Sprint’s Performance IMPROVING

I have friends around the country, and in the past 3 years or so, I’ve heard really bad feedback on Sprint as a carrier. Everyone I knew that had their mobile service thru Sprint would use it for a short time, find the service totally suckie when they were traveling, and subsequently drop Sprint for either T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T, or Cingular (and Cingular was pretty crappy for a while there too by the way).

Oh but Sprint has come up in the world. According to the latest J.D. Power & Assoc report taken from one of their recent surveys, they found that Sprint is running just about neck-and-neck now with the power players like Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile.

There’s a reason for their success-hard work. They’ve actually put in the elbow grease (time/work/money) necessary to improve the product quality and become real players again. I’m glad to see it, because I believe we need diversity and plenty of options/choices. If one gets too big, then generally service will fall off and quality suffers. (Like in politics.)

In an excerpt from the article by Jason Gertzen of the Kansas City Star, he states:

“Since 2006, Sprint said, the company has invested more than $16 billion in network projects.”

Mr. Gertzen then goes on to say that Verizon is still top-dog, but that Sprint is definitely improving, and that Verizon is starting to slip.

For the entire (it’s short and sweet) article go here

http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/1096551.html

Here’s the latest list on all cell carriers in the U.S. courtesy of PhoneDog.com

National/Regional Carriers:

• AT&T
• T-Mobile
• Verizon
• Sprint
• Cingular
• Alltell
• CellularOne
• Nextel
• U.S. Cellular

Specialty Carriers:

• Centennial
• DigiTel
• Edge
• Helio
• NTelos
• Qwest
• SouthernLINC
• SureWest

Pre-Paid ONLY Carriers:

• AlltelU
• GoCingular
• Boost
• Cricket
• Liberty
• MetroPCS
• Net10
• T-Mobile-To-Go
• TracFone
• VerizonWireless Pay-as-you-go
• Virgin Mobile

http://www.phonedog.com/cell-phone-research/companies/default.aspx

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Google Will Let You UN-SEND Your Email

Really . . . or that’s what they’re claiming. Who was it that tried to offer that service a while back?

I can’t remember, but apparently it didn’t take off. (If someone remembers, please refresh my memory on that.)

So, Gmail claims that it can now allow you to get mail back that you’ve already sent. The catch-it has to be within a 5 minute time frame of when it was sent.

We all do send things from time to time and then, immediately after hitting SEND, we think DOH! I wanted to include so-and-so in that post. Or,  WAIT-not from THAT addreeeesssss!

Personally I don’t see real feasibility in an unsend option, simply because it’s really not practical. Most of my email comes in almost immediately after being sent. Often under 5 minutes. And besides, sending a quick email is exactly that-QUICK. It’s not like we got drunk and decided to write a stupid letter to some former whatever and now need to get it back (which would be stupid-but I think several people can relate anyway, since we’re all human).

I use Outlook (the full version) and it gives me a LOT (stress lot here) more control than any webmail program. One of my tech buddies (and mentor) encouraged me to leave the unstable webmail world behind for the surer email programs a few years ago. I’m SO glad I listened, there really is an extreme difference.

BUT, if the unsend idea sounds heavenly to you, then go for it! Why not?

You can read the full (actually very short) article here if you’re interested in Google’s new unsend feature. And if you get the chance, drop me a line and tell what you think please, I’m curious as to what the general consensus will be.

http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-41801-140.html

Filed under: Computer, National, Tech , email programs, gmail, Google, options, Outlook, unsend, unsend email, webmail