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Carrier AT&T to T-Mobile. Any Regrets?

Had T-Mobile for as long as I can remember back to even my sidekick 2 days.

SoCal. Seattle. Istanbul. Vancouver. Seoul. Etc. worked fine. I use 60gb+ per month. Unlimited everything. I read in fine print somewhere that they may throttle at 22gb+. I haven't noticed it but do use a lot more wifi at home as I have poor reception deep in downtown. Wifi calling has been rock solid. Streaming espn in LA rush hour traffic just isn't an option. Too congested. Streaming live tv just isn't reliable enough for me to depend on. Ymmv. Not sure what life is like on planet att vwz. Don't plan on switching anytime soon unless T-Mobile starts fuqn with my old unlimited all plan.

I pay about $80 a month out the door. No corporate discounts applied. Bravo.
 
I left AT&T when the 4S was out and haven't regretted going to T-Mobile once.

I was so tired of never being able to get a 3G/4G/LTE connection on AT&T. Not even Verizon could get me a reliable connection at my house. T-Mobile was the only one who could do that.

Here's three screen caps. One is with AT&T on my 6S, the other two are T-Mobile on a 6S+ and a S7 Edge. I feel that Apple is deliberately holding back the speeds on the iPhones because I consistently get 100+Mbps on my Android phones then I do on my iPhones. With AT&T, that doesn't make a difference. Battery life also takes a hit on any of my phones that I put the AT&T sim into. All my phones are unlocked.

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I'm dumping my grandfathered unlimited plan for TMOBILE today. I will save $10 a month and get a $150 prepaid credit card. And if I don't like the service from TMOBILE I will jump to Cricket. Am I stupid to give up my unlimited plan after 10 years?
 
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1080p said:
I just left T-Mobile. Dunno about the eastern part of the country, but the western part of the country sucks if you aren't in a major city. Even then... in my experience, speeds weren't that great. I am in Phoenix. My LTE speeds were 7-8 Mbps on average. Band 12 wasn't fully deployed yet because they were waiting for the local TV station to vacate band 12 and then had to get approval because we are so close to Mexico and so they want to make sure that it wouldn't interfere with them.

But.... once you leave town and get on the highway... it REALLY BLOWS! "No service" or "E" on the top of your screen. In small towns in Northern, AZ, you will roam on partners like Comnet or Cellular One... on Edge or VERY SLOW HSDPA (3G).

Verizon on the other hand BLANKETS the state or Arizona with LTE. (Reaping the benefits of buying Alltel so many years ago!!!)
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I absolutely agree about T-Mobile here in Arizona. My wife switched from Verizon to T-Mobile a year ago here in Laughlin (and we have a house in Lake Havasu). I have AT&T. She constantly loses signal if we travel just about anywhere. When she was on Verizon she had slightly better coverage than me, but now I have much better coverage than she.

As far as Wifi calling, I have that--as well as text over wifi. My wife only has wifi calling. She can't text over wifi, at least with her Samsung S6.



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I think it's a stupid argument when people talk about coverage area at their house as if this is a material factor in choosing one carrier over another as a point of reference.

There will always be coverage gaps between carriers.

Pricing and what you get as a whole for that monthly note is what matters. T-Mobile is more than competitive and large enough to be a safe choice and especially so with wifi calling enabled.
 
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I think it's a stupid argument when people talk about coverage area at their house as if this is a material factor in choosing one carrier over another as a point of reference.
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I am at my house 16 hrs a day. Why shouldn't I use the coverage that I get at my house as a a basis for choosing what carrier I am with? AT&T can't do much for me at my house and Verizon was even worse. T-Mobile wins at my house and in the area that I work in. That's all I need since I don't do any traveling.

I've had cellphone service since 1993. I have always done this with any carrier since then and it works.
 
Tinmania said:
As far as Wifi calling, I have that--as well as text over wifi. My wife only has wifi calling. She can't text over wifi, at least with her Samsung S6.
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What? I have never heard of that from anyone I know. I was texting over wifi in Germany and other countries, as well as the USA.

Maybe a setting in her phone?
 
I switched to T-Mobile two years ago after MANY years at AT+T for one reason... teenage daughters. At the time, T-Mobile was one of the only carriers that did not charge for data over use. I was shopping for iPhones for my two girls and had heard HORROR stories from friends and families about their kids racking up hundreds of dollars in charges by over using their data.

I was apprehensive about leaving AT+T considering I had a grandfathered "unlimited" data plan but I shouldn't have worried about it. My wife and I have 6GB of data. It rolls over monthly. I regularly use my phone as a hot spot and I still have at least 19GB in my 'bank'. I live in the South San Diego area and I get reliable, consistent coverage. I like the Jump plan. I feel that T-Mobile has been more responsive when it comes to customer service, but that is purely subjective. The best part is, I don't have to worry about my kids. They monitor their own data usage because they know that once they use up their data allotment, their connection slows to a crawl and I don't get charged.

TL:DR I was worried about losing unlimited data, realized that I wasn't using more than 6GB a month anyways. Very happy with service. No data over use charges. Highly recommend it.

Family plan with 3 iPhone 5cs 1 iPhone 6 Plus and 1iPhone 6s.
 
I appreciate the replies from everyone. I'm probably going to port my number over to T-Mobile next month.

I probably know the answer to these questions, but I'll ask anyway: I have a 6s that is paid for in monthly installments via NEXT. Once I port my number to T-Mobile, I would pay the ETF and remaining balance on my phone to make my account whole. Once everything is paid, there should not be any problem with me submitting an unlock request via AT&T and have them unlock my phone, correct?

Also, there seems to be some conflicting information on this. Once the 6s is unlocked, do I still have to restore the device via iTunes? Or is it as simple as me popping out the AT&T SIM and inserting the T-Mobile SIM in my phone?

Luckily I have an unlocked SE I will use on T-Mobile for the time being.
 
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Also, there seems to be some conflicting information on this. Once the 6s is unlocked, do I still have to restore the device via iTunes? Or is it as simple as me popping out the AT&T SIM and inserting the T-Mobile SIM in my phone?

Luckily I have an unlocked SE I will use on T-Mobile for the time being.
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I know with T-Mobile, when I unlocked an iPhone, all I had to do was insert the other carriers sim into the phone. It would then ask me to enter my iCloud user name and password that was used to set up the iPhone. Once I did that, the phone was instantly unlocked, no restoring needed. Should be the same with AT&T.
 
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I am at my house 16 hrs a day. Why shouldn't I use the coverage that I get at my house as a a basis for choosing what carrier I am with? AT&T can't do much for me at my house and Verizon was even worse. T-Mobile wins at my house and in the area that I work in. That's all I need since I don't do any traveling.

I've had cellphone service since 1993. I have always done this with any carrier since then and it works.
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Blah blah blah get out more it's good for ya.
 
CYKBC said:
I think it's a stupid argument when people talk about coverage area at their house as if this is a material factor in choosing one carrier over another as a point of reference.

There will always be coverage gaps between carriers.

Pricing and what you get as a whole for that monthly note is what matters. T-Mobile is more than competitive and large enough to be a safe choice and especially so with wifi calling enabled.
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What matters is if the service WORKS where I need it to work... and in lots of Arizona locations... T-Mobile... DOESN'T!

You ever heard the phase.... "You get what you pay for..." ?

It's couldn''t be more true when it comes to T-Mobile.
 
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1080p said:
What matters is if the service WORKS where I need it to work... and in lots of Arizona locations... T-Mobile... DOESN'T!

You ever heard the phase.... "You get what you pay for..." ?

It's couldn''t be more true when it comes to T-Mobile.
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In your specific location Tmobile might not be good.
In many other places it does work great and its very fast.
If you feel that you need to pay an arm and a leg to get decent service then keep buying what the 2 big carriers trying to convince you in order to charge you more and give you less.
Many times with Verizon or AT&T you really do not get what you pay for...
 
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I was changing jobs and losing my company paid phone plan. T-Mobile was who I wanted to go with due to my high data usage. I did their test drive to test their service at my house and around where I am most of the time. The service was pretty bad for the most part. I got no service at my house even though T-Mobile's map said I had LTE service. Also I noticed that my service would drop to nothing in areas where I never lost service with AT&T. T-Mobile is great if you never leave an area where they have good service but their coverage in my usage is nowhere near AT&T's. I ended up going with Cricket's unlimited plan. They're owned by AT&T and their most expensive plan is unlimited and is $65 if you use auto pay. The one drawback is download speeds are capped at 8mbps but I haven't had an issue and I stream a lot of video.
 
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Just to compensate all the great speeds posted here. This is my speed today
 
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I recently made the jump to mobile to save a few bucks on my bill after i grew tired of the crappy service i was receiving from ATT in my area (Staten Island, NY). So far I get good service at home and work which is where I am primarily and both I'm usually connected to WIFI anyway. My real question is about people using their phone as a GPS on Google Maps, or whatever. How is the reception with TMobile for that? Normally I dont drive far but later this year I'll be driving to VA and Mass and I'm definitely going to need a reliable GPS for directions. Any feedback on that? Thanks.
 
Biggington said:
I recently made the jump to mobile to save a few bucks on my bill after i grew tired of the crappy service i was receiving from ATT in my area (Staten Island, NY). So far I get good service at home and work which is where I am primarily and both I'm usually connected to WIFI anyway. My real question is about people using their phone as a GPS on Google Maps, or whatever. How is the reception with TMobile for that? Normally I dont drive far but later this year I'll be driving to VA and Mass and I'm definitely going to need a reliable GPS for directions. Any feedback on that? Thanks.
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You will be fine in MA with Tmobile. Not sure about VA, never been there.
You can also download the maps on wifi with waze or other GPS apps. I think Google maps also lets you download them ahead on wifi so you dont have to be pulling data while you're driving.
Its not like its much data that it pulls for map info but still good to have it saved and downloaded ahead.
 
I really want to pry from att grandfather UDP plan but I would have to pay 800 dollars to get out of my installment plan, only good thing is I get to keep my phone ...but I'm still in the fence , both carriers are good in NY but T-Mobile seems to offer more with the unlimited plan...
 
When I moved off to college, my parents moved to T-Mobile (because it was cheaper), but I wanted to stay with AT&T. So we split off. The school I was originally going to had a contract with AT&T that offered I think 15% and they had a cell tower on campus so it was going to be good. Anyways after school I did some work with a few tech companies that offered 20-25%. My current discount is 23%, but what's really nice is that I get discounts on accessories with no upgrade or activation fees. I can add and remove lines from my MobileShare as needed. If a friend from abroad visits the US and needs a number for say a month, I can add them without incurring more than the basic month access charge. Anyways after college I merged my parents into my AT&T account without telling them. They were on auto-pay so I don't think they noticed until a few years ago when they lost a SIM card and needed replacing that.

We never did have T-Mobile signal at home so I'm not sure how they survived on it when I was away at school. I mean there is very fast Internet (and very up-to-date WiFi) and there is still a landline. Anyways I may never switch to T-Mobile unless there a very compelling reason to do so. Verizon and Sprint are out of the question since they are still CDMA carriers.

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Seriously, a picture is worth a thousand words:
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I know it's not important to a lot of people, but that upload speed is faster than many people's landlines.
 
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