Originally Posted by LeakySeals
Originally Posted by Mad_Hatter
Originally Posted by LeakySeals
When I went to sleep last night I was a long time Virgin Mobile (Sprint prepaid) customer. When I woke up my phone had rebooted, and I was a Boost Mobile customer. So much for loyalty. Same signal, fast and strong sprint LTE. But its a downgrade, I have less high speed data for the same price. Guess its all part of some master plan.
Virgin got out of the mobile reselling business..all their customers got moved to Sprint's prepaid provider Boost. Same exact Sprint network...
Any idea how are they going to merge the networks? Will I get more coverage in remote areas? What do they plan to do with the Sprint network and the two-way channel they used years ago?
Sprint has pretty much abandoned push to talk. I believe it still uses it's PCS for push to talk in some markets but it no longer uses the older iDEN technology it got from it's merger w/NEXTEL. I think at this point Sprint has it in use just enough to hang on to the trademark, so nobody can claim it's abandoned and take it for their own. The Sprint/NEXTEL merger was a horrible deal..it became too expensive for Sprint to maintain 2 push to talk networks - iDEN and PCS. Fortunately many Sprint phones are both CDMA and GSM compliant, so switching isn't going to be a problem for most Sprint subscribers. I have a GSM/CDMA phone for example. If you use a SIM card you in all likelihood use GSM or at least have GSM capability. In theory with GSM you simply take the SIM card out and pop it into another phone of your choosing, this is the advantage of GSM over CDMA.. you're not tied to phones of the carriers choosing. So from the consumers standpoint, this merger will open up a lot of new phones to be used.