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drat I left ATT to go to the cheaper variety that “wasn’t sprint” welp
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# ? Apr 29, 2018 17:48 |
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# ? May 21, 2024 14:09 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nsbmtwMrgY
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# ? Apr 29, 2018 17:59 |
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Don't mess with MVNO's you fucks
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# ? Apr 29, 2018 18:16 |
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SeANMcBAY posted:What will it mean for T-Mobile costumers? Increased coverage? Is there anywhere these days that Sprint out-covers TMobile?
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# ? Apr 29, 2018 18:25 |
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SeANMcBAY posted:What will it mean for T-Mobile costumers? Increased coverage? Better coverage and higher prices, prolly.
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# ? Apr 29, 2018 18:55 |
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SeANMcBAY posted:What will it mean for T-Mobile costumers? Increased coverage? In the short term you can roam on Sprint's network if your device is compatible. Longer-term T-Mobile gets Sprint's 2.5 GHz spectrum for rapid 5G deployment. IOwnCalculus posted:Is there anywhere these days that Sprint out-covers TMobile? Anywhere Sprint has 800 MHz deployed where T-Mobile doesn't have 700 MHz. But I'm not sure how many of those areas there are
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# ? Apr 29, 2018 20:21 |
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Mr.Radar posted:In the short term you can roam on Sprint's network if your device is compatible. Longer-term T-Mobile gets Sprint's 2.5 GHz spectrum for rapid 5G deployment. Is the roaming possible now or when it’s official?
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# ? Apr 29, 2018 23:41 |
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Considering this was just announced and there’s a very real chance of the government torpedoing things, I can’t imagine anything really changes today. As we get closer to early 2019 when this deal would actually close I suspect we’ll hear more.
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# ? Apr 29, 2018 23:52 |
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SeANMcBAY posted:Is the roaming possible now or when it’s official? Sprint phones can probably roam on T-Mobile , but not all T-Mobile phones can work on sprint. For instance, T-Mobile sold iPhone 7, 7+, 8 , 8+ and X all are non Sprint comparable.
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# ? Apr 29, 2018 23:54 |
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I hope they just shutter sprint and use the spectrum they owned, because sprint is literal garbage.
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# ? Apr 30, 2018 01:11 |
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e.pilot posted:I hope they just shutter sprint and use the spectrum they owned, because sprint is literal garbage. As a former Sprint customer, this is what everyone should be hoping. TMobile does have experience merging in/killing off CDMA networks with MetroPCS.
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# ? Apr 30, 2018 01:33 |
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Maneki Neko posted:As a former Sprint customer, this is what everyone should be hoping. TMobile does have experience merging in/killing off CDMA networks with MetroPCS. I gave up an employee account at sprint that cost me $35/mo for unlimited everything when I switched to t-mo because they were so bad.
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# ? Apr 30, 2018 01:37 |
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e.pilot posted:I hope they just shutter sprint and use the spectrum they owned, because sprint is literal garbage. Every person I know with Sprint, hates them. I remember one girl from work who was always in the backroom yelling at Sprint because her bill was hosed up ... again, literally every month.
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# ? Apr 30, 2018 03:04 |
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I don't think I ever had a hosed up bill, but Phoenix got absolutely shafted on 4G coverage during the Wimax rollout, and the remaining 3G network was utterly decimated once the iPhone finally made it to Sprint. The in-store experience always sucked rear end, too. TMobile isn't quite as cheap but it actually loving works.
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# ? Apr 30, 2018 03:09 |
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Sprint is rear end and worse than even the most janky mvno
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# ? Apr 30, 2018 03:13 |
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I’m trying to think of my favorite memories selling sprint for 3 ish years. - Showing customers a map of the new 4G WiMAX coverage, and explaining that dark green was in building coverage, light green you still got coverage, but only out doors. -4G WiMAX phones lasting 4 hours when you left 4G on. -the day they turned off Nextel. Customer came in complaint their 12 business Nextel phone didn’t work. We sold them 12 sprint “walkie” phones. Customer came back next day after finding out they didn’t work because Sprint has half the building penetration of Nextel. -selling those drat sprint replacement walkie phones. Sprint relies heavily on Verizon roaming (especially at the time). But with the new sprint Nextel’s, as soon as they jumped on roaming, walkie didn’t work until you power cycled the phone. -selling the dual screen Kyocera Echo. Google it. -every time you activated a Blackberry, the only way to get it to work was to do a full factory reset. -as the above poster said, just how bad the network poo poo the bed once the iPhone became available. I vividly remember pulling over to give google maps time to load.
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# ? Apr 30, 2018 03:40 |
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wormil posted:Every person I know with Sprint, hates them. I remember one girl from work who was always in the backroom yelling at Sprint because her bill was hosed up ... again, literally every month. I was seriously gonna post about this. It seemed like Stockholm syndrome or just plain naivety. I guess using the proprietary hardware a la Verizon doesn’t help
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# ? Apr 30, 2018 03:58 |
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Duckman2008 posted:-selling the dual screen Kyocera Echo. Google it. What the gently caress??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-0f4-FM95Q (Note: that video came out only a year after the device launched.)
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# ? Apr 30, 2018 04:04 |
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Nintendo ds was really popular at that time? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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# ? Apr 30, 2018 04:05 |
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ds nuts
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# ? Apr 30, 2018 04:13 |
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Man I missed the BOGO Galaxy S9 deal. Any chance they bring it back in a few months?
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# ? Apr 30, 2018 04:26 |
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T-Mobile is going to continue being T-Mobile, and Sprint is going to finish its descent into second tier status as it quietly merges with Metro PCS. I don't think you should look at this deal as though the two companies are somehow obligated to have their qualities meet in the middle.
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# ? Apr 30, 2018 04:44 |
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Second tier is very generous
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# ? Apr 30, 2018 04:46 |
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Mr.Radar posted:What the gently caress??? I think I only ever sold 3 Echos in my life. And 2 were def after they went to basically free. I got to use one for a few months though. I almost wish I could have kept it. Edit: I forgot to mention: the battery life on the Echo was so bad that they included s 2nd battery with it in advance so you wouldn’t have to worry about battery life. Also, this was when 4G was seriously ramping up, and it was 3G only. Edit 2: also, Sprint literally paid David Blain to do some performance to introduce the phone. MC Fruit Stripe posted:T-Mobile is going to continue being T-Mobile, and Sprint is going to finish its descent into second tier status as it quietly merges with Metro PCS. I don't think you should look at this deal as though the two companies are somehow obligated to have their qualities meet in the middle. Well, the difference is that Son owns sprint, and that guy is going to want a say in the merged company. That being said , he hasn’t caused the Sprint train wreck, he was just dumb enough to buy it, so I don’t think you can quite say it’s his fault or he will make bad decisions with it yet. Duckman2008 fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Apr 30, 2018 |
# ? Apr 30, 2018 04:49 |
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E2M2 posted:Man I missed the BOGO Galaxy S9 deal. Any chance they bring it back in a few months? Tmobile constantly does bogo. Wouldn't surprise me.
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# ? Apr 30, 2018 04:50 |
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Don Lapre posted:Tmobile constantly does bogo. Wouldn't surprise me. Yup, wait till Mother's Day.
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# ? Apr 30, 2018 09:42 |
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I just updated my 5 line family Single Choice 4gb plan to the new Military ONE plan. My bill should be going from $126 with an 18% discount to flat $110 including Netflix. Waited 2 days and then went to activate the Netflix portion. Website said I was not eligible even though Military ONE was turned on. HMMM. Took a look at my plan, and the phone rep managed to make each of my 5 lines a single Military ONE primary line at $55 each. Total bill for next month was listed at $275. Went instore and had them attempt to fix. Now my plan shows a hodgepodge of Military ONE and regular ONE, with the monthly total coming to $125 and going into effect 5/8. How badly have they f-ed up my plan? There are no extras on there, everything should be default. I did not even bite on a 50% S9.
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# ? Apr 30, 2018 16:00 |
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Sounds like the rep who switched you over hosed it up (which is an easy thing to do, tbh, because our systems are the worst bullshit ever) and the additional you're paying this month is the prorated charges from being on the multiple single line plans for, like, a few days. You could probably call 611 and bitch about it and they'd credit you the difference, if you really care about $15. Everything should be fine from here on out. Daily Forecast fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Apr 30, 2018 |
# ? Apr 30, 2018 17:24 |
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About the military plan, account is in my name, I'm a vet but not active; wife is active. I would need to close my account and open a new account in her name?
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# ? Apr 30, 2018 18:17 |
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wormil posted:About the military plan, account is in my name, I'm a vet but not active; wife is active. I would need to close my account and open a new account in her name? Nope, any vet can be account holder. I got out in '92. Daily Forecast posted:Sounds like the rep who switched you over hosed it up (which is an easy thing to do, tbh, because our systems are the worst bullshit ever) and the additional you're paying this month is the prorated charges from being on the multiple single line plans for, like, a few days. You could probably call 611 and bitch about it and they'd credit you the difference, if you really care about $15. I am going to wait until 5/8 to see if everything looks correct. I'll eat the $15 just so no one goes back in and f's it up again. I got Netflix to bill correctly last night at least. Of course that starts 5/8 also.
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# ? Apr 30, 2018 18:58 |
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wormil posted:About the military plan, account is in my name, I'm a vet but not active; wife is active. I would need to close my account and open a new account in her name? Vet has to be account holder, active can just be an authorized user, but a vet being an authorized user doesn't qualify for the military plan, for whatever dumb reason. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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# ? Apr 30, 2018 19:49 |
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This looks to be a pretty reasonable write-up if anyone has more merger questions: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/30/17301392/t-mobile-sprint-merger-preview-phone-carrier
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# ? Apr 30, 2018 19:50 |
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Daily Forecast posted:but a vet being an authorized user doesn't qualify for the military plan Because then people would just add vets to their account for the discount.
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# ? Apr 30, 2018 20:33 |
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Daily Forecast posted:Vet has to be account holder, active can just be an authorized user, but a vet being an authorized user doesn't qualify for the military plan, for whatever dumb reason. When I switched to the 55+ plan, all TM did was change ownership to my wife, no new account created but it did do a credit check on her. Then they just changed the plan on the account and we setup new auto-pay on the account. It should be the same here if the active is currently the account owner.
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# ? Apr 30, 2018 21:53 |
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Don Lapre posted:Because then people would just add vets to their account for the discount. Ding ding ding. We have a winner!
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# ? May 1, 2018 03:00 |
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Maneki Neko posted:This looks to be a pretty reasonable write-up if anyone has more merger questions: I’m hoping they’ll have some crazy promotion like 2 lines for $100 again. That would cement me switching over.
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# ? May 1, 2018 03:42 |
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Decairn posted:When I switched to the 55+ plan, all TM did was change ownership to my wife, no new account created but it did do a credit check on her. Then they just changed the plan on the account and we setup new auto-pay on the account. It should be the same here if the active is currently the account owner. They made you a new account. That's called a change of responsibility and I do it all the time. Run credit, make a new account under the new billing party's name, move the lines over, close old account. It's not actually possible to change the billing name of an account.
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# ? May 1, 2018 06:00 |
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I'm selling a Samsung S8 that I got as a replacement from Assurant for an insurance claim. I've heard that Assurant sometimes gives out refurbished phones; is there any way to tell? Ideally just from the IMEI because I'm trying to sell it sealed so there is less room for shenanigans. I'd give a discount to a goon I guess so let me know if anyone is interested. I priced it at $440 at swappa which I think is generous but I'm worried about getting scammed by buyers there.
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# ? May 2, 2018 18:53 |
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Meydey posted:Nope, any vet can be account holder. I got out in '92. Sweet, working on the switch now. They want to backdate to last month, which seems okay since it's cheaper than my current plan. I can't think of any "gotchas". Edit, I'm confused by the pricing, they told me it would be $100/mo for 4 lines with autopay. 55/25/10/10. But my account shows $110/mo charge 80/15/15/0. WTF? wormil fucked around with this message at 22:25 on May 2, 2018 |
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wormil posted:Sweet, working on the switch now. Mine got hosed up big time. They marked all lines as primary (5) at $55 each. Monthly bill showed $275. Should be fixed by Monday, but we will see. Probably going to have to call.
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