Ugh. What fantastic speed. Not!

[NiKeZz]

I just don't understand the attraction of Sprint to some people. Their 3G is akin to 2G/EDGE on AT&T/T-Mobile, they're moving extremely slow with their LTE rollout, and they're CDMA. Even once they finally get some LTE is all major cities, there will still be that horrible "3G" network to fall back on. It could very well be 2015 before they are a viable network with consistently decent data speeds.

T-Mobile has taken their pricing and unlimited data advantage away from them. They also have similar coverage but have a much stronger 3G network to fallback on when not on LTE and are GSM.

Then for those who don't mind paying more, AT&T/Verizon just totally blow them away in all respects.

I know it's all YMMV with any carrier but every single person I know that has Sprint has nothing but complaints about the service and data speeds. It boggles my mind how they are even the 3rd place carrier. It must be because of the subscriber base they had in place prior to the smartphone age. Hopefully the Softbank buyout occurs and gives them a much needed cash infusion to improve their network. As of right now they are the only carrier of the big 4 that I would not go to with a smartphone.

My company has a discount with Sprint. It's cheaper to have 4 phones with unlimited data than it is to use a different carrier and have packaged data options. Everyone throws up the, "Who cares if you have unlimited data if you can't use it" excuse, but I have not once ran into a problem where I couldn't get something to load when I really needed it. As long as it works, it's cheap to me and I don't have to worry about someone running over on data, I'm content.

 

[cynics]

Consider yourself lucky

Only reason I don't switch is because my employer is paying for it. If not I'd switch in a heartbeat to AT&T or something.

 

[apollo1444]

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no wonder they offer unlimited data, what are you going to download? unlimited .txt files? lol

 

[osofast240sx]

Consider yourself lucky

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Only reason I don't switch is because my employer is paying for it. If not I'd switch in a heartbeat to AT&T or something.

I would call Verzion,

 

[xpected_one]

no wonder they offer unlimited data, what are you going to download? Unlimited .txt files? Lol:d

lmmfao

 

[scaredpoet]

I just don't understand the attraction of Sprint to some people. Their 3G is akin to 2G/EDGE on AT&T/T-Mobile, they're moving extremely slow with their LTE rollout, and they're CDMA. Even once they finally get some LTE is all major cities, there will still be that horrible "3G" network to fall back on. It could very well be 2015 before they are a viable network with consistently decent data speeds.

It's the Walmart of wireless carriers. What customers get from them is not great quality and sometimes just barely usable, but you can get a lot of it for cheap. For some users (and some businesses who contract with Sprint and given phones to their employees), cheap stuff and lots of it trumps quality.

While I'm not saying this is true of the OP, the other big reason people flock to Sprint is their long history of being lax on credit requirements. If you have bad credit, you stand a better chance of getting a postpaid account on Sprint with low or no deposit, than any of the other carriers. Which is great for people with poor credit who want a smartphone, and want it heavily subsidized (as opposed to going prepaid and paying full price on their phone).

In any case, for whatever reason the OP doesn't want to or can't leave Sprint, so their only hope is that Sprint gets LTE in that area soon. The rollout MIGHT start ramping up in July, when they finally kill off and bury (or burn) that ridiculous disgrace that was Nextel, and kicking off the curmudgeons that are clinging to their outdated handsets. Once that happens, they'll have some bandwidth freed up and will likely move things around for an LTE deployment. They'll also not have to worry anymore about keeping together Nextel's patchy, busted up network with spit and bailing wire. Instead, they can focus on shoring up their patchy, busted-up CDMA network, and maybe deploying some more LTE.

 

[cynics]

I would call Verzion,

Meh. It's just there crappy network in my particular area. When I travel it gets moderately better but still pales in comparison to ATT's hpsa+.

I'm gonna have my employer get me an iPhone 5S when it comes out.

 

[Zaft]

yea where i live sprint used to be pretty bad. But i have LTE here now (Brooklyn, NY) and im happy.

 

[osofast240sx]

Meh. It's just there crappy network in my particular area. When I travel it gets moderately better but still pales in comparison to ATT's hpsa+.

I'm gonna have my employer get me an iPhone 5S when it comes out.

It may be something simple they could fix.

 

[nizmoz]

Att rocks here in Dallas.

 

[Zaft]

providers can change and get better. If i remember correctly ATT used to be the punching bag with everyone saying its terrible... Sprint has now taken its place suddenly.

 

[nizmoz]

providers can change and get better. If i remember correctly ATT used to be the punching bag with everyone saying its terrible... Sprint has now taken its place suddenly.

Suddenly? Sprint has been terrible for years and years.

 

[ZombiePete]

Suddenly? Sprint has been terrible for years and years.

Yeah, there was just no reason to talk about it because everyone already knew that they sucked.

 

[jenni122701]

Yes, we were able to get Sprint with less than perfect credit, also we have family plans with lots of phones that now have different contract expiration dates and with all that compared to not enough funds to pay for breaking the contracts and switching to another carrier just has us stuck at the moment. I am hoping one day to switch though.

 

[Elvergun]

Switching carriers isn't an option for me right now. I wish it were. I'm always hoping Sprint will improve, but maybe when my contract is up I can figure something out. That's a long while though. Some of you have fantastic speeds! At least at home I got my wifi, but sometimes my iPhone wont work right with my home connection, I never have that issue with my iPad. Luckily right now it's ok.

I waited for Sprint to improve for 3 years. I had to switch to Verizon.

If I had not gone with another carrier I would have waited for Sprint to improve for more than 5 years...with no end in sight since things are just as bad today here in San Diego.


Good luck, man...you are going to need it.

 

[scaredpoet]

I am hoping one day to switch though.

Probably your best bet. I have glimmers of hope with Softbank, but I'm not keeping my hopes up too high. Sprint hasn't been remotely good since 2001.

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providers can change and get better. If i remember correctly ATT used to be the punching bag with everyone saying its terrible... Sprint has now taken its place suddenly.

Only because Sprint was next-to-last to the get the iPhone, so, no one really knew it could be worse.

 

[MsRandall]

I find it funny how many people have been waiting for Sprint to improve their 3G service (which is never improved) and now those very same people are waiting for LTE to come along and save them... my guess is that like the wait for usable 3G, they'll keep waiting for something that isn't going to come or that is a major dissappointment when it does finally come.

I was one of those people 16 years with Sprint...then I bought the (4)
4s devices...Couldnt use half the features. I ended up filing a BBB complaint and getting out EFT free because my phones (4 lines) were getting terrible service. I left for Verizon and I can say it was the best decision I made...no I dont have unlimited but I have usable tiered data (10gb) and we dont come close to extending it.

 

[iphonehype]

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Don't mean to brag! People on 4G in the UK are getting 30mb download speeds!

UK is far behind this 4G tech as it only rolled out this year how come US can't get it right ?

 

[iphonehype]

My average speed here in toronto is 40mb down 22mb up on LTE. The attached image is from October before I switched carriers. I have had as high as 62mb down and 35 up on a couple occasions a block or so from a big tower.

Wow? This is over LTE?

 

[jenni122701]

This is my 3G vs Wifi today. My problem is that I cant stay on wifi like I want to at home because my iPhone constantly drops connection. It will be. On wifi running great, then just stop and I cant access anything, then it will pick up again. Its bad. So I usually stay on my 3G. Now what I DONT understand is my hubbys iPhone stays connected to the wifi and running fine without dropping. Same model iPhone, same router, same exact settings on both phones. It irritates me cause I don't know why mine does that.

 

[Looon]

I remember back when AT&T was the only one with iPhones how everyone was hating on them. How times have changed