Rawvega

Supposedly it has started or will be starting Soon™. If you peruse this thread you'll find some who disagree with that assessment.

At this point you might as well wait until Spark is widely deployed across the island.

White House

Yet even T-Mobile, the notorious urban carrier, has seen fit to cover that stretch of I-80 (albeit with 2G at the moment) and has done so long before their latest coverage expansion. Also as MtnSierra has mentioned, this is an interstate that literally connects the east coast of the country to the west. To have such a long stretch of it left solely to VZW roaming is just...odd. While the land up there is rather desolate looking, there is a lot of gold and other precious metal mining that takes place in areas near I-80 and a lot of employees to support said mining. I get ROI, I truly do, but what choice do people have other than to be entrenched with the duopoly when there's really no other viable alternatives?

I've noted that on an occasion or two before. It's totally baffling to me why Sprint inexplicably doesn't cover that stretch of I-80.

Tennessee Titans

Nissan Skyline

That Des d-bag sorta reminds me of a vampire from Blade II That's a bit immature I know, but as that's the level that the boys in hot pink operate on I don't feel too bad about it.

Exactly! It's one thing to be transparent. It's an entirely different thing when these guys start over sharing. I just don't see how some of the things that were said benefit the business in any way.

Outside of iPhones and Nexus phones, I would've thought that any quad band W-CDMA phones for Sprint would support Band 8 as opposed to Band 4. Who knows though...

Yes, Marcelo's current focus is on Spanish speakers which isn't too surprising since he's indicated as much in the past. Currently the only Open World covered country in the Caribbean is the DR which, of course, is Spanish speaking. I didn't see it mentioned in the thread but Sprint indicated which countries should be added to Open World (and presumably Sprint Global Roaming) Soon™: http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-releases/our-world-just-got-bigger-and-more-affordable.htm?previousArticle=0&nextArticle=11969&gotoArt=%2Fnews-releases%2Four-world-just-got-bigger-and-more-affordable.htm Bolivia (no shock there), Ecquador, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. When those countries are added Sprint will cover all of the continental countries of North America, Central America and South America except for Belize, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname. Naturally, none of those countries are officially Spanish speaking nations. To be fair, neither is Brazil, but I imagine Brazil is too large to be ignored. To be clear, I have no problem with the strategy. I just hope that once the Spanish speaking nations are all covered that agreements can be worked out for the Caribbean nations and beyond at an equally brisk pace. As an aside, the travel tip on the map in the link above for the Palestinian Territories is quite helpful...

I've been wanting to try a Nexus device. I don't have any experience with Huawei phones, but I'm willing give it a try if it has a Snapdragon 820 instead of their homegrown chipset (which might be great, but I'd rather stick with a known quantity in Qualcomm).

Mid-2018 at that. http://www.brookingsregister.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=76&story_id=5230 This makes it seem as though Sprint could buy Swiftel's wireless business out before the end of the agreement if they were so inclined. We can only hope I suppose.

Transcript by Shentel executives: http://seekingalpha.com/article/3428646-shenandoah-telecommunications-shen-ceo-on-shenandoah-telecommunications-acquisition-of-ntelos-holdings-corp-transcript?part=single A tidbit that I found interesting: It'd be nice if there's a similar provision in place with those slackers at Swiftel though I believe their contract still has a few years left on it…

THIS x 1000!

They have 43 spectrum licenses, four of which have an associated lease. You can find specifics on the FCC's buggy spectrum dashboard. They have eleven BRS licenses, no EBS. They have seven AWS-1 licenses covering CMAs 157, 203, 256, 683, 684, 685 and 686. The remaining 25 are PCS.

Yeah, I get what you're saying and that does make sense. The only thing that I can think of is that maybe they're trying to give incentive to those on non-LTE/World phones to upgrade. That's certainly not of any comfort to a consumer such as yourself. I don't know about the yahoos that they have running their social media accounts. Maybe an email where you could explain your grievance in more detail might be a better option.

Lol yeah I remember those days. Hopefully if the US and Cuba continue to progress towards being on amicable terms Cuba eventually will be treated the same as any other international calling destination and not need it's own separate plan.

Brick mason

That makes sense and I honestly think this is where it's going after it's all said and done. Maybe they're doing it this way to iron out wrinkles first or get an idea of usage tendencies. One thing that's a bit perplexing is why they don't just go ahead and make Softbank's network in Japan like native coverage by default (at least for those with W-CDMA/LTE capable phones).

It came out in mid-June. Why is it hilarious though? If one has friends and family in Cuba there are certainly more expensive options. For instance, 20 minutes with AT&T Mobility would be $29 ($1.29/min.) including their $5/month World Connect add-on or $35.80 ($1.79/min) without the add-on; VZW would be $28.80 ($1.19/min.) with their $5/month Value Plan add-on and $39.80 ($1.99/min.) without the add-on. I don't think that $10/month for 20 minutes ($0.50/min.) and then $0.70/min. after the 20 minutes are used is such a bad deal comparatively.

Taco Stand

Sprint Open World Roaming includes calling and texting to Mexico and Canada for $0.00.

Swap on the fly while outside of the US? No, I don't *think* you could do that, but I'm not sure. If you mean while still in the States before you leave, I switched to Open World this morning and I just checked the OLAM and the option to switch back to Global Roaming is there.

Everyone has to do their own calculus to do what's best for them. Having a choice is a good thing though. Personally, I see myself being in more Latin American countries in the near future than European or Asian countries. Even if I were to someplace like Spain, for instance, it might still be worth it to me to pay a fairly reasonable rate for high speed speed data rather than ride ~64 kbps for free. Let's say I was in Spain for two weeks, if I were to use 10 GB high speed data (which I don't see how I could) that now would cost me $300. That's not going to hurt me. Under the old system before IVR, Open World, the new Global Roaming, etc. using that much data would be close to $200K. That's a mortgage! So $300 for HSPA, HSPA+, LTE, whatever it is seems like a relative bargain. Again though, everyone has to do the math for themselves