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[Q] Getting terrible data speeds and want to switch.

For the past few months i have been receiving terrible data speed on my 3g connection as well as failed sent text messages. Also with all of the 4G fees, I have 3 lines as well as the fee of having a third line, switching to verizon will be the same cost as i am already paying.
I've decide I officially wanted to switch after seeing the lte speed on verizon. I understand they will drop once the towers get populated but i'm sure it can't get worse than what i'm dealing with. I know you can change the prl to roam on verizon and eventually have my contract terminated.
I know this might be wrong but how i've been treated by sprint has been wrong as well. I would like to escape etf charges, and sell my 2 evos and 1 evo shift and get the thunderbolt. Thanks.

redsoxfan320 said:
For the past few months i have been receiving terrible data speed on my 3g connection as well as failed sent text messages. Also with all of the 4G fees, I have 3 lines as well as the fee of having a third line, switching to verizon will be the same cost as i am already paying.
I've decide I officially wanted to switch after seeing the lte speed on verizon. I understand they will drop once the towers get populated but i'm sure it can't get worse than what i'm dealing with. I know you can change the prl to roam on verizon and eventually have my contract terminated.
I know this might be wrong but how i've been treated by sprint has been wrong as well. I would like to escape etf charges, and sell my 2 evos and 1 evo shift and get the thunderbolt. Thanks.
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I can respect that you want to leave but instead of abusing the system with PRLs just call them and explain the issue [no doubt you've called and complained about the speeds multiple times].
They are required, with the contract, to give you a certain level of data speeds.
You're not getting them therefore they are violating your contract agreement.

redsoxfan320 said:
For the past few months i have been receiving terrible data speed on my 3g connection as well as failed sent text messages. Also with all of the 4G fees, I have 3 lines as well as the fee of having a third line, switching to verizon will be the same cost as i am already paying.
I've decide I officially wanted to switch after seeing the lte speed on verizon. I understand they will drop once the towers get populated but i'm sure it can't get worse than what i'm dealing with. I know you can change the prl to roam on verizon and eventually have my contract terminated.
I know this might be wrong but how i've been treated by sprint has been wrong as well. I would like to escape etf charges, and sell my 2 evos and 1 evo shift and get the thunderbolt. Thanks.
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I'm sorry I thought I read same price? You mean $179.98 vs
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That's $50 more a month without Navigation or even detailed billing (for the sake of arguments and keeping things simple)
But, if you want out of your ETF your best bet is to call Sprint and have them check your area, how long your towers been down or being worked on and ask to be let go. Don't ruin it for everyone by doing a PRL hack.

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I'm sorry I thought I read same price? You mean $179.98 vs
That's $50 more a month without Navigation or even detailed billing (for the sake of arguments and keeping things simple)
But, if you want out of your ETF your best bet is to call Sprint and have them check your area, how long your towers been down or being worked on and ask to be let go. Don't ruin it for everyone by doing a PRL hack.
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Okay, I won't do the prl hack. I called them friday to complain and they are sending me a airwave, which no matter how well it works doesn't help me, when i have wifi at home. I will call the day I get it and complain again and demand to be canceled. When they give you cancelation without etf is it automatic or do I have time to go to verizon literally and sign a contract.
Also I dont know where you got that price from. Right now I am on the family data plan which is 139.99, this gives me 1400 but with mobile to mobile we barely use 500 any given month. The 4G is another $30 and the third line is $20. Thats 189.99 for crappy service.
On verizon, I only plan on getting the 700 minute plan with texting which is $99.99 plus data for 3 phones is 90, making it 189.99 for the current super fast lte, which by the way is availible in my area unlike the 4g i've been paying months for.
Also I realize I should have stated that i only need 700 minutes. Another question, any chance you know the terms of sprints unlimited mobile to mobile compared to verizons.

redsoxfan320 said:
Okay, I won't do the prl hack. I called them friday to complain and they are sending me a airwave, which no matter how well it works doesn't help me, when i have wifi at home. I will call the day I get it and complain again and demand to be canceled. When they give you cancelation without etf is it automatic or do I have time to go to verizon literally and sign a contract.
Also I dont know where you got that price from. Right now I am on the family data plan which is 139.99, this gives me 1400 but with mobile to mobile we barely use 500 any given month. The 4G is another $30 and the third line is $20. Thats 189.99 for crappy service.
On verizon, I only plan on getting the 700 minute plan with texting which is $99.99 plus data for 3 phones is 90, making it 189.99 for the current super fast lte, which by the way is availible in my area unlike the 4g i've been paying months for.
Also I realize I should have stated that i only need 700 minutes. Another question, any chance you know the terms of sprints unlimited mobile to mobile compared to verizons.
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When I was with Verizon, they didn't have true mobile to mobile. It was only Verizon to Verizon. If you talked to a mobile number on a different network, you got charged minutes. Also, Verizon's free nights start at 9pm, sprint is 7pm.
I'm not sure if Verizon has changed their mobile to mobile policies, but it was less than a year ago that I was with them.
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redsoxfan320 said:
Okay, I won't do the prl hack. I called them friday to complain and they are sending me a airwave, which no matter how well it works doesn't help me, when i have wifi at home. I will call the day I get it and complain again and demand to be canceled. When they give you cancelation without etf is it automatic or do I have time to go to verizon literally and sign a contract.
Also I dont know where you got that price from. Right now I am on the family data plan which is 139.99, this gives me 1400 but with mobile to mobile we barely use 500 any given month. The 4G is another $30 and the third line is $20. Thats 189.99 for crappy service.
On verizon, I only plan on getting the 700 minute plan with texting which is $99.99 plus data for 3 phones is 90, making it 189.99 for the current super fast lte, which by the way is availible in my area unlike the 4g i've been paying months for.
Also I realize I should have stated that i only need 700 minutes. Another question, any chance you know the terms of sprints unlimited mobile to mobile compared to verizons.
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That price was their 1400 minute plan, remember they don't have unlimited calling to all mobile phones in america, only Verizon and their nights don't start at 7pm. All that aside, tell them you will be porting, speeds are horrible, ask can ETF be waived since you're porting.

That's simple...with Sprint you get unlimited calling to any mobile number on any carrier. On Verizon you will get unlimited calling only to other Verizon customers. Calls to people on any other carrier will come out of your minutes.
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kd0axs said:
That's simple...with Sprint you get unlimited calling to any mobile number on any carrier. On Verizon you will get unlimited calling only to other Verizon customers. Calls to people on any other carrier will come out of your minutes.
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If you have a Google Voice number or don't plan on porting your current number, you should look to see if you can get a plan that has Verizon's friends & family feature. It allows you to get unlimited calling to 5 numbers, if you use your Google Voice number on one of the those lines, you'll get unlimited calling to any number when calling though Google Voice.

kd0axs said:
That's simple...with Sprint you get unlimited calling to any mobile number on any carrier. On Verizon you will get unlimited calling only to other Verizon customers. Calls to people on any other carrier will come out of your minutes.
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This I actually will need the 1400 minute plan then. Do they provide any good business discounts, or could I possibly find out what discount I would receive before signing up.

redsoxfan320 said:
This I actually will need the 1400 minute plan then. Do they provide any good business discounts, or could I possibly find out what discount I would receive before signing up.
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Give them a call and have them check. At this point now you're at my price

DirtyShroomz said:
Give them a call and have them check. At this point now you're at my price
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actually its $209, I believe but i may be wrong...

Stright talk no need to unlock phone.

I have not found my answer from hours and hours of searching. You do not need to unlock phone before SIM install but you do have to change apn settings
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finally had a friend on facebook call them for me and trouble shooted im good to go no unlock needed for ATT or Tmobile

Not bad considering on only paying $45 a month
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I iwsh I would have seen your question, could have let you known that. AT&T MVNOs don't need an unlock code for AT&T phones. Sorry i couldn't help.

justin860 said:
Not bad considering on only paying $45 a month
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I've ready WAY too many bad reviews of straight talk to cancel my AT&T plan and use their network. All the reviews state that you get what you pay for, half the price, half the service. If anything goes wrong with their service they provide zero help. I'm not sure how they can get away with tagging onto other service providers networks. I'll just use my company's 22% discount and keep my grandfathered unlimited plan.

TBayTom said:
I've ready WAY too many bad reviews of straight talk to cancel my AT&T plan and use their network. All the reviews state that you get what you pay for, half the price, half the service. If anything goes wrong with their service they provide zero help. I'm not sure how they can get away with tagging onto other service providers networks. I'll just use my company's 22% discount and keep my grandfathered unlimited plan.
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Today is day three and I can honestly say that I love it it's just like having my old plan we do not have LTE here anyways but now I have unlimited minutes unlimited text and 4g Internet which is plenty for me even if it is only 2.5 or so gigs. Everywhere I used my phone besides my car has Wi-Fi access so I'm constantly connected to Wi-Fi saving about $100 a month on my plan is absolutely amazing to me and I will use that money for other things. The only downfall is I lose my warranty from my cell phone and I also do not get upgrades but that's okay. Saving over $1200 a year is good enough for me. Unlimited text messaging and 3 GB Internet cost me more than this whole plan itself
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My wife was on it for a month with the iPhone 4. She claims she had a lot of problems with SMS, MMS (had to hack it to work), calling and data. Things that never happened to her before. To me is sounded like issues I always had with At&t, I recently switched to a company phone I personally can't comment on the service. I had another friend that switched his wife over also and for the most part she hasn't had many issues but there are some. I will be switching her over to T-Mobile prepaid next week (with the Galaxy Nexus :victory.

She had issues with the MMS because it was a known issue between iPhones and MVNOs. There are guides out there, but yeah, iPhones need to be jailbroken to work properly.
As for the service, ST is excellent, if you know what you're doing. You're paying $45/month, but you're on your own. Don't expect tech support for network issues (which AT&T's idiots can't give anyways), but calls, coverage, speeds are all the same as AT&T's HSPA network.
TBay, as far as how they "get away with" providing their service, are you unaware of how MVNOs actually work?

entropism said:
She had issues with the MMS because it was a known issue between iPhones and MVNOs. There are guides out there, but yeah, iPhones need to be jailbroken to work properly.
As for the service, ST is excellent, if you know what you're doing. You're paying $45/month, but you're on your own. Don't expect tech support for network issues (which AT&T's idiots can't give anyways), but calls, coverage, speeds are all the same as AT&T's HSPA network.
TBay, as far as how they "get away with" providing their service, are you unaware of how MVNOs actually work?
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Not really, could you tell me? All I have heard is that they use other network providers cell towers for service. Seems sketchy to me.

All I know is it feels just like my old AT&T service but at 1/3 of the price. I had att for 5 years and I notice no difference
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Never mind

I have ST working on locket AT&T SGS3.
However.
From the start I had issues activating my SMS and data (it was on older Captivate phone). It took me and ST three weeks to figure it out. So if u r patient - go with ST. I got their 1 year prepaid (slightly cheaper than monthly).
T-mo offers 100min/UnlimSMS/UnlimNet for $30/mo prepaid. Good for teens.

bravomail said:
I have ST working on locket AT&T SGS3.
However.
From the start I had issues activating my SMS and data (it was on older Captivate phone). It took me and ST three weeks to figure it out. So if u r patient - go with ST. I got their 1 year prepaid (slightly cheaper than monthly).
T-mo offers 100min/UnlimSMS/UnlimNet for $30/mo prepaid. Good for teens.
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I would rather have the T-Mobile plan instead of what I have but I love AT&T service I do not get T-Mobile service at all at my job and I get maybe one bar at my house . AT&T and Verizon are the only two companies that work at my job everything else there's no signal
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Last time I thought about moving to ST I had to buy a $199 phone just to get the sim card. Has it changed to where I can get a sim card without buying a crap smartphone?

Yes
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cheetablaze said:
Last time I thought about moving to ST I had to buy a $199 phone just to get the sim card. Has it changed to where I can get a sim card without buying a crap smartphone?
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Yes I'm using my sgs3 with their micro SIM
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well this is my experience with straight talk
i been using it for a year i first start with the original nokie e71 it was good but i wanted something more like android...so i did buy a lg thrive on gophone store...put my sim on it and everything was working plus i was using android on at&t network for only $45+tax before i was paying between $100 and $120 for a 3G phone it was good excellent customer service but too much for my pocket...
ok then i decided to try a better phone samsung infuse i sold the lg and i got the infuse even better i was getting speeds 4mb average on 4G now i had use too many phones..galaxy s2 ,galaxy 2skyrocket,iphone4 and now my galaxy sIII which gave me speeds maximun at 11MB at my town no problems with straight talk the only thing that frustrate is monitoring data you should not use more that 2g at month or 100mb at day..but come on for $45 1/2 of the price i did pay for the same service...
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11fabe said:
well this is my experience with straight talk
i been using it for a year i first start with the original nokie e71 it was good but i wanted something more like android...so i did buy a lg thrive on gophone store...put my sim on it and everything was working plus i was using android on at&t network for only $45+tax before i was paying between $100 and $120 for a 3G phone it was good excellent customer service but too much for my pocket...
ok then i decided to try a better phone samsung infuse i sold the lg and i got the infuse even better i was getting speeds 4mb average on 4G now i had use too many phones..galaxy s2 ,galaxy 2skyrocket,iphone4 and now my galaxy sIII which gave me speeds maximun at 11MB at my town no problems with straight talk the only thing that frustrate is monitoring data you should not use more that 2g at month or 100mb at day..but come on for $45 1/2 of the price i did pay for the same service...
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Are you using the apn settings at the first page of this thread? I am and my data speeds are dismal. Half the time the google play store will not even open.
Thanks

If you know someone who is on ST or Net10 or Tracfone or Simple Mobile and they get fast speeds in your home or work and you don't it's because they have a throttle on you. Two things to know if you buy their phone you'll be lucky to get faster than 300kbs prove me wrong I want you to because everyone I know who got their phones can't go over the limit because the throttle right out of the box. Now if you get the sim on your own phone you get what ever speed is available based on phone radio capability and the carrier under the brand. All of those except Simple Mobile are ATT and Simple Mobile is T-Mobile which with an AT&T phone will require you to unlock the phone. All calls ride on any tower available with these mvno's so coast to coast calling (Verizon) level call capability is included via roaming which is unlimited. If you bring your own phone and you start out with fast data and all of a sudden you drop down to 300k or less then you have been throttled. The calls to attempt them to undo that are a waste of time they will not admit you are even being throttled so to fix this you buy a new sim card and keep an eye on your usage then you will be able to get away with a month of 6Gbs of usage or more as some report I speak from experience as this is how I solved the problem. Some of you may say why not just keep your Sim and wait for it to reset because with all of these providers they don't forgive or forget and keep you capped for life as long as you keep that locked sim.
Hope this helps clear the air on how these kind of providers work so you are aware up front. I got capped because I used 12Gb in one day at super fast speeds of 18Mbs which is super fast for these providers compared to Virgin etc. However second time around new Sim I used over 31G the next month no throttle and still fast to this day.
Keep this in mind when you want to go with any of these providers.
Thanks,
JK
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Now that I think about it, since its no contract; sims are cheap just keep switching sims until they act right with you. Still cheaper than $120 a month on a contract with limits and charges for overages! No taxes either when you pay online.
Sprint and T-Mobile is a crap shoot for service in 50% of the country that is why those two companies have not joined in on the slaughter of our wallets like Verizon and AT&T but just wait and see they will be forced off that horse once Amazon, Netflix, Hulu and Google are done frying them up for dinner with the DOJ anti-trust suits coming their way.
Because if the utilities don't return to their flat rate model it will be impossible for them to survive as their is a massive migration to push corporations to the cloud and no one in any company is going to recommend moving to a cloud if the prices suddenly quad-drippled; if they want to keep their job that is.
They are taking away consumer choice and acting anti competitive favoring their own services for greed instead of competing for your business as that is the old American way.
What we are seeing now resembles the NAZI way of doing business squeeze you until you bleed.
But hey greed is the new American way.
Cheers!
JK
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Im not using the Proxy at the beginning just for mms
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Good bye Sprint its been nice.

I called account services today to see how much ETF would be for me and my wife. They said i would have to pay $650 for both lines. I told them how bad service was in my house (100KBS download) and they did the unexpected. I will no ETF fee!!!!! All i have to do is send them my sprint phones(NS4G, Galaxy Nexus). As soon i hung up and my data kicked back on i had email from sprint explaining no Charges as long as i send the phone back within 2 weeks of cancelling and they even gave me a shipping label. I couldnt be happier. Now the question is who do i switch to??

TMobile Prepaid
$30 : 100 minutes, 5GB 4G Data, Unlimited Text/MMS

Yeah what the above said. Buy a Galaxy Nexus at the play store for $349 and with that plan, and watch yourself save hundreds a year.

How in the hell did you manage that! They didn't try to offer you a airwave (or whatever it's called) first?
Guess I'll have to give it another go...
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Straight talk , I used 7gigs last month , 45 bucks unlimited if u know how to use your data you can work them I've heard of some using 10 gigs easy
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Nice work! Yea, I'd go prepaid.

tgyberg said:
Nice work! Yea, I'd go prepaid.
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lucky go tmo on sept 5 unlimited back

I have been debating on doing this for a few months now. Sprint reliability has steadily decreased in my area over the past several months and I am about fed up with it. Good to hear you were able to get out ETF free.
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Check out the prepaid options.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1455014

I have to throw Verizon in the mix as well. Verizon has pretty much the best nationwide coverage (3G and 4G) out of any carrier but you will pay for it.
I had AT&T for a year and half before Verizon and their coverage was/is no where near Verizon's. Most of the area where I live is still on Edge with AT&T and I just had 4G LTE show up on my phone the other day (Verizon is testing 4G in our area and is supposed to be fully up and running shortly).

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I have to throw Verizon in the mix as well. Verizon has pretty much the best nationwide coverage (3G and 4G) out of any carrier but you will pay for it.
I had AT&T for a year and half before Verizon and their coverage was/is no where near Verizon's. Most of the area where I live is still on Edge with AT&T and I just had 4G LTE show up on my phone the other day (Verizon is testing 4G in our area and is supposed to be fully up and running shortly).
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I moved from Tmo to VZW back in April and couldn't be happier. VZW has the best data coverage in America hands down, but as you correctly pointed out, you're going to pay for it. In the end though, it's a good value for your dollar if having reliable data at a decent speed damn near everywhere is important to you.
The straw that broke the camel's back with T-Mobile for me was when they limited data roaming on my plan to 100MB/mo and just cut it off at that without so much as the option of paying for overage. I travel to places where Tmo has no service. In those areas my phone would roam on AT&T, but streaming radio alone would eat up the 100MB roaming allowance. Screw that. I was a Tmo customer for 11 years.
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Verizon is a great deal for me an my wife, because both of our families and most of our friends are on it so we go through like 20 minutes per month. Otherwise, I would probably go prepaid. Just look up some coverage maps to make sure they work in the places you need it.

Wife and I were on Sprint up until January, then I got a letter in the mail saying I was roaming too much...When I called to ask about it I was somewhat annoyed because the wording of the letter was basically telling me they didn't want my business...upon asking them if I should take my business elsewhere we were released form our contract that we had just renewed 10 days before. On top of that we got to keep our phones, which we sold on Ebay (and Iphone that she had and an epic touch) Thank you Sprint...I will say they do have very nice customer service compared to Verizon, always willing to help and not sell you something.
Just my 2 cents...
Chris

You will pay for what you get. I had T-Mobile for a couple years worst service by far. They claim its 4g in Chicago area be lucky if I get 1Mbps down. Also dropped calls very several per day. I. Very happy with Verizon fast incredible internet faster than my home Comcast and never dropped not one call.
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Straight talk , I used 7gigs last month , 45 bucks unlimited if u know how to use your data you can work them I've heard of some using 10 gigs easy
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How do you get past the 2GB limitation? You edit the apn to remove the proxy settings right? Or am I completely off base lol?

AshtonTS said:
How do you get past the 2GB limitation? You edit the apn to remove the proxy settings right? Or am I completely off base lol?
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I'd read into the prepaid thread a bit. The 2GB limit isn't a hardline cap that they turn off your data at that point. Its more of a common wisdom that's been determined over time from people relaying back their monthly usage and experiences. There's nothing in Straight Talk's ToS that says they cut off at 2GB.
Depending on your market (# of ST users, market saturation, etc.) and usage that month, you may or may not be throttled at the 2GB-3GB range. I've heard lots of stories of people staying around 3GB just fine, and a few (but still some) reporting 5GB or more. It really is market dependent. YMMV for sure.

Is this the new thing? Making a new thread on leaving sprint? One of these was just made a few days ago...

Duce HD2 said:
How in the hell did you manage that! They didn't try to offer you a airwave (or whatever it's called) first?
Guess I'll have to give it another go...
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I told them I don't have home internet so airrave would be useless. I also told them I had full bars just slow data speed.
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Is this the new thing? Making a new thread on leaving sprint? One of these was just made a few days ago...
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Not just Sprint. You'll see the same from carrier X to carrier Y. Then next week from Y to X. People just like to make threads.

Rootuser3.0 said:
You will pay for what you get. I had T-Mobile for a couple years worst service by far. They claim its 4g in Chicago area be lucky if I get 1Mbps down. Also dropped calls very several per day. I. Very happy with Verizon fast incredible internet faster than my home Comcast and never dropped not one call.
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I'm in Chicago, I get over 4. So where do you live?
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I got a golden ticket!

The first six years of service were pretty damn good, and the price was great. However over the last three years, things just went to hell. Data rates slow as can possibly be, but I stayed with them because they were cheap. However back in October, my bill hit $280 after they just randomly removed my discounts, and then told me that they were no longer allowed to apply those coupons.
The "we'll upgrade it some day" network (there's nothing "now" about it, especially with $10 a month per phone for "premium" 2g speed data on towers they probably haven't upgraded in over 6 years) is no longer my network of choice. I live in the 6th largest city in the US and there's still no 4g from sprint, btw. Even a few small MVNO's in my area offer 4G. Sprint is a horrible name for this company, Crawl would be a more appropriate name.
For a while I've been trying to get off of sprint without ETF (it's totally unwarranted for what they've done to me,) and behold, the golden ticket has arrived:
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Based on what I've observed on my own account, and on that of others, is that it takes three consecutive billing cycles of excessive roaming, and you'll get the termination letter up to about 10 business days after the end of the third billing period.
I called 611 and asked for details, and at first the retentions guy told me it was only for one line (I didn't call the number on the letter because it was past 7 PM.) However I called that number the next day and they told me it was the whole account, and to give them a call right around the time that I port the numbers out and they'll remove the ETF.
Anyways, t-mobile has offered me unlimited voice, text, and 4g data for a little over half of what I am currently paying sprint for limited voice and utter crap data rates. Only thing is I have to front the cost for the nexus 4 phones from google (1,400ish for all of them,) which I am more than happy to do as I will easily make up for the cost over the next year, and everything after that is pure savings.

You probably could have just called up retentions and explained your situation to them. That's what I did well over a year ago and I was able to get out of my contract ETF free.

spencer88 said:
You probably could have just called up retentions and explained your situation to them. That's what I did well over a year ago and I was able to get out of my contract ETF free.
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I went well beyond that. I even had one of them tell me that my service quality was 100%, as in no dropped calls ever, so they weren't going to let me go (though that wasn't the reason I asked to get out, it is apparently the only reason they'll let somebody out). She said that the dropped calls must have been the person on the other end. I was baffled with that because I even called sprint earlier about a billing error (they make them every month, sometimes very egregious ones) and was either dropped or hung up on. She then told me that CSRs don't have the ability to hang up. So i said that either her metrics are wrong, or i was hung up on, and asked her which it was, and she kept dodging the question. But get this, later during that call I was dropped. She actually called back (!) and when I asked what that was, she said that she didn't know, but insisted that we have good service.
Anyways, I'm fairly certain that they wouldn't let me go because I was a high paying contract customer and never made any late payments in those 8 years. That is easily what sprint considers to be their most valuable customer outside of corporate contracts. Forcing their hand by making myself too expensive to be worth it was the only option.

Wow. I've been wondering about T-Mobile. My 3g speeds and home and work are so bad that I am literally forced to use a Verizon prl. I've been wondering if they will cancel me for about 7 months and I haven't received a letter or call yet. But since I switch to a sprint PRL when I'm in a sprint area, my data roaming and sprint data are usually pretty close. Wonder if that helps keep you from getting booted?
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Congrats . I'm planning on the same thing myself. In my area ( upstate NY ), the entire 2 year term of prior 4g wimax phone, never saw wimax, now still yet to see any lte, and sprint customer service is just going down the tube, if it was ever " up the tube " lol. Anyway,that t-mobile plan is something you were offered based on a discount/family/corporate? or that's standard...?
Edit: I wonder if they will ask me for the free AirRave 2.5 back as well...id sure love to take it apart and have some fun...

aaronagis said:
Wow. I've been wondering about T-Mobile. My 3g speeds and home and work are so bad that I am literally forced to use a Verizon prl. I've been wondering if they will cancel me for about 7 months and I haven't received a letter or call yet. But since I switch to a sprint PRL when I'm in a sprint area, my data roaming and sprint data are usually pretty close. Wonder if that helps keep you from getting booted?
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They probably just treat that as regular roaming, e.g. you occasionally roam. What I did was download a bunch of 1GB test files all the time:
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/download.html
I would forget to now and then, but I mostly kept up with it, one month using 61GB. Make sure you only download these when your phone is charging, it will drain your battery fast.
From what anecdotal data I've gathered, in addition to what a sprint rep accidentally let out of the bag about it being flagged only at the end of billing periods, excessive roaming for three consecutive billing periods does the trick. Doesn't have to be for a full billing period, even if you started roaming at the very end (which is when I started.) I got the letter 6 business days after the end of the third billing period.

I'm currently trying to find a way to get off Verizon without having to pay an ETF. :/
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Rakeesh_j said:
They probably just treat that as regular roaming, e.g. you occasionally roam. What I did was download a bunch of 1GB test files all the time:
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/download.html
I would forget to now and then, but I mostly kept up with it, one month using 61GB. Make sure you only download these when your phone is charging, it will drain your battery fast.
From what anecdotal data I've gathered, in addition to what a sprint rep accidentally let out of the bag about it being flagged only at the end of billing periods, excessive roaming for three consecutive billing periods does the trick. Doesn't have to be for a full billing period, even if you started roaming at the very end (which is when I started.) I got the letter 6 business days after the end of the third billing period.
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Lol that's what I've been doing... I started downloading 1gb files about 2 weeks ago racked up 10gb in the last 3 days of my billing cycle. And I will continue to do so until I get booted. I had a discount on my account from my job and without warning the discount was removed right after upgrading. I still work for the same company and multiple calls to sprint didn't help. My bill went from $150 for 2 lines to almost $200. Not only that my bills arent even consistent. And every month my bill seems to raise a few dollars more. Sprint keeps telling me its BC of rising taxes So I'm gonna rack up as much as I can until I get booted. :banghead:
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OMG this is great, I've been looking for a way out of my contract for months. Thanks

Good to know about sprint, I've always gotten decent speeds and signal with verizon but the cost sucks for one account. I guess sprint should really be toroMINUS, not toroplus. I'm also trying to get off Verizon without ETF like DirgeExtinction said. Currently using evasive minimalistic tactics.

7175 said:
Good to know about sprint, I've always gotten decent speeds and signal with verizon but the cost sucks for one account. I guess sprint should really be toroMINUS, not toroplus. I'm also trying to get off Verizon without ETF like DirgeExtinction said. Currently using evasive minimalistic tactics.
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Evasive minimalistic tactics? Do tell.
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Good work. My father had sprint for over ten years when we got out two years ago. The service here in San Antonio is really good. I had wimax years ago on my Evo.
I prefer Straight Talk BYOS program, unlimited everything and $45 a month. (I use work att and its okay, full LTE/HSPA+, same network and speed as ST since ST uses AT&T or T-Mobile towers). Check it out. Its a good option.
You'll love being GSM.

If you leave Sprint, who will you go to and why?

Hey everyone! When. My contract is up with sprint I will most likely be leaving them for another carrier. I am leaning towards T Mobile because of their upgrade plans and good "4g" speeds.
What carrier would you move to and why? I live near Orlando Florida if that makes a difference. Thanks!

T-Mo cuz I am never going to ATT again and screw Verizon in their money hungry pig faces... I'll probably stay with Sprint tho, but it's between those two only for me.
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Already left sprint! Went to T-Mobile and it's been awesome so far.
Great speeds, cheap plans, good phone upgrade system, and they use gsm phones so if I ever get sick of them I can sim unlock and go with just about any carrier in the world.
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bilgerryan said:
T-Mo cuz I am never going to ATT again and screw Verizon in their money hungry pig faces... I'll probably stay with Sprint tho, but it's between those two only for me.
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Already left sprint! Went to T-Mobile and it's been awesome so far.
Great speeds, cheap plans, good phone upgrade system, and they use gsm phones so if I ever get sick of them I can sim unlock and go with just about any carrier in the world.
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I have been testing t mobile for work, and we already have sprint. What a difference. I can't wait for my contact to end. My phone calls don't drop longer, the speeds are 4 times as fast... T mobile is a good option IMO.
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My contract is getting terminated on the 3rd of September. I am going over to AT&T. I love their customer service, and where I live they have great service. My biggest concern is where I work. That could be anywhere from Alaska up to New York at any ship building yard and sometimes a few miles off shore, any other carriers other than Verizon have no signal in those areas. Verizon is ok, but AT&T has a good signal inside the ships and a few miles offshore. T-Mobile and sprint... Nothing even around the ships.
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I'm on boost right now, but definitely looking to T-mobile for the future..Better speeds...I'm just waiting to save the money for the S4...Doesn't matter where I'm at..I will always have a Samsung device..:good:

Whichever is cheapest without a contract.

<3ing T-mobile
I bought an HTC One outright on Swappa for $460 and put it on the T-mobile prepaid $30/month plan Sim-kit I got at wal-mart. (Did I get raped for $20 you ask? NO because this includes the first month of use with it, so technically you can ignore the entire "add funds" step on the setup page. Comes with 5GB unthrottled data but only 100 mins. I use Groove IP + Google Voice anyway so this is a sweet deal for me. Gonna stick it to sprint who wouldn't let me out of contract due to material changes in July, since to them they are not "material" unless they make my bill go up. Which is utter bullcrap. Did you know? Sprint is NOT a member of the BBB. I find that funny.....I am currently roaming data trying to get my line cancled, but will probably eat the ETF(which with less then 9 months left, shouldn't be so horrible, and port my # to google voice for $20(so I never have to worry about giving my t-moble # out anyway)
I also feel that we do not get any roaming data on this plan.....but I'm near wifi enough daily to not really care, and even not roaming, the 2G speeds are still waay faster then any ****ty Sprint speeds. I've gotten 4GHSPA+ and 4GLTE in nearby towns and boy it was nice and fast! Still no Sprint 4GLTE what so ever, nor any 4GWiMax remotly near me (ironically they chose to give New Bedford MA LTE before Boston even? Seriously sprint?( Thus my GS2 is a very very sad phone to use
I also like how the ONE has b/g/n wifi so now I can actually get 100% signal in my bedroom whereas my poor GS2's G only had 1-1/2 a bar with me hanging it over my head to use -.-

Left Sprint for T-Mobile just this week. Been great so far and signal in my house is better than it has ever been with Sprint.
Only issue is that the Nexus 4 I got has a dead pixel Going to the store to get the phone replaced tomorrow.

I left them for PagePlus. While PagePlus does not have 4G yet, it's a BYOD (If you know the right people) and their coverage and 3G speeds are just like Verizons (they are true Verizon MVNO). Only $55 a month for unlimited talk/text with 2GB of data, and normally with promo codes you can get it down to $52.50. I plan on sticking with them until I can afford real Verizon (which currently for 1 line and 2GB of data would cost me $90 a month after company discounts :crying

I was with Sprint and actually never had a problem with their service. I was on the Unlimited Everything plan on the Samsung Epic 4G Touch and it came out to about $132.00/month with the phone insurance. The service for me was sensational as I am in West-Central Florida although I lived in 3G coverage and 4G was not available unless I went towards Tampa/West Coast. I never had any complaints or problems.
Eventually though I asked myself why I was paying that much a month for service when I could just hop over to MetroPCS and pay $40.00 for unlimited. I had a couple MetroPCS phones lying around for donor phones and I have not looked back since. The 3G coverage is a little spotty in some areas if you travel away from the coast but all in all; it was a way cheaper option.
When T-Mobile completely takes over MetroPCS and forces people onto GSM devices (Epic 4G Touch is CDMA), if that happens; I will gladly switch over to the S4 or S5 if it is out by then. Until then my Epic 4G Touch does everything I want and don't see too many reasons to upgrade yet.

Ting
Ting. Because I couldn't find anything cheaper. Also I like how their plans are structured.

I'm thinking of going to tmobile I heard it's pretty good
I'd love to go to Verizon since it's a power house here in DC.. but I was with them a while back and their customer service was terrible and I don't do well with limited data
-TeaM VeNuM Like A Boss :flipoff2:
-SoA: Son's of Android™

i went to tmobile as soon as the s4 was released. Never looked back. i love the ritual i go through everytime i go into a sprint store to pay my moms bill.
clerk: nice s4 you got there, like it?
me: yes, especially since i switched to t-mobile
clerk:......why you do that
me: your data speeds suck, even in network vision areas.
clerk: oh really proceeds to show me data speeds in network vision area, which is usually between 7&12 Mbps
me: proceeds to show my speed tests of 18-25 Mbps speeds
clerk:wow you got me there, i bet you pay more though
me:nope, i only pay $30 proceeds to pay my moms bill of $90
me: fyi, as soon as my moms contract is up, shes going to tmobile also
clerk:.........

I'm going to Tmo....I have crappy data and signal drops regularly. I swear if it weren't for the development I would have convinced my wife and we would have switched already... Upgrade smupgrade, I'm leaving asap. The devs are awesome though... Thanks guys!
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I went with Ting because of their Bring Your Own Device program. It has worked really well for the past 6 months. The only part that annoyed me was the phone number porting process. After that, it has been the same service as Sprint, but it only costs $33 a month for my usage.
Here's a $25 credit link, if anyone is interested in switching to Ting.
https://zooqns67q1.ting.com/

TheAtheistOtaku said:
i went to tmobile as soon as the s4 was released. Never looked back. i love the ritual i go through everytime i go into a sprint store to pay my moms bill.
clerk: nice s4 you got there, like it?
me: yes, especially since i switched to t-mobile
clerk:......why you do that
me: your data speeds suck, even in network vision areas.
clerk: oh really proceeds to show me data speeds in network vision area, which is usually between 7&12 Mbps
me: proceeds to show my speed tests of 18-25 Mbps speeds
clerk:wow you got me there, i bet you pay more though
me:nope, i only pay $30 proceeds to pay my moms bill of $90
me: fyi, as soon as my moms contract is up, shes going to tmobile also
clerk:.........
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30 bucks. What else do you get for 30 bucks?
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SASQUATCH said:
30 bucks. What else do you get for 30 bucks?
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unlim text, unlim data, 100 min

TheAtheistOtaku said:
unlim text, unlim data, 100 min
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Is that prepaid or a regular plan?
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Is that prepaid or a regular plan?
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prepaid