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were you able to order one? I'm on the phone with a rep now that is trying to explain to me what wifi-calling is ... and sell me one of the netgear hotspots Note: I pressed 5, 5, 5, for "other questions" after calling the number above.

Deval, Have any info on the router then?

So is the router available only to iphone customers or not? if the rep was uninformed?

Weird seeing all the BWI complaints, I had never been to BWI until 2 weeks ago. I downloaded 2 movies using Plex Sync to watch on the plane over band 41 sitting at my (Southwest) terminal. It wasn't super fast, but about 8mbps, way faster than the airport wifi. I was bouncing between a sprint and clearwire b41 though, but both were about the same.

No, it is presumably like TMo's cellspot.

Try not to feed the troll, he trolls almost every single thread here.

I was going to call at lunch but I pretty much expected this. Sprint and its CS reps are rarely in sync on new things.

Has anyone given Sprint a call yet to see if they could order the router or get some info on it?

Thanks Robert for the insight to the decision. I should have clarified, I got 1.2mbps down and 3.9mbps up this morning when I left his place at 8am, the lower speeds had nothing to do with TWC being out and people jumping on Sprint LTE, my critique was more that a highly populated downtown metro area was being covered by a single, obviously saturated b25 carrier, why? Backhaul? Permits? VZW, ATT, and as much as I hate to say it, hell even TMo do not have this problem there. I spend much of my time in rural NC where I am seeing more and more excellent b26 coverage and speeds, places where TMo, sometimes even ATT have 2G! But why, why, can't Sprint get the population dense areas covered adequately, when the other 3 already have, TMo even just in the last 6 months. We have b25, b26, and b41 and arguably less subscribers, something no one else has to their advantage?

Sad story, for myself and other Sprint fans. Last night I was at a buddies apartment in the heart of downtown Raleigh. A gathering of 25 or so people to watch the NC State vs Louisville game. He doesn't have cable so we were just going to stream the game from NCAA.com via his computer, no big deal. Problem: TWC internet went out 15 minutes before tipoff. Crisis. So I suggest "Hey I have unlimited LTE and know you are on a 2GB data plan with VZW, I'll just turn on my hotspot and that'll get us by" I rarely/never use the hotspot on my phone, and I don't like people that abuse it with unlimited data, but I think this is a good case to save the party. I looked at my phone, -77 dBm on b25, should be more than enough to stream the game, right? Nope. He loads the website after he connects, but video wont load. He disconnects from my hotspot and I do a speed test, 0.63 mbps down, 4.8 mbps up. Disappointing. I did multiple airplane mode toggles to try to get on b41 or hell even b26, not knowing if either was live at his house, nothing, only b25. Long story short, he saved the day by using his own VZW hotspot on his phone where he was getting 28mbps down and burned through 1.1 GB before the internet came back on just before halftime. Sprint has made excellent strides in Raleigh in the last year, but this was downtown. I should've had B41, a single b25 carrier obviously cannot support the downtown of a major metro area even on off-peak times. Issues like this must be addressed if Sprint want's to seriously compete. I had about the best signal you could ask for, full bars, looked nice on my phone, but performance was abysmal. Sorry for the rant EDIT: Thanks mods for moving my post from the general section to the Raleigh section. While my post was about Raleigh, my concerns, and based on all of the observations of others I read here, are not limited to Raleigh. I was more ranting/pointing out Sprint's weaknesses and what they need to do in general to be able to compete with the VZW/ATT's of the world, maybe I didn't make that clear enough. But the Sprint critique will get a lot less visibility here

Including 1x? Because it says roaming for voice. If so, will my N5 connect to LTE without 1x? I thought no for eCSFB Edit: Whoops sorry, misread your post. Got it.

Just slightly NNE of Louisburg NC.

I'm heading to an area this weekend that is listed on the coverage maps as being "Fair" Spark LTE, but the entire area is listed as off-network roaming if you switch to the voice tab, like no native coverage within MILES. What am I to expect with my single-path eCSFB device? And what would cause this? Could it be a map error?

I should have clarified, nearly complete coverage in the Greenville area. However Sprint has the majority of Eastern NC covered well. Looking at the Sprint coverage map, Conetoe is where my family's farm is. Minutes from Bethel, but yes Bethel is listed as roaming, you are correct. I have not been to Bethel itself in several years. I can confirm however that weak b25 and good/very good b26 is in the Conetoe area mere minutes away. B26 was just added in the Oct/Nov timeframe as it was not there at the beginning of the hunting season, but showed up several weeks in, not sure if the maps have been updated to reflect this increased coverage. I was able to delightfully stream college football via WatchESPN perfectly while sitting in a deer stand in the middle of no where, on Saturdays in the second half of the season this past fall. 3 years ago phone calls and texts were unreliable/impossible in the exact same place and data was impossible.

Yes TMo is worthless in Eastern NC. I'm from Greenville and my family owns a farm near Bethel. Greenville is a large city, Bethel is super rural. TMo has 2G only in the entire area, Sprint has nearly complete LTE coverage, including some B41. TMo isnt any good until you get as far west as Raleigh. A friend of mine used to sell TMo in Greenville and just recently moved to Wilmington and still works for TMo. He never had problems getting sales though, people saw the commercials, came into the store, and signed up, never asking about LTE, just assuming they had coverage in the area, and he got his commission whether those customers ended up happy or not. Their marketing and spin is top notch.

Thanks AJ. Seems odd for CWW to spend all the money to do this when they could probably easily get by with only the LRA band 13 deployment, but fine by me! Here's to hoping for b25 and b26 deployments to start in the area soon and for the RRPP to kick in for us Sprint users.

Question about the RRPP program. Carolina West Wireless is apparently partnering with both Sprint in the RRPP and Verizon's LRA program. I'm currently in a CWW only area, no Verizon, no Sprint native coverage. CWW already partners with sprint to offer pseudo-native 1xrtt and EVDO coverage, they did not used to have a 3G partnership with Verizon in this area. This caused my girlfriend's iPhone to used to always be roaming, while I had great 3G signal. However today, it appears that CWW has deployed LTE on band 13 as part of VZW's LRA program, so her iPhone has excellent "Extended LTE" in an area she had barely any signal in the past. How will this work in regards to the RRPP? Will compatible Sprint phones be able to "roam" on CWW's band 13 deployment? Will CWW deploy all bands (13, 25, 26, and maybe 41) and Sprint customers only be able to roam on Sprint bands? Why would CWW do this? Why not just stick with band 13 and give their customers a much more robust network (Verizon's) when they are traveling? Saving a ton of money by only deploying Verizon's panels instead of Verizon's and Sprint's. Could this be a sign CWW is abandoning RRPP in favor of LRA? We frequent this area often, and Sprint always had the upper hand over Verizon and I boasted about it a little but now the tide has turned to Verizon's favor

What phone is that that picks up LTE so quickly when moving in and out of coverage? Or was airplane mode being toggled? I swear the nexus 5's LTE scan timer is upwards of 20 or 30 minutes, very frustrating to hit a cell edge and drop to EVDO, returning to LTE coverage mere seconds later but having your phone camp on EVDO for the next 20 minutes.

$2-$5 a MONTH!? Then WHY THE HELL am I paying ADT (they use AT&T I think, but still) $50/mo for a security system over cell when the land line version is $23!!! lol

I think wholesale means MVNOs that use Sprint, but I could be wrong. If so, that isn't great financially, they pay very little to use the network.

I've had similar experiences in the last 6 months. My girlfriend has VZW through a family plan with her parents and siblings, yet when we went to their cabin in the mountains, I had "native coverage" full bars 3G from Carolina West Wireless, she was No Signal/1 bar 1xrtt depending on how she held her phone. At NC State games where we are almost every weekend this time of year I now have glorious, fast, band 41 - while her Verizon LTE cannot load google.com. The rank in Raleigh for everyday usage is still Verizon, ATT, Sprint, Tmo, but the gap is narrowing, and at events where capacity is a problem and band 41 is available, I make it a mission to show everyone how much better Sprint is. But Sprint still needs to do a lot of work optimizing b26 here to take the crown, and getting b41 in a few more places like the concert venues and downtown.

C'mon. I'm a tech savvy guy, software engineer, and have to have the best internet/tech available. All my friends know this. When I tell them I have Sprint they ask: ".........why? Sprint is so slow and awful? you use Sprint???" None of these people have ever had Sprint, few even know what internet speed they are paying for at home, I'm likely the only person they know that has Sprint....but they know Sprint is slow, just based on what they read. My answer: "It's way better than it used to be, I need unlimited data, and I like the direction the network is heading in, you should give them another shot." Their response: "No thanks, I'll stick with my overpriced, 2GB capped Verizon data plan, at least it's fast and I can use it when I NEED it!!!!!!111!!!" --- Even if they typically use ~500MB a month.

Any word on a #NexusForLife promotion? $80/mo for a new nexus every year is probably the only way I would give up my N5 and get an N6 this year.

I work at NetApp, we hate EMC, don't confuse the two of us! I can confirm also seeing b26 in the area, all around 540 and brier creek too.

Do you mean the NetApp and Cisco buildings?