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 Review by swintec 
Posted: 1 days ago
member for 4.8 years, 1808 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 Alfred,York,ME
 Business customer
 $35 per month (24 month contract)
 about 4 days
 "Everything!"
 "Spotty service at times out in the boonies."
 "Vastly underrated cell company"
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 Review by W4DRA
UPDATED: 20 days ago
member for 5.3 years, 1785 visits, last login: 8 days ago
Dunnellon,Citrus,FL
$59 per month (48 month contract)
about 6 days
"Always on even in hard rain & wind."
"For remote areas an external antenna is needed"
"Its Cheaper than Satellite and can be use on any computer"
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I have been on satellite for quite some time, (12 years) Direcpc, Direcway, Hugesnet, and Wildblue. There ok but you can't take them anywhere or move to another room without a hassle.
With the Sprint Mobile Broadband I can move from room to room or take it on the road. Its only been about 2 weeks and so far the only thing I had to do was order an external antenna. My speeds aren't what they were with satellite but the other benifits and the price @ $20.00 a month out-weighs it.
More after I get the antenna in and installed.
Dave
"UPDATE 9-23-08"
 I have had it with SPRINT and there lack of service. I have been going through this for about 3 months and have had it.
I can't even watch news clips from my local station. I have been on the phone with these guys for a total of 7 1/2 hours.
I even got a new modem with the same results. I have changed everything on my system RWIN ect. with the same old crap.
I asked them at tier 2 about the tower and I gave them the site ID#. I am going to cancel my service with the reason that it Not As Advertised!
This is about 1/4 of what I got when I signed on with them.
This is EVDO too....
Looks like I am going back to Wildblue unless they do something pretty dam quick.
At this moment I am ready to run over this dam modem With either the tractor or the horse and have him crap on it then send it back. 
Am I bad or what?
 Dave  
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Review by mbloof
Posted: 21 days ago
member for 2.6 years, 64 visits, last login: 15 days ago
Beaverton,Washington,OR
$40 per month (month by month)
about 1 days
"Sometimes fast, can roam on other networks (at lower speeds)"
"Not 'always on', keeps dropping"
"PAM plan is ideal for those that don't always need to be connected."
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Its a ok value for the money. To bad all the carriers charge WAY to much for data services.
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Review by rmgreenfield
Posted: 27 days ago
member for 1 year, 4 visits, last login: 27 days ago
Jackson Heights,Queens,NY
Contract price not specified.
"It works fairly well in some very rural places and in buildings."
"Haven't found anything to complain about yet."
"Keeps you online in many places and saves you money at hotels where they charge for internet access."
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I am happy with the product.
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 Review by n0vnm
UPDATED: 40 days ago
member for 2.1 years, 20 visits, last login: 30 days ago
Schertz,Guadalupe,TX
$59 per month (24 month contract)
about 1 days
"Only crashed once in two years."
"The unimited service is limited to 5GB per month"
"Keeps passengers occupied while on the road."
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I had no other options for broadband. AT&T claimed there wasn't enough interest in my neighborhood. Time Warner said they weren't going to encroach on Country Cable (which has no internet service). I chose the unlimited package at $59.95 per month. I got true broadband speeds out of it, even played X-Box Live games on it. Then in May 2008, Sprint announced they were implementing a 5GB limit with some arbitrary (and secret) amount to charge each kilobyte over 5GB. I was using 10GB per month just playing online games. They have effectively killed my ability to play X-Box Live games. Looks like they are forcing me to throw away my $50 annual fee to Microsoft for gaming.
I'm kicking Sprint to the curb and will go back to dial up for email.
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 Review by Phattieg
Posted: 44 days ago
member for 7.4 years, 891 visits, last login: 4 days ago
Jacksonville,Duval,FL
$35 per month (24 month contract)
about 2 days
"EVDO Rev A is super fast and reliable. Loving the SERO plan!"
"Tech Support is often in other countries."
"SERO is the way to go!"
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I signed up with the Sprint SERO plan almost 2 years ago, and I got a Motorola Q at the time. I really enjoyed the service from day one. I now have a Mogul PPC 6800. The highlights of the service are of course the price tag of $35 a month for 500 anytime, 7pm night and weekend, unlimited mobile to mobile and unlimited text and unlimited internet too. I have used the service almost non-stop from day one, and hardly ever had any glitches. I also noticed this provider has roaming agreements with Verizon and Alltel in very remote areas, and I do not get charged to use them for data and voice. I highly recommend the service to people, and have signed up 3 people myself without much trying. The plan sells itself, and people know they are always able to call me without a problem on my phone, so they know they will get just as good of service. I have, however, heard people complain about Sprint, however I don't understand why because I've not had any bad service from them. When I am connected to the phone via USB 2.0, or Bluetooth via USB 2.0, I get about 2.1 Mbps down, and 512 kbps up. I use this quite often as a tethered connection to the PC.
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 Review by Fox McCloud
UPDATED: 46 days ago
member for 2.2 years, 964 visits, last login: a few hours ago
undisclosed location
$49 per month (24 month contract)
"Decent bandwidth (for wireless) mobility."
"latency, reliability, 5GB cap, poor tech support."
"Decent alternative to satellite, dial-up, or ISDN."
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I had known about EVDO for quite a long time; I first heard about it when I signed up for cellphone service about 2 years ago; about a year later, I started researching it as a dial-up alternative (since satellite was strictly out, as I wanted to play games online). Unfortunately, neither Verizon, nor Sprint had EVDO coverage; worse yet, people were starting to discover the true nature of Verizon's EVDO service.
However, a number of months ago, Sprint showed, on their maps, that my area was lit with EVDO; I was truly overjoyed. Anyway, to cut a long story short, by the time I ordered my EVDO card, EVDO Revision A had also been deployed in my area!
All in all, the connection has been great; I get a fairly consistent 1270k down (I'm maxing out the tower [this particular one has only one T1 line]...the absolute maximum speed for a tower is 1288k...Sprint keeps 256k for themselves), and 200-250k up (with the laptop, I get about 500-600k up...I used the WRT54G3G-ST router, and it has issues of cutting the upload speed). Latency is the semi-bad, yet semi-good part. The good, is that it's vastly better than satellite, and definitely better than dial-up. The downside? It's still a little high; I typically ping Google at 100 ms, and have a ping of 140-200 ms in most Battlefield 2 game servers. Yeah, the latency is high for a FPS, but hey, that hasn't stopped me from getting well over 2000 kills within the past month! (I do, however run into a few servers which kick for having latency of 150+...but not all are like that).
All in all, after taxes and surcharged are added on, I only pay $50.90. Not bad, only 91 cents in taxes+surcharges; I can handle that!
Also, if you're curious as to how I got EVDO for $49.99 a month, I went with Sprint's SERO plan.
Update: I've had to really take a chunk out of the reliability of my connection; of late, it's been up-down-up-down...literally dropping and reconnecting multiple times in 1 minute...not a good thing; not only that, but whenever I've called, they peddle it off onto Linksys, since I use their router...of course, Linksys peddles it off onto Sprint.
The tech support downgrade is because they never have tried to help with the problems; they simply pass the buck....
the downgrade in value for money is due to the new 5GB cap, and the service here is just terrible now; it used to be great (please note, I'm in the same exact location as when I first made this review), but now I can only get 800 kbps down and around 200-250 kbps up...lovely...and that's with the router or laptop.
Overall, I've become highly dissatisfied with the service; there's a high probability that Embarq will be deploying DSL in the area very soon; I'll be more than happy to switch once it becomes available.
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Review by clocktower
Posted: 47 days ago
member for 1.9 years, 4 visits, last login: 47 days ago
Henderson,Clark,NV
Contract price not specified.
"included with my plan"
"Had to do some light hacking on my Instinct"
"Good service"
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Well after getting my data tethering turned on, it works great. Something's wrong with the bluetooth though, it only works up to 256kbps, but that could be my adapter. Notice: Sprint doesn't officially support this through the instinct, but it works. Just have to google it. thanks to instinct-samsung.com
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Review by MagicVuedoo
UPDATED: 60 days ago
member for 3.3 years, 15 visits, last login: 58 days ago
Hatley,Marathon,WI
$15 per month
"Better then dial-up"
"Connection is not consistant"
"Better then dial-up... what else matter?"
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Well, I live in a area that have no broadband service. None, zip, nada, do not pass go, do not collect $200. Of course, I could have gone with satelite internet service but get real, who the *bleep* wants to pay $60-$100 a month for 256-512k? Not to consider also paying upward of $200-$300 for the equiptment and installation. Thats with a 2yr contract!
Well, long story short, I figure $15-$30 for dial-up or add another $15 for the PaM plan. Considering that I must also pay another $30-$40 for phone service, no comparision. I already pay about $170 for two phone with unlimited roaming, data, long distance, navigation, blah, blah (the PowerVision Pro plan), sprintPCS to sprintPCS, 7pm nights and weekend with 2200min. Whats another $15?
Now when I say no broadband service, THAT includes Sprint Broadband too. I am on 1x. Know what though? Lets see... 40-52k on dial-up or 60-120k for SprintPCS that also allow me to take it anywhere I wanna go? I'll let you decide. (And yes, those are tested speed. It varies widely on where and when I am.)
Tough choice, right?
Sprint tells me that EVDO will be here some time within the next 90 days... we'll see.
The only issue that I have so far with the service is that I use a Red RAZR. And it is a VERY poor choice. It doesn't always stay logged in. I will still have internet connection and it does register as 'Connected' but it wont send nor recieve data. Go figure. Sprints technical service tells me that it is because I am not in a EVDO area, it might be due to bandwidth limitation on the network. Yeah, right. Why can't they just say, "I dunno?" I mean, I can use the wife Upstage II to connect and it will stay on and connect 24/7. Why not the RAZR? Duh, I dunno. Another thing is that if I am in an area that has EVDO, it will connect at that speed instead of the 3G speed.
As far as the cap goes... I dunno. I read a lot about it but from all the representative of sprint that I've talk with, customer care, technical service, and sprint store personnel, they all tell me that it is unlimited data usage with unlimited roaming data usage too. And yes, SprintPCS customer care personnel tells me that EVDO is availible in this area. It's not but they say it is. So it isn't because I am on 1x. They are telling me unlimited data usage with EVDO. Eh, maybe I should go and read my contract again?
Overall, I got to say that there are bigger and better things out there. But for me, the cost and infrastructure is well worth it even if I am on "dial-up" speed. I mean, how many times can you take *your* DSL or ADSL connection with you?
Update: YAY! EVDO here now. Of course not yet where I live but it is in the Wausau area... YAY!!!
Update: Whooopie!!! As of today, it is in my area!!! 500k only of course but that is better then even 60k!!!
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Review by fenix_jn
Posted: 65 days ago
member for 1.7 years, 215 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Miami,Miami-Dade,FL
$10 per month
about 1 days
"Better than dial-up. Excellent as backup connection"
"Its not DSL/HSI"
"Reliable connection, better than dial up but dont expect large downloads"
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Currently I'm using this connection as backup. Of course, the slow connection can be due to the fact that the modem used is a cellphone (a treo 700p) and not an actual broadband card. The maximum speed reached is about 250 - 290 Kbps and about 128 Kbps upload. I'm sure a broadband card can reach about 1 Mbps.
The low price is a bundled solution. Install is basically limited to connect a cable on the phone (USB) and running the application on the phone. So far, a few disconnections, as expected from wireless access. So far, I'm happy with the service.
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