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Sprint and Apple Working On "Issue" With iPhone Data Speeds

The thing I don't understand with at&t is that the phones (iPhone and Android phones) I see hardly ever have full service. My Verizon iPhone 4S always has between 4 and 5 bars, while my friends at&t iPhone 4/4S always hovers around 2 or 3 bars. Because of that, I have faster data speeds than them.

For example: in the break room at work, I have full 3G service, while my friend/manager has 1 to 2 bars on her at&t android. Does at&t's signal have horrible building penetration?

Keep in mind my town is full of cell towers.
 
I know it's not great, but this is from my office where I had NO AT&T coverage, so I'm happy I switched.
 

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Day late and dollar short! When Sprint said there's nothing wrong I went to AT&T. If they had been straight from the beginning I might have stayed with them.

I haven't gotten a bill from Sprint yet for my 4 days with them but if they try to stick me with $144 in activation fees then I'll never even consider them for my cell service in the future.
 
Yikes. I get faster upload speeds on my 5 year old flip-phone.... and similar download speeds. . .

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Greg M said:
Day late and dollar short! When Sprint said there's nothing wrong I went to AT&T. If they had been straight from the beginning I might have stayed with them.

I haven't gotten a bill from Sprint yet for my 4 days with them but if they try to stick me with $144 in activation fees then I'll never even consider them for my cell service in the future.
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No one cares.
 
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Sprint has very slow 3G. That problem won't be fixed anytime soon.
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I think it will. They just invested 20 billion to get the iPhone. They know bad word of mouth and bad press can effectively kill it for them. They need the iPhone to be successful and I'm pretty sure they know it. Now that it's in the open and Apple is involved I have confidence they will get it resolved.
 
Sprint usually has good 3G.

What's happening reminds me of that iOS version (2.0? 3.0?) that had the WCDMA 3G power bug.

It caused iPhones on AT&T to ramp up their output power until the cell they were using became overloaded and most other phones on that cell had to drop their data connection, or had terrible data rates.

Wonder if something similar is happening here.
 
Just got my 4S today and here are my results:

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Seems quick enough for me. All my pages load quickly and I haven't had any of the slow speeds others are complaining about.

How do I get the fancy screenshots that all of you are posting?
 
kdarling said:
Sprint usually has good 3G.

What's happening reminds me of that iOS version (2.0? 3.0?) that had the WCDMA 3G power bug.

It caused iPhones on AT&T to ramp up their output power until the cell they were using became overloaded and most other phones on that cell had to drop their data connection, or had terrible data rates.

Wonder if something similar is happening here.
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What annoyed me about that is AT&T got blamed for most of it and yet the entire problem was an Apple generated problem.

I would like to see some proof one way or the other, few speed test from Sprint iPhone and an Android phone running on Sprint 3G side by side. That way you remove signal problems and using different phones.

Fact that leads me to believe this is an Apple problem is I do not remember reading the complaints from other phones on Sprint's network. It was only when the iPhone came out that we see theses complaints.
 
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I had AT&T and would get any where from 0.50 MBPS to 2.5 MBPS on an iPhone 4. I dropped about 18 calls in one week. That caused me to leave AT&T. With an iPhone 4 on Verizon I am pulling 0.50 MBPS to 1.5 MBPS. The speeds on a CDMA network fail to compare with the speeds on a GSM network but I prefer to be able to have a smartphone that I can actually use as a phone. The speeds on Verizon are terrible (IMO) but I think it is more of a carrier issue espically those using CDMA.
 
Well I'm leaving Sprint. The entire state of Idaho has been OVER CAPACITY for a year and they won't admit it. I upgraded to the iPhone so they wouldn't be able to blame the 150k speeds on my EVO, since the iPhone works perfectly fine on just about every carrier on this planet, but low and behold, they've figured out how to convince people that it's the iPhone, not their ****** ass network.

I've spend countless hours battling them, and they know they're going down.

I'm switching to AT&T, since I know they have amazing speeds and service here, and Verizon doesn't have unlimited M2M on any carrier like Sprint and AT&T do; Verizon is more, too.
 
This is from my original Palm Pre in *Austin* Texas.
I've had disastrous speed from sprint before. It's a network issue, not an "isolated iPhone issue".

Overall though, I really like sprint. They offer the cheapest plans and seem like a much more flexible company than AT&T or Verizon.

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All Verizon we know this as normal lol. If you work in a highly nerd populated part of town. This is what my speedtests look like on Verizon. Ping is a bit lower. But DL is same
 
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Wow, ping of 500-800, I can get it under 100 in certain spots on Verizon, maybe 80 on a early morming or late late night. Not in my house. It's in the 120-180 range but that's not bad. Don't say screen shots or it didn't happen. U can fix sprints terrible data speeds and AT&T's sometimes spotty service by paying an extra $10 or so a month and using Verizon. But as a customer of over a decade, I may be a little biased. Hope u guys get this fixed ASAP.
 
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I get faster EDGE data rates on T-Mobile using the iPhone.

Sprint and Verizon T-DMA & C-DMA. They are the Donkey and Mule Association for data rates!
 
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There are no problems with the iPhone and any such conversations are simply meant to keep people hoping so in order to keep them in their contracts past the return period.
 
It seems to be an on-off issue where some are suffering from problems whilst others aren't - one thing to remember is that a mobile phone network isn't 100% uniform because they (Sprint) may use a mixture of equipment where in one situation no problems occur but a combination of iPhone plus that particular piece of equipment and things go haywire. IIRC Sprint is a merger of two companies so I wouldn't be surprised if you have a franken-network of different bits of equipment causing issues.
 
Last week I was seeing good speeds late at night through the morning, then really bad (<200kbps) during the day. The weekend started to get a bit better, and today I had great speeds (for my area - 800-1200kbps) all the way up until about 1:00 this afternoon, then it took a steep drop, although still a bit better than last week. Around 5:00-5:300 everything zipped back up to 1mbps+, and is hovering around 500kbps in my house (sort of a poor signal area, though the 4s does LOADS better than my older phones).

I was going to switch to ATT as they have a very fast network in my area - 1 to 2+mbps pretty much all the time, but I feel like I would burn through the 2gb/month cap in a hurry if I was able to pull those kinds of speeds. I have a couple coworkers and some family with ATT and they're having their share of issues this month as well (at least in my area); been a couple times where they've had NO data for multiple hours, etc.

At least with Sprint it's really unlimited (I wish I had switched to AT&T back when they had unlimited so I would be grandfathered in on that action, even with throttling) so I can watch Netflix, etc.

As long as they keep up the ~500kbps average tomorrow I am going to tough out this Network Vision business and hope it'll just get better as time goes on (as 500kbps up/down is pretty decent for my uses).
 
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Last week I was seeing good speeds late at night through the morning, then really bad (<200kbps) during the day. The weekend started to get a bit better, and today I had great speeds (for my area - 800-1200kbps) all the way up until about 1:00 this afternoon, then it took a steep drop, although still a bit better than last week. Around 5:00-5:300 everything zipped back up to 1mbps+, and is hovering around 500kbps in my house (sort of a poor signal area, though the 4s does LOADS better than my older phones).

I was going to switch to ATT as they have a very fast network in my area - 1 to 2+mbps pretty much all the time, but I feel like I would burn through the 2gb/month cap in a hurry if I was able to pull those kinds of speeds. I have a couple coworkers and some family with ATT and they're having their share of issues this month as well (at least in my area); been a couple times where they've had NO data for multiple hours, etc.


At least with Sprint it's really unlimited (I wish I had switched to AT&T back when they had unlimited so I would be grandfathered in on that action, even with throttling) so I can watch Netflix, etc.

As long as they keep up the ~500kbps average tomorrow I am going to tough out this Network Vision business and hope it'll just get better as time goes on (as 500kbps up/down is pretty decent for my uses).
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Lol you really think Netflix would even buffer at those Lowe speeds. I barely go over 600MB data per month 2GB may not seem like a lot but it's plenty sufficient when you're off Wifi
 
This is terrible...My buddy's 4S (Sprint) vs my AT&T...I thought Sprint has been proud of their "True Unlimited" plans but it sounds like it's because their customers will never BE ABLE to get past 2GB
 

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People just need to RELAX. I just did a speed test on my 4S on Sprint and got:

Ping 94 ms
D/L 1.41 mbps
U/L .43 mbps

I'm fine with that, on a CDMA network. It has been getting steadily better since I got the phone last week. Call quality is excellent, and I'm saving at least $30/mo. on a family plan vs. AT&T or Verizon. And everything is unlimited.

I'm glad that tons of people are hastily jumping ship back to AT&T. Then that'll network will continue to slow down, while Sprint's load will lighten up!
 
I hope Apple is able to fix the "issue". But if you look at any forum that discusses sprint phones up until now, and you will see a TON of complaints about data speeds.

Before the Evo Sprint had great data speeds but the Evo brought a lot of people on a weak network and I saw my speeds slow. Now, you have The Evo, the iPhone, the Evo3d the Photon, the Epic Touch the Epic and all the low end Android phones on the same unupgraded network.

If some of you iPhone guys want to bail it would be ok, it might speed up the network for those that stay ;)
 
Rented towers?

A Verizon guy told me that Verizon rents towers to Sprint, and they limit the capabilities, as well as how much mobile data Sprint users can use.
 
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