I'm shopping around for internet service because I just got my own place and my service is horrible 3g and 4g barely one bar always disconnecting so I'm going to call sprint about an airrave do anyone have any suggestions on good internet service providers that I can with good speeds and not so expensive? I only want internet not cable and telephone.
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You'd be better searching for ISPs in your area and researching yourself than asking blindly on a phone forum.
PS: Check out websites and call, sometimes they will have a special one way and not the other. Comcast, for example, has a lot of online specials/mailer specials and you can't get them over the phone. You can get internet without cable from Comcast (at least by me) for about $20 for 1.5 Mbps down/600kbps up.
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You'd be better searching for ISPs in your area and researching yourself than asking blindly on a phone forum.
PS: Check out websites and call, sometimes they will have a special one way and not the other. Comcast, for example, has a lot of online specials/mailer specials and you can't get them over the phone. You can get internet without cable from Comcast (at least by me) for about $20 for 1.5 Mbps down/600kbps up.
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Thanks for the reply I asked in the phone forum because I'm mostly getting the internet for my 3d and streaming. I've also been doing some research I just wanted some more opinions so far I've seen Comcast and xfinity(something like that) I'm wondering if they are true to their speeds and prices. Thanks again
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I was gonna say Verizon FIOS, but you only want internet.
You can get just Internet on Verizon FiOS. If it's available in your area definitely go for it. I got it 3 years ago and it's not only saved money because it's cheaper than Comcast but it's also a lot more stable. I think it's only dropped out once in the 3 years I've had it due to a snow storm...
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I was gonna say Verizon FIOS, but you only want internet.
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I might be willing to throw cable in if its a reasonable price its just I'm barely home to watch tv but my gf would be there to watch tv
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You can get just Internet on Verizon FiOS. If it's available in your area definitely go for it. I got it 3 years ago and it's not only saved money because it's cheaper than Comcast but it's also a lot more stable. I think it's only dropped out once in the 3 years I've had it due to a snow storm...
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I'm going to check it out asap thanks
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Att uverse man
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It depends where you live. If you live near me I would say cox cable.
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I live in Detroit
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I would go with Comcast personally if you can, it's just the most reliable for high speed internet and TV imho, by the way a good tip for getting an air rave kit from sprint is through the cancellation department, tell them your situation and bring up that Verizon has coverage in your area and you going to switch providers if you can't get an air rave for free, your not willing to pay more for something that should be working correctly in the first place...that's how I got both of mine at no cost
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It's a cartel. They all suck and all are overpriced. Flip a coin and move on.
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I would go with Comcast personally if you can, it's just the most reliable for high speed internet and TV imho, by the way a good tip for getting an air rave kit from sprint is through the cancellation department, tell them your situation and bring up that Verizon has coverage in your area and you going to switch providers if you can't get an air rave for free, your not willing to pay more for something that should be working correctly in the first place...that's how I got both of mine at no cost
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Thanks a lot I f ended up going with uverse and I'll be calling sprint about the airrave after I get the installation date from att
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I have Verizon fios, the internet is BLAZING fast..... However I've had a HORRIBLE experience with their service department. My wife has spent countless hours on the phone with them it took about 8 calls and who knows how many hours to get someone who (a) knows what theyre talking about (b) will follow through after talking to them or (c) actually gives a **** enough to do their job. They sent numerous boxes (for multi-room DVR) and took many tries to get it working. And we were not givin the package promised to us over the phone. But once u cut through their bs service department its not bad. Good luck...
I know you said u only want internet. Sorry had to vent.
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OK, so it seems every cellphone carrier says they have the fastest 3g and 4g service. So WHO really has the fastest service. With all the BS aside! Facts and not Fiction! No flaming allowed! Just a friendly topic! Post away!
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http://www.ahwatukee.com/news/valley_and_state/article_ef905667-d758-53bb-bb17-4262bcee016c.html
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So then, where was any real data in there? Theoretically, cool. In reality, that thing didn't say anything really. Out just cleared up some nomenclature. Nice article though and will let me prove a point to a couple friends. Thanks for the post.
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Feel free to post more stuff about it!
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From my personal hands on experience in areas with good 3g and now 4g coverage here it goes.
REAL WORLD #'s
3G
ATT\TMO (ATT a hair faster is most cases but only slightly) 2.5Mbs - 5.5Mbs
Verizon/Sprint/Metro PCS (all suck - 750Kbs -1.5Mbs)
4G
Tmo (3.5Mbs - 10Mbs)
Sprint (3.5Mbs -8Mbs)
(don't know about metro although I tried a 4G phone and wasn't getting 4G coverage in the area i was in)
Verizon/ATT n/a as they do not have 4G phones yet.
Verizon is sending me a 4G LTE card to demo so I should have a better idea as to how those speeds are. I'm hearing they're hitting 18Mbs max although that is in a low traffic area so we'll see.
Theoretically Verizon's 4G network is supposed to be the fastest with Sprint's second and ATT/T-Mo once again a toss up. Tmo is talking about bumping up their speeds to almost match verizons which will give them the 2nd fastest mobile broadband network.
The important thing to know about all of this 4G talk is that in a lot of cases these speeds are just as fast or even faster than the internet connection speed on people's home pc's. It was cool at first but I don't see how 20Mbs on a device that fits into my pocket is going to benefit me in any way. My connection at home is 20Mbs and I can stream netflix in HD to two rooms while playing xbox and still not notice any lag. It's all just a ploy to get us to spend more money on something that we don't really need right now... or even a few years from now.
Sorry for my long response... it's slow at work today.
Well, in my humble opinion... Oh wait, no BS? Never mind.
Hey Dr B what's your gamertag? You play any COD? Didn't mean to hijack thread.
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Hey Dr B what's your gamertag? You play any COD? Didn't mean to hijack thread.
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Lol I certainly do play COD. My gamertag is the same.
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Lol I certainly do play COD. My gamertag is the same.
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Sweet. Which one? MW2 or black ops? Ill send you a friend request if that's ok with you.
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This was posted on the Evo 4G forums and is kind of old news, but for those who didn't know: You can get a free Airave from Sprint by calling retentions at (877)775-4886 and complaining you have bad service in your house. I have horrid service in my apartment so I'm barely on my phone here, just called them up and told them about it. They offered me a free Airave and told me that it would be here in 7-10 days since it's backordered. Thought I'd share.
Something to keep your mind off of S-Off for a little while
Edit: Hey, I'm happy people are still getting free airaves since I posted this. It's definitely worth it if you live in a apartment or basement with no service.
Also, I wanted to post my stand up video from last friday, let me know what you guys think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB-cXTndKMA
Sweet thanks man, that's news to me.
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I love my airave.....best thing I did for my home.....data 24/7.....they even waived the 5 dollar surcharge every month for Me.....
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I love my airave.....best thing I did for my home.....data 24/7.....they even waived the 5 dollar surcharge every month for Me.....
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Yep, signal here has degraded over the years to the point where it bounces back and forth from Sprint to roam. Told Sprint this and they sent me one free with free service without hesitation.
had to pay a $36 activation fee
does it makes 4g better to
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does it makes 4g better to
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Nope.....I live just 5 miles from Boston, so supposively I live in a great 4G area, and I still don't get it in my house..I don't think its suppost to help 4g signal tho...but it would be nice
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Sweet. Question: I've tried a few attempts at making my bill smaller, last rep I talked to applied a 25$ credit to the account which he said was for nothing basically. Didn't say it was continuing my contract or anything just "funsies" basically.
Would complaining about my signal strength, which is abismal, look suspicious? I was planning on calling about the credit for staying with them another 2 years. Hey, jobless and getting ready for college, I need all the spare change I can get! Lol
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Are we not phones?!
3.DeE.V.O.!!
Thanks op they just sent one out for me
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I think you should let everyone know that it requires an internet connection to work.
So, if you have internet, connect your phone via wifi.
Then create a free sip account and recieved phone calls over wifi at full signal.
Never miss a call again. No rave either, and your sprint neighbors can't steal your rave reception on your internet either.
No wonder sprint give them out for free, they benefit anyone that connects to it.
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I think you should let everyone know that it requires an internet connection to work.
So, if you have internet, connect your phone via wifi.
Then create a free sip account and recieved phone calls over wifi at full signal.
Never miss a call again. No rave either, and your sprint neighbors can't steal your rave reception on your internet either.
No wonder sprint give them out for free, they benefit anyone that connects to it.
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Yes that is why they hand them out so freely. They are trying to get their customers to improve their "backhaul". Especially since several parts of the country are having outages and crowded towers. With the Airwave all you're getting from that 3G is your own internet, which doesn't really help if you can use WiFi already.
BUT you can filter the Airwave so it doesn't let any other phones connect to it other than yours.
service is terrible at my house..i have tried calling before with no luck.. i might try this number over the weekend...do they waive the monthly fee as well?
Yes just got one last week bit need a wifi router bc it dumbed down my internet using the two ports off of it so I'm run it off a router instead strait from modem
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Yeah... DONT USE IT AS A ROUTER. It suggests that in the instructions... but it sucks a a router... a lot. (Works fine connecting it through another router)
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How do you do that?
Edit - just found it - https://mysprint.sprint.com/mysprint/pages/secure/mypreferences/myPreferencesLanding.jsp
Sprint website
Edit: looks like you can't anymore?
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service is terrible at my house..i have tried calling before with no luck.. i might try this number over the weekend...do they waive the monthly fee as well?
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They waive the monthly fee but you do use your minutes when using the device. If you pay the monthly fee, you don't use your minutes when using the device.
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Mine came activated, maybe you can get it waived
Can anyone tell me why I can't change the settings on my airave please?
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They waive the monthly fee but you do use your minutes when using the device. If you pay the monthly fee, you don't use your minutes when using the device.
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Minutes really how does that come into play and if so what if ur on free nights and weekends or u have unlimited minutes???? I think ill be calling sprint
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3G - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W5kmsBXVso&sns=sms
4G - http://youtu.be/8xihFQBwqfc
This is all coming when Sprint releases their LTE network.
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holy facking hell! but when everyone starts jumping on LTE the speeds wont likely be like that no more. i'm quite happy with my wimax right now i get 13-17mbps
True but they'll still be faster than now. There's a tower right next to where I live so I'm always getting those speeds as well
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Im about to cry... D: im amazed.. Sprints done it again!! They like take a massive leap, let the rest of the carriers take a small step ahead.... Take another massive leap.. Let the other carriers catch up... And just keep pullin more crap outa there butts to flaunt in the other carriers faces! Like they were the first to offer 4g a year ahead of everyone else.. And KEEP there unlimited plan then they do this! O: the only place they lack in is a wide range of phones but theyre even catching up in that department! Nd who cares they gor the mopho!!
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How do we know these videos are legit?
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Most of us will probably never see this ever and for two reasons.
1. It's Sprint and they are absolutely full of crap. Promised people around the country 4g nearly 2 years ago and still nothing.
2. See #1
Thats just crazy...how long would ur battery last..lol
And its prob a beta tester with no load on the network
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How do we know these videos are legit?
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Its not legit until they show a picture of either the test device or hotspot. They could have just renamed it to sprintetc. If that video is real so are Pamela Andersons tits 0_o
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Thats just crazy...how long would ur battery last..lol
And its prob a beta tester with no load on the network
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Actually better signal would = better battery life on cdma networks.
Yea I can guarantee that the speeds will be much lower with more than a few people connected to the network. I'm just impressed that Sprint is capable of this is all.
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Yea I can guarantee that the speeds will be much lower with more than a few people connected to the network. I'm just impressed that Sprint is capable of this is all.
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Check out the company called light squared and search it with sprint in the same search. Sprint is paying out the ass to make it work. I'm a recruiter and I work with the company they have recently had some break through and even some test. If it works out. Sprint will be able to use the tech to transfer their LTE anywhere you can receive a GPS signal.
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Check out the company called light squared and search it with sprint in the same search. Sprint is paying out the ass to make it work. I'm a recruiter and I work with the company they have recently had some break through and even some test. If it works out. Sprint will be able to use the tech to transfer their LTE anywhere you can receive a GPS signal.
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My friend has actually told me a little about them, I still need to look them up.
Awww we are friends haha.
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If you do this, are the ESNs on the phones marked as bad? I'm guessing they are... but curious. Sprint is giving me the biggest run around ever with constant poor service, dropped calls, slow data, etc... I'm in a metro area as well, it's ridiculous.
I feel your pain. Same story here. I'm also interested in how this works, haha.
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Count me in.. I'm ready to go to Big Red and get my wallet raped(I'm not being sarcastic)
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Count me in..can't wait to run very fast from sprint...worst service..I know people with pay and go get more reliable service..I'm on my 6th LTE and this one is bad as well
How does one roam excessive?
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Lol u guys enjoy leaving. By end of next year everyone will have fast speeds and great top notch network as their build out will be near complete for initial phase...
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Lol u guys enjoy leaving. By end of next year everyone will have fast speeds and great top notch network as their build out will be near complete for initial phase...
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I'd go month to month and buy a phone off contract with Verizon . But I don't have faith in this network vision of theirs. Sure it's state of the art. But it's also Sprint and not one tower is complete yet in Florida according to S4GRU..But I'd come back if it's as good as they say it is. I have my doubts.
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I fill the pain I am off contract 3 phone just got to talk my daughter into switching. She is in I Raleigh NC we are in Asheville she has great reception and our just plan suck. We even have to have there airave for service in the house. If they would spend a little more on towers and not pi$$ there money away in NASCAR they might coiuld keep there customer.
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I'd go month to month and buy a phone off contract with Verizon . But I don't have faith in this network vision of theirs. Sure it's state of the art. But it's also Sprint and not one tower is complete yet in Florida according to S4GRU..But I'd come back if it's as good as they say it is. I have my doubts.
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I've experienced the completion of it to an extent in Atlanta and it was nothing short of amazing compared to what I usually get here in Raleigh.
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jackie08 said:
I fill pain I am off contract 3 phone just got to talk my daughter into switching. She is in I Raleigh NC we are in Asheville she has great reception and our just plan suck. We even have to have there airave for service in the house. If they would spend a little more on towers and not pi$$ ther money away in NASCAR they might coiuld keep there customer.
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They are dropping way more enough on towers in this rollout... Also without NASCAR sprint would be no better than cricket as no one would know about them...lol jk
Though seriously that $ in NASCAR and the advertising they get is well spent. Can't buy that kind of spotlight constantly.
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Just pay the ETF(s), problem solved.
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Just pay the ETF(s), problem solved.
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Looked into it.. $80 for me to cancel but then I'd have 1 pissed off wife(family plan) and that would do more damage than paying a full ETF of 350
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I love it. Guys are so thirsty for high speed data, but once they it get, they're realize the only true benefits are HD video streaming I'm glad with Sprints 3g in the North of Boston market I could pretty much do what I want to do with my phone besides streaming videos. And with Verizon's cap you're pretty much only guaranteed 3 movies per cap. No thanks I'm all set.
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Not looking for High speed data as much as I'm looking for data that doesn't drop to 1x constantly and can play my Google Music with out stopping every 20 seconds when I'm on the road.. Not looking to stream HD movies but I would like to actually watch a YouTube clip from time to time when I'm not on Wifi and not see "buffering".... But it's all pointless anyways because I'm going to see what the Hell Sprint is going to do. I've delt with them this long. I'll give em till June.
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So, I'm moving to a Sprint dead zone and thinking about switching to att. The price will be close to the same, but with only 4gb of data which doesn't mean much because I get crap for 3g and will never see 4g. Anyone have any luck getting out of contract for crappy service? I would probably get the sgs3, because the one x doesn't have an sd card slot, unless there is something better coming soon to att.
I know I could get an airrave, but that would still leave my phone useless out in the yard and probably in parts of my house as well and since I'm always on my phone I don't want to deal with crap service at my house. Any tips, suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Hey, just go talk time them and tell them that u are moved ng to a dead zone and you will switch to at&t if they don't help u. Ask for an Airwave for your house. It is like a mini tower.
In a lot of cases they offer it as an incentive to stay, complained for my cousin since she hates dealing with sprint and got one free of charge awhile back
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In a lot of cases they offer it as an incentive to stay, complained for my cousin since she hates dealing with sprint and got one free of charge awhile back
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All I did was ask for an airave and they sent me one free
What's the range on an airrave, because I have six acres and want to use my phone in the yard if necessary?
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What's the range on an airrave, because I have six acres and want to use my phone in the yard if necessary?
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If I remember correctly it's 4000-5000 sqft correct me if I'm wrong
5000 sounds about right. Which is only about 30-50 feet away. With mine i lose service just after walking out the front door. If you need it for 6 acres, Sprint won't work for you.
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That's what I was afraid of. Now its time to see if sprint will let me go without ETFs. Anyone with suggestions on how to approach them with this request? I just wish the One X had expandable memory then my phone choice would be easy.
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Well, I sent an email. I guess we'll see how it goes.
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So this is the bs generic response I got.
Hi Ted,
Thank you for your email; Sprint appreciates your patronage and understands your concerns. Because yours is a densely populated area, Sprint is in the midst of a national revitalization, expansion, and enhancement of existing services to increase your area capacity, which will implement Sprint’s Network Vision. In and around your area, any coverage challenges would be the result of construction, and engineering calibration. As with any construction project material, man-power, government regulation, community involvement, environmental concerns, and even the weather can affect completion times. This project is being completed as fast and safe as possible. The below links provide information on the enhancements Sprint is making.
http://www.sprint.com/landings/lte/index.html? id16=network%20vision
http://network.sprint.com/? id16=network%20vision
Derek Ross
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durandetto said:
That's what I was afraid of. Now its time to see if sprint will let me go without ETFs. Anyone with suggestions on how to approach them with this request? I just wish the One X had expandable memory then my phone choice would be easy.
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What I've read is by force roaming and eating up gigs worth of data will make them want to drop you. That or wait for a change in the contract that might have an "adverse affect" like a price increase. I'm looking for loopholes myself.. Best of luck to you!
On a side note if you do get out of your contract and head to AT&T, they've announced the HTC One X+ which is an upgrade over the One X. I'd look into that before settling on the SGSIII
I berated a Sprint rep just yes and now they've flipped the switch on 4g in my area. I'm not going anywhere lol. Not like my rant had anything to do with it, it was perfect timing