Sprint Offers 'Unlimited Everything' for $99
I'm leaving AT&T first thing tomorrow!
I've been with AT&T for over 11 years and have enjoyed their service but when Sprint brought this out this is too good to be true! i'll miss AT&T but this is what every consumer wants! All for one liveable price! It beats the rest hands down!
See you back in a month!!!
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/02/29/wtf-sprint ... »
I work for a company that makes games for cell phones, so we deal with all of the carriers on a daily basis.
It may not make you happy, but in the case of Sprint the hate is justified.
Roadkill said:
Yeah, well I have AT&T service everywhere I go - including HSDPA 3.6 - and Sprint ripped me off. Sprint coverage sucks, and their customer care was the worst of all 5 major carriers.
I work for a company that makes games for cell phones, so we deal with all of the carriers on a daily basis.
It may not make you happy, but in the case of Sprint the hate is justified.
Sprint has BETTER coverage than AT&T, WAY better! CDMA covers a much larger portion of the United States than does GSM. Sprint covers over 290 million people. AT&T can't even come close to that.
And btw, HSDPA coverage is practically nowhere by comparison. By the time it is, Sprint will already be rolling out WIMAX.
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I like this Though as far as The plans. Hell im thinking of getting Sprint again . If they get enough new subscribers out of this they may be able to build out the network even more. I say Go Sprint ! Make the big c...
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mcfadonna said:
Um i dont know where to start with that one. Sorry but when it comes to coverage AT&T has Sprint beat hands down. The largest CDMA carrier in the US is Verizon . And against Verizon AT&T holds its own but Verizon is still bigger. The sweet deal about having AT&T is i have an unlocked phone. So when i do run out of AT&T coverage i can pick a network to roam on. Sprint you cannot do that. You have to roam off of a PRL .
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.....What???? Having an unlocked phone doesn't allow you to roam. I mean, ugh, I don't even want to start to explain this with your logic. Sprint has free roaming for you off of Verizon towers. BOO YAH.
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I drive all over this Nation an
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johnnyappleseed said:
chainmail...let me correct you on something....yes there is free nationwide roaming, you are correct, but its bad for users who use it all the time. at least 60% of your calls has to be on sprints home networks, but if your majority of your calls are roaming...well then sprints going to give you the boot!!! thats not with sprint...but ALL carriers. cmon now...heavy users who use roam will get it. i have delt with sprint customers getting letters, emails saying there service will be cut because they roam too much. so yeah... 😁
True.
But as you pointed out ALL carriers have policies in place that forbid too much roaming, or you're out. They couldn't make any money if they didn't.
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I hate talking about roaming. There's a lot of preconcieved notions about it.
johnnyappleseed said:
i would have to agree you there! VZ has the largest CDMA coverage, sprint roams off of them. at&t has the largest GSM coverage. T-mo well...they barely have coverage.
Verizon actually has the smallest native network of the four! Verizon only covers 260 million people while the others all cover more.
AT&T/Cingular- 273 million
Sprint-Nextel- 272 million
T-Mobile- 268 million
Verizon- 260 million
These figures are all per their own websites.
johnnyappleseed said:
LOL sprint has better coverage than at&t...LOL!!! 🤣 now you know that was a damn lie! majority of sprint are roams! cmon now please stop lying to yourself.
Sprint has better voice only coverage with roaming than AT&T does with roaming. We aren't talking about native coverage here, but coverage in general. Sprint could not advertise that they do if they didn't. Native coverage breaks down as follows:
AT&T- 273 million people covered
Sprint-Nextel- 272 million
T-Mobile- 268 million
Verizon- 260 million
These figures are all per their own websites.
You people act like u have to call CS everyday the minimum I had to call CS when I was a regular customer was about 4 times per year. People wanna call CS for every little thing. For example
Oh my gosh! My phone came out in annew color I want it. calls CS Oh I'm going to cancel my contract if I can't get this phone in the new color for free and I only had my current phone for 90 days
johnnyappleseed said:
sprint ripped me off...even when i was working for them!!! cmon now! how the hell are you going to charge 18.00 upgrade fee when you dont even upgrade! like everyother month.
Yeah, I read that same thing about ALL the carriers on here.
I know somebody who got charged 1200 bucks by AT&T and never went over their minutes, but their bill said they did.
I know somebody else who had a similar experience with Verizon, their bill was over 1000 for roaming charges when they supposedly had free roaming.
Don't know anyone with T-Mobile, so I can't say either way on them, personally.
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jrfdsf said:
Bottom line: every carrier has stories like yours and the ones above.
Yeah, that was my point. But apparently I was too subtle with my sarcasm. 🙄
Like I said, though, I do work with all of the major carriers on a daily basis and Sprint doesn't fare well. They used to be one of the better carriers from our perspective, but lately - especially in the last year or so - they've not so much gone downhill as fallen off a cliff.
Roadkill said:jrfdsf said:
Bottom line: every carrier has stories like yours and the ones above.
Yeah, that was my point. But apparently I was too subtle with my sarcasm. 🙄
Like I said, though, I do work with all of the major carriers on a daily basis and Sprint doesn't fare well. They used to be one of the better carriers from our perspective, but lately - especially in the last year or so - they've not so much gone downhill as fallen off a cliff.
I was responding to JohnnyAppleseed's post, not yours.
We do offer it with unlimited BIS but not BES. Soooooo get your facts straight bud ;P
But have a great day!
and if anything sprint is better coverage. i don't care about where YOU live, but where I live it's almost the same, with sprint getting better reception. oh yah, and CDMA doesn't screw around with speakers like precious GSM does. I don't miss THAT aspect one bit, being a musician and graphic designer.
I hated the GSM signal dinkin around with my comptuer screen and fuzzin up my stereo speakers.
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For voice onlt its for a very small segment of users that would benefit. IF I could use my Pone on Sprint I would even give it a go. But CDMA phones generally suck and are usually released on for CDMA long after they have been out for GSM.
VeRiZoN01 said:
haha Sprint must be pretty dang desperate to pull this move, oh well they will still fold here in the next few yrs
Desperate is GOOD for the customers. That translates into better pricing and better deals for us.If Sprint was doing well, we wouldn't have this opportunity.
Folding? Nah, more likely is someone else buying them out. Sprint has WAY too many assets and two very large networks that support mobile broadband for them to simply shut down altogether and quit.
VeRiZoN01 said:
either way sprint as a company is going down the drain
Either way, it doesn't really matter.
The only thing that will change for me, if Sprint gets bought out, is I will make out my monthly wireless bill to a different company. I've already done that once when it changed from Nextel to Sprint, and I'll just do it again if it changes in the future.
My home mortgage has been bought out and changed hands more times than I could shake a stick at. The only difference to me is the name I write on the "Pay to the order of" line.
Roadkill said:
Wait... you still write checks? What, your bank doesn't do ETFs and keep track of all that for you? 😉
Yup! I still hold up the line at the store.
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EF_sprint said:...
To say that Sprint is doing this only because they feel they have to is completely wrong. They already had a test plan in several markets for over 6 months that was an unlimited plan, which included everything like the current plan does. The only thing that plan offered was the choice to add an unlimited broadband card for $40 more. Now they just wanted to make a phone deal that was a little cheaper but the same plan. Verizon and other carriers are falsly advertising a true "unlimited" plan. You get everything with Sprint's plan and only voice calling with Verizon. The way people text, use web, music and navigation now, it only makes sense to include it all in one simple plan. You can never have une
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