I'll be honest, it became marketing. I actually believe John Legere was a good CEO who valued both his customers and his staff - but the board became far more interested in a sprint acquisition than actually growing their market honestly. Oh well.Oh 1000%
The fact that anyone thought different has always amazed me.
As I've grown older, I've come to terms with the fact that a segment of the population is incredibly gullible.
This is my experience exactly. Although I was a Sprint customer who become a T Mo one when they bought Sprint (something, something Unlimited Freedom plan).I've been a mostly-happy T-mobile customer for years, mostly because I have a really old plan they haven't yet removed me from. Things went downhill after Legere left, but I'm still satisfied. When they remove me from my plan, I will depart. Simple Choice for life.
The Sprint acquisition has been great for T Mobile's network through. They got a lot of the midrange cellular bands that Sprint had that allow much of the high speed capacity. T Mo had the $, and Sprint had the excess capacity. It's one of the big reasons that their 5G footprint is so much larger than Verizon & AT&T's.I'll be honest, it became marketing. I actually believe John Legere was a good CEO who valued both his customers and his staff - but the board became far more interested in a sprint acquisition than actually growing their market honestly. Oh well.
Eliminating DEI? Looks like I'm switching from ATT to T-mobile.
I had AT&T from 1999 until around 2015 and they were atrocious by the time I left to T-Mobile. T-Mobile was light years better and has been. I have also had on other lines: Verizon and Mint. All have been inferior to T-Mobile in speed, customer service and perks, although there was a time where T-Mobile lacked in service in remote states (I travel a lot for work), but not anymore.This is my experience exactly. Although I was a Sprint customer who become a T Mo one when they bought Sprint (something, something Unlimited Freedom plan).
I do have to say that T Mo has been way better than Sprint. Towards the end, there was a year when I could almost not use cellular data. If I didn't download a podcast before I left work (I was keeping up with the Tour de France daily updates), it would not download on the way home. I was nervous about the move to T Mo, but it's been great (service & price wise). They moved me to a new T Mo plan a year or two after we came over, but the price was actually a couple of $ cheaper than what I had been paying. They just introduced a new $5/line monthly charge, but then gave us a free line (with no charges at all) that becomes permanent if we don't cancel any lines for a year.
I'm reading on the Verizon thread right now about MVNO's, but Visible's cheapest plan is $35/month. For 5 lines, it's $175, which is only $25 cheaper than my T Mo plan (even with the $5/line increase) which also includes an iPad (which I couldn't find on visible.
I'm not a huge T MO evangelist & I'd switch if the value was there, but I'm paying comparable to what a highly rated MVNO's charges, but I'm not deprioritized as bad when a network gets congested (although to be honest we live in a pretty remote area and I doubt that I'm ever deprioritized), plus I get the T Mo perks (T mo Tuesday deals, free international data, free wireless on planes, discounts on upgrading phones, better hotspot terms, Hulu, etc).
I guess a very long way of saying that my experience hasn't been too bad. But if things get worse, I'll certainly move to someone else, assuming I can find a better price or the same price with more extras.