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Is Sprint PCS the only carrier to do this?

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When someone from a Sprint PCS phone calls my home number it displays their name on caller id. I haven't found another carrier that does this. Every other phone just says the area they are calling from. Either Birmingham or Atlanta Northeast,etc.

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I should have made that clear. When a Sprint Phone calls a landline that has caller id, both name and number is displayed.
 
Originally posted by: Millenium
When someone from a Sprint PCS phone calls my home number it displays their name on caller id. I haven't found another carrier that does this. Every other phone just says the area they are calling from. Either Birmingham or Atlanta Northeast,etc.
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Most likely because you have their name stored in your phone book. No sprint phone that I know of does show their name.

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Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Originally posted by: Millenium When someone from a Sprint PCS phone calls my home number it displays their name on caller id. I haven't found another carrier that does this. Every other phone just says the area they are calling from. Either Birmingham or Atlanta Northeast,etc.
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Most likely because you have their name stored in your phone book. No sprint phone that I know of does show their name. Edit: spElin'
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He meant that when people call FROM a Sprint phone TO a landline with caller ID, he sees their name. That's cool, I didn't know Sprint did that!
 
Originally posted by: Skawttey
How is sprint's cell phone service? Have you had any problems with it? I am thinking about getting it.
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I think this is largely dependent on what area of the country you're in. I don't think my phone conversations are abnormally clear-sounding. At best, they're as good as a landline, at least for me. At worst...PCS seems more vulnerable to interference from buildings and such.
 
Exactly I should have made that clear. When a Sprint Phone calls a landline that has caller id, both name and number is displayed.

Sprint service is good if you are in a metro area. Hell I even get service in Mentone,Al a freakin' town on a mountain in one of the most rural parts of Bama. So hey it works for me.
 
if i call from my sprint phone to a landline caller id phone, my name shows up.

sprint sucks horribly, i'm dumping it this month (my 1 yr. contract from hell finally wore up). switching to voicestream.

reasons? customer service is HORRIBLE. they replaced their cust service phone with a virtual assistant, incapable of handling much more than a FAQ would. you can't transfer to a real service rep from this virtual assistant (if it is possible, it's extremely difficult). i had to email their tech line and wait a week before they gave me a phone number. you can imagine how happy i was to find i would be paying $2-4 or a minute to talk to a rep using that phone number. their one great plus is the ability to check account status from their website- which has been down half the time i've tried to check it.

their phones lack quality IMHO, and the service i've experienced has been horrible. i've never had dropped calls until i switched to sprint. i cannot wait to get rid of them. Northern California, by the way.

 
Originally posted by: ZeroBurn
if i call from my sprint phone to a landline caller id phone, my name shows up.

sprint sucks horribly, i'm dumping it this month (my 1 yr. contract from hell finally wore up). switching to voicestream.

reasons? customer service is HORRIBLE. they replaced their cust service phone with a virtual assistant, incapable of handling much more than a FAQ would. you can't transfer to a real service rep from this virtual assistant (if it is possible, it's extremely difficult). i had to email their tech line and wait a week before they gave me a phone number. you can imagine how happy i was to find i would be paying $2-4 or a minute to talk to a rep using that phone number. their one great plus is the ability to check account status from their website- which has been down half the time i've tried to check it.

their phones lack quality IMHO, and the service i've experienced has been horrible. i've never had dropped calls until i switched to sprint. i cannot wait to get rid of them. Northern California, by the way.
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Dude not hardly. First of all the virtual assitant "Claire" is not hard to get around at all. She will ask you what you want to do. If you say "talk to a representative" she will say what for. Just say "talk to a representative"again and voila you are connected to a representative. BTW I have never held for a rep and I have called at all times of day. It also isn't 2-4 bucks a minute. It is a free call and doesn't charge your minutes. Too me customer service is the main reason I have stayed. That and the great retention plan they gave me.
 
I've had a really good experience with Sprint in SoCal. I'm working on year #2 right now. I only have come across one area of spotty coverage and its always worked well for me when I travel to the Bay Area. I'm now just waiting until they roll out more 3G phones, hopefully one from Motorola.
 
Originally posted by: Millenium
Originally posted by: ZeroBurn
if i call from my sprint phone to a landline caller id phone, my name shows up.

sprint sucks horribly, i'm dumping it this month (my 1 yr. contract from hell finally wore up). switching to voicestream.

reasons? customer service is HORRIBLE. they replaced their cust service phone with a virtual assistant, incapable of handling much more than a FAQ would. you can't transfer to a real service rep from this virtual assistant (if it is possible, it's extremely difficult). i had to email their tech line and wait a week before they gave me a phone number. you can imagine how happy i was to find i would be paying $2-4 or a minute to talk to a rep using that phone number. their one great plus is the ability to check account status from their website- which has been down half the time i've tried to check it.

their phones lack quality IMHO, and the service i've experienced has been horrible. i've never had dropped calls until i switched to sprint. i cannot wait to get rid of them. Northern California, by the way.
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Dude not hardly. First of all the virtual assitant "Claire" is not hard to get around at all. She will ask you what you want to do. If you say "talk to a representative" she will say what for. Just say "talk to a representative"again and voila you are connected to a representative. BTW I have never held for a rep and I have called at all times of day. It also isn't 2-4 bucks a minute. It is a free call and doesn't charge your minutes. Too me customer service is the main reason I have stayed. That and the great retention plan they gave me.
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I do the same thing to get around "Claire". I've never had any problems getting a hold of a real person. My only problem is that I drop calls all the time. Its almost to the point where I want to cancel my contract.
 
Sprint is crap. They are the only carrier not to have true SMS capability. You need to use their crappy webmail system to read your pseudo SMS pages. And a good chunk of the time you'll get service failures when attempting to do so. It takes me 2 minutes just to read an incoming SMS while everyone else gets it instantly. And the worst part is how Sprint knows its limitations but wont do anything about it because the two minutes it takes to retrieve your messages counts as airtime. Screw them!
 
hm, guess you guys have had more luck getting in touch with a rep, i've tried the same thing and gotten nothing. i'll have to try it again i suppose, this was when they'd first introduced claire, maybe it was before they implemented it or something. is the wait time still 20 minutes ? 😛

 
Originally posted by: vegetation
Sprint is crap. They are the only carrier not to have true SMS capability. You need to use their crappy webmail system to read your pseudo SMS pages. And a good chunk of the time you'll get service failures when attempting to do so. It takes me 2 minutes just to read an incoming SMS while everyone else gets it instantly. And the worst part is how Sprint knows its limitations but wont do anything about it because the two minutes it takes to retrieve your messages counts as airtime. Screw them!
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i thought having the AIM capability would override the need for SMS, boy was i wrong. airtime deducts from your minutes, takes longer, and is just a pain when you want to send a message (especially if they're not online). there is a certain cool factor involved in being able to go on AIM though i suppose ;P

 
I've noticed this too. My name pops up when I called landlines with caller id.

On cellphones it doesn't because the names programed in and it displays that.
 
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