Sprint Cares For About Network Improvement

[Greg C]

Slowly the Sprint network is improving:

Sprint cares more about improving than its rank among carriers | TalkAndroid.com

A good read taken with a grain of salt.

 

[leprechaunshawn]

I'll believe they care when I can actually see an improvement in their network. The town I live in and the town I work in are about 6 miles apart and according to the Sprint 4G coverage map, both towns and the area between them should see nothing but solid 4G coverage. Yet, I find my phone dropping to 3G almost every day as I drive to/from work.

 

[JossMan411]

I'll believe they care when I can actually see an improvement in their network. The town I live in and the town I work in are about 6 miles apart and according to the Sprint 4G coverage map, both towns and the area between them should see nothing but solid 4G coverage. Yet, I find my phone dropping to 3G almost every day as I drive to/from work.

You should never go by a providers coverage map, they are over estimated. You should look at Rootmetrics or Sensorly to determine where the best LTE coverage is, especially Sprint because their LTE network is not in the mature stages yet.

Network Vision upgrades are about 95% complete on the 3G CDMA network nationwide, this is the actual rip and replace of the legacy hardware from antennas, basestations, cabling, radios, etc. LTE on 1900 and 800MHz has quite a ways to go nationwide as far as integration and optimizations are concerned.

 

[Almeuit]

You should never go by a providers coverage map, they are over estimated. You should look at Rootmetrics or Sensorly to determine where the best LTE coverage is, especially Sprint because their LTE network is not in the mature stages yet.

I agree with this as well.

 

[Greg C]

I agree with this as well.

As do I. I went by what the map showed. Way off base. I go through LTE, 3G and even 1X. I thought 3G was in the past, but not with Sprint. Sprint actively uses it. Prior to becoming a Sprint customer I was with AT&T. LTE on AT&T was very fast.. well.. because it's LTE. On Sprint not at all. Sprint's LTE is only a bit faster than 3G. I am disappointed, but than I have Sprint's Unlimited Everything so I'll bite the bullet. I'm holding out hope that the new Sprint CEO will turn this company around. There just aren't any unlimited plans around for $60 although T - Mobile has an unlimited plan but it costs $80 and their coverage is worse than Sprint's in West Michigan.

 

[leprechaunshawn]

You should never go by a providers coverage map, they are over estimated.

I would disagree with this. I chose to switch to Sprint because of their price and the fact that their map showed solid 4G coverage everywhere I needed them to have 4G coverage. Their coverage map is essentially an advertisement for their network and they aren’t providing what they advertised.

 

[mdk32014]

I'm wondering who is better Sprint or T Mobile?

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[Almeuit]

I'm wondering who is better Sprint or T Mobile?

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It depends on your area.

 

[mdk32014]

I understand but who over all

 

[Almeuit]

I understand but who over all

Overall? Verizon is the best.

Overall between just T-Mobile and Sprint? Eh .. really hard to generalize that.

 

[mdk32014]

Ok thanks i am now with vz and testing t-mobile is good where i am.

 

[mdk32014]

At hoe i get eiter full or 3 bars with t-mobile and mostly 3, 4 with verizon but vz sometimes gets better to.

 

[mdk32014]

Vz can also be expensive if you get a high data plan.