what it is, it could be a lot better.

    Any Updates on Rumored End to Phone Subsidies?

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Everyone wants the shiny new triband network, but doesn't want to pay for it.

     

    Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

     

    We've been paying for it for years but Sprint hasn't done crap, which is why they're 3 years behind Tmob, ATT and VZW. Sprint has some of the highest revenue per user in the industry so again, we've been paying for it.

     

    If you problem is sprint making you wait two years for your upgrade your statement doesn't make any sense. T-Mobile doesn't do contracts and is more expensive, VZW is more expensive and if you are on a contract you have to wait two years to upgrade... So get over it. Contracts are on there way out and can't come soon enough.

     

    The bolded might be true, but those companies don't have as much of an issue with customer retention as Sprint does. So get over it. (Man, it does feel good to type that. I might end all my posts with that.) The rest of your post is your opinion and you're entitled to be as wrong as you want.

     

     

     

    It's a bit unrealistic to think that new plans will be as cheap as old plans. As time moves on things get more expensive, it's the way our system works. Think about it, food is more expensive, so is gas, and houses, and cars, and even sodas, even minimum wage is higher. Why shouldn't telecommunication companies do the same? They are not offering you the same services as the legacy plans. Now you have more advanced phones that use more data naturally, you have faster data, and a more reliable network. If you think that you'll be getting the same services at the same price on a different plan then I'm sorry to inform you that the system just does not work that way. Now if you were to tell me that on your legacy plan you still have the same phone and don't take advantage of any of the new features of the plan, then I'll just say more power to ya. But don't expect to get more, and take advantage of newer things without coughing up the dough. Sprint needs to make money, and this is one way they will make it.

     

    Also, this is not you personally, but I've seen this rationale many times on this site... So with that said: /rant

     

     

    -Luis

    Could you please provide me with all your info? I'd like to supply everything to you for the rest of your life. I could retire on just a few customers like you.

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