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T-Mobile Shutting Down Sprint's LTE Network in June 2022
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That was the last iPhone I stood in line for. Good times, indeed!
Are there vehicles and appliances that rely on Sprint's network and don't have the hardware to connect to anything else? I guess I didn't realize this. I have read of some issues with onstar but it was pretty much limited to that. Tesla is also dropping 3G but they'll install an LTE modem for those that opt for it.
The hardware is really the limiting factor, I would think. If the hardware is able to connect to TMO's existing bands it shouldn't even be an issue. I guess what I am asking is, do you have actual examples of hardware that is going to go dark as a result of this change? Or is this just a theoretical issue?
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Tesla LTE upgrades are quite pricey, by the way.
Yeah, there are some devices out there that are on the sprint network and can’t be put on other networks without being serviced and having components replaced.
So I thought Sprint had 2/3 the coverage that T-Mobile has. I thought that was supposed to help fill in coverage. That was a big selling point of the merger was it would make the network better. Turns out it was just a big money grab and John Legere took the money and bounced after years of talking about how much customers mattered to him. Not sure why I thought T-Mobile would be different. I can run a 5G speed test on T-Mobile and only get 5-10% better than LTE. But it's still about 15x slower than my wired home connection.
Yeah... regular 5G is only slightly faster then LTE with all carriers right now. That could change in the future, though. And Sprint's towers will be used to fill in weak spots. But the Sprint network has to be turned off and the sites switched over. I'm not exactly sure what you are expecting.
Huh!?! Sprint is crap once you get of a major roadway. Crap.
Someone already mentioned certain Jeep’s. I don’t have a list. I know we’re going to have to replace my mother-in-law’s phone.
I don’t have a Jeep, but it sounds like it uses Sprint only to turn the Jeep into a wifi hotspot. At slow speeds. Not sure why anyone would want that in 2022, but maybe someone does. Could be wrong.
Ok i tend to ve a bit of an optimistso have that in mind while I describe this ( in my view lightly scenario)
0 ( happens before sprints old network is turned off): t-mo evaluates old sprint sites and the exsisting t-mo sites in the emirate area, if t-mo has enough coverage snd capacity to support its combined costumer mass in the sells served by the site ( and a bit for future growth ) the site is shut down and possebly sold or leased to another provider. If not the site is marked for whatever upgrades/ changes are needed to bring it into t-mos network
post sprint shutdown
2: the cites marked fot upgrade/ change recives appropriate action and are brought online in the new improved converged nerwork
3: all coustumers now have access to the imoroved network which will probably( due to converged rf management) have mire capacety, and unrelated to rf management, better coverage.
net result, costumers have a better experience and T-mos shareholders can peobably look forward to karger dividends, due to the recucesd cost if running one ran as opposed to 2. Now I'don't know about you, but i call this a win win.
well I'm not an exoert on any of thus so if I missed something obvious that renders thus cenario more or less unlughtly please tell me uf you can be bothered. Oh crap i forgot the standard change, yea it will ofc suck if for the ones that have their devices left with no comoatible network to connect to, necessitating on ire bultiple new device purchases.
0 ( happens before sprints old network is turned off): t-mo evaluates old sprint sites and the exsisting t-mo sites in the emirate area, if t-mo has enough coverage snd capacity to support its combined costumer mass in the sells served by the site ( and a bit for future growth ) the site is shut down and possebly sold or leased to another provider. If not the site is marked for whatever upgrades/ changes are needed to bring it into t-mos network
post sprint shutdown
2: the cites marked fot upgrade/ change recives appropriate action and are brought online in the new improved converged nerwork
3: all coustumers now have access to the imoroved network which will probably( due to converged rf management) have mire capacety, and unrelated to rf management, better coverage.
net result, costumers have a better experience and T-mos shareholders can peobably look forward to karger dividends, due to the recucesd cost if running one ran as opposed to 2. Now I'don't know about you, but i call this a win win.
well I'm not an exoert on any of thus so if I missed something obvious that renders thus cenario more or less unlughtly please tell me uf you can be bothered. Oh crap i forgot the standard change, yea it will ofc suck if for the ones that have their devices left with no comoatible network to connect to, necessitating on ire bultiple new device purchases.
That's a lovely thought and what they SHOULD do in an customer-centric world. But what I think will REALLY happen is they'll simply shut down the Sprint network. Period. And so everyone will simply be left with whatever half-assed presence T-Mobile already had in the area.
Yup I’m 40 miles north of Phoenix. For years the Sprint magic box and everything worked great I was getting about 40 to 50 MB per second of Internet. T Mobile shut down the Sprint Magic Box AND going to shut down the sprint towers June 30 2022! WTF?!
I can barely get a phone call out now with and very little Internet connection for half of the day. Verizon works much better in Arizona but it’s way expensive. I’m on Social Security so I will be looking for another carrier. I’ve considered direct line of sight Internet and starlink —- expensive as well. Definitely going backwards. Greedy corporations —- all they care about is money!
I can barely get a phone call out now with and very little Internet connection for half of the day. Verizon works much better in Arizona but it’s way expensive. I’m on Social Security so I will be looking for another carrier. I’ve considered direct line of sight Internet and starlink —- expensive as well. Definitely going backwards. Greedy corporations —- all they care about is money!
Due to events ^, all I have to say now is:
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