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Anyone try this yet? Cheaper then Karma and getting a little roaming.
See: https://twitter.com/sprintcare/status/672090359749599232?s=09
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Sprint parent SoftBank considered a potential suitor for Yahoo's Internet business
There's a reason Yahoo is falling like a rock... Last thing SoftBank needs is this albatross.
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I think it does. It has a network reporting function built in and has had one for a while
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Yes. As you showed here, the Sprint Zone App has this feature.
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At least they'll be able to report it since the T-Mobile App is apparently gaining an issue reporting feature.I think we have our undisputed winner for T-Mobile network congestion. That is, unless someone magically can produce a 0 Mbps down, 10 Mbps up speed test.
AJ
https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/3v0wsm/new_tmobile_app_coming_on_december_10th/cxjcb8s
That's one feature which I really like about Sprint Zone.
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I drove I-68 west yesterday and despite the consternation of my wife I did look at signal check whole driving. Roamed on us cellular the whole way through western Maryland. We did stop on Frostburg and I pulled up a you tube video. Streamed flawlessly, hasn't counted against my roaming allotment yet... But I'm sure it will
So US Cellular is one of those mystery roaming partners? Sprint hasn't said anything about LTE roaming since May 2015...
Hoping things are still in motion with this.
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I never said NGN is fully funded. I don't really know much about funding of NGN at all. That info has not been released. Marcelo has said he was taking his plan to Masa for funding. Did all of it get funded? I have no idea. We are in wait and see mode.
According to this June 4th article, it was "approved". No mention of who's paying though.
http://www.androidheadlines.com/2015/06/softbank-approves-sprints-network-densification-plans.html
"According to Sprint’s Spokeswoman Adrienne Norton, “Sprint has developed an approved network plan in partnership with SoftBank that will allow for a cost-effective network build on an accelerated timeline.”"
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Would you say this build is going at a steady rate at this point, or has Sprint been able to increase the rate given additional financial/engineering resources or talent from SoftBank?Approximately around 20,000 by my estimates. Give or take.
End of 2014 was a little north of 5000 which was heavily impacted by equipment shortages from Nokia and a bit from Samsung / ALU. 2015 was as smooth as can be.
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Over my head... :-)It's a joke.
I totally feel like Drax from Guardians of the Galaxy here, who took everything literally.
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I think I'm getting the hang of this S Pen thing.
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T-Mobile service isn't available in 23 states? (Please excuse my basic question here.)
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They have already implemented pretty dramatic price increases as part of uncarrier 10. It will be interesting to see how they go this quarter given VZW in particular is swinging the bat very hard.
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Indeed. For new customers purchasing Unlimited Plans, the difference between Sprint ($70/month) and T-Mobile ($95/month) is now $25/month... That's the biggest pricing gap between them that I'm aware of.
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Oh, you haven't seen the new Legere bills?
Ha! That's great. :-)
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In addition, especially Tmo, they are still burning through cash as well. The only two that won't slow down due to financial reasons is AT&T and Verizon. But as Robert said, stay tuned...
Is T-Mobile printing its own money over there? How is Legere making the numbers work? Or is the clock ticking on the house of cards they've set up?
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I'm not speaking of the future in these posts. Terrell352 is trying to contrast what Sprint has/hasn't done versus what Verizon did. We don't know what the funding of NGN is yet at all, or where it comes from. How much, if any, comes from SoftBank or Masa? Don't know.
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Understood.
Marcelo had to go to Tokyo earlier this year to get SoftBank's approval for it...
A sign the money is coming from them, or just big boss oversight?
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That's all great
But... If Sprint needs to slow down in completing projects due to money. Tmo and the other two kids are not slowing down. Isn't it a catch22?
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That's a good point, but AFAIK, NGN is already fully funded. What other build/expansion initiatives are suffering for lack of money? (I can think of one: Western Pennsylvania, where GMO's rule the landscape).
The delayed WiMAX shutdown seems to be the major project/build impediment at this point.
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That's a good point, but what needs greater efficiency at this point? Marcelo has implemented accountability for expenses and has assembled his new team of deputies to execute his vision for the company.SoftBank will not likely provide direct cash to Sprint until Marcelo gets Sprint to lean efficiency and a path toward financial growth. I believe Masa thinks that if he dumps money into Sprint too early, it will just go down the drain with nothing to show for it. Don't want to enable the old Sprint to do what it always has done.
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You could make the case that Masa overpaid for the stock based on current operations... But then again, the spectrum Sprint has (now combined with Clearwire) could mean otherwise. I just remember when as a Sprint shareholder during the acquisition, I was offered a choice of cash or new Sprint stock. I opted for cash... And so did many others... In fact, too many... So the cash buyout SoftBank provided wasn't sufficient and people like me wound up getting a mix of cash and new Sprint stock.You know based on all the conversation here that SoftBank has not really invested much money in Sprint at all like everyone hoped they would.
Marcelo has been told basically to right the ship first. Masa doesn't want to send good money after bad. Sprint has to get its problems fixed internally, then Masa may bring in more funding.
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Maybe that burned a hole in the pocket... Or perhaps Sprint took more funds after the acquisition than Masa expected given how much fixing needed to be done.
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We say in construction...Quality, Quantity, Price & Schedule. Pick the 3 most important to you. You can't have all 4. When a Contractor says he can give you all four, run. Because he is a liar.
Verizon picks Quantity, Quality & Schedule. They pay the price.
Sprint sometimes picks Quantity, Price & Schedule and suffer in quality. Then other times they use Quality, Quantity & Price and suffer in schedule. And sometimes they use Quality, Price & Schedule and they cant get the numbers they need. And sometimes Sprint only gets one or two of the four virtues from its vendors and contractors.
And that's really the point you want to make. That Verizon does a better job. I get it. And they do. But the big reason for that is funding. Sprint has made a lot of the decisions it has in the past because of funding. Because in that four virtues list, it never can sacrifice price. It has to sacrifice one (or more) of the other three.
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That's a good rule!
Is there any more money that SoftBank can kick in, or is it tapped out for providing additional cash at this point?
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Well T-Mobile added to their website the Sprint promo. As I was reading through it, I noticed this little tidbit.
Why leave out Atlanta...kinda jank if you ask me.
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That's really strange...
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I didn't realize the cult was so strong at magenta land. I want to see their faces when they start experiencing terrible service on a daily basis.
It is very strong...
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Ahh they are cute with those name tags "recovery Sprint victim" on the reddit forum. You have to give them credit because they are tmobile policymakers, that is the place where Legere gets his uncarrier ideas.
I hope that Sprint's senior management is similarly lurking around here or on the Sprint subreddit to get a sense of what users want as well as how users are reacting to its initiatives.
I've also noticed that the Sprint subreddit has been gradually getting bigger in size. The traffic stats show a few new subscribers most everyday.
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T-Mobile cries copycat as Sprint flies banner over its Bellevue headquarters
Awesome.
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The question is, how does this affect us as customers leasing devices?
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It might give Sprint the ability (and liquidity) to move ahead with launching Android Forever.
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A couple personnel announcements as well:
Annette Jacobs Joins Sprint as President, Pacific Northwest Region
Jaime Jones Named Sprint Area President, South
http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-releases/jaime-jones-named-sprint-area-president-south.htm
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Looks like the device leasing funding has been sorted out...
Glad to hear this has been worked out.
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Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread
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Sometimes Sprint needs to save itself from itself. The change to LTE Plus is adding another layer of content, and unless mentions of Spark are quickly removed and deprecated in all existing content, reps and customers could be confused.