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Nifty, my obligatory 10 paq o 3in1's showed up Thursday. I noticed the box on the porch and when I realized what it was had an excellent simplosions when I tore it open at the door.

Partner said mini Xmas morning type action, I was going for piñata without the swift beating. Anyhoo, like mod said up top activation is a chat box away. I had to do the same w a nanosim last week as well. Chat seems to be super effective at handling my issues lately. I even did the survey.

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Whoa...I understood, like, fully half of this. And i'm gonna go out on a limb and say that's doing far better than most. Like, huh? ; o )

Note, this is a promotion.  The SIM costs $9.99 with currently a -$9.99 credit.  That is not likely to last forever.

Don't you love poor grammar?

 

And I fail to see how MVNO users are "going to loot" this deal.  The credit card size holder for all recent Sprint SIMs has carried the MVNO logos, too.  Any MVNO on the Sprint network is using Sprint SIMs.

 

Lastly, when I ordered, I was not logged into my account.  I tried that route, but I could not get all the way through to the point of sale.  Sprint could cross reference my supplied phone number to see that I am a current sub.  However, I do not think that Sprint cares.  Handing out free SIMs even to non subscribers may be a way to entice them to BYOD and port over to Sprint or at least try out Sprint.

 

AJ

I think the NASCAR sponsorship made more sense a decade ago when it was at the peak of its popularity. The lack of rural coverage in NASCAR's core region is also incongruous with the fan market; I'm sure there are lots of famously sponsor-loyal NASCAR fans who'd have signed up for Sprint except it doesn't have coverage where they live or work.

But now I don't see it as a good marketing outlet; the NBA is a smarter play. And I think the soccer sponsorships should give good bang for the buck; NBC has been doing great ratings with the English premier league, even in markets like Norfolk, Atlanta, and Dallas that you wouldn't think of as "soccer country."

Oh here in Atlanta it is major soccer country, for an American city anyway. So many immigrants from Mexico and Central and South America, Europe and Africa..all of whom are deeply passionate about what they might term true "football." Moving here to the A from Cincinnati and having been born and bred in Kentucky, i was very surprised to see the strong support and affinity for soccer here. I guess that is part and parcel of being a rapidly rising global city.

"Ma'am, who is this queen of disco?"

 

 

"Donna Summer"

 

"Now, how do her name appear in the phone book?"

 

"Summer, Donna"

 

"Stretch it out now.  Stretch it out."

 

"Summer Don-na"

 

"Loud and clear now."

 

"Summer Don-na"

 

"Keep going."

 

"Summer Don-na!"

 

"That's right.  Simmer down now!"

 

AJ

Ha..love Cheri O'teri. The best!

To all the recent infighting posts and members in this thread...

 

I have two words for you.  Brush your teeth!

 

Credit to those who recognize that terrible movie reference.

 

But, actually, the two words I have for you are -- simmer down now!

 

 

 

S4GRU probably should and will have dedicated 5G, EHF, and/or VLC thread(s).  Staff will decide.

 

In the meantime, more unnecessary infighting will result in hidden posts and possible disciplinary actions.

 

Got it?  And those truly are two words.

 

AJ

On behalf of Calhoun County, Jawja, I invite you to....(Simmer Donna?)

I have alwaya been a big believer in Sprint but outside of 20 or 30 major metros in which their service is great, everything else seems to have slowed tremendously or stopped altogether. I am worried Marcelo bit off more than he can readily chew. I want to be wrong, however.

I think Sprint had a great asset in the EV-DO/CDMA era that they never really used in rural and it sure could have helped in the Forsee/Early Hesse days.

 

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#agreed

               

That wasn't saying you were a trailer dweller.  LOL.  It was meant to make a point that they may not be planning to include area x or area y in their coverage area this year or anytime in the near future.  It isn't personal; it's business.  It is what it is.  But just because you (or person X) wants coverage does not at all mean that Sprint owes anyone shit.  

 

Especially when they are trying to pay off so much debt.  That was my point.  Nothing personal..at all.

That is very important as it makes them look inferior. You cant claim to be the most reliable with the least coverage.

Incorrect.  Reliability is a measure - withing a given geographic footprint - of how often one can connect to said network on the first try and, more importantly, to remain connected to it.

 

Apples and oranges. 

 

What's more, Sprint isn't claiming those things; Rootmetrics is. 

So that they can cover more people and with that, they are able to have more customers.

 

For me, I can have native coverage in more areas.  There are areas around here where they have "holes" in coverage.   In certain areas, everything around it is covered, but in that area, it's roaming.

 

Now, I don't travel a lot to areas where they don't have coverage, but when I travel to see my parents, I am roaming all the time I'm there.  But that's just me in that case.

True but you are missing my point.  Covering a specific # of POPS simply because magenta is doing it is not necessarily a good reason to do so.  There may be many arguments for moving to cover that many POPS but doing it to simply keep up with the Jones' is NOT a valid reason.

 

Yes, increasing coverage would cover more people, by simple virtue of the definition.  However, analyzing the ROI of a rural tower covering three toothless trailer dwellers and a hog farm might lead the good folks at Sprint to simply skip over trying to match POPs #s and, perhaps more smartly, focus on getting their financial house in order first. 

I'm ready for Sprint to be able to say they cover 308 million people.

Why is that so important? I do not think that is one of Sprint's current goals, plain and simple.

Kudos that Sascha's article was mostly informative and positive.  But, unsurprisingly, he did manage to get in a few digs at Sprint.  The funny part -- and I know that I am not necessarily a representative sample -- but I cannot get my handset NOT to camp on band 41 inside my house and around my neighborhood.  I guess I must live in a wet paper bag with gaping holes in it. And if T-Mobile successfully had played this longterm Nextel, Clearwire, BRS/EBS 2600 MHz gambit that will pay off with a massive swath of "low band 5G" spectrum for Sprint, you know that Sascha would be practically gushing about how smart and strategic Neville and T-Mobile are. Sascha got "swathe" [sic] wrong, by the way.  That is a verb -- to wrap.  It is not the noun -- a strip or portion.  (NSFW) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1L8l3LrzLA AJ

100% correct, start to finish. Hindsight can be a real bitch, eh? Not as big of a bitch as my boss. But, still.

I just hope they still plan to make "nearly all" cell sites triband. There are many urban areas and mid size cities without any band 41 at all. Those areas could seriously use that band's congestion relief.

An important distinction, to be sure.

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Yes. Helping verbs (or lack thereof) aside, we are.

Sprint does have a tower directly across from the development on 16th street adjacent to the fire station. One sector points directly at Atlantic Station, which is why their service is so awesome here. Several of my coworkers have Sprint triband phones as well and report nothing but fantastic service in this area. Even 2 floors down in the massive parking structure that Atlantic Station sits atop, i am consistently on LTE (band 26, of course). So i am just having a great deal of difficulty wrapping my head around your negative experience in this immediate area. Bizarre.

3 months? No, this has been a product of years of hard work by Sprint and we have been reaping the rewards for a couple of years. The two channel CA? Well, about 7 months. But great speeds even on one 20x20 b 41 channel have been present for around 18 months. 3? No. Again, i just do not understand your experience. I ran multiple speed tests in the area tonight and kept my eyes peeled to SCP even more closely than usual just because of our conversation and can only further confirm that my Sprint experience is pretty fantastic and, at times, exemplary. Especially in and around Midtown, West Midtown and Atlantic Station. I'm sorry you have, oddly enough, not been able to successfully replicate my experience.

I am usually on band 41 (clearwire) outside but whenever I go into a store it usually dropped to 3g. I don't think it's a problem with my phone because the other 3 people in my family have the same problem. I've been there during busy and not busy times and the speed was constantly below 2mbps on band 41. I went into the AT&T store there and ran a speed test and they had speeds of 60+. There was a tower right behind the store but maybe Sprint ought jump on it.

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Sprint does have a tower directly across from the development on 16th street adjacent to the fire station. One sector points directly at Atlantic Station, which is why their service is so awesome here. Several of my coworkers have Sprint triband phones as well and report nothing but fantastic service in this area. Even 2 floors down in the massive parking structure that Atlantic Station sits atop, i am consistently on LTE (band 26, of course). So i am just having a great deal of difficulty wrapping my head around your negative experience in this immediate area. Bizarre.

Gotcha. I've never been to Clayton county. Downtown though the speeds are pretty good outside. Do you go inside places often. Inside is where I have problems. Every mall I go into has either 3g or weak band 26. I always drop to 3g at the hawks stadium too. And lastly Atlantic station is stuck on slow clearwire. I can't complain about Atlantic station though cuz tmobile is sub 2mbps which is on par with Sprint. Let me know ur experience indoors cuz I have great outdoor experience but sub par inside experience

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I am in Meehan's at Atlantic Station right now, in fact and this is my speed. Granted i am deep inside the building, in the restroom, which is why i dropped to band 26. But if this is as "bad" as it gets, then we here in the A are in phenomenal shape!

 

Edit: photo would not load. Said file was "too large." But download speed was 4.75 mbps.

Gotcha. I've never been to Clayton county. Downtown though the speeds are pretty good outside. Do you go inside places often. Inside is where I have problems. Every mall I go into has either 3g or weak band 26. I always drop to 3g at the hawks stadium too. And lastly Atlantic station is stuck on slow clearwire. I can't complain about Atlantic station though cuz tmobile is sub 2mbps which is on par with Sprint. Let me know ur experience indoors cuz I have great outdoor experience but sub par inside experience

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Whoa! Absolutely incorrect. I have worked in Atlantic Station for 5 years and am, literally on band 41 almost all the time, and have been for over a year. Even more, i am nearly always on band 41 2nd carrier (2x CA) wherever I go in Atlanta and ESPECIALLY in Atlantic Station. Is something wrong with your phone? I pretty much never, ever fall to 3G.

Thats true but we still have to factor in that band 41 is only on around 40-50% of Sprint sites while 3G is available on all sites and LTE on 90% of towers. They probably factored in all of the sites limited to b25/26 which greatly decresed speeds. The part that concerned me was the 70% of the time on LTE vs Tmobile 81%. I thought more Sprint users use open signal and if they do then that's not good. Sprint said that more people are connected to LTE than that too so its confusion all over the place. I don't know who to believe.

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Yea, it is confusing. So many claims, so many twisted numbers. Ain't nobody got time!

 

But, in all seriousness, you have to take each claim with a generous helping of sodium chloride. The truth lies somewhere in between, usually.

Yeah, this report definitely was a thorn in Sprint's side today.  And, of course, the tech media went rabid with it.

 

With the recent report coming out less than one month ago that Sprint's LTE Plus network is faster on the download than the other 3, I can see how some people might be confused as well.  This open signal report said Sprint's average download speed was less than 7 mbps and that isn't entirely true, depending on the exact metric being employed.  

 

Whereas the Nielsen report measured the download speeds encountered when actively connected to the LTE plus network (thereby removing from the equation any 3G data whatsoever), the Open Signal report sought to identify average download speeds across all technologies across each of the 4 major networks.  I think that is an important distinction that I am sure most of us here are aware of but that the average American certainly does not get.

 

That said, I can understand how many might say that the Open Signal report is more indicative of the true state of the Sprint network as a whole, and they might well be correct.  However, the data speaks for itself from the Nielsen report as well: when connected to a 2xCA enabled site, the Sprint network is faster than the competition.  And that's still a huge deal. 

 

#STILLgettingbettereveryday

im still in 3g no lte at all be thankful lol

This is likely more appropriate for the East KY thread but where in Nicholasville are you? Jessamine County has solid band 25 and 26 LTE unless you are really, really far out there. Is it a non triband phone issue?

This has been happening more and more to me as well. And since I'm a SERO customer I'm routed to Employee Care, which is a different set of employees. Usually it had better availability than regular customer chat, but here lately it's been worse. I don't have to contact too often, but when I do it's maddening when chat isn't available and I'm on hold for 15 minutes on the phone.

I can hardly ever get it to work, either.  Why would they offer a feature that is only randomly available?  I could understand like a M thru F 9-5 type of thing but it seems to be entirely random.  I don't understand it.

 

Does anyone know anything further regarding chat?  Perhaps one of our members who also works for Sprint?  I hope they improve its availability because when it does work, it's quite useful. 

A different plan from someplace else?

 

I didn't know that was even a possibility. Thanks for the info. I do have TEP on my leased S6 Edge but, for future devices on down the line, I may consider other options.

I recently (in December) leased a GS6, and I was told the same thing.  I had to have the TEP on there.  And she told me to call to get it removed.  She said they would ask a lot of questions of why I wanted it removed when I called. 

 

I just went home and removed it online.   No big deal to me.

Why would you not want TEP? Especially on a leased phone.