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gusherb

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  1. Why am I not surprised lol. The 3/$100 deal plus the 20% discount if one can obtain a code is a deal too good to pass up though. I'd consider putting up with their shortcomings for service that cheap, but one of the lines on the Verizon account has a DPP attached and waiting for the credits to show up for the $10 iPhone deal. Canceling now means forfeiting the credits and paying full price for a 256 gig iP7, so I think I'll stay put and enjoy my good coverage.
  2. I think it's clear that they don't. I did the numbers based on that report of them having lost 40,000 lines last Monday, say they lost an average of about 30,000 lines per day for a month, that's 900,000 in losses, say that's sustained over a quarter, that's 2.7 million losses. They couldn't just sit still on this and they knew it, but they still don't care much about their wireless division anymore and that's why their new unlimited plans still feel like a slap in the face for a few reasons; two lines is $145 w/autopay (a $5 hike from the old UDP), $155 without, which is the highest pricing out there right now. and no FAN discounts which is a joke especially with them having the highest pricing. The 128kbps tethering throttle after the 10 GB's is used is no help either, and I despise these autopay/paperless billing credits that everyone is doing.
  3. Correct. Now that VoLTE/VoWiFi is coming I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them again. Last year when they had that nationwide proxy outage, it was a big turn off to me and I ended up porting a family member away after that happened.
  4. May as well go for Cricket instead of that $60 3 Mbps plan. Crickets not using the proxy anymore, plus will be rolling out VoLTE/WiFi calling soon.
  5. I pull 80 Mbps all day long off my home tower on Verizon. If an unlimited or really high bucket home hotspot plan were available I'd go with that over Comcast or Uverse any day.
  6. I remember all of it. Don't forget the massive train wreck he inherited, don't forget how the Sprint board held him back on some things like acquiring MetroPCS. Things were far from perfect during his tenure, and I think a lot of people thought he was a bumbling idiot but in the grand scheme of things he did manage to get the ball rolling on a new network and get them to a buyout. I think he was probably great for Sprint at the time, would I ever want him back? No way. I don't think a lot of what he's blamed for was ever his fault or really under his control, I mean one person can only do so much especially if people under you are defiant. I have a feeling he didn't wanna clean house because he probably didn't wanna undertake any more huge projects and knew he was close to retirement. I think a lot of people expected Marcelo to be a John Legere of sorts and get them polished up and make efficient use of everything they've got like has been done at T-Mobile. They need someone with that ability to pull it all together and polish it up at this point, in addition to the good things Marcelo has done. Obviously they've still got a giant ball and chain shackled to their ankle and I'm still not sure what it is, money is obviously one of them but that shouldn't stop them from making the best of what they have now (and I don't feel they have).
  7. You know, I was thinking the same thing the other day. Seems like he got a lot done in his time with Sprint and managed to keep them fairly relevant at the time, not to mention his practical approach to everything like voice/data plans and NV. Marcelo has been mostly confusion and hollow promises. I basically left not too long after he took over, I felt like I wasn't gonna get what I wanted then and seems nothing has changed since.
  8. Something else to consider in Sprint being behind is the speed drop off to B25/26. In my most recent tests of Sprint that has been a big issue, more than when I was a full time sub last. They really need to get 25+25, 25+26, and especially 26+25 CA combinations going. If they would do 3xCA on all their FDD carriers that would be even better. It would help a lot in softening the blow going from B41 to 25 or 26. And not to beat a dead horse but they need to increase the range of B25/26 too.
  9. Yeah Sprint needs to be on that tower more then Verizon, they don't even get LTE over there. Verizon gets 2-3 bars of B13 in that area.
  10. Unless sprint is using different panels now, then this is not Sprint. They are very large mainly in height. I was thrown off because the base station is in a metal cabinet on a raised platform instead of a hut. https://i.imgur.com/6dutUjZ.jpg
  11. I'll know for sure once the panels go up which could be any time now (maybe by next week). This is awesome news if it really is Sprint. That site would be filling in a black hole of theirs that I've actually complained about alot when I was a sub.
  12. Unsheltered base stations are not really Verizon's thing though.
  13. I was driving past a tower a mile from my house and almost crashed into a ditch when I glanced over and to my shock, saw someone building a new site on a tower that is currently hosting AT&T and T-Mobile. So it could've only been Verizon or Sprint doing the new addition. I went back later and it looks like Sprint. The 3rd rack down is brand new, and the base station on the raised platform is brand new. https://i.imgur.com/h04AHak.jpg https://i.imgur.com/KxHoey3.jpg https://i.imgur.com/X0LqHC9.jpg I've watched this tower for years, and have photos of it going back to 2012 and nobody else was ever on this tower besides T and TMO, so this is not a USCC or Nextel conversion!
  14. Just when you'd walk into buildings and drop off LTE. It was a common issue for as long as I had them. And they never turned B26 up so it never went further than B25 in range and barely further than B41.
  15. I'm more interested in hearing if the 3G drops that have plagued us are still alive and well or finally have been abolished with some good optimization.
  16. So, I like to check in every once in awhile and ask anyone from the area who might be around here, what's the status of the Sprint network lately? Is it better, worse, same? I get the impression it's stagnant but I could be wrong.
  17. They're so greedy it's obscene. They seem to like over billing for data use so they can either up sell you or hit you with an overage. And I don't mean just like those stories of people getting hit with multiple GB's in overages but just a few MB's here and there which adds up.
  18. The article is pretty much completely useless for accurate information. I've looked it over several times and nothing is right, really anywhere. I could cobble together something more accurate in a few hours, and I don't consider myself an expert. (I think most educated network hobbyists could do better then this)
  19. The media seems to love to overhype big storms even more when one hasn't happened in awhile. Any kind of weather that hasn't happened in awhile really. Glad to hear the networks held up, even though it sounds like there's little more then power outages and no major destruction.
  20. The burn in issue you see is an extreme case where the device is being used for display and literally always on and showing the same thing. I don't think this is really a problem in real world use, at least I've never seen it. Personally AMOLED turns me off because they seem to have alot of pink tint issues, which is more annoying to my eye then the uneven backlighting issues IPS displays commonly have.
  21. PCS A block and F block are what they hold. I've looked it over and they would have to coordinate with Verizon AND Sprint in order to get contiguous 40 MHz PCS.
  22. When tuned and turned up AT&T B30 far outperforms Sprint B41 in range. They have to start it up on super low power to make sure it doesn't interfere with Sirius.
  23. AT&T gigapower is really only deployed in greenfield housing developments. Ie where no copper exists, so they install fiber. My old neighbor moved to a development about 5 miles from here that can get gigabit. What you say about cable internet is mostly moot these days with DOCSIS 3.0 (and 3.1 coming now). We've had Comcast Internet for 3.5 years and never experienced a slow down. I just got us upgraded to Extreme 150 and we hit 180/23 all the time. Also never had a single buffering issue with 1080P Netflix since they started paying Comcast for a direct connection to their network. Had issues prior to that, as well as with Uverse when we had that.
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