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Sprint 3G is a joke, I'm done

JohnnyQuest said:
I have AT&T, and really don't hate it at all.

It's turned into one of those things where one person says something negative, and then the next person follows, and so on and so forth, until it's completely convoluted. Someone said AT&T sucked, and it has since become this stigma in society and the media that AT&T is the devil's spawn.

AT&T is quite fast, and it's actually cheaper than Verizon, although with some spotty coverage in certain places. That being said, sometimes my AT&T phone gets better service than Verizon phones.

Just my opinion.
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It really is personal opinion and history for everybody.

I had no trouble with my AT&T iPhone from the first one until the 4. But when I moved farther away from the city and used my iPhone as my only phone, AT&T's network issues arose like hell. I constantly drop calls at my home no matter where I'm at. I had two drop yesterday, one drop today. It's pretty much just a matter of time if I talk for more than a minute.

Yes, AT&T's 3G network is faster. But what if you venture into an area with only EDGE coverage? From what I hear from other users, Verizon has much better call reliability. I'm thinking the Verizon data speed won't affect me most of the time since I have WiFi at home and WiFi at work. A lot of places where I like to eat lunch have an almost non-existent AT&T signal, which means no data. If Verizon gets coverage, anything is better than zero.

So it is personal preference and where you live. You can pretty much tell what a carrier's drawback is going to be by the commercial. When AT&T brags about speed, you can tell the drawback is coverage and quality. Verizon brags about wide coverage, which means it's not as fast. Sprint brags about unlimited data, which means the coverage is spotty and the data is slow.
 
For calls, Sprint has great coverage because the phone will automatically switch to roam on verizon if you are in an area with no sprint signal.

On android you can use the Roam Control app to keep it on Verizon all the time, but you only get 1xRTT data, which is incredibly slow.
 
I had a 3G on AT&T since 2009. Call quality was abismable, but had admitedly improved a bit here in Portland in the past year. I decided to get a sprint iPhone 4S in hopes Of better call quality, especially in budings since I live in the downtown area, and compromise with slightly slower by still resonable 3G speeds. What did I get when my 4S pre-order arrived? I got between 1 and 2 bars in my apartment in the center of a perfectly covered area of downtown, and about .01 mb/s down and upload speed outside in open air on a clear day!

I dealt with that for about 30 minutes before I got in line at the Apple Store and promptly ported my number back to AT&T. Took my other iPhone back too the sprint store and said good riddance! I had a poor opinion of sprint before, especially having worked for them in the past, but this was almost laughable. I would never put up with that, never!

Getting at least 2 mb/s and up to 5 mb/s on my AT&T 4s and always 4-5 bars. Call quality ... Well it still has that AT&T ... "charm." Much better then the 3G but I'm not going to say it is entirely better!
 
PsstGreek said:
The best I got so far.

2.81 ms Ping - 2.04 Mbps Download - 0.51 Mbps Upload

I admit AT&T is faster, but to me saving money by joining my parents sprint plan is worth it to me.
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I just did the test one with my 3G service with AT&T and one with my cable service with Cox Cable Wi-Fi Results are below.

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This is my 3G service with AT&T

speedtest_att_WiFi.png
This is my Wi-Fi Service with Cox Cable using their Fast Internet.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)

My tmobile edge is faster than that
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)

I'm using an unlocked iPhone 4. Only
Capable of receiving edge speeds. It's not a lot faster it's similiar lol.


God I wish I was able to get TMobile 3G or 4G. Would be amazinggg. I'll trade slow speeds for such a nice phone.
 
I really just wish I could make calls over wi-fi. I have an AT&T Microcell and it's terrible.
 
at the apple store right now, just got an att 32GB, goodbye sprint!!! Anyone thats interested I am at the apple store in west farms mall in CT, they are sold out of all 16GB models and they have a decent amount of 32 for all carriers
 
JohnnyQuest said:
It's turned into one of those things where one person says something negative, and then the next person follows, and so on and so forth, until it's completely convoluted. Someone said AT&T sucked, and it has since become this stigma in society and the media that AT&T is the devil's spawn.
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Well, no.

The reason why one person said it and the next continued was b/c those people kept getting pathetic service from AT&T.

I have AT&T as does most I know and very few if any are "happy" with it but we keep going with what we have b/c it works and that is frankly about it. The speeds are for the most part a joke especially with what others claim to get here.

So, most of the criticism of AT&T comes from their actual service...not people coming online to bash AT&T because its cool to do.
 
i was at work did a speed test and laughed really hard was 0.05 mb rofl, at home im about .6 mb though so decent enough
 
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