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Google Inks Deal With Sprint, T-Mobile to Become Wireless Carrier
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I may not change from ATT right away but it will be nice to see better prices from ATT / VZ.
Well this is a good news. The more competition for ATT/Verizone monopoly the better. Hope apple will get into the business too.
T-Mobile has been adding more and more customers each quarter, and they are definitely ramping up on tower upgrades , 700 and 1900 bands showing up in a few different states by the end of 2015 I see them covering more customers, they are the only one that seems t gain customers and create a buzz lately
A great big yippie ! for competition. I hope Google shakes things up a bunch. Really tired of the monthly bill from ATT...
Don't use them in NY, Orlando or Los Angeles cause you will have a miserable time with service.
I always feel like the only Sprint subscriber here but what the heck. If you live in an area that has LTE or better yet SPARK then sprint really is a good option for the money. I have rarely had service issues or dropped call issues. The only problem was the SLOW 3G service but Sprint has been aggressively building out the LTE network and SPARK is very fast.
I wonder if you will be able to leverage both networks, if so this will be very enticing.
I wonder if you will be able to leverage both networks, if so this will be very enticing.
There must be some endgame goal here for Google. What are they trying to ultimately achieve. It's like a master chess player making seemingly random and unconnected moves that manifest their brilliance in the end.
Deutsche Telekom admitted that T-Mobile can't be the "UnCarrier" forever since they need to make money sooner or later. Perhaps this is part of the strategy. Get Google to bring in customers and perhaps they will take an interest in making an investment.
One of the biggest irritations for both Google and Apple have been wireless carriers such as Verizon and AT&T. Now, Google is trying to do something about it and this move could just be a way of getting their foot in the door. A first step to something more ambitious.
Going out on a limb, I'll say, very likely.
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See above post.
I have a lot of friends and family in Canada and all they have nothing but bad things to say about their carriers. I'm guessing you share their thoughts!
I think one of my family members pays something around $80/mo for 200MB of data.
Funny, I'm on T-Mobile and when I go to Canada I get unlimited data for free!
I also wonder what is behind the G's move. We know that ultimately they sucked in hardware; Motorola being sold, Google glass is a flop. Chromebooks are OK, I guess it drives traffic to Google services such as Gmail where G puts their ads.
However internet provider?
Lol. I was partially thinking the same. . . .
I don't think T-Mobile is that bad here though I find AT&T to be superior for all the boroughs. Sometimes T-Mo will work in Brooklyn and not in Manhattan or the Bronx. etc.
And for desert, a big helping of NSA data sniffing with a dollop of back door.
Mmmmmm....yummy. Just break my front door down now please!
That's exactly what it is.
I have mixed feelings about it.
I knew that it was coming soon, but I was expecting multiple carriers to be fighting over the customers. That way there would be competition, unlike right now where we have regional monopolies for broadband (either Time Warner or Comcast or Verizon covers you. Maybe you live in a fringe area where two of their regional monopolies overlap so you actually have a choice, but most people have none. You either get screwed over by your only broadband option or you get nothing.)
Um . . .
I'm in NY and T-Mobile is blazing fast LTE and never drops a call. What are you talking about?