Sprint is giving me the boot

all phones can talk and surf at the same time. but only if your in 4g. except for iphone 5. if you want 3g. you have to buy the very first iphone ever sold on att. cuz the new iphones WILL NOT do that on V's 4g service. and i think sprints also.

 

It's not so much the phones but the networks that determine whether one can talk and surf at the same time. AT&T's 3G has always enabled all 3G phones to do both, but Verizon couldn't do it at all until they added LTE. Even then, only phones that have 2 different antennas for both CDMA and LTE simultaneously can do voice and data at the same time on Verizon's network. The iPhone 5 does not.

Apple's iPhone 5 Won't Do Voice and Data Simultaneously on Verizon, Sprint

Most Verizon and Sprint 3G phones, such as the iPhone 4S, can't run Internet sessions and voice calls at the same time. When you get a voice call while surfing, the Internet pauses during your call. That was a limitation of the carriers' CDMA networks for years.

To achieve simultaneous voice and data, Verizon has focused on SVLTE, which we first saw on its very first LTE phone, the HTC Thunderbolt in March 2011. (The Thunderbolt actually did more than SVLTE, but we'll just gloss past that.) SVLTE requires separate antennas and runs two connections at once: the LTE connection transmits data while a separate 2G/3G connection makes the phone call. Almost all of Verizon's 4G phones so far have had this separate-antenna, multiple-connection layout, so they've been able to do SVLTE.

But as the Times confirmed and AnandTech explained in far more detail, the iPhone doesn't have the extra antenna needed to connect to CDMA and LTE simultaneously. The iPhone 5 can be connected to either LTE (for data) or CDMA (for voice, and sometimes data) so it can't run the dual connections needed for SVLTE.

AT&T and T-Mobile, by the way, have never had any of these problems. The totally different 3G system they use, UMTS, has always supported simultaneous voice and data with one modem. When an AT&T iPhone gets a call, it just falls back from LTE to UMTS and runs both voice and data over 3G.

 

Im getting that phone next. How do you like it?

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Sue them make them pay extra for terminating you because you had better opportunities at that time to go somewhere else and now those offers are not available. If you have time and take the right steps you can stick it to them.

 

They probably wouldn't get anything for suing. In Sprints contract I remembered it saying they have the right to terminate a contract unless that's changed.

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If you wanted to cancel sprint, you have to pay them, why should it be different. I would take my chances plus the cost of monthly contract, stop letting cell phone companies abuse customers!!! Thats like telling a customer he cant buy anything else off the dollar menu because thats all he orders.

 

us celluar just sent me the same letter. i upgraded my data plan over the weekend while restting so i could tether my computer. nothing was said about the roaming data overage, even when i called back because the tethering wouldnt work and i told them my phone was saying something about extra data charges. so i use it and then 2 days later i get a call telling me that i had a data overage on my plan. that is when they told me that when i data roam i can only use 200 mb's a month. i had just upgraded to a 5 GB plan. the lady on the phone pretty much told me that if i do it again i could find another provider. so now i am looking for a new provider too. they dont like having to pay for thier national data plans when you actually are using it nationally

 

The old bait and switch ........ Nice.