[olug] OT: Leaving Verizon? ...for Ting? Net10? Cricket? Other?

[Obi-Wan]

Wow, I don't feel so bad about Sprint's coverage in Lincoln now.  I can 
always get at least one bar outdoors anywhere in town, or even a mile or 
two outside town. It's only when I'm in a basement (like at the gym) 
that I lose service.

On 09/24/2014 01:01 PM, Aric Aasgaard wrote:
> At my work on 102nd and I St I had to set up an Airave so we could simply make phone calls on Sprint.  .......and when it worked I got about 200-400kb of data bandwidth from my home on about 84th and I-80.  Using Sprint in Omaha is like using AOL dialup because it is cheaper than Cox.
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Kevin <sharpestmarble at gmail.com>
> Date: 09/24/2014  11:59 AM  (GMT-06:00)
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] OT: Leaving Verizon? ...for Ting? Net10? Cricket? Other?
>   
> Don't know where you're talking about. I'm at Bellevue University and Olde
> Town and haven't had problems at all.
> On Sep 24, 2014 11:30 AM, "Tony Gies" <tony.gies at gruppe86.net> wrote:
>
>> Sprint's network is practically nonexistent in Bellevue, for what it's
>> worth, and what poor service there is is intermittent. I got out of my
>> contract with them because the towers covering my home and work were
>> out of service for 3 months with no fix in sight and I couldn't use
>> the service at all. They tried to argue the point, for some reason.
>> I'm currently paying a whole lot more with Verizon but the difference
>> is that the services for which I am paying are actually delivered.
>>
>>
>> Tony Gies <tony.gies at gruppe86.net>
>> Technical Projects Director
>> gruppe86 | IT Consulting, Software Development, Systems Integration
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Greg Gerke <ggerke at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> It's amazing to call Ting for support and actually get an english
>> speaking
>>> person within 2-3 rings. For those rare times that I've got a recording
>> it
>>> genuinely sounded like they were bummed to have missed the call.
>>>
>>> The only thing really wrong with Ting is that it rides on Sprint's
>> network.
>>> If you're in a major city or within eyesight of I80 you're pretty good.
>> If
>>> you stray too far from there (like up to Burwell, NE or down to Crete,
>> NE)
>>> you're out of luck getting a signal. I've also got Vonage and with their
>>> app on my Android phone I can still make a call over wi-fi so that'd be
>> an
>>> option.
>>>
>>> But if you're out in the middle of nowhere without wi-fi...? Well, we
>> never
>>> had cellphones back when I was a kid and we seemed to survive ;)


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