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Sprint sold every phone on their network at some point. Even if you buy it on CL, Sprint sold it to them.
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Wrist Watch posted:I have one last question. If I buy a phone through someplace other than sprint like through ebay or craigslist or something, what happens with my protection plan? I haven't cancelled it just yet because I'm still on my E4GT and I've been using it a lot recently, but let's say I pick a S3 up off of ebay. Is there any point to having the protection plan then? FYI for anyone wanting to game the system, its really easy to add TEP at any time to your account. Do a swap to random phone ESN, then swap back to whatever your actual phone is over the phone. Phone support offers to put on TEP every drat time. Mind you, for insurance claims TEP has to be on the account at least 15 days (maybe 30?), but yeah, if you don't mind the process that's a pretty simple way of doing that.
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May 1, 2013 00:02
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Is there any generally agreed upon decent handset insurance? I know it only makes sense the first year or maybe two of ownership when they are super expensive to replace, just based on the convo over the past several pages it seems like there is not an agreed upon decent way to go.
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May 1, 2013 00:07
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Agatsu posted:Is there any generally agreed upon decent handset insurance? I know it only makes sense the first year or maybe two of ownership when they are super expensive to replace, just based on the convo over the past several pages it seems like there is not an agreed upon decent way to go. If you can handle setting aside a bit of extra money every month into a "phone replacement" segment of your budget, you'll probably come out ahead.
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May 1, 2013 00:11
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IOwnCalculus posted:Sprint sold every phone on their network at some point. Even if you buy it on CL, Sprint sold it to them. Duckman2008 posted:FYI for anyone wanting to game the system, its really easy to add TEP at any time to your account. Do a swap to random phone ESN, then swap back to whatever your actual phone is over the phone. Phone support offers to put on TEP every drat time. Mind you, for insurance claims TEP has to be on the account at least 15 days (maybe 30?), but yeah, if you don't mind the process that's a pretty simple way of doing that.
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May 1, 2013 01:49
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Anyone had issues with Google Voice after switching phones? Since upgrading to the One, GV stopped handling my voicemails, and oddly a few texts that I've gotten don't appear in GV (but most of them do, can't figure out any pattern). The voicemail app on the One is actually pretty decent, but I'd rather have the GV convenience. Will disabling GV and re-enabling it from the website gently caress anything up?
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May 1, 2013 02:44
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Stevie Lee posted:Anyone had issues with Google Voice after switching phones? I haven't changed phones, but the Google Voice app seems to have broken for me today. Trying to send anything just gets stuck in Queued forever and refreshing just gives me an Network error. Texts seem to come through fine and the web portion works fine though. EDIT: Nevermind, it fixed itself. WTFBEES fucked around with this message at 05:13 on May 1, 2013 |
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May 1, 2013 03:34
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Stevie Lee posted:Anyone had issues with Google Voice after switching phones? I had similar issues about a month before I switched phones. Tried disabling and re-enabling it but that didn't do anything. Switching to the new phone helped but it also might have been the fact that with my plan change they had to turn it off at Sprint and then I had to redo it through google.
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I am officially rage quitting Sprint. Been a customer for 11 years and I think the "Network Vision" kool-aid is a bunch of bull poo poo. Switched my phone to roaming only and I am refreshing the Sprint 4G map every 15 seconds until I get my ERSP contract canceled. Paying $60/month for spotty 20kbps 3G is a crime. 
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May 1, 2013 19:33
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Upside Potential posted:I am officially rage quitting Sprint. Been a customer for 11 years and I think the "Network Vision" kool-aid is a bunch of bull poo poo. Switched my phone to roaming only and I am refreshing the Sprint 4G map every 15 seconds until I get my ERSP contract canceled. Paying $60/month for spotty 20kbps 3G is a crime. Does that make you lose your number or no? This seems like a fantastic idea, but the thought of changing numbers now blows.
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May 1, 2013 19:53
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Tedronai66 posted:Does that make you lose your number or no? This seems like a fantastic idea, but the thought of changing numbers now blows. As long as you port out to another carrier you won't lose your number, or you could port out to Google Voice to keep it safe if you're that attached to it.
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May 1, 2013 19:55
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Tedronai66 posted:Does that make you lose your number or no? This seems like a fantastic idea, but the thought of changing numbers now blows. Even if sprint cancels the account sprint can recover the number within 30 days. So just be proactive.
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May 1, 2013 19:59
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Tedronai66 posted:Does that make you lose your number or no? This seems like a fantastic idea, but the thought of changing numbers now blows.
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"Pff, Omaha will get gigabit fiber before Sprint rolls out LTE"   They're rolling it out to the suburbs, or so the rumor goes. Unfortunately that means trying to sell 1GB fiber at $149/mo to soccer moms and olds. Hope they can find it profitable in spite of that. On the other hand, it's the suburbs so if they have anything on the outside of the house that specifically indicates they have the newest thing, it will sell It's actually somewhat funny given this is the DSL provider - 3MB service was the high end option that wasn't available everywhere. 1.5 was typically the best you could get. The other game in town, Cox, has cable that tops out at a few dozen Mbit and they just got leapfrogged like hell, unless they decide to try running fiber with last-mile copper, which is still quite speedy. As far as Sprint goes I'm going to expect this not to be there by the time the due date comes.  FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 23:52 on May 1, 2013 |
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May 1, 2013 23:39
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The Entire Universe posted:"Pff, Omaha will get gigabit fiber before Sprint rolls out LTE" Not that it matters, but Cox just did a seriously upgrade on their cable speed for free. Bumped up my 25 Mbps to 50 Mbps, and the ultimate speed jumped to 150 Mbps. That being said... 2 months of my contract left. Hope google has something good out this month.
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May 2, 2013 00:34
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TLG James posted:Not that it matters, but Cox just did a seriously upgrade on their cable speed for free. Bumped up my 25 Mbps to 50 Mbps, and the ultimate speed jumped to 150 Mbps. Huh. I haven't seen much of an improvement. I live over by UNMC and even gigabit fiber couldn't convince me to live out in the beluga farms, but I may have to give Cocks a call and see if I can't wring some more speed out of them by talking up that newfangled speedy fiber service from their competitors.
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LTE has finally been deployed near my home and work. I get very nice speeds outside/near windows. However, I keep switching to 3G when inside my house or office. I am really hoping that there will be stronger penetration into my homes and office soon. Until then, it's very nice.
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May 2, 2013 03:31
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The Entire Universe posted:As far as Sprint goes I'm going to expect this not to be there by the time the due date comes. Whats the story here? Someone got an ETF for raping roaming?
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I posted last week about the best process for my wife to upgrade her SERO plan to get an iPhone. She called the SERO line yesterday and was told "no, you don't actually have SERO. It's the exact same, but it says your plan is Government/Public employee, so I can't make the change to your account. Try calling regular customer service to get them to put you on SERO." I had a similar thing happen to me many years ago - I signed up under SERO, but then a couple years later, I started getting charged for texting/etc. My plan had somehow changed to F+F 500 or something (no phone switch or anything) and I could never get back on SERO. Eventually, I got some of the benefits back, and then had to talk to different people and argue and finally got on the Everything Plus referral plan when I got an Android phone. Anyway - any advice for her to actually get reinstated as a real SERO person (before switching to SERO Premium to get an iphone)? Does she just need to keep calling the SERO number and hope to eventually talk to the right person who'll take pity? It's reasons like this I hate dealing with phone companies 
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F&F 500 is SERO. It's what I had too before going to sero premium. I would call back again in the hopes of getting someone who knows what they're doing. Insist that you have sero and don't budge.
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Yeah, F&F 500 was just an old plan name for sero. Mine was called that for a while, until I called in (a few years ago now) to get them to bump me up to the unlimited messaging and 7pm n&w they were offering by then (from the earlier [1000?]/9pm). You probably just need to call back until you get someone old enough to know that, or ask for a supervisor. I wouldn't chance calling non-sero CS, though; who knows what they could remove.
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Network Vision update time: Approximately 1,230 updated sites since our last status update: DFW (186), LA Metro (101), Ft. Wayne/South Bend (63), Raleigh/Durham (52), Chicago (40), Charlotte (37), Oregon/SW Washington (37), East Texas (36), Northern Jersey (35), New York City (33), Western Pennsylvania (33), SF Bay (31), South Bay (30), West Washington (30), South Carolina (29), Georgia (26), Minnesota (24), Philadelphia Metro (24), Boston (21), Nashville (19), Central Jersey (17), Alabama (16), Central Pennsylvania (16), GA/SC Coast (15), East Michigan (14), Pittsburgh (14), New Orleans (12), Phoenix (12), San Diego (11), Kansas (10), VT/NH/ME (10), Atlanta/Athens (9), North Wisconsin (9), Orange County (9), Riverside/San Bernardino (9), East Iowa (8), PR/VI (8), Southern Connecticut (8), Las Vegas (7), Miami/West Palm (7), West Michigan (7), Missouri (6), Houston (5), Lower Central Valley (5), Milwaukee (5), Myrtle Beach (5), Norfolk (5), Oklahoma (5), San Antonio (5), South West Florida (5), Arkansas (4), Austin (4), Baltimore (4), Gulf Coast (4), Indianapolis (4), Inland Northwest (4), Louisiana (4), Providence (4), Central Illinois (3), Delaware (3), Jacksonville (3), Memphis (3), North LA (3), Tampa (3), Tucson/Yuma (3), West Texas (3), Albuquerque (2), Mississippi (2), Orlando (2), Hawaii (1), Long Island (1), Northern Connecticut (1), Rochester (1), South Texas (1), Washington DC (1). Highlights this week: First sites accepted in the Milwaukee, Albuquerque, Rochester and Central Illinois markets. The site in Hawaii is a replacement site to one being deactivated and may not be the beginning of NV there.
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datajosh posted:Network Vision update time: Come on you bastards, come north west to Buffalo. Erie, PA doesn't need loving 4G. 
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datajosh posted:Network Vision update time: I just went to lunch near a recently completed tower in Phoenix and was able to get 1650kbps which is much better than the 44 I get at work. I'm very excited.
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datajosh posted:Network Vision update time: Holy loving poo poo :milwaukee:  :beer::motorcycle::drunkdriver::packers::fatchicks:
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KillHour posted:Come on you bastards, come north west to Buffalo. Erie, PA doesn't need loving 4G. This all day long. Seeing Rochester on the update list is encouraging, at least the NYS updates are moving west slowly.
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So happy to finally see Milwaukee on these NV upgrade lists.
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Here is another one from Buffalo, ny telling Sprint to get a goddamn move on LTE here. Building penetration for 3g is insanely slow, hell I usually end up on roaming in the Walden Galleria Mall.
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datajosh posted:Network Vision update time: Can you explain this please? I don't get it.
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loving COME ON COLUMBUS DAMMIT
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iostream.h posted:Can you explain this please? I don't get it.  They're towers checked in as complete. http://s4gru.com
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datajosh posted:Network Vision update time: West loving Texas? God damnit. gently caress Sprint. gently caress them so loving hard. loving nobody lives West of goddamn San Antonio but hey now the loving Zetas have LTE or whatever godawful reason it was that they chose to plant towers in the goddamn depopulated desert. Did the Humongous bribe them or something?
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iostream.h posted:Can you explain this please? I don't get it.
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datajosh posted:It's the count of towers that have had Network Vision upgrades completed in each market since about a week ago. It doesn't mean those towers have LTE yet though, for example South Carolina has been showing up for weeks on there but only one tower has LTE and that just happened in the past week. (And I don't think the LTE on that tower is publicly accessible yet either.) So then what is a good source to find out the actual LTE capabilities of our cities?
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The Bananana posted:So then what is a good source to find out the actual LTE capabilities of our cities? Go to https://www.s4gru.com and search for your city. Alternatively you could check against press releases from Sprint - they seem to still put them out listing the cities they're lighting up. As for penetration in your given city, check https://www.sensorly.com for signal data. It may not be completely fleshed out but you should get a good idea of where things sit.
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The Entire Universe posted:West loving Texas? God damnit. gently caress Sprint. gently caress them so loving hard. loving nobody lives West of goddamn San Antonio but hey now the loving Zetas have LTE or whatever godawful reason it was that they chose to plant towers in the goddamn depopulated desert. Did the Humongous bribe them or something? Um ...I do. Glad to see we're finally getting some towers out here because things are pretty unacceptable as they currently stand. I get crap reception basically everywhere. And for the record there are probably a lot more people out here than you think. The economies in Midland/Odessa/Lubbock are all going gangbusters at the moment.
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dundun posted:Here is another one from Buffalo, ny telling Sprint to get a goddamn move on LTE here. Building penetration for 3g is insanely slow, hell I usually end up on roaming in the Walden Galleria Mall. Buffalo is a WiMax protection area though, and there is a bunch of nextel work to do. So, uh, ???
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The Bananana posted:So then what is a good source to find out the actual LTE capabilities of our cities? Not necessarily. The update includes both 4g and 3g. It's possible to have a completed network vision upgrade that is only 3g.this doesn't mean that the tower is necessarily finished. Towers with a new back haul, base station and 3g hardware will show up in this list.
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Partycat posted:Buffalo is a WiMax protection area though, and there is a bunch of nextel work to do. So, uh, ??? What does "WiMax protection area" mean?
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I cannot wait until sprint turns on lte in north jersey and nyc. With all the work that is getting done here it has to happen soon right?
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