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1 edit | Sprint probably can't get it's act together Sprint has been a basket case for a long time. The relatively weak coverage, and poor data network were compensated for by lower prices for post-paid customers. Lately Sprint has been reducing discounts, for new and existing customers. Which makes Sprint post-paid not as good a deal as it was.
Currently my family is on Sprint pre-paid with $25 per month legacy 300 minute / unlimited data / texting plans. If we wanted to upgrade to newer phones, Sprint would charge us $35 per month for the same plan. Currently I'm testing a Nexus 4 with T-Mobile's $30 per month plan and AT&T via Straight Talk.
We'll eventually move to T-Mobile or Straight Talk after as we want / need and can afford new phones.
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1 edit | I also still have my sero $30 a month plan with my antiquated htc touch. In order to upgrade my phone I would have to use android or apple phones with a new higher priced contract of which neither is wanted.
Around 3 weeks ago they did something to the tower locally so now it only connects at 1x rtt instead of evdo so my battery runs down to crap in 1/2 the time. I suspect its trying to connect to the evdo constantly so its using the battery too much.
This does not leave me an upgrade path with sprint that is acceptable so I will be taking my business elsewhere soon.
It has been good and no big problems but now its a huge problem.
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| If you want to keep that price, you can port your number over to t-mobile onto their 30 dollar a month 4G plan that has no phone restrictions. Granted the voice minutes are slim, but you get unlimited texting and data (5GB then throttle). |
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| said by delusion ftl :If you want to keep that price, you can port your number over to t-mobile onto their 30 dollar a month 4G plan that has no phone restrictions. Granted the voice minutes are slim, but you get unlimited texting and data (5GB then throttle).
unlimited data but throttled after 5 GB? Doesn't sound "unlimited" to me.
un·lim·it·ed
/ˌənˈlimitid/
Adjective
1.Not limited or restricted in terms of number, quantity, or extent.
2.(of a company) Not limited.
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1 edit | said by anon anon :unlimited data but throttled after 5 GB? Doesn't sound "unlimited" to me.
un·lim·it·ed
/ˌənˈlimitid/
Adjective
1.Not limited or restricted in terms of number, quantity, or extent.
2.(of a company) Not limited.
Number of bytes that can be moved through a cell phone per month are limited by the data rate of the carrier. This is true for all Internet access. The monthly average data rate per second, and the number of seconds in a month determine the maximum quantity of data that can be transferred.
Thus ALL Internet access is limited, by the data rate to a device. Regardless of any provider policy which may put additional limits on data.
For cell phones, check out »www.rootmetrics.com/special-repo···vg_speed Sprint runs at around 1/3 the Internet speed on average as T-Mobile. 65% of the time Sprint is under 1.5 Mbps, T-Mobile is that slow less than 25% of the time.
The fastest carrier reported by the site is Verizon, followed not surprisingly by AT&T.
The site doesn't break out Virgin Mobile, but I can assure you it's data rate is much slower. So I get "unlimited" very slow Internet access from Virgin Mobile, or 5 GB of amazingly fast Internet access from T-Mobile which then reduces my speed to roughly that of Virgin Mobile.
Which company has the better offer "unlimited" data offer?
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Explain to the thread how the user on sprints "unlimited" 3g that operates in most markets at ~100-200kbps is somehow better than t-mobile's "unlimited" that allows speeds up to 10-20mbps for 5GB then ~100-200kbps for the rest of the month.
When sprint has a spectrum cap on an evdo session that results in essentially 100% throttled all the time connection. This is a valid unlimited to you, but t-mobile's rate based throttling is invalid.
When sprint has a single t-1 line feeding a tower that results in 100% throttled traffic, that is a valid unlimited to you, but t-mobiles rate based is invalid?
Just so that I understand you, If t-mobile were to sell him an "unlimited" 200kbps data plan that was always 200kbps then you'd be all for it correct?
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| reply to delusion ftl
TMO-USA does NOT support CMDA phones. Its a GSM carrier. |
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| reply to anon anon
TMO has unlimited plans again with no 5gb throttles. |
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