I cannot fathom why someone would even choose Sprint as an option. Please tell me your reasons as to why you would do this to yourself. They are widely known as the worst carrier in the U.S. There WiMax/LTE roll out is a complete cluster ****. They have no idea what they are doing, I really cannot understand how they are still in business after all these years.
This again.
You know, some Sprint customers aren't new. We chose Sprint back when it had a decent reputation. Way back in 1999 Sprint didn't have the "Sprint sucks" reputation it has now.
We stayed because the service has been useable and the call quality good. Data is great (in the sense that it's great to have data, not that Sprint's data itself is great) but we mainly use our phones for phone calls. There are ways to work around the crappy customer service. Even with the NV rollout our problems were never as bad as they have been other places and were never enough to actually force us to leave. I didn't even realize 3G data sucked until I got my iPhone 5 last year. The 3G data always just worked on my 3G only HTC Touch Pro and had been just fine from 2009 to 2012.
Now that I actually have LTE I have an unlimited data plan. Yay me! Anyway, your question assumes that ALL Sprint customers are suffering the same bad service quality. While true in a lot of instances (OK, a majority of instances) it's NOT true everywhere.
My question back to you is why should I leave if I have useable unlimited data, good service and am paying a lesser price for it?
P.S. There is no WiMax rollout. WiMax ended in 2011. That was a business deal with Clearwire. Now, Sprint is converting all the WiMax towers (or most of them) to LTE, but WiMax is dead and has been since 2011.