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After 3 years on TMobile's lame EDGE - Hello AT&T :)

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AlvinNguyen

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I know a lot of people hate AT&T but I really can't stand CDMA phones since I travel so much :)

I've been on Tmobile with an iPhone ever since they've been unlockable - solely for price conscious reason. Now, with the new AT&T plans I can justify the switch

Current Plan - Unlimited Talk, Text, 4G (which I can't use) - $79.99

New Plan

AT&T 450 minutes - $40
Unlimited Text + Unlimited Mobile to ANY Mobile (best new feature ever!)- $20
Unlimited Data - $30 (the store employee actually hooked me up and did it in store with a 2G iPhone I had)
15% FAN discount

In the end my phone bill dropped $5 after tax and I'm still ahead. I can't recall the last time I called a land line anyways :) So - basically unlimted everything except landline calling for $75 after my discount :D I can't wait to use the iPhone to its full potential - enough is enough with EDGE. TMobile sucks for not being able to get the iPhone. It's been good - well, it's been ok - but now I'm leaving :D
 
I also see a lot of people use iPhones on this other unlimited company that piggybags on tmobile's network called "Simple Mobile", but although they do pay only $60/mo for their services how do they manage to deal w/o 3G data speeds on an iPhone?

You have made a great choice, welcome to AT&T :)
 
Thanks! I don't know how I was dealing with it either - probably the unlimited everything plan and before that the family plan I was on. In any case, I'm just glad AT&T became more price conscious and is able to give the M2AM plan because I would not be able to work with just 450 minutes :p

Oh and if you ask nicely, the AT&T store employees actually helped you through the iPhone 2G trick to give unlimited data. It's good to see companies fighting over customers now :D
 
AlvinNguyen said:
Thanks! I don't know how I was dealing with it either - probably the unlimited everything plan and before that the family plan I was on. In any case, I'm just glad AT&T became more price conscious and is able to give the M2AM plan because I would not be able to work with just 450 minutes :p

Oh and if you ask nicely, the AT&T store employees actually helped you through the iPhone 2G trick to give unlimited data. It's good to see companies fighting over customers now :D
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Well alot of people hate ATT for good reasons. However I think with VZW getting the iPhone it has made ATT move.

In my areas I frequent I definitely see a change in my iPhones performance on the last month or so. There was an ATT tech at the university I work at implementing what he called 3.5 g and addressing congestion issues. I have definately noticed a huge difference.
 
I used T-Mobile years ago and I don't remember another carrier that was more unreliable. Glad you could make the switch to AT&T.
 
Meh

Still waiting to see if T-Mobile gets the iPhone officially. I'm still rocking a 2G iPhone with EDGE speeds. I just love T-Mobile's customer service and how they've gone out of their way to hook me up w/ special plans and rates. Really hoping iPhone 5 is on their network, if not ideally the 3G chipset will be supported. Few more months to wait and see... not sure how much longer I can hold out. :confused:
 
I used an original and iPhone 3G on T-Mobile for three years before switching to AT&T + iPhone 4.

Frankly, I only am on AT&T for the fast data. T-Mobile had much more reliable service for phone and I had no complaints, no dropped calls ever, and the cost was almost half of what I'm paying for AT&T and I had unlimited data (I simply didn't have the hardware to be on their 3G network). I miss T-Mobile :(
 
EvilEvil said:
Now you get to deal with AT&T's lame EDGE service :)
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Did you even read his post? Now he has 3G coverage... deal with it Verizon fanboy. Also, AT&T's EDGE is much, much faster than T-Mobile's on grounds that AT&T took 3 years to mature it work under Project Genesis. T-Mobile just set up towers and then rapid 3G radios and hasn't really done anything to their EDGE network... if any.
 
jav6454 said:
did you even read his post? Now he has 3g coverage... Deal with it verizon fanboy. Also, at&t's edge is much, much faster than t-mobile's on grounds that at&t took 3 years to mature it work under project genesis. T-mobile just set up towers and then rapid 3g radios and hasn't really done anything to their edge network... If any.
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applejuiced said:
yeah right:d
at least at&t's lame edge service is faster than verizons 3g:d
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+1
 
Thanks guys, definitely WAYYY faster and I finally get to tether to my MBP. Loving it! Service coverage seems to be much broader than tmobile too.:p:apple:;)
 
jav6454 said:
Did you even read his post? Now he has 3G coverage...
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Because his iPhone didn't support AWS bands (With AT&T hogging the 850 band it's not as if T-Mobile could easily get into their turf - look at how AT&T and VZW are monopolizing the 700mhz LTE band!)

Sounds like the user is more at fault than the company for once (WTF?!)
 
JoeG4 said:
Because his iPhone didn't support AWS bands (With AT&T hogging the 850 band it's not as if T-Mobile could easily get into their turf - look at how AT&T and VZW are monopolizing the 700mhz LTE band!)

Sounds like the user is more at fault than the company for once (WTF?!)
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If you want to complain about to companies hogging down all 700 MHz, go complain to the FCC who allowed it so. Also, T-Mobile could only get the 1700 MHz for their 3G, but they do have the right bands for their EDGE. So, it's not someone else's fault that T-Mobile didn't spend on a good EDGE network.
 
T-mobile is pretty darn good where I live. When I went snowboarding out at snowbird, my friend with Verizon didn't get any coverage in the mineral basin, but I still had 2 bars.

T-MOBILE FTW
 
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