Even worse, Sprint has the balls to charge him a $10 premium data fee for his plan.
Yeah…about that fee!
Originally, a 4G fee for phones that were using WiMax 4G. Sprint retracted their original statement within moments of calling it that fee, something the CSRs vehemently refuse to engage with you in conversation about. Revisionist history and all that.
I've never objected to the fee, but I have always been critical of Sprint's denial that they ever labeled it a 4G fee and how they implemented it. And the fact that Sprint made money off it. Clearwire was only charging Sprint $5 for access to WiMax (whether you used it or not), Sprint doubled that fee on it's customers to $10.
It was only for the HTC EVO 4G the first year, then Sprint decided to apply it to a certain list of smartphones. I avoided the fee until 2012 when we got iPhones, but I always thought it interesting that Sprint could call my HTC Touch Pro a business class smartphone, but exempt me from this fee. Maybe the Touch Pro was smart enough to be a smartphone but not smart enough to get the fee applied to it?
Never gotten a straight answer from Sprint on that one either.
Now, finally, Sprint has done what they should have done from the beginning. All they had to do was raise the price of plans $10 and people would have whined and that would have been the end of it. Instead, they made it a separate fee and everyone continuously complains about it (if you have it). Once they came out with Framily and the My Way and All In plans they included the fee in the price of the plan and don't list it separately now (but it's still there).
It's just people like me on the old plans paying the fee separately now.
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Lol
Now that's a premium rip off
LOL!
I dodged the fee for four years. Advantages to using old phones past their two year contract term.
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I was in Chicago with a Sprint phone before they initiated Spark, and I was very surprised at how frequently I had excellent LTE. I would guess that Spark has only made it better.
However, Chicago was the only place I went to with Sprint in many years that had such consistently excellent coverage. I learned my lesson with them long ago, do not use Sprint.
Chicago was the first market Sprint upgraded and they used it as a testing market to determine how they were going to do the rest of the Network Vision upgrade.
It's now Sprint's oldest and most mature (what a joke) upgraded market so it should be performing better than the rest at least. You would not have wanted to be there during the upgrade though. The old pre-NV equipment was Samsung and it did not hand off calls to the new equipment. So if you were moving your call could be cut off if you went from a non-upgraded tower to an upgraded tower.
Sprint had serious issues during the rollout there and lost a lot of customers over it.
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VOICE is excellent. DATA, that's another story.
Can't argue with you there. Voice has always been good, even in the midst of the rollout.
