simcha

Wow, expressing my opinion and my experience as a Sprint customer in the East Bay qualifies as a rant and is against community posting guidelines? Really? Wow, I expressed no hostility and I'm amazed at the hostility expressed in your response, to be quite honest. This is the last comment I will make in your forums and I know you couldn't care less. And yes, I realize that Sprint couldn't care less whether or not I remain a customer. That is the precise point I was making. And I actually live here, and I'm involved in the politics here. I know from experience and personal knowledge that Sprint has dropped the ball here with city governments (who aren't any more difficult than any other major cities in the USA having grown up in Chicago, if you want to see real city goverment disfunction then you should explore the mess that is the Chicago city government, but I digress). Since you don't want my input, and in fact you are hostile to it, feel free to delete my account. I never thought that offering on the ground observations would be forbidden here. I'm stunned, actually. Blessings on all your future endeavors. Cheers!

Oakland and Berkeley are the heart of the East Bay. No, Sprint dropped the ball on this one. It didn't maintain the towers properly in Oakland or Berkeley before Network vision and they haven't worked to fix anything during Network Vision in Oakland where I live and in Berkeley where I work. It may be Berzerkeley but... Other companies like Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile have seemed to be able to get all of their proper permits to maintain and build out their networks in Berzerkeley. One would think that Sprint would be able to accomplish the same feat. Instead. I continue to suffer data speeds that are worse than my old dial-up modem from the late 90's. The blame is entirely on Sprint for having done nothing to improve or maintain the network here in a timely manner. Thier competitors have outdone them here in every way possible. It's extremely sad. I've had Sprint since 1998-9. I have never experienced such terrible network issues and such terrible customer "service" in all my years as a Sprint customer.

Yeah, allegedly the East Bay has launched. I have seen no improvement in Oakland or Berkeley. Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay. Berkeley is up there. I don't know what Sprint is doing but whatever it is isn't working here.

P.S. I've been mapping Oakland, Emeryville, and Berkeley, and some of San Leandro and Hayward via Sensorly...

It seems like the upgrades in Oakland have come to a halt for the last few months. I see no new 4G other than what we've seen on the freeways and in downtown. I wish they would do Berkeley and my neighborhood in Oakland because I'm still suffering with speeds that are worse than dial-up. I'm resisting the tempation of jumping ship for Verizon, T-Mobile, or AT&T, all of whom are bettern than Sprint in Oakland and Berkeley. This is unacceptable and I wish I can get out of my contract for free...

Ok, I cant seem to upload any pics from my phone to this site. I cant even find Flash in the market to download that. I'm on an Evo 4g LTE. Anyway, I was just in Jack London Square here in Oakland, CA. I was at Broadway and 3rd. Street and I had LTE. 5565kbps up and 7560kbps down. Ping 65Ms. I sure hope it's faster when it officially launches here. If it's not, that's disappointing on the download side.

Well, my parents are major fruit fanboys. I grew up with Apple computers. I even learned to program in Applesoft Basic. I went to "The Dark Side" in the late 1990's when I worked as a web developer / designer and I had to test my websites to make sure they worked on many browsers, many operating systems, and many different brands of hardware. Quickly, my clients became less concerned about anything that wasn't Microsoft. It made my job easier and it forced me to learn the pc / Windoze environment. Basically, most clients chose to make sure that their websites worked on Windows with Internet Explorer and Mozilla and stopped being concerned about whether or not their websites worked on Apple products / operating systems / browsers. I became less and less familiar with the Apple environment. And I haven't done that work in over ten years so I wasn't around to learn to develop for smart phones otherwise I think that I would have been forced at least partially back into an Apple environment because of the iPhone. But I'm immersed in a completely different career now and I'm only concerned as an end user. I've grown to strongly prefer Android. But that could be because I've been a Sprint customer since 1998 and my first smart phone was an Android because I was with Sprint. I'm glad I've stuck with Android though because I've played with several iPhones and I've found them to be too constraining.

Oh, well it's the Roman Catholic formula for absolution. Lol I absolve you of your sins in the name of the Father....

Ego te absolvo a peccatis tuis in nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti... Amen... Does that help? Lol!

Oh, I don't know. Some of us Android fanboys can be just as bad as the fruit fanboys. Sure Apple produces an inferior product with an inferior ios and an inferior customer experience. But the way some of us go on and on about how evil Apple is are starting to sound like sour grapes. Next someone is going to accuse Apple of getting babies to work on the iPhone assembly lines. If the babies don't meet their daily quota, they'll grind them up and cook their baby fat to render it into plastic used to make hard protective cases. It's not like any of the Android manufacturers are saints. Eeesh... Lol...

My evidence that Clearwire may not be able to hande an upgrade is having gone through the horrific and inept rollout of Wimax. Wimax never worked right here in Oakland. There have been no improvements. My Wimax here cuts in and out. The speeds vary widely from 400kbps down to 3000kbps down and 25kbps up to 100-150kbps up. Even when I'm right next to a tower I might not get a consistent signal or decent speeds. I'm not well-versed in all of the technical ins and outs of all of this. But as a consumer who was promised up to 15000kbps, and never gets close to that, if I can get a signal long rough to make it useful, while watching friends who have Verizon get 7000-12000kbps here on LTE, I'm not at all confident that Clearwire is competent enough to upgrade and make that upgrade seamless, fast, or consistent enough to be useful to me. I hope they prove me wrong.

+1 Yeah, if Sprint could just get their existing network working properly I'd do the jig.

Yes! All ants that invade human habitations must die!!! :-)

Back on topic... Wimax is almost useless by me. I hate Clearwire and I wish Sprint would dump them completely. The Wimax rollout was a disaster. Sprint has some of the blame for that. Clearwire was clearly incompetent to handle Wimax rollout.

Hey, if you're in California like me, you know that the ants here are the Borg. I spray them with Windex. It has ammonia in it and it attacks their skin. They die quickly and you erase the scent tracks. Then I use Grant's Ant Stakes, Ortho Home Defense Max Ant baits, and Hot Shot MaxAttrax Ant Bait 2 around the house. The ants eat the poison bait, take it back to the queen, and kill her and the entire colony. Then I try to find the cracks and holes the ants are using to come inside. I sprinkle cinnamon on the cracks and holes. Ants hate cinnamon and will avoid it. Good luck! Battle on!