Pillowsplat

Has production slow across the country?

Thanks to Robert and all the good folks at SG4RU. I learned a lot about how cell networks work. New job new cell plan moved over to Verizon.

I have not changed service since 1988. I would never defraud our service men.

In my mind it is a fair question. I thought maybe someone may have insight into a sprint program for such instances.

Heck I even asked why the company didn't have a Sprint deal. Just cause Sprint wrote it in the contract doesn't mean you can't ask. Over those 25 years I have spent $35000 in service and who knows how much in phones to use that service. In my mind. $200 + $350 = $550 for a phone is laden with "wiggle room"

New job. They handle the phone allowance as a corp phone so I will close down my current Sprint line.

My plan was to sell my S3 on ebay and just take it in the shorts cause the breakeven is 3 months.

So my question is has anyone had any success negotiating the ETF down.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

John

I checked the Urbanna 4g a couple of weeks ago but someone must have caught the test signals cause I couldn't get a connection. It looks to be rocking now! Coming in from the west as well. Good news. I was beginning to think our crews went to a different market.

No worries my wireless brother! We will have our network soon.

Not whinning and I have also been with Sprint since Sprint Spectrum days and a little Ericson always out rubber antenna. Say 1989. I'm a loyal customer. A good customer is the one who gives you feedback and a chance to correct your service.

I read the rules.

My comment was directed to the recent flurry of central MD comments. It's not whinning it's reality.

Results are what matter.

We had some great progress in the Baltimore / Washington / Shentel area. Results have diminished of late.

Could be a bunch of things.

You never know who reads these posts. Can't hurt to provide a pix with facts.

Just so you don't think we are whiners in Frederick.

Does anyone know how long the search for LTE interval is on a S3. Every 30 seconds? Every 30 minutes?

Sorry

Not sure what rehashed means. I get the different carrier thing.

Signal check says EvdoA (sprint)

And you can see the speed test sheet.

The big glaring thing for me is no Ehprd on the speed test.

Frederick should come online (4G) shortly according to Sprint. May have nothing to do with it, but 3G in Frederick is almost unusable for me. It's not that Sprint customers in Frederick just WANT 4G, I can safely say that we NEED it.

Ok I was getting a great physical signal in Frederick md. Checked on my signal check pro

1xrtt - 68 dbm

Evdo - 61 dbm

But I couldn't get a Web site, speed test, s4gru to load up.

So I called *2 to ask for help more to establish a ticket with sprint.

Here is what the CS guy suggested.

He went thru making sure my mobile and data settings were correct. They were.

Checked my zip code/network functions. Ok.

Turned off wifi. Ok but it's always on. Then he said let's take it off LTE / cdma and put it on cdma . Eeeek that's sacrilegious! I did which rebooted. He called back.

Now try a Web site. Bam worked.

Checked data

My speed test was 1.1 mb down. . 7 up.

Ok network gurus splain that one.

Tower south of I 70 near Rt 75 in New Market Md 21774 had guys in the tower. I'm pretty sure this tower already had a NV upgrade.

New Market Md to Leesburg VA was very spotty with data. Slim to none. Connections seemed normal. Maybe we are getting close.

So we were not dreaming. Sprint has done either a bad job of accurate planning or a bad job of implementation. I find it hard to believe they will get back on schedule.

Shentel seems to have it figured out let them implement.

Way back in this thread someone mentioned an Airave tech help number. I saw you talked with sprint. My experience the Airave guys are very good. Ask for Airave guru. Describe your problem. Then let him trouble shoot. They know the AR / networks / phones very well. They had to flash my Airvanna 2.0 to unsuck things. I have always had success with them. You unit may be toast. At this point you need a pro to trouble shoot it step by step.

Ropes in the tower about 5 miles East of Mt. Airy MD on South side of I-70.

Crickets......

Hi Robert. I noticed your 12-30-2012 update. Thank you. I checked the Mt Airy MD tower that is accepted as 3/4 G. I suspect they have not opened it up to the public yet.

Well if it involves climbing the towers the weather has not really been acceptable conditions to safely get up there.

Which bet would you have taken? The Redskins in the Playoffs or Sprint rolling out the Washington market by the end of the year?

1st off a good salesperson works by crafting his opening to uncover his potential customers needs. Asking questions to uncover his Potential customers needs. Then a Great salesman WILL craft his 'questions' and 'close' to sell the things that make his company the most money. A major part of successful sales is the Gross Profit margin. A sales person has to move product and incorporate bottom line into his thought process.

I expect management doesn't tell its sales people how the deals are crafted between Sprint and Apple or Sprint and Samsung. But common sense would lead you to believe Apple's deal is not as good as Samsung's per unit to Sprint. Manufacture incentives on a specific phone probably doesn't make a lot of sense at the store level. The fact that the customer walked into your store is a huge buying signal. He/She has probably decided on Yellow. The Phone is just the tool to use yellow.

As for this incident. I have fat fingers. The salesman was probably doing him a favor by suggesting a bigger screen. Now maybe "since your a FAT SLOB you need a S3" might not have been the preferred ass kissing. The salesman probably just had to deal with the typical front line retail horseS^^%$ and snapped.

You are right Muffin man. EVO 3d was the one that stalled. Not the EVO 4G. Plus I don't root my phone so I have to rely on the carriers releases.

I would have to chime in on nova46's comments. They really stalled out on the EVO 4G. It is one of the reasons I went to the S3 vs the EVO LTE

Once my S3 connects to a 4G towers is that stored in the phones memory somehow or does it rely on the LTE scan cycle. Does anyone know the duration of that scan.

Also when turning on airplane mode do I need to wait the 10 seconds for airplane icon olto come on.?