kgor93

I've been using this for about a month as my main internet connection.  I've mostly used the Franklin R850 it came with and the signal strength is pretty low but I get about 8Mbps down 2Mbps up most of the time.  It also supports IPv6, which is useful for me.  I used it for a little while in a Mofi 4500 SIM4 V2 and it seemed to work except I didn't get IPv6 addresses and I was not sure if Sprint would cancel the line for using an unapproved device, so I put it back in the R850.  The Mofi was definitely faster and had better signal strength and since it has external antennas I could probably increase that significantly with some better antennas.

Nice. I ended up picking up https://4gantennashop.com/ rural america plan. $65 a month but T-Mobile is way faster than Sprint in my area. Like 50 Mbps vs 15 Mbps. Hope more people use the Calyx plan. Bargain for rural users.

You iPhone 7 owners might want to read this, seems Apple wants the field to be fair. http://www.phonearena.com/news/Apple-is-throttling-the-Qualcomm-modem-in-Verizon-and-Sprint-iPhone-7-for-parity-with-slower-Intel-modem-model_id87984

 

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Well that's BS. Companies shouldn't be able to artificially limit devices for political reasons.

I remember reading an article about this, the Calyx Institute (which does a lot of good work with Internet privacy and encryption) announced that members who join their $500/yr Contributer membership level will get 1 hotspot with unlimited Sprint data for 1 year. This works out to $41.67 a month, and every year after the first is $400 a year, or $33.33 a month. This might be quite attractive to rural members who are looking to cut costs. Plus the donation is tax-deductible. Has anyone taken them up on this offer?

Why do you imagine Claure being unsatisfied.

I've had all 4 carriers. Sprint is a distant 4th and it's not even close. T-Mobile blows them away in my area (Baltimore). Sprint is very slow plus T-Mobile and AT&T have HSPA+ as a fallback network, which is a better technology and faster than CDMA (14.4 Mbps minimum max speed vs 3 Mbps). Verizon is CDMA also but they have the biggest LTE network.

4 years into the LTE transition, it's unacceptable to be falling back to CDMA constantly in populated areas. Sprint is the only carrier that this happens to.

Marcelo Claure and other important executives. If so, I can't imagine them being satisfied with their service. Or do executives of mobile carriers have exclusive VIP roaming agreements with other carriers?

Same here. still waiting

I called to request a domestic unlock for my Sprint iPhone 6. This was the "advanced support" number that is quite good. So they didn't as an IMEI or MEID, but they gave my a 6-digit number that is a "DSU unlock code." They said I can go to any retailer or provider and give them the code and they'll unlock the phone. I've never heard of a code like this before. I'm trying to see if they gave me false information or if it's legit before I make a trip out to an unlock store or carrier store. Has anyone else heard of it?

Bumping this since the Sprint model is now available unlocked and contract free through Apple. So yes, it looks like the unlock does exist in Apple's system. Does this increase the chances of getting another unlocked model if it shows up in the system as unlocked?

How'd you unlock it?

I used this service.

For what it's worth, I've unlocked iPhones via 3rd parties before and the unlock carried when I had to get it replaced. I just don't know if that's the case for Sprint since they don't unlock for domestic use.

Now that it's fully legal again, there are services to unlock Sprint iPhones. I used one that is legit, in that I restored my iPhone and it said "congrats, your iPhone is now factory unlocked." I tried a T-Mobile SIM and it worked perfectly. My question is that should I need to get the phone replaced under warranty and go to the Apple store, will they give me a new unlocked phone for domestic use? Like I said, the phone seems to be completely factory unlocked... Just not through Sprint. The service said it was done through "Apple factory unlock." not Sprint.

For those of you that say there are no unlocked domestic Sprint phones that are sold, there are, just through Apple directly if you pay full price.