@rocnrule:

Ironically, I was born in Mississauga, Ontario but now live in Georgia in the US. I'm not saying I agree or disagree with the stance on the curent war, but the soliders themselves are generally good people offering their lives to protect ours. Whether or not the cause is just isn't their call. Just the fact that they have offered to stand in front of a bullet to protect the rest of us is enough to earn my respect and gratitude.

@DXDawg:
Sorry, I live in Canada and that is where the comment comes from. It's your world presence that downgrades the world's opinion of us. Just as I am sure you could care less about the Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanastan by American bullets over and over again. Maybe if they weren't so stupid and quick to pull the trigger on us, I would give them more respect.

@rocnrule:

I actually agree that they should be treated as every other person with regard to their contracts, and quite honestly, I don't see the problem OR the story here. It's your "What have they done for me?" comment that pisses me off.

The flip-side of course being that if you want to cancel Sprint without early termination fee, just figure out a way to make more than 50% of your calls for a few months while roaming.

I don't know about other people's Sprint phones, but mine has a nifty little option that lets you put it into Roaming Only mode, so that it will only make digital roaming calls when the Sprint tower is too far away for dependable service, but close enough to get a teeny bit of reception intermittently.

If I wanted out of my (roaming-included) contract quickly, all I would have to do is put the phone into Roaming Only mode for, say, a month or two, which would make ALL of my calls roaming calls. I am sure that other Sprint phones have a similar setting somewhere deep within the settings menus.

As for the "rural" comment -- I wish! Come up and drive around here, get stuck in traffic with lights every 50 feet and tell me again how rural it is.

@DXDawg:
Only as worthless as them, no more, no less. Excuse me for believing we should ALL be treated EQUAL!

@ Rocnrule:

Wow, how worthless are you?

I can confirm the last two.

@160medic:

Three comments in? You can troll better than that.

It's Americans that Sprint hates.

What a nutjob.

PS: sounds like - based on their initial instinct to sodomize serving US military personnel - Sprint's a Republican company. Good job!

Some quotes from the article:

Essential to Mrs. Clinton's courtship of the military was winning a seat in 2002 on the Senate Armed Services Committee, which she had vigorously sought. In that role, she regularly meets with military officers, has traveled three times to Iraq and has attended hearings on global conflicts and the needs of the armed services.

John Batiste, a retired major general and former commander of the First Infantry Division, who also consults with Mrs. Clinton, said, "Very, very few politicians have any military experience, and they're naïve - they don't understand what it takes to develop a big picture, unified strategy to take a country to war.

"She's the kind of person who would listen to sound military advice," General Batiste said, "and not dismiss it or discard it. And I'm a lifelong Republican."

West Point isn't that far away from civilization, in fact, it's a small city....

The part that got me about this story is that Sprint actually did the right thing, after a phone call. A story would have been if the folks had call and gotten crap about reinstating their service.

I just read this as: consumer has problem, calls customer service, problem is fixed. What's the big deal?

Try reading the news, ya tool.

[www.nytimes.com]

The important word you omitted was "voluntarily".

Ben: SmarterChild, you're a robot. Do you think that Sprint's robots should have cancelled the contracts of 200 Army servicemen and women because their phones were roaming?
SmarterChild: Yes indeed.
Ben: How come? Isn't it mean to do that to our servicemen and women?
SmarterChild: What a question. What do you think is the answer?
Ben: I don't know. I'm asking you.
SmarterChild: Whatever you say, Ben.
Ben: You're worse than Sprint's customer service!
SmarterChild: Hey, that's not nice.

Seriously, though. I think I've had actual conversations like that with CSRs before!

BTW, your brothers and sisters aren't exempt from the contract they signed because they're in the military. The contract states that if they roam too much, they get booted. I don't know what the big deal is here, I really don't. Most people would love a "get out of jail free" card from their cellular provider.

What?