Users Say Sprint Epic4G 3G Upload Speeds Limited To 150kbps

Miamicanes writes "Nearly everyone who owns a Sprint Samsung Epic 4G and has benchmarked its 3G performance has discovered that its 3G upload speeds are apparently limited to 150kbps. So far, Sprint has not officially acknowledged it as a problem, nor has it indicated whether this might be a firmware bug, a PRL issue, tower-related, or the result of a deliberate policy to cap 3G upload speeds. Regardless, the problem is causing widespread anger among Epic4G owners, many of whom have bitterly noted the irony of being charged a $10 surcharge so they can endure data transfers that are slower than they had 4 years ago (and a quarter of the speeds enjoyed by Evo owners on the same 3G network)." Cellphone networks are fickle beasts; can anyone out there with an Epic provide a counterexample?

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Cellphone service backwater - the USA

[khchung]

Am I the only here who noticed that only in the US of A do people always include the carrier when taking about phone models? "Sprint Samsung Epic 4G"?! What happened to just "Samsung Epic 4G"? What if you use that phone on another network, would that tell you if the problem is with the carrier or the phone?

Oh, you mean in the US, the phones are still locked to the carrier? You cannot simply take the phone and put another carrier's SIM into it? Does that mean you guys always replaces you phone when you switch carriers?

Wow, how many DECADES are the US behind the rest of the world in cellphone service?

Talk about a captured market. Why don't you guys get angry about that (carrier locked phones) first? Once you can easily switch carriers while keeping your phone and you phone number, nobody will put up with crap like putting artificial limits on the network.