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T-Mobile Attacked by AT&T in Newspaper Ad Ahead of Potential Rebranding

Listening to two mobile carriers cat-fighting and calling each other names like this, I just want to sit them down and gently explain, "Girls, you're both ugly!"

(I'm switching to T-Mobile because they offer a service plan that includes plenty of data and text, and a small number of voice minutes – which I still won't use up – for half the price of AT&T's cheapest plan.)
 
Dwalls90 said:
ATT poking fun at dropped calls? LOL

And tmobiles 4G is up to twice as fast as ATT's.
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Ok, we can let the dropped calls comment go, but you are smoking crack if you think t-mobile is up to twice as fast at AT&T. I get 25-40Mb on my iphone consistently in Florida. AT&T's network is WAY bigger and global to boot.
 
Dwalls90 said:
ATT poking fun at dropped calls? LOL

And tmobiles 4G is up to twice as fast as ATT's.
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If you are talking about 4G HSPA+ then yes you are correct as AT&T HSPA+ is only 21 Mbps while T-Mobile is 42 Mbps.

When it comes to total 4G coverage, AT&T LTE is definitely more than 2X faster than T-Mobile HSPA+. Personally, I have seen speeds of over 65 Mbps on AT&T LTE.
 
robvas said:
All valid points. It's tough to find people who love TMobile or Sprint, everyone on those networks is just pinching pennies.
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I think TMobile is great. So far I've gotten more reliable coverage than I had with Verizon. Supposedly they are rolling out iPhone compatible 3G. But I won't upgrade from my $10 a month unlimited EDGE plan until I am sure my 3GS will get 3G speeds in my area.
 
FirePhantom said:
If T-Mobile's network is so bad, then why did AT&T want to buy it?

Slimy move, AT&T.
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Could you show anymore how clueless you are about networks? Yes, they wanted to buy their network not to supplement their own but to replace it.
 
Funny,
because if the ad is viewed under normal low involvement circumstances, what kind of sticks out and stays is:

  • T-Mobile
  • 2 x more
  • 2 x more
  • 50 % less

...Profit might go unintendedly to T-Mobile.
 
Great Move!

I think the idea of a $20 - $30 equipment fee is great. This is really like financing your phone over 24 months period. So if you keep your phone beyond the two years, your monthly plan drops.

I WISH AT&T and Verizon would drop their rates after you fulfil your contract, but no, they rip you apart and keep on charging you outrageous fees even after you pay for it.
 
Wow. I'm shocked. Not so much by the two competing companies having a hair pulling contest, that's pretty standard. But if I'd tried to get away with designing an advert as dog rough looking as that when I was in the industry my boss would have laughed in my face. And then told me to go back and do it again.
 
poneley said:
I cannot wait for folks to ditch AT&T and the other big two cell companies for T-Mobile. Once T-Mobile gets full support of the iPhone, its game over. I know I'll be switching this fall.
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As much as AT&T sucks (and I know because I've had them for 7 years) T-Mobile is much worse trust me. I have many friends with T-Mobile and at least here in NYC the service is far worse than AT&T.
 
I'm surprised at AT&T's ad. Such an ad would be illegal in the UK but what strikes me is the negativity it creates. When I first saw it I thought it was a TMobile ad (remember all publicity is GOOD publicity), which is bad for AT&T. Also us Britons don't tend to like brands that negatively swipe others so if I saw this I would not think about joining AT&T!
 
Well... if I can use a Smartphone on T-Mobile for just voice and text sans getting bent over for Data... good by Verison. Hello unlocked iPhone 6 replacement for my aging iPod Touch 3 + "feature" phone I've been hanging out on to for 4 years.
 
Macboy Pro said:
Ok, we can let the dropped calls comment go, but you are smoking crack if you think t-mobile is up to twice as fast at AT&T. I get 25-40Mb on my iphone consistently in Florida. AT&T's network is WAY bigger and global to boot.
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I disagree. Getting 1.85Mbps/0.33Mbps and I'm in LA.

Go to cellreception.com. All 4 top carriers have plenty of complaints but AT&T are the worst.
 
Best response ever!

best response ever!!!!


tuan x said:
so at&t was like “yo, what’s good baby? I got all this bread & i’m willing to spend it on you if you be my b*tch.” even though he’s slow & very shallow, t-mobile was like, “ok boo, let’s plan this wedding. But since you ballin’ & everything you gotta get me a crib, a new whip & a puppy.” t-mobile knew these gifts couldn’t be taken back if things didn’t go well. So t-mobile & at&t planned their wedding, even though they knew their parents may not approve because at&t is jewish & t-mobile’s atheist.

Time goes by, they're about to get married, but their parents are like, “get the hell outta here you’re not marrying a (jew/atheist),” they’re forced to break up. At&t is upset they didn’t get their girl. T-mobile is like “ooohhh, sorry boo. Thanks for the whip though.”

t-mobile quickly meets another guy, metro pcs, he’s an atheist too! He doesn’t have much money but he’s got personality & is goal oriented. T-mobile falls in love. They decide they want to get married & oddly metro pcs agrees to change his name to hers (you know she got an ego); but t-mobile’s willing to let metro pcs wear the pants in the relationship.

At&t, jealous as all hell, starts talking crap about t-mobile. “ohhhh, whatever yo, that chick is slow. Forget her. Look at me i’m ballin’, she know she miss this!” clearly upset because he realized t-mobile was playing him from the start.
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AT&T can slam T-Mobile all they want. In my area...AT&T doesn't reach half the areas I want to use it. T-Mobile does. Sorry AT&T, you need to actually show you're capable of providing service to brag about it...
 
funny, my friend and I did a side by side test with our phones on att and tmobile. off speedtest.net to the same location, tmobile's data was consistently faster by about a megabit than att, both upload and download.

it may sound stupid, but i like my iphone better on att, because tmobile doesnt split up all my text messages into parts like att does. because its always great when you get the second half of a text message a few minutes before the first. :rolleyes:
 
T-mobile is just moving towards what the rest of the world has and AT&T is just worried that this could set in motion the end of the contract phone era here in the US. Why should I have to pay x2 as the rest of the world? Thank you T-mobile.
 
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