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Loucks posted:Me too. The S4 does both CDMA and GSM. Sprint always get the weirdest model for any Galaxy/iPhone release.
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whatever7 posted:Sprint always get the weirdest model for any Galaxy/iPhone release. That's because they're owned by Softbank and nobody likes it weirder than the Japanese.
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FAUXTON posted:That's because they're owned by Softbank and nobody likes it weirder than the Japanese. Nope its because they always have the weirdest technologies, like Nextel or WiMax. And was too poor to afford the good poo poo. At least Softbank handed in some much needed money.
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Quick question, when switching from Sprint to Cricket, and porting my number over from there, does my Sprint billing automatically cancel at the end of the period after I set up all my information and buy the sim card on Cricket, or will I have to set up the account, and then call Sprint separately?
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Mar 14, 2015 13:38
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When you activate your new sim card from Cricket after you receive it is when the magic happens. Your number moves over and that will automatically cancel Sprint
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Mar 14, 2015 14:56
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Lblitzer posted:When you activate your new sim card from Cricket after you receive it is when the magic happens. Your number moves over and that will automatically cancel Sprint For people who are wondering, this is exactly how it happened when I switched from Verizon too.
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When I switched from ntelos, the magic happened when I ordered the sim, so I was without phone for a few days while I waited for it to arrive. I blame ntelos for being awful.
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I have been thinking about getting a FreedomPop hotspot for my grandfather who lives in an assisted living facility with no Wi-Fi. Currently he's using my old AT&T iPhone 4 on Ting (which uses T-Mobile) so he only gets "3G" service that is pretty slow (so a jailbreak would be pretty much pointless), but the main problem is that you can't do FaceTime over 3G on iOS 7 — having a hotspot would fix this and he's not going to be using much data otherwise. Does anyone have any experience with FreedomPop's free 500 MB/month thing? I know it uses Sprint and Sprint is generally garbage (although it's actually not bad where he lives), but I'm more concerned with FreedomPop itself since it sounds shady as hell. Should I just get him a newer (specifically T-Mobile compatible) iPhone? If I do that it would probably just be a 4S though since things have a strange way of completely disappearing from his room while he's gone.
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Mar 15, 2015 19:07
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I have the free one they gave out a while ago. If you can find the thread, you can get quite a bit of free data through referrals. The only "shady" thing so far is that if you don't use it during a month they bill you a dollar. Other than that no complaints.
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Forgive me if this is a really simple thing, but... My phone (a Republic Wireless Moto X) is showing a time that's about six and a half minutes slow. It's been off by this amount since at least when I noticed it on Saturday morning. What's going on? Is this a Republic thing, a Sprint thing or a thing with just my own particular phone? Is there anything I can do about it?
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Mar 16, 2015 06:54
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T-Mobile is extending Data Stash to people on qualifying Simple Choice prepaid plans.
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As much as I like Cricket, I'm hoping T-Mobile starts focusing on their coverage this next year. They've really blown the game out of the water.
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Mar 16, 2015 16:44
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Lblitzer posted:As much as I like Cricket, I'm hoping T-Mobile starts focusing on their coverage this next year. They've really blown the game out of the water. You might be in luck: http://www.tmonews.com/2015/02/t-mobiles-lte-coverage-map-will-look-like-this-by-the-end-of-2015/
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I'm interested in trying T-mo out again as the last time I did building penetration was a major issue in my area (SE Michigan) but they've rolled out a lot more towers / frequencies since then. I'm building up my group plan on Cricket so it'll still be hard to take me away from my $20/month plan but I WANT to support T-mobile who are doing cool and good things.
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Mar 16, 2015 16:53
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:You might be in luck: That's pretty encouraging, I'm surprised I haven't seen that before. It's pretty widely available in my area but outside of it is a stretch. I think if it weren't for Cricket's group discounts I'd jump over to Harbor.
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TraderStav posted:I'm interested in trying T-mo out again as the last time I did building penetration was a major issue in my area (SE Michigan) but they've rolled out a lot more towers / frequencies since then. I'm building up my group plan on Cricket so it'll still be hard to take me away from my $20/month plan but I WANT to support T-mobile who are doing cool and good things. They're picking up subscribers like crazy now; enough so that tmobile-US convinced their parent company to actually pump money into them again. It was only a few years ago that they came out and basically said that they were done with pumping money into the US division and looking to sell.
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Mar 16, 2015 16:57
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Building penetration is going to depend on 700MHz, so if that's your goal make sure you select a device from the supported list.
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Anyone in Ireland have an endorsement for a prepaid carrier that I can snag a nano SIM from (likely at Dublin airport) so that I have a phone to use in an emergency and a bit of data to use for maps while I'm there on vacation? I was probably just going to go with Vodafone but perhaps someone has some specific anecdotes.
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:They're picking up subscribers like crazy now; enough so that tmobile-US convinced their parent company to actually pump money into them again. It was only a few years ago that they came out and basically said that they were done with pumping money into the US division and looking to sell. They still want to sell out if the government let them.
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TraderStav posted:I'm interested in trying T-mo out again as the last time I did building penetration was a major issue in my area (SE Michigan) but they've rolled out a lot more towers / frequencies since then. I'm building up my group plan on Cricket so it'll still be hard to take me away from my $20/month plan but I WANT to support T-mobile who are doing cool and good things. I'm all for putting money where its earned but in my case TMo just isn't realistic. I go to Montana ~5 weeks/year. Not one tower there. Also just last week I drove from SLC to Boise. EDGE 85% of the way and data just didn't work most if the time. I have 3 days on my $30 plan tryout (again). My AT&T plan had full blast LTE on the drive 98% of the time. Similar in Montana of all places. I like Legere, really I do but in the desert West US, TMo is laughably horrid.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Anyone in Ireland have an endorsement for a prepaid carrier that I can snag a nano SIM from (likely at Dublin airport) so that I have a phone to use in an emergency and a bit of data to use for maps while I'm there on vacation? I was probably just going to go with Vodafone but perhaps someone has some specific anecdotes. Sign up for tmobile and use their free international roaming for a month. Works great.
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hotsauce posted:I'm all for putting money where its earned but in my case TMo just isn't realistic. I go to Montana ~5 weeks/year. Not one tower there. Also just last week I drove from SLC to Boise. EDGE 85% of the way and data just didn't work most if the time. I have 3 days on my $30 plan tryout (again). They just don't have the spectrum (yet) to cover the area that AT&T does. Their 700mhz portfolio will definitely help but they need a strong showing in the 600mhz auction next year in order to really gain ground.
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Sign up for tmobile and use their free international roaming for a month. Works great.
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Is it possible to get an internet only plan for a phone? I'm going abroad briefly and I want to use Harbor Mobile's (T-mobile's) free international data roaming for a month. I will just sign up and cancel after I get back.
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Anyone on Cricket getting super slow speeds? I'm only hitting .61Mbps down and .80Mbps up. Been like this for a day or two.
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Lblitzer posted:Anyone on Cricket getting super slow speeds? I'm only hitting .61Mbps down and .80Mbps up. Been like this for a day or two. Good in Detroit area
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Mar 19, 2015 23:48
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Lblitzer posted:Anyone on Cricket getting super slow speeds? I'm only hitting .61Mbps down and .80Mbps up. Been like this for a day or two.  I'm in Omaha, no idea why it chose Washington.
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Lblitzer posted:Anyone on Cricket getting super slow speeds? I'm only hitting .61Mbps down and .80Mbps up. Been like this for a day or two. Random outages and slow speeds were the norm on Cricket when I was with them late last year. From the looks of it, not much has changed.
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Cricket must have taken off the speed cap recently, I am getting same speed as T-Mobile. Left: Simple Mobile Right: Cricket Bottom: Freedompop
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What's the consensus on Harbor mobile if you aren't legitimately running a business? Do they give any fucks or will I have to make up a company name, etc.?
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Geoj posted:What's the consensus on Harbor mobile if you aren't legitimately running a business? Do they give any fucks or will I have to make up a company name, etc.? I don't think I even had to make one up when I signed up a few months back.
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Did you have to speak with a live agent? When I go to finish it wants to start a live chat session with an agent...
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Geoj posted:What's the consensus on Harbor mobile if you aren't legitimately running a business? Do they give any fucks or will I have to make up a company name, etc.? I'm a current Harbor mobile customer. They give zero fucks. If they press the issue in the chat just make some poo poo up and they will give you the invitation code.
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Geoj posted:Did you have to speak with a live agent? When I go to finish it wants to start a live chat session with an agent... Just tell them you have your own small business. The reason they pretend to ask you that question is that the requirement is from TMobile.
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Harbor mobile registration trip report: not sure if anyone else ran into this or was able to BS their way past it but in order to get the invite code to complete registration I had to provide official documentation to verify the account would be used for business purposes. Fortunately a friend of mine has his own LLC and I was able to use a copy of his state business permit to get past the live agent, not sure if "I'm self employed" would still work for registration.
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Geoj posted:Harbor mobile registration trip report: not sure if anyone else ran into this or was able to BS their way past it but in order to get the invite code to complete registration I had to provide official documentation to verify the account would be used for business purposes. Fortunately a friend of mine has his own LLC and I was able to use a copy of his state business permit to get past the live agent, not sure if "I'm self employed" would still work for registration. This is very strange and I have not seen this. Did you try telling them you are a sole proprietor/independent consultant?
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I didn't, in the initial response message it said something about if you are self employed or a contractor they would need to see a DBA statement or other proof of business activity. I'm guessing T-Mobile might have turned the screws on them with half-assedly confirming "business use" and now they need to see concrete proof instead of "I'm a contractor/self employed."
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Geoj posted:I didn't, in the initial response message it said something about if you are self employed or a contractor they would need to see a DBA statement or other proof of business activity. I think you just got unlucky. I set up a new line a few days ago and had no issues. Nobody is reporting issues on Slickdeals either.
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FYI for people looking to jump to Cricket, according to this page, the $60/20gb plan expires on April 9th so get it while you can. It looks like the 10gb plan will still stick around but 20gb for $60 is insane.
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Lblitzer posted:FYI for people looking to jump to Cricket, according to this page, the $60/20gb plan expires on April 9th so get it while you can. It looks like the 10gb plan will still stick around but 20gb for $60 is insane. Thanks for this! Modified the OP. quote:Advanced Plan: Added mention of this to the OP as well! Keep your Advanced plans paid and don't switch back!  EDIT: Cricket is now advertising unlimited calling to Mexico so I'm adding that in to all $50+ plans. Anyone know anything about the new plan that Walmart seems to have with Verizon called Total Wireless? I'm thinking of adding it to the OP if it's a good MVNO.. ThermoPhysical fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Apr 1, 2015 |
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