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Google Inks Deal With Sprint, T-Mobile to Become Wireless Carrier
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No problem with Tmobile in SoCal here. Good price, fast LTE.
Then again, I don't live in the middle of nowhere, and I don't really care if a carrier advertised that they have service in the podunk, doesn't apply to me.
Just as long as they don't use supercookies like Verizon does...still.
This is interesting news. It will definitely shake things up. I would venture that for the consumer - this is likely to be a good thing in general. But we shall see.
p.s. The few I know who have Google Fiber can't rave enough about it.
This is interesting news. It will definitely shake things up. I would venture that for the consumer - this is likely to be a good thing in general. But we shall see.
p.s. The few I know who have Google Fiber can't rave enough about it.
Funny as I'm in Orlando at least one weekend per month. Service has been great always. Although on the drive up from Miami. There is a small area where I don't get any data at all. Can't place the exact area but roughly 3/4 the way there.
In Queens and Manhattan I don't have issues either. As with Orlando though, these are large places so I can only sleek on where I frequent.
tmobile is great here in westwood. sprint not so much. up and down the grape vine nothing is good. down the 405 is tmobile perfect connection aswell as the 10, 91,105, 110, 710....210 is not to good.
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i find Sprint much better in mid-west than Tmob but neither are great and i had to cancel both of them because i travel a little.
Verizon is the only reliable carrier i have found to be consistent when i travel.
for this reason only i wont be able to jump on Google train this time
Verizon is the only reliable carrier i have found to be consistent when i travel.
for this reason only i wont be able to jump on Google train this time
Just spent the last couple of days in NYC on a business trip. Rock solid coverage on T Mobile and based on a speed test I ran just today a 40mb plus download speed. If that's miserable coverage I'll take it in a heartbeat.
having once driven from california to chicago illinois. with tmobile there are huge gaps were you dont get any service at all just gps.. anything after fernley nevada untill salt lake city is just 1 bar edge. Wyoming is a reception wasteland. Absolutely nothing for web browsing just the littlest gps bar. nebraska you start getting some 3g but very slow untill you hit omaha. They have regular 4g. Iowa has freaking blazing 4g speeds maybe because allot of tech websites like facebook have data centers there, and then chicago is big city 4g speed where it reads thats its fast but its really kinda slow.
T-Mobile SUCKS in NYC. I tried it for a month.. I would never leave AT&T for that.
Don't go inside a building.
Don't go inside a building.
How is it Google can do this stuff, but the almost $1 TRILLION dollar Apple Inc. can't buy a Time Warner or FiOS or Comcast and get their "hobby" into hundreds of millions of homes?
There is a secret Sprint subform here where those of us with Sprint hold our monthly support meetings. The title of the forum is called "In the Basement." Reception isn't blazing fast but, the basement isn't that big. It just works.
I always wondered why apple didn't get into the carrier business. They have the money and can build those rediculous expensive cell towers anywhere they want.
Tin foil hat alert
You must have missed where the data was collected from the backbone providers so it really doesn't matter how you go online. Look up a company called Turn and super cookies to see what private business does to track you. But whatever makes you feel comfortable
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Perhaps you are confusing can't with don't want to.
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If I could get unlimited LTE from T-Mobile at my house for equal to what I pay Time Warner I would switch. Even if I had to put a small antenna outside.
Would be cool if I can make my cell number my Google Voice number (instead of have my Google Voice number forward to my cell number). Would be interesting if they could somehow tie these products together. Let Sprint and T-mobile just be the data connection to the phone, but use Google Voice as the actual "carrier" of the calls.
(T-Mobile - L.A.)
I live in an area in L.A. with universally horrible reception from all carriers. With T-Mobile's support of iPhone 6 wi-fi calling it's finally a moot point. Plus their customer service has so far been top notch. And with better rates after 10 years with Verizon.
I live in an area in L.A. with universally horrible reception from all carriers. With T-Mobile's support of iPhone 6 wi-fi calling it's finally a moot point. Plus their customer service has so far been top notch. And with better rates after 10 years with Verizon.
"I don't think that word means what you think it means"
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk
Nothing would seem to stop you if you're using it with the T-Mobile side but probably not the Sprint side.
My initial thought was "why would Google align with the two worst carriers in terms of coverage area?"
Apple tried this game of getting in the mobile business and while they negotiated a good deal for customers in terms of rate plans with the first iPhone, I think the iPhone succeeded on it's own merits as a device and the exclusive arrangement with AT&T hurt iPhone business if it had any effect.
There's no benefit that I can see to Google or the customer in Google selling mobile service unless what you say is true, that somehow they can combine the Sprint and T-Mobile networks to somehow provide a superior product in terms of coverage area and internet speed.
How about because they make much more money doing what they do then they would make doing that? That's like asking, why doesn't that rich family ever buy a new car? They got to where they are in life by doing the right things, not by doing the wrong things.
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See my post above. Apple is not in business to do what you wish they would do, by giving away or drastically underpricing something that they can sell for more.