I'm wondering for all those using the DNA from the T-Mobile network what speed you're all seeing. I'm about to give up on my 15 year relationship with Big Red to save some cash. I managed to get VZW to lower my monthly bill but I could save another $40 by switching to TM.
My problem is that I use 30 gigs and need the speed.
What say all of you out there?
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I don't know if T-Mobile has a plan that offers 30gb of data. The speeds depend on where you are. Anywhere that hasn't refarmed hspa to 1900mhz and is still running on 1700mhz, you won't get any high speed data, only edge. In my area, bay area california ATT was the better option. The max speed I got on T-Mobile was around 7-8 mbps
Yeah, I'm north bay myself. If getting 8Mbps is normal I might just be able to work with that. Att wouldn't be able to save me much compared to T-Mobile.
Their unlimited plan would get me the data I use... as long as it's fast enough.
Thanks for the heads up.
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fairfield here i get 4-7 mbps on tmo
Paladin2016 said:
I'm wondering for all those using the DNA from the T-Mobile network what speed you're all seeing. I'm about to give up on my 15 year relationship with Big Red to save some cash. I managed to get VZW to lower my monthly bill but I could save another $40 by switching to TM.
My problem is that I use 30 gigs and need the speed.
What say all of you out there?
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Do you have unlimited on Verizon?
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It will be a nice day when all the providers can provide decent speeds in most areas, Verizon has so much better coverage. They have no reason to increase caps or lower prices, most likely we will see a "Double Your Data Deal" that will evolve into the regular plan prices.
Gave the DNA to the wife and sold her S3... Then gave up my Unlimited data plan with Red for the same on T Mobile.
Went Note 3 also... $20 a month and still cheaper than vzw.
Now, the 3g/spa speeds were between 2-8 Maps depending on location and towers. I was happy with that but tired of not getting the phone I really wanted.
Lte here I Santa Rosa, CA had been between 8-25Mbps. Just found out TM is switching to Lte on a tower half a mile away from my house...
Also, while I love vzw I can say every person I've talked to in customer service, tech support and retail at T-Mobile have been amazing.
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I live in a smallish city in Arizona, where we're not yet up to Phoenix cosmopolitan speeds, and I get 4-5.7Mbps here (generally) on T-Mo. If it matters, I'm running either of Newt's two ROMs.
you will get hspa but since half the band is missing you get half or less than half the speed, my phone and others who use gsm/tmo switches from 3g to H kinda of a lot but really the speeds are acceptable, i can watchin live streaming or youtube just fine, remeber 7 mbps is 1 megabyte/s down and thats more than enough to do everything online even 1080 streams.
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I can't find anything on my exact question. I am curios as to which small cell phone provider is the most reliable? Boost, cricket, straight talk? I hear great things about all of them, especially straight talk since they use verizon towers and they are the cheapest. Thanks for everyones help.
They have Verizon prepaids for 50 A MONTH I would lookinto that unlimited everything
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I am looking for a service to flash my evo 3d or any other smartphone too. I know with boost, criket, and straight talk you can flash phones over and keep all the goodies and only pay a fraction of the price!
No.4.g is a buzzkill but if your always near WiFi
I.would think cricket or boost since there pretty established compared to when they started
Whoever has the best over 3g would be the best bet I'm.curious to know who is the fastest LOL i wouldn't mind not having 4g without my $99 sprint Bill every Damn month
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If you can flash a good phone to straight talk, that would be a good deal, I know someone who has it and they get great 3g, and voice, they just don't have very cool phones.
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I have mine on metro in Detroit 3g is bad for metro here. Boost would probably be your best bet as far as 3g as long as your in a good sprint coverage area boost will be good. I know people that average dl at 800kbps and upload around 1k
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Yeah I am thinking about boost. I have had sprint for a good while now and have never had any trouble with their coverage at all and the download speeds aren't all that bad. I will be in wi-fi area's 90% of the time. The advantage with boost is that after 18 months your bill can be as low as $40.00 a month and that is cheaper than straight talk even if you buy a full year at once... Although from what I see straight talk has some amazing coverage and download speeds. I guess i'm still stuck between boost and straight talk... I just want to get rid of my $160 dollar bill every month!!!
I only pay 40 a month for metro and have everything just not the greatest speeds here yet. But they are updating evdo coverage in some markets now. But like you while I'm using internet I'm usually by WiFi.
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virgin mobile... because they are sprint owned, so you get the same service, just at a cheaper price.
can you flash to virgin mobile?
Just double check with dealer certain carriers don't support full flash and some of those other carriers it might be harder to provision data on your own.
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yeah seems like it could be hit or miss. I think Boost is gonna be the way to go from what everyone says. Their coverage looks good and in my area here in Arizona it is significantly better than a lot of other areas (or so it seems) Besides after a little bit of time boost is the cheapest..
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yeah seems like it could be hit or miss. I think Boost is gonna be the way to go from what everyone says. Their coverage looks good and in my area here in Arizona it is significantly better than a lot of other areas (or so it seems) Besides after a little bit of time boost is the cheapest..
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Boost is Sprint owned, so you will have the same network speeds of course minus the 4G, And also No roaming on boost, so keep that in mind if you're in areas without Sprint service, travel to areas without Sprint, or like to use verizon prl's.
I want to see who else is using SIMPLE MOBILE on this beast of a phone. Then we simplemobiletons can talk about any specific issues or at least know who each other are.
I dont think i have any issues at all that arent the exact same as T-Mobile except one. That i have to change APN to Simple US and simple and insert smpl. into that mms field and save.
actually one question. and this is not gnote specific but applies to gnote.
I have never gotten over say 3-4 mbs down using Data connection. i pay $60 a month for 4G instead of $40 a month for unlimited 3G
normally when i go outside during work in downtown chicago, i get less than 1 sometimes 2gbs.
has anyone else thought maybe that Simple Mobile 4G sucks and is barely better than their 3G if at all better?
i have gnote on simple mobile.. i have the 3g 40 dollar plan. and data barely works at all. do i need the 60 dollar plan? or switch to straight talk?
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FWIW, I have ATT (they don't make a distinction between 3g/4g LTE usage plans, I don't think), and the last time I was in Chi which was about a month ago, I was happy to be able to try out the Note on actual LTE.
However, I was quickly disappointed to find out that the hotel's WiFi was considerably faster than LTE and less battery drain (the latter's to be expected, but still...).
The moral of the story is that Chicago might not be the strongest of LTE markets??
Just a thought/observation.
-Ryan
Y'all should just switch to Tmobile's Monthly 4G $30 plan. That's if you don't need that much minutes. Cos you only get 100mins but unlimited txt and data (5gb @ 4G).
Hello mates, I'm using also Simple Mobile here in Puerto Rico, I'd got my G Note 2 weeks ago, average speeds 1.5 to 2.5 mbps, 2 times only over 7mbps, for me, I can live with that download speed, the real problem is with the upload, damn it's really slow, 50kbps average...
FYI, currently installed Saurom 7.1 with Blaze Modem...
im using blaze modem on ics on simple mobile. i only get .11 on speed test..
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am also in Puerto Rico and speed suck am thinking Pay the extra 10 bucks for the 4g speed at thiis moment i have 40 dollar plan and speed sucks i wonder if is worth it. .. Whats with straigh talk is all unlimited?
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Y'all should just switch to Tmobile's Monthly 4G $30 plan. That's if you don't need that much minutes. Cos you only get 100mins but unlimited txt and data (5gb @ 4G).
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That's what i have i love the 5gb data but i do miss my minutes. but plan is way more affordable. I wish T-Mobile would stop being cheap and at least give us a gig on the 50 plan. . Even better 30bucks for 2 gigs and 1000 minutes. Cuz i never go over 2 gigs
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Hmm.. I've flashed every ICS modem and none of them work. I wonder if it would be worth it to switch to a GB rom :/
good 4g
i can't complain about my data speeds on simple mobile, I'm using the blackstar vii rom and the latest blaze that they got from the tmobile note and i get a got 3-7 mb per second is not bad. I also have the tin foil trick on the antenna, it really works.
Give it a try
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1666342
Love the Note
I can't complain either. On simple mobiles 3G plan. PadawanV4 ROM with the latest Blaze Radio and I did the foil trick and getting 5MB with only 3 bars. Haven't tested full signal yet. I've been with simple mobile since they kicked off and went through tons of phones, this is by far the best I've gotten.
I have the i717 I had it on an old black star rom on it and it worked fine but when I updated to black star X I cant I get it to connect to the simple mobile servers I can't even make a phone call can anyone post links to the files they were using to get it to work for instance the ROM and the radio the exact radio there's like 13 different ICS blaze modems out there
http://qz.com/#37276/meet-the-private-equity-firm-that-dominates-the-us-gun-industry/
"With an acquisition, Sprint would own a mind-boggling 184 MHz of spectrum, which is more than AT&T (77MHz) and Verizon (83MHz) combined. More spectrum means more bandwidth, and more bandwidth ultimately could ultimately mean faster wireless speeds for Sprint’s mobile customers. It’s as if Sprint is about to have a highway with twice as many lanes on it than either AT&T or Verizon. (That said, both AT&T and Verizon currently have about twice as many subscribers as Sprint’s 50 million.) The acquisition of Clearwire by Sprint may be the primary reason that Japan telco Softbank invested in Sprint in October"
Wow....we could be looking at some pretty impressive stuff in the next few years.
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http://qz.com/#37276/meet-the-private-equity-firm-that-dominates-the-us-gun-industry/
"With an acquisition, Sprint would own a mind-boggling 184 MHz of spectrum, which is more than AT&T (77MHz) and Verizon (83MHz) combined. More spectrum means more bandwidth, and more bandwidth ultimately could ultimately mean faster wireless speeds for Sprint’s mobile customers. It’s as if Sprint is about to have a highway with twice as many lanes on it than either AT&T or Verizon. (That said, both AT&T and Verizon currently have about twice as many subscribers as Sprint’s 50 million.) The acquisition of Clearwire by Sprint may be the primary reason that Japan telco Softbank invested in Sprint in October"
Wow....we could be looking at some pretty impressive stuff in the next few years.
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Agreed, Sprint is the last real chance of any of us have to stand up to price fixing on wireless.
Sprint is going through some growing pains, but better days are ahead.
It's things like this that make me happy I'm sticking around through it all with Sprint. However, I'm still a little pissed that I'm in the middle of downtown Orlando this morning and can only pull a .06mbps speed.
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I believe this is the correct URL:
http://qz.com/37300/with-clearwire-acquisition-sprint-has-a-lock-on-the-future-of-high-speed-data/
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It's things like this that make me happy I'm sticking around through it all with Sprint. However, I'm still a little pissed that I'm in the middle of downtown Orlando this morning and can only pull a .06mbps speed.
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Just pulled the same, .05 in Oklahoma city....I'm so tired of poor unusable data speeds. I don't know if I can wait for a usable sprint. $170 a month for me to use my WiFi has gotten really old come bill time.
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I'm so glad I've stuck with Sprint, going to be interesting to see how things are in three years.
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Just buy a jetpack from Verizon off contract and go month to month until sprint gets their act together...works pretty good.
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sprint saying all these changes just to keep their customers, i hate sprint. Wheres my LTE!!
I'd be pretty happy with a consistent good 3g....
I burn through a minimum of 5-7 gbs a month and have good enough 3g signal to watch Netflix at work and download apps and browse the internet at home. LTE and fast 3g are useless if you max out your data plan in a week... Plus Sprint customer service has been excellent and the phones are great (Evo>One X any day).
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1.8 mbs in Boston
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I burn through a minimum of 5-7 gbs a month and have good enough 3g signal to watch Netflix at work and download apps and browse the internet at home. LTE and fast 3g are useless if you max out your data plan in a week... Plus Sprint customer service has been excellent and the phones are great (Evo>One X any day).
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I used my data almost exactly the same way but I go through about 8-10 a month. In East/North bay Cali 3g/4g data has been pretty good. No way I can use up that much data with Verizon/ATT without paying more than what I'm paying now.
Locking this as there is already a thread on the clear deal...
FWIW many of the articles are really wrong with comments saying X spectrum sprint will have puts them ahead of the others....must remember all spectrum isn't equal and also some points being left out are one that all that spectrum isn't owned even, as some of it is leased.
Another is that no one is bringing up the point that no one has been trying to buy clearwire for years or their spectrum...except sprint...
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If anyone has a suggestion of a better area to post this question, please let me know.
I am currently with Sprint, using an HTC EVO 4G LTE. I stupidly purchased the phone by pre-order. It has taken almost a full year for LTE to become available in my area, and my average download speeds have been tested by the Speedtest.net app as between 3 to 6Mbps. 3G speeds aren't even worth mentioning.
I am hoping to find out what download speeds I should expect in the L.A. area with T-Mobile, not necessarily with the HTC One (although that's probably the phone I'd go for), but with T-Mobile's phones in general.
I'm thinking of switching to T-Mobiles $30 100 minute, 5Gb data plan, which I figure could save me at least $30/mo over what I'm paying now. I would have to pay about a $300 ETF, but I think I would break even after 10 months.
If I can expect at least 6Mbps down, even on HSPA+, I might go for it. I would also want to root so I can occasionally tether. I don't go crazy with tethering, I currently average less than one Gig of data per month, total.
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I was on sprint, then went to tmobile, then now to sprint because I had a chance to save about $40 a month and get HTC one... Its been a day, I'm about to beg T-Mobile to take me back... Sprint is **** nationwide still, Sven after network vision....
More on Los Angeles. I was there 4 months ago, and spent couple of days in SF Bay area as well. I've always gotten about 3-19mbps when I tested, never had issues. Basically never felt like I was having any network issues. I don't live there though, so probably somebody else would know better.
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LA is big so it probably depends on where you're at.
I get around 10-12 Mbps down on HSPA+ around Culver City, Westside.
My data speeds seem to have improved w/ the HTC One, I had a GSII before.
We should have LTE in the LA area by June as well if you believe all the leaks(I do).
It makes sense for Tmobile to get LTE running in this area asap.
I'm from the East LA (Whittier) area and between there and Orange County I've never had speed issues with the exception being Disneyland. T-Mobile really needs to work on their data speeds there. My speedests are consistently between 5MB-21MB on HSPA+ overall which is impressive. When we get LTE it's going to be even better which is pretty amazing. T-Mobile is going to have the fastest primary and secondary networks in the country, and for the best price. Lol, sorry if I sound like a T-Mobile salesman. I'm just gushing because of my love for the One.
Also, the San Francisco bay area isn't considered part of LA. It's so far north it could be considered another state.
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We should have LTE in the LA area by June as well if you believe all the leaks(I do).
It makes sense for Tmobile to get LTE running in this area asap.
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I don't. Sprint was promising LTE in LA "In a couple of months" when I was deciding whether to get the EVO LTE. I had the original EVO with Wimax, and I consistently got around 6 down.
I had to wait nearly a year b4 LTE really started showing up on my phone. Now the two year life cycle of my phone is half over. And so far, their "LTE" is less than Wimax, at least where I usually go. And while I was waiting not only did their 3G speeds go down, I would often get "roaming" warnings in downtown LA!
So I'm not going to rely on any promises of something that does not yet exist. But it sounds like it's not unreasonable for me to expect speeds on HSPA that are similar to Sprints current LTE (in LA anyway). And voice and data at the same time.
As to the quote above, Sprint has concentrated on getting LTE in small, less populated areas like armpit, Ohio since the beginning. But they're the ones with all the college degrees, so they must know what they're doing!
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I just made the switch from Sprint to Tmo. I also had the Evo LTE, and the og Evo before that. I have had the ONE for two weeks now and have been very impressed with Tmobile's speeds in and around L.A. Even when the Evo picked up LTE, hspa+ was still faster 90 percent of the time.
Trust me, ditch Sprint and don't look back...
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Thanks.
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yeap. i was on the evo4gLTE before this and i just bought the HTC one last month, and swapped to tmobile. I'm out here in the greater OC but sometimes go up to LA. Before on the evoLTE when i went up to LA depending on where i was i could get some 4g and the speeds were fast but for the most part i was stuck on EVDO which was so slow it was like a tragedy. Sprint is set to roll out 4g in LA county very soon but the problem is that the initial blanket coverage will still only be like 50% done. it'll take them up to jan2014 to blanket all of LA county. (westside- UCLA and east side - up rowland heights) in the greater OC its going to be even longer. i live near the JWA airport and i can get 4g along the 405 and south coast plaza but other than that i'm SOL for 4g and 3g here is just bad.
After i swapped to TMO i have essentially HSDPA everywhere and in about 50-60% i have HSPAP(HSDPA+) speeds are very consistant at 5mbps+. with speeds sometimes reaching 10-15mbps. so far i'm pretty happy with the availability of bandwidth here in OC not sure about LA though. i've only been out there once since getting the phone. Though i didnt notice any hickups in speed that time either.
You shoulda canceled your sprint line last month when you coulda got out of it for free. I had a year left on contract with sprint and i got out ETF free and thats why i moved to TMO.
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You shoulda canceled your sprint line last month when you coulda got out of it for free. I had a year left on contract with sprint and i got out ETF free and thats why i moved to TMO.
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No, I got mine as soon as it came out, so I'm only half way through my contact.
I think I can still come out ahead with TMobile though, even after paying an ETF.
How did you get out without paying a fee? Did you roam your way out?
Btw, I just measured 207 kbps down in Glendale, CA. Awesome.
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na not sure if you browsed the general section of the EVO4gLTE section but they had a thing where sprint changed some of their contract wording. so i ended up getting out ETF free since i just told them i didnt agree to the changes they were making. Not sure if you still can do it now cause they sent out the changes in late march and said you had up to a month to reply. there was a huge slickdeals thread about it showing people how to do it and call Customer care.
Heard abut that, but also some people said they tried but Sprint wouldn't budge. Hadn't heard about the Slickdeals thing though.
Anyway, I was busy trying to get my EVO 4G fixed, hoping that would satisfy me. Plus I don't think TMo had gone contractless yet.
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I work at the T-Mobile near USC down the street from the Staples Center. I get roughly 15+ mbps download and 1 mbps upload on HSPA+. Pretty solid data speeds in most of LA. I have yet to really run into anywhere that data speeds absolutely sucks however there are certain stores that seem to be harder to get data connection like some Walmarts or Targets. Probably has something to do with how thick their ceilings and walls are.
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I work at the T-Mobile near USC down the street from the Staples Center. I get roughly 15+ mbps download and 1 mbps upload on HSPA+. Pretty solid data speeds in most of LA. I have yet to really run into anywhere that data speeds absolutely sucks
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Sounds pretty nice. 15 down on HSPA+ and I'm getting 3 down on LTE.
They market terms like LTE and 4G which actually don't seem to mean anything. Kind of like printing "New Formula" on a bottle of Tide.
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Hey everyone,
Been in XDA Dev for almost 10 years and after 10 years of being a Verizon customer, I'm thinking of switching to Sprint and getting the Galaxy S5. I just can't afford having to pay alot for so little minutes and data anymore. I'm also over Verizon locking their phones' bootloader. Dealt with it too long. I am thinking of getting the MyWay plan with unlimited data. Question is, does Sprint throttle the data and after how many GB? I'm not the type of person that abuses unlimited things and I have managed to not go over 400 anytime minutes and 5gb of data while a Verizon customer for years, never went over. But now I'd like to have a little bit of freedom and know that I can stream some music for a little bit and also not have to worry about going over my minutes especially when doing job interviews.
I live in Los Angeles, California so Cali Sprint customers, how is your coverage? Are you satisfied with your Sprint service?
The throttling can occur ammeter 5gbs in congested markets during congested/peak times.
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Coverage over Los Angeles metro area had been improving over the last 3 years. I've especially noticed when on the highways. And LTE has been deployed to a lot of places.
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You can use the sensorly app to check out user submitted reception and speed tests.
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Thanks. How about data speed in LTE. I know it's not like Verizon but is it bearable? My coworkers seem to be exaggerating stating that it's really bad, even worse when they can only get 3g (which is a known fact).
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Thanks. How about data speed in LTE. I know it's not like Verizon but is it bearable? My coworkers seem to be exaggerating stating that it's really bad, even worse when they can only get 3g (which is a known fact).
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I have used Sprint LTE in a few major markets, NYC mostly, but also Chicago and north NJ. In general, where you have LTE, it is bearable. I have seen speeds of around 30 Mbps, but on average, I get between 5 and 10, mostly on the lower side. Now, Chicago has pretty good LTE coverage throughout, but NYC LTE coverage is very poor, as is north NJ. The only reason to go with Sprint, is if you want unlimited data. But you are getting the absolute worst service, when compared to AT&T and Verizon. Of course it is based on location. Go to sensorly.com and check out your local coverage maps between carriers.
If you know that Sprint has good coverage in your area, check out Ting.com. It is a MNVO that uses Sprint towers, but it costs a lot less, because you only pay for what you use.
Have a look at their site for the possible savings...
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Thank you guys, I will check your suggestions out.
In LA the LTE coverage ovall is pretty good. And the LTE speeds do average about 2-12mbps.
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The throttling can occur ammeter 5gbs in congested markets during congested/peak times.
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Sprint does not throttle data!
Not really device specific discussion...moving to Android Q&A
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Sprint does not throttle data!
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Oh?
http://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/...sers-congested-areas/2014-05-08#ixzz318OkarkG
Yes, I am aware it says for the top 5%, but surely that is different than not doing it at all.
But switching TO Sprint?? That's rare... lol I understand the locked bootloader stuff, but why not look into something that doesn't suck on the GSM side? You live in a major metro area so T-mobile should work fairly well, or check out AIO Wireless (owned by ATT and soon to be re-branded Cricket) who for $60 / month gets you unlimited everything with the first 5 GBs being LTE service (throttled to 8 MB/s but have never felt it slow and never had issues streaming or downloading anything either tethering or on the phone because it is consistent) and you can bring your own phone so you don't have to get roped into a contract, payment plan, nor worry about specially locked devices. You can even buy additional GBs of LTE for $10 if needed. Just throwing it out there.