what phone do you currently own?

[eric12341]

Originally Posted by orangekid

That's in your area, I know lots of areas where Sprint gets faster speed than tmobile. Every area is different. I'll admit that tmobile gives me better coverage in Houston than Sprint did, but I'm not sure about the rest of the country.

@orangekid I'd like to know where these areas are, I posted on some of the handfulls of slow speed threads in the sprint community forum and I get emails of new replies, people from all kinds of zipcodes are reporting slow speeds.

Also

The Fastest Mobile Networks 2011 | PCMag.com

according to this test sprint was in LAST PLACE in every place they tested and T-mobile was 2nd and even first in a couple of areas.

[orangekid]

Originally Posted by eric12341

@orangekid I'd like to know where these areas are, I posted on some of the handfulls of slow speed threads in the sprint community forum and I get emails of new replies, people from all kinds of zipcodes are reporting slow speeds.

Also

The Fastest Mobile Networks 2011 | PCMag.com

according to this test sprint was in LAST PLACE in every place they tested and T-mobile was 2nd and even first in a couple of areas.

right,

but the points were that:

1) Sprint is getting LTE before T-Mobile in select cities, and maybe nationwide

2) ATT is faster than T-Mobile where I am

3) Sprint offers unlimited data (better for tetherers like you) so their LTE would be better than T-Mobile who throttles after 5GB

Having said all of that, I will concede that T-Mobile's HSPA+ network AFAIK gets faster data than Sprint's WiMax, but neither are even close to ATT's LTE.

[eric12341]

Originally Posted by orangekid

right,

but the points were that:

1) Sprint is getting LTE before T-Mobile in select cities, and maybe nationwide

2) ATT is faster than T-Mobile where I am

3) Sprint offers unlimited data (better for tetherers like you) so their LTE would be better than T-Mobile who throttles after 5GB

Having said all of that, I will concede that T-Mobile's HSPA+ network AFAIK gets faster data than Sprint's WiMax, but neither are even close to ATT's LTE.

@orangekid
1)I'm willing to bet that T-mobile will have LTe here in Chicagoland before sprint does (Wi-max ends a block before my house and is spotty before that) especially considering that their 3G here is even worse.

2)LTe or HSPA+?

3) it might be the unlimited data and tetherers that are crippling their network, plus the fact that there are TONS of MVNOs on their towers. I have the 10GB plan on Tmo so I'm fine with it. Plus when I'm throttled I can still do things that I couldn't do on sprint 3G except watch Latina booty shaking videos. So I'm perfectly fine with HSPA right now.