Wow that's pitiful. It looks like their entire LTE rollout has been delayed like crazy.
It's been delayed by frakking 6 months. Sprint blames the vendors. Supplies, parts, equipment, etc. Add in a hurricane too. But never themselves. Sprint can never bring itself to admit any fault.
Dan Hesse lost about $200,000 in stock shares in February because of the delay. if you look at the running list above you'll see that my area (Phoenix) does not even have a market announcement date but is scheduled for completion by January, 2014. That's one full year and three months in to my contract with an LTE capable iPhone 5!
Worse yet is that PHX is an Alcatel-Lucent market (Sprint isn't actually doing the work, they hired it all out) and that outfit likes to do the 3G upgrades first, get the towers signed off and then return to do LTE. Stupid!
Sprint likes to defend themselves by claiming that they are replacing everything on the towers. In the same breath they say they have equipment as old as 1998 and then pillory Verizon and AT&T for "bolting" on LTE. They always fail to mention that AT&T and Verizon are doing that because they already ran fiber backhaul and made other upgrades ALREADY! Something Sprint should have done YEARS ago!!!
On top of all this Dan Hesse seems to be living in a J.D. Power Achievement Award fantasy land for customer service. It's the same awful service or worse that it's always been and Sprint management continues to ignore anything that hints of problems. Partly I think that is to avoid opening themselves up to a lawsuit, but most of it has to be because these people are just incompetent. If Sprint's call quality still wasn't good and I wasn't able to avoid CS like I have for the last 14 years I would have been gone a long time ago.
