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Sprint iPhone Users Complaining of Slow 3G Data Speeds

Vodafone UK 3G speedtest.

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macguy360 said:
Hahahaha. Who didn't see this coming?

If the dish isn't tasting right then Let's look at the recipe and see what the problem is.

Bad data speed recipe.
1. Take 3rd largest cell phone carrier with stocks at around $22 per share in 2007.
2. Make bad investment in Wimax only to realize its not the future of cell phone data.
3. Let stocks depreciate 1000% down to $2 per share.
4. Stop expanding network due to lack of cash flow and considerable drop in stock price.
5. Make your company "seem" more valuable than the 2 cell phone companies that are bigger and much more financially stable than you by offering unlimited data plans without throttling.
6. Use your last $20 billion in reserves to invest in iPhones rather than building up your network infrastructure.
7. Overload your already lower quality network infrastructure with a couple million new users all trying to take advantage of your unlimited data offerings.

Let simmer for a few months.

What do you get?

Millions of unhappy customers lol.
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Well stated

Verizon spent their downtime, not having the iphone, building their 3g network and expanding it even stronger then it used to be.

Sprint focused on the fact that they had true 4g and marketed that concept to retain their customers and draw new ones. With so many 4g phones they had, it made you wonder what they did about building their 3g network speeds... now it shows...
 
hey sprint how you like them apples?:D seems like your cell tower of apple trees cant hold up..maybe due to unlimited data people are using it like crazy:D
 
unlinked said:
Do you really think the size of your country is what matters?

United States 83 people per square mile
Norway 34 people per square mile
Sweden 54 people per square mile

Distribution is probably more important than density but much harder to sum up in a single number.
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Righto, it's all about distribution. Well, mostly.

Sure the US is big, but much of that area is very sparsely populated. So while it make sense network connectivity is slow in the middle of Wyoming, there is no excuse for the internet to be dog slow in places like the Eastern Seaboard. I remember reading somewhere that New Jersey had a higher population density than any principality in Europe.

Something like 50 million people live in the corridor between DC and Boston, which is an absurdly high density given such a large area. There is no excuse for infrastructure to be lacking here. Unfortunately we have horribly asinine telecom policy (amongst others) and so we lag behind most of the developed world in this area (and many others). But hey, at least everyone here that has never visited another country still thinks we're the best. So we have ignorant confidence, and you got to smile at that.
 
Those speed reports look exactly like what I got from my test drive with one of their "4G" mobile hotspots. I carried it all over my area too, just to make sure it wasn't just poor near my house. At any rate it was much worse than my AT&T 3G.
 
erio said:
iPhone is a global phone, not just America :eek:

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Please post pics from your iPhones.
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Ok, here are my speed test pics. The AT&T phone is my iPhone 4. The Sprint phone is the 4S. These tests were done in west Michigan near Grand Rapids. I sincerely hope Sprint is just bogged down at the moment due to heavy increase of iPhones. If it's not just that, I will be returning my Sprint phone and sticking with the AT&T until next years iPhone. Siri won't even work on Sprint's 3G 90% of the time, and when it does, it takes so long I may well have just done it manually.
 

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There are some speed test side by side already posted

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2011/10/iphone-4s-3g-speed-test-att-vs-sprint-vs-verizon.html
 
It's been slow for the last couple weeks

Live and work within a handful of miles from Sprint WHQ and the 3G network has been taxed big time the last couple weeks. 4G is fine but something is up because pre-iphone the response time has been abysmal. Tested with EVO.

Normally the 3G network has been awesome. Never would consider switching carriers as Sprint has been reliable and quick but something changed recently. Long nights for the network engineers ahead.
 
Bs

That's a bunch of BS

I got 1.5MBit on mine, I have both ATT iphone 4s and a Sprint iphone 4s, bought both of them yesterday

Ping time is about 190-215 on sprint, tried 8-10 locations, indoor, outdoor, parking garages underground, different parts of the city

1.5Mbit down and 1Mbit up

ATT Is about 300ms ping time and can vary from .5MB-3MB download, and .5mb-1mb up

Honestly ATT seems to have more latency issues and packet loss, I'd rather have a steady consistent bit rate than a slow, choppy, then fast, then slow speed

Plus voice calls are 100% better

This is considering the iphone 4s on ATT has WAY better speed with the hpsa+ and its still not that much better even when it's perfect.


I live in San Diego, CA ...
 
JTToft said:
Sometimes I really have to laugh at the poor internet connections you Americans have to deal with. I feel sorry for you.

In my basement (!) in my house in a small town in Denmark I am getting a pretty consistent speed of 3 Mbit/sec both up and down with a ping of 80 ms on 3G.

In every other way, though, the United States is a far better place to be in terms of technology and internet services.
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Those are similar to the speeds Americans with AT&T see. And, while I've never been to Denmark, for all the complaints on here about poor AT&T 3G coverage, their 3G coverage blows away 3G coverage in every European country I've been to except Ireland. Also, worst-case AT&T usually at least has EDGE. Many European carriers have large areas of nothing but GPRS.

The bad speeds are on Verizon and Sprint. These carriers do not use the same 3G technology we're used to, and you're used to in Europe (UMTS). They use an older 3G technology (CDMA2000 1xEVDO), that's a hack onto a digital hack onto the old AMPS analog system.

It's end-of-life and much slower than modern UMTS implementations. Yet lots of people still choose it because of (real or perceived) coverage benefits. Especially on Verizon, they have HUGE areas of "3G" coverage AT&T doesn't (again noting Verizon's "3G" is not the same as the 3G most of us are used to). But AT&T now has large areas (including much of my state, Montana) covered with 3G that Verizon doesn't. And it's "real" 3G.
 
It is somewhat surprising. Sure, 3G speed on Sprint is not fast in general but... given that almost other phones on Sprint are 4G (WiMax) by now iPhone 4S should have 3G all for itself.
 
LOL...this wasn't the iPhone's fault for poor data speeds. Sprints 3G data speeds have been horrible since the nexus S 4g back in MAY. There something wrong with Sprint's network and they aren't denying it.

200kbps.....if I'm getting those speeds, i want my bill halfed.
 
CDMA rev.A 3G speeds are terrible to begin with.

Toss in a ton of iPhones that people got on Sprint because they can stream to their hearts content and, well, yah, the pipes get clogged.

This is why unlimited will not last on Sprint. tick-tock on Hesse's order to tier like everyone else.
 
unlinked said:
Do you really think the size of your country is what matters?

United States 83 people per square mile
Norway 34 people per square mile
Sweden 54 people per square mile

Distribution is probably more important than density but much harder to sum up in a single number.
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problem with that is the US is very pocketity. We will population in very dense areas then huge areas of next to no one. If you look at it that way the US has huge areas of land to cover with very VERY few people per square mile. Norway and Sweden have very little to cover.
On top of that it is huge distances to cover to link all those pockets of population together.
 
To be honest, I am on Sprint right now and my internet is fast. Its not 8MB fast but I don't have to don't wait forever. However, where I live in the middle of no where my phone not only works but is as fast as it is in the city, and people with ATT and Verizon can't do anything. So I am ok waiting an extra few seconds and able to use my phone then having it being fast but doesn't work.

I bet it is something specific with the iPhone because my HTC Arrive isn't that slow at all.
 
Well... Duh. Sprint's network has never been known for it's quality. If you ought a phone on their network, you had to know this was coming.
 
Sooooo glad I kept my Nexus S 4G.
iPhone gets returned Monday for sure.
Getting 4-5mbps on my Nexus. 0.32mbps on the iPhone....LOL
If you have an iPhone I say stay with ATT cuz sprint and big red dont measure up.
I will wait for iPhone 5 and 4G.

P.S. Siri is a joke too. Plus no 3G switch to turn off 3G.
 
AT&T iPhone 4 3g speed Las Vegas

:cool:We must have some of the fastest 3g speeds in the US
 

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So Glad

Sooooo glad I kept my Nexus S 4G.
iPhone gets returned Monday for sure.
Getting 4-5mbps on my Nexus. 0.32mbps on the iPhone....LOL
If you have an iPhone I say stay with ATT cuz sprint and big red dont measure up.
I will wait for iPhone 5 and 4G.

P.S. Siri is a joke too. Plus no 3G switch to turn off 3G.
 
I know Sprint's network isn't the fastest and usually doesn't have as good of coverage but what the hell kind of evidence is two tests with crazy high pings?? You seriously posted a result that had 1194ms ping? Even 271 is too high, should have around 100 for an accurate test.

This is what I get on average, .7 to 2 on 3G (Samsung Epic 4g Touch)

I get like 3-9 on 4G but that's not a fair comparison.
 

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I notice that problem immediately. I cancel my service. I was told went I was returning the iPhone 4S in my case here in Puerto Rico that went you uncheck the data roaming the iPhone won't connect to the 3G service at sprint, actually the representative told me that all iphone sold in Puerto Rico was getting data in roaming and not connecting to sprint 3G network they have to make a patch to fix the problem. I'm not sure if its the same problem in your case but it was my, try it just uncheck data roaming to see if you connect to 3G if not them is a nation wide the problem.
 
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