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Can anyone confirm that the galaxy nexus works on sprint?

I'm sure most of us have seen the rumors floating around over the past few days of how a sprint rep said that the galaxy nexus can definitely be flashed for sprint.
Has anyone been successful with this yet? Or is there a sprint employee here that can confirm this?
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I have read that article too.
It appears that it might be true. I know in the past this was never allowed. It is odd that after all this time they would allow it now. You would have thought they would have allowed the Verizon Iphone. I would personally confirm this myself before purchasing a Nexus though. Also, even if they do activate it I would assume your insurance would not work on a device they do not carry.
Give it a few days. I am sure someone will try it. We will no for sure soon. Personally, I think the rep got the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus confused.

It could probably be made to work for 3G only...which doesn't concern me at all since you have a better chance of finding me sober on a Friday night than you do of finding a 4G signal around here.
Now, as for activation there is a 99.9% chance that you cannot just call them up to take care of it. I doubt you could even have your buddy that works at Sprint take care of it. There is kinda this database...
...now, how could it be done? Likely in the same manner that things are "flashed" to Boost and Cricket and MetroPCS.
What does that entail? That's up to you to find out, but, I'll recommend you don't go about trying to find out on XDA. It is a legal grey area. As such it is not something XDA will allow. It's worth neither XDA's time nor money to debate it's legality.

daneurysm said:
It could probably be made to work for 3G only...which doesn't concern me at all since you have a better chance of finding me sober on a Friday night than you do of finding a 4G signal around here.
Now, as for activation there is a 99.9% chance that you cannot just call them up to take care of it. I doubt you could even have your buddy that works at Sprint take care of it. There is kinda this database...
...now, how could it be done? Likely in the same manner that things are "flashed" to Boost and Cricket and MetroPCS.
What does that entail? That's up to you to find out, but, I'll recommend you don't go about trying to find out on XDA. It is a legal grey area. As such it is not something XDA will allow. It's worth neither XDA's time nor money to debate it's legality.
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I thought flashing was only illegal if you messed with the ESN?
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Gomenkiyo said:
I thought flashing was only illegal if you messed with the ESN?
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I am going to politely decline discussing the matter.

Gomenkiyo said:
I thought flashing was only illegal if you messed with the ESN?
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That's what you have to do to get the phone on sprint. Unless you get a Rep to add the esn.
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aimbdd said:
That's what you have to do to get the phone on sprint. Unless you get a Rep to add the esn.
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Also a VZW prl as well and some other minor tinkering in software.
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aimbdd said:
That's what you have to do to get the phone on sprint. Unless you get a Rep to add the esn.
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You wont have to do that if the following is true. I think this is what the OP was thinking about:
LordLugard said:
Also a VZW prl as well and some other minor tinkering in software.
http://phandroid.com/2011/12/20/spr...e-given-the-green-light-for-activation-rumor/
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Ok, so like many of us here, I was also curious, so i chatted up one of their CSR's on the webchat. Here is our conversation.
http://gyazo.com/8c474fc6bf3e0346cd442e9e203136f1
For even further clarification I called my local sprint store, and They also said what the CSR I spoke with said, If sprint does not sell the phone, it cannot be activated on the network, and to exhaust the final line of questioning, I am presently on the line with Sprints Customer Care (corporate call center, not local store), for the final nail in the coffin. I will post back once I get off of the line with them.
Edit: Just got off the line with the corporate CSR, and they confirmed what the other 2 said.
So that is 3 out of 3 Sprint Reps, Local CSR, Phone CSR, Chat CSR, all saying no the Galaxy Nexus cannot be activated on Sprint's Network.
Which doesn't go to say that you could do so via "questionable" methods. But you can't just call them and say Here is my MEID DEC activate mah phone naow.

I answered this yesterday. I am betting the tech that goofed got the two nexus phones mixed up.
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As a person who works in the training dept of a sprint Call center I can tell you for a fact that there is no way we can activate a Verizon ESN in our system. They just dont exist in our database. Any means of activating that phone on our systems is not thru any legitamate means.

avengere said:
As a person who works in the training dept of a sprint Call center I can tell you for a fact that there is no way we can activate a Verizon ESN in our system. They just dont exist in our database. Any means of activating that phone on our systems is not thru any legitamate means.
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this. i work in a prefferred retailer. the only way is to get the esn in the system, it will just show as invalid if not, we've tried this. so how to get it into the system? technically, the previous poster was correct, it wouldnt be legitmate; since verizon has the rights to the esn's that were created by the manufacturers FOR verizon specifically. so, i am sorry, but no Galaxy Nexus on sprint...

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this. i work in a prefferred retailer. the only way is to get the esn in the system, it will just show as invalid if not, we've tried this. so how to get it into the system? technically, the previous poster was correct, it wouldnt be legitmate; since verizon has the rights to the esn's that were created by the manufacturers FOR verizon specifically. so, i am sorry, but no Galaxy Nexus on sprint...
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You realize admitting to me you work in a sprint store makes you my enemy. You'd be surprised how many times a day a customer calls in and goes the sprint store promised me that you'd do "x" when in fact we cant. And next thing I know im on an escalation, telling the customer if a store promised you something to go back to the store getting yelled at by an idiot who has no concept of right or wrong who then asks to speak to my manager.

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As employees of Sprint, either directly or indirectly, it is inappropriate and unprofessional on any level to have this conversation on an external forum.
Full Disclosure: I am a Sprint employee. Any opinions are my own and in no way endorsed by Sprint.
EDIT: Quoted post removed so I removed the quote. Hoping the other commenter will as well.
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If you have not heard this enough already, it will not activate on Sprint because the ESN is not registered to the Sprint network. There is no legitimate way to make that happen either.
Besides, the GSII is a better phone right?
Full Disclosure: I am a Sprint employee. Any opinions are my own and in no way endorsed by Sprint.
hijewpositive said:
I'm sure most of us have seen the rumors floating around over the past few days of how a sprint rep said that the galaxy nexus can definitely be flashed for sprint.
Has anyone been successful with this yet? Or is there a sprint employee here that can confirm this?
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evantribley said:
As employees of Sprint, either directly or indirectly, it is inappropriate and unprofessional on any level to have this conversation on an external forum.
Full Disclosure: I am a Sprint employee. Any opinions are my own and in no way endorsed by Sprint.
EDIT: Quoted post removed so I removed the quote. Hoping the other commenter will as well.
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thank you, i appreciate this

avengere said:
You realize admitting to me you work in a sprint store makes you my enemy. You'd be surprised how many times a day a customer calls in and goes the sprint store promised me that you'd do "x" when in fact we cant. And next thing I know im on an escalation, telling the customer if a store promised you something to go back to the store getting yelled at by an idiot who has no concept of right or wrong who then asks to speak to my manager.
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I also work in a preferred retailer. Im a tech. And i cant tell you how many dam customers i get say cc said i can come in and get a new phone. Theres more to do than that. We actually have interaction. From what ive seen and talked to my friends about you read off a script and only mess with your own device. so when you actually so called "get your hands dirty" and you know what half of the idiot customers lie. you know that i catch half of them lieing to me daily. "did your phone get wet?" no ."why is there rice in it then? Get real.
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Would be awesome but don't think it is possible !

SGS2 is a better phone anyway. Forget the nexus. ICS is the real thing to be excited about.
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Anyway to leave sprint without paying the large fee?

I'm sick of sprint and their horrible data speeds. I want to leave but the fee is just nuts
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blankit said:
I'm sick of sprint and their horrible data speeds. I want to leave but the fee is just nuts
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Yup yup and yup. I agree, $350 per line. Sorry man! I just bounced on them. They failed to provide the service I needed and they didn't. Wouldn't budge with letting me out...so I bounced on them and had them eat the money. On my credit report, I wrote off "Not my debt"= Clear off my rec.
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Yeah flash a custom prl and go over the roaming data limits
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DaMan90 said:
Yeah flash a custom prl and go over the roaming data limits
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Did it for a month or two without Sprint batting an eye. It would take months for Sprint to notice, all the while your phone depreciates further. Either bite the bullet and pay the fine, or reneg and hope you can have the collection erased from your credit report. How anyone can have that erased by saying 'not my debt' is a complete mystery and should not be heeded as sound advice.
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blankit said:
I'm sick of sprint and their horrible data speeds. I want to leave but the fee is just nuts
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Three options:
1) Pay the ETF
2) Just live with it and leave at the end of the contract
3) After choosing #1 or #2, never sign a contract again

atlgator said:
Did it for a month or two without Sprint batting an eye. It would take months for Sprint to notice, all the while your phone depreciates further. Either bite the bullet and pay the fine, or reneg and hope you can have the collection erased from your credit report. How anyone can have that erased by saying 'not my debt' is a complete mystery and should not be heeded as sound advice.
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Annualcreditreport.com
That's where I get my info. There's a tab to "dispute" comment "not my debt".
#Galaxy Nexus HSPA+

luckylui said:
Annualcreditreport.com
That's where I get my info. There's a tab to "dispute" comment "not my debt".
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So you're suggesting fraudulently reporting that you didn't take on the debt?
Smart.

blankit said:
I'm sick of sprint and their horrible data speeds. I want to leave but the fee is just nuts
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The fee is to cover the cost of the phone. Pay the ETF, sell the phone and get a GSM one.

luckylui said:
They failed to provide the service I needed and they didn't. Wouldn't budge with letting me out...so I bounced on them and had them eat the money.
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So there was no guarantee of service speed or anything of the sort in your contract. When you signed a contract, there is no clause that if they don't provide a certain service to you that you're entitled to leave the contract. You either have to pay to leave, or continue to pay out your remaining months of service, those are your only legal options.

Just roam on Verizon a lot. Flash a modded prl. You'll get fast speeds for a few months then Sprint will terminate you.
Worked for me
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I know what you mean by the data speeds. Currently I'm blazing at a whopping 22kbps! I keep calling about this and then sometimes after, the speeds jumped to 2Mbps then back down to nearly unusable speeds. You can't connect to the Play Store at speeds this low. It just errors out saying that the connection timed out.
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martonikaj said:
So you're suggesting fraudulently reporting that you didn't take on the debt?
Smart.
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So.
They failed to provide me service..soooo there the ones pretty much eating the debt. Not in my hands.. gotta play like the government. On some BS game.
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670.00 Free of charge. Gotta play the game they play, that's how I play.
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luckylui said:
Annualcreditreport.com
That's where I get my info. There's a tab to "dispute" comment "not my debt".
#Galaxy Nexus HSPA+
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You're fooling yourself if you think it won't end up on your credit report. All you did was dispute it. The CRA will verify the debt is yours with Sprint and it will be on your report until you prove that it is not your debt or you settle with Sprint (or several years from the date you left Sprint when it falls off automatically). And no, saying 'not my debt' does not prove that it is not yours.

mwalt2 said:
You're fooling yourself if you think it won't end up on your credit report. All you did was dispute it. The CRA will verify the debt is yours with Sprint and it will be on your report until you prove that it is not your debt or you settle with Sprint (or several years from the date you left Sprint when it falls off automatically). And no, saying 'not my debt' does not prove that it is not yours.
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....By the way its already been closed. How can you say, what a person can't do. Have you been in there situation? Are you the credit agency? If neither.. then, you don't know what your talking about. I can tell you I've been there.. its clearly on my report as "Settled" since 09. Anymore, "assuming" ?s
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Hey OP, have you tried playing with PRL's and Radios? On my E4GT I was able to get up to 2MB/s(?) down and 1up. U sually averaged around 1.5MB but it was nice being able to stream HQ videos and music. On my Gnex I get about half of that but my upload is way high an dI have yet to play with PRl's or radios. It's just a thought but it's worth trying.

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....By the way its already been closed. How can you say, what a person can't do. Have you been in there situation? Are you the credit agency? If neither.. then, you don't know what your talking about. I can tell you I've been there.. its clearly on my report as "Settled" since 09. Anymore, "assuming" ?s
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Congratulations on them not verifying the debt. I wouldn't count on them always siding with someone just saying "it's not mine" when common sense says Sprint has every right to try to recoup the money per the contract all users agree to. I didn't remember Sprints ETF being $350 three years ago. I'm pretty sure it was on $200 back then when I was with them.
Didn't you have an Evo3D when I did (like less than a year ago)?

Flash a roaming prl and download as much data as possible.
I believe that they let you out if you move to an area that they don't cover. Use their coverage map to find some areas they don't cover. Call them and tell them your job is transferring you to Billings Montana or something and you want to check coverage at a couple addresses you are looking at (check realtor.com to get a few addresses). Make sure you already know there is no coverage based off of coverage map. When they tell you no coverage ask them how they handle it if there is no coverage. Chances are you get out right there. Especially if you've already been roaming a lot.
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thos25 said:
Flash a roaming prl and download as much data as possible.
I believe that they let you out if you move to an area that they don't cover. Use their coverage map to find some areas they don't cover. Call them and tell them your job is transferring you to Billings Montana or something and you want to check coverage at a couple addresses you are looking at (check realtor.com to get a few addresses). Make sure you already know there is no coverage based off of coverage map. When they tell you no coverage ask them how they handle it if there is no coverage. Chances are you get out right there. Especially if you've already been roaming a lot.
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They'll need proof of move or transfer. Just pay the $350, sell whatever device you have to cover the expense and move on. Sprint is awful.
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Dude !!! Tell me please I have not seen this any where unless I am blind
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My whole family switched, that was hell, but verizon speed and data is worth it. If you can wait, i would wait, then get a new nexus with your Verizon contract
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Google becoming a Wireless Carrier by 2013.

I just thought I'd post this - I know it's off topic, but this is definitely worth a thread.
http://bgr.com/2012/11/16/google-wireless-carrier-launch-2013/
Once I find it, I'll update this thread with the spectrum that Dish owns.
EDIT: Dish Network owns AWS-4 Spectrum running at 2000Mhz and 2200Mhz.

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I just thought I'd post this - I know it's off topic, but this is definitely worth a thread.
http://bgr.com/2012/11/16/google-wireless-carrier-launch-2013/
Once I find it, I'll update this thread with the spectrum that Dish owns.
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bery nice how much?

Bummer...I guess this means they won't be buying Sprint after all. Although I guess the whole SoftBank thing kind of put that to bed, didn't it? I so badly wanted that to happen!

hayzooos said:
Bummer...I guess this means they won't be buying Sprint after all. Although I guess the whole SoftBank thing kind of put that to bed, didn't it? I so badly wanted that to happen!
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I honestly think Sprint will be involved. They're building out their network but there's no way they can get a nation covered by 2013. They will likely partner with Sprint with their lte network for its coverage until they get a hold of things. Reason being, they want to compete against Verizon and At&t, and T-Mobile has the speeds they need, but not exactly the coverage. When sprint finishes their network vision, it'll be on par with Verizon in terms of speeds and coverage.
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im predicting $30-50/month for unlimited everything with no throttling.

Ascertion said:
I honestly think Sprint will be involved. They're building out their network but there's no way they can get a nation covered by 2013. They will likely partner with Sprint with their lte network for its coverage until they get a hold of things. Reason being, they want to compete against Verizon and At&t, and T-Mobile has the speeds they need, but not exactly the coverage. When sprint finishes their network vision, it'll be on par with Verizon in terms of speeds and coverage.
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Agree with you on that one. I actually think it might be better as Sprint is upgrading every tower in their network with a few exceptions. I'm also excited Sprint just bought some people and spectrum from US Cellular in the Chicago market. In two years, Sprint will have THE best network in Chicago, and I'm happy about that.

cnstarz said:
im predicting $30-50/month for unlimited everything with no throttling.
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Lol very funny.
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cnstarz said:
im predicting $30-50/month for unlimited everything with no throttling.
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They will probably be very tempting when it comes to their entry level pricing. Google likes to recruit a lot of customers by promotions that they lose money on, then make the money from elsewhere. (Ie: Google Play Market. If they sell only Android phones, more android apps will be bought from the market.)
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im predicting $30-50/month for unlimited everything with no throttling.
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The article says the Google network will be data-only, no call minutes or SMS/MMS. That stuff would be handled as VoIP, most likely through Google Voice.
So, I'm guessing it would be $20-40/month for unlimited data. Any sort of cap obviously wouldn't work for a data-only network.

EndlessDissent said:
The article says the Google network will be data-only, no call minutes or SMS/MMS. That stuff would be handled as VoIP, most likely through Google Voice.
So, I'm guessing it would be $20-40/month for unlimited data. Any sort of cap obviously wouldn't work for a data-only network.
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That would be the bees knees and a logical evolution I hop right on that band wagon
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That means if they go on the Sprint network on solely data it could bog down them down. I'm really curious what their infrastructure plans are.
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pyrosin said:
That means if they go on the Sprint network on solely data it could bog down them down. I'm really curious what their infrastructure plans are.
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Dish Network owns AWS-4 spectrum at 2000Mhz/2200Mhz spectrum. This frequency covers slightly less customers with slightly less building penetration. The best way to think of it is between Sprint's 3G and Wimax coverage.
If they decide to go with Sprint in the meantime, they'll probably be forced to have a cap on data until they get their own network on the ground. Google will definitely have a strong presence in the U.S. cellular market.

dish is horrible at making deals, look at what is going on with amc, they are having problems trying to get em back in there line up. I could see this deal collapsing if google mentions money.
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Bc of AMC they are horrible w deals? Lol this stuff happens w all service providers
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bootny said:
Bc of AMC they are horrible w deals? Lol this stuff happens w all service providers
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Yea it does happen all the time, but amc is one of 5 or 6 channels that was dropped. Just bc they didnt want to give em more money, its been over a year and they still have yet to come to a resolution. Lets look at direct tv, when they had that 17 channel problem, they got that done within a week. So yes i do think they are bad at making deals or getting deals, resolved.
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Yea it does happen all the time, but amc is one of 5 or 6 channels that was dropped. Just bc they didnt want to give em more money, its been over a year and they still have yet to come to a resolution. Lets look at direct tv, when they had that 17 channel problem, they got that done within a week. So yes i do think they are bad at making deals or getting deals, resolved.
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I know this discussion has taken a strange turn, but AMC is back on Dish

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I know this discussion has taken a strange turn, but AMC is back on Dish
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I was about to say the same and judging a company on channel deals is a bit ridiculous. It has nothing to do with wireless phone technology.
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If google goes through with this I seriously doubt they'd use any CDMA carrier for any kind of backbone.
Every nexus device they've released has always been on GSM networks first and I don't even think the Nexus 4 will hit Sprint or Verizon.
Google loves the sim cards.

Axis' said:
If google goes through with this I seriously doubt they'd use any CDMA carrier for any kind of backbone.
Every nexus device they've released has always been on GSM networks first and I don't even think the Nexus 4 will hit Sprint or Verizon.
Google loves the sim cards.
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Google's looking at data only network, which means it'll need fast speeds to support voice over IP. LTE is a gsm based technology and Sprint is Google's best carrier friend (Google Voice, Google Play bill to account features, etc.)
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Sprint $25 Gift Card!! (New Customers Only)

New customers to Sprint can get a $25 American Express Gift card right now by signing up.
Customers that refer also get a $25 gift card!
Here's the details!

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New customers to Sprint can get a $25 American Express Gift card right now by signing up.
Customers that refer also get a $25 gift card!
Here's the details!
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But I don't have anyone I hate enough to recommend sprint's non existent network to...
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But I don't have anyone I hate enough to recommend sprint's non existent network to...
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Gotta call foul on that one. Sorry. Cool with disagreement but not hatin'. Life is just TOO short for that.
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agreed. they can try to entice new victims to join them all they want but i dont see them lifting a finger to keep them. once they get a whiff of their horrible data speeds they are going to want out. hopefully it happens soon enough for them to get out of the contract.
they can cry "network vision" all they want. fact of the matter is that they should of been had a solid 3g network in preparation for the icrap, but they fell way short of that

I love Sprint, but $25 a joke, can't do better than that? I get $50 just for referring someone to CREDO, and they lease Sprint's network. Weird attempt to draw in customers.
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kchannel9 said:
I love Sprint, but $25 a joke, can't do better than that? I get $50 just for referring someone to CREDO, and they lease Sprint's network. Weird attempt to draw in customers.
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In my area (Washington DC) sprints network is almost non existent. It's so bad it is literally unusable. wimax is ok but constantly drops out if you are moving. This just has to do with the origins of wimax I think.
I've tried T-Mobile and Verizon. T-Mobile ironically had both the most consistent coverage and fastest speeds, even faster in real world use than Verizon.
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tmobile 5G?

I've been seeing news rumors saying Tmobile maybe the first to run 5G...what do you guys think? I haven't seen any LTE yet even...this maybe just BS. On the other hand, Tmo just worked on LTE...so maybe it still easy for them to reprogram to 5G...? Anyone got the inside scoop?
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/t-mobile-first-5g-lte-advanced/

I wouldn't say this is BS, but calling LTE-A 5G is BS. Really I think T-mobile wants to have the fastest 4G network and they may call it "5G" if they got 300mbs+ out of it, but I really think they should start rolling out 4G LTE across there 2G foot print.

They're all marketing terms, and their meanings change. Most of the current "4G" infrastructure is more like 3.5G since it falls so far short of the original design specifications.
LTE-Advanced is probably going to be billed as 5G, but it's more like what 4G was originally supposed to mean. Cheap and greedy telcos sold us short and marketed the intermediate steps as the final product.

2G, 3G, 4G used to purely mean something, but now the "label" has shifted to more around the raw speed regardless of the infrastructure. A great example is TM with their HSPA+ calling it 4G, which (like one mentioned) is more like 3.5G.
However, TM's HSPA+ (3.5ish G) in some areas can whoop on other carriers LTE. Look at my sig; great example.
Although TM was last in the race for the LTE infrastructure, TM has the most expandable infrastructure over all the other carriers. Very smart move. Why? Because if the other carriers wanted to expand they would have to put in place a completely new infrastructure for their next generation network, whereas TM can just expand on their current (New LTE) infrastructure. Now the tides have shifted.
So 5G for TM? When the time comes, yes TM would be the first to have it since they have the ability to build on their current platform without the hassle of putting in a new one.
kobesabi said:
I've been seeing news rumors saying Tmobile maybe the first to run 5G...what do you guys think? I haven't seen any LTE yet even...this maybe just BS. On the other hand, Tmo just worked on LTE...so maybe it still easy for them to reprogram to 5G...? Anyone got the inside scoop?
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/t-mobile-first-5g-lte-advanced/
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I find it amusing that cellular providers in the US are making more progress on data speeds than our ISPs.
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luckyduck69 said:
I find it amusing that cellular providers in the US are making more progress on data speeds than our ISPs.
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Verizon Fios is not available in my area. Uverse also not available unless I pay 100+ option. Only option I have is Uverse DSL...which is crappy and about 80% reliability. Cable is pricey and fail miserably on jitter test. My new friend is $10 (unlimited talk from Tmobile to replace my home phone. Tmobile $20 unlimited data to replace my home DSL. I hope Google Fiber becomes available in OC area soon someday.

luckyduck69 said:
I find it amusing that cellular providers in the US are making more progress on data speeds than our ISPs.
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finally ! :laugh:

luckyduck69 said:
I find it amusing that cellular providers in the US are making more progress on data speeds than our ISPs.
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I think it's a lot more time and money that's needed to run new cable/fiber to each and every home than replacing a cell tower or two every block..
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Google fiber is a game changer for the USA. Other countries have much better speeds at much cheaper prices. Google is forcing other carriers to step up. Time Warner is already ****ing there pants in places where Google fiber already rolled out.
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Lol. Really guys? 5G refers to the Wi-Fi technology used. 802.11ac.
Here's an article about it:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/samsungs-galaxy-s4-signals-shift-to-faster-wi-fi-2013-03-15
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LTE is faster than my home cable Internet...
Honestly, I don't think our phones need the kind of bandwidth LTE 4G offers. Not with bandwidth caps anyway...
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Honestly yeah ... we don't need lte .... we already getting more 10mbps thats fast enough for me if I want really fast internet I would just connect to my wifi ... thats just me ...
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I'm still waiting for LTE in California. I get dial up speeds unless I head for a larger city. They shouldn't even mention new technology until completely rolling out LTE to more cities.
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thachosenone said:
Lol. Really guys? 5G refers to the Wi-Fi technology used. 802.11ac.
Here's an article about it:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/samsungs-galaxy-s4-signals-shift-to-faster-wi-fi-2013-03-15
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Lol. 5G. Now there are gonna be people out there bragging about their 5g phone. People are idiots.
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thachosenone said:
Lol. 5G. Now there are gonna be people out there bragging about their 5g phone. People are idiots.
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We're not talking about WiFi. Samsung has started mobile tests that are 100 times faster than LTE. T-Mobile is rumored to be the 1st carrier in the world to utilize it.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nigamar...kthrough-points-to-long-term-risks-for-apple/

thachosenone said:
Lol. Really guys? 5G refers to the Wi-Fi technology used. 802.11ac.
Here's an article about it:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/samsungs-galaxy-s4-signals-shift-to-faster-wi-fi-2013-03-15
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Really guy...
That's a different 5G. This thread is about mobile data not wifi.
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Yeah he talking about mobile data 5G Google it.
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SKT and KT are going LTE-A later this year, collab with Samsung of course.. (South Korea) I do not see any reason for TMO not to invest on the forthcoming future.
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luckyduck69 said:
I find it amusing that cellular providers in the US are making more progress on data speeds than our ISPs.
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Yeah really, I still facepalm at Cincinnati Bell putting up advertizements on the billboards about FiOptics when some of those places don't even get it! OTOH I'm surprised cell companies don't offer unlimited (fast) internet on their internet sticks.. if that happened I'd dump my ADSL and go with a stick.
However, I still find it amusing that cell companies still push tiered data plans (thankfully Tmo no longer does this...)

adventure_of_link said:
Yeah really, I still facepalm at Cincinnati Bell putting up advertizements on the billboards about FiOptics when some of those places don't even get it! OTOH I'm surprised cell companies don't offer unlimited (fast) internet on their internet sticks.. if that happened I'd dump my ADSL and go with a stick.
However, I still find it amusing that cell companies still push tiered data plans (thankfully Tmo no longer does this...)
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I'm glad they do. People are going to be using cell phones to provide themselves with home internet. The isps need to get with the program here. T-Mobile actually has a "grace period" of tethering for this sole reason. Fibre and xFinity are prolly the only ones faster than some cell companies. It's pitiful.
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