T-Mobile Debuts New Business Plan, Other Perks at Un-Carrier 9 Event

[xpected_one]

Already announced a while back. All EDGE to LTE by the end of summer 300M POPs covered in LTE by year end 2015.

http://www.tmonews.com/2015/02/t-mobiles-lte-coverage-map-will-look-like-this-by-the-end-of-2015/

When this happens I will give them another shot. Used their trial program and roamed a bunch on ATT lol.

 

[ghostface147]

I really don't understand why every American hasn't jumped to T-mobile yet. If they were doing half the things they're doing in the US in Europe they would be the biggest carrier by now.

Lack of reliable nationwide coverage. If you live in the city...great. Outside of it...coverage drops off the map. They don't have the money to buy a lot of spectrum.

 

[vampyr]

Wth?

Why are we seeing advertisements about T-Mobile from MacRumors.com

Is there some kind of business relationship that MacRumors is required to push T-Mobile crap to its website traffic?

Truly disappointed in you MacRumors. This site is becoming less and less about mac products.

 

[OneMike]

I use T-Mobile and I'm happy enough to stay with them.

They are great in my most frequent areas and great at home/work.

There are some spots along the road though where they get either terrible or no service at all and in cases thier building penetration is lacking.

 

[Glideslope]

Go T-Mobile! They're the only carrier shaking up the industry, and I'm staying with them!

Except you get crap service outside of any metropolitan area. For those who don't work or live in a city the crap coverage is not worth the trouble.

 

[31 Flavas]

Why are we seeing advertisements about T-Mobile from MacRumors.com

Is there some kind of business relationship that MacRumors is required to push T-Mobile crap to its website traffic?

Truly disappointed in you MacRumors. This site is becoming less and less about mac products.

So if AT&T or Verizon ads showed up, you'd have the same outrage? Does this mean Sprint can't advert on MacRumors either?

You would think, ads are ads. God damn this Sid Meier's STARSHIPS ad. What is it paid for? Oh wait, AT&T, VZW, and Sprint news does show up on this website too.

 

[r00fus]

Perhaps but they really suck to be honest.

YMMV. I've had nothing but great experiences with TMobile. I got better signal in Boston, LV and LA than my colleagues on Verizon every time we had to compare (i.e., need directions to event, colleague with VZ can't access maps, I give the directions).

Then again, maybe I'm just lucky?

 

[macduke]

I have been using T-Mobile in the Ann Arbor Michigan area for over six years and the coverage is great. In the last two years it has even gotten better. Further last year there was a national test of all the networks and T-Mobile's average speed and data coverage compared to the other big three was second only to AT&T and only slightly. Verizon was very competitive in third place, and sprint a distant fourth. So there maybe areas in the country where T-Mobile service is not that great but on average nationwide is very competitive.

I'll probably give it a look again in 2016 when my contract expires, but for now I'm satisfied. I'm pretty sure T-Mobile didn't even have LTE here until recently, and pretty much all the way home from here to KC is 2G which means we can't stream music in the car. There are also lots of dead spots in the surrounding areas. Verizon has some dead spots nearby but they're in areas north and south of I-70 to the east towards St. Louis and we don't visit those areas.

 

[r00fus]

I want t-mobile, but I don't get tmobile signal in my San Francisco office building. I am a special case where I am in a basement level office with no windows (yes, it's as sad as it sounds). Absolutely no signal from tmobile (or Sprint, as told by others) down here. ATT and Verizon both work fine though, a decent LTE signal. I understand it has to do with the lower frequencies that ATT and Verizon own are much better at building penetration than what T-Mobile has. That's a shame, as it forces me to stick to ATT.

TMobile bought a bunch of 700Mhz spectrum that Verizon was forced to sell because of FCC regulations.

I'm wondering when they start rolling out some of that sweet spectrum - they've mentioned they're excited to use that for improving indoor and rural reception.

 

[AlecZ]

Their service sucks here, but they undercut other carriers, and then AT&T follows, so I'm glad.

 

[Plutonius]

I only want one thing from T-Mobile. Much better coverage.

 

[tgwaste]

...T-Mobile is also partnering with GoDaddy to give business customers a free domain and a free mobile site...


GoDaddy *facepalm*

 

[tito2020]

I want t-mobile, but I don't get tmobile signal in my San Francisco office building. I am a special case where I am in a basement level office with no windows (yes, it's as sad as it sounds). Absolutely no signal from tmobile (or Sprint, as told by others) down here. ATT and Verizon both work fine though, a decent LTE signal. I understand it has to do with the lower frequencies that ATT and Verizon own are much better at building penetration than what T-Mobile has. That's a shame, as it forces me to stick to ATT.

you pay for what you get.

 

[i-John]

I really don't understand why every American hasn't jumped to T-mobile yet.

Because their network sucks balls. In the end, they can offer as much as they want, but in the end, the vast majority of users still want better coverage and speed over pricing plans.

 

[geniusj]

Their service sucks here, but they undercut other carriers, and then AT&T follows, so I'm glad.

Sucks in the bay area? Not at all, from what I've seen. But I guess it's a highly local thing. If you don't have good coverage at your house, the rest doesn't matter as much (though wifi calling helps)

 

[techology]

IF you have an iPhone 6 they support calls over WiFi, and that works great. If you don't. they have a micro-cell you can get from them for $25 and it does a good job at my home giving us a 1-2 bar signal where we had zero bars before.

You can also call Tmobile and get them to GIVE you one of these to use....I needed one because i got NO service in my basement and i had iphone 5S (before 6 came out) and had no wifi calling, so they sent me this and i now have 2 bars LTE or full 4G bars everyone in my house now....

https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-14947

 

[Will do good]

You can also call Tmobile and get them to GIVE you one of these to use....I needed one because i got NO service in my basement and i had iphone 5S (before 6 came out) and had no wifi calling, so they sent me this and i now have 2 bars LTE or full 4G bars everyone in my house now....

https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-14947

Cool, thanks.

 

[Avenged110]

TMobile bought a bunch of 700Mhz spectrum that Verizon was forced to sell because of FCC regulations.

I'm wondering when they start rolling out some of that sweet spectrum - they've mentioned they're excited to use that for improving indoor and rural reception.

That's what I was waiting for, then I realized it was band 12 (700a block) and my iPhone 5 doesn't support band 12

 

[Sonmi451]

I don't understand why they are saying un-carrier when they are a carrier.

 

[ttss6]

I'm sure I'm in the same boat as many people in that we want to switch over to T-Mobile, but the lack of coverage is a definite deal breaker. With Verizon, I can't for the life of me remember the last time I saw "No Service" at the top of my iPhone. AT&T on the other hand was dropped call hell.

 

[skinned66]

Which 80's glam metal band is he from?

 

[kingtj]

It's all about the coverage....

I think an awful lot more Americans would be T-Mobile customers by now if it wasn't for the coverage issue. T-Mobile simply has spotty coverage. All of the discounts and added bonus features they can come up with are meaningless to someone who gets poor or no service on the phone the whole time they're signed up with them!

I've been with T-Mobile for a while now and I love everything about them except for the coverage. They *finally* upgraded the cell tower serving my town so I get LTE data instead of EDGE here. But frankly, if they hadn't done this, I might have considered switching. (When you're using the EDGE network with an iPhone, it's not only a matter of having painfully slow web surfing, app downloading, etc. Those things I could often live without until I got to a wi-fi hotspot. It's also the fact that Apple's "Visual Voicemail" stops working, which is really inconvenient.)

I know every time I cross the Maryland state border and go someplace in West Virginia, T-Mobile becomes almost useless. Maybe it's partially due to the mountains, but I typically have no service whatsoever anyplace indoors, and maybe GPRS outdoors.

I really don't understand why every American hasn't jumped to T-mobile yet. If they were doing half the things they're doing in the US in Europe they would be the biggest carrier by now.

I really love the un-carrier movement but I think it's under appreciated in the US.

We don't have the US drama with our carriers here in Europe but that doesn't make the initiatives less attractive.

 

[C DM]

I really don't understand why every American hasn't jumped to T-mobile yet. If they were doing half the things they're doing in the US in Europe they would be the biggest carrier by now.

I really love the un-carrier movement but I think it's under appreciated in the US.

We don't have the US drama with our carriers here in Europe but that doesn't make the initiatives less attractive.

Just a few reasons from a single page of this thread:

If their coverage didn't completely suck in this area i would consider using them. I like what they are trying to do but they can't even compare to verizon in this region.

I would switch to tmobile in a heartbeat if they had coverage at my home.

I want t-mobile, but I don't get tmobile signal in my San Francisco office building. I am a special case where I am in a basement level office with no windows (yes, it's as sad as it sounds). Absolutely no signal from tmobile (or Sprint, as told by others) down here. ATT and Verizon both work fine though, a decent LTE signal. I understand it has to do with the lower frequencies that ATT and Verizon own are much better at building penetration than what T-Mobile has. That's a shame, as it forces me to stick to ATT.

I gave T-Mobile a try in the Boston Metrowest area. I liked the price and the amount of data, but its hard to use data when the coverage is so bad.
At one point my iPhone said it had "GPRS". seriously. Most other times I would be lucky to get "edge". So when they offer unlimited data, at least you know you wont be throttled if you go over 5GB since it'll never happen.

YMMV since if you don't travel much and your area has good coverage its good pricing.

t-mobile is nice until you are on the phone with a customer and lose the call in the elevator and then you just punch and kick the air like they do on those stupid commercials

This is great, except when your traveling on a business trip and you find your iPhone 6 switching back and fourth from EDGE to 4G to No Service.

 

[SoAnyway]

Stick it to AT&T!

 

[C DM]

Why are we seeing advertisements about T-Mobile from MacRumors.com

Is there some kind of business relationship that MacRumors is required to push T-Mobile crap to its website traffic?

Truly disappointed in you MacRumors. This site is becoming less and less about mac products.

Because we see announcements from different carriers here as well, given that they often have impact on many iOS users, and perhaps even OS X users who use hotspots and the like.