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Richmond, VA | nice I had no idea this was even offered by Sprint.....great marketing.
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Sandy, UT | Re: nice They stopped taking subscribers like 5 years ago. It was available to sign up in the 2001 timeframe. They then locked out new subscribers and are finally killing the service for the 10 people that had service. | |
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I Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me.
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join:2001-04-19
1970 442 W30
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| Re: nice said by rahvin112  :They stopped taking subscribers like 5 years ago. It was available to sign up in the 2001 timeframe. They then locked out new subscribers and are finally killing the service for the 10 people that had service. Except for the 2005 Sales you may have misssed above...
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Given limited Sprint deployment and promotion, I had almost forgotten that the service still existed. Sprint stopped offering the SBBD to new customers back in 2001 during a rough patch, then started taking new subscribers again in 2005.
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| The service was pretty cool; but the marketing and sales group blew the bankroll. Not to mention Sprint did not put the necessary R&D $ into the project. One outstanding group was the contract employee group that did the installs and service. I think their name was Sat-Tel or something. Wonder if they are still around? | |
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| Good Move I think FINALLY they are getting around to strengthening a few core competencies and shedding all of the hair brained ideas of the previous management.
Kudos to Dan Hesse for these moves to-date. Left to its previous course, Sprint was a missile plummeting towards earth.
Now they might just stand a chance. | |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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| Re: Good Move said by NY Tel :I think FINALLY they are getting around to strengthening a few core competencies and shedding all of the hair brained ideas of the previous management. Kudos to Dan Hesse for these moves to-date. Left to its previous course, Sprint was a missile plummeting towards earth. Now they might just stand a chance. I've got to agree with you here. Their stock is rebounding nicely as it seems some investors think they may be back on the right track. | |
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No Fear
join:1999-09-01
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1 edit | Wimax is next Sprint is probably going to Axe Wimax next. Even thought there are these people behind it. Alltel joined the LTE club, so it leaves Sprint out in the cold again. Goodbye outdated, and unprofitable techs. ATT and Verizon could provide nationwide coverage without Sprint.
Sprint needs to rid itself of Nextel, and plan an upgrade to LTE if it wants to survive. I could see sprint being broken up for the other 3, or 4, when it finally dies.
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| Re: Wimax is next said by DaveNJ :Sprint is probably going to Axe Wimax next. Even thought there are these people behind it. Alltel joined the LTE club, so it leaves Sprint out in the cold again. Goodbye outdated, and unprofitable techs. ATT and Verizon could provide nationwide coverage without Sprint. Sprint needs to rid itself of Nextel, and plan an upgrade to LTE if it wants to survive. I could see sprint being broken up for the other 3, or 4, when it finally dies. I have to respectfully disagree here. I think WiMAX, especially with Intel and Google behind it, will set Sprint apart. I do agree that now since they have written off the Nextel debt, they should dump the network.
LTE is going to be either carrier-locked, or prohibitively expensive pay-per-byte. Those will be the two models to choose from.
I think WiMAX will be the network where the innovation happens. The LTE networks will have some of the bigger names, like Moto and LG, making neat devices for them, but you'll be locked into contracts to get a decent price on the device and the cost of entry (Verizon's Certification Program for instance) will set the barrier for entry too high for anyone not already established. | |
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join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Re: Wimax is next WiMAX has potential ... it just needs to present itself properly to the consumer as a viable proper choice.
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No Fear
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| Re: Wimax is next said by en102 :WiMAX has potential ... it just needs to present itself properly to the consumer as a viable proper choice. I think if Verizon was behind Wimax it would be a success, i dont have faith that Sprint can do it. BTW LTE is a gsm protocol using sim cards. So any unlocked device could potential work. | |
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Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
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| Re: Wimax is next I suspect that in general, WiMAX will not be 'directly' aimed at consumer use. WiMAX will be aimed at everything from PC cards to GPS to embedded devices (in cameras, cars, and just about anything you can think of). I would EXPECT LTE to offer similar services as well.. they'll be a little later on, with less hype.
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join:2002-04-05
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| said by Matt :LTE is going to be either carrier-locked, or prohibitively expensive pay-per-byte. Those will be the two models to choose from. How can it be carrier locked when its GSM? Will the SIM card be suddenly dead? That makes the standard useless in Europe, market wont tolerate it there. | |
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Take me down to the paradise city
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| Re: Wimax is next said by patcat88 :said by Matt :LTE is going to be either carrier-locked, or prohibitively expensive pay-per-byte. Those will be the two models to choose from. How can it be carrier locked when its GSM? Will the SIM card be suddenly dead? That makes the standard useless in Europe, market wont tolerate it there. #1 It is GSM based. Not a direct implementation of GSM.
#2 The main component of LTE, HSOPA, can be adapted to CDMA. It would be MUCH cheaper for a CDMA carrier to do this than to convert all their equipment and towers to full fledged GSM. | |
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| Was a good alternative to 56K dial-up... ...when there was no alternative. I had Sprint Broadband Direct for a couple of years before AT&T finally got around to offering DSL in my old neighborhood. The latency was just horrible, and I seem to recall the system didn't exactly offer 99.9% uptime (or anything close to it). The service was pretty bad too, with techs flat out missing appointments, etc. If the service is still like that, I would think customers would be happy to move to EVDO or WiMAX.
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join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY | my prediction Sprint will follow the perp walk/bankruptcy of Mci-Worldcom dimensions. They are hemorrhaging their customer base, alienating nextel subscribers. Sprint is heading for oblivion. They will be working on the no customer revenue model real sue.
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Brooklyn, NY | Re: my prediction um..... hey!!!! I like Sprint! My cell phone and EVDO work everywhere I go, and it is almost always my friends VZ, TMOBL or ATT phones that drop etc. | |
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No to ESPN
@sbcglobal.net
| I Had Sprint Broadband Direct I had it for about 6 years and it was very reliable. I understand other people had a hell of a time with it but I did not. I had to go to cable after someone built a building that killed the signal. Compared to Comcast Sprint was slowing but felt "snappier" as requests for websites was considerably faster.
Would I go back? No. Was it a good solution for me at the time? Yes, it replaced AT&T dialup. | |
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join:2002-05-08
Lafayette, CO
| Re: I Had Sprint Broadband Direct I too have Sprint Broadband direct (at least till the end of JUly) The reliability has been damn near 100% for close to seven years. (cant recall an outage that lasted more than a few minutes, normally do to heavy snow between me and the tower)
Sprint's recommendation to employ EVDO as a comparable service though is a laugh, at the same price point they are gouging you for an "Additional data usage is $.001/KB (Maximum monthly charge $99.99 on the 40MB plan)" or an extra $20 per month for unlimited.
Nice way to reward loyalty
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| Re: I Had Sprint Broadband Direct Me too. I have my service since 2000 till now. 100% up in last 7+ years. I have the same dynamic ip for 7+ years. Of cuz they locked down the upload speed to 128k, but my download speed seems unlimited. The 13-14mb was the highest download speed I got when I was downloading the exchange server service pack from microsoft year ago. My average download speed is 5-6mb, but it is very depended on the upload speed from the other side.
I won't consider their EVDO offer. I will consider ATT DSL Pro 3mb/512k. It cannot be compared to Sprint direct, but it is the fastest speed that I can find in my area. For some reason I don't like comcast. | |
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join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | did it exist? Where was this available, state and city wise? | |
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K.U. Sweet 16
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Wichita, KS | It was available in Wichita Kansas, serviced off of a very high tower just north of downtown. When Cox did the switch from Road Runner here, it saw a lot of additional subscribers.
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| said by patcat88 :Where was this available, state and city wise? I remember seeing some of their antennas on houses years ago in Pembroke Pines, FL.
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as Mr. Pink as they come
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Phoenix, AZ
| said by patcat88 :Where was this available, state and city wise? I had it back in 2001-2004, the service wasn't bad.
5-6mbit down and around 80-100kbps up.
they had an uncapped news server too.
location: phoenix arizona
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@sprintbbd.net | Re: byebye I have this service SW of OKC in Tuttle Oklahoma and Im gonna miss it.
I get 7mbps down speeds with excellent latency. No DSL is available for me and I dont know how other ISPs around here compare yet. | |
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join:2006-07-24
Oklahoma City, OK
| Re: byebye im here in okc as well, and in the same 2 square mile IT H3!! as you sound like. so far my only choices i can find are is atlinkwifi and airosurf, both appear to be poor replacements to SBBD as far as $$$ to speed goes, sure wish i could find some list of local isp's to bang on to see if there is a better deal.
BYE BYE SBBD like a lot of things, i didn't know how good i had it until you leave. | |
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| Re: They had this in Tucson while I was there... said by qworster :The band this operates in used to be known as MDS or multipoint distribution service. It was for schools and others to send video from one point to many locations. It was also used for wireless cable at one time. I'm curious about what the band has been re-allocated to-MDS demand has virtually been zero these past few years. MDS was de-officialized by FCC, and renamed Broadband Radio Service (BRS). Its being planned for WiMAX now by Sprint, but FCC never put any mandatory buildout or any requirements to use the spectrum for anything, so it will lie vacant forever probably. Sprint is under no obligation to ever do anything with the spectrum and there is no requirment to have service on it. Sprint already sat on it for a decade or more. | |
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join:2008-05-18
Sterling Heights, MI
| Out in the Detroit area. SBBD was not taxed like a phone line (like EVDO is) or a Comcast's franchise fee.
EVDO looks like it is not unlimited, and I'm not sure if it is always on.
Comcast looks like it may offer more bang for the buck, but I don’t know if I can trust them.
I liked having SBBD it was a very reliable service.
Actually a company named Kite provided the service under the Sprint brand as a marketing game, and they seem to be going out. | |
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join:2008-04-27
Miami, FL
| ! Good good.
I was waiting for this to happen, it's time to start eliminating crap that does not make any sense to keep running anymore.
I hope to see a new website design as well, because I hate the current one. I loved the one nextel had the few months right after the merger. Or at least make the front page look like the sprint business page, the design is much cleaner.
»sprint.com/business/ | |
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| SBBD I have SBBD now, and have not heard that Sprint was going to shut it down until I read this post. We are still under contract until September or October. If in fact they are shutting down the entire SBBD system, I will be calling telling them I want out of the contract NOW, and will be calling another provider here in the Fresno area to start up with.
Kind of upsetting that they are shutting it down. We have had it since February 2001 and have head great success with it!
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| Re: SBBD Well, just got off the phone with a SBBD tech person, and he said the market I am in, the letters notifying customers the service is going offline will be mailed out May30, with the service being shut down August 31, 2008. He said they are letting everyone out of their contract with no early termination fees, but they are offering a Sprint EVDO wireless card to those customers.
So, the search is on for a new internet provider for me anyway! | |
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| I've had Sprint Broad Band Direct since Feb 2001. Only a very few times it was not up and running well. It slowed down during rush hours here in Phoenix. I'm not sure why but during the day and later in the evening it was very fast.
Now I've got to find another ISP.
I'm thinking about Cox and Qwest. Does anyone have any tips or clues about which would be a better provider?
I'd really appreciate any advice I can get. I've got till 7/31 to make a switch then I'm off line.
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Peoria, Az.
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| I've had it since 2001, and it has failed me only twice in those seven years. Not a bad deal, especially since I can't get DSL here. Upstream sucked, but downstream was great. Not sure what to go to next. Comcast screwed me in the past. Anyone have any ideas for a cheap, unlimited, and reliable internet service? | |
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| HI,
Had SBB since May 2000, up to 2Mbits+. At that time, DSL and Cable were not available to my area (up in the hills of Palo Alto, California. Line of sight was to their tower in Fremont). Yes, the latency went up and down but successfully ran email gateway and web server (especially since the IP address never changed the entire time) Got the termination letter last night. Now forced to pay more for static DSL at less bandwidth.
it was great, thank you Sprint! | |
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join:2007-10-13
Phoenix, AZ
| I guess all Sprint BBD users knew this day was coming...
In the past 6 months I have had nightmare-like experiences with Qwest/Covad (for my company), Cox (for my in-laws), and Earthlink DSL (for my non-techie brother). I'm thinking about using some random game of chance to pick my next provider. If Sprint can get EV-DO priced like a fixed-site service, or if they can get the new "XOHM" service up and running at a reasonable price vs level of performance, then I would just as soon stick with them. | |
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join:2008-06-10
Colorado Springs, CO
| I have been using this service since around 1999 or 2000 and have in the past two years had NOTHING but problems with the service. As an online gamer I’ve experienced major latency, lag and what we like to call “Lag Death” often due to the crappy service. I stayed with them because they were the only thing I could get.
Now, I’ve received a letter from them stating they are shutting down. Nice, interesting. Forces me to go to cable modems and a local cable company which is probably faster and better, but not cheaper. That’s the plus side.
The down side is something kind of unrelated to internet technology. It has to do with Customer service, and simply being “straight” with people.
I tried, and failed in the last few days to locate ANY mandate or information from the FCC. I have spent 5 days on the telephone with the FCC, in emails and filing complaints now, with both the FCC and with Sprint broadband Direct.
I now accuse, outright, the SBBD personnel of lying, obfuscating and hiding information as to why they are doing this.
Not that I care if they do it now, I’m signing up with someone else, which will be faster, and I’ve saved my ancient Earthlink addresses as well. Nice for me.
BAD for Sprint though.
Sold my stock in them. Getting rid of cellular telephones through them and I plan on reviewing every single aspect of their business and writing about it - as much BAD crap as I can find.
I can’t stand liars, and I certainly do not appreciate people like “Jason” who utterly REFUSE to pass me to a shift supervisor or manager when requested. He not only refused, but stated “I’m not going to do that!”
What sort of Customer Service training did this young man have? None. Apparently Sprint hires a$$holes to do their dirty work.
Ok… well, lots of us can behave that way, and they just hit my “Ass-holier-than-Thou” buttons. We’ll see.
For starters I’ve filed an FCC complaint against these people for their apparent obfuscation, misdirection and misrepresentation.
Secondly, I plan on filing a large lawsuit to recover the last two years worth of monies I’ve sent these bastards.
Let me give you the rest of the story.
About eighteen months ago I was having major problems with connections and drop outs on the services. I contacted them repeatedly and was told over and over “We can’t see a problem from here”.
Being that I AM a computer professional, someone familiar with networks, and able to run network scans, and actually determine causes of problems on networks, I ran my own checks and discovered some issues.
My modem was “acting up” to some extent, but the BIG problem was at the “Head End”, a place that sits high up on Cheyenne Mountain outside the Colorado Springs area - AKA NORAD to most of you.
I confirmed my findings by contacting a friend in the industry, and having him bring hardware to the house, connect it up and we located the exact systems on the analyzers to tell us where the problem was.
I then contacted, with my network engineering friend, the customer service persons there, while the gear was still connected.
Not only could they NOT see our equipment, they couldn’t tell me there was a problem. I sent, by email data to the technical support people and remained ignored.
I stayed with the system because DSL at my house can only go at 512K MAX (and much less than that, I might as well go with a dial up line for that price and the problems it causes)… I didn’t have access to cable without fees to have the cabling put in at the house and simply put, I didn’t have other choices at the time.
So - essentially, service has sucked, the people who provide that service suck, and I was stuck with a sucky service.
Now that they are LYING to the public about this alleged “FCC mandate” (which the FCC can’t seem to find themselves!!!!!!) I’m planning on showing precisely what these people are made of.
Starting now.
Enjoy the message, and by the way, DON’T USE SPRINT until they get their act together! | |
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Lake Mary, FL
1 edit | Re: Sprint Broadband Direct - and the ALLEGED FCC Mandate. heh, so you're going to attempt to tarnish a companies reputation with malice over something you have no way of verifying? .. "countersuit" .. | |
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join:2008-06-10
Colorado Springs, CO
| Re: Sprint Broadband Direct - and the ALLEGED FCC Mandate. Negative. I never said there was no verification. You did.
I said that I have been on and off the phone with the FCC now for several days, I've written letters to them, and they state quite clearly there is no mandate.
I don't have to do a thing to 'tarnish a company's' reputation, they have managed to do so themselves. Lying about this is sufficient. | |
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John1703
@cheepthrills.com
| Re: Sprint Broadband Direct - and the ALLEGED FCC Mandate. Sprint is using MMDS frequencies for the downstream 2.5 - 2.7 Ghz and MDS 2.1 Ghz for the upstream, The MMDS frequencies were transition to EBS (educational broadband service) and BRS (Broadband Radio Service) by the FCC and the MDS was transition to AWS (advance wireless services). Sprint retained their licenses and leases for the new EBS and BRS channel plans but not the AWS bands. It was my impression that the new license holder of the AWS bands were supposed to pay for the incumbent expense for transitioning. The FCC may have ruled otherwise which would explain the turning off the networks.
Webhiway Communications is giving Sprint customers help in the transition.
»wispassoc.com/news/Webhiway-Comm···g-Sprint | |
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dragonflynet
join:2008-07-25
Colorado Springs, CO | Our company is taking over Sprint BBD networks and customers.
Please see our website for more info: »dragonflynetworks.com | |
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@pcisys.net
| Re: New service for Sprint BBD Customers So, you are "TAKING OVER" Sprint Broadband Services/Customers??
Are you Part of Sprint Broadband? Or just implying this?
Or, are you just trying to get in on the Sprint FCC dump of their licensed frequencies and take part of the "wireless customer pie"? Like the rest of the Wireless ISP's in Colorado Springs and other market areas where Sprint was.
Because their equipment (California Amplifier antenna) equipment, since it is 2.3GHz is now useless in the US. | |
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