You ought to try Sprint in my area. No over congestion at all and speeds work well on both 3G and 4G. It's all about location.
yup. 3G is good here, but there's no 4g to be seen.... 4g doesn't make it to (or past) the north end of Los Angeles (San Fernando/Santa Clarita valley).
It's the same deal in our town. Sprint MAY come here and deploy on the existing T-Mobile tower when Network Vision is in full deployment here. Until then...nothing.
So despite the fact that many people on the forums have seen improved data speeds as well as all of the existing and planned data improvements that Sprint has committed to and shown on their new network enhancement web site, you are still convinced that Sprint is just sitting around doing nothing? Seriously? I believe in your situation that maybe another carrier can meet your needs better so it might be a smart move to do so. If it doesn't meet your expectations than move on and find something that does.
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Lenny, the problem is that Sprint has went backwards in quality over the last 2 or 3 years here in OKC, while steadily increasing prices. So before they can begin to improve from where they were, they have to first catch up to the level they were at a few short years ago. So who cares if they say they're committed if in the meantime they're not putting action to their words, esp while driving up my cost of doing business with Sprint. Show me some improvement in OKC. Give me a timetable for 4g rollout.... They threw up a few wimax towers, but that's been a worthless gesture, apparently intended only to help them hold on to spectrum licenses.
I'd rather pay for usuable data, than have unlimited data that can't even stream radio and is useless.
I just spent 3 days in Atlantic City and Sprints data (as Don Imus would say) couldn't suck enough.
Didn't matter where I was, didn't matter the time of day, it was just pathetic.
Wi-Fi is far from free at the hotels and ended up buying 2 days worth so I could use some applications on my phone that I HAD to use.
Yep. until you experience it, its kind of hard to understand.
Now imagine you having to put up with that for months, everyday. With no sign of it getting better.
But when you point it out or complain all you get is: ( "its improved for some, and great for me. So shut up, stop whining, and keep paying that $200 a month for nothing.")
Hit some blazing speeds today on the way to work. 57kbps down and 78kbps up. welcome to 1990!
But hey its great in orange county. So I should stop complaining, sell my house, quit my job and move accross country for cell service I guess.
Yep. until you experience it, its kind of hard to understand.
Now imagine you having to put up with that for months, everyday. With no sign of it getting better.
But when you point it out or complain all you get is: ( "its improved for some, and great for me. So shut up, stop whining, and keep paying that $200 a month for nothing.")
Well, it's not like that for me "most" of the time and handled Pandora fine for 300 miles.
I can understand the frustration however and barring the contract obstacle I do think that AT&T might be a better choice at about 10.00 more for an individual line or even T-Mobile if the coverage is sufficient.
Your ETF goes down every month, it may not be as much as you think.
Yea. I'm not even worried about the contract or ETF's. They are so low now it doesn't even matter. But I have a phones for the whole family to buy when I move to AT&T. And don't want to buy now when AT&Ts LTE phones are sort of limited.
So I am putting up with it until after the mobile show in feburary to see whats coming and when. Skyrocket HD doesn't look bad, sony ion is promising too. But hell, the galaxy 3 might not be that far off. (or HTC's quad. LOL).
Figure that also gives sprint a few more months, if i can keep from losing my mind until then, to see if anything gets better.
It is not as bleak as you paint it with T-Mobile. Sprint, likewise, has to show with a profitable quarter soon. Investors are weary of continued losses.
This. Sprint does need to put up some profits, as a stockholder, I am pissed. lol
I used to brag on sprint. talked a lot of family and friends into coming on board years past. Now I feel like an idiot as they all are *****ing and complaining.
It's really the same with any carrier. This is why it's nice to have the freedom to change. I have changed carriers dozens of times, service is never awesome on just one forever. At one point, AT&T was the best way to go, now I think Verizon is good. In a few years who knows... Sprint may be the best!
I think it will come down to all the network enhancements Sprint does and keeping unlimited data will help out in the future. If users can get decent speeds on 3G and their new 4G network and keep it unlimited... why not?!
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Pretty much any populated area of CT now has completely unusable 3G. I thought an upgrade they made on my tower ("data capacity") made a difference, it was just a blip. Speeds are high at 3am (2000kbps) and then crash down to 400kbps throughout the day. But this is a comparatively good situation, MANY areas of the state get less than 100kbps! I have performed speed tests on multiple towers that say they have had data upgrades, and had the speed test completely fail, or gotten results with pings over 1000 and like 40kbps down! This is on MULTIPLE "upgraded" towers with multiple phones. I don't know what kind of "upgrades" they are doing but it seems to be complete baloney. I get good speeds in big cities like New York or Boston or in the sticks, everywhere in between Huge city and rural America is horrible!
What is the distinction between "rant" and "reasonable description of service in my experience" and how do you think such posts fit in a thread titled "sprint worst network for iPhone"?
Additionally, what do you think about posts praising sprint's network performance based on individual speed test results? Have you considered moving them to a "raves" sub forum?
What is the distinction between "rant" and "reasonable description of service in my experience" and how do you think such posts fit in a thread titled "sprint worst network for iPhone"?
The distinction is simply following forum rules.
Originally Posted by Protagonist
Additionally, what do you think about posts praising sprint's network performance based on individual speed test results? Have you considered moving them to a "raves" sub forum?
"Praising"
Initiating a thread regarding hardware network changes and resulting improved (2Mbps) experiences is specific. Those who post otherwise clearly do so out of spite, this is also thread-crapping and is off-topic.
Being that users who report improved network performance offends you/takes you to the point where you question whether or not it even belongs in the main forum, says there may be other issues here.
Originally Posted by larryt510
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