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Like I said definitely ain't bad.. I was just going off what you said is all.
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Like I said definitely ain't bad.. I was just going off what you said is all.
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That is impressive.. I grew up in North Carolina and lived in Nashville, TN for 7 years before coming to Texas 3 years ago.. I use to drive from Nashville to Raleigh several times per year and Sprints 3G coverage back then wasn't worth much once you got past Lebanon in TN..... Coverage was spotty along I-40 to Cookeville and then picked up pretty good into Knoxville but then became spotty again once you got east of Knoxville... Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg was decent but not great and then you were dead until Ashville, NC and then Spotty as you traveled from Ashville to Raleigh.........
LOVED Gatlinburg though.... Beautiful place....
Made the jump to T-Mobile on Saturday and so far amazing coverage at home and so far at work this morning ten times better than the coverage I got with Sprint but it's still only HSPA+ at work no LTE.... but at home I get great LTE coverage and out and about with the kids and their usual weekend stops I got 20 - 40 Mbps on T-Mobile vs 1 - 10 on Sprint LTE.... and so far the T-Mobile LTE is much more saturated across DFW vs Sprint....... but I can say I am not very confident once I pull the T-Mobile coverage map back... Traveling should be interesting.....
Man I use to average about 1 - 1.5 GB per month on Sprint.. Switched to T-Mobile on Saturday and I am already at 1 gig in less than a week... My phone actually has functionality at work.... Instead of "I'll wait until I get home and on WiFi to watch/download/view that." I can actually do it at the time it's sent to me or pulled up....
I don't know how confident I am in T-Mobile's overall nationwide coverage but in the DFW area I am seeing only 3 - 4 Mbps at work on HSPA+ (Sprint was less than .5 Mbps and flipped constantly between 1x and 3G) but at home I am seeing 17 Mbps vs only 1 Mbps and at the shopping center we frequent I got 30 - 40 Mbps vs what use to be 3 - 4 Mbps on Sprint.... Freaking light and day... and on this T-Mobile Walmart prepaid card it's only $30 per month for unlimited data (first 5 gig at 4G speeds) unlimited text and 100 minutes talk... I only averaged 80 - 90 minutes talk time anyway but threw and extra $10 in there just in case I go over my 100 minutes.... With my corporate discount I was paying $75 a month on Sprint.. Now I get 4, 5 and even 10 times better speeds at the places I frequent most AND pay less than 1/2 what I was paying on Sprint...
Makes me mad I stuck with their B.S two years ago and didn't make this jump sooner...
Not lets hope Sprint doesn't buy T-Mobile and jack it all up......... Still can't figure out why Sprints coverage is so bad.. They are/were bigger and been around longer than T-Mobile....
Sprint's *coverage* is not bad. In fact, it is considerably better than T-Mobile, overall. It is just that the network has major technical and bandwidth issues.
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Sprints coverage is better than T-Mobile, that's a fact. It's sprints backhaul, and bandwidth management that clogs the network up, and slows it down which makes it slower. T-Mobile is making moves, which is good for competition. Maybe in a year or two, T-Mobile might be the #3. It all depends on how sprints NV plays out.
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I won't argue that Sprint has the spectrum to be even the number 1 carrier, but I agree with you, it's poor management on Sprint's part.
But I will say in Chicago, where sprint has "spark" and i'm not even sure what happened to their network vision upgrade or if it's even existent at this point, their speeds and network were laughable at best. I got 1 mbps in my house with full bars of LTE, tmobile gives me 30. On top of that, I used to never get dropped calls with sprint, but i have had so many in the last few months its made me furious with sprint.
Sprint's network has degraded so much, I want FCC to rip open Sprint a new one and I hope to hell they pay Tmobile $1 billion
Yeah I have concerns with traveling when it comes to T-Mobile... But I am from Raleigh, NC where I go visit often and Lived in Nashville, TN for 7 years before coming to Dallas, TX almost 3 years ago... and Sprints coverage in a major metro city is just horrendous... Across an HTC EVO 4G, HTC EVO 4G LTE a Galaxy S3 and now a Nexus 5 (plus my wife who's had Galaxy S3 and an HTC One M7 on Sprint) It's been the same from city to city... Not back woods country towns but MAJOR METRO areas...
Just here in Dallas.. I work near DFW and got almost nothing out of Sprint and on a six mile drive home my signal goes in and out between 3G, LTE and 1x several times as I go down 635 and 121 (Major roads connecting Dallas and Fort Worth)
I worry about once I get outside a major metro area with T-Mobile but I don't travel like I use to so that will be very rare... I know when I drove from Dallas to Nashville and Dallas down to San Antonio Sprints overall highway coverage was serviceable..... Looking at T-Mobiles maps it might be iffy on those trips... but as far as their in city coverage and speeds it's easily 10 - 20 times better than Sprint (at least in Coppell, Grapevine, Lewisville, Irving and DFW airport area)
I've also notices that Sprint doesn't seem to be able to handle heavy loads of people in a single area (Thus they are talking of throttling high volume customers on certain towers during certain times of day until the load on that tower dies down) but at work I go in early (6 am) and my phone was decent but by 8:30 - 9 am it became useless while at work.... and it's been that way over 3 devices in the last 3 years.... Just how their network is.....
Maybe they should just spend less money on NASCAR, The Voice and other sponsorship and invest in the back haul of their network... lol
and I was a very VERY long time Sprint customer... I had been with them since 1997 ish until 2014...... I gave them PLENTY of time.... which they were pretty good pre smart phone revolution......
and I still have a Sprint account as my wife is still under contract on her HTC One for another year........ I only switched because my contract was up and I could take my Nexus with me.... I know T-Mobile will pay my ETF but I can't take her HTC One to T-Mobile... so I'd have to buy another phone for her so she will keep that until it's up and we will see what to do from there...
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I'm debating leaving sprint, but the only att plan I can find (10Gb) which would fall in with my usage, is kind of expensive. Being off contract helps though
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This is Sprint's future.....and it has already begun rolling out
Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 5 Speed test.: http://youtu.be/QWu0KwhfsZA
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Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 5 Speed test.: http://youtu.be/QWu0KwhfsZA
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The future can't happen soon enough. I've been with sprint for 5 or 6 years. I'm willing to give then until the end of the year.
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Me too. I'm just worried about switching to T-Mobile, having great consistent data speeds, but then no one could hear me due to constant low signal and dropped calls. I can't have that because I drive all day and ppl call me constantly from my office.
I really wish the merger goes through like that, the customer will have the best of both worlds; great call coverage and great speeds!
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And if that future pans out like their LTE roll-out here which went from 25Mbs to maybe 2Mbs (in ideal situations) in a few months, it will go from 75Mbs to 6Mbs. And while losing and delaying text messages and other network issues.
I hope they prove me wrong. Strong competition is a good thing. And here, T-Mobile will have NO low frequencies like Sprint will (supposedly), and that is key for great building penetration.... something sorely lacking here from ALL the carriers.
I will say this. I generally hate talking to people on other networks on the phone, as voice clarify is something Sprint has done right for a while. My friends who have AT&T sound horrendous.
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Have you tested to see if you would get dropped calls? I honestly can say on T-Mobile I have yet (yes when traveling.. Such as driving from Jacksonville to New Jersey) to hit a spot where I couldn't call or text someone. Yes I've hit edge.. As everyone knows T-Mobile is definitely a carrier city.. In between.. Crap data... But I've always been able to call and text.
I'd test it out with a prepaid and just see. If it's crap.. Well then you have your answer
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I was just telling this to a co-worker yesterday afternoon...ironic. Every time we talk, he sounds muffled through his iPhone 5. I also have a friend using a Moto X and even tho its not as bad, it still happens.
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Have you tested to see if you would get dropped calls? I honestly can say on T-Mobile I have yet (yes when traveling.. Such as driving from Jacksonville to New Jersey) to hit a spot where I couldn't call or text someone. Yes I've hit edge.. As everyone knows T-Mobile is definitely a carrier city.. In between.. Crap data... But I've always been able to call and text.
I'd test it out with a prepaid and just see. If it's crap.. Well then you have your answer
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Yeah so far (Only a week) with T-Mobile I've found the call clarity to be pretty darn good.. I can't tell any difference from when I was on Sprint before.... But as of right now I have not left the heart of the Dallas/Forth Worth area... This weekend I am driving up to Oklahoma so I'll be going up a major highway but through some back woods towns... Will be interesting to see.. I know from looking at the expanded pulled back coverage map it gets pretty light magenta as you get north of Lewisville/Denton for a while.... but I don't need high speed LTE speeds while on the highway driving.... Now not being able to make a call in a pinch could be an issue....
but so far I'm very impressed with T-Mobile....
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