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iPhone 6s Supports T-Mobile Extended Range LTE on 700MHz Spectrum
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Who woulda thought? A cell phone's killer feature is actually better cell service!
I have been a long time t-mobile customer and they have pretty good service in my city. But who doesn't want a better signal? This pushes me over the top in wanting the 6s.
Instead of paying $20 for 18 months, I wish I could just plop down my $360 + $164 = $524 all at once and walk out of the store.
I have been a long time t-mobile customer and they have pretty good service in my city. But who doesn't want a better signal? This pushes me over the top in wanting the 6s.
Instead of paying $20 for 18 months, I wish I could just plop down my $360 + $164 = $524 all at once and walk out of the store.
I've been with AT&T for years, and lived in several different states. I now live in the Raleigh-Durham, NC area and for the first time in probably 10 years have a T-Mobile phone provided by work. I chose it because they give me an unlimited everything international plan through work vs. a much more restricted plan with AT&T (I don't want to be paying out of pocket for international things).
I find in this area T-Mobile incredibly frustrating to use. At my house (and I work from home), I can make calls fine with T-Mobiles call over WiFi... but no help for texting. At least 3-4 times a day I have to go into and out of airplane mode to get texting to work. For some reason recycling the connection gets a connection.
This week I was in two different medical facilities with my wife and had no service in either... and these are in fairly populate areas.
So at least around here, T-Mobile still has very spotty service and is annoying to deal with. I bring this up because if the 6s can help solve this by extending the range, then I'll probably buy one to improve my frustration.
I find in this area T-Mobile incredibly frustrating to use. At my house (and I work from home), I can make calls fine with T-Mobiles call over WiFi... but no help for texting. At least 3-4 times a day I have to go into and out of airplane mode to get texting to work. For some reason recycling the connection gets a connection.
This week I was in two different medical facilities with my wife and had no service in either... and these are in fairly populate areas.
So at least around here, T-Mobile still has very spotty service and is annoying to deal with. I bring this up because if the 6s can help solve this by extending the range, then I'll probably buy one to improve my frustration.
It's not that simple. First, most people aren't that paranoid about advertising (and T-Mobile likely does the same). And then second, and more importantly, T-Mobile coverage sucks in comparison to the big two. This news here will go a long ways to converting people if the network range is indeed better.
$22 (after taxes) for unlimited talk, text, and data (first 2 GB LTE after that throttled) is how much each line costs on our Tmobile family plan.
Yes I'm a big fan.
I've had a Tmobile for many, many years. They've always been my cheapest option by far. Coverage difficulties have been few and far between and even with that, coverage has gotten way better in the last couple of years. Sufficient coverage, great prices, great features like free roaming, international free data and texting, no contract, etc.
I guess that's why they are gaining lots of ground.
Yes I'm a big fan.
I've had a Tmobile for many, many years. They've always been my cheapest option by far. Coverage difficulties have been few and far between and even with that, coverage has gotten way better in the last couple of years. Sufficient coverage, great prices, great features like free roaming, international free data and texting, no contract, etc.
I guess that's why they are gaining lots of ground.
Their map currently doesn't explicitly say which areas have band 12. Only thing you can do is click around fringe areas and see if the pop up box links to their 700MHz device page. Or you can use spectrumgateway.com to see if they have 700A in your area. If so, it should be deployed or will be soon.
FYI you can pay off your EIP at any time. Just make the payment, call them and tell them that what you paid online $524) you want applied to your EIP. Done.
Before calling people names, perhaps you should do some research. T-Mobile is the fourth carrier in the U.S. because they have the worst service. Americans choose Verizon and AT&T because they provide good to excellent coverage. T-Mobile has to have cheaper prices in order to attract customers.
Wait until you actually travel and you'll se how bad they really are.
Same here. But the reason for the discount is that they've got you "locked in" for 18 months. That is if I understand this correctly. Slight way for them to go back to the discounted phone if you dedicate yourself to us.
Edit: From the TMo Jump On Demand website:
"If you cancel wireless service, remaining payments become due & you must return working device or pay it off to keep it."
So the question becomes, if you don't go the full 18 months, will they charge you full retail price or their discount price after 18 months? I'd almost bet that they'd charge full retail since the reduced costs is the incentive for being w/ them for 18 months.
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You should do some research. They are the number 3 carrier since they recently passed Sprint.
JUMP isn't technically an EIP I believe. So I don't believe it will work, but I haven't gotten a chance to talk to customer service yet.
I should have mentioned I did this with my wife's phone when we switched to T-Mobile and got her phone on JUMP. I just had to wait until after my first bill for the system to "catch up" to our plan.
I know one thing, I am not switching until it is on sensorly. Verizon is fine until then. The new XL plan is saving me 55 a month so I cant complain.
No band 12 here in NC but coverage is pretty good and has improved greatly over the past 6-8 months. I get LTE almost everywhere I go around the state now.
So, you can get a phone on JUMP!, then pay the 18 months ($360 in the above posters case), and then pay the $164 to get it for the discounted price within the first month or two?
I'm at wits' end with T-Mo. I've had them for years, and my 5s just doesn't have the coverage I've needed to actually conduct business. And, as I'm discovering, it's not just whether or not there's cellular coverage, it's also that even when I do have "plenty of bars" the second I walk into a crowd (and by this, I don't mean Dreamforce or Pride, I mean, daily commuters), my data crawls, I can't send/receive texts, and I don't have the ability to call (always dropping). This is sorely tempting, but Verizon's new pricing isn't that much more expensive, and I'm tired of never being the one with data service anywhere I go.
I just wished they could get some financial power and just go dark and build a massive network. I love the uncannier moves he is making. I just need him to let his network operations team off the leash and get the entire country or at least every major highway blanketed in LTE. I would switch i swear on a stack of insert text you swear on. I hate VZW they are slime balls unhelpful and at worst arrogant when you speak with there agents as they know they are the only game in town that works. I mean forget price just having to call them and tell them what they are selling on the TV or internet to get the deal is just dumb. There agents are not very helpful and to top it off they lie to you and say something can not be done when in deed it can they just want to keep getting that extra each moth per line even though i own my damn phones. Oh and you can not just log in and go hey i own my phone now discount time. This requires you to call in for them to threaten you rate plan you already have. I swear if i could get enough not even great coverage i would leave for t-mobile right now.
The only difference here is the discounted price. Quite honestly, I am not sure how that works. The phone I bought was retailed at $400 and I think the monthly plan was around $20 for it. I just called to find out how much the EIP balance was and I paid it.
Can they update iPhone 6 for Band 12 with iOS 9 update? (like some andriod software updates)
any one beta testing?
any one beta testing?
T-mobile is the third now, they are trying their best to improve the coverage every day. It takes large amount of money to spend on spectrum and towers and so on.
Without t-mobile, att and verizon will never adjust their plans.