Now that Sprint is shifting away from "subsiding" their phones to leasing them or using "easy pay" I've been looking around at purchasing my own phone and activating it on their network. The problem is I'm getting a lot of conflicting and/or outdated information.
Does sprint allow an unlocked phone that isn't the iPhone or the Nexus to join their network (at full speeds)? The most I've been able to find is that Sprint 4G LTE uses frequency 1900 and 850 as their primary bands for 4G speeds with frequency 2500 as an alternative? But thrown into that mix is that it seems like Sprint achieves its 4G for the 1900 and 850 frequencies by using UMTS?
As you can tell I'm quite confused here, is it at all possible to bring a "non-sprint" phone onto the sprint network provided that it is unlocked and can handle the appropriate frequencies?
Does sprint allow an unlocked phone that isn't the iPhone or the Nexus to join their network (at full speeds)? The most I've been able to find is that Sprint 4G LTE uses frequency 1900 and 850 as their primary bands for 4G speeds with frequency 2500 as an alternative? But thrown into that mix is that it seems like Sprint achieves its 4G for the 1900 and 850 frequencies by using UMTS?
As you can tell I'm quite confused here, is it at all possible to bring a "non-sprint" phone onto the sprint network provided that it is unlocked and can handle the appropriate frequencies?