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Switch from Verizon to TMobile iPhone 6
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Switched from Verizon to T-Mobile 2 weeks ago
So far so good. I live in Colorado Springs and service and data speeds are great where I use it day to day. The data speeds are the fastest I've ever seen on a cellular network even from the strongest Verizon signal.
I have nothing bad to say about Verizon since I've been with them for almost 10 years and being military have moved around a lot and have always had service wherever I was...especially driving on the freeways between big cities, where I expect not to have very good service with T-Mobile. My only complaint was cost. I guess you pay for the good coverage.
I moved 5 smart phones + 1 dumb phone over to T-Mobile. I was paying about $340/month for a family plan with 1 grandfathered unlimited line and 4 2GB lines. The dumb phone was $25 for 30 talk minutes and 1000 text messages. I wanted to hang on to the unlimited, but it was getting expensive.
At T-Mobile, I have (1) unlimited line ($80), (1) 4.5 GB line ($40), and (4) 2.5GB line ($10 each). Total cost per month is only $160. I changed the dumb phone to a smart phone for only $10 and get unlimited talk, text and 2.5GB data.
I have 1 iPhone 6+, 2 iPhone 6, and 2 iPhone 5s. I bought a Samsung Galaxy Avant outright from T-Mobile ($200) so I didn't have to pay for anything on my bill other than service. All of my Verizon iPhones work perfectly on T-Mobile since they have all of the GSM bands and are unlocked from day 1. I just received my bill from Verizon which shows the ETF ($350-$10 for each month of service). My total ETF was $590. I submitted it online at T-Mobile and expect to get a VISA card for $590 within 8 weeks.
Since I'm no longer under any contracts and own all of my phones outright, I can change providers anytime I want to. As a backup plan, if T-Mobile doesn't work out in the long run, I'll check out AT&T. Since my unlocked Verizon iPhones will work fine on AT&T all I would pay there is $15x6 = $90 + $100 for 10GB of shared data. Total $190...less data, but arguably better coverage. I could get 15GB of shared data for $130. Either way it would be a good compromise than going back to $340 at Verizon.
BTW, my kids stream Spotify, Pandora, etc all day long since at T-Mobile, those music apps don't count against your data.
Sorry for the long post, just wanted to share my experience and reasoning in moving from Verizon to T-Mobile. It was a hard decision, but so far I'm happy.
So far so good. I live in Colorado Springs and service and data speeds are great where I use it day to day. The data speeds are the fastest I've ever seen on a cellular network even from the strongest Verizon signal.
I have nothing bad to say about Verizon since I've been with them for almost 10 years and being military have moved around a lot and have always had service wherever I was...especially driving on the freeways between big cities, where I expect not to have very good service with T-Mobile. My only complaint was cost. I guess you pay for the good coverage.
I moved 5 smart phones + 1 dumb phone over to T-Mobile. I was paying about $340/month for a family plan with 1 grandfathered unlimited line and 4 2GB lines. The dumb phone was $25 for 30 talk minutes and 1000 text messages. I wanted to hang on to the unlimited, but it was getting expensive.
At T-Mobile, I have (1) unlimited line ($80), (1) 4.5 GB line ($40), and (4) 2.5GB line ($10 each). Total cost per month is only $160. I changed the dumb phone to a smart phone for only $10 and get unlimited talk, text and 2.5GB data.
I have 1 iPhone 6+, 2 iPhone 6, and 2 iPhone 5s. I bought a Samsung Galaxy Avant outright from T-Mobile ($200) so I didn't have to pay for anything on my bill other than service. All of my Verizon iPhones work perfectly on T-Mobile since they have all of the GSM bands and are unlocked from day 1. I just received my bill from Verizon which shows the ETF ($350-$10 for each month of service). My total ETF was $590. I submitted it online at T-Mobile and expect to get a VISA card for $590 within 8 weeks.
Since I'm no longer under any contracts and own all of my phones outright, I can change providers anytime I want to. As a backup plan, if T-Mobile doesn't work out in the long run, I'll check out AT&T. Since my unlocked Verizon iPhones will work fine on AT&T all I would pay there is $15x6 = $90 + $100 for 10GB of shared data. Total $190...less data, but arguably better coverage. I could get 15GB of shared data for $130. Either way it would be a good compromise than going back to $340 at Verizon.
BTW, my kids stream Spotify, Pandora, etc all day long since at T-Mobile, those music apps don't count against your data.
Sorry for the long post, just wanted to share my experience and reasoning in moving from Verizon to T-Mobile. It was a hard decision, but so far I'm happy.
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My carrier is Verizon. Right now I pay $135 taxes & fees included for 1
smartphone (mine), and 2 basic phones. Unlimited talk & text and 3g data.
Right now I'm going to stay with them, but I'm learning some good info.
on this forum. Never know I might change someday.
smartphone (mine), and 2 basic phones. Unlimited talk & text and 3g data.
Right now I'm going to stay with them, but I'm learning some good info.
on this forum. Never know I might change someday.
Reading this thread sucks, guys! My family is writhing, trying to get away from Verizon and their strangling bills of like $300 per month and lack of any good features (Data bucket, wifi-calling...) but we literally can't. Pretty much everywhere I live has decent coverage for Verizon, and poor to decent coverage for AT&T. Nothing else. Still pretty bad speeds though, although they work fine. Most I've ever seen from Verizon here is 20mbps on LTE even with the pretty rare instance of 5 bars. My town has an average of -100 to -90dbm, AT&T is about the same, usually worse. Every other carrier is literally non-existent. I was looking into T-Mobile the other day and was so excited, until I looked at their coverage map and found out we would only get 2G in our area, everywhere even somewhat nearby is bad as well. It just won't work with coverage that bad..
[Edit] Apparently there are sections down the road where it immediately goes from 2G to 4G LTE so I'm not sure. My house is like right in the border from 2G to "Partner" though, like I said. So that's fun. These maps probably aren't that accurate either, but just a random observation I've made.
I've also heard that T-Mobile is better for battery while Verizon is the worst, even when at similar signal strength? Have you guys had any experience with this?
[Edit] Apparently there are sections down the road where it immediately goes from 2G to 4G LTE so I'm not sure. My house is like right in the border from 2G to "Partner" though, like I said. So that's fun. These maps probably aren't that accurate either, but just a random observation I've made.
I've also heard that T-Mobile is better for battery while Verizon is the worst, even when at similar signal strength? Have you guys had any experience with this?
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Question for those with only one line at T-mobile: Can you just have one line that is "Truly Unlimited" ?
I've heard that you need to have more than one line- an actual family plan - to have the non-throttled data.
I would like to just test the network by just obtaining one line for a week before I would move other current lines over to Tmobile.
I've heard that you need to have more than one line- an actual family plan - to have the non-throttled data.
I would like to just test the network by just obtaining one line for a week before I would move other current lines over to Tmobile.
thats $350 per line, "Verizon said it was two contracts". I had two lines on this account. Got my final bill is $479.60 ETF + tax is $525.16
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So it's not that the ETF was raised or even changed as was implied in a few posts.
We have 4 smartphones with 2GB of data per month and a dumb phone, don't remember exactly what that has at the moment. It's a close family member, not in our household though. It's 5 lines, but still almost $300 per month is ridiculous.
Might want to try one of the current shared data plans if all those are individual lines and it might be cheaper.
That's odd. It seems that with 10 GB shared (which is even more than you seem to need) and 5 lines, at most it would be $280/month. And for any phones that are not in contract or on Edge there would be a further discount for each of those lines. The feature phone seems like it would be even cheaper than smartphones as well. And getting 8 GB (basically what you have) would be slightly cheaper too. Seems like at worst it would be close to what you are paying, but not more (let alone $40 more), and more likely at least somewhat cheaper if not even quote a bit cheaper potentially.
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I have 5 lines and pay $220.00 a month.
Yeah I just looked into it again (it's been awhile since I checked) and it's saying $260 for 5 lines, 4 smartphones 1 basic phone. 10GB of data. Are there any hidden fees that will raise the price further? Will we need to sign new contracts to change from individual lines to a shared "More Everything" plan? We still have phones under contract so if we need to sign new contracts this won't work. Especially since we are looking to get away from Verizon as soon as possible.
T-Mobile is looking sweeter everyday if I wasn't for the coverage in my area. I live in a tiny town of 1,000 people and I get 2G in my house, but down the street there's LTE, it grows and grows and grows as you go further down into the next town 10-15 minutes away, and coverage looks decently solid there. Further into my town coverage drops right from LTE to a tiny area of 2G to "Partner", whatever that means.
Generally there are no contracts or anything like that when changing plans. If any phones are out of contract or on Next then you'd get $25/month off for each of those lines. If there's a employee discount, that would be coming off the shared plan price (off the $80/month for the 10 GB).
Sounds good! We will look into things and probably end up changing plans eventually. Would much rather be switching T-Mobile, but what can you do about bad coverage?
Switch from Verizon to TMobile iPhone 6
I'm a one line truly unlimited super happy T-Mobile subscriber with an iPhone 6. I travel up and down the west coast and to Asia. I lead a metropolitan kind of lifestyle. Nice cars. Nice restaurants. Nice vacations. SoCal home base. I don't drive. I fly. Bachelor.
On average I plow through 50gb of lte a month and my bill just went down to $65 a month out the door since I canceled my handset insurance through one of their third party providers.
I can't imagine paying more for less with any of the other carriers. I only want gsm so I'd be subject to att's heavyweight plans. No thanks. T-Mobile long!
I'm a one line truly unlimited super happy T-Mobile subscriber with an iPhone 6. I travel up and down the west coast and to Asia. I lead a metropolitan kind of lifestyle. Nice cars. Nice restaurants. Nice vacations. SoCal home base. I don't drive. I fly. Bachelor.
On average I plow through 50gb of lte a month and my bill just went down to $65 a month out the door since I canceled my handset insurance through one of their third party providers.
I can't imagine paying more for less with any of the other carriers. I only want gsm so I'd be subject to att's heavyweight plans. No thanks. T-Mobile long!
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I switched from AT&T to T-Mobile in January 2014. Had 3 lines (two with true unlimited and one on a 1GB line). With the costs of the phones (EIP) it was running me $192 per month.
My problem came when we would travel.
I-10 between Phoenix and LA is a virtual dead zone for data and spotty voice coverage. Forget going to San Diego... no service most of the way.
Same with I-17 between Phoenix and Flagstaff.
It was on a trip to LA when a roll over accident occurred in front of us that I realized I needed reliable coverage, not cheap coverage.
I had zero signal in this area.
Thankfully another driver had a working signal (AT&T) so help could be called.
So I bit the bullet and paid off my EIP plan with T-Mobile and went back to AT&T.
I now have 3 lines on AT&T and full LTE coverage everywhere I go.
Is it as fast as T-Mobile? Not in most places, but it's THERE in more places.
Oh and my AT&T bill is $220 which includes the costs of phones on NEXT.
We have the 10GB share plan. Wife and I have WiFi at work and home, which is where we use most of our data, so we have yet to go over 5GB combined, so this plan works just fine for us.
So what I'm saying is cheaper isn't always better.
Reliability of service is first for me.
Before making that switch, make sure you are getting something that will work for you. We almost learned it the hard way.
My problem came when we would travel.
I-10 between Phoenix and LA is a virtual dead zone for data and spotty voice coverage. Forget going to San Diego... no service most of the way.
Same with I-17 between Phoenix and Flagstaff.
It was on a trip to LA when a roll over accident occurred in front of us that I realized I needed reliable coverage, not cheap coverage.
I had zero signal in this area.
Thankfully another driver had a working signal (AT&T) so help could be called.
So I bit the bullet and paid off my EIP plan with T-Mobile and went back to AT&T.
I now have 3 lines on AT&T and full LTE coverage everywhere I go.
Is it as fast as T-Mobile? Not in most places, but it's THERE in more places.
Oh and my AT&T bill is $220 which includes the costs of phones on NEXT.
We have the 10GB share plan. Wife and I have WiFi at work and home, which is where we use most of our data, so we have yet to go over 5GB combined, so this plan works just fine for us.
So what I'm saying is cheaper isn't always better.
Reliability of service is first for me.
Before making that switch, make sure you are getting something that will work for you. We almost learned it the hard way.
Yes it's truly unlimited. I only had it for one month in which I used a whopping 2G...... Since I rarely use it, I dropped down to the 3G plan. I get LTE speed til 3G then it gets throttle. I never get above 2.5G so I never know what throttling is.
I currently have the S6 Edge and Iphone 6 so I went to the $100 for 2 phones with unlimited everything. I just switched plans so I don't know what to expect. I did turn wi-fi since I get good coverage with 4-5 bars even in the basement.