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You get what you pay for, Sprint is Proof.
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I'm on the fence on whether to stay on Sprint with my parents family plan (paying $30/month for my line) or switching back to AT&T and paying $90/month again.
For me AT&T has crap voice coverage but awesome data connection. Sprint has great voice coverage but crap data. If only both of the companies merged, lol
With Sprint I can actually make a phone call in my house which is a plus.Attachments
That's one of the reasons why I switched. If you're on the main roads, ATT is fine. Get off the main roads and inside your house, poof, gone.
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1.72 mpbs down in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I didnt activate my Phone until today, and hearing the horror stories, especially the New York ones, I didn't think I wanted to. But I think I can roll with this, enough speed for Netflix, which I don't watch that much on a phone anyway. Plus I get way more bars in my apt than I did on Verizon. I would post the actual score but I haven't figured out how to post pics from a phone on here, so you'll have to take my word for it.
1.72 mpbs down in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I didnt activate my Phone until today, and hearing the horror stories, especially the New York ones, I didn't think I wanted to. But I think I can roll with this, enough speed for Netflix, which I don't watch that much on a phone anyway. Plus I get way more bars in my apt than I did on Verizon. I would post the actual score but I haven't figured out how to post pics from a phone on here, so you'll have to take my word for it.
"You get what you pay for."
Yup. You do. You're not going to get a $80,000 sports car for $29,000. You're not going to get amazing service for $10-20 less than leading competitors. There's a reason AT&T and VZ charge as much as they do. Their networks are not cheap!
Yup. You do. You're not going to get a $80,000 sports car for $29,000. You're not going to get amazing service for $10-20 less than leading competitors. There's a reason AT&T and VZ charge as much as they do. Their networks are not cheap!
Nor are they that high priced. The prices of AT&T and Verizon are done to get every last dime out of consumers..period. And no, that is not what every business does.
I'm on the fence on whether to stay on Sprint with my parents family plan (paying $30/month for my line) or switching back to AT&T and paying $90/month again.
For me AT&T has crap voice coverage but awesome data connection. Sprint has great voice coverage but crap data. If only both of the companies merged, lol
Have your parents switch to AT&T too.
Their family plans are pretty good, if you go individual you will pay more.
this reminds me of the Verizon iPhone launch and everybody complained about slow 3G speeds. Things eventually got better. Hopefully Sprint users see an improvement once the honeymoon users ease up on the network.
My big thing with Sprint is LTE. We know the next iPhone is going to be LTE capable (I'm not going out on a limb here, it has to be obviously) and Sprint just announced plans for an LTE network. However, they are going to start rolling it out Q2 of 2012, right around when the next iPhone will (most likely) be announced. By that time AT&T and Verizon will already have their LTE networks pretty much well established, while Sprint will just be getting started. What if there is not Sprint LTE where I live (Orange County, CA) when the next iPhone launches? I don't want to wait around even longer to be able to use something everyone else on other carriers already are. We're talking it may be a while (year and a half plus) before some of us even get off CDMA EVDO Rev A to LTE, as Sprint cancelled their plans for a rollout of Rev B. We're stuck with these speeds for a while.
Where Sprint stands with me currently is that I have no problems browsing (unless theres a lot of picture) or Netflix and Pandora. But if I try to download anything, it takes forever.
Where Sprint stands with me currently is that I have no problems browsing (unless theres a lot of picture) or Netflix and Pandora. But if I try to download anything, it takes forever.
I'm on the fence on whether to stay on Sprint with my parents family plan (paying $30/month for my line) or switching back to AT&T and paying $90/month again.
For me AT&T has crap voice coverage but awesome data connection. Sprint has great voice coverage but crap data. If only both of the companies merged, lol
That's not too bad for Sprint at all.
That's a server issue. It's been happening on wifi too as they try to cope with 4 million phones all hitting up their server at once. I'm surprised iCloud has been able to handle it
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I'm on the fence on whether to stay on Sprint with my parents family plan (paying $30/month for my line) or switching back to AT&T and paying $90/month again.
For me AT&T has crap voice coverage but awesome data connection. Sprint has great voice coverage but crap data. If only both of the companies merged, lol
There's always the mcell option if coverage in your house is poor
But Id say $60 a month extra is not worth getting a few Mbps faster in some areas. So far it seems HSPA+ is almost as rare as LTE... very disappointing
That micro-cell never worked right worked right in my house. I would have 5 bars but couldn't connect to anything on 3G. It just made it worse then it was.
I'm not having that many complaints about Sprint besides the 3G connection. Saving the money is nice though.
I could also join my friends plan on AT&T, add a new line, get 2GB data and pay $45+ a little tax for my line.
Ultimately it will be a good or horrible decision.
The Sprint iPhone was merely to get people to shut up about "When will Sprint get the iPhone?" Now, Sprint will assure those customers affected with crappy service or poor speeds that they'll work on fixing that as soon as possible. If we use AT&T as an example then you Sprint users should start seeing some improvements to your service by 2015. Enjoy!
I got sucked into Sprint when they took over my Nextel. It did not take but a few weeks and I went to AT&T and have never looked back!
I have not been thrilled with the 3G speed on my Sprint 4S (in the St. Louis area), however it is something I can live with for now having come from a Blackberry, which was a horrid device. The 4S has worked wonderfully with wifi.
As a counter to some of the bashing of Sprint customer service; while their brick and mortar stores are terrible I have had excellent service from their 1-800 numbers for both account problems and technical help. I'm just sayin'.
As a counter to some of the bashing of Sprint customer service; while their brick and mortar stores are terrible I have had excellent service from their 1-800 numbers for both account problems and technical help. I'm just sayin'.
I'm with you. My call reliability in the DMV area kills AT&T. Real world data usage is slower (not unusable) than AT&T's GSM network (nature of the beast), but everything else trumps.
The other problem is that folks are using speedtest sites as the final word on network speed and they are notoriously unreliable. I'm getting faster u/d speeds from servers that are over 200 miles away.
I'm in New Port Richey too. I don't have a 4s, or Sprint, but I just wanted to say that.