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  1. NewYorkCityBloke
    Added it to my $50 a month iPhone plan. Sprint needs to automatically add this to every account and tout the hell out of it.
  2. NewYorkCityBloke
    I don't think many people care about "who has the most subscribers." Sprint needs to keep improving the network and pointing out the big single-line price differential -- including versus T-Mobile's plans -- and they'll keep getting better. I want to see a LOT more ads touting the $50 Unlimited Everything iPhone plan... that always raises eyebrows when I mention the price (especially compared to what you get from the others for $50). Ultimately, profitability is more important than selling lines below cost. A lot of those T-Mo gross adds are garbage lines pushed out at $10 per month on a family plan. ARPU at T-Mo has to be taking a big hit, and I cannot imagine their present course is sustainable. Their network is slowing majorly in NYC and other big markets with all these new adds, and with Legere signaling that he doesn't have the cash nor willingness to raise cash to buy new spectrum, I have to believe they're going to hit a wall sooner or later. Already, some previously-committed T-Mo customers I hang out with ask me how I can make calls in venues where they have no signal. That 800 MHz EVDO may not be a speed demon, but it works with rock solidity in places where T-Mo has no signal at all (or only a bar of 2G voice). Add in the fact that it's $50 a month, and they start to say "hmmmm."
  3. NewYorkCityBloke
    True. Plus, WiFi calling disables cross-device integration with your iPhone (like the ability to text or receive phone calls on a connected Mac or iPad).
  4. NewYorkCityBloke
    I bring more good news in NYC. Last week they must have flipped a switch to new backhaul in the Wall Street area. Speeds that had been averaging 1 Megabit/second are history... I have been consistently getting 10+ now. Not quite the 30 or so I'm getting this weekend in Florida, but still a huge improvement. I'm generally beating speeds and pings from AT&T and T-Mobile iPhones with my Sprint 6.
  5. NewYorkCityBloke
    If that's the case, and this is a known issue, they need to update their coverage map to show an LTE dead zone for the area that's undergoing serious problems. Showing it as "Spark certified" is misleading IMO.
  6. NewYorkCityBloke
    Hmmmm... any idea on when the optimizations will be completed? I don't want to leave, but I can't function with high-latency, high jitter low-speed data...
  7. NewYorkCityBloke
    Hard to see how they can be "excellent" in NYC if they're not functioning in Wall Street. Wall Street isn't some minor far-flung area. I'll do some more speed tests tonight -- I'm going to be dining in the Seaport and doing some shopping near the WTC. Will report back with my findings. PS -- Didn't think of posting photos from my OneDrive. Smart idea. I'll post some screencaps the same way.
  8. NewYorkCityBloke
    Hey there guys. I'm new to Sprint and work downtown near Wall Street. Just started using my new iPhone 6, and was horrified at how bad the "Spark LTE" performance was in the Financial District. First, I checked to make sure I was on Band 41, and Fieldtest confirmed that indeed I was, with 20 MHz of juicy bandwidth (I wanted to post a screenshot but I cannot figure out how). It says I'm on Band 41, with a DL freq of 39991 and signal strength of -111 (which seems a little wimpy). Then I ran a speed test on a local server using Spark LTE. I got horrific latency, poor download speeds, and horrific upload speed... I literally cannot send an MMS message with LTE on. A 144 ms ping, a 2.59 mbps average download time, and 0.15 mbps upload (not a typo!) Testing EVDO for comparison, performance is generally better with the LTE radio turned off! I got a 61 ms ping, 0.4 mbps download (not great) and 0.85 mbps upload (fast enough to send picture messages at least). Is this typical for Sprint in downtown NYC? If so, the phone is going back today and I'm off to T-Mobile. Checking Sprint's map, it promises full Sprint Spark, and a few weeks ago when I checked, this area was "Spark Turbo" certified... this seems awfully misleading if "Spark Turbo" is providing only this level of performance in the center of the global finance industry.
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