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http://www.tmonews.com/2012/08/t-mo...unlimited-data-plan-thats-actually-unlimited/
At a time when Verizon and AT&T are charging more for Data, T-Mobile comes to the rescue with unlimited Data for $30 for Classic Plans and $20 for Value Plans.
<3 I am excited! I was actually considering switching to Sprint for truly unlimited data, but now that my beloved T-Mobile is getting it, I am never leaving!
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The unlimited data plan does not allow tethering. This is a quite reasonable limitation in my opinion but even so I am sure it will be bypassed on rooted phones by Sept. 7th.
Its almost TOO good to be true. But Tmo does take out the included HotSpot Tether (easy work around for us here tho ). This + the iPhone5/LTE (hopefully for Tmo's sake) + HEAVY marketing (including improved network toting & great prices) will bring new customers in droves. Tmo needs this combo punch for the holiday season.
Also, does anyone know how to only test the 1900 HSPA+ band on the GNex instead of AWS/1700 HSPA+? Tmo has been working on HSPA+ over their 1900 band for some months now, and I want to see if any towers in and around Seattle are enabled yet.
Have not been this excited about something from tmo in a long time. Still waiting for a catch, but damn this will be epic. I get unlimited through my dealer line anyway, but will be awesome for my wife.
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Why not go to boost mobile?
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Why not go to boost mobile?
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They use sprint towers. I prefer speeds faster than old people f#&king.
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why not go to boost mobile?
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hahahahahaha. Piss poor network (Sprint). Have you seen their data speeds? Not even worth it.
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Crappy speeds and terrible phones? 2 good reasons right there.
Must be different in the south. Gsm sucks compared to cdma. At one time gsm was the **** here and then it went to ****.
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My speeds are great!!! Average 20+. See my signature for one of my highest speed test.
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hahahahahaha. Piss poor network (Sprint). Have you seen their data speeds? Not even worth it.
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Crappy speeds and terrible phones? 2 good reasons right there.
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1.7 mb down on Sprint 3g is good enough for me. As far as phones, you have to clone to have a decent one besides the EVO 4g LTE
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Once my nightmare with sprint ends, I will definitely go back to Tmob. They have the best customer service IMHO.
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Dude, if you hate Sprint that much just root your phone and throw a Verizon prl on and just use it. Sprint will let you out of the contract for sure
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My speeds are great!!! Average 20+. See my signature for one of my highest speed test.
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I wasn't referring to their miniscule LTE network. I was talking about their horrible CDMA/EVDO network.
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Dude, if you hate Sprint that much just root your phone and throw a Verizon prl on and just use it. Sprint will let you out of the contract for sure
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My phone is all custom...I honestly thought about it before, just hate doing these kinda of things...I take responsibility for my mistakes..lol
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1.7 mb down on Sprint 3g is good enough for me. As far as phones, you have to clone to have a decent one besides the EVO 4g LTE
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Not good enough for heavier data users that watch HD videos, wants quick web browsing, wants to download files quickly, etc. 1.7mb is not enough.
Hell yea
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I guess you are right, I use WiFi more than 3g data because of battery life
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I guess you are right, I use WiFi more than 3g data because of battery life
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Great battery life using HSPA+ here.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/04/sprint-confirms-pay-as-you-go-service/
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Ugh. Still same crappy service. I can't wait to leave sprint >.> its been 5 years for me waiting for them to get better... Any who the comments on that article are a whoot and I feel the same way.. No throttling sure...because our entire network is throttled love my unlimited 1X service that's <300kbps
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I'd like to try Sprint again, just to see if service in my area has gotten any better in the last 6 months. And without a contract would be nice.
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Mattix724 said:
I'd like to try Sprint again, just to see if service in my area has gotten any better in the last 6 months. And without a contract would be nice.
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I was excited at first.... But the phone selection is crappy.
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I'll never understand why companies do this (own several different brands). All it does is decrease the effectiveness of your marketing. Why does GM need to sell 20 different midsize vehicles all under different brands? Why does sprint need Virgin and Boost.
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Sprints prepay has no throttle like the others
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Sprints prepay has no throttle like the others
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For now...
Virgin didn't use to throttle speeds either.
Couldn't I just activate my E4GT on prepaid? It's never been activated on any account.
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Hopefully this might be a game changer for other carriers as well hence the fact they did this cuz the tmobile/metro pcs merger
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Virgin didn't use to throttle speeds either.
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Except this is an actual sprint branded service
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Couldn't I just activate my E4GT on prepaid? It's never been activated on any account.
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As long as it's a clean ESN they should. One quick chat with Sprint can confirm that.
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I'll never understand why companies do this (own several different brands). All it does is decrease the effectiveness of your marketing. Why does GM need to sell 20 different midsize vehicles all under different brands? Why does sprint need Virgin and Boost.
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Having different brands can be easier than trying to explain the differences between your products. For instance, Sprint's offerings have features like roaming, nights and weekends, mobile to mobile, LTE, etc, while Virgin Mobile doesn't. It's probably less confusing for the average consumer to view two brands than to have Sprint explain, "This is a 300 minute plan, but it's not the same as these other plans because it's missing these features." Instead, Sprint gets to market VM as a full service provider to people who don't know what they're missing.
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Having different brands can be easier than trying to explain the differences between your products. For instance, Sprint's offerings have features like roaming, nights and weekends, mobile to mobile, LTE, etc, while Virgin Mobile doesn't. It's probably less confusing for the average consumer to view two brands than to have Sprint explain, "This is a 300 minute plan, but it's not the same as these other plans because it's missing these features." Instead, Sprint gets to market VM as a full service provider to people who don't know what they're missing.
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But Sprint already sells multiple plans, so that doesn't really fix anything.
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marksedge said:
Hopefully this might be a game changer for other carriers as well hence the fact they did this cuz the tmobile/metro pcs merger
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Tmobile has it too for 70,not sure about throttling though.
Anyone know if call forwarding and/or or roaming will work? Tweeted Engadget to no avail.
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Tmobile has it too for 70,not sure about throttling though.
Anyone know if call forwarding and/or or roaming will work? Tweeted Engadget to no avail.
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From what i understood no roaming and no lte ..so ...bummer
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jlear3 said:
Tmobile has it too for 70,not sure about throttling though.
Anyone know if call forwarding and/or or roaming will work? Tweeted Engadget to no avail.
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Hspa+ is plenty fast don't need lte
And its unthrottled
Here's some news. Talked to a tech today for awhile resolving an account issue. During our conversation I asked about deployment plans. Here is the top five things they said they're doing:
1. Rolling out LTE upgrades to current 4g towers. Which may cause temporary service loss of data.
2. Upgrading all towers along the interstate system in their current footprint to hspa and to LTE in larger cities with 4g already deployed.
3. LTE will roll out in large cities with 4g first that have completed upgrades.
4. Metropcs lte towers may be given greenlight for us to roam on until the switchover (which is contrary to previous statements)
5. Acquire more 1900mhz and AWS spectrum for more buildouts of hspa and LTE.
They're also looking at possibly doing unlimited data with tether soon. But no word on pricing or availability.
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does that mean I can use unlock AT&T phone with T-mobiles LTE contract OR any unlock LTE phone?
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does that mean I can use unlock AT&T phone with T-mobiles LTE contract OR any unlock LTE phone?
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No clue. I'm just repeating what the tech told me.
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Im here at the one of the tmobile store in california. A regional manager is here today at the store. I ask him if our note 2 will need any update to use the new lte services when it out. He said no! He told me there actually installing lte towers right now in la and oc county! No wonder my service is been off and on today! Just did a speedtest and wow its getting faster and faster! !!
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Yeah my speeds have been spotty the past few days
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Same here in San Jose CA. I assumed its due to towers being upgraded. Download speeds have gone down but upload has gone up slightly. I was a bit concerned but I figured its due to some upgrades their doing. Hope my download speeds picks back up.
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Same in pittsburgh. Speeds have been **** the last few days.
sent via note 2 in boss mode @ quad core 1.9 ghz
No big change antioch ca here
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San Diego seems untouched...
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Dallas has been becomming spotty. Lewisville, irving, and coppell. Dunno much bout carrollton though
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does that mean I can use unlock AT&T phone with T-mobiles LTE contract OR any unlock LTE phone?
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If the phone can support Band 4 LTE (which I do not think AT&T uses for their LTE), it can support it.
These threads seem silly, because what tech and care know is far from the truth. Also to whoever thinks that you don't need a update for lte, you are most certainly wrong. We just got LTE installed on the towers on our building and it is not working on my note. But other notes in the building we have for testing have LTE up and running just fine. Unfortunately these notes were sent already put together, so whether it was a update or a sim card is hard to tell because I haven't got hands on time alone with them yet. Another possible solution is a provision, through one of tmobiles systems for troubleshooting I have seen lte settings for a phone line specifically but wouldn't have the information to properly set it up.
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My speed are even faster today!!!
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dannydv said:
My speed are even faster today!!!
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NICE! Where are you located?
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aznmode said:
NICE! Where are you located?
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Southern California. I also live in las vegas!
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Have experienced crap downloads but in South Phoenix where I live im 5 miles away from the nearest TMO advertised tower (and coming from cricket, its still fast in my mind) but this past few weeks I have experienced better speeds but more intiguing is my connectivity has gone haywire at times resulting in excessive batter consumption (periodically)... hoping this is LTE configs at work but its all a waiting game at this point
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Los Angeles has been loss of data and very slow data at times mostly all the time spoke with tmobile rep she said she dont see no problem
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Hope something happens soon. I'm kinda hating the slow speed I'm getting lately.
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I know dude where are u at ? City?
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Mine is slow too at times. Used to get 27mbps now average between 15 to 19 never over 20. I'm in sd
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I have not had 4g working on my Epic at all unless I was all the way on the other side of town. Now I know for a fact that LTE is not in my area but for the hell of it I activated my old LG Viper LTE and what do you know, I have constant 16 meg download on 4g. Anyone here that might have an idea of why this is? I really want to use my epic but wow this 4g stuff is nice too.
the 4G in our phone is on the wimax network, not LTE
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I 100 percent understand that, that's the reason I was confused because sprint has not setup lte here yet.
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bigblue4life said:
I 100 percent understand that, that's the reason I was confused because sprint has not setup lte here yet.
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Maybe they have and didn't tell you lol
Maybe you got lucky and caught them during a trial period lol. Or your roaming on another lte network but idk if that's possible or not. some one else could clarify if it is possible
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Maybe you got lucky and caught them during a trial period lol. Or your roaming on another lte network but idk if that's possible or not. some one else could clarify if it is possible
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No I don't think that's possible... I'm pretty sure that Sprint and Verizon (or anybody else) would use the same frequencies for their 4G... they want it to stay fast... trial period is most likely
This Network Vision thing Sprint has been talking about is real. Lots of new LTE towers up recently all over the country. And no there is no 4g roaming between carriers.
4g LTE roaming is not possible between any of the carriers.
ATT LTE uses low 700mhz block & in the future, some AWS and WCS.
Vz LTE uses upper 700mhz block & in the future, AWS.
T-mobile LTE is AWS
Sprint LTE is PCS 1900/ SMR 800 / BRS-EBS 2.5/2.6ghz
I will give sprint a call tomorrow and ask because I need to know if I need to get a good lte phone. Can't even get any 4g on this phone.
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I will give sprint a call tomorrow and ask because I need to know if I need to get a good lte phone. Can't even get any 4g on this phone.
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Yeah Wimax is spotty at best
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I 100 percent understand that, that's the reason I was confused because sprint has not setup lte here yet.
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It could be up and not announce it yet. Same as Here in my area (Arecibo PR) LTE is up and running but not officially announced. Even if you call CS they will negate it's up. Only officially available west of PR.
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Just use sensorly and open signal it'll show you exactly where towers are and their broadcast bands (1x, 3g, lte, wimax) and coverage range
I like to break stuff!
It has been confirmed by sprint that lte is in my area and 3 more towers are still being worked on. Just ordered my G Nexus.
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bigblue4life said:
It has been confirmed by sprint that lte is in my area and 3 more towers are still being worked on. Just ordered my G Nexus.
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Shoulda got an s3 or note 2 the gNex is old as dirt in phone age
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Shoulda got an s3 or note 2 the gNex is old as dirt in phone age
I like to break stuff!
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G Nex is a great phone. 3 friends here have one and there is nothing old about it.
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G Nex is a great phone. 3 friends here have one and there is nothing old about it.
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Except it came out 9 months ago and the nexus 4 has already replaced it. Its got a weak camera, low RAM, poor display and did I mention it's old. If it was any phone but a nexus it wouldn't be getting updated anymore and headed for EOL, which it will be EOL less than halfway thru your new contract
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My wife has a nexus. Its not bad but it came out before the e4gt. Hers is the verizon version. It does run good for having inferior cpu. Lte radio is a plus. No gorilla glass! Shes shattered 2. Overall great phone just lacks features from s3, but its basically free now. Lte is being built in my town now. So maybe few months and its live letd hope s4 is out.
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Except it came out 9 months ago and the nexus 4 has already replaced it. Its got a weak camera, low RAM, poor display and did I mention it's old. If it was any phone but a nexus it wouldn't be getting updated anymore and headed for EOL, which it will be EOL less than halfway thru your new contract
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I agree with you I dont see the reason of getting that phone unless you got it free without upgrading your contract lol. My co worker still has his and geez it kinda suck to me volume is to low and the screen aint all that but hey guess as long as its a google phone it get plays.
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i wish there was a way to flash it for us non stock users so we dont have to keep switching roms
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I would totally care but sprint doesn't seem to care about the Denver area. Theres wimax in like a 10 block radius and promises for years we'd get more.... Now they're switching to lte and more promises but for the last 3 years its always been their sucky 3g
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Same here in Salt Lake. Sucky/spotty 4g. No LTE in sight.
But at least I'm paying for someone to have lte. Cuz it sure ain't me.
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Phoenix is the same way. Promises after promises. Now it doesn't look like we get even basic 4g for years yet. Stuck with 3g on the maybe eventually network.
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I'm in nj and have spotty 4g so don't feel to bad
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ruthlessbeatle said:
I'm in nj and have spotty 4g so don't feel to bad
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VA area near TN, Pretty good 4g with a chance of LTE every now and again.
Hate to say it but I do miss Verizon service.
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i wish there was a way to flash it for us non stock users so we dont have to keep switching roms
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You can manually write whatever PRL you want with DFS CDMA Tool & a PC, regardless of which ROM you're on.
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Im in Atl and get 4G at home and work.
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You can manually write whatever PRL you want with DFS CDMA Tool & a PC, regardless of which ROM you're on.
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you have a link for that program? Would be pretty cool I'd we had someone fix the CDMA tools app or make us an easy "one click" sprint prl/profile updater.. If there is one already phase forgive the noobness....
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No you can't
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To be able to connect to DFS you need to have DIAG mode enabled, and its only available in Stock roms and ASOP
engine95 said:
Same here in Salt Lake. Sucky/spotty 4g. No LTE in sight.
But at least I'm paying for someone to have lte. Cuz it sure ain't me.
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I was in SLC last month and had solid 4g in the neighborhood above the capitol. Didn't go too far from there so I can't speak to other areas.
I've literally traveled all over America due to being in a touring metal band, and I can honestly say that 1. Sprint's service ****ing SUCKS ****. And 2. 4G LTE is extremely spotty. Luckily at home here in Baltimore I have 4G all over, but anywhere other than the east coast, you're lucky to get LTE. I had great service when I was in Denver earlier this summer, but no 4G whatsoever if I recall correctly (And I don't, because Colorado is a... "Medical" state. )
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I've literally traveled all over America due to being in a touring metal band, and I can honestly say that 1. Sprint's service ****ing SUCKS ****. And 2. 4G LTE is extremely spotty. Luckily at home here in Baltimore I have 4G all over, but anywhere other than the east coast, you're lucky to get LTE. I had great service when I was in Denver earlier this summer, but no 4G whatsoever if I recall correctly (And I don't, because Colorado is a... "Medical" state. )
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That's why I love my state haha. But yeah sprint sucks out here
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I was in SLC last month and had solid 4g in the neighborhood above the capitol. Didn't go too far from there so I can't speak to other areas.
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iamterence said:
I've literally traveled all over America due to being in a touring metal band, and I can honestly say that 1. Sprint's service ****ing SUCKS ****. And 2. 4G LTE is extremely spotty. Luckily at home here in Baltimore I have 4G all over, but anywhere other than the east coast, you're lucky to get LTE. I had great service when I was in Denver earlier this summer, but no 4G whatsoever if I recall correctly (And I don't, because Colorado is a... "Medical" state. )
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I lol'ed at the your description of how Sprint's service sucks...especially since I generally agree. But down here in Dallas, I get pretty great LTE coverage. I think because we were one of the first markets to launch LTE. In some places in town I get 30MB+ download speed so I cant complain. But in the outskirts of town and suburbs...it isnt nearly that good but I'll still usually be able to connect to LTE.
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you have a link for that program? Would be pretty cool I'd we had someone fix the CDMA tools app or make us an easy "one click" sprint prl/profile updater.. If there is one already phase forgive the noobness....
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I've got to take care of a couple things this morning, but when I'm done (probably about 2 hours) I'll post a full write-up.
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I flashed a stock rom to get the updated PRL. Looks good. What's different about it?
Also, I get pretty decent 4G coverage in Houston, Texas with Sprint, even out to the suburbs on the north side. It's not nearly as fast as the service I had with verizon, though, but it is at least consistent.
Once you get past the city limits on the east or south, though, both 3G and 4G get iffy.
I have awsome Sprint Airave coverage at home.
I hope someone makes a app like RoamControl that works with our Optimus G so my phone will work outside of my house.
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Another new PRL 25017
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