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 | | | Re: Sprint 4G LTE Trial San Antonio, Real or fake? I don't know how real the videos are, but I will say my friends and I have noticed improved service here in New York City. | |
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| | | | Re: Sprint 4G LTE Trial San Antonio, Real or fake? Of course you should see faster speeds. Getting rid of 4 execs with unlimited everything has nearly doubled Sprint's network capacity. | |
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| | | I would of liked to see whatever device they supposedly gave this guy to connect to 4G LTE. He showed nothing but a network connection in Windows named "Sprint4GLTE2100". | |
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| | | | Re: Sprint 4G LTE Trial San Antonio, Real or fake? Its a engineering test device that someone is not suppose to publicly post but someone did on YouTube! got it? | |
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New York, NY | I'd be more surprised when I see the network loaded and then run the speedtest. All of our store demo phones on 3G barely getting 0.20Mbps up and down.... and on 4G? barely hitting passed 5Mbps down and 2Mbps up. | |
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| | | | Re: Sprint 4G LTE Trial San Antonio, Real or fake? Indeed, real world testing in a loaded environment - particularly at mid-day truly shows a cell network's data capabilities. | |
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| | | mix, to me its real based on technical specs...
The updated 3G apparently is EVDO Rev.B possibly... | |
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Utica, MI | Re: Sprint 4G LTE Trial San Antonio, Real or fake? Are those 4G speeds really possible with only a 5x5 LTE carrier? | |
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| | | | | Re: Sprint 4G LTE Trial San Antonio, Real or fake? said by mix:Are those 4G speeds really possible with only a 5x5 LTE carrier?
No, the max speed's would be around 38-39mbit/s with 5x5, 10x10 is 73mbit/s per sector. | |
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Utica, MI | Re: Sprint 4G LTE Trial San Antonio, Real or fake? I've seen someone claim a 5x5 LTE carrier on 1900 Mhz will average 24-48 Mbps with bursts up to 72 Mbps. Is that untrue? Are they any good sources for this info? | |
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| | | | | | | Re: Sprint 4G LTE Trial San Antonio, Real or fake? said by mix:I've seen someone claim a 5x5 LTE carrier on 1900 Mhz will average 24-48 Mbps with bursts up to 72 Mbps. Is that untrue? Are they any good sources for this info?
Well the frequency really doesn't have anything to do with the speeds. But yes, thats very untrue, AT&T is using a 5x5 pair for LTE in Chicago and the speeds being reported are a bit slower than 10x10.
In the real world with 5x5 it is possible to see around 33mbit/s or so with average unloaded speeds of 10-15mbit/s, and loaded speeds would be much lower.
LTE in 5x5 would max at 37, but with overhead and other factors it will be quite a bit slower than that.
Here's a good article detailing HSPA+, but also has info about LTE
Source:»www.anandtech.com/show/4943/the-···-real-4g | |
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| | Fail! Dear Sprint,
You just eliminated one of the biggest reasons I had for moving our business wireless business over to Sprint: Honest-go-God business account representatives.
Good job. You keep steadily moving toward removing every aspect of what distinguishes, or used to distinguish, Sprint from its competitors. So tell me, Sprint: Other than (currently) being somewhat less expensive than VZ and SBC: Why should anybody be inclined to go Sprint, anymore? (Other than the unlimited data plan, which only a very small fraction of your customers actually needs or uses?)
Been a loyal and happy (personal) Sprint customer for over 13 years. Somehow I suspect that'll be coming to an end before too much longer.
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| Re: Fail! They are ging to move to the same model as Verizon, don't worry.
A number that basically jumps you to the head of the line and with an american not an outsourced indian rep.
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Toledo, OH | Re: Fail! Their whole plan from the start with the iPhone was to be like CellCo and AT&T Mobility. This is nothing new. The next thing that needs to happen is Sprint will decide to merge with C-Spire to keep the 2 afloat or both sink. | |
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| | | You know the same business reps will still be handling business calls right? They just have the same boss as the consumer reps, and hope you know Sprint gives out the most Business discounts, and if you are not happy with that there is always retention, they will listen. | |
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| | | I manage our (small) corporate wireless plan. Hard to believe any corporation would switch to simply having employees expense their phones. With the plans I administer I figure it would cost us roughly another $15-$20/mo. in direct charges, plus the additional cost of processing any additional expense reports, per user, for roughly equivalent plans. And that's for users with data plans. For the "dumb phone" users the cost bump would actually be proportionally higher.
I studied this, recently, because I was entertaining the idea of moving to a "smart" phone, myself, in order to better-support my employer's systems and users. But I neither wanted to "give" my number to my employer nor carry two phones, so I wanted to figure out what I could reasonably be reimbursed for the additional cost of a data plan, based on what it would cost the company to provide to me a phone with data plan. Additional cost to me of new service with a data plan: Over $60/mo. Cost to my employer to provide me with a phone with a data plan: $45/mo.
Not even close.
And to that former number you'd have to add the paperwork processing costs for the expense reports. I was talking that over with the CFO. Some 20 years ago I'd read that it cost the average business an average of $15 to "touch" a piece of paperwork. It's quite a bit higher, now.
A set stipend would make more sense, any way you look at it, but our government's tax rules would almost inevitably call that taxable, increasing the cost again. | |
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| | | | Re: No More Sprint Business? Most companys pay $50-80 a month to employees cell phones.
This is far cheaper for most companys than keeping it all in house. The cost of phones and insurave and the cost of replacements go far above paying per employee. Also you have to add the cost of overages and etc alot goes into it.
Also for your company it would be a huge cost cutting option, they would no longer need a Manager of a Wireless Plan. Most companies can have it added through there payrol software with out and issue or time.
Your company alone could cut staff, and save on insurance and benefits. | |
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| | | | | Re: No More Sprint Business? said by dfasdfdagc :Most companys pay $50-80 a month to employees cell phones.
This is far cheaper for most companys than keeping it all in house. The cost of phones and insurave and the cost of replacements go far above paying per employee. Also you have to add the cost of overages and etc alot goes into it.
Also for your company it would be a huge cost cutting option, they would no longer need a Manager of a Wireless Plan. Most companies can have it added through there payrol software with out and issue or time.
Your company alone could cut staff, and save on insurance and benefits.
That's what our company did for exactly those reasons and it paid off. Employees get to use the carrier/phone THEY want and the company doesn't have to manage it.
This is becoming a trend is probably why Sprint doesn't need the dedicated business side so much as the 'business' users are becoming consumer users, not business users maintained by the users' company. | |
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| not fast enough or wide enough (geography) deploying faster LTE on existing towers does NOTHING to compensate for the fact that AT&T and VERIZON simply have MORE UPGRADED TOWERS IN MORE GEOGRAPHY all over the country. start bulding NEW towers to cover previously UNCOVERED geographies!! not that I'm going to west virginia, but it would be nice for Sprint to have a few more towers there.. | |
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