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join:2002-06-14
Independence, OH | Sprint Pluses and Minuses Sprint Pluses:
1. They have good coverage.
2. My brother-in-law on the other side of Marysville, Ohio was able to get a repeater that uses a rooftop antenna pointed at the nearest cell tower and a local repeater on the top of the fireplace mantle. Solves bad signal in his area.
3. Found out that Sprint eliminated roaming, which means that I no longer need to set my phone for no roaming. This might solve my problem with a hole over by the Marysville KMart.
4. The two Sanyo SCR-2400 phones that I have are very reliable. My primary phone withstood a dunk in a toilet 2 years ago when it slipped out my sweater pocket. You cannot use it as a hockey puck but it has survived falling out of my pocket and onto the ground. A small story as to why I have 2 phones but on the family share plan it saved a lot of primetime minutes when turning off circuit breakers, pulling wires, and so forth. 2 phones on the 550 minute family share plan was less than 1 phone on a 900 minute single phone plan.
5. My contract is coming up this April they are willing to let me downsize to 1 phone and knock $10 off of a single phone plan because I am an established customer.
Sprint Minuses:
6. They have stopped selling nonfancy phones such as the Sanyo SCP-2400. Evidentally, they do not want to sell anything that does a reasonable amount of work for a reasonable price.
Bad business decision given the economy.
7. They only have 1 noncamera flip phone in stock and they are unfortunately not resocking. The problem is that a lot of factories do not allow cameras and they would require me to paint over the camera lense. Come on, most manufactured goods can be reverse engineered and there is no such thing as trade secrets.
8. Their equipment protection plan is not worth the money because it does not pay for batteries and chargers. Those 2 items are the most likely to break or get lost and I can buy batteries and chargers a lot cheaper from an Internet Wh@reh@use than from Sprint - putting the $7 per month into my pocket is better because I can buy a battery for about $15. Since I will have a spare phone that IS the equipment replacement policy. |
