Sprint The Good, The Bad and Duh Ugly

Sucks out west. Just got data and in sprint network in Iowa.

 

sprint has been equivalent to verizon. somewhat. till they dropped their contract with wimax and started switching over to lte.

they were the first to roll out 4g. now they're the last.

on another note. FCC approved sprint's use of rural towers with them smaller unheard of companies. come next year. they'll have the bigger footprint instead of verizon. CAN'T WAIT. after 3 crappy phones with verizon. i'll be gladly going to back to sprint. of which i gave up 15 years of being a customer becuase of the OTR thing.

 

I have sprint. Mostly 3g, if you're not right in a city you won't see 4g LTE. I'm mostly in western states btw. You;ll lose coverage out in the sticks. 50/mo is a good deal these days though, you should probably stick unless you find out you need to be on the phone all the time and cant stand dropped calls. I use tethering to get on laptop internet, and its a mixed bag, cant say its great. 85% of the time I have useable internet, but that just means web surfing and not always netflix, etc

 

imma have to drop Sprint in training doing OTR tanker. its horrible when you coming on I-80 going by the beginning of Wyoming & the truck stop off of exit 370 at the Sapp Bros. I was roaming now it was like 10% of the time I was in Wyoming at another stop & it wasn't roaming. crazy part is even after roaming further into Wyoming going on I-80 West I got dropped calls

in Nevada going on I-80 & salt lake city youll get service but in Nevada going about I believe a hour before going to Donners Pass you don't got no reception. before you get to Donners Pass itll pick up Sprint network. I love the unlimited data but I need to focus more on voice coverage its only a certain allotment theyll let you use in roaming. the sad part is they didn't had reception & I was roaming in Coffeeyville kansas. if you going OTR you might want to reconsider changing carriers unless your doing dedicated or regional then your fine

 

I have a friend with Sprint and his service is nowhere near as good as my Verizon. Very little 4G and he drops calls and is in roaming a LOT.

 

joetro and your exactly right. I still can't believe I was roaming in the town of Coffeeyville kansas even at the walmart over there & the DC of Amazon. anybody doing OTR & saying they got good service with Sprint is a #### lie. I don't even get service going up I-95 I believe that's going up that mountain & threw the tunnels I was roaming there. now what shock me is im in Union city California right now in the customer yard waiting to get unloaded & they got 4G LTE here but in all reality its not worth it. cause its not like im only gonna be in this region im out training & roam 30-40%

 

This speed test was done today using my sprint iphone 5C in indianapolis Indiana, this is the fastest speeds I have seen on my phone so far.

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That is the best!?!

Here is T-Mobile...

 

after a certain point it does't even matter.