- Oct 7, 2009
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I have been an extremely happy longtime sprint user. In fact, I thought 4G was stupid because of the battery hit, and my 3g speeds were amazing. Then comes the iPhone ..... it's not the phone or users fault rather a by product of launching the biggest selling device, on an all you can eat plan, for the lowest price. My speeds seemingly dropped over night with the launch.
What I dream could happen, and sorry MVNO prepaid folks, but I wish sprint would temporarily force MVNO users onto 1x only providing more EVDO rev a and o bandwidth for us post paid users. I'm sure legally binding contracts prevent this, and yes if it happened pre paid users would leave in droves, but the monitary value of post paid customers is astronomical compared to prepaid. As it stands post paid users are leaving because we pay full price for bad speeds, prepaid users aren't as impacted because they are paying reduced prices so willing to stay on, and the announced LTE sites aren't overly confidence inspiring for us who are trying to stick it out.
Yep it's a rant. No it will never happen. But damn I'm being forced into local media instead of streaming! Sprint give me back my iheartradio!!!!!!!!!

P.S. I have no intention of leaving Sprint, partly because of my sizeable corporate discount and their unlimited data, but I'd go without a phone before i gave big red or ATT my money. T-Mo is looking nice though as a plan B if things get too bad.
What I dream could happen, and sorry MVNO prepaid folks, but I wish sprint would temporarily force MVNO users onto 1x only providing more EVDO rev a and o bandwidth for us post paid users. I'm sure legally binding contracts prevent this, and yes if it happened pre paid users would leave in droves, but the monitary value of post paid customers is astronomical compared to prepaid. As it stands post paid users are leaving because we pay full price for bad speeds, prepaid users aren't as impacted because they are paying reduced prices so willing to stay on, and the announced LTE sites aren't overly confidence inspiring for us who are trying to stick it out.
Yep it's a rant. No it will never happen. But damn I'm being forced into local media instead of streaming! Sprint give me back my iheartradio!!!!!!!!!

P.S. I have no intention of leaving Sprint, partly because of my sizeable corporate discount and their unlimited data, but I'd go without a phone before i gave big red or ATT my money. T-Mo is looking nice though as a plan B if things get too bad.
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