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Seventh largest city? Where are you?

If you want a phone that works on Sprint and other GSM carriers get a nexus 5.

We are talking about customer perception and some people only have Sprint's signle band LTE service available. Would it been nicer to have everybody on Tri-band devices? Yes but we don't.

People see that TMo can deliver higher speeds with their LTE device while Sprints can't (single band). Most people forget that the average consumer is not very well educated and sees LTE as a speedy service. People hear the advertising from TMo and see what Sprint offers. Sure, TMo is not telling them that their coverage sucks outside the cities and many find out when it is too late.

In theory, speeds should improve even for single band devices, because band 25 will be less congested with tri-band phones connecting on band 41 and 26, freeing up space on 25. 

I went with the Well Fargo credit card plan as well, I applied for that card just for that reason, and my Sprint bill is the only thing I charge to it. 

One thing to consider, if my phone breaks, I need an immediate replacement, I can't go for days without a phone while it's sent off for repair. For this reason, I'll probably always keep my Nexus 5 as a "spare" phone so if my primary phone breaks and needs to be sent in for repair, I'm not without a phone while I wait. 

I got approved for the extra battery after getting this on opening day. They denied me so I said pretty please so they said ok. I'm not kidding either. LoL.

 

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I'm in the same situation, so I'll try asking nice too when they deny me.

There have been many times on Sprint that I've been unable to even stream a Spotify song, and being we are almost in 2015, it's pretty lame to still see "3G" on my phone 75%+ of the time in the nations 7th largest city. I've often saying screw it and switching to Tmobile, in fact I pay for their $30 prepaid plan on my Nexus 5 as kind of an extended "test drive."

But I haven't switched, for the following reasons:

1. I see improvements in Sprint's service weekly, both actual experience, and what is posted to this site.

2. I like to travel and my T-Mobile prepaid phone often has zero bars when I'm out of populated areas. Not even 2G, just notta, nothing.

3. My co-workers have zero bars in at my work on the 1st floor, this is somewhat offset by wifi calling but it still sucks.

4. I don't want to give up unlimited data. Kind of useless now with speeds below 1mbps, but I believe as Spark comes online, unlimited data will be awesome.

5. I never drop calls on Sprint. I mean never. My brother is on Tmobile and says he drops calls all the time on the freeway. Sprint calling has been solid for me.

Seems like a minor cosmetic issue. My Samsung GS3 developed a similar crack and it never bothered me.

Sprint is definitely listening on social media, especially twitter. Tweeting them about a local tower issue caused them call me up on the phone and request more information.

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Suddenly all MMS text messages are going to my gmail account.

Are you guys on TMO seeing VOLTE work? Can it now handoff the call from wifi to volte as promised? My brother has a G3 on TMO and says he isn't seeing any VOLTE, but I thought it was supposed to be rolled out now to all their newer phones ?

thanks for the info.

Anyone thinking about trading for a Note 4 when it comes out ?

I owned a Netgear R7000 Nighthawk.. $200 AC wifi router. Ended up returning it because I would experience random outages on the 5ghz radio. My phone would still show that it was connected to wifi, but there was no internet access and I could not ping the 192.168.1.1 address of the router. After a few minutes, it would start to work again. It did this several times a day. I found a guy on youtube who had the exact same issue, during the demo/review he was doing. Netgear may good sometimes, but their R7000 is junk, and I would go ASUS if looking for a high end router..

I've always believed that the best range extender is another AP flashed with DD-wrt. It can run in WDS mode or be a wifi client, many options. The best way to blanket the house with wifi is if you can pull a cat 5/6 cable between the wifi routers, and set them up with the same SSID but on different wireless channels. Your client will connect to whichever one has a stronger signal. Added hassle of pulling a cable, but if it can be done, it's worth it, if not, run in some kind of repeater mode.

Make sure you get an 8 channel DOCSIS 3 modem, like the SB6141 people recommended..  Time warner should have a web page detailing their supported models, obviously make sure whatever you buy is on this list. 

As for router, spend $99 and get the T-mobile cellspot..  The will sell it to non-customers, and it's the best deal going for an AC router.

Put the apk up on Dropbox and pull it down to the phone with chrome, then just install it. No adb needed.

Buying the router (obviously discounted for T-Mobile customers) to flash it and not use it for it's intended purpose seems like a scumbag move to me.

 

I mean geez, you can get a used AC-66 for like $100-125 on eBay. No reason to ruin the promotion for T-Mobile customers that actually have a use for it.

T-mobile has made it clear that the router is for sale to anyone who wants to pay $99 for it, which is a great deal and anyone in the market for an AC router would be stupid to not strongly consider it.  Also t-mobile did not attach any conditions of use to the router for people who buy vs lease, so there is no issue. If T-mobile wanted only their customers to buy it, they could easily limit sales to people with t-mobile accounts.  I think it's a smart move, not a scumbag one.   I'll buy it and use it for anything I want, it's an awesome deal on a great router. 

That defeats the purpose. Reports indicate that this is just an Asus 802.11ac router running T-Mobile firmware to prioritize QoS for packet switched voice. Flashing alternative firmware is beside the point -- unless you are just trolling for a free router.

 

AJ

If this tmo WiFi router can be flashed to dd-wrt I'm in for one, even at $100

I want to get hangouts to stop ringing on every computer where I'm signed into chrome. Never found a way to turn that off.

Johnny is correct, iPhone 4life is a 2 year contract scam ...

 

... Except that you don't pay anything up front, pay less for hardware, oh and the service plan is also less (buy about 35 bucks) than a contract price.

 

So yeah :-/

People that go for the iPhone for life plan are the same people who lease a new car every 2 years.

Insightful interview.

http://www.cnet.com/news/t-mobile-ceo-on-passing-sprint-put-a-fork-in-it-theyre-done/

Sprint should notify all Galaxy s4 (Single band) owners to go into the closest corporate store and exchange for the s4 spark and the same goes for s3 owners.

 

I know eventually these people will upgrade but you have some people who keep their same phone for years.

 

Just a suggestion

I want to get their AC wifi router even though I don't have a postpaid plan. It's still worth the $100 pricetag to upgrade my old N router to an ASUS.    Haven't seen any option to buy show up on their website yet. 

Which means you can forget walking out of a building and have handoff work, because TMO almost never has LTE coverage inside a building. It's going to be a race to see if the phone can connect to LTE when you step outside before it loses connection to wifi.