Google Voice: Hold off on activating Sprint integration
Google Voice has finally turned on it’s integration with Sprint cell phone subscribers. Or, at least, for most of them. And, unsurprisingly, a large swath of problems is now making life of those “early adopters” miserable. And I’m not surprised. Google has always been a company for robots and adventurous humans. Most things are extremely…
Continue reading…AT&T and T-Mobile – Sprint’s bad luck
Well, that was unexpected. As many others, I think the AT&T – T-Mobile merger will result in this: It’s like trying to merge a hipster with an old bureaucrat and expect hipster to win — doesn’t normally happen. I don’t think T-Mobile’s customer service will really go downhill once the merger is approved. And I…
Continue reading…Sprint: bye, price advantage, hello $10 fee for everyone
Well, not everyone, just everyone who wants to buy an Android or Windows 7 or Blackberry phone. Which is a lot of people anyways. I already wrote about anti-points on their $10 for 4G service last May. Now this $10 “because we can” fee is spreading to everyone on a new contract. But that’d be…
Continue reading…Poor Sprint, Verizon is creeping closer to their plans
Oh boy. Looks like Verizon is not quite happy with that Sprint’s commercial where they claim to offer a better plan for $69.99. Which is still true up to this point — you generally have to choose limited anytime minutes on Sprint with unlimited anything else or unlimited talk and sms but not data on…
Continue reading…Sprint: Samsung 4G phone capped at 150k for 3G upload?
Well looky here, yet another problem that Sprint brought on itself with that extra $10 charge for 4G phones. Samsung Epic 4G users have noticed that 3G upload speed is capped at 150k which is less than what non-4G (and HTC EVO 4G) phones get in 3G-only mode. I mean the fact that upload is…
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