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[2 Bunny]

Originally Posted by gullzway

Why did you leave Boost? $50 unlimited everything, and it goes down $5 every 6 months. So you'd be paying $35/month after 18 months.

At the time, I couldn't afford that. Their PayAsYouGo was going great until they started charging even more for data, and on top of that they wanted to double the already ridiculous rates, so I said "screw that". I might've paid the fifty if there was some roaming on Verizon, but even Sprint's CDMA network fails in certain areas.

Originally Posted by eric12341

@2 Bunny

I'm lucky if I even get 300kbps. With Tmobile I know I'll be getting between 1.2m and 25m

That's quite interesting actually. I somehow doubt though that my cable internet is slower than cellular though.

Originally Posted by gTen

umm....have no clue what you are talking about...HSPA+ is the progression of WCDMA. Oh and LTE is a progression of GSM and HSPA.

Right, that's GSM. The Samsung Epic is a CDMA device.

Originally Posted by gTen

There is the new republic wireless which costs 19$..there is also virgin mobile's 25$ plan...

Their "unlimited" doesn't include that much data, doesn't work with normal phones, and only works on the Sprint network, which runs me back into my original problem.

Virgin Mobile's $25 looks great, but I don't know how to do ESN cloning - that and everyone is so brainwashed into thinking it's "illegal" that you can't even ask about it on any of the larger online forums. I'd love to learn how, but nobody is willing to help even though nobody gives a crap.

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[eric12341]

If CDMA was more formidable and less inferior I wouldn't be in the process of switching to Tmo due to shit data speeds for 9 months. Also Sprint CDMA phones seem to have more trouble regaining a lost 3G signal while transmitting data. (this is very annoying for me when I'm streaming a song during my commute and the train passes through a non 3G area. I have to pause or even restart whatever song I was listening to just to regain 3G.

[2 Bunny]

Originally Posted by eric12341

If CDMA was more formidable and less inferior I wouldn't be in the process of switching to Tmo due to shit data speeds for 9 months. Also Sprint CDMA phones seem to have more trouble regaining a lost 3G signal while transmitting data. (this is very annoying for me when I'm streaming a song during my commute and the train passes through a non 3G area. I have to pause or even restart whatever song I was listening to just to regain 3G.

Back on Boost (Sprint CDMA only sans roaming), if I remember my Speed test results, I think I was hitting 480-720KBs Per second, which translates into a real life download speed equivalent of 50+ regular kilobytes per second - and it was plenty workable enough for me.

The problem is the lousy signal range of GSM devices and even Sprint's less than perfect CDMA network. I'd have been good if I could do at least some roaming on Verizon. Now the only place I don't have coverage is in the center of a building where the 850Mhz don't quite penetrate like the 1.9Ghz did.

My music library is local as opposed to streamed, so I've never had the problem that you were asking about, even in areas with no signal. And if memory serves me correctly, while listening to streaming radio, during those pesky tower transitions, it actually picked up and finished buffering where I left off, which I thought was simply amazing.

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[gullzway]

Why did you leave Boost? $50 unlimited everything, and it goes down $5 every 6 months. So you'd be paying $35/month after 18 months.

[eric12341]

Originally Posted by 2 Bunny

Back on Boost (Sprint CDMA only sans roaming), if I remember my Speed test results, I think I was hitting 480-720KBs Per second, which translates into a real life download speed equivalent of 50+ regular kilobytes per second - and it was plenty workable enough for me.

The problem is the lousy signal range of GSM devices and even Sprint's less than perfect CDMA network. I'd have been good if I could do at least some roaming on Verizon. Now the only place I don't have coverage is in the center of a building where the 850Mhz don't quite penetrate like the 1.9Ghz did.

My music library is local as opposed to streamed, so I've never had the problem that you were asking about, even in areas with no signal. And if memory serves me correctly, while listening to streaming radio, during those pesky tower transitions, it actually picked up and finished buffering where I left off, which I thought was simply amazing.

- 2 Bunny

@2 Bunny

I'm lucky if I even get 300kbps. With Tmobile I know I'll be getting between 1.2m and 25m

[eric12341]

So what exactly do u want? I mean we are trying to help.

[2 Bunny]

Originally Posted by eric12341

So what exactly do u want? I mean we are trying to help.

I was hoping for a CDMA BYOD carrier that has either the Verizon network or Sprint with data roaming (1xRTT roaming is okay). I'm hoping for bare minimum 300-500MB+ (hoping for 1-2GB, or ideally, unlimited) and a couple hundred text messages and around 100 minutes of voice, all for well under $40 a month depending on what all it has in it.

Let me know what you figure out, Thanks.

- 2B

[eric12341]

Well I had given an option like that but it's not CDMA.

[2 Bunny]

Originally Posted by eric12341

Well I had given an option like that but it's not CDMA.

Well, that's a formidable problem to start out with. Let me know if ya'all think of anything else.

- 2B

[eric12341]

There's straightalk that's CDMA they have $45 for everything but I'm not sure if u could use the epic on it. There's virgin mobile, cricket/metroPCS depending on where u live, these networks use the less crowded 1700mhz AWS band.