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One Reason Big reason T-Mobile Customers should upgrade to 6s or 6s Plus

james-jones said:
100mbps for all of 25 minutes until you get throttled to 200kbps.
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All carriers throttle, with AT&T being probably the worse. But if you download at 100mb for 25 minutes you deserve to get throttled lol. So far, I can tell you, that its been consistent 100MB down all around town, and at my work, lately I just whip the phone out to destroy my AT&T and Verizon friends. This is even during peek hours. The phone feels so fast now its crazy. I just go to whatever carrier is the fastest, and right now its T-Mobile by a longshot, all those people buying AT&T phones for band 30 and they will never see anything from it, just move to T-Mobile if you want blazing fast speeds, of course be sure to check your area first. :)
 
james-jones said:
100mbps for all of 25 minutes until you get throttled to 200kbps.
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The thing that made me switch from ATT is the back pedaling they did. We were two unlimited plans that they would occasionally throttle (I didn't always hit 5gb, wife almost never did). We ended up switching to a shared data plan and giving up unlimited because it gave us more data for slightly less money and it was "clear" throttling wasn't going anywhere.

Now they're giving unlimited data customers 22gb and some are reporting unlimited minutes. Granted, this is due to FCC pressure. But still. Called retentions and they didn't really care. Ok. I'll hop over, get the newest devices, save almost $80 per month AND receive more than twice the data I was laying for (which I'll use even less of with unlimited music streaming). Service has been weaker, but not too bad. I can't say it's $80 weaker. We are traveling to socal in a few weeks. Maybe my tune will change lol.
 
CYKBC said:
What a joke. Newport Beach.
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Have you tried a different server? What phone is this? If you have week signal its not going to matter, and you have 1-2 bars going on right there.
 
Buringcoals said:
All carriers throttle, with AT&T being probably the worse. But if you download at 100mb for 25 minutes you deserve to get throttled lol.
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No, Verizon does not throttle at all. AT&T also has some unthrottled plans still around.

Someone doesn't "deserve to get throttled" for downloading one 4K movie.
 
lordofthereef said:
The thing that made me switch from ATT is the back pedaling they did. We were two unlimited plans that they would occasionally throttle (I didn't always hit 5gb, wife almost never did). We ended up switching to a shared data plan and giving up unlimited because it gave us more data for slightly less money and it was "clear" throttling wasn't going anywhere.

Now they're giving unlimited data customers 22gb and some are reporting unlimited minutes. Granted, this is due to FCC pressure. But still. Called retentions and they didn't really care. Ok. I'll hop over, get the newest devices, save almost $80 per month AND receive more than twice the data I was laying for (which I'll use even less of with unlimited music streaming). Service has been weaker, but not too bad. I can't say it's $80 weaker. We are traveling to socal in a few weeks. Maybe my tune will change lol.
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AT&T was definitely wrong, as the $100m fine shows - too bad you would need to go to court individually to get personally reimbursed, as with the initial case in California.
 
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james-jones said:
No, Verizon does not throttle at all. AT&T also has some unthrottled plans still around.

Someone doesn't "deserve to get throttled" for downloading one 4K movie.
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Verizon is slow. AT&T is slow. All the carriers have non-throttled plans, including T-Mobile unlimited. But if you believe them then that's up to you.
 
Buringcoals said:
Verizon is slow. AT&T is slow. All the carriers have non-throttled plans, including T-Mobile unlimited. But if you believe them then that's up to you.
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I don't need to believe anyone - my 80mbps unlimited LTE speaks for itself. Enjoy the caps.
 
lordofthereef said:
I wish T-Mobile was more forthcoming on their markets and timelines. Boston is supposed to get it. Depending on who you ask it's "coming" or "its here". Unsure which it is, but I certainly can't touch those numbers here. Lol.
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T-Mobile LTE coverage hasn't expanded much in New England, they're still re-farming their 1900mhz to 3G as 2G(EDGE) is shutdown and their AWS to more LTE has hit a few snags as the permit factor has lead to some NIBY complaints. Indoor wise I never could push more than 1.5mbps(down)/384k(up) with T-Mobile or Cingular/at&t.

Amazingly Sprint's band 26(800mhz ex Nextel license?) has given a spiffy indoor data coverage, been pushing 9mbps(down)/900k(up) indoors.
 
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happyfrappy said:
T-Mobile LTE coverage hasn't expanded much in New England, they're still re-farming their 1900mhz to 3G as 2G(EDGE) is shutdown and their AWS to more LTE has hit a few snags as the permit factor has lead to some NIBY complaints. Indoor wise I never could push more than 1.5mbps(down)/384k(up) with T-Mobile or Cingular/at&t.

Amazingly Sprint's band 26(800mhz ex Nextel license?) has given a spiffy indoor data coverage, been pushing 9mbps(down)/900k(up) indoors.
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May I ask where you get this information? I'd like to try and stay updated so that I can check myself. All I find is the same coverage map that claims band 12 is coming, and soon, but when is a mystery.
 
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Try checking state permits of proposed/pending work, any major tower work becomes a matter of public info and possible debate. On HowardForums and TMO News a few members have posted how-tos on researching possible tower upgrades/new site construction. This is the last 700Mhz LTE discussion I saw: http://www.tmonews.com/2015/09/more-band-12-lte-sightings-in-massachusetts-ohio-florida-and-more/
T-Mobile is stuck in the same AWS network build out rut with LTE, they want to pull off a Sprint Network Vision hybrid towers in some areas for overlay(2/3G voice fallback) and the refarming of PCS(1900Mhz) has worsened their coverage.
 
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james-jones said:
I don't need to believe anyone - my 80mbps unlimited LTE speaks for itself. Enjoy the caps.
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My de-prioritized speeds after 21GB of usage will still be faster then yours. I have tested this in my area and I still get around 90Mbps down during de-prioritized usage. YMMV

But enough of the talk, lets see your speeds. 80mbps speed from Verizon is spotty at best, and I have not seen many folks achieve the claimed speeds.
 
james-jones said:
Not getting into "mine is bigger than yours" debates. T-Mobile is cancelling "unlimited" accounts now for tethering, too - good luck!
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You just got into the bigger than yours debate, it's ok, I know Verizon is slow I used to be with them. TMO is stopping tethering abusers to protect customers like myself who are not trying to use superior bandwidth to twitch stream, etc.

This is something I am happy about. So I doubt I need any luck.
 
james-jones said:
http://www.spectrumgateway.com/t-mobile-700a-spectrum has great info on band 12, with details on individual markets as they work out the channel 51 issues preventing deployment.
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I've seen that link a number of times. Unfortunately, for Boston, it claims the channel is still waiting to be taken down. My understanding is this happened late August. So my wiestion, then, is how updated is that map? My feeling is I'll find out through real world use before I find out through the map lol.
 
lordofthereef said:
I've seen that link a number of times. Unfortunately, for Boston, it claims the channel is still waiting to be taken down. My understanding is this happened late August. So my wiestion, then, is how updated is that map? My feeling is I'll find out through real world use before I find out through the map lol.
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There is no red circle around Boston - no channel 51 restrictions there.

Boston has band 12 live in places apparently - https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/3j3zde/band_12_boston/
 
Buringcoals said:
So I doubt I need any luck.
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I hope you're lucky enough to be in a band 12 license area without an active channel 51 broadcaster so you can get a signal that goes through walls, even if it is only 5x5

Too bad the theroetical maximum for 5MHz downlink is only 37mbps.
 
Cyberguycpt said:
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here's another one.
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It's still behind because even when we were on LTE, we weren't getting the speeds we were supposed to. This should've been possible with the first LTE generation. And that's all you're getting on a phone that's supposed to be LTE-A?
 
james-jones said:
I hope you're lucky enough to be in a band 12 license area without an active channel 51 broadcaster so you can get a signal that goes through walls, even if it is only 5x5

Too bad the theroetical maximum for 5MHz downlink is only 37mbps.
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I am lucky that for the most part band 4 has been strong in buildings and places where I go in Seattle area. Basically band 12 will represent more real world speeds that AT&T and Verizon customers see :) I think a lot of folks would be happy to get 37down from what they currently get. I used AT&T for 4 years and if I got over 25down I was lucky in prime areas.

There is some other trickery being worked on that will allow faster speeds.

I have a lot of friends with AT&T and Verizon who are a bit jelly of T-Mobile speeds and price/performance at the moment. Also AT&T still has not rolled out Wireless calling in my area. Wireless calling basically really lowers the need for band 12 in a lot of environments, so much wireless around.
 
james-jones said:
Not on band 12, which was the topic of this thread...
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Band 12 is not mentioned in the title of the thread. And the OP says he must be on band 12, which is actually more a question, but he was miss-informed. Band 12 is not capable of these speeds. Either way. It was a good thread to post up some speed tests from T-Mobile.

:)
 
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