Home  ›  News  ›

Sprint Passes on MediaFLO

Article Comments  

all discussions

show all 52 replies

zzzzz sprint

HEKNOWS

Feb 16, 2007, 9:30 PM
zzzzzz like always sprint fhgdfghhhhyuk up 🤣
...
SprintPCSGuy

Feb 16, 2007, 10:45 PM
Much like other things...

Verizon will do TV first, but Sprint will do it BETTER.
...
Argonnj

Feb 16, 2007, 10:57 PM
SprintPCSGuy said:
Much like other things...

Verizon will do TV first, but Sprint will do it BETTER.


And Verizon will charge more for it and its stupid customers will pay it.
...
Jonathanlc2005

Feb 16, 2007, 11:01 PM
who cares about mediaflo... wimax is more promising and more functions like the tv grid like directtv has. you can keep your stinking media flo but once my internet is like 5-10 times faster then evdo yeah i see you in the finish line
...
darkknezz

Feb 16, 2007, 11:12 PM
Thats why all the Nextel/Sprint customers are SPRINTING to Verizon and Cingular....because Sprint is better? ha ha
...
Jonathanlc2005

Feb 17, 2007, 12:51 AM
i dont know about your area but my team and i and the other sprint nextel stand has noticed a very large increase from verizon/cingular/nextel to sprint, and im in shentel. reason why? analog roaming is great when your driving in country side pa and they get signal everywhere like cingular and verizon. and i prove it to them.

so before you give me the verizon or cingular is better then sprint, listen to this. i CAN force my phone to roaming if i need to(cingular cant) and when i do, it sez welcome to verizon wireless. and i say its verizon but at a cheaper rate. i really dont care what you have to say because ive noticed an increase in subscriptions here and shentel has noticed a sprint gain every quarter with this one being the largest. ...
(continues)
...
macuser09

Feb 17, 2007, 1:16 AM
Sprint was and probably still is loosing customers from nextel. With all the recent improvements in many areas this should start tapering off. Sprint has been bringing in customers the whole time on the CDMA side. I think sprint will start seeing better numbers with all the network improvements that have taken place around the country.

MediaFlo is not a huge deal right now. Sprint has plans to use WiMax for its own thing. They have enough spectrum to do pretty much what they want and how they want.
...
Jonathanlc2005

Feb 17, 2007, 1:33 AM
i highly agree on your whole post...

you dont even know how many nextel ports ive done to sprint 🤣
...
Sprint Guy James

Feb 18, 2007, 2:04 PM
And whats awesome about Sprint Nextel is the fact that we've figured out how to keep our Nextel customers happy: PowerSource!

How many companies do YOU know that can give you superior call quality AND Nextel walkie-talkie?

Hmm??

I'm waiting.

Research it.

Oh thats right. JUST SPRINT.

I rest my case.
...
z34007

Feb 19, 2007, 12:17 AM
What research did you do that had both Sprint and superior call quality in the same sentence?
...
OriginalEffigy

Feb 19, 2007, 10:22 AM
Anyone that has ever used a Sprint phone. YOu may have a few valid complaints on sprint's customer service, but the call quality is not one of them.

Sprint has more towers than any other carrier.
Although I do have a few complaints here and there, call quality isn't one of them.

They work so much better than my Cingular phone ever did. And I live in Atlanta, which is Cingular's home market.
...
lang

Feb 19, 2007, 11:32 AM
My wife and I left Sprint because they had poor quality in Austin TX. I mean it was hit and miss - and our house was right inbetween two towers - but not actually in coverage. We could see the map and our area - and if we stood on one foot and wiggled our fingers we might have gotten coverage. Bah. I'll never go back.
...
OriginalEffigy

Feb 20, 2007, 10:28 AM
Hey that very well may be true. All I can say, is when did you have service? Carriers are constantly adding new cell sites, and just because you were in a whole at one time, doesn't mean that they won't have coverage there in the next six months or next year.

Thats just the nature of the beast, wireless coverage is not everywhere, there are going to be wholes in every network.

All I'm saying is that you shouldn't rule a company out, just because at one time they were missing coverage at your house, things change. It's a very competitive industry, that is certainly not constant.

At any rate you could have bought an in-home repeater for about $125 that would have boosted your signal at your house.
...
lang

Feb 20, 2007, 3:48 PM
Or we could go with a company that provides great coverage where I live. Which is what we did.
...
lancekalzas

Feb 20, 2007, 5:31 PM
How about you spell the word "holes" correctly? That'd be great.
...
algorithmplus

Feb 24, 2007, 7:58 PM
I agree. I'm usually not a stickler about misspellings, but "whole" is kind of an antonym of "hole".
...
RUFF1415

Feb 19, 2007, 4:41 PM
OriginalEffigy said:
Sprint has more towers than any other carrier.
Although I do have a few complaints here and there, call quality isn't one of them.

They work so much better than my Cingular phone ever did. And I live in Atlanta, which is Cingular's home market.

That is completely misleading! Cingular in fact, owns and operates the nation's most wireless towers on one technology. Sprint purchased Nextel and they still haven't even come close to matching the unified network infrastructure that Cingular owns! 47,000+ GSM cell sites while Sprint only lays claim to 26,000 CDMA. Anything else in the tower counts are completely incompatible and unintegrated iDen sites. Not worth much if you're expecting cov...
(continues)
...
OriginalEffigy

Feb 20, 2007, 10:22 AM
I would argue with you, but it will do no good. Your just wrong. I don't care if it is the same tech. as long as the phone can use it.

Alot of good those 47,000 GSM cell sites will do you, if your in a rural analog area since cingular is singal mode.

That being said I don't care about your opinion.

For me Sprint has worked much better.
...
RUFF1415

Feb 20, 2007, 3:44 PM
Answer one question:

What good are "the most towers" doing a consumer if half operate as CDMA, half operate as iDen, and the majority of them overlap?

The answer is simple...very little. How does that make me wrong? 🤨
...
algorithmplus

Feb 24, 2007, 8:02 PM
I agree. Sprint is not known for the most robust network in areas, it is reputed for having poor quality and poor signal. T-Mobile, by contrast, is touted for high quality, small coverage area, slow data speeds, but superior customer service.

And...if Sprint supposedly has the best network with most towers, why is its native coverage area so small?
...
algorithmplus

Feb 24, 2007, 8:00 PM
That doesn't make much sense. In about a year, carriers will be allowed to turn off analog. I highly doubt they will keep it running for "roaming coverage" of other carriers. Sprint has never deployed analog towers, so none of that coverage can be touted as being its own.
...
SkillciaX

Feb 18, 2007, 9:19 PM
macuser09 said:
Sprint was and probably still is loosing customers from nextel. With all the recent improvements in many areas this should start tapering off. Sprint has been bringing in customers the whole time on the CDMA side. I think sprint will start seeing better numbers with all the network improvements that have taken place around the country.

MediaFlo is not a huge deal right now. Sprint has plans to use WiMax for its own thing. They have enough spectrum to do pretty much what they want and how they want.


Sprint may see better numbers with the technology improvment, but if they don't get on the ball with customer service to back it up, then T-Mobile and AT&T are gonna run them over.

...
(continues)
...
HEKNOWS

Feb 20, 2007, 10:42 PM
thats true man 😳
...
gsmrulz

Feb 17, 2007, 9:09 AM
Riddle me this, what will you due in bfe PA, when analog is removed from your network in the next few months? I hope your chargeback period is less than 120 days for the commission you made on all those unfortunate customers you hassled into buying Sprint.
...
wirelesscom1

Feb 17, 2007, 10:21 AM
TDMA roaming wont last too much longer as networks begin to turn them off after the FCC allows them to...
...
Jonathanlc2005

Feb 17, 2007, 1:05 PM
but keeps an established customer who liked it and still has capabilities on roaming on verizon with cheaper options
...
LordObento

Feb 17, 2007, 1:25 PM
Until....
http://consumerist.com/consumer/sprint/sprint-will-c ... »

Sprint isn't going to like you to use someone else's service for the majority of the time. No carrier does.
...
SkillciaX

Feb 19, 2007, 6:17 AM
yeah no kidding, but Sprint is stupid because they could see which customers are using 50% + roaming and where they are and start putting p towers there to support them... I mean wouldn't you want to build towers where customers use your service?

No Sprint is dumb and they'd rather get rid of people to go to another company than support their customers and get better coverage..
...
Argonnj

Feb 17, 2007, 11:03 AM
darkknezz said:
Thats why all the Nextel/Sprint customers are SPRINTING to Verizon and Cingular....because Sprint is better? ha ha


And what a surprise they'll get when they find out that data services that were reasonable on Sprint, are now more then double with Verizon and AT&T.
...
LordObento

Feb 17, 2007, 11:10 AM
Or the fact that no one else has WiMax and they cannot roam like they used to with EVDO.
...
barryefau

Feb 17, 2007, 11:39 AM
There is one company in the US deploying and using wimax right now... and they are wellll ahead of sprint 🙂 Sorry guys sprints not the 1st. 🤣
...
jcoberg10

Feb 17, 2007, 12:49 PM
Ok i'll Bite? i'm no fan of sprint, but who else has or is deploying Wimax First??
...
barryefau

Feb 20, 2007, 2:27 AM
clearwire
...
junglemassive

Feb 17, 2007, 2:58 PM
Hmmm... who would that be?
...
snang

Feb 17, 2007, 3:03 PM
It's Cricket.
...
junglemassive

Feb 17, 2007, 3:16 PM
😳 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
...
junglemassive

Feb 17, 2007, 4:29 PM
barryefau said:
There is one company in the US deploying and using wimax right now... and they are wellll ahead of sprint 🙂 Sorry guys sprints not the 1st. 🤣


No one but this guy knows anything about this development? I call BS.

Unless the carrier is barryfau mobile! 🤣
...
snang

Feb 17, 2007, 4:37 PM
It is. He deployed WiMax in his 1 bedroom apartment with a $30 Belkin wireless router from Wal-Mart.
...
junglemassive

Feb 17, 2007, 5:23 PM
SWEET! Does he have Bchat? Connect with himself in under a second! 🤣 🤣 🤣
...
frank_the_tank

Feb 20, 2007, 1:24 AM
junglemassive said:
barryefau said:
There is one company in the US deploying and using wimax right now... and they are wellll ahead of sprint 🙂 Sorry guys sprints not the 1st. 🤣


No one but this guy knows anything about this development? I call BS.


Clearwire has been using Wimax for several years now as have many other companies. However it is based on the fixed Wimax standard, not mobile Wimax 802.16e. But Clearwire does have mobile Wimax trials going on right now as does Sprint. Nobody has 802.16e commercially available service because Wimax wave 1 certification hasn't even begun.
...
SkillciaX

Feb 19, 2007, 6:24 AM
Either way you look at at Sprint is going to hell.. I don't care if they have the best and fastest data out there, their customer service blows...

Not to mention why would you cancel your customers because they roam 50% or more of the time instead of locate the areas they are in and build some real coverage for them! Not to mention how can you have a roaming included plan and have restrictions on it?

Also to all the Sprint and Verizon customers your analog roaming is gonna be gone by 2008 followed by the TDMA network as well...

So while Verizon will boast in their commercials about getting service where most people don't... it won't last long...
...
HEKNOWS

Feb 18, 2007, 9:42 PM
zzzzz like isaid thats whysprint got so many cust because they great 🤣 they going head to head with a brand new company attell sprint its wack and iwork for then and my personal phone is vzw 🙄
...
njcellfreak

Feb 18, 2007, 2:38 PM
SprintPCSGuy said:
Much like other things...

Verizon will do TV first, but Sprint will do it BETTER.



Of course they'll do it better. They drop calls BETTER than anyone else too. LMAO!! 🤣 🤣 🤣
...
snang

Feb 18, 2007, 3:49 PM
Weird. In 5 years I can count the number of dropped calls on one hand. Not sure where you get this information.
...
HEKNOWS

Feb 18, 2007, 9:36 PM
yeah thats why verizon got more costumer the sprint good one buddy the only thin sprint got over vzw its nextel; and its because vzw dint want 2buy it sorry man 😛
...
muchdrama

Feb 19, 2007, 8:59 PM
SprintPCSGuy said:
Much like other things...

Verizon will do TV first, but Sprint will do it BETTER.


Yeah? Like what?

Their network?

Don't make me laugh.
...
SprintPCSGuy

Feb 23, 2007, 4:03 PM
What about Sprint's EV-DO network that offers TRULY UNLIMITED DATA plans... vs. VZW's EV-DSLOW plans...
...
Yean

Feb 16, 2007, 11:04 PM
HEKNOWSNOTHING actually made sense. You're getting better. lol. How is Sprint messing up, I'm curious of your thoughts.
...
xchpstang

Feb 17, 2007, 3:55 AM
That all that wild spending on Rev A, WiMax, network improvements, etc.. costs real money. Bleeding subscribers especially profitable loyal ones also costs money and it isn't endless. Investors want to see a return on their investment but not in 20 years. They just wouldn't get away with dumping billions into another "project" when many aspects of Sprint are in dire need of repair.
...
snang

Feb 17, 2007, 12:28 PM
It's amazing how all these random people know the intricacies of Sprint's financial situation.

All these high school drop-outs who pretend they could do a better job running a multi-billion dollar enterprise.

Get real.
...
Yean

Feb 17, 2007, 8:09 PM
I agree. I was actually talking with HEKNOWS(nothing). What I meant he almost made sense, it was putting an actual sentence together. If you looked at his past post, it's very elementary.
...
junglemassive

Feb 19, 2007, 1:33 PM
I think he had someone else write that first post because every other post he made in this thread is nonsense. 🤣
...
Yean

Feb 17, 2007, 8:25 PM
WOW! You have to spend money to make money, it may also take some risks. Wild spending?, I disagree, it's called improvement. In order for Sprint to gain in their numbers, Sprint has to do different and better. I believe Sprint is going to do something different and better. I can care less about Qualcomm's MediaFLO. I don't need MediaFLO to watch TV, I use orb.com to watch TV through my Sprint phone. Cheers. 😁
...

This forum is closed.

Please log in to report a message to the moderator.

This forum is closed.


all discussions

Subscribe to Phone Scoop News with RSS Follow @phonescoop on Threads Follow @phonescoop on Mastodon Phone Scoop on Facebook Follow on Instagram

 

Playwire

All content Copyright 2001-2024 Phone Factor, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Content on this site may not be copied or republished without formal permission.