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2 hours ago, Cardsfan96 said:

Does anyone know what sprint/ T-Mobile will take as a trade in? My mom has a iPhone 6s that I replaced the screen on it also has dings on the corners of the phone. Since I fixed the screen would it be an acceptable trade in?

I sent in a spotless iPhone 6 on a trade-in (not for an iPhone) a few weeks ago (thinking that I'd get 50% off), and Sprint/T-Mobile declared it "ineligible" and gave me 10 bucks for it.  Customer care (after much, much discussion) finally told me that only iPhone 7s and later were still eligible for full trade-ins.

8 hours ago, Grabber5.0 said:

19 hours ago, mikejeep said:

Another beta rolling out now! It should fix the issue with unnecessary GSM and 5G-NR display blocks appearing. If it's still not fixed, please send me diagnostics as usual. Thank you as always!

Fixed for me, thanks.

Me, too. 

I lost the 5G info on my A71 5G. Sent diagnostic. 

14 minutes ago, though said:

"set up"? are you saying that other phones that support the same bands as those can't be set up to run on T-Mo natively?

No, I'm not saying that. What I'm saying (and I'm no expert) is that Sprint/T-Mobile has provisioned these phones to run natively on the T-Mobile network (so they can use T-Mobile 5G), while all other Sprint phones are currently provisioned to run natively on the Sprint network. My Sprint-purchased A71 5G almost never connects to Sprint (even though it says it is a Sprint phone), it is virtually always on T-Mobile. 

12 minutes ago, though said:

Because those are the only phones you can completely (and semi-easily) disable Sprint bands on?

No, because these phones are set up to run natively on T-Mobile, even though they are sold by Sprint. 

Just now, mideastbeast said:

Interesting. Thanks for the info. I thought the phone only worked on TMobile's network? I'm just going by what the Sprint site says. I'm used to the double-tap to sleep or wake that LG has. I'm guessing the Samsung doesn't have that? I'd use Nova Launcher (guessing I could get that feature back). Did they let you trade the GS7 to get that price? My father has an old GS7. I'd like to upgrade his line too.

It runs all of Sprint's and TMobile's bands, I've checked with Samsung Band Selector. It's rather unpredictable what carrier you'll be on at any time - it seems to prefer TMO. 

No trade required. (I now have my old GS7 on the special new free Sprint line they offered last month. I use it to track my bicycle rides, because [minor complaint here] the A71 5G is too tall to fit in the phone carrier on my bike. The A71 is significantly larger that my GS7, which itself is an Edge and rather large.) 

I'll jump in. I got one about a month ago, and I am happy so far. It seems to run apps much faster than my aging GS7, and cellular reception in far exurban Chicagoland is reasonable. Battery life is excellent. The cameras are pretty good. My only complaint so far is that it can't seem to decide whether it wants to be on Sprint's or TMobile's network (although both are still rather patchy where I live). With Sprint's outrageous $15/month offer, it seems like a bargain. 

Hudson Hornet

2 minutes ago, briank86 said:

I'm waiting for some good deals on other 5g handsets, like oneplus 8 series, to incentive us to jump ship. I ain't doing it though for a Samsung device, that's for sure. 

Nothing seems to be in the works in the immediate future. I spent about 2 hours over the weekend with sales and "Customer Account Services" (customer retention) trying to get them to give me at least a fraction of the new account/new line discounts on S20s. Nope. They offered me $100/line per line to offset almost $1,900 in extra device costs, would not budge past that. Has anyone done any better, and if so , how did you do it? 

5 minutes ago, dro1984 said:

. . .    As far as phones, I'm being told the only phones now offered on Sprint are ones that are compatible with both networks.    I haven't visited Sprint's website so I can't confirm.   Anyone take the trouble to look?    

They continue to offer a bewildering array of hardware.  It's not possible to tell which ones are or are not T-Mobile compatible.  And at this time, there are virtually no incentive prices for existing customers that I have seen.

11 minutes ago, Grabber5.0 said:

48 minutes ago, bigsnake49 said:

I am surprised that will allow new activations on the sprint network. When will they stop activating devices/SIMs on it?

Until the T-Mobile network is ready to take on all current Sprint customers, I'm sure they'll allow activations, whether they're new lines or device swaps.

An important question is whether Sprint will continue to sell/activate new devices which are not completely T-Mobile compatible?

A second question is whether T-Mobile will offer any incentives for Sprint customers to stay, rather than jump to Verizon or AT&T?  And if they do offer incentives, when can we get them?

22 minutes ago, BlueAngel said:

Let's hope they start migrating capable handsets before July 1st.

Let's hope they announce something soon for those of us who have been sitting on our aging handsets for 2 years waiting for this to get sorted out!!!  My antique GS7's and iPhone are getting crankier and crankier as they wait to get put out to pasture!!!

9 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

Wow.

It's about 🤬 time! This ridiculous suit has dragged on for years too long. 

If . . .  Could have  . . .  Would have . . .  Should have . . .

Sprint, Softbank, and Son could have and should have done many things differently.  If they had, Sprint would have become a different company than it is today.

But they did not do things differently.  So here we are.  Whatever we wish had happened, it did not.

And realistically, there is no practical reason to think that all of these positive things envisioned in this thread will happen if the merger fails.

From the shareholders' point of view, the best thing that could happen today is for Sprint to be absorbed by T-Mobile:  That result will optimize their return-on-investment in the shortest reasonable time.  Otherwise, Sprint will have to spend years trying to recover from its self-made mess, if Softbank will let it recover at all rather than just dumping it. 

And, quite frankly, the fiduciary obligation of Sprint as a corporation is to its shareholders, not to its customers, not to its employees, and not to 1 district and 13 state attorneys general.  So if the merger fails, we should not expect some sort of magical resurgence of Sprint as a viable competitor to the Big 2.  It will not happen, at least in any reasonable time frame.  The shareholders (84% of whom are, in fact, Softbank) will seek some sort of short-term recourse, and we will almost certainly say bye-bye to Sprint as we know it.

6 hours ago, S4GRU said:

If there is no merger, it is not all gloom and doom.  Sprint is a healthier company now than it has been in the past.  It will really come down to how it would play the future competitive landscape and whether having too compete too low on price while building out an expensive new upgrade again ends up being too much in the long run.  There is no imminence of doom.  And there is no guarantee that the other will fare as well, either.

If Sprint keeps improving its network and keeps prices low, it steadily drains money from their competitors too.  Sprint does not have to be perfect to be a disruptor.  And soon there would be no Legere at Tmo.  Who knows how a post Legere Tmo works out in the long run?  No need for dire predictions at this point!  And as a Verizon and Tmo customer also, I can tell you it ain't all unicorns and fairy dust over on the other networks.  People are expecting a huge difference, and for the most part, they find a slight difference. 

We have seen a lot of people come back to Sprint in these forums the past 12-18 months, all saying the same thing.  They expected their digital life to come alive leaving Sprint, and then they just find they get poorer month over month.  Then come back and find the network is even better since they left.

Robert

Hi, Robert

While I see your points, I respectfully disagree with some of them.  Properly managed, Sprint does have the resources to compete successfully.  But the key phrase is "properly managed", and that's where Sprint has shown critical weakness time and time again.

Since Dan Hesse was screwed over in the Metro PCS debacle, and then dumped after Softbank took over, Sprint hasn't shown any signs of intelligent strategic management.  Tactically, they have tried hard to succeed, and have kept up with technology, and have tried to keep up with deployments.  But Softbank's refusal to provide capital (either directly or through 3rd parties), Claure's ham-handed cost cutting,  and Masa's tunnel-vision focus on merger have all combined to put Sprint in a desperate situation.

So I agree with you that Sprint could compete in the future, but I think it is unrealistic to expect Masayoshi and Softbank to actually try to compete.  If the merger fails, I think that it is far more likely that Masa will basically dump Sprint just like he dumped Hesse, and loyal Sprint employees and the few remaining independent stockholders will be left swinging in the wind.  Sprint customers (I've been with Sprint for 20+ years) will also be hung out to dry.  I hope that I am wrong.  Actually, I hope the merger goes through, but if it doesn't, then I hope that I am wrong.  But I'm not counting on it.

7 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

I don’t want to bail out Masa and Marcelo.

Sprint’s bankruptcy fears are planted and overstated by PR teams to promote the merger. People have been saying that for years and it hasn’t happened yet.

I believe it will take a shareholder uprising to set things back on course.

Umm, 85% of Sprint shares are owned by Softbank. I don't think they are likely to support an uprising. 

25 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

I agree.

Personally, I want this merger to fail because as a Sprint Shareholder I was lied to by Marcelo/Masa for years about Sprint. Aside from the loss of competition that I believe will happen with a Merger, since Marcelo/Masa want the merger, I don’t.

I want to see Masa open that checkbook of his and be forced to put some real capex into Sprint. This is SoftBank we’re talking about here and they own nearly 85% of Sprint. That seems easily forgotten when Sprint is referred to as the #4 Carrier.

If the merger fails, Sprint will fail.  Masa has no intention (nor, in hindsight, has he ever had any intention) of actually investing in Sprint.  If the merger fails, he will either sell Sprint off in pieces, or will sell it wholesale to someone like Dish who will run it into the ground (even further than it already has been run into the ground).  Sprint has no future as a stand-alone company. The question will be:  Will Sprint be sold from Chapter 11?

I have hung on this long as a Sprint customer only because I hope that the merger will provide a low-cost path to new phones and decent price plans.  If the merger fails, my only questions will be which carrier I can afford and what phones I can afford.  Sprint will die sooner or later (probably sooner).

The fact is, the states' "anti-trust" case has no legal merit, because anti-trust is under the exclusive purview of the Department of Justice (which has already ruled in favor of the merger) and the Federal Trade Commission (which has never sought to be involved).  All of the remaining states are basically trying to extort New T-Mobile into giving away perks, so that states will drop out like Texas and Nevada did. 

19 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:

Which the Judge can decide on

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Or which could be settled by the parties involved.

5 hours ago, though said:

This is wrong.

5 hours ago, Tengen31 said:

Very wrong.   .  .  .

3 hours ago, Flompholph said:

.  .  .

Complaints have nothing to do with average data usage and where that data is used. Sorry to brake your bubble but people measure this stuff and write reports on this. But I guess the new mantra is to say something enough times or loud enough then it is the truth.

 

Gentlemen, calm down.  You are pushing the limits of civility.

1st, this discussion really doesn't belong in this thread at all, which is (at least in theory) supposed to be about the attempted merger, not about the technical aspects of bands and FDD and TDD and all that other technical stuff.  There are other threads for that.  It would be nice if we could stick to the topic.

2nd, even if we do discuss the "technical stuff", you are blurring your arguments.  There are at least 2 major aspects of Band 41 uplink which come into play here:  Time-division allocations and signal propagation.  In an ideal, strong-Band-41 signal situation, Sprint's roughly 5:1 time slice allocation is adequate for the vast majority of mobile users, as it is (for example) on my Comcast wired connection, which runs at a ratio of about 10:1.  The bigger problem is that, in the absence of Carrier Aggregation (i.e., when you are ONLY on Band 41), if you are at any significant distance from the tower antenna or you are blocked in any way, your handset simply cannot transmit enough watts of signal to feed the uplink.  So the downlink may be fast and robust, but your anemic little cell phone cannot push back.  Sprint can't fix that, nor can the handset manufacturers, simply because FCC rules (and common sense) limit the transmit power so that you will not fry your brain.

So, can we please return to our irregularly scheduled merger arguments?  Thank you.

13 minutes ago, Brad The Beast said:

 

Thank you. 

9 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

Hmmm... Strange that the paywall went up. I was able to read it.

Apparently you get a few reads, then get blocked. 

And I'm not interested in setting up yet another password enabled account that I will hardly ever use, even though it's free. 

15 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

Sprint CEO: Executive leadership decisions for New T-Mobile 'nearly done,' planning for 'day zero' underway

Story is behind a paywall. 

1 minute ago, tyroned3222 said:

I guess only 20 million handsets are capable of it .. most newer phones are .. most older ones can’t


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The question then is, what are they going to do with the millions of loyal Sprint customers who have aging handsets. (I have 4.)(And have been waiting to upgrade until this whole thing shakes out.) 

1 hour ago, techfranz said:

Hello, anyone else not seeing their map results show up on the Sensorly maps? Is it because I am using the iPhone App?

I keep Sensorly open and Map the same trip over and over again.
 

Sensorly appears to have died (see above).