User: rwalford79
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Who Is This For?
Is this wireless data base for the consumer or for the protection of the carrier?
Ironically, CDMA already blocks and bans ESN/MEIDs from being activated on their networks if they are not "branded" devices, deactivated by the carrier, lost, stolen, or the account they were attached to never had the ETF paid off (even if the account is 10+ years old and written off).
As for GSM, European carriers already have done this for a decade or more anyway. ...
Why Not Nexus 5?
For AT&T and T-Mobile, MetroPCS and even Sprint users, having the Nexus 5 is not only a great device in the mid-high end, but also can hold its own against flagship without the price being too high. Additionally, for people like me, who are mid-contract or using no-contract services it also fits a great price, for a great phone, or back up, or replacement.
I dont see this offered in your gift guide. And it should be!
Bad Move
This would be a bad move on T-Mobile's part. If T-Mobile wants to stick to only urban areas, and remain a lower carrier, fine, but if they want to expand and offer services that really can rival AT&T, and continue to support their growth, they really need lower frequency spectrum. They need better indoor coverage that competitors like AT&T and Verizon both offer. Capacity because they only have a limited amount of PCS and AWS spectrum. Just those two ...
Carriers Are Screwed
Sprint is definitely screwed and will have regulation after regulation put on them in terms of pricing and service contracts. They have been lowering their advertisement from "Fastest Network" and "Up to 3.1mbps" to "Up to 2.5mbps" to "600kbps" to now "300kbps for 3G speed" and "3-6mbps 4G speed" Which as we all know, NONE of this is 3G or 4G speed.
T-Mobile will also be hit, because while their network is FAST, it sure isnt as fast as ...
Re: High Frequency first?
Nextel coverage and tower placement covered more area than WiMAX did yes, but the Clearwire spectrum licences are nationwide, every single state, every single market, it was a blanket block that was for the whole nation. If Sprint wanted to, they could deploy in Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota, even Montana on that new Clearwire spectrum, but it is not cost efficient, so Nextel's old lower frequency will have to do.
But technically, Sprint, like Verizon, has a ...
Deadline = Other Carriers Advantage
Sprint's own deadline of Mid-2014 for PCS LTE is terrible. Do they mean D-Block PCS which is already running poorly, with limited coverage, limited signal strength, low data speeds and proves to be worthless, often times slower than EVDO data....or do they mean as a whole, all blocks of PCS spectrum they own?
Mid-2014 is also the time when T-Mobile and Verizon have set to start deploying LTE-Advanced features (maybe not the full set of standard, but most of ...
Re: High Frequency first?
Sprint does things backward, that is why. Sprint is so focused on providing the highest speed possible, and in the 2.5Ghz frequency, it not only has a higher data speed but more capacity - they also have 120Mhz of spectrum in that band to use versus 10Mhz in the 1900 PCS D-Block and 10Mhz to use in the 800 ESMR band. While 1900 PCS bands from A through D will open up in the future on Sprint, right now ...
Still Lacking Major Cities..
San Francisco...
San Jose...
Sacramento...
San Diego...
Just to name the biggest cities in California STILL without LTE and without working 3G. On top of this, Los Angeles, the ONLY official market in California in a major city, has some of the worst speeds seen on an LTE network worldwide.
Re: Sprint LTE
There is service in San Diego, but it is extremely limited. They are hoping to stall us who have already suffered years without LTE in the major cities, cause they dont want to finish deploying PCS LTE, they want to deploy major cities on the ClearWire spectrum that no devices can use, hope we upgrade and get suckered into bad service again as that frequency ClearWire uses cant penetrate walls, while the PCS can but is crappy for service.
Move ...
Re: Sprint LTE
They have extremely limited service in Iowa. What part of Iowa are you in? I am going there in February, Des Moines, Grinnell, that area myself... And I keep looking at maps and seeing a whole lot of nothing and a whole lot of bad 3G speeds.
Another Worthless App
Another worthless chat app that no one wants or needs.
Lets be honest here. Sprint should stick to rate plans and deploying LTE and fixing their obsolete CDMA network.
Creating and marketing another chat app that no one is going to use, no one wants, and ironically isnt even in the Play Store (nope, I checked), is not going to really win any customers or get us to subscribe to it.
With WhatsApp and iMessage being the biggest messaging apps ...
Official Word For Throttle
Now that there is an official word on throttling, I hope they address how many customers have been throttled at 1GB, 1.5GB and 2GB and those customers who have been throttled not only for the remainder of the month, but for as long as they had service.
TracFone brands have a history of terrible customer service toward people who go over the allotted high speed data by telling them it will reset, they have to pay again, once they ...
Babying Customers?
Okay, so I look at this as being a hybrid of Sprint Ready Now (which to date, not a single Sprint employee ever offered to give me Ready Now service), and T-Mobile JUMP.
Either way, I find it insulting and condescending that they are offering a plan, a plan one must pay for, to have a tech support person baby you into how to take care of your device and what not to download.
As we all know, Verizon is ...
Why Bother?
A $200 price tag on a device Google, Motorola and analysts have all stated will soon be $100 in weeks... combined with the WORST NETWORK in the Western Hemisphere is just a bad combination. Who would want this mix? Why bother?
Galaxy S4 Extra Large
So essentially a larger Galaxy S4 and not anything special. Disappointed in Samsung this round. Pathetic.
Except KitKat Isnt Made By Nestle
... In the USA, it is made by Hershey, under license.
So... being that Nestle and Google teamed up, I can assume that the promotion will ONLY run in nations Nestle markets KitKat (worldwide EXCEPT the USA), while we get stuck with nothing since it is not a branding with Nestle AND Hershey...
Again, limited major city launch
Still, Sprint is focusing its efforts on the smallest of the larger cities. Of all the cities launched, Oakland is the largest this round, and even then, the signal is so weak, the speed so limited, and the coverage so terrible, I cant help but honestly say that Sprint is only doing the bare minimum to claim a launch when it is in fact nowhere remotely close to offering anything compared to Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile or MetroPCS in that ...
Re: Good & bad
QChat? People still use that? Considering every device that it came on is dead and discontinued, Sprint has made little effort to upgrade the network like they have told you.
Sprint Direct Connect is an app, and completely different than QChat as you knew it. This is essentially a rebadged Push to Talk App, like TiKL or Voxer is and again, still only works on a few devices, and is as useless as analog is today.
If you are looking for ...
Re: Good riddance!
5x5 on ESMR is not their best decision. In fact, it rather blows. There is 12Mhz on the ESMR, but only 10Mhz can be used for LTE. Leaving dead air on 2Mhz or a 1Mhz block of CDMA, which is useless as well as pointless.
Currently in the 1900Mhz G-Block that LTE is deployed, running 5x5 LTE, the speed is atrocious. It rarely works indoors (and it should since it is in 1900Mhz) since LTE is prone to major ...
Re: Sprint will regain its title as largest voice coverage network
Verizon, US Cellular, MetroPCS, LeapWireless/Cricket all have devices capable of roaming off 800 CDMA voice and data. Remember 850Mhz was called 800Mhz in the past. If you mean ESMR which is a specific blockset in the 800Mhz range, next to the 850Mhz frequency, then you are correct, only Sprint and I believe USCellular and C-Spire have those frequencies in their devices, as often they use each others networks to roam nationally.
As for LTE, Sprint and C-Spire currently are the ...
Re: lte on 800 mhz
There are no devices on the market that use 800Mhz LTE. The current devices that use 1900Mhz LTE will NOT be upgradable to 800Mhz LTE since there is no chipset for that in the device, there is however 800Mhz EVDO chipset and when and if Sprint enables EVDO 800Mhz in your area, you will take advantage of that. Sprint is opening up their spectrum blocks in the 1900Mhz for LTE as well as more and more towers go up ...
Re: Much sooner than the LTE conversion
I was in an 800Mhz ESMR area the other day, one with LTE coverage in the main parts of town, and 800Mhz EVDO on the outskirts of town, and let me tell you, it sucked! It was WORSE than 1900Mhz problems we have had with data. In fact, the signal was such a poor quality, the calls I made all dropped. There was NOTHING better about 800Mhz when I used it. And this was in a fully launched Network ...
Re: Doesn't Exist
I stand corrected. Facebook hid the feature so well, it took me a while to find it. Even then, it didnt work, since people I told to answer, never got notice of the calls.
Doesn't Exist
No updates to Facebook Messenger, but still this feature does not work like reported. In fact, the feature doesn't work at all since it doesn't exist on any device I own with Facebook Messenger installed. Are ya sure you're reporting this correctly?
Re: Hell and No.
Lets also not forget that C-Spire was alongside Sprint when they were against AT&T buying up carriers like T-Mobile for more spectrum, yet they are more than happy to flip that company and spectrum to them for a price.
The chunk of PCS is a large one, and AT&T doesnt really need it in that area. They do need the 700Mhz however. That PCS spectrum should be divested to Sprint or T-Mobile. BOTH of which need it big time ...
Nothing New
This is not really news actually.
Pandora stated a long time ago, years ago in fact, that they would impose a limit on all devices of 40 hours per month. The only way around it would be to subscribe to the Pandora One account, which would allow unlimited listening as well as ad-free listening.
Maybe I misunderstood all that years ago but to me, I always kept my listening well under 40 hours when I have better options like ...
Re: what I took out of this is....
T Bone said:
I think carriers are just sick and tired of getting screwed over by customers who get a steep discount on a device, then cancel service a couple months later and take the device to another carrier....
Except on Sprint and Verizon, there are major limitations to doing that. Who are you going to go to? MetroPCS? A lot of phones Sprint and Verizon sell arent even programmable to be used on MetroPCS, BlackBerry for instance, many Android devices, ...
Re: AT&T Dips Its Oar In
AT&T missed the point again, by saying that Softbank a Japanese company, would own too much of US Spectrum, but forgot that T-Mobile is ALSO foreign owned by a German company and they own a ton of spectrum too. So how is this different.
Lets take it one more step further however, and make it known that Sprint has stated openly, like T-Mobile USA that it will continue be HEADQUARTERED in the USA and OPERATED by Americans. The foreign ...
Only 16GB Memory?
You would think with a beast of a phone sporting HD screen and extremely high MP Cameras in front and back, with the intent of taking HD movies, that there would be at least 32GB maybe even 64GB onboard memory for this device. If not, 16GB will cover it, if HTC included a Micro-SD Card slot for 64GB cards. Otherwise, this is just limiting the phone and its user. Which in my eyes is the only thing wrong wit ...
Blocking Unpaid Balances
Now that this is live, I wonder how many phones T-Mobile and AT&T will block (since Sprint and Verizon already do this), when a customer doesnt pay their bill and gets terminated. I wonder what the legality will be when AT&T and T-Mobile say that they technically own the phone until the ETF is paid or the remaining balance is paid.
Ive actually had Sprint one time tell me they owned my phone until I was out of a ...
Re: WRONG!
You're right, I misunderstood. I had not seen them post about SoftBank operating a CDMA network. But yes, you are right, going forward any compatibility issues will work out via LTE investment from both compatible network technologies, but at the same time, SoftBank investing in Sprint could come with the bonus of swapping out EVDO for HSPA+ giving Sprint an advantage over Verizon fall back. Personally I welcome foreign investment where the mistakes of Voda/Verizon aren't repeated and Sprint ...
Re: WRONG!
No, not wrong. They said an investment and two incompatible networks CAN merge since Sprint is moving to LTE, and you yourself said SoftBank has a TDD-LTE network. So yes, moving forward thwy can be compatible. Additionally, SoftBank is doong it for two reasons, one of them has to do with larger, more exclusive device orders that will benefit both SoftBank in Japan, but also Sprint in the USA. It also gives SoftBank an in to a lucrative market, ...
Where?
Never even heard of half these places. Lawrence Kansas? Waukegan-Lake County? Barnstable-Hyannis/Mid-Cape? Why the hell is Sprint deploying LTE in places that people never even heard of? It seems Sprint is deploying in areas that arent even their network, and are on affiliate networks first, or at least places that never even had 3G and were still running 1xRTT.
If Sprint is saying they are improving 3G network performance in the nations three largest cities, I hope that means, ...
Android Feature
This is an Android feature offered in HTC phones since 2.2. I have this on my MyTouch4G (T-Mobile). Pick it up and the ringer will silence, flip it over the ringer will silence. If you are on a call, just bring the phone away from your face, and put it face down on something and it will turn on the speakerphone as well. Its a novel feature, that ironically, I found MOST convenient and the "move to silence" feature ...
Re: How sweet
I find it an insult that Dan Hesse continues to speak at all. Not only has Sprint gone from being consumer friendly, possibly the most so in the industry, to one of the ones that has the slowest data of all networks becoming a bigger joke than AT&T was on iPhone launch, but also introduced throttle plans on all its prepaid line plans, has raised its ETFs, surcharges, upgrade fees, as well as have limited credits for customer issues ...
BEEN Retired
Dude, that phone has been retired for months in my stores, and not too long after online as well... My sister has one, and I told her not to get it cause its a phone thats not going to be supported by T-Mobile after a few months...HA HA
Duopoly Confirmed
I guess the FCC is going to pull an AT&T-Mobile review and deny Verizon and AT&T the spectrum sale. This would benefit both companies as a stronger Duopoly but kill off all regional and smaller National carriers. Gee, how lovely.
Re: Enter AT&T haters...
According to both AT&T and Verizon, LTE isnt as spectrum efficient as they hoped.
With the market saturated in this country for customer counts, the only thing going on is shifting yearly from one company to another. Everyone gains a few million, then loses a few million... One year Sprint lost and lost and T-Mobile gained and gained, now its the other way around. AT&T and Verizon like to compete that way too, except their churn numbers are much ...
Re: Not a chance.
Its a statistical fact.
AT&T and Verizon moved to 2-Year contracts, then Sprint did, then T-Mobile.
AT&T and Verizon moved to Mobile to Mobile, then Sprint did, then T-Mobile.
AT&T and Verizon prorated their ETF, then Sprint did, then T-Mobile.
AT&T and Verizon raised their ETF, then Sprint did, and T-Mobile is going to soon.
Sprint introduced Any Mobile calls, then AT&T did and then T-Mobile. Verizon has still not.
So - when you say "nice try", you should look at the history of ...
Re: I Generally Find
That might be, because the vendors and distributors they buy from have now a surplus of materials, they want to get rid of them fast before spoilage dates and make some of the money back on their purchases, they also have to hold less stock = less space = less money spent on that too.... Publix then makes a longer term contract for medium rate prices, so its still less than when Albertsons was around but a little more ...
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