Mrbill2Mrbill2
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How is the reception using Sprint?
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disc golfin
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Mine is better than the EVO 4G was or the Instinct or any of the other Sprint/Nextel phones I have had over the years. I live on the edge of the 3G service area, even though there is a tower less than a mile from me, but I have not dropped a call or had any problems with text or data since I got the SIII.
Regular phone and data reception are fine. BUT...I have yet to get usable 4G LTE and I live in Atlanta (one of the pilot 4G cities). I have complained several times to Sprint about this and gotten to admit that they have "problems" with the LTE towers in Atlanta. It's not that big a deal as I normally am using wireless, but hey...I paid for it, I want it!! By way of comparison, a friend of mine has an AT&T S3 and he gets 4G pretty much everywhere...he even had a workable signal in the parking deck yesterday!
boomerbubba
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This has nothing to do with the GS3 device -- assuming that you are running the latest firmware, LG8, which is required for decent LTE connections. Your problem has everything to do with the status of Sprint's LTE network buildout. As of this week, according to the running list at S4GRU.com, Sprint's Atlanta market buildout is only 27 percent complete.
I have tested my Sprint GS3 in the only city that is fully built out for LTE (Waco), and the handset's performance was just fine. I made a point of doing this within my 14-day trial period. If I had not been satisfied, I would have returned the phone.
Now I just have to wait with some patience for LTE service to arrive in my own city.
CReuss
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Just my experience on Sprint your may vary:
I am in Grand Rapids Michigan and my Sprint GS3 is horrible. I constantly drop calls and can't access data. I know they had a lot of issues getting all the Nextel stuff transferred over to their Network and I believe this poor reception may be a results of this but that is just speculation on my part. Sprint has 4G WiMax here but not LTE. Not sure if they will be able to Upgrade the WiMax Towers or if they need to totally put up new towers to get LTE working here? They told me 1st of the year for LTE. I understand now why their Unlimited Data plan is so cheap compared to other carriers. I am really hoping they get the LTE up and running as they stated by the 1st of the year or I am going back to Verizon. So far it has been a horrible, horrible experience.
I am in Grand Rapids Michigan and my Sprint GS3 is horrible. I constantly drop calls and can't access data. I know they had a lot of issues getting all the Nextel stuff transferred over to their Network and I believe this poor reception may be a results of this but that is just speculation on my part. Sprint has 4G WiMax here but not LTE. Not sure if they will be able to Upgrade the WiMax Towers or if they need to totally put up new towers to get LTE working here? They told me 1st of the year for LTE. I understand now why their Unlimited Data plan is so cheap compared to other carriers. I am really hoping they get the LTE up and running as they stated by the 1st of the year or I am going back to Verizon. So far it has been a horrible, horrible experience.
boomerbubba
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This is getting off-topic because it is not about the GS3 phone, just the Sprint network rollout. And of course the GS3, like all current-generation handsets, does not support Wimax at all. But FYI, the Wimax towers, which are separate Clearwire sites that will not be expanded, have nothing to do with the Sprint towers that will support LTE. For that, essentially every tower that now provides 3G service will be converted to include LTE.