Virgin Mobile 4G

rshimizu12 · December 9th, 2011, 02:42 AM

Cricket recently announced that it is going to offer 4G. So I am wondering how long before Sprint will be forced to start offering 4G as well....?

Petrah · December 9th, 2011, 04:01 AM

Sprint already has 4G, but weather or not they'll pass it on to Virgin Mobile remains to be seen. Would be nice!

rshimizu12 · December 12th, 2011, 12:13 AM

Now that Cricket (Cricket Joins the 4G LTE Race! ) and T-Mobile has their prepaid 4G service VM is at a competitive disadvantage.

hiwatt · December 12th, 2011, 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by rshimizu12

Now that Cricket (Cricket Joins the 4G LTE Race! ) and T-Mobile has their prepaid 4G service VM is at a competitive disadvantage.

Except that isn't offered for phones. It's for their pre paid wireless internet.

rshimizu12 · December 12th, 2011, 08:58 AM

Actually Cricket is going to offer the LTE service for their phones at some point "Cricket does not plan to provide 4G LTE mobile devices (feature phones, smartphones or tablets) just yet as they were judged too expensive to fit in Cricket’s product catalogue. Cricket’s first focus will be USB modems for laptops and desktops and it will start proposing LTE phones only when “they are thin and cheap enough, and have decent battery life,” said Matt Stoiber, Cricket’s vice president for Device Development, according to PCmag."

But T-Mobile's 4G service will put significant pressure on VM.

godsdragon · December 12th, 2011, 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by rshimizu12

Actually Cricket is going to offer the LTE service for their phones at some point "Cricket does not plan to provide 4G LTE mobile devices (feature phones, smartphones or tablets) just yet as they were judged too expensive to fit in Cricket’s product catalogue. Cricket’s first focus will be USB modems for laptops and desktops and it will start proposing LTE phones only when “they are thin and cheap enough, and have decent battery life,” said Matt Stoiber, Cricket’s vice president for Device Development, according to PCmag."

But T-Mobile's 4G service will put significant pressure on VM.

Here is an example of when competition is good for the consumer.. who cast those dollar votes...

rshimizu12 · December 13th, 2011, 12:13 AM

I hope Verizon's prepaid prices become more reasonable

TriumphLance · December 13th, 2011, 08:27 AM

I agree with the statement about T-Mobiles 4g because I'm seriously considering switching just get on a faster/better network

rshimizu12 · December 13th, 2011, 09:11 AM

The major advantages of switching to T-Mobile is 4G and a much better selection of phones. The downside is that you get less minutes and limited amount of texts. On the $30 per month plan you get 100 minutes and 300 texts I believe. You can get around this by using sipdroid and Google Voice.

hiwatt · December 13th, 2011, 10:38 AM

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Cricket’s first focus will be USB modems for laptops and desktops and it will start proposing LTE phones only when “they are thin and cheap enough, and have decent battery life,” said Matt Stoiber, Cricket’s vice president for Device Development, according to PCmag.

Translation=when 4G becomes old hat. I wouldn't lose any sleep over Cricket pioneering much, let alone a quality low price, high speed plan. As I was standing on the L platform today, I noticed Cricket had a billboard for their pre paid Android phone. $55/month for "unlimited" service. Small print said "first 500 mbs at full download speed." Yeah, that's not much of a deal.