| reply to armed
Re: Sprint rolling out LTE too slowly Sprint allows their post-paid customers to roam on Verizon, so voice coverage is usually not a problem. Now data roaming is also possible but they get quite twitchy when someone uses a lot of data off the network.
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| i used 50gigs of data roaming on sprint on purpose on my old htc evo to not pay the ETF
they kicked me off immedietely
no retries |
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| said by JigglyWiggly:i used 50gigs of data roaming on sprint on purpose on my old htc evo to not pay the ETF
they kicked me off immedietely
no retries
Precisely why companies need to have reasonable caps. This attitude is why so many things cost so much, as the cost is then shifted to other users. Case in point: theft.
Sprint should sent a reasonable 250MB on roaming. 50 Gig would have cost them a fortune. |
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| reasonable caps my ass
for data roaming sure
for their own network
nope
and yes it was evil but i needed 2 gtfo off sprint
Lack of sim cards is pure shit |
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| reply to Telco
I think Sprint allows up to 300MB roaming or so, which is plenty for traveling. I roam data when traveling in rural areas or off interstates and haven't had any major problems. Obviously you wouldn't want Sprint if mostly roaming, so it's fine for those primarily in Sprint areas.
When they add 800Mhz voice/LTE in a couple years, they'll be in good shape. |
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| reply to JigglyWiggly
said by JigglyWiggly:reasonable caps my ass
for data roaming sure
for their own network
nope
and yes it was evil but i needed 2 gtfo off sprint
Lack of sim cards is pure shit
Yep, lack of sim card is a complete joke.
Even their own network needs to be capped, especially the 3G. It's the slowest of all four now and barely usable for more and more people. What good is unlimited when you can only download under 500K? |
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| reply to xenophon
said by xenophon:When they add 800Mhz voice/LTE in a couple years, they'll be in good shape.
That's what I hate about Sprint, everything is 'coming' in x time. Ironically, nothing is ever here now. |
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| reply to JigglyWiggly
I thought that lately they'd charge you ETF anyway? 
But yeah, using too much roaming data, given how much Verizon charges for it, is a red flag. Voice on the other hand is just fine
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CDMA doesn't use SIM cards, there's not really anything they can do about that. It literally takes two seconds to switch to another phone, you just dial *228 and enter your account details on the phone you want to switch to. |
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| reply to Telco
It wouldn't help, they have too many customers and too little back haul. They're upgrading back haul to Fiber, Ethernet, or Microwave backed by Fiber or Ethernet so it won't be 500k on average it'll be 1.5Mbit/s on average while using 3G. |
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