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The iPhone 6 is my first phone with LTE and I'm not impressed with my carrier

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I know some carriers have great LTE performance. Sprint recently completed upgrades in my area and with 3-4 bars and the LTE lit up I get a wopping 2 Mbps up and down. Actually up is slightly faster.

I wonder if they have some form of caps in place or if that is as good as their hardware in this area is?

We have the unlimited data, any mobile, any time family plan.
 
Do a search here for Sprint threads. There's a reason why they are giving away the most data and the most lines for rock bottom prices. For lines of one hundred bucks with 20GB shared sounds amazing until you actually use the data. They should have just made it unlimited; sweeten the pot so to speak without much risk that a family of four will even surpass the 20GB they are offering now.
 
The iPhone 6 is my first phone with LTE and I'm not impressed with my carrier

Sprint is a joke! Left them a year ago after 9 years. On AT&T LTE in Miami is top notch. Go with a real LTE carrier then you can speak volumes :)
 
I concur sprint is the problem

I had sprint for years because i paid only $60 for 3 lines with 3G prior to iphone 4.

Their data speed was horrible. I finally dump Sprint and went to AT&T to get iphone 4 even though my was doubled.

Sprint made mistakes again and again. Buying Next Tel is one. Upgrading their network to 4G using Winnax while every carriers went with LTE. Sprint partnered with Samsung to make what the called "iphone killer", Instinct. I was fooled by them. What a junk phone.

Glad that they did not buy Tmobile. If they succeeded, tmobile would be destroyed like Next Tel
 
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Hal~9000 said:
Well there's your problem right there ;)
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Haha yeah sprint is terrible! No clue why anyone would sign up for them. I live in LA and they have shittty 3G speeds, bad 4g. Not sure where lte roll out in la is but its like 56k slow. In LOS ANGELES!!
 
My location...

Verizon LTE - 30-40 Mbps
AT&T LTE - 30-50 Mbps
T-Mobile LTE - 25-35 Mbps
Sprint LTE - 4-10 Mbps
 
Sprint towers are rated for 5000-8000 simultaneous data connections, but in some areas they are getting over 21,000. And their LTE footprint is tiny. In lots of cities they only cover a fraction of that city.
 
I have had verizon and ATT and if I'm in a really good spot I've hit 60 mbps a few times, average is 20ish though. Sorry about sprint, man their network sucks :(
 
Return the phone and switch carriers. The Verizon model offers the most flexibility to be used on as many US carriers as possible (all other than Sprint and Sprint MVNOs).

Unfortunately at this time the Sprint phones are not able to be used on any network other than Sprint.
 
rambo47 said:
Sprint towers are rated for 5000-8000 simultaneous data connections, but in some areas they are getting over 21,000. And their LTE footprint is tiny. In lots of cities they only cover a fraction of that city.
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I'm curious about the specs for AT&T/VZW towers. I'm sure they're rated much higher and have the correct backhaul in place to provide good service.

Sprint's network is so half-assed
 
I went from 4s to 5c and lte is insane fast on sprint where I am. It was actually faster than wifi at my work with t1 line on secure non customer network.
Then again sprint owns the lte network in Rochester so that might be why.
 
Stopped reading after "sprint" and scrolled down to all the soon to follow posts on how much their data sucks....:D
 
Slimmyhendrix said:
I went from 4s to 5c and lte is insane fast on sprint where I am. It was actually faster than wifi at my work with t1 line on secure non customer network.
Then again sprint owns the lte network in Rochester so that might be why.
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Sprint works great where I live
 

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