Sprint and the North East
I have been a sprint customer for almost five years and recently started looking at cingular and verizon. I live in the Philadelphia area and feel that Sprints service is competitive but I am starting to get frustrated with the new phones. I don't feel like anything great has been released and was wondering if sprint has plans to release anything with bluetooth in the near future. I want to stay with Sprint but need a little convincing. Somebody please talk me off the ledge!!! Is Sprint the best provider if so why??
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You will probably be unhappy with Verizon (or Cingular for that matter) because their call clarity is terrible compared with Sprint. Sprint runs at 1.9Ghz while Verizon at 800Mhz.
I can understand your frustration with new phones -- I can tell you a horror story when I at one time switched to Verizon with a LG VX6100 -- I had to go back to tech support so they could perform an upgrade on the phone which took almost 2 hours because when you first pick up the phone, it was very quiet sounding for the first 2 seconds! After the upgraded, it was fixed, but uhhh the frustration and also that phone also exhibited high-pitched sounds emitting from the handset every now and again. Another reason why I am sticking with Sprint... 🙂
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I can understand your frustration with new phones -- I can tell you a horror story when I at one time switched to Verizon with a LG VX6100 -- I had to go back to tech support so they could perform an upgrade on the phone which took almost 2 hours because when you first pick up the phone, it was very quiet sounding for the first 2 seconds! After the upgraded, it was fixed, but uhhh the frustration and also that phone also exhibited high-pitched sounds emitting from the handset every now and again. Another reason why I am sticking with Sprint... 🙂
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bry1974ny said:
Sprint runs at 1.9Ghz while Verizon at 800Mhz.
Just to clarify-
1.9 gHz is exactly the same as 1900 mHz (one of the standards of the wireless industry)
There aren't many differences between performance on this band and the 800/850 mHz band. However you may see better signal penetration in buildings with 800/850, since the lower frequency may travel farther with less breakup (same reason why AM radio transmissions travel farther than FM- they don't get as broken up passing through other things)
Other than that, "1.9 gHz" just sounds cooler! 😉
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there is a big difference between the 1900 mhz and the 800 mhz.
in the 800 mhz there is a lot of noise. a lot of signales occupy this spectrum as a result the signal has to be more powerful so it can penitrate threw the noise. so to speak
1900 mhz on the other hand has very little interfearince. so insted of haveing to plow threw the interferance like the 800 mhz, 1900 mhz simply flys right over the top if all the interfearance.
is on better then the other? if you ask me it is 6 of one half a dozen of the other
in the 800 mhz there is a lot of noise. a lot of signales occupy this spectrum as a result the signal has to be more powerful so it can penitrate threw the noise. so to speak
1900 mhz on the other hand has very little interfearince. so insted of haveing to plow threw the interferance like the 800 mhz, 1900 mhz simply flys right over the top if all the interfearance.
is on better then the other? if you ask me it is 6 of one half a dozen of the other
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they are both very good. the 800 can go through buildings, but 1.9ghz cant. 800 cant go a long distance, while 1.9gh can. so it all depends on many things. as well as the higher freq you go the faster speeds and less interference you will get. thats why verizon, sprint, and cingular/att wireless(i belive) are doing their high speed data at theh 1.9ghz. thats why wimax will be done at the 2.5ghz level instead of lower.
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wimax will be done at 2.5 ghz because that is what the fcc oppened for it. why? because all the lower frequenses are getting congested
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