Sprint Pro vs. Vzn Pro vents!

[Silent_Patriot]

I'm kicking myself for not dumping VZW back when SERO was still in play. I'd have 2 lines for $60/month, but am now going to have to get the $129.99, 1500 mins w/unlimited everything else plan. Still a better deal than staying with the "kneecap network".

[Exil3d]

YA..... i was with vzn for 4 years. Back then they were charging me 99.99 for 1 line with 750 shared minutes and data. Pic mail and text was extra. So everytime someone fired me off a text it would cost me .25 cents automatically... You could not imagine how pisst off i was at all my friends who text me just to bill up my bill! So I had 2 lines so it cost me 237.87 a month on average. And thats if I used up the 750 shared minutes with my gf. I felt soo gimped. The I found sero. OMG! Best thing ever. My bill went from 237.87 to 74.54. All all the perks included! Weeeeeeeeee

[chronster]

LOL love the graphic

[scott@mac-pc-assist.com]

Originally Posted by hypeo

I believe the drop call issue is a very minimal now that sprint don't charge for roaming. Sprint has turned their customer service around 180 degrees IMO. All I gots to say for those that are buying the "Touch (not so PRO) Good luck..

I had no choice...

Sprint here in the Coachella Valley is a joke. Their coverage worsens daily and I had dropped calls all day every day. It got so bad that Hesse's office tried to call me and could not get through!

Their current map is like swiss cheese - my primary business line was seriously affected...imagine a custoemr calling up who is upset and the call drops? They think you hung up on them!

I have the HTC TP with Verizon. I love goofing with the wallpapers and themes. This will not take a theme change.

I added palringo, snap2face, and cannot change the weather to anything in my area.

It is wonderful to know what the weather is in Barcelona, London and the like...but I would like to see cities here in the Coachella Valley.

So what are my choices? Sprint: losing towers daily due to inrastructure changes and payments to the leasing company on those towers and seriously affected service; AT&T: so far, only complaints on the iPhone and the darn HTC Pro GSM has the whackiest keyboard setup I have laid eyes on...could not use it quickly and their service is only marginally better than Sprint's out here; Verizon: only service valley wide...HTC TP or the Storm? The Storm was a disaster and is still on my desk awaiting a return. Check the blackberry forums for that horrendous release.

If anyone can figure out how to make my HTC TP from Verizon work better, than I am all for it. Otherwise, it comes down to having a cool customizable phone and no service or a locked down phone and my customers can reach me daily.

[Exil3d]

Originally Posted by scott@mac-pc-assist.com

I had no choice...

Sprint here in the Coachella Valley is a joke. Their coverage worsens daily and I had dropped calls all day every day. It got so bad that Hesse's office tried to call me and could not get through!

Their current map is like swiss cheese - my primary business line was seriously affected...imagine a custoemr calling up who is upset and the call drops? They think you hung up on them!

I have the HTC TP with Verizon. I love goofing with the wallpapers and themes. This will not take a theme change.

I added palringo, snap2face, and cannot change the weather to anything in my area.

It is wonderful to know what the weather is in Barcelona, London and the like...but I would like to see cities here in the Coachella Valley.

So what are my choices? Sprint: losing towers daily due to inrastructure changes and payments to the leasing company on those towers and seriously affected service; AT&T: so far, only complaints on the iPhone and the darn HTC Pro GSM has the whackiest keyboard setup I have laid eyes on...could not use it quickly and their service is only marginally better than Sprint's out here; Verizon: only service valley wide...HTC TP or the Storm? The Storm was a disaster and is still on my desk awaiting a return. Check the blackberry forums for that horrendous release.

If anyone can figure out how to make my HTC TP from Verizon work better, than I am all for it. Otherwise, it comes down to having a cool customizable phone and no service or a locked down phone and my customers can reach me daily.

Ohh... I understand. Well there is one solution if you can burn money. Just buy the Sprint pro from Sprint at full price since you wont be with Sprint and theres a method for getting VZN network on it. Search here you will find it. Theres been alot of success with it. And for all who think I am personally attacking and mocking you guys for buying the Pro from VZN.. Well.. I am not. I just attack the big red.

[scott@mac-pc-assist.com]

Originally Posted by Silent_Patriot

I'm pretty pissed at VZW about this and will be leaving them to return to Sprint when contract is up on 12/27. I abhor Sprint's customer service tho, it was the worst I have ever experienced when I was last with them before this stint with VZW and they are being less then helpful about allowing my old XV6800 on their network which means I will have to buy a 2nd phone for my son.

I really wish there was some other competition out there - Alltel doesn't serve this market and I don't trust AT&T's network (dropped calls are their specialty). Here's to hoping that I will never have to contact Sprint's CS ever again, but I just can't stay with VZW after this bonehead move.

I have had 8 Mogul refurbs that either died within two weeks or did not work right out of the box from the refurb center; two new ones - one worked great until I flashed it to the GPS rom (February?) and then it upped and died leading to my refurb hell - the other is on my desk awaiting shipment back to Sprint since they no longer have much service in my area.

To get the first refurb took 22 phone calls and three months plus a few more days.

Each refurb after that was a biweekly trip to the service center (great guys there) but how the hell can they do business when the refurbs are customer damaged from water, soda, drops, throws and other insanity ((probably from dealing with Sprint CS...)) and are dried out and just re-shipped to see if some dumb schmuck will just take one? Memory slots not working, touch screens not working...blah blah blah...

It has cost me in my time alone over $2,500 just getting a phone to work with Sprint. Ya gotta figure driving time, reloading and testing, and then adding back all of the custom stuff I loaded.

Good luck when you leave Verizon! (As much as I hate locked down phones.)

[lmv7777]

for service problems at a primary residence or business ask sprint about the airrave.

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by scott@mac-pc-assist.com

. It got so bad that Hesse's office tried to call me and could not get through!

Their current map is like swiss cheese - my primary business line was seriously affected...imagine a custoemr calling up who is upset and the call drops? They think you hung up on them!

I travel all over the country on business & that is exactly what I experienced with sprint also (I lived with their awful service for almost two years). I switched to verizon, the service improved 1000% & I never looked back.

VZ's crippled phone selection annoys me as much as anybody however, so when I decided to switch from my HIGHLY customized 6800 to a touchpro I went out & got a sprint TP & ported ot over to my vz account. My new TP works flawlessly & I don't have to worry about garbled one sided calls, dropped disconnected calls etc etc etc etc like I had daily with sprint.

The ONLY good thing I could say about having sprint was that if I didn't feel like talking to my boss I could simply turn off the phone & tell him "I must not have been in a sprint coverage area". He won't buy that anymore. I switched my personal phone to vz, but since then my company switched 187 business phones from sprint to vz for the very same reasons.....(they gave us a heck of a deal, but sprint was still cheaper)

~John

[jmorton10]

To add to this, a girl who worked for me for years is now married to a sprint exec.

When asked by a friend about cell service, I have heard him say "you didn't hear this from me, but sprints coverage sucks. If you want the absolute best network, go with verizon"

~John

[scott@mac-pc-assist.com]

Originally Posted by lmv7777

for service problems at a primary residence or business ask sprint about the airrave.

I just asked to be let out of my contract as they had no service in my area anymore.

They sold a bunch of their towers in an effort to raise cash. The concept was to lease them back, BUT, as we all know, if you don't make payments, Da Repo Man Come Get Ya!

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/...eal/2008-09-25