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~*{must read}*~ sign a metro pcs petition!

If you want to do something useful to try and get Metro to change. Switch services. The problem of course is that marketers have usurped the term "4g" as being "faster than what we were previously offerring" as opposed to "the next generation of network technology and standards". If you really want 4g speeds, to bad you can't have them as 4g is actually defined as >100Mb/s and currently none the current technology can achieve that except maybe in lab conditions (not sure but perhaps even then).

Personally I believe it is T-mobile who broke the 4g term by touting HSPA+ (a 3g technology) as 4g (granted it matches and even exceeds the speeds offered by other carriers). So if you want to accuse anyone of false advertising - start with them. Ironically MetroPCS is actually using 4g technology and meets the marketing definition of "faster than what we were previously offering". Granted other services are faster but that isn't what they are advertising.

As I said, if your not happy with MetroPCS suck it up and pay more with one of other services. Heck you don't even need to do that. There are a lot of carriers now that can offer services comparable (and possibly better) to Metro. Personally I am considering switching (because I'm in a new office that is a Faraday cage to Metro) to Straight Talk (because I can bring almost any GSM phone to them) or Ting.com (because I really like their innovative pricing model and features). The only thing holding me back is I can't afford the phones I want to switch right now.
 
horsecharles said:
When we upgrade phone we lose the plan, right?
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No. I always activated my phones online cause it's easier. But metro will try and get you to switch but you don't have to. I've had my plan through 3 phones.
 
if the capped speed bother you so much you can always flash the data governor remover for the admire and only for the admire which takes away capping limit. thats what its for lol or try to one for your respective device
 
In case yall havent heard, Metro plans to push out 10mbps this year in conjunction with all the new 4G phones.
 
THE W said:
^^good things come to those who wait.

we shall be rewarded.
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Yup.

I look at it like this. From metro to go from a carrier in only a few select markets in metro areas in 2001 to where they are at now, i think they have covered a lot of ground.

From which I'm sure some of us have witnessed it first hand and been along for the ride :D

Plus i go back to this. I pay 40 bucks. I can't expect the world. But I'm happy so my expectations are null.
 
I'd be happy if they could push the signal into the building I work in (which is the only portion of the complex I am guaranteed to lose signal in). I recently was moved into this building and I feel so cut off.
 
i got a bit of something about them upgrading their network here:
MetroPCS profit beats Street, shares up 34 percent | Reuters

METROPCS UPGRADE
MetroPCS revenue for the second quarter rose 6 percent to $1.28 billion, above analyst expectations of $1.26 billion.
Also on Thursday MetroPCS said it expects a network upgrade for high-speed wireless services to be almost complete by the end of the current quarter.
At the end of the second quarter, the company said, about 8 percent of its subscribers were using its so-called fourth generation high-speed service, which is based on a technology known as Long Term Evolution.
The company's service revenue rose 4 percent to $1.16 billion for the quarter. Quarterly average revenue per user was $40.62, up 13 cents from a year earlier.
MetroPCS posted a net subscriber loss of 186,000 in the second quarter. Analysts had been expecting its subscriber numbers to fall by 94,000 to 174,000, according to four analysts contacted by Reuters.
The company said it expects to boost subscriber growth with 4G LTE For All, a line of affordable 4G LTE smartphones it plans to launch in the second half of 2012.
"During the fourth quarter, we expect our 4G LTE For All initiative to lead to a return to subscriber growth," Chief Executive Roger Linquist said in a statement.
Churn -- or customer defection rate -- fell by half a percentage point to 3.4 percent for the quarter.
MetroPCS shares rose to $8.56 on New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. The shares had lost about 44 percent of their value since the February report on the failed Sprint deal.
(Reporting by Sruthi Ramakrishnan in Bangalore and Sinead Carew in New York; Editing by Sreejiraj Eluvangal and Steve Orlofsky)
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Fuzzy13 said:
lol.

It was in this thread. smh

MetroPCS 2012 Q2 sees profits skyrocket to $149 million despite losing nearly 200,000 subscribers - Engadget
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take another look..

It revealed that it now has 700,000 LTE subscribers, up from the 580,000 present in March and that it plans to have a full 10MHz of spectrum allocated for the super-fast mobile standard in "most major metropolitan areas" by the end of the year.
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now maybe giving us a full 10 mhz of spectrum will equate to 10mbps downloads but mhz and mbps are two different things.
 
Metro primarily is using its existing AWS (1.7/2.1 GHz) and PCS (1.9 GHz) spectrum. That required to MetroPCS to split capacity between CDMA and LTE, resulting in slower LTE speeds. The average download speed reported was around 1000 kbps, or 1mbps, outside major cities with approximately 200 milliseconds of latency. MetroPCS has 1.4 MHz, 3 MHz and 5 MHz downlink carriers, though most of its markets utilize a full 5 MHz-by-5 MHz carrier where new AWS spectrum is available. So being that the main actual 4g speeds I've seen have been 1.3, 3.2 and 5.0mb, i would say we can assume that 10mhz will translate into a MAXIMUM of 10 mb. Generally the fastest speeds right now, 5mb on average, is generally achieved closer to the major city which for me is Atlanta while as you get further out, it obviously drops down. I'm 10 miles south of Atlanta and i get 1.3 consistently. With that said i will not see 10mb unless I'm in Atlanta but i should at least just break the 5mb mark.

Yes mhz and mb are two different things as i never stated otherwise. But going off of the data, is safe to assume that we will see a max of around 10mb. Will everyone get 10 mb? No. Does everyone get 5 mb now? No. Only the lucky ones. ;)
 
Right, metro is raising the ceiling. Even if I don't get 10mbps I hope the mhz increase gives the 4G signal better penetration and reliability. I don't get a signal at all in church and its less than 10 miles from the city.
 
THE W said:
Right, metro is raising the ceiling. Even if I don't get 10mbps I hope the mhz increase gives the 4G signal better penetration and reliability. I don't get a signal at all in church and its less than 10 miles from the city.
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Yeah im in the same boat. I wish i was in the city so i could get the 5mb but I'm sure metro will push its coverage out further as time goes. Hell just 6 months ago my house and job want even inside the 4g coverage and now it's well within it. Metro will move forward, i have faith.

But yeah hopefully raising the ceiling will make the speeds consistent throughout instead of 1.3 to 5mb. Hell an average of 3 everywhere would be better. We shall see. I'm not going anywhere. My 40 bucks a month is well spent. Lol
 
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