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I suppose a bigger question is - if sprint can't support allowing customers to use their devices as they please, should they?

 

You could make the same argument about highways. When they become overburdened, you get gridlock. Even though your gas tax dollars go to maintaining the highway so you can use it, should you avoid highways for the greater good? Probably not (the decision to sit in traffic is typically based on need, desire, and alternative route options - not "should I avoid the highway to reduce congestion"). This is why they have toll roads that are in the middle of highways. Those who feel there is a greater value of subsidizing others to sit in traffic and pay a premium not to, in certain areas, have the ability to do so.

 

The guy has a choice of service, he can use 10 gigs on Sprint for N dollars a month or use 10 gigs on Verizon/AT&T/T-Mobile for X/Y/Z dollars a month.

 

He looked at providers of service, cost of what he wanted to do, and selected the best option for himself. I don't think a customer who picks a service based on what is offered should be burdened with contemplating the network load he is adding. That should be left to Sprint, their network engineers, and their marketing guys who decide how much data to offer and at what price.

Sprint(like very other carrier) has determined how high the average data usage can be and still turn a profit. In the case of Verizon and AT&T they made that determination and figured out how much their network could handle. When you cross the line in either profitability or capacity then you see what the big two have done. That should be the biggest argument for the individual sprint user to offload when possible. Any other behavior indicates that you either don't care if the price goes up or you are willing to change carriers multiple times.

Unbelievable that we are still seeing the mine first comments. I have always agreed that the wireless carriers are cads and that's why they have poor customer service scores. Now I have to question if it is due to the unrealistic expectations of the customers.

Must be my phone then

This morning I travelled up six forks road to 540 in search of an LTE signal. No dice. I made sure to toggle my airplane mode and wait a few minutes. Did they shut it down?

The local office depot here was selling them on clearance.

 

You could always buy a used one too. I'm sure there are a lot of N7 owners wanting to get more memory now that the 32GB model is out (myself included)

Want to make me an offer?

I checked Amazon and they are way over priced. There are a couple on Ebay that are still early in the bidding process but I hesitate to get one off of there.

Anybody know where I can still get a 8 gb Nexus7?

Anyone seeing any more towers? I went last week and was able to pull some impressive speeds (25down 11up), but I haven't seen any others. Been keeping my eye out near Blueridge Rd (I think someone mentioned something about that area?).

There is a tower right across the street from Rex hospital at Blue Ridge and Macon Pond Road. I suspect that the backhaul is in place there. i have not tested it during the day but at night I usually get over 2 mbps. It also has a history of being a solid wiimax performer if that means anything. Net monitor shows 30 298.

Ordered mine already. I'll post up when/if I receive it.

 

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Any word of the HTC Butterfly coming to Sprint?

Time for my Motorola Asanti's wallpaper to change again...

 

 

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Beautiful!

Strange. I just checked for an update and it forced me to connect to wifi. So I did, but nothing...it never did that before.

That's odd.

I expected more than that from you.

We should count ourselves lucky that's all we got!

I think that they are waiting on AT&T. The flagship phone has to get it first. Remember, for the Sense 4.1 update it came out shortly after AT&T's did. Since the One X+ just came out, I think AT&T will start pushing out JB soon. And then the EVO.

That would be a pretty bogus reason IMO. The One X is only available on AT&T and Most would consider the EVOLTE the better phone. If the update is ready then they should just release it.

Ur right, Dish now wanted to buy MetroPCS xD

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The plot thickens!

Personaly I think if they wanted to go that route it would have been with Sprint. More likely than not they will sign a deal for somebody to provide wireless for them to bundle with their home internet service. Running their own cellular system would create two issues for them. The first would be disgruntled customers trolling the internets and smearing Googles name. The second would be creating animosity with the cellular providors. Would they be willing to sell a product from a competitor?

Since Fayetteville was named by Sprint in its 120 city list, I wonder if work has already started down there too, but no one is running Sensorly down there? Hmmm.

 

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Yeah. I'm kind of surprised that it is showing up in North Raleigh before other areas. The list of areas to be done before the year was not trending that way.

you guys all realize that ehrpd means absolutely jack squat, right?

LTE won't happen without ehrpd. So its a small but significant step. Hey, I'll take what I can get nowadays!

Sprint has some cows in manhattan. Would be interesting to find out where and how much taffic they can handle.

I'm trying to say it will earn them money, in an indirect way. Customers who look at coverage sq. milage on maps (that are already covered by Sprint and rarely leave coverage) on an Verizon map vs a Sprint Map, (this will become especially important when LTE is ubiquitous across the footprint of the two carriers in the next two years), they will be more likely to favor Verizon just because they want to be with the carrier that has the most coverage even if they will never need it. What I am trying to say is if Sprint were to add some rural coverage to improve the look of their LTE coverage map they could earn new customers who (while they may not need the coverage) would have chosen Verizon otherwise.

 

So even if some towers in North Dakota never see usage they will earn revenue for the company through brand image.

 

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I'll give you some perspective on this. My friends constantly trash on Sprint because it lacks the coverage that AT&T has. I tell them that I roam for free when I don't have native Sprint service and they ask why not switch to the network it roams on. I tell them about the value of the service and that Sprint has coverage in almost everywhere people actually live, they don't care. They take one look at the coverage map and dismiss the carrier. So, if Sprint had a coverage map with as much native coverage as those other carriers, it would earn new customers even if those would-be customers never travel to these new coverage areas areas (trust me, these friends of mine don't and wouldn't). AT&T is earning customers based on an image in a pamphlet and reputation. Adding new coverage would change this.

But you cant quantify the amount of indirect revenue. As long as it is not a "home market" then roaming should suffice. If you make it a home market(ie: no roaming, sprint stores) then you would have direct revenue that would allow you to justify either staying or leaving. But who wants to take that risk especially in a less than dense market?

Just buy T-Mobile....

Just starve them out. Sprint/Softbank can pursue the same strategy that T-Mobile is pursuing with much better results. T-Mobile undercutting Sprint only affects Sprint. Sprint undercutting T-Mobile affects everybody.

I've yet to see it in Raleigh ever here personally.... Though could just be the area I frequent.

 

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I have found it in the NC state area, down town, near the PNC Center, Garner and Clayton as recently as yesterday. Looks like its back to EVDO today.

ehrpd keeps coming and going in the raleigh market. Is this indicative of anything?

It's my opinion that it is reasonable. If people want to pay for tethering and do that, then that is great. They shouldn't probably spring for the extra 130 for the LTE model either then. I personally only get WiFi tablets myself.

 

But for those who do want a LTE tablet, and don't want to deal with tethering, then I believe the 15 per month deal is fair. It's great for those people who use their tablets mostly on WiFi but want some flexibility for mobile use when needed.

 

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I agree thats its resonable. But its just not the best deal IMO. On top of that Sprint has created uneeded compresion in their pricing structure. They should have gone for the same or similar pricing as their hotspot option.

I am not sure how 1gb for 15 is reasonable when tether package is 2g for $20 and not limited to a single device

 

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Uh, I highly doubt there are going to be any subsidized prices for either the ipad 4 or the mini.

 

And if there was, there would be a typical 2 year contract to go along with that and not for 15$.

Bingo. Just my opinion, but i bet most Tablet users are going to use more than 1 gb per month.

Existing smartphone customers getting 1GB for $15 seems very reasonable to me. Since most people use 90% of their tablet usage at home with WiFi, this is an attractive offer for those times when you need tablet data connectivity on the go.

 

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I don't see that as a deal when I can fire up my hot spot and use 2gb for $20.