In surprise FCC filing, Sprint endorses net neutrality

Post by warfangle » Sat, Jan 17, 2015, 6:09 PM UTC

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The problem is, in most cities, it's impossible to take advantage of Sprint's "unlimited data plans" because their data speeds are abysmal. I would love to go back to sprint eventually, but for now I'm happy with T-mobile in Denver/Chicago.

I have no fight in the game but I've been a Sprint customer for a long time and have never had any problems with service or speed. I've lived in 2 major cities and EBF fly over country and travel frequently. For the month of December I used over 10GB of data and 8GB of that was Youtube, Netflix and streaming music.

Post by duaneb » Sat, Jan 17, 2015, 10:12 PM UTC

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I was able to get in austria in 2006 3g for 1 EUR/GB . How are prices falling down?

Are you for real? It's easy. Look at prices and services from all major carriers in the US over the past 5 years. the prices are going down and you're getting more for less. It's a tough back and forth and every month or two they try to one up each other. So that's how prices are going down. What you got in a different market doesn't matter. It's inarguable that prices are going down and it's inarguable that there is…

Post by tracker1 » Sat, Jan 17, 2015, 11:09 PM UTC

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That is true, but that doesn't make up for the sheer glacial speed that Sprint is moving at to improve their network. They have the most spectrum of all of the carriers but do not use it properly. Quarterly announcements of the Spark network upgrades not meeting their own expectations seems to have become common. You may have LTE but it's not very useful if you can barely get 1Mb/s. T-Mobile on the other hand is havi…

Maybe you guys can answer this. With mainland Europe using GSM across the board, do they have these frequency allocation problems across providers? It seems to me like it would be in everyone's interest to have a large shared pool of frequency allocations and share the burden of maintaining a network using them. Then you significantly more bandwidth capability per tower.

Post by morganvachon » Sat, Jan 17, 2015, 11:34 PM UTC

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Here on the outskirts of Atlanta, Sprint and T-Mobile have more or less equal coverage, with one picking up where the other doesn't most of the time. The issue with T-Mobile is that it's more difficult to get a signal indoors, depending on the building material. For example, at my job we're in a large warehouse with metal walls and framing, lots of pipes, and suspended ceilings. That makes the building difficult but…

Yeah, it's because of their high frequency signal. Luckily, most of my time is spent within 20 feet of windows in brick buildings, so I don't think it will impact me that much. On the other hand, have you looked at getting a femto cell for your warehouse (or using a service like Google Voice to get wifi calling)?