me too. Sprint is the worst. I payed Early termination fees for my family because I got sick of the complaints. They love T-mobile.

T Mobile hands down....Sprint is the 😈 I've never been with such a company that could continuosly bill you after you've stopped your service.

Better plans, better prices, better customer service, better "nationwide coverage", better technology, better international capabilities... Would you like me to go on? 😎 There is no question, in my mind! (opinion)

Tmobile83 said:
So it depends on individual

Always has!

I think this question is just all in good fun 🙂

I am being honest. I am comparing the two companies, which Tmobile83 has asked. This is what he said”
Who do you think is a better carrier"

He did not say anything about customer care or anything, but over all who is better.

I gave my opinion with sound and factual evidence to prove that sprint is better.

I will say this that tmobile pretty much has a very good prepaid product, and their core pretty much caters to the lower income, lower spending, lower lifetime revenue per user subscriber base, while sprint does the opposite.

In addition, sprint has 3g spectrum and 4g spectrum to roll out DO rev o and rev a then move on to wimax or flarion, while tmobile doesn’t even have 3g or 4g spectrum to roll out any high speed da...
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I had Sprint for 5 months and was more then willing to pay twice the ETF to get out. I now have both Verizon and Cingular. (450 each). Sprint was terrible with a capital T. I could never think think Sprint as anything more then a regional company even with the addition of Nextel (another also ran).
Sounds like you are a Nextel fan who is now a bit proud and puffed up to be a part of a "truly national" carrier. I would not be so elated.

Lol. I had sprint for 3 years and I was very satisfied with it before I went to nextel. I had them all and I like those 2 carriers out of the others.

Sprint is terrible by your standards but to a million or so they sign up per quarter thinks otherwise especially since their arpu is number 2 and their data arpu is number 1 but most importantly is their lifetime revenue per user is number 2 . Because of that is shows that people actually likes sprint regardless of what you think. I go by facts and figures not by complaining or one person’s experience.

Again, combine sprint and Nextel’s network, spectrum, assets, management, and industry leading metrics, you will be surprised by saying your theory with “being terrible” or “truly natio...
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So compare the INTERNATIONAL revenues and Assets with Sprint vs. T-Mobile. The i-net capabilities may be faster, but not for long... T-Mobile will catch up 🙂 And, if you look at other facts, you will see that JD Power rated T-Mobile #1 in customer service for two years in a row (while Sprint fell dead last in 8th place for national carriers) AND... if you look at JD Powers wireless call quality performance study, you will see T-Mobile (again) at #1 (tied with verizon) while sprint falls into 6th place. It doesn't really matter what their revenues are for Sprint (which may be higher due to the higher rate plans, and people wanting to stick with them due to the "cool phones", and all of the ETF's they may be incurring) When comparing wir...
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i dont care too much about those jd power and associates results becuase they dont represent a majority of the customers, however, i do like tmobile's customer care and their cheap plans that attract the low end and cheap customers.


it doesnt anger me what so ever. lol.


by the way sprint leads tmobile in every important metric.
1. arpu
2. churn i think (not to sure)
3. data arpu
4. lifetime revenue per user
5. growth.


etc...

people are sticking with sprint and paying more its becuase they like their data and voice services more then they like others. that is what happens.

Oh, I'm sorry...One more thing. If you were so happy with Sprint, why did you switch? 😕

Phonebabe69 said:
I had Sprint for 5 months and was more then willing to pay twice the ETF to get out. I now have both Verizon and Cingular. (450 each). Sprint was terrible with a capital T. I could never think think Sprint as anything more then a regional company even with the addition of Nextel (another also ran).
Sounds like you are a Nextel fan who is now a bit proud and puffed up to be a part of a "truly national" carrier. I would not be so elated.

6 months ago he was ripping on Sprint along with the rest of the naysayers. Now all of a sudden they're the second coming.

muchdrama said:

Phonebabe69 said:
I had Sprint for 5 months and was more then willing to pay twice the ETF to get out. I now have both Verizon and Cingular. (450 each). Sprint was terrible with a capital T. I could never think think Sprint as anything more then a regional company even with the addition of Nextel (another also ran).
Sounds like you are a Nextel fan who is now a bit proud and puffed up to be a part of a "truly national" carrier. I would not be so elated.

6 months ago he was ripping on Sprint along with the rest of the naysayers. Now all of a sudden they're the second coming.

Uh-kay? (as I snap my fingers, and give my back to the room)

Anxiovert said:

muchdrama said:

Phonebabe69 said:
I had Sprint for 5 months and was more then willing to pay twice the ETF to get out. I now have both Verizon and Cingular. (450 each). Sprint was terrible with a capital T. I could never think think Sprint as anything more then a regional company even with the addition of Nextel (another also ran).
Sounds like you are a Nextel fan who is now a bit proud and puffed up to be a part of a "truly national" carrier. I would not be so elated.

6 months ago he was ripping on Sprint along with the rest of the naysayers. Now all of a sudden they're the second coming.

Uh-kay? (as I snap my fingers, and give my

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Anxiovert said:

muchdrama said:

Phonebabe69 said:
I had Sprint for 5 months and was more then willing to pay twice the ETF to get out. I now have both Verizon and Cingular. (450 each). Sprint was terrible with a capital T. I could never think think Sprint as anything more then a regional company even with the addition of Nextel (another also ran).
Sounds like you are a Nextel fan who is now a bit proud and puffed up to be a part of a "truly national" carrier. I would not be so elated.

6 months ago he was ripping on Sprint along with the rest of the naysayers. Now all of a sudden they're the second coming.

Uh-kay? (as I snap my fingers, and give my

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muchdrama said:

Anxiovert said:

Uh-kay? (as I snap my fingers, and give my back to the room)

Problem, Anxio? Post not good enough for that rarified atmosphere you call home?

I don't think he has any problems with you. I think he was actually supporting your post and snapping his fingers at PhoneBabe... (the universal gay body language is often misunderstood when expressed in writing) lol even more by str8 plp.

BeachSlapped said:

muchdrama said:

Anxiovert said:

Uh-kay? (as I snap my fingers, and give my back to the room)

Problem, Anxio? Post not good enough for that rarified atmosphere you call home?

I don't think he has any problems with you. I think he was actually supporting your post and snapping his fingers at PhoneBabe... (the universal gay body language is often misunderstood when expressed in writing) lol even more by str8 plp.

Then I offer him a hearty football slap on the buttocks and a sincere apology. And if he didn't mean that, I take back the butt slap and the apology.

T mobile might be a sleeping giant as I feel that we may see alot of change here in a year as T mobile trys to position their self to compete with their rivals

I wouldn't really call them a giant of any sort. Not even a sleeping one.

I would disagree. Until tmobile USA buys out 3g spectrum, rolls out 3g data, and increases their coverage/capacity in many areas they will never be a sleeping giant or a giant for that matter.

I again will have to disagree on nextel 18, no disrespect, i would have to say that i believe t-mobile is a sleeping giant. I believe t-mobile has the potential to compete well against Cingular, and Sprint-tel(kinda of a nickname i came up for sprint and nextel). T-mobile is a sleeping Giant to me, they have the right idea, but they've done nothing to prove it, nor show it. verizon says we're going to roll out ev do, they do. So what T-Mobile needs to do is get on the ball, get back in the game before they're so far behind, there just s.o.l.

The need to improve there coverage alot! More phones! T-Mobile is possible to do all of this, why not? Cingular has! its possible!


I think that T mobiles rates are great! but than again they hav...
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well said. 🙂

very good sound opinion.

one one well a few problems.

1. their network coverage isnt that great
2. they need 3g spectrum
3. they need 3g data network
4. they need billions to increase the above 3 which they dont have.

i really hope tmobile does well i do.

nextel18 said:
well said. 🙂

very good sound opinion.

one one well a few problems.

1. their network coverage isnt that great
2. they need 3g spectrum
3. they need 3g data network
4. they need billions to increase the above 3 which they dont have.

i really hope tmobile does well i do.

Last I heard, T-Mobile USA was granted $2 billion to spend on new spectrum for a 3G rollout.

www.phonescoop.com

Read the article about "Deutsche Telekom Holding On To American Unit"

I had Sprint for five years. Then I switch to T-Mobile. Customer service with Sprint is not good at all. T-Mobile has better customer service. Phone selection- have to go with Sprint. Plans - have to go with T-Mobile. It really that person choice. 😉

yea, it also depends whether or not you are going for data products or just voice products. now, sprint has very good voice with Fair and flex and great data products. tmobile only has a good voice product and terrible data products.

you are right. "It really that person choice"

nextel18 said:
yea, it also depends whether or not you are going for data products or just voice products. now, sprint has very good voice with Fair and flex and great data products. tmobile only has a good voice product and terrible data products.

you are right. "It really that person choice"

I wouldn't say that Fair and Flexible is great. It's Sprint's answer to Rollover...both are marketing gimmicks and should NOT be used to decide on a carrier ( I thankfully steered my sister away from the rollover gimmick and talked her into staying with Verizon.) F&F is outrageously overpriced! They only give the illusion of saving someone money. It would only help in the rare situation that everything goes s...
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you dont think it is great? how come way more then 50 percent of the people that sign onto sprint get fair and flex?

of course ur save money. usually overages are $.40 and they are doing $5 for 100 or $.20 thus your saving $.20 per min.

nextel18 said:
you dont think it is great? how come way more then 50 percent of the people that sign onto sprint get fair and flex?

of course ur save money. usually overages are $.40 and they are doing $5 for 100 or $.20 thus your saving $.20 per min.

Gee, let's do a simple cost analysis of Sprint's Fair and Flexible plan. Sprint: 700 minutes unl N/W, 50.00/month. F&F mins 5.00/100 x 3 = 15.00. 1000 minutes per month with Sprint = 65.00.

TMobile, 1000 minutes unl N/W- 45.99

Yeah, Sprint is SO much CHEAPER! 🙄 Also, for a customer who used 901 minutes, that last minute cost them 5.00 per minute, which is not what I'd call a favorable per minute overage rate...

i never said they were cheaper i was just saying that most carriers charge .40 extra per min while they are charging .20 per min that was my point.

nextel18 said:
i never said they were cheaper i was just saying that most carriers charge .40 extra per min while they are charging .20 per min that was my point.

And that is still factually incorrect, as I was trying to point out to you. The charge is 5.00 per 100 minutes. It's only .20/minute if you use all of them--use one and it costs 5.00/min, 2 mins overage is 2.50/min and so on. Mathematics isn't subject to your whim and opinion. 🙄

bizkitsngravy said:

nextel18 said:
sprint-hands down.


bigger network. more capacity on the network. better speeds. better products. highier arpu. highier data arpu.

i dont think you can compare tmobile to sprint.

Be honest with yourself for a moment...why would a customer care what a companys average revenue per user is, let alone know what it means and how we use it...I think you might be missing the point on this conversation...

Ignore him, Blitz...he throws that crap out with every post. Always the same thing...

It may cover more areas. (still not availible where I'm at 😉 ) But also consider that Verizon does have the BEST coverage nationwide. T-Mobile will cover in more areas other than Metro. I live in a rural area, where CDMA companies dominate, but we are doing a fantastic job here with T-Mobile. As a matter of fact, a CDMA provider has just recently switched their tech. to GSM in our area. 😁