Sprint's Roaming Contract with Verizon...

Puddin422 · Jul 26, 2011

So all it is doing is skipping a step? So I still won't be able to make phone calls or get data when I am allegedly roaming.

dbpaddler · Aug 1, 2011

Technically you should have the ability for phone, text and 1x data.

forddna said:
So all it is doing is skipping a step? So I still won't be able to make phone calls or get data when I am allegedly roaming.

Needforspeed · Aug 1, 2011

I never seen 1x in the notification bar

Needforspeed · Aug 1, 2011

dbpaddler said:
Technically you should have the ability for phone, text and 1x data.

Where do u see 1x I don't see it I have a HTC Evo 4g

dbpaddler · Aug 1, 2011

Not all phones show speeds accurately. My Epic shows 1x, and I'm down in dnna's neck of the woods. Getting good 4g but horrible 3g. If I'm not mistaken, the roaming contract is set up for 1x data and not 3g. Can't vouch for what individual phones show up in the status bar.

Needforspeed said:
Where do u see 1x I don't see it I have a HTC Evo 4g

Puddin422 · Aug 2, 2011

Setting my phone to automatic roaming worked great this weekend. I have no idea why doing this worked, but telling it to roam when the roaming warning came up on the screen would not. Stoopid phone.

BenChase7 · Aug 2, 2011

forddna said:
Setting my phone to automatic roaming worked great this weekend. I have no idea why doing this worked, but telling it to roam when the roaming warning came up on the screen would not. Stoopid phone.

Sweet!

dbpaddler · Aug 2, 2011

Maybe the phone treats it differently when manually done compared to automatic.

Puddin422 · Aug 5, 2011

Yes, but why?

tryingtohelp · Mar 13, 2012

Please be careful about your minutes while roaming. When I bought my EVO, Sprint sales told me also, as shown in posts above, that your any-mobile-anytime minutes include roaming calls. This is absolutely UNTRUE.

Your minutes (1500 in my case) ARE used when roaming even if you call a mobile phone.

I know this because I just got a surprise bill for $500. A Sprint tower went down recently in my area, so I had no option but to be roaming for several days. I was on the phone with Sprint for hours, trying to convince them to remove the charges. They said that I had been roaming and had used up my minutes. They said that it is written right on the web site, "while on the Nationwide Sprint or Nextel National Networks," so they wouldn't remove the charges.

I like Sprint, and I wouldn't go back to Verizon, but I feel like Sprint just stole $400 from me.

dbpaddler · Mar 13, 2012

I'd talk to tech support about the tower being down where you were roaming. Leave your bill out of it. Try to get and write down as much specific info about the tower outage as possible. Then call back to customer service and make your case. And then take it to tech sites and your local news. "Sprint forcing customers to roam in sprint coverage areas and padding their bills by manually shutting down towers." That would make a nice headline. Maybe the fcc would like to hear that story.

worlok · May 31, 2012

I just left Verizon for Sprint and so far while it's "okay", the coverage is nowhere near what I am used to. I work in Manhattan and just down the block on 28th street is the "Cafe 28" and I am used to eating lunch and surfing in their upstairs eating area. Not anymore... no data signal... and my roaming is set to automatic with no roaming guard enabled, using a spiffy new Samsung Galaxy S

pwabbit · May 31, 2012

I am a long time Sprint customer. Sprint is a great deal for the money unless you need two things: 1) A strong signal 2) Decent data speeds.

Sprint is known for having the slowest 3g speeds in the industry. Unless you are surfing with full time Wimax, you are going slooooow. It would be the opposite of the T-Mobile commercials. I think Sprint would be on a tricycle.

worlok said:
I just left Verizon for Sprint and so far while it's "okay", the coverage is nowhere near what I am used to. I work in Manhattan and just down the block on 28th street is the "Cafe 28" and I am used to eating lunch and surfing in their upstairs eating area. Not anymore... no data signal... and my roaming is set to automatic with no roaming guard enabled, using a spiffy new Samsung Galaxy S

NYCHitman1 · May 31, 2012

pwabbit said:
Sprint is known for having the slowest 3g speeds in the industry in certain regions.

Fixed that for you.

burke002 · Jun 9, 2012

Darbley77 said:
I actually just got on chat and got the information about roaming to paste.

4:24:32 PM

System
Thank you for contacting Sprint. My name is Traci K. In order to better assist you, may I please have your first and last name?
4:25:31 PM

Brad
my question is......if I am on a mobile to any mobile plan and I am roaming in the United States.....will the minutes be deducated from my plan allowed anytime minutes?
4:25:56 PM

Brad
Sorry.....Brad K
4:26:42 PM

Traci K
Thank you so much, Brad. If you are roaming in the U.S. then a mobile to mobile call would use your plan allowed anytime minutes *or* your 7 pm unlimited night and weekend minutes as applicable according to the time the call began.
4:27:03 PM

Brad
Thank You

OK people I'm a truck driver and I drive all over the US and I have Sprint, so you can imagine the roaming I do. Your post is incorrect as long as you are not Roaming internationally which means Canada, Mexico, or over seas you are unlimited. I make a lot of phone calls to my wife who has AT&T ( why do have Sprint, one word Throttle) and I have yet to go over my 900 minutes or even come close. All my calls to my wife have been free no matter if I'm in some remote area on a US hwy or in the Interstate in a major city. No roaming means no roaming , unlimited means unlimited. Hope this helps

With said I do experience a lot of dropped calls unlike AT&T, love the unlimited data though.

OTR driver burke002

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