How is Sprint's cell phone service?
If you're thinking of switching to Sprint, I recommend you check out my post on my other blog. (http://www.jaypoc.com/sprint-cellphone-safety/). I won't repeat the details here, but basically Sprint sold me equipment that doesn't work on their network with a payment plan ($27/month for 2 years), and won't allow me to return the unusable device and get out of the payments, even though I asked to return it with in the first 20 days of owning the device. It seems that lately, I have had a lot of issues in fact.
- Representatives do not have all the details when they review and come to a decision (I had one claim I was already credited, when the credit was for a previous issue, and had nothing to do with my current complaint)
- They promise to apply credits or discounts, but fail to. Followup calls deny ever offering it.
- Reps don't check but claim there is no network issue, when 3 other reps and even the Sprint-supported message boards confirm the issue.
- Reps don't call back when promised. (This is a major pet peeve of mine)
- Phone reps advise you that you have to go to the store. Then the store personnel refuse to help referring you to the phone support.
- While most issues are resolved, it's not until you've exhausted 6 or more hours on the phone dealing with them.
- They changed my plan and I had to pull my phone records for the past 3 years to prove to them I was right. After 8 hours and tons of me shoving their own documentation back at them, they resolved the issue)
- They still can't explain what the "Premium Data Fee" is. I encourage anybody thinking about using Sprint to take a serious look at the other providers. Some of them may cost a bit more, but you get what you pay for.

