You can now bring your own Sprint smartphone to Ting

2. ajac09 posted on 11 Dec 2012, 07:38 1 0

assuming sprint doesnt black list them... but at least now people can buy them on ebay or craigslist pray they are not black listed and use them

4. fullmonty posted on 11 Dec 2012, 08:10 4 1

ESN!
Every phone has an Electronic Serial Number which is blacklisted if the account is not in good standing. Check out eBay for 'Bad ESN' phones; there are numerous out there. And there is nothing you can do with a Bad ESN phone except use it as a Wi-Fi device. Bad ESN is not fixable except by paying off the dues.

6. squallz506 posted on 11 Dec 2012, 09:46 1 1

Some prepaid carriers and mvnos will accept bad esn phones. Notably cricket and pageplus. I was getting full 3g service on my bad esn evo 3d via cricket.

5. ibap posted on 11 Dec 2012, 09:05 0 0

My experience as a Sprint postpaid customer after being a Verizon postpaid customer (switched due to specific coverage issues where Sprint worked and Verizon did not) is that my only real gripe about Sprint service was data speed. Given the cost differential, and that none of my family are walking around streaming media all the time, Sprint is fine.

Ting, however, is a super option for anyone not intent on pushing their "unlimited" data plan to 20Gb per month just because they can, as I've heard numerous teens brag. And in contrast to most of the other Sprint MVNOs, you get the full postpaid network coverage for voice and SMS. Substitute one of the CoPilot apps for Google maps navigation (so you only use GPS and not data for navigation), and you've pretty much got what you need.

8. PAPINYC (limited) 6 days ago posted on 11 Dec 2012, 10:00 0 2

Well, I did 45GB last month on Verizon last month, so, THERE!!

7. squallz506 posted on 11 Dec 2012, 09:48 0 0

Sprint is second only to T-Mobile in my area. In building penetration and dl speed.

9. PAPINYC (limited) 6 days ago posted on 11 Dec 2012, 10:01 0 2

What exactly are you penetrating??

10. lsutigers posted on 11 Dec 2012, 16:28 1 0

All this guy PAPINYC does is bash Sprint and push Verizon like everything else sucks. You remind me of the Verizon employees and manager I used to work with that had that same exact mentality, anything but Verizon is garbage. We all know Verizon is a great carrier but there are other great options such as AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. How good a carrier is depends on where you live, as the several people have mentioned in the comments, there are areas where Verizon is not the best option. Back to Sprint, I have both Sprint and Verizon and there are very few places where my Verizon phone works and Sprint doesnt. Sprint's network has great coverage and data speeds are fast in many areas that havent even been upgraded to Network Vision yet. The other areas are being upgraded faster than AT&T and Verizon and Sprint will outpace AT&T early next year in LTE deployment if they keep the current pace.

Take the blinders off and just be real man, Verizon is good, but so are other carriers.

12. downphoenix posted on 12 Dec 2012, 19:24 0 0

well I got about 1.6mbps with my Sprint 3G. Not bad for CDMA. I acknowledge its not as fast as ATT or VZW, but its not limited either. Hoenstly though I dont use enough data to worry about data limits since I use wifi when possible, its just faster and although sprint's 3g usually is suffice for me, the faster the better. I like the lower monthly rates too though.

Ting I will consider in the future.