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Anyone here with Sprint LTE?

richmds said:
I dont think the people posting opposing views are necessarily bashing the OP. Most likely they are unhappy Sprint customers or unhappy former Sprint customers and voicing their warnings about people considering Sprint.
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Yeah if you look at att and verizon based threads and satsifaction studies, there are even more unhappy former Verizon and ATT customers.

As I said I would not recommend Sprint for conttract renewal in cities not on the schedule or or showing 6 months out. I fyou want LTE and a new phone now go with another carrier for a year. Where I am located, I am getting sprint LTE speeds just as fast as the fastest Verizon and ATT speeds and my call quality is certainly better.

Sprint was way ahead in technology, speed, customer service, customer satisfaction for in 2010 through the beginning of 2012. No cares if you tethered your phone which even with 3g ould take you way over 3 gbs. they avoided the walled garden and unlocked worldphones on request, forcing verizon to do the same thing, something VZ would never have done if not forced by competion. Verizon was also removing standalone GPS and forcing aGPS only systems keeping GPS phones from working overseas as GPS navigators for a time.

Right now sprint is a bit behind on LTE becssue they led with WIMAX. In about a year to 18 months they will have a strong LTE spread.

If you have plenty of disposable income and/or are a single user and are outside of deployed LTE, by all means go with VZ or ATT. But when you are on multiline family plans the sprint savings start to get serious. My costs are $80 less a month than a comparable VZ or aTT. That is virtually a $1000 year difference.
 
Ran7 said:
Yeah if you look at att and verizon based threads and satsifaction studies, there are even more unhappy former Verizon and ATT customers.

As I said I would not recommend Sprint for conttract renewal in cities not on the schedule or or showing 6 months out. I fyou want LTE and a new phone now go with another carrier for a year. Where I am located, I am getting sprint LTE speeds just as fast as the fastest Verizon and ATT speeds and my call quality is certainly better.

Sprint was way ahead in technology, speed, customer service, customer satisfaction for in 2010 through the beginning of 2012. No cares if you tethered your phone which even with 3g ould take you way over 3 gbs. they avoided the walled garden and unlocked worldphones on request, forcing verizon to do the same thing, something VZ would never have done if not forced by competion. Verizon was also removing standalone GPS and forcing aGPS only systems keeping GPS phones from working overseas as GPS navigators for a time.

Right now sprint is a bit behind on LTE becssue they led with WIMAX. In about a year to 18 months they will have a strong LTE spread.

If you have plenty of disposable income and/or are a single user and are outside of deployed LTE, by all means go with VZ or ATT. But when you are on multiline family plans the sprint savings start to get serious. My costs are $80 less a month than a comparable VZ or aTT. That is virtually a $1000 year difference.
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Actually I checked VZ threads on their support site and saw most people asking when their phones will be delivered and a few activation issues. Mostly people impatient to receive their phones or order mixups which we have seen on this board as well. Nothing related to coverage.

I also checked Sprints iPhone 5 community, big difference. Numerous threads on people having no data, lack of adequate response from Sprint, very slow 3G, users that are attorneys asking other Sprint users to start a class action lawsuit on false data speed advertisements, and complaints that moderators are closing their threads. Large number of people have had it and returned their iPhones in the first week and moved onto Galaxy S3 or Verizon as a carrier.

If you have LTE in a Sprint area then its probably a no brainer. Sprint advertised LTE but didnt mention their coverage map wasnt fully operational till end of 2013. For me I had horrible data speeds and an unusable phone, waiting up to a year would be too long. Sure if I stuck with them I could have saved $100-1000 per month on Sprints unlimited family plan, but I would lose more money in not having a functional phone, its suppose function as a state of the art communication device. Missed and undeliverable messages from colleagues can result in missed projects and deals, unacceptable. The savings is a pittance compared to the potential income lost.
So for someone that is student or on a fixed income the small savings and waiting it out maybe worthwhile while they figure out how to expand coverage.
 
richmds said:
Actually I checked VZ threads on their support site and saw most people asking when their phones will be delivered and a few activation issues. Mostly people impatient to receive their phones or order mixups which we have seen on this board as well. Nothing related to coverage.
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LOl, When I check Verizon Boards, I see numbers threads with people with data issues, lack of adequate repsonse from Verizon, scathing comments on Verizon support, Slow 3g issues. I also note discussions of class actions against Verizon.
One also sees complaints on Verizon boards about missing or dropped messages.
Seems to be lots of complaints on under performing LTE on Verizon iphone. in fact the moderators on Apples own forums keep cloing newly open threads about Verizon iphone speed issues.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4345587?start=0&tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19683487#19683487#19683487

So if you are a college kid, or a retired grandmother, Verizon makes sense over ATT, otherwise it doesn't. So one might ask: Why were you silly enough to get it on Verizon and not ATT?

See? unless your point is that eveyrone complains about their service or their last a carrier you are losing the readers. The only differentiation is LTE right at this moment (and as I have repeatedly said, that is not trivia).

Sprint led the market and was first in digital PCS band deployment, first in 2G, first in 3G and in first in 4G. their 4g ended up not being the adopted standard and they have a bit of catch up. But the picture you and a few others are painting is very very skewed -- and one can easily find such vocal complaints about any other r carrier..
 
Don't understand why there are post ripping Sprints services, when they get it up and running all the major metropolitan areas they will surprise a lot of people. Unfortunately, their LTE rollout is freaking slow. How do I know??? Well judging on the amount of sites I see each day for permits purposes, they don't seem to be in a rush like AT&T/Verizon, heck TMo is more aggressive with their reframing of the 1900mhz. I don't expect to see LTE in my area until at least early to mid Dec '12.
 
True... i just got sprint iphone5, and fortunately i got LTE in my area...16mbps/14mbps...gr8
 
Ran7 said:
they avoided the walled garden and unlocked worldphones on request, forcing verizon to do the same thing, something VZ would never have done if not forced by competion.
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This is not true, VZ could care less about Sprint unlocking phones. This was a condition from the FCC regarding a spectrum purchase.
 
astral125 said:
This is not true, VZ could care less about Sprint unlocking phones. This was a condition from the FCC regarding a spectrum purchase.
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It is true and I can only think you are new to the issue. combination cdma/GSM phones have been around for a very long time and Sprint has always had a policy of unlocking them for existing customers for a very long time. Verizon refused for years and years. and made you use their sim and pay huge amounts in roaming.
Verizon was forced into unlocking generally because of Sprint and htis is well known. Verizon had the only worldphones of the big three that held you hostage.

Please look up walled garden and Verizon. they have forced makers to remove features on that exist on sprint and other versions of the same phone. example of several such moves: VErizon was forcing motorla and other makers to remove the existing of transferring pictures over phone cables so they could make money on a picture transfer service.

As we stated the first day into release, on this specturm use they were forced to, but for years and years they refused until forced by competition form Sprint and ATT. Verizon is the definitive walled garden provider.
 
Sprint LTE

Although I'm not in charge of paying the bill itself, I personally would choose Verizon. However, I'm stuck with Sprint. That being said I am located in the Chicago suburbs and LTE is not 100% in Chicago, though it is discoverable.


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This was approximately 3 miles away from my location. I would assume in the next coming months things will get better. At home, I'm connected to wifi which gives me 20mbps/5mbps, so that doesn't bother me. I would like to rant about their 3G, it's pretty bad... Hopefully this Network Vision plan fixes it. But yea, OP if you're satisfied then good for you man!
 
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ldominguez1986 said:
Does it work indoors though? I hope to god it does. I also have the IPhone 5 on sprint and waiting for LTE in my city(philadelphia). I hope it doesn't turn into a WiMAX problem
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It wont. Wimax was on the 2.5ghz frequency. LTE runs on 1900mhz, so basically, anywhere you get 2G/3G, you will get LTE. Will get even better next yea when they put LTE on 800mhz!
 
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