flyingjoey
join:2005-11-07
Jersey City, NJ
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| reply to djrobx
Re: UMTS/HSPA Speeds
What's wrong with this picture... AT&T customers are playing 30 bucks a month for subpar service which seems to be always down.
I've been with Sprint for 11 years and have been tethering my phones since I figured out how to (something like 2002). First with the Samsung A800, then with the PPC6700 and now with the PPC6800.
I consistently receive 1100down/400up and I’ve found 2 locations in NJ where I will always get 2200down/1200up (Hillside, NJ)… and this is all for $15 bucks a month (-27% off). They will have to drag me out kicking and screaming before I leave Sprint.
Btw, I do own an iPhone and the only reason why I have it it’s because it has all my music in it, and work pays for the service. |
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beaups
join:2003-08-11
Hilliard, OH
| I think the point is that it's a lot easier to offer fast and consistent service when nobody else is using it (i.e. Sprint). If sprint were to launch an iphone with the same kind of #'s ATT did, I would expect similar issues.
Anyhow, I read here that ATT has additional spectrum available..I suspect as that rolls out 3G will improve for all of us. I'll keep my fingers crossed. |
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RadioDoc
58ef2c0
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
 ·AT&T Midwest
| reply to flyingjoey
Hmmm. I've been tethering my CU500V since I got it well over a year ago and it always works wherever I go. I'm not paying $30 a month extra to do it, either, and I get 3G speeds in a lot of outback places that aren't even announced as "live" yet.
Maybe its the iPhone that is the problem? Naw, Apple would never market something that underperforms it's ad hype.  |
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scantor
join:2004-08-11
Columbus, OH
| reply to beaups
said by beaups  :I think the point is that it's a lot easier to offer fast and consistent service when nobody else is using it (i.e. Sprint). If sprint were to launch an iphone with the same kind of #'s ATT did, I would expect similar issues. Even if that were true, which strikes me as unlikely given that it was just as fast before they started losing so many customers, it still suggests to me that I'm better off staying with Sprint.
So either Sprint's network is just plain better (my guess), or it's just less busy now and those of us left will get the benefits until they go under. Either way, I'd have to be insane to get an iPhone and switch. |
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