🚀 go-pugleaf

Kristian M Zoerhoff <kmz@lavabit.com> wrote:
> On 2013-05-28, Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> wrote:
>> I'm a US cellular customer, and go the letter saying they're selling the 
>> Chicago market to Sprint, and I'll be moved over there at some ambigious 
>> point in the future. Of course, I'll have to get a new phone for some 
>> stupid reason.
>>
>> I last used sprint in 2000/01 and it was fine.
>>
>> How are they these days? I've found primeco/USCC service to be superb, and 
>> never bitch about my personal phone sucking ass. I'd like to keep it that 
>> way.
>>
>> I don't need fancy smart phone stuff, just the ability to call anybody by 
>> only dialing once, something that doesn't work with AT&T in the city.
> 
> Over by here, friends with Sprint have calls dropped about 30 times per day 
> (no, they don't have a landline). Sprint has been using the "we're upgrading 
> our towers any day now" line for about a year. Guys at the Schaumburg & 
> Rolling Meadows offices also got dropped calls on Golf Rd all the time.
> 
> That's not exactly helpful for Cyd's neighborhood, but if'n he heads out to 
> the NW burbs, expect shitty service.

That's not a good sign, considering the horrible suburbs aren't anything 
new, and this isn't 1998, so there's no excuse for shitty coverage.