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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

    in General Topics

    Posted

    A little off topic, but we might want to consider renaming this thread something like "The New Claure Era Catch-All Thread". The current title is a little specific. Don't get me wrong, this thread is still relevant and serves an important purpose. But it has long outlived the original title.

     

    How about if people post on-topic,  instead of wandering off into other content (such as  TMo). Then the name would still make sense. 

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Your anecdotal observations of the Sprint network are EXTREMELY limited. And then you argue with anyone who has a different opinion of you, even if they travel all around Chicagoland and been using Sprint for years.

     

    Sprint has a good network in Chicago that performs roughly the same or better than its competitors. Regardless of what you saw riding in a car through western suburbs while streaming one weekend in May.

     

    ^^^^^ What he said.

     

    Example, also anecdotal:  The day before yesterday (Sunday) I drove from Crystal Lake, IL, through Bartlett, IL, to downtown Chicago and back (about 120 miles round trip) on Sprint and never lost LTE, except briefly deep inside a restaurant virtually under the Lake Street El structure (and airplane mode instantly restored LTE).  I was even getting 9.6 Mbps down and 11.3 Mbps up inside the Cadillac Palace Theater.  I have used Sprint in Chicagoland for over 15 years and (except for a few weeks during the NV switchover) have had an acceptable experience with whatever technologies were current almost the entire time.  Even while traveling (and I travel over much of the US), my experience has been mostly acceptable, often excellent.

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

    in General Topics

    Posted

    People only have past experiences on which to base their decisions because Sprint won't do a TestDrive like TMO!

     

    Louis Maximus:  Cut the crap.  Your incessant trolling for Magenta is a major pain in the ass.  You insert it into virtually every topic you enter.  Your quoted comment above adds absolutely nothing to the topic being discussed, but then that is a very common thread which weaves through the vast majority of your posts at S4GRU.  I frankly don't give a #### how much you like TMo.  I am here to increase my knowledge about Sprint, not to listen to babbling idiots spout the same irrelevant complaints over and over and over again.  Go away.

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    St. Louis: Completely Off Topic: TV Casting Call

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Totally off-topic, but related to food, which actually is sometimes on-topic: If you are interested in appearing as an extra in a cable network "hamburger taste-off" being taped in St. Louis, please see the Facebook page for "4 Star Casting". No pay, but free food and beer and an opportunity to appear on camera. (The free food and beer part appeals to me!) (Full disclosure: My daughter works for the casting company. This is a legitimate call, not a scam. Sorry, Robert, no fried chicken.) Tell your hungry and thirsty St. Louis friends, 4 Star needs lots of participants. Free food and beer. (Did I mention free food and beer?)

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    Everything 800mhz (1xA, LTE, coverage, timeline, etc)

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

     

    Please post at least some description of the link's topic, first because the link is usually truncated on-screen, and second, so readers have some idea of what they may be linking to.

     

    Something like "Sprint's 800 MHz LTE plans get boost after senators urge State Dept. to pressure Mexico on rebanding".

     

    Thanks.

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    Network Vision/LTE - Chicago Market

    in Markets

    Posted

    Hi everyone,

     

    I was hoping to get some insight from some Chicagoland Sprint users. I left Sprint for Tmobile February of last year and the Tmobile speeds have been great. However, now that so many have jumped ship, my speeds at work are now dismal. I now experience .2-.5 mbps during the workday, where they used to be 7-12 mbps.

     

    My questions for you guys are...

     

    1. Has Sprint rolled out VoLTE in Chicago?

    2. Can I expect to travel throughout Chicagoland (Elgin, Naperville, Lakeview) without dropping down to 3G?

    3. What are the consistent average speeds seen on Sprint these days? This can be broken down by band if need be.

     

    Thank you!

     

    1. (Answered above)

    2. Anecdotal evidence:  My daughter and I drove from Crystal Lake past Elgin, and into the city this past Saturday.  I was on LTE the entire trip, mostly on Band 41.  I never dropped to 3G.  I spent several hours deep in the basement of the Apollo Theater on north Lincoln Avenue, and had various flavors of LTE the whole time (all 3 bands).  My daughter commutes from Crystal Lake to Naperville, has LTE all the way every day.

    3. I can't give specific speeds everywhere, but I see anywhere from 2+ to 30 Mbps wherever I go. 

     

    I would like to see wider implementation of B41, especially in the far Northwest, but from Gilberts all the way into the City, you should get good connections and speeds.  At this time, I would expect TMo to be faster than Sprint in many areas of Chicagoland (although I don't have TMo, and am basing that opinion primarily on postings in this forum and in T4GRU), but Sprint has far more spectrum here, and will likely overtake TMo even in those areas in the near future.

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    Sprint Quarterly Earnings Announcement Scheduled

    in General Topics

    Posted

    The older I get, the more I realize I don't know. When I was 18, I thought I knew everything. [emoji1]

     

    Using Moto X² on Tapatalk

     

    Wait till you get really old -- Not only will you realize how much you don't know, but you will start forgetting the small amount that you actually do know, until you reach the point where .  .  . where .  .  . Drat, what was I saying???

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    Sprint Wifi Calling.....

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Wi-Fi calling is now on iPhone's with iOS 8.3 update that hit today!  Sprint FAQ has been updated. 

     

    http://support.sprint.com/support/article/FAQs_about_Sprint_WiFi_calling/173e331f-8423-453e-93cb-4688f6a91f67#faq6

     

    My daughter (GS5) and her boyfriend (5c) are going to the U.K. in August -- it will be interesting to see how well the international features work by then. (They will, of course, also buy a couple of throwaway phones while they are there).

     

    Out of curiosity, has anyone here at S4GRU actually used Sprint's International WiFi calling?  I would be very interested in your experience.

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

    in General Topics

    Posted

    (For those who don't know, Marcelo's tweet expresses condolences for Andy Butler, a Sprint employee who was one of seven people killed early Tuesday morning when their plane crashed near the Bloomington, IL, airport while returning home from the NCAA Championship game. A sad event.)

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    T-Mobile LTE & Network Discussion

    in General Topics

    Posted

    This thread has become tedious, repetitious, and at least to me increasingly annoying.  Ok, there are Sprint fanatics who don't like T-Mobile.  And there are T-Mobile fanatics who don't like Sprint.  For some people, T-Mobile is good.  For some people T-Mobile is terrible.  For some people, Sprint is good.  For some people, Sprint is terrible.  I get it.  It is no longer interesting.

     

    Some people think Legere walks on water,  Some people think Legere is the world's biggest putz.  Some people think Marcelo walks on water.  Some people think Marcelo is the world's biggest putz.  I get that too.  It is no longer interesting.

     

    As the thread deteriorates into semi-mindless name calling, let's just stop the crap.  If someone has legitimate criticisms (or legitimate praise) for TMo, that's fine.  But, quite frankly, threads with similar vitriol that have "Sprint" in the title have been shut down completely.  I am not a staff member nor am I especially empowered in any way, but I think that I may speak for other Forum denizens who feel that either this thread should get back to the more technical aspects of T-Mobile, or should simply end.

     

    My 2 cents worth.

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    Network Vision/LTE - Chicago Market

    in Markets

    Posted

    I am visiting family near Philadelphia, and had just bought 2 in-laws shiny new Sprint iPhones. Naturally,  tonight, to teach them how to use the new phones,  I tried calling my and my wife's phones,  which are provisioned in area 815. Total failure. We could call them FROM our phones,  but they could not call us. All 4 phones were in the same room. Oh, crud, I am thinking, I just made a huge $900 flub. Bad words were said. I tried reloading PRLs, rebooting, calling Sprint (got a recording saying there was a known issue), etc., etc. Then,  magically,  they began calling  perfectly. Then, I started seeing posts about the outage. My in-laws now question my sanity. [Well, so do I, but that belongs in another thread.] 

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    Network Vision/LTE - Philadelphia Metro Market (including Lehigh Valley/Reading)

    in Markets

    Posted

    You're welcome. That was literally a shot in the dark. I was anticipating you saying you already did it when I originally posted but I'm glad it fixed it.

     

    Sent from my Note 4.

     

    Also, there is a major reported Sprint outage in the Midwest where my phones call home, and I wonder if this has somehow affected trying to call them??

     

    Very strange.  (Plus, my house is about a mile from the newly reported Lake in the Hills Earthquake - Is the Apocalypse upon us???)

     

    (Edit: It was a tiny earthquake.)

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    Network Vision/LTE - Philadelphia Metro Market (including Lehigh Valley/Reading)

    in Markets

    Posted

    Hello, Philadelphia!!

     

    I am visiting relatives in Downington, and yesterday added my mother-in-law & sister-in-law to my Sprint plan with shiny new iPhone 6's, and we are having trouble calling out with them. (Data & text seem ok.)  My GS5 and my wife's iPhone 5c seem to be working fine, but our phones are from the Midwest, so may be provisioned differently.  Sprint Care has a recorded message mumbling something about known issues.  Does anyone here have any insight??  Is there really a problem going on?

     

    Thanks.

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    Now Globalstar wants to use their satellite spectrum for LTE

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Yes, like "the small Chrysler."

     

     

    Damn, that thing is a boat, which probably got 11 mpg.

     

    AJ

     

    With "Genuine Corinthian™ Leather".

     

    I actually rented one for 2 weeks in Washington & Idaho about 1980 (OK, so I'm old).  It got about over 20 mpg, had an amazing and powerful engine, and those "Coreenthian" leather seats were outrageously comfortable.  It was a boat, but definitely a luxury liner.

     

    [Topic?  What topic?  Was there a topic here???]

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