F*ck you Nextel/Sprint..

[VenomInside]

I out. I am tired of all my dropped call, freezing text messages, slow loading messages, no service in almost every area, and having to be on my 4th phone in a year!

Hello Verizon!

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[Stangfreak91]

+1,000,000

Nextel/Sprint sucks big donkey nutz!!! I get the same shit! And the customer service sucks too!!!

True story,

The gf and I took a flight down to Mytle Beach. The plane took off and we had to be at least 15,000 feet, when her Verizon phone rang and it was her mom! I thought, shit!! I better turn off my Nextel before I get in trouble, they had already requested that you do that. I look down at the nextel and "NO SERVICE" and her Verizon had recieved a call...

Nextel will get kicked to the curb the next go round!

 

[superman]

i had them for 6 years and seemed when they merged it started be bad...... so last year they were terminated

 

[Flyn]

Sprint is the devil.

 

[SnakeBite2k3]

i have a helio ocean which is i think is powerd by sprint and i have no problems whats so ever. guess im lucky

 

[Blood on Blood]

To piggy back, our T-Mobile service is also bad. We frequently experience dropped calls.


Dave

 

[1badass96gt]

I have sprint and love it. I have no issues with it at all, and people can always hear me clearly. On the flip side, my dad, who I share a contract with has all the issues you guys have listed. Only, difference is the phone we use. Maybe thats the difference?

 

[VenomInside]

To piggy back, our T-Mobile service is also bad. We frequently experience dropped calls.


Dave

Yea, i dropped T-mobile before i got nextel.

 

[shanker]

I haven't had any issues with Verizon but I use 3 minutes a month usually.



We have Nextel at work and it's horrendous especially for voicemail. The longest I received a delayed message was three months. Out maintenance guy left me a VM in November and it showed up in january. I'm not kidding either.

 

[dgussin1]

verizon owns!

I've had cingular, at&t (before the merge) and aircellular (gone), and none of them stack up to the quality of verizon...although cingular was the best about "breaking" your phone; you'd just walk into the store and they'd hand you a new one. Verizon takes a day and ships it to you.

 

[Gary101386]

i have tried them all as well, and honestly Nextel/Sprint is so far the best.... verzion isnt too bad.... if you dont mind talking to customer service every billing peroid for BS charges......

 

[SnakeBite2k3]

I have sprint and love it. I have no issues with it at all, and people can always hear me clearly. On the flip side, my dad, who I share a contract with has all the issues you guys have listed. Only, difference is the phone we use. Maybe thats the difference?

i agree, the phone can make a huge difference

 

[Dragon03]

i agree, the phone can make a huge difference

+1 I bought one of the razors when it first came out and it sucked I couldnt hear people fer shit

 

[SnakeBite2k3]

+1 I bought one of the razors when it first came out and it sucked I couldnt hear people fer shit

dont even talk to me about razr's... they have the looks but over all they are junk.

i broke mine in half and i got $81 on ebay for it:clap:

 

[Dragon03]

dont even talk to me about razr's... they have the looks but over all they are junk.

i broke mine in half and i got $81 on ebay for it:clap:

LOL I wonder who the dumb ass was that bought it. :lmao:

 

[ILLINI-SVT]

I've had Sprint for years. They've gotten a little pricey, even with my corporate discount, but the service in the city is kick ass. I get service absolutely everywhere. The PTT work phone I had with Cingular had no signal more than it had a signal.

I also really believe the cell phone has a lot to do with your service. I've had good phones and bad phones. I couldn't find a good one with Cingular. My current Sprint I would never trade.

 

[SonicBlur]

Hell yeah! I just dumped Nextel and got my BlackBerry Pearl...best move ever. So far my T-Mobile account has been flawless...well, except for the fact that I can't access the internet on it yet.

-Mike

 

[01GTvert]

I also really believe the cell phone has a lot to do with your service.

Being an engineer for the company that makes the phones and networks Sprint/Nextel uses I can say this is false. Nextel has poor coverage only because they have fewer cell sites than the other networks. Both Verizon and Sprint/Nextel buy their phones/networks from where I work and one network has twice as many cell sites as the other. If you happen to do all your talking/texting/PDT close to a cell site you'll have awesome service. If you're far or there's a building or mountain in the way service will suck. It has very little to do with the phone itself.

 

[VenomInside]

Just got done @ verizon. Picked up this phone and a contract.

 

[shanker]

Mikey the phone you picked up loks exactly like the icon that shows up when a picture is linked incorrectly. Freaky! Or Airgas blocks the site you linked it from.

 

[VenomInside]

Mikey the phone you picked up loks exactly like the icon that shows up when a picture is linked incorrectly. Freaky! Or Airgas blocks the site you linked it from.

Yea man, i got the Red X phone

I think it's just airgas.

 

[Wiked L]

Works for me

Nice phone Mikey! Verizon FTW!

 

[VenomInside]

Works for me

Nice phone Mikey! Verizon FTW!

Thanks beth. VERIZON FTMFW!

When i talked to nextel they were like "why would you want to go to verizon?"

I told them they (nextel) suck!

Then they said i could switch to sprint..

I just laughed.

 

[Flyn]

Being an engineer for the company that makes the phones and networks Sprint/Nextel uses I can say this is false. Nextel has poor coverage only because they have fewer cell sites than the other networks. Both Verizon and Sprint/Nextel buy their phones/networks from where I work and one network has twice as many cell sites as the other. If you happen to do all your talking/texting/PDT close to a cell site you'll have awesome service. If you're far or there's a building or mountain in the way service will suck. It has very little to do with the phone itself.

+1. Every time I talked with a Nextel/Sprint customer rep and they asked if there was anything else they can do for me I yelled into the phone "BUILD MORE TOWERS!"

Mikey, great looking phone. Sorry I haven't called you back yet. I just discovered your voice mail. I am Treo impaired.

 

[ILLINI-SVT]

Being an engineer for the company that makes the phones and networks Sprint/Nextel uses I can say this is false. Nextel has poor coverage only because they have fewer cell sites than the other networks. Both Verizon and Sprint/Nextel buy their phones/networks from where I work and one network has twice as many cell sites as the other. If you happen to do all your talking/texting/PDT close to a cell site you'll have awesome service. If you're far or there's a building or mountain in the way service will suck. It has very little to do with the phone itself.

I'll take the Pepsi challenge. I went from a cell phone that got NO service at at least 2 bars I frequent, with a change of the phone only, to getting FULL service. I was amazed. You can't tell me that antenna design doesn't play a substantial role in signal reception. One word - Razor. Nuff said.

And all you others, don't be lumping Sprint and Nextel together. They are still separate networks, separate towers. Nextel sucks on service, I'll agree. Sprint did too for a while when their subscriber base grew, but as they added towers, problems disappeared. I'll take on anyone who challenges Spring service in Lincoln Park and Lakeview/Wrigleyview. Hell, I was out on a boat 10 miles offshore and still got service.