Any faith left for sprint

[choclab1]

Yea I'll still update this for you when I get my final bill. It should be within the next couple of days

 

[Robbie317]

please do.. and how ironic I actually have been getting a decent LTE signal at work for the first time ever today..... Just like Sprint.. Know I am ready to move on and they tease me with an LTE icon at work (Which I've almost never seen... but seen almost all day today...)

 

[Robbie317]

Just an FYI, I still had 7 days left when i went to att,in my sprint contract but when I called customer service to ask what my ETF would be, I was informed by 2 employees and a supervisor that there is no ETF within the last 30 days of the contract. Something about the legal obligation is up and no charge would be applied.
They haven't made up my final bill yet so I'll know if its true in a couple more days.

I switched over to T-Mobile this morning on a 30 day prepay plan with unlimited data... WOW what a difference vs Sprint..

Sprint a couple of days ago vs T-Mobile just now at my house... Even though unless the power is out I would be using WiFi at home.

 

[crxssi]

please do.. and how ironic I actually have been getting a decent LTE signal at work for the first time ever today..... Just like Sprint.. Know I am ready to move on and they tease me with an LTE icon at work (Which I've almost never seen... but seen almost all day today...)

Yeah, well, don't get too excited. Never had WiMax here at all, and stuck with horrible 3G for years. Then the LTE came from Sprint and it was great for a few months. But then it got slower than 3G is on other carriers. Couple that with very flaky text messaging, super slow ping times, and packet loss, and I threw away my 15 year tenure and switched to T-Mobile. THAT LTE is faster than my WiFi. And their non-LTE is much faster than Sprint ever was.

I think Sprint has spent many years grossly overselling their capacity. Low prices + "unlimited" data + aging equipment + never ending construction = ghetto network. I thought I would miss unlimited.... nope. It is like comparing "You can have a limit of three nice sized meals a day" or "You can have UNLIMITED amount of peanuts at a rate of one every five minutes". I will take the former.

 

[Robbie317]

Yeah, well, don't get too excited. Never had WiMax here at all, and stuck with horrible 3G for years. Then the LTE came from Sprint and it was great for a few months. But then it got slower than 3G is on other carriers. Couple that with very flaky text messaging, super slow ping times, and packet loss, and I threw away my 15 year tenure and switched to T-Mobile. THAT LTE is faster than my WiFi. And their non-LTE is much faster than Sprint ever was.

I think Sprint has spent many years grossly overselling their capacity. Low prices + "unlimited" data + aging equipment + never ending construction = ghetto network. I thought I would miss unlimited.... nope. It is like comparing "You can have a limit of three nice sized meals a day" or "You can have UNLIMITED amount of peanuts at a rate of one every five minutes". I will take the former.

I moved my Nexus 5 to an unlimited T-Mobile plan this morning..... went from 1 Mbps on Sprint to almost 17 Mbps on T-Mobile (Both of which were LTE speeds)

Sprint has all the potential in the world they just can't seem to maximize it.... At my work I go in at like 6 am and I got decent connection by 9 it went to unusable.... They just can't handle the load in my area...

Will see how T-Mobile holds up over the next month... I know AT&T is awesome but a little more expensive... Only issue I have right now is getting phone calls and text.. they told me it could take up to 24 hours for the port of my number to move from Sprint to T-Mobile but right now I got data but no phone or text.......

 

[ttwiitch]

Woke up this morning to this beautiful sight on my Sprint Unlimited plan. Feels soooo good. This is just the beginning :-D

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[jj14x]

Woke up this morning to this beautiful sight on my Sprint Unlimited plan. Feels soooo good. This is just the beginning :-D

Sweet! Did you have to manually set the band priority?

 

[Almeuit]

Woke up this morning to this beautiful sight on my Sprint Unlimited plan. Feels soooo good. This is just the beginning :-D

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Those definitely aren't bad. If you don't mind post one during the day. At 2 AM not a lot of people are using the network so I am curious what you get under actual load .

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[Almeuit]

I pulled this the other day on T-Mobile at my buddies house... Can't really complain with the weak 1 bar signal and pulling that .

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[Bront]

Woke up this morning to this beautiful sight on my Sprint Unlimited plan. Feels soooo good. This is just the beginning :-D

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Nice! What city?

 

[ttwiitch]

Nice! What city?

Hialeah-Miami FL

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[ttwiitch]

Those definitely aren't bad. If you don't mind post one during the day. At 2 AM not a lot of people are using the network so I am curious what you get under actual load .

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That was at 2PM lol.... I just didn't take the screen shot earlier, went for some errands and did it again later. The speeds remained constant

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[ttwiitch]

Sweet! Did you have to manually set the band priority?

No, that's the weird part, it just connected randomly. I still haven't received 4.4.3 obviously, so I'm anxious when that rolls out, I'll be having these speeds constantly.

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[Relgoshan]

Moved from Echo to G Flex after 3.5 years on Sprint, this in fact my first 4g/lte phone.on their network. I had issues with mode handoff on two Samsung tablets including my newer 7.0 LTE, but the Flex seems to fully auto switch modes with no airplane tweak or lost connection errors. Sprint seems to still be in upgrades for my market but the Flex doesn't care about towers down because GSM capable. I'll have a verdict next road trip but my Echo had only one dead area and the Flex should have the band to cover that region. Don't care about 20mbit vs 50 but I will log my speeds to compare against tablet because triband vs single band.

 

[ttwiitch]

Moved from Echo to G Flex after 3.5 years on Sprint, this in fact my first 4g/lte phone.on their network. I had issues with mode handoff on two Samsung tablets including my newer 7.0 LTE, but the Flex seems to fully auto switch modes with no airplane tweak or lost connection errors. Sprint seems to still be in upgrades for my market but the Flex doesn't care about towers down because GSM capable. I'll have a verdict next road trip but my Echo had only one dead area and the Flex should have the band to cover that region. Don't care about 20mbit vs 50 but I will log my speeds to compare against tablet because triband vs single band.

Traveling connection and reliability, on my personal experience, it was awesome with Sprint. In Feb I took a road trip from Miami FL to the Smokey mountains Tennessee, and didn't have a single dropped call and maintained LTE 80% of the 13-14 hour trip. Also, speeds were shockingly great, ranging from 10-28mbps constantly.

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[Almeuit]

That was at 2PM lol.... I just didn't take the screen shot earlier, went for some errands and did it again later. The speeds remained constant

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But your post you said you woke up this morning and it shows 2 so I would assume AM .

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[choclab1]

Just update for people that was interested. But I received my final bill today with NO ETF

 

[bed269]

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[ttwiitch]

I would be curious to know where in the Smoky Mountains you were getting that kind of speed. Because I live 10 mins away from Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg and a lot of times I'm lucky to get a web page to come up with any kind of speed when in the Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg area. And if I'm at Dollywood you are lucky sometimes to get a text out at times. Also in Pigeon Forge you are constantly switching back and forth between 3g and 4g. Gatlinburg isn't near as bad but it is still slow.

Let me just say I'm not saying you didn't get those speeds. I just haven't seen them in the area I mentioned. I love going over to Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg about every other weekend and my data goes to a crawl a lot in those areas. I used to get those kind of speeds in the Maryville/Alcoa area but not anymore. Today I was lucky to get 3.5 mb. Its almost like the speeds are starting to slow down than what they were 6 months ago.

I said on the road....as in, on the actual trip it was like that. When I got there, up the mountain, all phones on Att, T-Mobile and Sprint loss signal, tho I did manage to get 1-2 bars occasionally.

In Gatlinburg, 3G was awesome, but unfortunately, the towers aren't updated for Spark phones and I didn't have that fallback for LTE. Yet my wife had constant LTE on her S3 :-\

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[ttwiitch]

But your post you said you woke up this morning and it shows 2 so I would assume AM .

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