Sprint is reporting excellent fiscal Q1 numbers, detailing its best postpaid phone net additions in nine years. According to Sprint, the company’s “focus on delivering the best value proposition in wireless,” resulted in the fourth consecutive quarter of positive net additions with 173,000 in the quarter, compared to net losses of 12,000 in fiscal Q1 of 2015. To put that in layman’s, Sprint is now gaining more postpaid customers than it is losing, and for this company, that’s a major victory.
The company even credits its marketing campaign featuring the “Can you hear me now?” guy. Stated in the press release, “The campaign has been one of the most successful in company history. The ad has been viewed over 8 million times on YouTube and the company became postpaid net port positive against all three national carriers for the first time in over five years.”
More importantly for customers, Sprint discussed its plan for LTE Plus network expansion. Combining a tri-band spectrum portfolio along with LTE Advanced features, LTE Plus launched in 33 additional markets, bringing its grand total to 237 across the country. Sprint details that it plans a densification and optimization of the LTE Plus network, leading to better data speeds and networks reliability.
The Sprint LTE Plus Network, which combines a rich tri-band spectrum portfolio with the LTE Advanced features of carrier aggregation and antenna beamforming, launched in 33 additional markets, increasing the total to 237 markets across the country.
For a more thorough look at Sprint’s fiscal Q1 numbers, check out the via below.
If this affects Project Fi for the better, then yay!
Sprint has really never recovered. It was my first carrier when I started paying my own bill with the HTC Hero, and EVO. Now, nobody pays them any mind because their is so damn unreliable… it just hasn’t really gotten any better in comparison to the other carriers
Check out my Ookla Speedtest result. What’s your speed? http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/1995321308
This is what i get from Sprint.
Dear Sprint,
Your network still sucks.
I have never been a fan of Sprint’s speeds, but maybe it’s just where you are? Louisville, KY in a building downtown (where I might add, the coverage is worse than my house “out in the sticks”). I’ll try and post a screen shot from my home later as a comparison/objective test.
2nd shot with different server (cincinnati, still downtown)
A lot of my issues with Sprint are location-based. That’s about the best performance I’d get out of the network where I live. At home, I get absolutely no service. This is all in an area that supposedly has Sprint’s LTE Plus service.
Not only is Sprint’s coverage absolutely abysmal, but the speeds that subscribers get when they are connected are far from expectations.
I am also from Louisville. Recently cancelled my Sprint line. I keep track of all the carriers and there’s been no work on Sprint cell sites for quite some time in our city. I used to get some pretty great speeds when I would come across a site with B41, but there’s just too many Sprint sites that aren’t equipped with B41 to make it a great experience. I still have my Verizon and T-Mob lines. And with these Verizon speeds downtown, I really think it will be some time before anyone catches up with them.
To me, coverage is more important than speed. Yeah, I don’t want the equivalent of phone dial-up internet but a slow connection is better than no connection. Claiming the fastest speeds ever (as T-Mobile tends to do, and granted they’ve been expanding) doesn’t mean squat if your phone can’t connect in the first place.
I switched to Sprint for unlimited data. In the city it’s faster than Verizon. When we go out of city limits everyone has data except me. Unfortunately, the only two real options are Verizon or Sprint in Nebraska. There is no T-Mobile and ATT has a very weak presence here with worst coverage than Sprint.
That’s odd. T-Mobile actually shows fairly decent LTE coverage; quite a bit more than Sprint by the look of it.
I can pretty much guarantee you the T-Mobile map is not accurate a simple Google search with real world accounts is all that is necessary. T-Mobile is essentially 2g coverage in metro areas and that’s it. There isn’t even a T-Mobile brick and mortar store here and Project Fi isn’t available because they base availability off T-Mobile coverage currently…
It looks like T-Mobile is deploying band 12 across Nebraska. In other words, many existing phones won’t pick up the new LTE, but over the next couple of years, (or if you get a phone that supports band 12 now) they should have decent coverage.
Sprint…. lol
I’m camping right now at Detroit lake. 3 carriers represented by the peeps here, at&t (and cricket), T-Mobile (and metro pcs) and Sprint. All phones have full LTE 4g signals EXCEPT the sprint phones, they have zero signal…nothing, nodda, zip, zero, zilch.
That’s because the speeds are so fast that your phone can’t display them. And it’s super speedy… But everyone is using the network so it seems slow
Well do you have proof and what phones are you using, if Sprint has no native Signal it will roam on Verizon and still has Signal to make phone calls. But T mobile no signal no phone calls …….
A) I don’t give a rat’s ass if you believe me or not…proof? Dafuq? Whatever.
B) Sprints were able to make some calls in some areas, but not data and T-Mobile had FULL BARS lte /4g.
Want proof, drive over there yourself you nit.
Coverage…
My Hotspot hasn’t seen any speed increase yet…but I do enjoy my unlimited data for $46 a month. Thanks.
Nice! That’s even better than what I’m getting with Sprint. I have two lines of unlimited LTE for $104 (including taxes and fees). I know Sprint isn’t great everywhere but where I work and live I’m pulling 33 Mbps down and 13 up.
I’m on a old Framily Pran with full discount (8 lines). I don’t know who owns the other 6 lines, but I hope they don’t jump ship from Sprint.
Yeah….. No thanks.
And there is a leak of HTC S1 which is lower end nexus phone and DL posted nothing about it whaaat?