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TLG James posted:If you look at the timestamps, the faster one is newer = Aio I assume. I know, it's only 450kB/s, which is considerably slower than what I get: 
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FAUXTON posted:I know, it's only 450kB/s, which is considerably slower than what I get: HSPA+ is capped at 4mb/s LTE is capped at 8.
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Athenry posted:HSPA+ is capped at 4mb/s LTE is capped at 8. Well that explains it. The difference is largely academic anyway, it's probably less of a comparative delay than the processing overhead on webpages where it might actually be noticeable. I just thought someone was getting hosed out of half the speed he was paying for.
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I have been using straight talk for abut 3 months now. This is from my Nexus 5 just a minute ago. I live in Texas. I pay $45 a month and I think your crazy if your spending more than that anywhere else. 
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Citycop posted:I have been using straight talk for abut 3 months now. This is from my Nexus 5 just a minute ago. I live in Texas. I pay $45 a month and I think your crazy if your spending more than that anywhere else. I wouldn't touch straight talk with a ten foot pole. I got hosed out of my old phone number by Net10 and Straight Talk is the same crowd of motherfuckers under a different name.
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Citycop posted:I have been using straight talk for abut 3 months now. Check out AIO wireless, it's owned by AT&T proper rather than America Movil. Customer service is much better than ST/N10, and depending on your needs, the prices are better. You could be paying $35/month for the same coverage, or $45/month for the exact same service package without Straight Talk's dumb anti-streaming policy.
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Straight Talk and Net10 suffer from the same problem: TracFone. TracFone doesn't give a poo poo if their services aren't working, they don't care if you're being throttled for something you didn't do, and they will gently caress you over eventually. They do NOT like porting out ANY numbers. They are required to do so by federal law but they'll do their best to gently caress it up somehow or make the process slow. You could get lucky but this is doubtful. I worked for Virgin Mobile before and, to be honest, when a port-in or port-out is slow, it's not because of "our systems are going slow", it's because one side is loving around and it's usually the carrier you're moving away from. TracFone was notoriously bad at taking their sweet time and would regularly take the maximum of 72 hours. I constantly had MMS issues on ST. I was told multiple times that it "must be your phone" and constantly told to "reboot your device" or "it is an app on your phone" or "what apps are you using"? Each time, they had to "fix" something. They fixed nothing but claimed they did. Honestly, ST isn't really worth it. Everyone who jumped on ST when I did moved on not long after I switched to AIO. One is even going to Verizon Prepaid because ST was that bad. The other is moving to AIO as well. Enough of my rant though.  I DID remember to post this:  These are apparently the new colors of AIO Wireless. No idea why the website still has the magenta-ish colors, but that color was no where to be seen in the AIO stores I went to. Also, I find that map to be really tacky for some reason. It's literally a thick piece of plastic just in the shape of the USA and just stuck to the wall. It was the hugest display in the entire store so it'd draw your eye as soon as you walked in. ...Seriously, even the AT&Ts stores here in Omaha don't have this just...what.
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FAUXTON posted:I wouldn't touch straight talk with a ten foot pole. I got hosed out of my old phone number by Net10 and Straight Talk is the same crowd of motherfuckers under a different name. I ported my number into ST, then out to AT&T, then into Net10 and then to GoPhone, and then to Verizon without issue. Now I will say their CS was awful, but they didn't do anything that ridiculous.
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Lblitzer posted:I ported my number into ST, then out to AT&T, then into Net10 and then to GoPhone, and then to Verizon without issue. Now I will say their CS was awful, but they didn't do anything that ridiculous. I am unfortunately getting dicked around right now porting from ST to AIO and currently without a working phone. I read online that it was much easier to port ST > GoPhone > AIO than ST > AIO but of course that was after the ball got rolling. If by any stroke of luck any of you goons work for AIO or ST, please help me get this poo poo situated via PM.
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Lblitzer posted:I ported my number into ST, then out to AT&T, then into Net10 and then to GoPhone, and then to Verizon without issue. Now I will say their CS was awful, but they didn't do anything that ridiculous. They basically froze me out and strung me along about how I was entering my account number/SIM number incorrectly, then it was my PIN that was incorrect, then it was possibly a market conflict (like how you can't even port a 402 area code number into T-Mobile, or even onto a T-Mo MVNO like Net10's T-Mobile service) and the number might not have been able to be ported. Eventually the number was lost. I have GV but MMS happens to be rather heavily used by a lot of people I know and I'm not going to go sperging to them about Hangouts.
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SB35 posted:I am unfortunately getting dicked around right now porting from ST to AIO and currently without a working phone. I read online that it was much easier to port ST > GoPhone > AIO than ST > AIO but of course that was after the ball got rolling. If by any stroke of luck any of you goons work for AIO or ST, please help me get this poo poo situated via PM. Yeah, I had to go from Net10 to Gophone to Aio. But Aio is working pretty well so far. Haven't had any "you're connected to the tower, but your data isn't working" moments like I constantly got on Net10.
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Speaking of AIO, AT&T just got the ok from the FCC to buy Leap Wireless. http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/13/5505798/fcc-approves-att-purchase-of-leap-wireless Looks like it'll remain CDMA for a while as AT&T is required to honor all CDMA roaming that Leap had. They'll start deploying LTE using Leap's unused spectrum within 90 days or 12 months of closing, and they've agreed to offer the cheap plans that Cricket customers are used to. As for AIO, this shouldn't change anything but the name. If anything, Cricket will become GSM and CDMA for a while (with BYOP GSM plans), and keep the same rates and whatnot.
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ThermoPhysical posted:Looks like it'll remain CDMA for a while as AT&T is required to honor all CDMA roaming that Leap had. This isn't the actual text from the FCC (at least I don't think it is), but the exact phrasing is: The article posted:Honor existing CDMA roaming agreements that AT&T is assuming from Leap so long as it operates the CDMA network. That makes it sound to me like they can turn off the CDMA network the day the transaction's finalized. They just have to honor roaming agreements until they do.
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ThermoPhysical posted:Speaking of AIO, AT&T just got the ok from the FCC to buy Leap Wireless. gently caress. I was liking the new Aio color too 
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FAUXTON posted:gently caress. I was liking the new Aio color too Aio actually just put out this website answering questions for both Cricket users and Aio users. http://merger-info.aiowireless.com/ If you are on Aio Wireless: AioWireless.com posted:Are Aio Wireless and Cricket Wireless one company now? If you're on Cricket Wireless: AioWireless.com posted:The power of the new Cricket is coming soon. Here's what you need to know right now:
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ThermoPhysical posted:Aio actually just put out this website answering questions for both Cricket users and Aio users. Oh god damnit Aio, don't gently caress this up. It's already bad enough that you decided to rebrand yourself as the official brand of walmart and call center employees everywhere. I was liking that understated seafoamish green you had going on and now you're probably going to adopt the EXXXXTREME TECH black/lime color palette from 1998/The Matrix/Monster Energy. All you've got left is your service and if that starts lagging I'm loving gone. I don't know where but it won't be with Cricket. Ugh.
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TLG James posted:At least you can pay your bill at gas stations now How long til they're set up as a kiosk in Walmart and a little mini display in the goddamn grocery store?
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FAUXTON posted:How long til they're set up as a kiosk in Walmart and a little mini display in the goddamn grocery store? Someone who works for Cricket posted on Droid Life's article saying he was worried that AT&T would go after the stores that don't sell well: Ronald Lockwich posted:Being a Sales Rep for a authorized premiere with service Cricket store, this has me worried. AT&T is a more strict company and I don't think they would hesitate to close down stores that don't do so well (Gross Ads / Upgrades / Etc.). I get this idea because around Pittsburgh where I work it's like a 10/1 ratio of Cricket to AT&T stores. http://www.droid-life.com/2014/03/14/atts-aio-wireless-will-turn-into-cricket-wireless/#comment-1284610592 No one has done anything in response to his comment.
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I don't know if I understand why they are using the Cricket name and not AIO. Cricket reeks of "WE FLASH AND JAILBREAK PHONEZ" type of sketchy run down strip mall stores. I picture people walking up with grocery bag full of change to pay their bill on the first of the month. I guess it sounds cheap and affordable, which is the prepaid target market? AIO branding seems better to me, but farewell I guess.
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hotsauce posted:I don't know if I understand why they are using the Cricket name and not AIO. Cricket reeks of "WE FLASH AND JAILBREAK PHONEZ" type of sketchy run down strip mall stores. I picture people walking up with grocery bag full of change to pay their bill on the first of the month. Mostly because they're probably trying for Cricket's customer base to merge into AIO's. Cricket doesn't have the BEST coverage (it was about on par with Boost/Virgin Mobile/Sprint when I was on it back in early 2000s) but there's a LARGE amount of people on it. For a while, Cricket was on top of the prepaid pile around Nebraska then Virgin Mobile, Boost, and Straight Talk jumped in. AIO + Cricket would give them a pretty decently sized userbase but they'll have to do some major rebranding if they want to get rid of the "this carrier is for the poors" thing. Going to GSM definitely will push some people off as, for all most of these people know, their phone just "works". No fiddling with SIM cards or APNs or anything. Yes, it's sad, but just the addition of SIM cards and APNs could force some people away from it. Not to mention they would have to buy a new phone too but AT&T might just swap them with a comparable phone anyway. Huh. Weird, half awake rant aside, I found this: http://www.mycricket.com/support/faq/how-is-mobile-hotspot-cricket-tethering-used%3F Apparently, Cricket now has tethering for their phones. Maybe AIO will allow this proper and we won't have people doing stupid poo poo.
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ThermoPhysical posted:Mostly because they're probably trying for Cricket's customer base to merge into AIO's. I don't think people will be put off by SIM cards and APNs because they'll get the phone setup in the store before they let them leave like they already do. The only people that end up doing self setup are people who buy prepaid phones from Walmart/Target/Best Buy anyway. CDMA isn't easier for self setup anyway and now that we moved to LTE all CDMA phones have SIM cards also. Sprint tried to do "embedded" SIMs but that only lasted for the year of the GS3 as the OEMs revolted.
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Stick100 posted:I don't think people will be put off by SIM cards and APNs because they'll get the phone setup in the store before they let them leave like they already do. The only people that end up doing self setup are people who buy prepaid phones from Walmart/Target/Best Buy anyway. There are a lot of Cricket places that sell the phones second-hand like gas stations and tobacco stores. You'd have to set the phone up on your own there too as the cashiers are pretty much incompetent. In all honesty though, the very idea of "I have to get a new phone" will turn people away more than self-setup will. Unless there's a voucher program to swap phones or an insane discount, they'll lose some Cricket customers.
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I don't care so much about "for the poors" since "prepaid" is basically still the same thing. I'm more pissed about it because of what that other guy said, about how Cricket is for stolen/blacklisted-due-to-unpaid-bills phones. Because it loving is. Look on craigslist sometime around 2-3 months after a flagship release on Sprint. You'll see tons of that flagship phone *BAD ESN FLASHED TO CRICKET* I don't want to be like "oh I have Cricket" and immediately get the stink eye like I'm about to reach for their loving wallet. At least when I namedrop Aio people don't know what the gently caress it is.
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Ugh. I don't know what the gently caress I was trying to say when I made that post last night... Anyway... FAUXTON posted:I don't care so much about "for the poors" since "prepaid" is basically still the same thing. To be perfectly honest, at least around Omaha, you wouldn't get this reaction. You'd mostly get the reaction of "Oh, that person's poor. They can't afford poo poo." Hell, I got this reaction from someone in the AT&T store near Staples because I had asked about a wireless charger and had casually mentioned I was on Straight Talk. It wasn't until I whipped out the Nexus 4 (which was the current Nexus at the time at a nice price-tag of $388 with tax and shipping) did they do a double-take and stop acting like I couldn't afford poo poo in the store. When I was on Cricket, the worst I remember was having to go to their corporate store (which is, oddly enough, near that same AT&T store...) and having to wait in extremely long lines just to get service. It got so bad, they started giving out free cookies and allowing people to eat as much as they wanted as they'd most likely be there for a while. Whatever I was trying to say last night, bah. What I'm mostly worrying about is the congestion on the network. Cricket has a LOT of people (at least in Omaha) and those people on top of Aio's current--albeit small--customer base...I don't know. Hopefully, it's not that bad. I don't really give a poo poo about people thinking I'm poor or whatever because usually when they realize your one phone is more than what they pay per month on-contract AND it's not some cheap piece of poo poo, they shut up. As for the whole "people will think I'll steal their phone and flash it to Cricket" thing, if AT&T rebrands it right, there'll be no way to do this and they need to let the public know via commercials and poo poo. I don't know how they could but I guess via word of mouth?
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SB35 posted:Switching over to AIO from StraightTalk has been a little more work than normal, but a total breeze with the great service from AIO. The port hasn't ocurred yet so I'll update when finished but.... Quoting myself from a week ago and updating. 7. Called in to activate the SIM and was told it had been activated power off and on the phone and it should be working within 3 hours at the latest. Still hadn't actually paid yet. 8. Wait overnight, wake up phone still not working. Do a support chat with AIO and am told they're working on the port and think something is hosed up, am given a case number. 9. Support chat with Straight Talk and they say the port has gone through on the day it was requested (one week ago) they say there's nothing more they can do. Losing her phone number panic sets in. 10. GF is now frustrated. AIO SIM isn't giving her any service and ST SIM payment has lapsed. I put a prepaid $2/day Tmo SIM in her phone to get her through until it's all figured out. GF isn't happy because she doesn't want to lose her number. I am in the doghouse. 11. I chat with AIO and Straight Talk again trying to figure out where the hold up is. ST is rude and unhelpful basically telling me it was ported out on Mar. 6, 14 to where they can't say, confirmation number, none. I am then rudely disconnected. AIO assures me that the port will go through and advises me to just be patient 1-2 more days. I'm not patient. Email the original customer support person I'd exchanged with initially praising the initial service and complaining about the hold up as it's now been 48 hours since I tried to activate the SIM and it doesn't work and I'm afraid they number has been lost into the ether. She mails me back the next morning 2.5 days after initial activation and tells me port has finally succeeded, now I just gotta pay. She offers to call and get my card number to pay (you see I can't pay online because my account is not active until I pay, and my online account cannot be setup until my account is active. Catch 22.) 12. Lady calls me and gets the card info and says we're golden. So I swap in the AIO SIM card when I get home and it works. Finally. So, the TL;DR here is basically, porting from ST to AIO can be done but it can be a headache and expect 48-72 hour delay. Others have reported a much easier time porting ST > Gophone/Tmo > AIO as that can be done in a day all online and will only cost you ~$5 for a Gophone/Tmo SIM and a day of PAYG service. Other reports suggest that if you go to an AIO store the ST > AIO port can be done in a normal amount of time. SB35 fucked around with this message at 19:52 on Mar 15, 2014 |
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TLG James posted:Just port to google voice and never deal with that poo poo again. I'm already on GV so I don't have to deal with that poo poo. But iPhones don't play nice with GV so unfortunately porting is necessary. However, now that we're away from Straight Talk porting should be relatively straight-forward.
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ThermoPhysical posted:Ugh. I don't know what the gently caress I was trying to say when I made that post last night... Yeah, the whole "eww poor" thing falls apart when you paid 2-3x as much for your phone because you bought it off-contract/unlocked. Why get ripped off for service every month when you can just pay upfront for the phone?  There's no avoiding the shady bodega thing though. I'm just waiting for the day when they start directing me to "TOBACCO & PHONES 4 LESS" for anything I need to do in-person. There's almost always a cop parked at the one I pass on my way to/from work.
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TLG James posted:Just port to google voice and never deal with that poo poo again. I tried, it says my number is in a region that they can't port from (because gently caress flyover country I guess?) FAUXTON posted:There's no avoiding the shady bodega thing though. I'm just waiting for the day when they start directing me to "TOBACCO & PHONES 4 LESS" for anything I need to do in-person. There's almost always a cop parked at the one I pass on my way to/from work. I don't know why everyone thinks this will happen. AT&T now owns both AIO and Cricket, right? Why would they allow the same shady stuff to continue, but now with their name attached? If Cricket weren't CDMA I'd conjecture that AT&T bought them to put a stop to all the stolen phone reactivation poo poo.
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A Pinball Wizard posted:I tried, it says my number is in a region that they can't port from (because gently caress flyover country I guess?) Sup flyover country buddy    A Pinball Wizard posted:I don't know why everyone thinks this will happen. AT&T now owns both AIO and Cricket, right? Why would they allow the same shady stuff to continue, but now with their name attached? If Cricket weren't CDMA I'd conjecture that AT&T bought them to put a stop to all the stolen phone reactivation poo poo. They're not doing the CDMA -> LTE rollover overnight. It's going to take a year at the very least and even then it's still "BAD ESN FLASHED TO" Cricket. I'm no Don Draper but I can tell you ATT isn't going to roll out commercials saying "TOTALLY LEGIT NOW HONEST." I'd prefer if they found a way to cross-check the ESN lists with their ESN activation history and just put the screws to anyone whose ESN was issued to a device not matching what was activated. Not sure if there's a way to find out the original device as issued, but if they find an ESN that was originally issued to some Huawei shitbox, but was activated on an account that is using an iPhone, advise them of the problem, turn that poo poo off, and send them a cheapo free phone as an olive branch. It isn't like they weren't aware of the circumstances behind their purchase - you don't buy a current-gen flagship phone for $150 on craigslist from a guy who tells you it can't be activated with the carrier whose logo is on the drat thing without realizing that poo poo's shady as gently caress.
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FAUXTON posted:Sup flyover country buddy How'd you make that GIF? :v
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ThermoPhysical posted:How'd you make that GIF? :v http://blog.bahraniapps.com/?page_id=21
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TLG James posted:I saw that t-mobile's commercial advertises for Omaha in the ad. Lol I went to a T-Mobile store in Topeka back in December, they claim Omaha should have 3G "at least". She even allowed me behind the counter to actually see where their computers claim T-Mobile exists in Omaha.
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ThermoPhysical posted:I went to a T-Mobile store in Topeka back in December, they claim Omaha should have 3G "at least". She even allowed me behind the counter to actually see where their computers claim T-Mobile exists in Omaha. It exists insofar as subscribers who live elsewhere being able to get service passing through. People living here able to buy T-Mobile service? Nope. ThermoPhysical posted:How'd you make that GIF? :v http://sourceforge.net/projects/gooncam/ E: I might just be pissy but I'm getting odd network issues today. It was doing the "connected to LTE but not transferring data" thing earlier and now it just seems sluggish. I am not feeling optimistic. E2: Hangouts chat messages (not SMS) are failing to send. Mother Fucker. FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Mar 17, 2014 |
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After a few months on Republic Wireless, I decided to pull the trigger on a Nexus 5 and use it on AIO. It should be arriving on Wednesday, I shouldn't have any problems taking it into the AIO store and getting it on the Basic plan, right? Or is it one of those things where it would be easier to do everything through the website?
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PurpleJesus posted:After a few months on Republic Wireless, I decided to pull the trigger on a Nexus 5 and use it on AIO. It should be arriving on Wednesday, I shouldn't have any problems taking it into the AIO store and getting it on the Basic plan, right? Or is it one of those things where it would be easier to do everything through the website? You shouldn't have any issues, no.
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