Sprint's Son on U.S. Broadband: 'How Can You Live Like This?' → Sprint

We like freedom of choice and use.

TMO lets us root our phones to get rid of carrier crap. We can also buy unlocked GSM and use them on TM network. We don't get charged extra for LTE service when we don't have it. Sprint charged a friend an extra $10 for the non-existant service years ago, and it's still not here.

I can have data on one line only. I have 2 lines that don't. One doesn't want it, the other phone is held for a family member when she comes Stateside once a year.

I don't need to be told how to use the phone.

The extra $10 4g dates back to WiMax when Clear launched their first market.

Wile I like choice and competition, the scope and size of TMO and Sprint are too small to compete w/ ATT and VZW because they are too capitally intensive and are under scarcity (spectrum), so eventually they will need to combine. Look up rules of three.

And before you guys light me up on Mhz, the only juicy spectrum those guys have is the old Nextel Sprint. Everything else is physically challenging.

The new spectrum auctions will be telling, and if Sprint/TMO get adequate low-freq that may change the valuation somewhat, and will make the merger even more likely--the capital outlay still there.

Verizon/T have many more users and low-freq, less towers, and own more backhaul. These are all assets Sprint/TMO as separate entities cannot overcome without massive price discrimination which they can't afford. Check the profitability of T/VZ versus Sprint/TMO...

Add to that Sprint refuses to unlock my paid off iPhone 4S for domestic SIM usage. Apple says it can be done but it is up to Sprint to authorize. Sprint says "go to hell. We will NEVER unlock it". So if I got another Sprint phone, my 4S becomes a domestic brick. And this is the policy Son wants to bring to T-Mobile??? No thank you. I hope to switch back to T-Mobile at some future date and kiss off Sprint, their crappy policies and lousy network. I don't even try and use their cellular data any longer and have had 0 bytes of usage since December opting for public WiFi instead. Of course Sprint will not allow my employer to terminate the data component of my service so we pay $20 a month on my line for a service I do not use.

Bite me Sprint...

the 2 smaller carriers might be able to get some lower band spectrum. But with respect to market share they're probably screwed until they can get the coverage which requires the spectrum and capital outlay. Both of which kind of require market share. Another thing working against the small cellular company is backhaul. T Mobile actually planned ahead by bringing faster lines to their sites so now all they have to do is install faster radios. Since the 2 smaller companies aren't monopoly telcos it's going to be harder for them to get backhaul everywhere even if they have sub-1Ghz channels because the two big companies aren't dying to help out a competitor. I don't think the DOJ/FCC can magically even the playing field even with the screen.

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They actually plan on allowing it!

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Regardless 4g in St. Louis on Sprint sucks to the point I never even turn it on yet I have to pay a $10 enhanced data fee for it.

That is one reason I will not be a sprint customer much longer.

There are several rules of three. Which rule of 3?

Heck even Verizon sells unlocked iPhones!

the 4S on Sprint is a CDMA phone you won't be able to unlock it

LTE phones are required by law to be unlocked when sold. The Iphone 4S is not an LTE phone and that invalidates your point (sorry about that(

I didn't see any legally binding commitment in the announcement. Given their past history, it isn't real until it happens.

History proves you wrong.

Did you even read it?

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And sorry, iPhone users, Sprint still won't be able to unlock Apple's flagship phone due to various restrictions, a Sprint spokeswoman told CNET.

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So no, n2jtx will still be SOL even if he buys a new iphone after 2/2015.

/M

Sprint has the spectrum. They arguably have by far the best spectrum position, since they have nationwide low-band AND a massive pile of 2600.

There is no such law.

Well knowing Verizon they are choosing to they just have to give $ to the right people and they are fine. Like with Google Wallet. »phandroid.com/2013/04/30 ··· -wallet/

bn1221 is talking about phones that use 700c on Verizon, but completely misstated it to apply to all phones, which is not the case.

Boy .....You have no idea....Sprint is the largest wholesaler to MVO's in the country. How about dumping the MVO's that pay wholesale prices, except (Boost and Virgin ; wholly owned by Sprint)and selling the spectrum to higher paying consumers....NOOOooooooo, shortage of spectrum and caps are all horse pucky to fork you in the anus for money! Wake up and smell the coffee!