Hi engineer, it's kind of a tough call on Sprint. I think that their customer service is terrific, very helpful folks. Their billing department is likewise johnny-on-the-spot. More substantively from a bucks point of view, it's hard to bitch about 10 cents a minute anywhere on their network. Finally, I've double-dipped and am now up to the 1000 minutes per month plan for around $130 with taxes and what-not and use the damn thing all the time. My son went whole hog and does 1500 minutes and his cell phone is virtually his only phone number--I literally don't even know his wireline number at his office.
So what's not to like?
Well, coverage, silly, coverage: when it's good, it's very, very good but . . .
Spent the last few days zipping around Washington DC--Sprint is so solid in the District, Virginia, and Maryland you wouldn't even believe it (guess they want to keep all the politicians inside the Beltway happy campers). I was looking at 4 bars everywhere [including inside bars, if you get my drift].
Now back to SF Bay Area. We have this thing called the Bay Bridge which is a rather essential element of life in this neck of the woods, as in maybe 4 trillion cars/second 7X24 as we techies say. Sprint works for exactly 1/2 of the bridge! East of Treasure Island you're good to yak away; west you might as well be in Mongolia. Sacramento is the state's capital but just on the outskirts of Sacto where Caxton hangs out, you're toast [sorry, think of Caxton and toast just comes to mind].
My point is that there are like 33 million nut cases running around the Golden State--wouldn't Sprint have just blanketed this joint? 2 weeks ago I spent 4 days in New Mexico: my QCP 2700 thought it was in Belgrade--even the dreaded 'ANALOG ROAM' required you to give a credit card to use which is essentially such a pain in the tush that I used a wireline.
Last, and I realize this is not Sprint's fault, I must sadly report that the little bitty 1900 Mhz, clamshell Q800, owned and operated by none other than the Surfette, doesn't cut it: the battery is simply too little to pull a signal unless you're in 4 bar prime time land. Anything less than optimum conditions, and you're incommunicado. So guess who's gonna be the first in the family to get the Thin Phone?[hint: it is NOT your esteemed techno-leader Surfer Mike].
Anyway, I'm very cool with Sprint and the QCP 2700: overall a very good combo and pretty solidly reliable. But we're still not THERE yet as far as I'm concerned. IMHO, FWIW, EOM, BWDIK, ROFLMAO, and Have a Nice Day (we're kind of getting salutation-itis again aren't we gang?) SM |
