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[–] Xicronic 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

My parents have a Sprint family plan so I'm on it, the service is pretty terrible. IMO Verizon would be the highest quality provider (and maybe the only real option in some rural areas) but they are also pricey. Once I finish college and self-sustain I plan to go T-Mobile since they use GSM and let you unlock the bootloader, so it is easiest to get a custom ROM and root.

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[–] rottenwheel [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Do you mind disclosing where you live, whether suburbs or big city? I keep hearing Sprint is unreliable in terms of coverage, yet others have said otherwise in both cases: Sprint and Boost Mobile, piggybacking their network services, as you may know.

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[–] Xicronic 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I visit family during the weekend so I'm usually in a big city during the school week and in the suburbs during the weekend. I get LTE most of the time in the city and a mix of LTE and 3G in the suburbs. But the connection is very spotty if you are indoors or in a car, for example I will usually not receive texts while I'm at the mall until I go outside. And the connection speed is a joke. We have unlimited high speed data and with a full bar LTE connection I can download files at 50-800 KB/s, usually hovering around 200 KB/s. As a "power user" I am unsatisfied but if you only text you'd probably be fine.