OT: CSpire LTE coverage
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LTE hardly works for me in Starkville at all. I have to turn it off. I completely lose signal in my office. I'm in the Research Park, right next door to....... CSpire.
I guess the only good thing about CSpire is I have zero signal at hunting camp which is only 6.7 miles northwest of Stewart where I have great signal.
The switch will be on soon. Directv down. Cspire next. We get way overcharged for poor quality these days.
I guess the only good thing about CSpire is I have zero signal at hunting camp which is only 6.7 miles northwest of Stewart where I have great signal.
The switch will be on soon. Directv down. Cspire next. We get way overcharged for poor quality these days.
I use C Spire and in state I rarely have issues, but when I am out storm chasing I can pretty much map the MS/AL state line with my cell phone signal. My chase partner has verizon, so between the two of us we usually have a signal to know what is going on...except west AL. I have no idea what service people that live there use.
This is why I left CSpire. If you sniff the state line, your data goes to crap, even with full signal. I switched to Verizon and have had no issues.
Cspire is terrible out of state
In state they are so-so. They are the ONLY cell phone company that has service where I live (dead zone). But you can actually map the state boundary by cell signal. Hit the Bama, LA, or TN line and it's gone. At best you will have 3G. I was told by a CSPIRE rep that they don't "share towers" which means they are about 10-15 years behind the times.
I see them going tits-up in the next 5 years unless they change their business model. With the way modern society travels you can't be locked into coverage in just one state.
In state they are so-so. They are the ONLY cell phone company that has service where I live (dead zone). But you can actually map the state boundary by cell signal. Hit the Bama, LA, or TN line and it's gone. At best you will have 3G. I was told by a CSPIRE rep that they don't "share towers" which means they are about 10-15 years behind the times.
I see them going tits-up in the next 5 years unless they change their business model. With the way modern society travels you can't be locked into coverage in just one state.
At one time, C-Spire had an agreement with Verizon where Verizon used C-Spire's towers in MS (so they didn't have to build their own) and in return C-Spire could use Verizon's towers nationwide. But when Verizon built out the MS market, C-Spire was left hanging. They have to pay for any usage outside of MS and they're obviously cutting cost by not paying for 4G. It's a miracle such a small company with a limited market has survived as long as it has. I still use them because I really don't travel out of state much, but it's a pain in the *** even for me. If I spent more time out of state, there's no way I'd still be with them. I may not be with them much longer as it is.
They use Sprint now.
As my twitter tirade from a few weeks ago said - for me - my expectations are to have coverage everywhere in the state of MS including gamedays in Starkville and major metro metro areas outside the state. I don't travel enough with my job for coverage to matter but if they don't fix gamedays in Starkville - I will leave. And they seem to be fixing it if there tweet from last week is any indication.
As my twitter tirade from a few weeks ago said - for me - my expectations are to have coverage everywhere in the state of MS including gamedays in Starkville and major metro metro areas outside the state. I don't travel enough with my job for coverage to matter but if they don't fix gamedays in Starkville - I will leave. And they seem to be fixing it if there tweet from last week is any indication.
I had Cspire for six weeks years ago and dropped them like a hotcake. I was getting dropped calls in richland and flowood! I switched to verizon six years ago and hadn't looked back. Only problem I've had so far is last sat family and I were coming back from alabama and I was streaming our game and game kept freezing up on me once we got past meridian. It was absolutely worse once I got to brandon. And I had at&t for ten years. I like verizon better than those two.
The thing I don't get is that they changed their name from Cellular South to CSpire (whatever the F that means) allegedly to brand themselves outside of the state and the South. Wanted to go more nation wide, if you will. A complete joke. Go to New Orleans, the most travelled to city by Mississippians imo, and you literally cant send a picture message. You can make phone calls and send the green text messages (Analog?) but that's it.
Another thing I've learned from dealing with them, and all cell phone companies for that matter, is that "LTE" is up for interpretation. As far as I know there is no set of standards that governs what you can call 4G, LTE, 3G, 1x. Therefore some companies just changed their name of their fastest service to LTE or 4G. Anyone else notice that when LTE came about that 3G basically became an old radio signal? The first phones that came out ran Internet of 3G. Now I wouldn't dare try to Google something when I have 3G, it's a complete waste of time.
How has Cspire survived? Just cash out. They've had a good twenty year run. Take the buyout and making another fortune from it and go to the house. If they want to stay in business they should stick to the fiber to the home 1 gigabyte internet. I give them props for that, that internet is sweet. I've always thought AT&T was the best company nationwide but I hear a lot of people recommending Verizon. Is Verizon better than AT&T?
Another thing I've learned from dealing with them, and all cell phone companies for that matter, is that "LTE" is up for interpretation. As far as I know there is no set of standards that governs what you can call 4G, LTE, 3G, 1x. Therefore some companies just changed their name of their fastest service to LTE or 4G. Anyone else notice that when LTE came about that 3G basically became an old radio signal? The first phones that came out ran Internet of 3G. Now I wouldn't dare try to Google something when I have 3G, it's a complete waste of time.
How has Cspire survived? Just cash out. They've had a good twenty year run. Take the buyout and making another fortune from it and go to the house. If they want to stay in business they should stick to the fiber to the home 1 gigabyte internet. I give them props for that, that internet is sweet. I've always thought AT&T was the best company nationwide but I hear a lot of people recommending Verizon. Is Verizon better than AT&T?
I had a good 14 year run w/ Cellular South/CSpire but had to dump them when my kids started going to out of state church trips, soccer matches, school functions etc and I couldn't keep in touch w/ them or anybody back in MS when I traveled. Most of the time you get bombarded w/ offers to come back, I never heard 1 single word from them after I left w/ 4 lines and went to AT&T. That said AT&T has been fine for the last 4 years EXCEPT on campus on game days. They absolutely suck on game days for me. I can get a delayed text out occasionally and a call but data is nonexistent an hour or two before and after games.
Watch the game instead of checking twitter every five seconds and you won't have to worry about cell coverage inside of Davis wade. I look around at the games and just don't understand everyone's obsession with the constant phone checks. What the 17 is it people are afraid they are going to miss? If u use your phone as much for work as I do my phone is the last thing I am worried about when I get near the stadium much less in it. Sometimes I don't even take it with me. Enjoy the game folks. Tweet later
Gives me something to do during the endless ads that are blasted at us during every break. I also have an interest in scores as well and for some reason whoever is in charge of ribbon board insists on running only about 5 different scores all afternoon long and a ton of game start times that don't start for another 3 hours. And lastly, until you start paying my cell phone bill it's not 1 iota of your damn business what the hell I do with it.
I occasionally check other scores inside the stadium because my app has virtually instantaneous updates, when I want them. Saves staring at the ribbon waiting on scores to show up. During halftime, I text, read the news, just about anything other than watching the halftime show. Boring.
How are the prices? Verizon's have gotten better ... I have two lines with unlimited everything and (I think) 4GB of data (I rarely use data) for about $90. I haven't checked their plans lately so they may have gotten even better.
I’ve got two unlimited plans and paying for two phones...iPhone 7+ and I forgot what the wife has and pay $176.
I think my $90 plan includes paying for an iPhone 7. Seems like that is about $20 of the $90. I'd forgotten about that.
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