Another week of NFL football is in the books, and things are really starting to take shape. The Titans might not be the best team in the AFC, as they dropped a big game to the J! E! T! S! JETS JETS JETS. The Giants look like the best team in the NFL. The next few weeks promise to be exciting, so surely you want to keep up. What’s the best way to get all the NFL action on your BlackBerry? NFL Mobile Live, of course. Problem is, it’s only on Sprint. If that’s not horribly frustrating, I don’t know what is. 
The story, as I understand it, goes a little like this. When the application first appeared, you could download it to any device. People had varying levels of success running it on other networks, but from what I gather some Verizon and Alltel customers got the service working for a few weeks. Then Sprint issued a mandatory upgrade. The service would not work without it, and once the upgrade was installed all non-Sprint users were blocked. Booooo! Honestly, NFL Mobile Live is a great idea. You can listen to the radio broadcast of every game, which is great if you’re on the go — in the car, on the train, at the in-laws, etc. The biggest bonus, though, is that it broadcasts all NFL Network games, which began earlier this month, every Thursday night. So if you had the NFL Mobile Live app, you could enjoy the Eagles-Cardinals game on Thanksgiving. As it stands, even some Sprint customers are having trouble. The only advice I got was to watch the Thursday night games through Sprint TV. Otherwise, the application seems to do the trick. I don’t want my irateness to be hidden, though. The NFL is the most popular sport in the country, in terms of total unique viewers, but they continually screw the consumer. The Sunday Ticket only on DirecTV? Shady season ticket waiting lists? A mobile service on what has to be the crappiest carrier in the country? How far can one entity go to alienate its customers, yet still flourish? If the NFL continues the way it’s been going, I guess we’ll soon find out.
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If you want NFL Live on your carrier, then just say so. It is not cause for wholesale insults like Sprint “has to be the crappiest carrier in the country.” I suppose that makes us 50 million Sprint customers not very bright? I am very happy with Sprint, and my NFL Live. I am not happy with a Blackberry site that decides to start slamming other carriers for no good reason. For what it is worth, you now have one less reader. And I will be removing my BBGeeks branded Viigo from my outstanding Spring powered Curve.
Good point, brian.
Give us Sprint users a break. So we get NFL mobile, every other carrier gets IPhones, Androids and Storms…let us have our NFL fun…
I’m one of the Verizon 8830 customers for whom above was exactly my experience. Worked fine, then forced upgrade broke it. I wasn’t surprised though, it is marketed on tv as only available on the “now network” (Sprint). I am disappointed it stopped working as it was kinda cool, but it sure killed battery and no way you make it through more than 1 game without a charger handy. I don’t miss it enough to switch to Sprint to get it, and as bad as their customer service is and how poorly I was treated after the Nextel buyout (my corp acct got screwed for several THOUSAND in sms charges and Sprint response was in essence “too bad”) the only way I would go back to Sprint is if ALL the other carriers went bankrupt and shut down.
If you are on Sprint and you enjoy their service, you are the exception as people are running to other carriers as soon as their contract is up. They are losing millions of customers a quarter!!! What does that say for Sprint?
hey, is there a section just for latest news
Well let me say this, that nlf mobile which is now called sprint nlf live, isn’t wat its cracked up to be. I thought I was going to watch the games live, not some word for word play by play thing. That sucks cuz when my team plays its either try to go to a freinds or wait for the halftime report. Wats the point? I had the androd last year with tmobile, but switched to sprinnt thinkin I was gonna watch live nfl games. Man now I wished I would have got an iphone, and went to att.