Hey everyone. Just a quick question. I have had Verizon for over 10 years now, and my wife is considering switching to Sprint. She switched jobs and her company phone/personal phone will be disconnected at the end of May. We are thinking of getting a shared unlimited plan with Sprint. I have a Verizon plan that has unlimited data on it, but as most VZW customers know they no longer offer unlimited data plans. If I upgrade any part of my plan I lose unlimited data. That is a huge deal to me since I average 4.0 GB per month data. To purchase that data plan per month from VZW is highway robbery!!!! So I ask is it worth switching? I am happy with Verizon, but if I ever do want to upgrade my VZW phone I have to purchase it full retail or eBay it ...
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I've heard that Sprint is likely getting a Samsung as well as HTC WP8 device during the Summer months but can anyone pinpoint a narrower timeframe for me please? What about for BB Z10/Q10?

I have noticed that for the last few years while watching a baseball game at Busch Stadium in downtown St. Louis, I always have trouble using my Sprint cell phone: especially sending pictures and using my data 3G connection. (Currently Sprint does not offer 4GLTE in metro St. Louis, so I am stuck using 3G). Is this an issue of over-capacity and Sprint not wanting to upgrade their systems in the St. Louis area? Is this a question of time? Money that Sprint does not want to spend? To be honest, I see this a lot of times with my Sprint service if I am in a area of St. Louis that is well populated and there are many people in one general location.

As I've posted before, as a NextMail user since 2003/2004 or so, I find it a very productive tool. As part of the shutdown of Nextel, Sprint & PDV (Pacific DataVision) have re-branded the former NextMail service as "pdvConnect" (which is also available with AT&T's PTT now).

http://www.4-traders.com/SPRINT-NEXTEL-CORPORATION-1 ... »

Note that pdvConnect is not limited to PTT phones, it is just as easily & productively used with non-PTT phones by installing the pdvConnect ("NextMail") app. I've used the Android version, and it works very well.

Paid the 350 to cancel service and couldn't be happier. Just couldn't deal with not being able to use my phone due to their painfully slow network, and waiting over a year and still not having LTE. Now I'm with T-mo and still get unlimited data that I can actually use.

Phonescoop's article:
https://www.phonescoop.com/ »
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AT&T's announcement:
http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=24355&cdvn=new ... »

Ok, this isn't one of those hate on Sprint things. I like Sprint, I really do.

Unfortunately I live in an area not covered by Sprint. On their maps it's a huge white hole. I've got by with an Airave for the past 3 years (that they made me pay for) but I just can't handle it anymore. I have 4 lines total, the other 3 live a couple of hours from me. They at least have voice service and even though it's green on Sprint's map data crawls at 0.01kbps.

In the past, every time I've talked to Sprint about this they've said they will let me out ETF free. What's the best way to ensure this is done properly. Also is there any best time relative to my billing cycle? I want to do it in the middle of this month and my cycle runs I believe ...
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What would you all do? I have 2 lines ready to upgrade in July and August (1 each month basically). I am debating whether to go for the Galaxy S IV now or wait for Late Q3 to early Q4 to upgrade to the upcoming Note III? I am currently using a Motorola Photon (NOT THE Q) that I had since December 2011, which IMHO, totally sucks inspite of Moto's decision to treat customers like bastard stepkids and not give them at the minimum ICS for what was a recent phone enough for the timeframe when they were supposed to have updated them to 4.0.x atleast. And please don't anyone jump on here trying to convince me to go Photon Q. Not after this farse they pulled! Hell with Moto!

I'm not yet happy with the network, but I must say that all of my recent dealings with Sprint Customer Service have been positive, the agents have all been very pleasant & helpful, they are really trying to get it right, and their follow-up has been good.

http://www.4-traders.com/SPRINT-NEXTEL-CORPORATION-1 ... »

With the sprint/us cellular agreement, i am exploring other cellular services; however, i am tempted by the credits id receive for being a uscc user and my company discount.

Who on this form can speak about the service sprint provides? good reception? bad??

Can anyone give me some insight and would you consider making the move to sprint?

Since Sprint DC still retains the same minor deficiency as Nextel DC, I recommend Sprint make a minor modification to its Call Alert system.

I propose call alerts send a standard SMS text message that will go through even if the other party is on a phone call. Sprint used to do that with its picture mail service. Although it wasn't possible to view the picture while on an active call, you at least knew you had one.

I believe this would be a useful feature. I liked it on my old ic602.

Switched from Nextel iDEN to Sprint CDMA, got a great deal on the new Kyocera Torque, which so far has ALMOST been a great phone.

While otherwise extremely nice phones, both Torques had these deal-breaker issues:
1) In speakerphone mode, I can hear other caller fine, they can't hear me unless I take it out of speakerphone mode & hold phone to my head.
2) Both phones randomly froze up and/or rebooted themselves out of the blue. Two phones, four days, total of eight lockups/random self-reboots.

Took to Sprint store, tech tried for an hour, gave up and swapped them for two brand new Torques. Guess what? Both of the new phones have the exact same defect: Microphone does not work properly when on a regular voice call in speakerphone mode....
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Hey, my username is xyz and I just want to let everyone know how terrible my experience was with this carrier. I experienced frequent dropped calls, poor coverage, slow data speeds, and nobody ever helped me in customer service.

I finally changed to my current carrier and couldn't be happier! Everyone should listen to me even though you don't know who I am or if I ever even had the service I claimed to.

In fact, I'm probably some spoiled teenager who stumbled across this forum by accident. My only objective in life is to own the latest and coolest phone while trashing on others I deem less worthy. I measure the success of a company by how much money they make and Internet forums rather than on what well-established consumer agencies re...
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I would like to know why and how U. S. Cellular representatives have talked customers such as myself into upgrading and purchasing new phones from them, knowing full well that these devices were going to be useless in a few short months? I've purchased 2 new phones from us cellular in the last 5 months... I had heard rumors of the future sprint buyout and spoke with the us cellular agent about it... She confirmed the rumors with me.... Yet still sold me 2 new galaxy's... Never mentioning the the devices weren't going to be compatible with Sprint... and I basically handed us cellular a good amount of money for nothing! Maybe that was my own fault for not researching the facts more before the purchase... However I do think any merchandise sale...
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As a former proponent of sprint, I can tell you, I've tried sprint. I had them for 9 years. I've been happy, and most recently, INCREDIBLY disappointed. We had Wi-Max which used to be a great technology, until Sprint stopped throwing money into it, and went into LTE. I've sold sprint and worked as a service and repair technician. I've heard everything from everyone, and the bottom line is, 3g sucks. ATTs 3g was WAY faster than sprint, but we had wi-max so it's cool. LTE was supposed to be here 4 months ago. I'm sorry to say, AT THIS POINT, sprint sucks. Now that they don't sign my pay check, I can openly say that. Please try to respond.

I decided to leave this company a while ago because of the customer service, or lack thereof, data speeds, coverage issues, price points, awful phone selection, but most importantly them phasing out the walkie walkie or IDEN. Of course I was a diehard Nextel fan but hey it is what it is.
Just wanted to say hey to everyone.
I went to AT&T for a few years and now I’m at T-Mobile USA.

Oh well, looks like Sprint managed to fool millions of unenlightened people into using their service. If only these poor fools had known about all the informative web links so generously provided by those here who are in the know.

http://newsroom.sprint.com/article_display.cfm?artic ... »

Does anyone have any experience with getting Sprint Direct Connect phones to reliably take advantage of the Airave signal booster?

When we have our Airave turned on, the signal bars for CDMA voice definitely improve, but with the Airave on, Direct Connect basically goes out the window.

With Airave on, DC almost immediately shuts off on both of our phones (Kyocera Torques), it takes power-cycling of the phones to get them to re-establish DC, then after several seconds both phones shut off DC again. Since the DC is important to us, we have ended up just shutting the Airave off, which is bad for signal strength, but at least the DC works most of the time with the Airave off. On the data side, our DSL WiFi router handles the data part of i...
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I've used Nextel's "NextMail" system for years, it is a very handy, ultra-efficient tool that Nextel developed with a third-party called Pacific Data Vision (located in the San Diego area, I believe). One of the things that's helped keep me with Sprint is the Nextel NextMail capability, something none of the other US carriers offered.

Today AT&T announced "pdvConnect" with a suite of features & capabilities that sound just like Nextel's NextMail offerings. I'm guessing since AT&T calls it "pdvConnect" that they have also contracted with Pacific Data Vision ("PDV") to provide these same services for AT&T users.

SOURCE:
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/press-release ... »...
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Last week another letter from Sprint notifying Nextel subs that beginning April 01, 2013 all iDEN phones will be charged a penalty of $20/line/month, thus doubling the original Nextel/iDEN penalty of $10/line/mo that began on January 1st.

Also, if the remaining Nextel & PowerSource lines are not switched over BEFORE the June 30 service cutoff, those customers will lose their Nextel and/or PowerSource phone numbers for good.

I could live with the original $10/line/mo, but $20 per line has finally done the trick for me. I'll have to stop by the local Sprint & ATT stores and do a serious cmparison.