To use Airave you must already have broadband(Cable/DSL) established in your home. You are more than likely not paying Sprint for your Cable/DSL usage, depending on your location…since sprint does not offer in home dsl/cable in most places anymore.

How would you correctly state that they are trying to “nickel and dime” you on a service that other carriers arent even offering.

Verizon has been terrible in my area for the last 5 years. The population has grown in thousands within those 5 years alone. There is still no plan set to build a Verizon tower in this location.

Why should sprint spend millions of dollars in an area where the population is 200…period? The Airave is a solution for those people.

I think that the customer base would be happy that Sprint is choosing to direct their profits in a direction to improve customer service and product availability, rather than building multi-million dollar towers in a much less demanding area.

The Airave requires a broadband connection to function correctly.If the customer is happy with one thing, they’re going to throw something else in to complain about, obviously. I’m not aware of many people who have an allotted amount of bandwidth to use on a monthly basis with their current home DSL/Cable provider. So if you have no worries on an overage of bandwidth, there should be nothing left to complain about. If you do have an allotted amount of bandwidth, I would recommend switching to a different dsl/cable provider…whether or not you plan to purchase the airave.

It costs more than $4.99 a month, since you must also have broadband service.
So..I understand this is a huge and helpful thing, and saves Sprint from needing to put up a tower for 4 people to get better reception….but shouldn’t Sprint eat the cost of this device?
i.e. I am paying for the bandwidth they are planning to use. I am paying for the cellphone service….

Why would they want to nickel and dime you for a feature that is essentially making network deployement easier on Sprint?

VA affiliates have already ordered it, and are waiting on delivery.

In area’s with wildlife and national parks, places surrounded by farmland and mountains. It is almost impossible to place a multi-million dollar tower, when land owners wont allow it.

In my location, this happens in quite a few places. so Airave is a huge improvement and great accessory to offer.

As far as the comparison to the T-Mobile unlimited calling from home(hot spot) plan. Their plan is ONLY available for 2 devices, the Blackberry Curve and the Samsung t409. Sprint offers it on any sprint CDMA device.

Back to this. Is this the solution to wi-max partnership with comcast?

Is there service THAT bad that they have to resort to this? I think Verizon is starting to cut them off on roaming. Sprint won’t even support me if I’m roaming, even if I am still paying for extra roaming.

It’s actually a great feature for people who live in low reception areas or have trouble with receptions in their home. Just as Mike said….phone reception is not guaranteed indoors by any wireless carrier.

I think it works a lot farther…

Easy and works great ..