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I'm so glad it's not just me. It just recently started happening in the last month or so too. It happens most when I'm on Wifi. It'll drop straight to 3G and I have to toggle Cellular off/on to "jump start it"

And while we're talking about Sprint speeds....(North Kansas City)
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Yup. Super fast where you can get it (I lived in the KC area for 5-6 years). But it doesn't take long once you leave the area (especially going north or south) to see why so many drop Sprint.
 
Sprint didn't include Verizon because it's cheaper and better. They also lied a bit. It's $150 for 16GB of real LTE, not throttled, and unlimited after the 16 with four lines of service.
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I would love to join my family on Sprint's or TMobile's new plans to save money over Verizon.

But, both Sprint and TMobile coverage is horrible where I live. I used both pre iPhone(AT&T), and they were not that great then.

You would think that 10 years later, their coverage would have improved, sadly it has not. So, still stuck with an expensive Verizon plan.

Well, you get what you pay for.


Which plan are you on?
 
You didn't fall for it, did you?

I ended up switching to Verizon. I pay more than AT&T, but service surpasses my satisfaction. Still $170/month though.
Heck no.
My old cube mate has Sprint and I constantly get way better signal and speed than he does.
He said he does have unlimited data, but unlimited data is useless if there is no service...
 
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Have you tried changing your plan or speaking with retentions to negotiate a lower rate?

No, I have not. Beside, I am getting a Federal Employee discount now, so I doubt retention will play ball.

On an off topic side note, I always talk to the cable companies' retention (Verizon, Comcast) and that conversation never goes my way.

When my promotion is about to end with them, I call them up to see if I could continue getting a similar deal for a similar price after the promotion ends, also letting them know that I will switch to the opposite ISP if I don't like the deal. They always give me the crappy "current customers" deal, so I switch.

Verizon always calls me a few days after I scheduled the disconnect, and have Comcast mail me the self-install kit. Verizon retention offers me a really good deal, sometimes better than what I had prior. I always turn them down telling them they should have offered this to me when I called, and before I had Comcast ordered.

When I try to cancel my service with Comcast, I get put on hold for 30 minutes, and then have to explain in 20 different ways that I want to cancel my service and why before they actually process it.

So, like I said, talking to retention rarely ever goes my way.

Which plan are you on?


I am not sure of the name, it is one of the many family plans they have had. In the past year, reduced the cost by switching to the unsubsidized family plan, but still, the cost is more than Sprint and TMobile.
 
No, I have not. Beside, I am getting a Federal Employee discount now, so I doubt retention will play ball.

On an off topic side note, I always talk to the cable companies' retention (Verizon, Comcast) and that conversation never goes my way.

When my promotion is about to end with them, I call them up to see if I could continue getting a similar deal for a similar price after the promotion ends, also letting them know that I will switch to the opposite ISP if I don't like the deal. They always give me the crappy "current customers" deal, so I switch.

Verizon always calls me a few days after I scheduled the disconnect, and have Comcast mail me the self-install kit. Verizon retention offers me a really good deal, sometimes better than what I had prior. I always turn them down telling them they should have offered this to me when I called, and before I had Comcast ordered.

When I try to cancel my service with Comcast, I get put on hold for 30 minutes, and then have to explain in 20 different ways that I want to cancel my service and why before they actually process it.

So, like I said, talking to retention rarely ever goes my way.




I am not sure of the name, it is one of the many family plans they have had. In the past year, reduced the cost by switching to the unsubsidized family plan, but still, the cost is more than Sprint and TMobile.
I'm a state employee (get 20% off my bill) and still repeatedly get these retention deals. Might be worth a shot.
 
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One mention about both Sprint and T-Mobile, the only way you can truly judge either network is if you have a device that supports all the bands of the network. Not all phones are compatible with the same bands. Sprint and Tmobile both leverage additional bands to make their coverage better. Also anyone making comments based on being with a provider 10 years ago has no clout in a discussion. I have a Sprint iPhone 6S and have no issues with Sprint in most areas. Sure there are some areas that aren't great but I can't beat the price I pay, $30 for 2.5gb of LTE data unlimited throttled after that on Virgin Mobile.
 
Also anyone making comments based on being with a provider 10 years ago has no clout in a discussion.

While ten years may seem like a lifetime in the tech world, someone's experience, either old or new, with a particular cellular service company shouldn't be discounted.

While, I personally would find more value in someone's opinion that recently used the service, if a company has a history of issues, I think that would be important as well.

But, what I think what would be most beneficial, is asking people in your area that currently use the service and see what they think.

Example, my son does not live we me, his iPhone 6s with his TMobile plan works great in the city of Baltimore where he lives. He gets great data speeds too.

But, at my home about 35 miles northeast of Baltimore, his services totally sucks. The service drops in the same spots that my parents, who also have Tmobile on older phones, also drop. TMobile's service also dropped for me back in 2006.

I will note that my parents older phones seem to drop calls more often than my son's iPhone 6s in the same spots.

In these same areas, my Verizon service is fair to great, and I never drop calls in these areas. When I had AT&T with my original iPhone, their service was better than Verizon's, although their upload speeds where horrible.

With all that said, companies' can change, both for the good and bad. Maybe Sprint's service is wonderful now. But with my experience with them, it will take a lot more than a few comments in a forum thread to give them a try again.
 
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#1 - I couldn't swap from AT&T to Sprint without changing phones, even if I wanted, right?
#2 - Terrible coverage is terrible. Doesn't matter how cheap it is if you can't ever use it.

My thoughts exactly now excuse me while I let out a few more chuckles over this
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And AT&T is still AT&T.

Not everyone needs to have a webpage load in 1 millisecond nor do they expect to have blazing 4G LTE speed wherever they may be.

For some people, Sprint doesn't work well for coverage reasons. And for others like myself, the Sprint service works well for the coverage area and needs.

I think some of the users here like to bash Sprint just because they can, without taking the time to engage the brain before posting.

It's NOT Solely about speed
Or bashing just to bash some of us speak from a place of firsthand experience ( bad experience more like )
and the deepest regret known to humankind


Where I live for example for nearly 2 full decades Sprint has been the worst
claim to be improving here but haven't or improve at such a snails pace that literally comparing just about ANY Carier big/small/foreign or local to them here Wouk be a difference between night and day



Legitimately an agency I work with @ work switched from ATT to Sprint 14 or so months ago and has literally had nothing but issues with ALL Service
Near unusable data
Unsent or severely delayed text
E-Mail retrieval issues
Dropped calls gallore or poor call quality


It's literally made my business almost NOT want to do business with theirs and Sprint's response is always "we're working on it"
 
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