Sprint National coverage map comparisons

really?!?!?!?!!?!!?!!?!?!?!?!!????!!?!!

wow............they are going down Cingulars path...........thats the one thing i hate about Cingular too...........will they let us keep forced roaming or is that going to be removed from the firmware too?!?!?!?

 

Verizon should watch out now. Sprint looks like they are gonna take them up on their "Most reliable network" slogan. Hope Sprint overtakes Verizon one day.

 

I kinda wish they would keep the roaming indicator. Mostly because there is no smooth transition between the sprint native network and the roaming network, so it will just look like you had a dropped call.

 

yeah.....but us smart people know..........the truth

haha





well.........i'm glad they have the forced roaming option still.........but your saying the new phones dont have the roaming indicator or Digital Roaming banner?

thats sux for some people who genuinely care

 

Wow, Sprint has taken their network to a whole new level! Thats awesome, they gotta keep it up. They've even got EvDO in the berkshires in mass, not easy to do.

They prolly will do what verizon in terms of roaming and just use the little triangle, simple and to the point.

 

O, as long as you can still tell the difference. Actually, my current phone, the m610, shows roaming as a triangle.

 

so will the phones display Sprint as the banner and have the roaming triangle up in the icon bar?

will the banner still display "Digital Roaming"?

 

I believe the Sanyo M1 is the only phone right now that does that.

 

& the Moto Q.

 

wouldnt that change from the R to a triangle be part of a firmware update?

then when will they distribute FOTA?

 

Wow,
the new maps do look better, much easier to see the areas.
As for them removing the "R" for a triangle, I wouldn't be suprised they aren't working their way towards Cingular's version of "it's all our network your using" and not showing when your roaming.
Which I hope they don't do, since a lot of people aren't happy with Cingular not showing when your roaming.

 

but i would assume the change from an "R" to a triangle is part of the firmware not the PRL.........

yeah..........well at least they are displaying the triangle like Verizon is.........Cingular doesnt display anything at all............they used to say "Cingular Extended" at least..........but not anymore..........you know maybe all the companies can just merge and make the "no roaming" thing the truth

:lol:

 

so you wouild have to get a firmware update to change the R to a triangle not a PRL update.......

and btw...........when i emailed customer care about a problem was having they said my phone needed a PRL update...........my PRL was 20225 and when i called *2 and got the update i turned my phone off then back on and it was still 20225.........what is that? spoof on the reps part?

 

alright well do you know what the latest PRL is?

 

I don't mean to diss on Sprint's "Expansion" but aren't those coverage maps way optimistic? I know for a fact that their Utah coverage is not even close to as big as they advertise it to be on the new coverage map! Even their coverage locator shows far greater coverage in Utah than they have. Am I missing something???

 

well consider the fact that a lot of that coverage may be roaming cuz they now display roaming as "nationwide coverage" instead of being separate from home network

 

But on the coverage map they have a color for SPRINT coverage and one for roaming or am I missing something?

 

That's nice, but some areas are still marked as 'roaming' with a different color on their maps...what's the difference?

 

I'm going to guess that there other roaming areas and areas where all service will not work, and the roaming "experience" will not be transparent. Probably analog or smaller carriers where data roaming is not active.

 

I would think so. Take Yosemite Valley for example. There is digital roaming in the main valley on Golden State Cellular, but the map does not have it as green, i.e. "Sprint National Network".

Also, Larry, there are Sprint areas that show up as dotted green on the map, i.e. no signal strength info even when zoomed in. Thus, with the new maps there is generally no longer a way to discern between native Sprint and roaming for such areas. I guess if the roaming in that area is not 1900, I suppose you could look at the Powersource coveragd map and get a feel for the native coverage that way. Few customers probably could figure that out, though!