sprintfans

Tmobile starts with NYC and sprint starts in middle of nowhere. Someone has got the priority right.

Hi

I live in Colts Neck Nj. I have HTC evo original and after hurricane sandy my phone no longer has 3g in Colts neck. The only network it connect to is 1x and it loses it every few seconds.Power has been restored pretty much everywhere around our town does anyone know what could be the issue? Is there a way to report this to Sprint?

does it support clearwires planned rollout of TD-LTE?

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How explicit they have to be? No throttling means no throttling

I believe Sprint reserves the right to throttle but does not actually do it. I believe I saw an interview with Dan Hesse where he talked about this.

 

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yes I remember that and there was immediate followup from Sprint to clarify Hesse did not mean smartphones.

Also he is receiving weird Test text messages from ATT after his phone calls to ATT this morning which he has no clue why ATT is sending them.

Wow, I would be getting that Supervisor's name and escalating to at&t upper management, along with contacting dan at sprint dot com (Dan Hesse's office) and reporting what at&t is doing. While there is no corp policy to spread lies, this should be nipped in the bud ASAP.

He has contacted ATT and told them customer services supervisor lied. He is also planning on contacting Huffington post.

My coworker just received text from ATT they will be throtlling his account as he is above 3gb. He is obviously not happy and checked logs there was 500mb+ usuage at midnight which he has no clue how that happened. Anyways he wants to move his 4 lines to Sprint and ATT escalated the matter to supervisor. Here it gets interesting..supervisor told my coworker Read fine line at Sprint.."They also throttle after 5GB".

wow did not know ATT would resort to lying to keep customers.

If they did merge, maybe this would be the new logo? Or not.

Nice

http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/28/technology/vodafone-philipp-humm-tmobile/index.htm

last para..i will try to find another article that mentioned interest in Sprint/Metropcs

Old news!! Sprint nor T-Mobile are interested in a merger or buyout!!

This is not old news...read any article about Tmobile CEO leaving and they are mentioning Tmobile is looking for merger.

Rumors on street Tmobile is looking to buy or merge with Sprint. I think buy is out of question unless i am missing something...

How will the merger work if it happens..with Tmobile and sprint operating different kind of networks(remember Nextel)? how does it help them?? Anyone here know what spectrum Tmobile owns??? also tmobile plans to sell its towers for 2billion..i think that can help the merged carriers with consolidation and cash infusion..

i think these are just rumors..but i am curious about possibilities...

does it work to Sprints advantage to merge with Tmobile or kill them by competing??

I heard last time these two companies talked about merger it fell apart on questions about who will lead. How can possibly Tmobile dream about leading the merged companies???

I have a 32 inch screen AND still can't see hardware !!!!

32 is old fashioned...get 46 inch I can see it clearly.

This is my thinking too. I am really debating writing the article. I think this one would get picked up big time. However, if Sprint is near a fix with HTC, I don't want to broadcast something like that. Tough call.

 

Robert

You should not broacast when Sprint has not even launched LTE yet. wait until launch date comes july 15th? if phone is not working that day..feel free to write article

wow!!!

I just wish Sprint would stop playing games and put an Iridium chipset (in addition to WiMax, LTE and HSPA+) in these Android phones so I can talk, text, and surf while I'm 3000 miles out at sea. And, if they dont give me unlimited data for 3.29/month (or less) to go along with it while I'm out at sea, I'm gonna jump shit to VZW!

Not everyone gets hobo rate of 3.29/month.

The reasons not to do it are certainly significant ones. But the lack of such devices does put some of us in a bind. Yes, WiMax never went nationwide, but for those that have it, and live in a city with severe 3G problems, giving it up before NV arrives is a really hard pill to swallow. Adding a WiMax chip would have made the transition for people like me seamless. Yes, it'd drain battery when I'm using it, but once LTE goes live, I'd turn the WiMax off and never use it again. Of course, I recognize it might make the phone more expensive and maybe thicker, and maybe there's even some battery drain that would still be there with the chip off. But it'd keep me from being in the dilemma of having to either give up on Sprint if I want to upgrade before the end of the year, or basically have a device that only works on WiFi in a lot of the areas I spend time.

 

I realize it's academic...it won't happen at this point, as only the first round of Sprint LTE phones would have any need for it, and they're already designed and in some cases released. Sprint will lose some customers for not having such devices. Whether it's a significant number and whether it would have justified the downsides of such devices, I can't say, but there will be customers who leave Sprint when told they have to go back to only having Sprint's 3G network available.

Good to know there is someone else who shares my view. I say why even bother with making phone big..how about giving customer option to buy Wimax case(similar to Freedompop case for iphone) in areas where there is coverage. Why take so much bad publicty for releasing 4G phone without having network from media when they have invested so much money in WIMAX and having working 4G network in 71 cities??????

I agree. Another thing to consider is that Sprint has said that it will only support Wi-Max through 2015. If it keeps sending out new devices with Wi-Max it just makes it more difficult to turn off the network in the future. Network Vision is about upgrading Sprint's network to be top-tier and about reducing their nightmarish maintenance costs.

 

To make NV successful AND to realize the full cost benefits I think they have to make a clean break with Wi-Max. Of course, I live in an area where there is no Wi-Max service, so I care a lot less about it than others might.

it can always be something like freedompop style phone case with wimax given to customers that are located in wimax coverage zone with expectation coverage will stop in 2015 or when LTE comes to city whichever case comes up first. This way Sprint does not get bad rap of launching LTE phones without any network in place. Like it or not Wimax is 4g tech. Sprint could have also prioritized places without any wimax at the moment for lte deployment with this strategy.

Beceem? Do you really want a device based on a Beceem LTE/WiMAX modem? Like Qualcomm or not, the top devices use Qualcomm chipsets. And Qualcomm, to my knowledge, does not produce any LTE/WiMAX chipsets.

 

Furthermore, even with a Beceem (or something else of that ilk), a device would also require a CDMA2000 modem and an application processor. Thus, that would necessitate at least two, maybe even three total chipsets. Nope, no sale.

 

Now, compare that to the just released EVO LTE. Just one chipset, the Qualcomm MSM8960, runs the whole show -- CDMA2000, LTE, and the application processor. Not to mention, it is a 28 nm process SoC. All of that adds up to huge power consumption savings.

 

AJ

here is another one http://www.sequans.com/ it makes sense what ur saying let say if sprint was launching with top 30-50 markets with first tier of lte phones. but they are giving phones with 0 LTE markets. Sprint has think outside the box if they want to survive.

Sprint couldn't realistically build a LTE/WiMax smartphone that would have specs and performance (especially battery performance) that was going to make their customers happy. The device would seem somewhat regressive.

 

Also, the cost would be quite high and OEM's wouldn't be thrilled to make it. And its shelf life would be limited too. And then there's the issue that WiMax never went full scale with deployment in only 71 cities.

 

As good of a fit as it may seem in the active WiMax markets, the good fit would be short lived and the device would probably not get good press. It just isn't a good idea, all things considered. People who just must have a LTE device now, but want to keep WiMax do have a MiFi option at least.

 

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or maybe freedompop style phone case would be cool too. what i meant was not something permanent but some sort of way to use those 71 markets until LTE is widespread. I hate to give up my EVO 4G Wimax for EVO 4G LTE at the moment.

Which chipsets support both WiMAX and LTE?

 

AJ

http://www.tgdaily.com/mobility-features/51182-beceem-touts-dual-wimax-lte-chip

there are more as well.

Why would you want battery draining WiMax on your nice new phone?

 

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There is option to switch off wimax in current phones isnt there? I use it on my evo all the time...when i am in city with wimax i switch it on like NYC,Cleveland,Syracuse etc otherwise i keep it off. There are lot of uses for example tethering which is lot better than being on 3G.

There are chipsets that support all three wimax,Lte and TD-lte, why not release phones that support atleast wimax and LTE? That way sprint could have leveraged the existing 70 markets with Wimax ?

That's for the HTC Evo 4G (WiMax) it's on a completely different frequency.

you should read first what i was quoting

I've heard it both ways. A few on this forum have said it can't be done because of the different gateways/networks/etc.

 

However, the guys over at clearwire have said that it will be a "seemless" handoff (they've even said they will support VoLTE).

 

Personally, I am very interested how this is going to roll out.

if it is seamless

I dont know if TD works good while on the move..if it does not then there should be option to toggle switch on and off 2500.