Is Sprint really this strict with Roaming?
I have never seen such ridiculous T&C for roaming in my history with wireless.
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Sprint Defines Roaming Limits for Customers
Written by James Ripley
Thursday, 29 March 2007
Sprint has further defined their Terms and conditions on roaming for those customers with roaming included plans.
The changes are as follows...
"Roaming-Included Plans: Not available with single-band phones, or to customers residing outside an area covered by the Nationwide Sprint PCS Network. Sprint may terminate service if (1) more than 800 minutes, (2) a majority of minutes or (3) a majority of data kilobytes in a given month are used while roaming. International calling, including in Canada and ...
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Sprint Defines Roaming Limits for Customers
Written by James Ripley
Thursday, 29 March 2007
Sprint has further defined their Terms and conditions on roaming for those customers with roaming included plans.
The changes are as follows...
"Roaming-Included Plans: Not available with single-band phones, or to customers residing outside an area covered by the Nationwide Sprint PCS Network. Sprint may terminate service if (1) more than 800 minutes, (2) a majority of minutes or (3) a majority of data kilobytes in a given month are used while roaming. International calling, including in Canada and ...
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No offense, but this sounds more then fair. I'm sure the other carries are no more generous with their plans either.
This is why you should always pick a carrier that has the best coverage where you are planning on using it, not for what phones they carry or their cutesy commercials.
This is why you should always pick a carrier that has the best coverage where you are planning on using it, not for what phones they carry or their cutesy commercials.
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Personally, I'm so grateful and thankful that Sprint Nextel is going to enforce their policy regarding customers who abuse the roaming ability of their roaming included plans. Thnink about it people. If you have a Sprint customer who decided to take a four month vacation in the middle of Montana and use their service while there, guess how much revenue Sprint is making on that one customer? Zero if not negative due to the fact SPrint has to pay the Montana roaming wireless carrier for the Sprint customer to use the wireless network in that particular area. You won't believe how many people I turn down every week for our products and services because they don't live within the Sprint PCS National Network. At least I'm doing my part to minimiz...
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raycarroll70 said:
You won't believe how many people I turn down every week for our products and services because they don't live within the Sprint PCS National Network.
yeah I would build your network out!! sprint capacity is sub par 🙄
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SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP
JESUS H CHRIST PEOPLE.
Have some facts before you spew your horse ****.
Show me an FCC site that proves the Sprint has less coverage and significantly fewer towers than VZW.
You cant, and you wont.
JESUS H CHRIST PEOPLE.
Have some facts before you spew your horse ****.
Show me an FCC site that proves the Sprint has less coverage and significantly fewer towers than VZW.
You cant, and you wont.
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Hmm... Isn't it Verizon whose "unlimited" data plan has a 5gb ceiling? 😕
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I'm a sprint customer and yes the network needs to be built out more. Major interstates still have no sprint coverage and barely any roaming. I80 through Wyoming and Nebraska is one such road. Where iPCS is doing business you might as well just put the phone on roaming only as coverage is spotty. I always find areas that are booming but no sprint service in site. The last few years new towers from sprint in this area are nowhere to be found. They are doing a few synergy sites but those just boost coverage for a few miles and don't add anything new. I'm about to go to verizon with the ipcs fiasco and sprint not doing much to rectify the problem.
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yeah yeah yeah. Then lets go back to saying it all depends on were you live. Were I am at sprint is great and its not even a big town or even close to an interstate which everyone likes to use about sprint. Verizons coverage is more then spotty here . So as with all things look into them before you buy. Name alone is not good enough!!!!!
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Cingular just sent my mom a letter saying that she roams too much and she has 30 days to port her number out...so don't lay it all on Sprint, other carriers do it to. For some reason Sprint just seems to catch more flack for it. 🙄
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Other carriers could walk around town holding people up at gunpoint and it would be overlooked and consumer reports would rate them number one. But if Sprint enforces what is in the terms and conditions that the customer agrees to then they are being unfair.
Like the other guy said, it's fashionable to do.
Like the other guy said, it's fashionable to do.
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That doesn't sound strict to me. Pretty much all carriers have similar rules as far as roaming. If you roam more than use your carrier's towers, then you are actually COSTING your carrier money. Companies are in the business to MAKE money. As far as actually enforcing, companies are usually pretty intermitten about it.
P.S.
SprintPCS is the devil.
P.S.
SprintPCS is the devil.
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I think Sprint catches the most heat because most of the customer that have Sprint roam at some point or another. If I walk into a building in Memphis with my phone it automatically goes to roam. sprint just doesn't have great coverage in the Southeast. I agree that the carrier doesn't want you to roam, but when they put a number on it....it makes you feel worried that you may go over that number at some point. Verizon doesn't have a set number of voice minutes that you can't go over. Its called Extended area at verizon and not roaming. Cingular phones don't even tell you when you are roaming...so you have no idea unless you have a TDMA handset. I read the post earlier about a customer getting a letter about roaming to much? Where do...
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Screw Sprint,they have all that roaming on thier plans so thier coverage doesnt look like a Spider web. The person who said Sprint and Verizon have almost identical amount of coverage hasnt lived in Arizona or New Mexico obviously. Sprint barely covers the urban areas of Phoenix/Mesa and relies heavily on Alltel and Verizons networks in most of the rural areas in the southwest to provide coverage.Sprint has spectrum in almost every county in the United States so if Sprint is so worried about customers roaming off thier network maybe they should "POWER UP" and expand thier native coverage. I guess that would make too much sense though.
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Verizon relies on sprint also just as much. As the people in west texas! No one carrier can have coverage everywhere. Sprint however has made a move that I find interesting. Alltel's network does not count against you nor does any network that is on their coverage map as being free. Its only if your outside that area. So all this talk about going over roaming minutes I think is over done. And most of the roaming is now analog. Just like your sprint phone will search out an EVDO signal from either alltel or sprint first before it goes to 1x. Even if your in a sprint service area and can get sprint 1x.
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I've checked it out with allthe major carriers, and while they don't all charge for roaming, they all have similar policies on using roaming towers. They ALL reserve the right to cancel your contract with or without adequate notice if you use a majority of minutes in roaming areas.
While roaming is not a huge issue in Metropolitan areas like LA, Chicago and Detroit, up here in Midland,MI (iPCS territory) coverage is very spotty north of town, and you cant help but get charged for roaming unless you get a business essentials plan. we need a plan here that has unlimited roaming.
While roaming is not a huge issue in Metropolitan areas like LA, Chicago and Detroit, up here in Midland,MI (iPCS territory) coverage is very spotty north of town, and you cant help but get charged for roaming unless you get a business essentials plan. we need a plan here that has unlimited roaming.
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IPCS needs to get over themselves and let sprint take back control. Take the offer and move on!
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May 8, IPCS in MICHIGAN ONLY (re?)introduced no roaming charges on their Power pack and Free Incoming Plans...about damn time!!!
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That sure is nice. I found out the hard way with IPCS. Thought when I was paying $15 I had unlimited roaming, not a half/half deal. I then upgraded to the $200 unlimited plan, and still pay $15 a month for unlimited roaming. I will call the local IPCS store in my area today to get it figured out. IPCS sure hires idiots in the store here. Only the service technican girl knows what the hell to do, all others are half as smart as the dumbest person I have ever met.
I at one point was going to change my number to a Flint or Detroit number to get out of the $15 a month charge.
I at one point was going to change my number to a Flint or Detroit number to get out of the $15 a month charge.
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This why you should choose a carrier that has coverage where you need it. Too many pick carries based on fancy phone, rather then on coverage.
And no, I don't think this policy is out of line, roaming costs money and is treated as a part time convenience for the customer, not a full time extension of the network for the customer who didn't do his homework.
And no, I don't think this policy is out of line, roaming costs money and is treated as a part time convenience for the customer, not a full time extension of the network for the customer who didn't do his homework.
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