Sprint terminating my contract for too much roaming

[freeza]

No wonder why Sprint is in such a bad financial place. All of you people trying to suggest going to Verizon don't make any sense.

#1. The plans are higher and the phones are crippled.

You're giving the OP ways to get Airwave for free then suggest paying higher for VZW service. How the hell does that make any sense? If you're going to suggest the higher priced VZW, why not just pay the money like an honest individual to get Sprint's Airwave?

If Sprint goes belly up, all you smug people who are proud to be using a SPRINT phone on the Verizon service won't be so smug when you are STUCK with crippled phones because your advice along with a crappy economy caused Sprint to go under.

In all my years with Sprint i've never read about class action lawsuits or people being angry that Sprint crippled a device. Gee I wonder why? Sprint tries too hard to cater to the customer and you people take advantage of that, then get mad when they want to make some money, but in the end have no problem paying VZW more money for comparable plans+crippled phones....lol

[GoodGets]

Originally Posted by freeza

All of you people trying to suggest going to Verizon don't make any sense.

What do you mean "you people"


It's also the principle of the thing. If you are paying for service, then you should get adequate services. ESPECIALLY if you have a higher priced plan AND have been with sprint for 11 years. That's an awesome amount of loyalty. Shi t, the CEO hasn't even been with sprint for 11 years.


Bhut here is the real argument:
If it is within Sprint's power to remedy the situation, then they should. If Sprint did not have Airrave capability, it's one thing. But when all they gotta do is give em something that costs sprint next to nothing to keep a guy sooooo loyal and paying them so much, it just makes sense to keep this customer.

The op should not have to finagle to get this Airrave, sprint should have already suggested it. Sometimes it takes common people's ingenuity to make up for corporate greed, guess you're not a slickdealer.


Edit:
Also, sprint is so bad financially because they bought out Nextel. Hugely dumb move. Nextel was iDEN and Sprint is CDMA. It was far to great of a challenge to combine these two technologies into one network.

[freeza]

Originally Posted by GoodGets

What do you mean "you people"


It's also the principle of the thing. If you are paying for service, then you should get adequate services. ESPECIALLY if you have a higher priced plan AND have been with sprint for 11 years. That's an awesome amount of loyalty. Shi t, the CEO hasn't even been with sprint for 11 years.


Bhut here is the real argument:
If it is within Sprint's power to remedy the situation, then they should. If Sprint did not have Airrave capability, it's one thing. But when all they gotta do is give em something that costs sprint next to nothing to keep a guy sooooo loyal and paying them so much, it just makes sense to keep this customer.

The op should not have to finagle to get this Airrave, sprint should have already suggested it. Sometimes it takes common people's ingenuity to make up for corporate greed, guess you're not a slickdealer.


Edit:
Also, sprint is so bad financially because they bought out Nextel. Hugely dumb move. Nextel was iDEN and Sprint is CDMA. It was far to great of a challenge to combine these two technologies into one network.

So, it's his "right" to get an Airwave for free? lol....

[GoodGets]

Originally Posted by freeza

So, it's his "right" to get an Airwave for free? lol....

Yes.


Not only is it his right, but it is his duty as an American citizen to stand up to the injustices of corporate greed. He should then write a tell-all book describing the hardships he had to overcome and the strength he showed in the face of adversity in his struggle to receive adequate service. This would more than likely get made into an ABC Movie of the Week.

[letsgoflyers81]

Originally Posted by freeza

No wonder why Sprint is in such a bad financial place. All of you people trying to suggest going to Verizon don't make any sense.

#1. The plans are higher and the phones are crippled.

You're giving the OP ways to get Airwave for free then suggest paying higher for VZW service. How the hell does that make any sense? If you're going to suggest the higher priced VZW, why not just pay the money like an honest individual to get Sprint's Airwave?

If Sprint goes belly up, all you smug people who are proud to be using a SPRINT phone on the Verizon service won't be so smug when you are STUCK with crippled phones because your advice along with a crappy economy caused Sprint to go under.

In all my years with Sprint i've never read about class action lawsuits or people being angry that Sprint crippled a device. Gee I wonder why? Sprint tries too hard to cater to the customer and you people take advantage of that, then get mad when they want to make some money, but in the end have no problem paying VZW more money for comparable plans+crippled phones....lol

The OP said the roaming happens when he's at work. The Airave goes in your house and connects to your broadband internet connection. That really won't help him. In his case if he keeps roaming and would have service terminated the best solution would be to switch carriers.

[DaPeeps]

Originally Posted by freeza

No wonder why Sprint is in such a bad financial place. All of you people trying to suggest going to Verizon don't make any sense.

#1. The plans are higher and the phones are crippled.

You're giving the OP ways to get Airwave for free then suggest paying higher for VZW service. How the hell does that make any sense? If you're going to suggest the higher priced VZW, why not just pay the money like an honest individual to get Sprint's Airwave?

If Sprint goes belly up, all you smug people who are proud to be using a SPRINT phone on the Verizon service won't be so smug when you are STUCK with crippled phones because your advice along with a crappy economy caused Sprint to go under.

In all my years with Sprint i've never read about class action lawsuits or people being angry that Sprint crippled a device. Gee I wonder why? Sprint tries too hard to cater to the customer and you people take advantage of that, then get mad when they want to make some money, but in the end have no problem paying VZW more money for comparable plans+crippled phones....lol

um......

The Airave is good for use in his home or office only...so yah....if hes getting bad service with Sprint everywhere else....its his right to choose whether to go with a different carrier, or try to make the best out of the situation with Sprint.

Sprint is in a bad financial situation because of many factors...

I dont feel bad for suggestion those two options at all. Its his right to get service that works the way its supposed to. Period. Whether it takes an Airave or VZW service....then thats what it takes.

Your post is pretty funny to me. What would you have him do? Suffer with useless cell service that he cant use?

Please....

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by freeza

If Sprint goes belly up, all you smug people who are proud to be using a SPRINT phone on the Verizon service won't be so smug when you are STUCK with crippled phones because your advice along with a crappy economy caused Sprint to go under.

Give me a break, what an asinine statement.

The number of actual users like me who even know you can convert a Sprint phone to VZ service are infinitesimal in the total pool of cell phone users.

Hell, most Sprint employees don't even know it's possible. I converted three Sprint phones in the last month to VZ service for Sprint employees who use VZ service on their own personal cell phones.

Not one of those dudes knew it was possible to do that until I showed them my Sprint phone working just fine on my corporate VZ account......

~John