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  1. koiulpoi
    You know, if Sprint service does not work for you, and Verizon service does, you really just need to pony up and switch.
  2. koiulpoi
    I thought the whole point of going after 600 MHz was to get some decent sub-GHz spectrum that works inside the IBEZ. There are a whole lot of people who'll presumably never see the 800 lovin' due to being too close to Canada or Mexico...
  3. koiulpoi
    Heh, I agree, pay me shipping, and I'll send you mine. Reminds me of one time I did a "side-by-side comparison". I was out driving in the absolute middle of nowhere (outside of Portland, Michigan), and had gotten myself lost. Nothing but cornfields, trees, and hills all around me. Not even a house in sight. I looked down at my phone (at the time, was an HTC EVO 4G LTE, which as we all know gets, ah, mediocre to bad reception), and it showed a single bar of 1X. I whipped out my Tom-Tom from the glove compartment, and started directions to "Home" using both simultaneously. As the Tom-Tom took four minutes to actually get a GPS lock, the phone won - but only barely.
  4. koiulpoi
    Oh, I see. That's odd. Have you ever had that feeling where you just walked into a room full of people completely unlike yourself, and have a sudden overwhelming urge to turn around and shut the door behind you?
  5. koiulpoi
    Tier 1 Tech Support and Store Reps do have access to a tool called Network Pinpoint that allows them to notate an address or cross-street as problematic. Have them use it if you're having troubles. If somebody tells you there's no issues in an area you're having issues, they likely just don't know how to use the tools provided. Sprint actually has some decent automated network examination tools - but almost nobody is trained on using them, and even fewer (outside of OKCQC and Erricson) actually know how to use them at all. Likely, they're just pulling up the list of open network events in your area, and if they don't see any, they just say "welp, it's totally okay" because they don't know any better. A site could be reporting a block rate of 60%+ and they'd never see it, because a ticket hadn't yet been opened. Of course, this leads to customer frustration as they're told different things by different people, and don't know who to believe.
  6. koiulpoi
    Yes, but it's usually a spectacularly bad deal for you, heh. $36 activation fee, not refundable after day 3. $35 restocking fee that most stores will charge you no matter what. So, yeah, if you feel like paying $71 (plus prorated charges for the service itself), sure. Of course, a credit union discount will waive the activation fee, and being nice to the manager will waive the restocking fee, but that's a lot of making exceptions. They... I don't know? I feel like I should know this. Last sporting event I was at was a college hockey game, which was mostly an excuse to drink and watch people fight.
  7. koiulpoi
    It doesn't have much bearing unless you work in marketing. Then it matters quite a bit.
  8. koiulpoi
    There are so many possible ways that my brain is trying to interpret this, and I'm sure all of them are wrong... so let me just say... What?
  9. koiulpoi
    So, to mildly hijack this thread... I know we're just now seeing multiple bands in use with Sprint; have we seen the ability for the network to initiate a handoff from one band to another? In other words, can the network say "Hey, quit connecting to 1900, there's 2500 around you, scan for that already!" or something similar? Will multi-band devices do this on their own? Basically, I would be worried about devices "sticking" on 800 LTE, simply because it's the strongest (and most readily available) signal, and never handing off to 1900 or 2500, even when available, leading to speeds on 800 quickly degrading. After all, there only ever will be one 5x5 FD-LTE carrier on ESMR 800. With PCS 1900, I know Sprint can add a second LTE carrier in many locations, and with BRS 2500, well, we've got spectrum to spare for the moment.
  10. koiulpoi
    *shrug* You're asking the wrong fellow, in the wrong section of the forums I don't have access to what technologies are accepted on what specific site, any more than you do. I just get emails warning me about things I need to tell the public; a few sites in Greater GR didn't exactly... work... after last night's switchover, so we saw a lot of complaints today.
  11. koiulpoi
    What frequency are they going to be operating LTE on? Certainly not 800; my understanding is that they're leaving iDEN up and running forever.
  12. koiulpoi
    There were a couple new "clusters" of Network Vision 3G, which included a ton of 1X800, that came up in the greater Grand Rapids area this week. It's almost certainly here to stay.
  13. koiulpoi
    Okay, yes, you're right, I'm wrong, you got me, congratulations, here's a prize As she's my sister, she knows that bars don't necessarily represent quality of service, and her reports were that the service worked. She didn't complain that it didn't, and to hear her tell it, she used quite a bit of data. Figured I didn't need to state that, but, here we are...
  14. koiulpoi
    Um? She didn't say "My phone had 4G, but data didn't work!" or "I had a different experience indoors and outdoors". She said "It's the best my phone has ever worked". She said data worked everywhere. I'm sorry if your experience is different than hers.
  15. koiulpoi
    Unfortunately, we are only able to ban the heretics, not burn them.
  16. koiulpoi
    I know that you meant "spread hearsay", but thinking that you meant "heresy" is much more amusing. "The Cult of Sprint will not listen to your heretical lies, foul single-band demon! Those who have seen the true light know of the holy trinity of bands!" Anyways, if this is true, Samsung just lost $650 from me. Oh well.
  17. koiulpoi
    I can make a phone call on my MiFi 500 just fine; it's called VoIP. Sure, that takes a secondary device - but when it comes down to it, the technology for a cellular baseband is done, completed, and ready to go. Putting in microphones and earpieces should be the easy part, and really have nothing to do with the frequency bands a device operates on. I figured you'd come back with this excuse, anyways. The fact of the matter is, you said Which, besides your attacking tone I have already addressed - you said "device". Not "phone". It connects to the same networks in the same way, therefore it satisfies your original conditions. Suggesting that this does not is, well, simply backpedaling. Frankly, I'm willing to drop it, as it actually undermines the rest of your points a bit. It's clear that nobody thought there was "zero" reason to have Tri-Band capabilities. Simply scroll around this subforum for a bit and find posts by various people speculating on it. As for the rest of your post, I find it moot in the light that we both agree that it's disappointing.
  18. koiulpoi
    The MiFi 500? The other Netgear hotspot? The plug-in USB that's Tri-Band? My statements have nothing to do with "complaining" or what's "fair" or not. It has everything to do with a major, flagship device that will sell millions on Sprint, being unable to use a key component of the new network. Which is... like you said... and I said... disappointing. Much like other posters in this thread... I would advise you to not take it personally when people talk negatively about something you like. You're not an iPhone, you (presumably) don't work for Apple, so don't take it personally. Seriously. If you feel offended by people "complaining" and making "unfair" statements about the poor, abused iPhone, you may have some reevaluation you need to do... I know, and you're not changing my mind; I'll keep beating you over the head with 2017 until you agree
  19. koiulpoi
    Aside from the rest of the things this thread turned in to, I certainly hope this wasn't directed at me, even in part. Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk 4
  20. koiulpoi
    Yes, I know. They'll have to, in part, because of a huge number of iPhones being sold that won't be able to use the 160 MHz of 2600 TDD-LTE. Are you seeing my point, yet?
  21. koiulpoi
    Except... in this case, we have new hardware unable to use the new technology. I'm talking about the reality where Sprint's 5x5 FDD-LTE is already overburdened in certain areas, as is VZW's 10x10 FDD-LTE. Data usage is exploding, and not showing any signs of slowing down. The more equipped the carriers are to deal with this, the better. For the record, I'm completely with you that we should have seen Tri-Band versions of devices like the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4, as those will keep selling for quite some time. Can't change the past, best we can do is push people in to a Tri-Band device to give them the best experience. Without a Tri-Band iPhone, I can't do that for people I'd recommend an iPhone for, and it's going to be frustrating. Having fewer options for incredibly popular devices to use isn't a good thing. Sure, it might end up being an "okay" thing, like you said, and it might even itself out. But that doesn't mean it's not disappointing.
  22. koiulpoi
    800 LTE hasn't been spotted anywhere yet AFAIK. It (should) be starting to pop up over the next few months. 800 for Voice is already rolling out in many places in West Michigan, not sure about Byron Center, however. If you become a sponsor (donate a few bucks to help keep the site going), you can see the sites that have been accepted by Sprint for certain technologies. The phones you have now will not work for LTE on 800, but they will work for Voice/Texting (aka 1X) on 800. Your data should work fine at home, however. If you have an Airave, you've got WiFi, right?
  23. koiulpoi
    No no no, that's not what I'm saying. Every user that is stuck on older technologies is a burden on the network. Every iPhone in 2017 that can't use TD-LTE 2600 is a burden on BC 25 and 26. Every iPhone 4S that can't use BC10 in 2017 is a dissatisfied customer stuck on PCS, while everyone around them gets much better service. Sprint store employees won't be pushing the higher end phones for the "hard sell". That's not the reality of selling phones. Sure, I will, but I'm far and away from your average store employee. But most will be saying "the iPhone 4S is FREE!!!" Yes, it sucks. My post was to argue one thing: it matters. It's meaningful, because it's a better customer experience. We can talk back and forth about having to deal with Apple and their supply chains and timing all we want, but in the end, this is a disappointing announcement, for the reasons I said. These phones are going to sell like crazy, and the more phones that can use fewer bands - or even 3G only - the worse off it is for everyone.
  24. koiulpoi
    You know, those saying that it's OK to not have 2500 because it's not rolled out, and/or that the iPhone 6 next year will have it, are a bit off base. You're forgetting that people buy phones on 2-year contracts. You're forgetting that there is a huge market for the "non-flagship" device. That, until September 20th, Sprint will still be selling the iPhone 4, a phone originally from 2010, launched 2011 on Sprint. There are people that will have the iPhone 4 until 2015. If this trend holds, and we sell the 5C/5S for 2 years, that means that we could have people buying them in the end of 2015, using them until 2017. 2017 is a long time to have to support devices that aren't forwards-compatible. It runs pretty counter to the idea of network modernization (and trying to do it as quickly as possible), especially with such a high selling device as the iPhone. It definitely matters, and is definitely disappointing. Let me also point out that, by including the 4S as the "free" phone, we'll have devices unable to use 1XA on 800 SMR until 2017 as well. How fun.
  25. koiulpoi
    How do you type, anyways? You seem to lack the correct, um, fingers.
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