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- slappingturtle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Watch out Verizon! Sprint with Nextel is on their way to being number one. I love the Sprint Treo 650 with Business Connect it plain rocks!
- Axtell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Of course they are free...they're the same company now.
What you have to watch for is that they'll bill you for mobile to mobile calling if you are roaming. Lame.
And how's this merger going to work? They use 2 completely different networks, so one group is going to get completely reamed. Add in the fact that both of their networks (especially nextel) blows chunks, and you've got the formula for a LOT of potentially unhappy customers. - jeff94, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0In my experience, verizon always finds something to charge you for.
Also, phones that work on PCS and iDEN (nextel), won't be out for a couple years from what i've heard, but i hope i'm wrong.
Most importantly: FAIR AND FLEXIBLE PLANS HAVE NO ROAMING CHARGES.
NO NO NO NO NO no no ROAMING CHARGES! WHOO.
Also, nights can start @ 6pm for $10, and Sprint and Nextel are in the process of combining towers.
EV-DO should be out nationwide by the end of the year. - optimist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0go go sextel!
- Nocturnal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How about vice versa, calling Sprint users for free from Nextel? I still have to pay my bill.
- BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It would be cool if Verizon, Nextel, Sprint, Metro PCS and T-Mobile users could all get free calls... that way, free calls to pretty much every cellphone out there.
We can dream, right? - adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0to bad there coverage in every area im in sucks.....
- PhantomaZero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Awesome...because I have Nextel.
- gamerzworld, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this is bad! Good network being bought by a bad network
- volcompimp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Maybe I'll check them out in a year and see what they have to offer.
Just signed a year contract w/ Cingular and got a free black Razr (no rebates). - MacSawD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yay I have Sprint! w00t!!
- HankQuinlan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The combined phones(that run on Sprint PCS's CDMA and Nextel's IDEN networks) are not coming for a LONG time. Not until late 2006 at the earliest. That part of the story is wrong.
- jruggiero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Combining the best of both Nextel and Sprint - from Free Incoming to Fair and Flexible to Mobile to Mobile.
The new tag-line is YES YOU CAN. Previous customers that were once unhappy with one of these carriers would now have a completely new experience and be extremely satisfied.
I have only had very positive things with coverage and have never had any issues. - dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sweet nectar. Now only if they'd stop hocking these awful Sanyo phones. I run through them like water.
- PacoDG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sprint = Teh Best!1!one!
(seriously, never have a problem with them, though ive always heard Verizon was good, I have never had the desire to try out another carrier than Sprint) - ((PolyAst)), on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So, in theory, does this mean Virgin Mobile will work with the previous Nextel towers as promised several months ago? I'm guessing not..
- jruggiero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0no, the towers and networks are not yet interoperable.
- deviationer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0sprint is for the people who have ***** credit
nextel is for the people who must bother other people with the direct connect "feature" - Vill4no, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0finally I can get rid of my monstrous nextel phone...
- jamms, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cingular is the best provider i have used. stay far far away from t-mobile.. the worst out there.
- SystemError, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sprint was a pain in the butt when I had them.
Same for my friend so he switched to NEXTEL. LOL... WELCOME BACK - dorkstyle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is great! Everyone i know either has Sprint or Nextel, well except for one person who is continually getting shafted by Verizon because of their featureless phones.
I love Sprints new commercials, i am glad they got rid of the trench coat guy! - custerfluck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I just quit my job at sprint (no animosity, just too big of a commute w/ $3.00+ gas), I can tell you that for sure mobile to mobile (if you have it on your plan) works between Sprint, Nextel, and Boost. Of course it doesn't work when roaming, because Sprint | Together With Nextel has to pay a competitor for your call to go through, however, If only one person is roaming, the other is still using mobile to mobile.
- MilenkoD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ooops posted too fast:
Now w/ Sprint. The best overall so far. Coverage is very good (in my area) and the price is dirt cheap. For slightly more than the 2-phone 1000min. deal I had with Nextel, I have 5 phones 2500min plan that includes insurance and Internet on two of them. Plus, if you go over the 2500min, the only charge you $10 at a time for a bank of 200 more minutes ($5 for 100min on sub 1000min. plans). The overall total cost of this feature blows away Cingular's roll over.
- MilenkoD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've had ATT, Verizon and Nextel (still do for work)
Verizon:the best coverage hands down but it true about charging you for everything, and thier rates are not that good unless you stay on a local plan.
ATT/Cingular: My bro-in-law had Cingular recently and coverage sucked and price was a bit better for local-type plans.When I had ATT, it was a monthly call to CS to straighten out my billing. I still have a ding on my credit reprot for a bill they say I never paid...even when I showed then a copy of the cancelled check they cashed.
Nextel..I liked them and had them for personal service but coverage sucked. Still have a company Nextel.
Now w/ Sprint. The best overall so far. Coverage is very good (in my area) and the price is dirt cheap.
ATT - FishyJoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Anyone know what new phones are being added?
- tripletrouble42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0does no one know how to spell INCOMING?
- DWatch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thanks, clusterfluck, for the info, I always wondered why that happened. However, I have also traveled with a Cingular and US Cellular phone, and did not have to reboot the phone to get calls. Sprint is just too unreliable.
- skeeto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I used to have Verizon. Switched to Sprint earlier this year and while it works, the signal is weak in my area where I get that constant annoying "entering sprint service area"/roaming beep. I hope these mergers help boost the signal quality in more areas of the country.
- Technojunkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sprint and Nextel merger talk on Howard Forums:
http://www.howardforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=303
Pretty much everything you ever wanted to know about cell phones on HoFo. - burma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I am a technical service representive for sprint and from what I have been told we will not see a sprint/nextel phone for a couple years. Also, the two networks won't become one until 2010. So you have a choice between iDEN and CDMA for quite some time. Oh, sign up for ESRP even if your phone is out of warranty. If something crappy happens to your phone, sprint will either fix or it or replace it. You have until the end of the year to do this if your are an existing customer. Just thought you all would like to know.
- bedheadben, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wonderful, but i already knew this
- DWatch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A warning about Sprint and their unreliability....
I used to have Sprint due to my traveling throughout the U.S. in my last job, and at the time they had the best coverage nationwide; they had towers pretty much everywhere I went. The problem, though, some of my incoming calls would be magically dumped to my voice mail, even when I had a full signal bar on the phone, was IN a sprint coverage area, and had other incoming calls and outgoing calls both before and after the 'vanishing call' happened. Now, you might think that's no big deal, but not only did the incoming call get pushed to voice mail, but the phone never alerted me, never showed me an indicator that I had missed a call, nor indicated that there was new voice mail (which it did under normal circumstance). This caused me to get in trouble more than once with my employer, and resulted in them getting me a pager to carry around as well (ugh). Sometimes I would get a notification out of the blue that I had missed a call and had voice mail, and the phone had been at my side for hours, and I check the voice mail, and it was left over a week ago!! After I noticed this happening, I started checking my voice mail hourly, and after being laid off, checked it daily. The missing calls not only did not show up on my phone, but they were lost in the sprint network for days, sometimes weeks.
This kept happening even in my hometown after I was laid off from that job (don't know if the 'lost call incidents' contributed to my employer's decision or not). Also, I would be sitting at home and my phone would suddenly go from full signal strength to analog roaming, and back again, ten or so times a night. Other nights, it never had a problem. I live within a mile of a sprint tower. I can see the aircraft warning lights of the tower flashing at night. I had line-of-sight signal reception, and the thing still lost the tower randomly. I never did figure out if the tower was faulty or the phone, but I had other co-workers who also had random issues like this with their Sprint service.
Now I have went back to Cingular, and it is actually able to stay locked on to a tower that is five miles further away than the Sprint tower, and I ALWAYS get my incoming calls now. - CowboyBebop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've been with Cingular for 3 years. I tried Nextel about 4 years ago and it was awful with the coverage. My brother-in-law uses Nextel because of his job. The free incoming calls was why he needed it because so many people had to call him.
I think that all of the major cell providers have their pluses and minuses. And none of them have complete and total coverage that is perfect everywhere and all the time.
I travel a lot. So Cinguar for me is ideal because they have wide coverage and no roaming charges. You have to pick the provider that is right for you. There's no ONE provider that will be ideal for everyone. - nugget, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, I have sprint and at college they have great reception. But an hour away in my home town they have horrible reception. Even though I should have reception like at college because on the map it says it has sprint digital coverage and I should not be roaming, but my phone says I'm roaming. I don't pay anything for roaming, but still I should have more than 1 bar. Most of the time I don't even have one bar. But on some rare occasions I have 2 maybe 3 bars of strength.
- custerfluck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What DWatch was describing is what happens when the network hiccups and forgets to delete a local record, happens when travelling from one area to another (doesn't always happen, just sometimes.) Easy fix is to turn off the phone for a minute so all local records are deleted, then turn back on and make an outbound call to create a new local network record.
- cvrefugee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Sweet nectar. Now only if they'd stop hocking these awful Sanyo phones. I run through them like water." - posted by dclowd9901
You haven't used a Sanyo within the last few years, have you? - craterburnsu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've had sprint and Verizon.. in my specific area, Sprint has had the better reception, less roaming.. but i hear in other areas Verizon is alot better in those departments.. but what ever works from person to person.
- slurpee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Now, I wish this Xmas biggest thing is all Cell company, has free incoming call for extra $10 :p
- dombi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I hate Sprint's phone selection. All they have are the ridiculous Samsung and LG phones. How about something cool from Sony Ericsson or Motorola? Every phone at Sprint looks the same... argh!
- G-RaZoR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That direct connect feature is super annoying, with the same "ringtone" and what not. I got cingular, absolutely love them, my 2 year contract ends at the end of this year, going with them again.
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