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Root Virgin mobile getting 4g lte- soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It better be real 4g this time or sprint will get hit by my steel toe boot :mad: or at least have better coverage by then :-\
 
wrong section... but anyways...
i think its a good time cause ill be done with this phone in around 5 or so months and thats prob when they will start passing it on to virgin and boost...
p.s... i get dibs on the real 4g
 
before our phone came out it was also a rumor aswell as the one v
its nice to know that virgin mobile is continuing to move up well except for 4g...i never once got a 4g signal lol
 
Even though Sprints aggressively rolling out Network Vision their current LTE footprint is actually smaller than the WiMax coverage. Not to mention alienating the new iPhone 5 owners who currently have very minimal LTE coverage. I really can't see this happening until after the buyout/merger is approved.
 
Wow, I can easily stick around on the 3evo for another 6 months at least. I must admit I like many nearly fell for the shiny new nexus, but in the end the evo v is a better then great phone due to all the great devs out there. Evo V will probably get a stable jellybean (this phones peak) and within another 6 months (it's downfall) will get a nightly cm11..by then 4g lte will be along (virgin has been a strong competitor and won't fall behind) and only then will I jump ship.
 
Like I mentioned in my previous post, unless you're on Verizon I think that you'll have an easier time finding an area with WiMax coverage rather than LTE until 2014, sad but true. Especially with Sprints potential partnering/takeover by Soft bank, they really want Clears spectrum which puts Sprint in the strange position of instead of distancing themselves they're having to invest even more heavily in Clear.
 
Still satisfied with the $45 a month plan. No I don't have the best screen res on the market but I have 32 gb of storage for 25 bucks:p
 
We just have to wait and see what happens, but im one of those that thinks nothing is impossible.
 
The only benefit really is newer phones.

The coverage is worse than Wimax, and will continue to be for close to a year, possibly more, so why rush into it? By the time it matches up, I will be ready for a new phone (and still will not have wimax at home or 90% of the offices I work at anyhow).
 
Leslie Ann said:
The only benefit really is newer phones.

The coverage is worse than Wimax, and will continue to be for close to a year, possibly more, so why rush into it? By the time it matches up, I will be ready for a new phone (and still will not have wimax at home or 90% of the offices I work at anyhow).
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yeah im the same way. i have really no gsm coverage by me, so this is really the only option i have for a prepaid smartphone at the moment. im okay with 3g, but the thought of a new phone does peak my interest.

my only other option would be buying a droid DNA outright, and putting it on pageplus. but ill wait to see if people make that work first before even considering it. plus, itd be 55 instead of 35 per month, and while reasonable, is still more than im paying now by a good bit.
 
mastersoup said:
yeah im the same way. i have really no gsm coverage by me, so this is really the only option i have for a prepaid smartphone at the moment. im okay with 3g, but the thought of a new phone does peak my interest.

my only other option would be buying a droid DNA outright, and putting it on pageplus. but ill wait to see if people make that work first before even considering it. plus, itd be 55 instead of 35 per month, and while reasonable, is still more than im paying now by a good bit.
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The last time that I checked Page Plus the $55 plan was unlimited talk and text but only a 500 MB data allotment.
 
I'm in Kansas City where the Spring HQ is located, I have the EVO V and get pretty good wimax coverage around the city. My coworker and employer have the Galaxy S3 and their LTE coverage sucks. I'm in no rush to get a phone with worse coverage than what I have.
 
A lot of Negative Nancys around here about the prospect of LTE.

Personally, I think we all should be excited about the idea that prepaid carriers are getting ever-closer to being equal in all key areas to monthly plans, not being down on the current lack of coverage.
 
It's not as much about getting actual LTE as it is the prepaid competition making our user experience better
 
EHokie said:
A lot of Negative Nancys around here about the prospect of LTE.

Personally, I think we all should be excited about the idea that prepaid carriers are getting ever-closer to being equal in all key areas to monthly plans, not being down on the current lack of coverage.
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LTE simply doesn't yet have the coverage, so why spend money or get excited about a feature you can't use?

As for being equal...
T-Mobile technically doesn't even have 4g at all (4g is actually a marketing term, not a standard, and T-Mobile just boosted 3g to run faster and called it 4g).

Wimax has better coverage than LTE, and not all Sprint phones have LTE, so in some places you actually have better speeds than most post paid Sprint users.
 
Leslie Ann said:
LTE simply doesn't yet have the coverage, so why spend money or get excited about a feature you can't use?

As for being equal...
T-Mobile technically doesn't even have 4g at all (4g is actually a marketing term, not a standard, and T-Mobile just boosted 3g to run faster and called it 4g).

Wimax has better coverage than LTE, and not all Sprint phones have LTE, so in some places you actually have better speeds than most post paid Sprint users.
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I'm setting usability aside for a moment, and simply making the point that LTE is heralded by everyone (but apparently Google) as the superior data service. The fact that it may be offered to a prepaid carrier means we're catching up to the future, since Wimax is going away.

It's sort of a status thing. Everyone thinks LTE is the best, so us getting LTE means we're getting more things that people at least THINK are the best, whether they are or aren't.

If Google never released new versions of Android, none of us would have the opportunity to see them. Even if our phone might not have 4.2, the chance is there. Same concept.
 
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