[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] crypt0kiddie:
I want to thank everyone for the feedback. Seems a lot of you are in the same boat as I am. I wanted to quote and reply to a bunch of the replies to my original post but that would be too time consuming so I'm just going to make a general reply that I hope covers some of the things I've see in this thread.

First off, to the comment about me being a 10+ year customer and not having enough sense to change from Sprint if I have so many issues with the speed. I haven't have speed issues the whole freaking 10 years. Hell, we didn't even really have "smart phones" when I signed up. We has flip phones with WAP browsers and they didn't need that much bandwidth. My speed was FINE when I had say my Samsung Instinct, Palm Pre etc. My speed didn't start tanking really bad until a few months into my HTC EVO 4G contract. Sprint replaced my phone a couple times which did not help. Finally after I complained a few times they upgraded me to a Epic 4G Touch about a year in to keep me as a customer. I'd been a Sprint customer so long I figured I'd give it a try. Did NOT help.

I've tried just about every combo of ROM, Modem and Kernal you can throw at one of these and I have found the EL29 based ROM with the FC15 to be the fastest too but the straight EL29 ROM/Modem has the best battery life for me and LUCKY for me, I'm 90% of the time on Wifi at home and Wifi at work.

It's when I'm off Wifi that my phones useless.

All of that said, my job has around 70 Sprint iPhones and guess what? The 3G on ALL of them sucks just as bad as my Epic 4G Touch. They are almost useless.

I work in the technology department for local school district and over see technology for about a dozen schools and everyone in our department has a Sprint iPhone AND an AT&T iPhone other then myself. All of the guys say the AT&T phones absolutely KILL the Sprints. I don't know if it's something in THIS area or what is going on but I work live in a major city and work in another one about 45 minutes from where I live and I have these Sprint 3G issues in BOTH cities and anywhere in between.

It just seems to me as Sprints gotten bigger, there network has gone to hell. I feel like I'm on 1.5mbit connection with rack of Cisco switches sharing the connection between 220+ people! Don't ask me how I know what that is like but it's SLOW! :D

In all the times I've called retention complaining, I've NEVER had them offer to let me leave and when I ask, they tell me I have to pay a fee. Thats OK though, I'm going to just flash the Verizon PRL and roll with that. If it gets me kicked, good, if not I'll ride out my year left on my contract then re-evaluate Sprint at that time and if its not any better, I'll jump ship over to AT&T or something.

I know plenty of AT&T users in my area and at work, it's KILLING Sprint. The LTE is fast, the 3G is fast. Honestly, I'd never use 5GB or even 3GB of data in a month so Sprints Unlimited is pointless anyway. I'd rather have limited data that is fast when I need it instead of unlimited and waiting on Sprint to roll out LTE is pointless, we saw how well that worked with 4G WiMax, epic fail.

On a side note, I'm in a WiMax market and it only works in a small section of downtown and it doesn't sound like it's ever going to expand.