Carrier T-Mobile has more LTE Towers than Verizon?

[iosuser]

They should've spent that commercial money on speeding up their band 12 deployment. I am glad I got in while they were at rock bottom prices. They've started raising prices as their coverage improves. I've got 9 lines, two unlimited and three 4.5GB, the rest being 2.5, plus an iPad 5GB. All for $210 with all taxes and fees after my corporate discount (about $30 a month). Combined an ATT and Verizon account from family members (only six lines, two of which were dumb phones!) This is half of what we paid the big two for a lot more services from TMo. My sister and her SO paid Verizon almost $200/mo for two lines for years! It took some arm twisting before they agreed to switch, having fully bought into Verizon's marketing that it's them or expect horrible service. I convinced them to take the TMo test drive. They've been thanking me ever since.

Verizon has better coverage overall, but I have seen my wife's company Verizon phone drop off where my TMo worked great. In our house her Verizon iPhone barely hangs on while my phone is blazing fast. Nearly double the speed of my 50/30 cable internet! Verizon is really not the end all be all that they have many believe, like my sister did.

 

[Sketchr]

Did you do the unlimited 4 lines?

were you able to order 4 sims online first? I was playing around on their website and it doesn't seem to allow you to order 4 sims after selecting that plan.

 

[Applejuiced]

were you able to order 4 sims online first? I was playing around on their website and it doesn't seem to allow you to order 4 sims after selecting that plan.

Yes, when you select the plan you just gotta click use your own phone and then buy sim. Do the same thing for each line.
Enter promo code FREESIM at the end at checkout.
You get all the sims for free shipped to you.

Now Im waiting for AT&T to unlock one of my iphones and they're telling me 48 to 72 hours
I already ported all the numbers and I cant use that one device yet.

 

[willmtaylor]

All I can says is wow, tmobile lte is fast.
Just got my sims and ported my numbers from AT&T.
Booya

Where it's fast, it's fast. Where it's not, it's not (E.g. T-Mo's speed and coverage is so bad in my area that the Open Signal app doesn't even have it as a carrier option.)

Happy for ya. So nice.

 

[Applejuiced]

Where it's fast, it's fast. Where it's not, it's not (E.g. T-Mo's speed and coverage is so bad in my area that the Open Signal app doesn't even have it as a carrier option.)

Happy for ya. So nice.

Yes, seems like you get 60-100mbps in some places.
And sometimes it drops you down to 2mbps at other locations.
I guess its the same with every carrier.
With AT&T I had many areas with slow speeds under 1mbps.
I'll have to wait a full month or so to give it a more accurate run on many different places I use data at.

 

[ChubZ]

There's two ways you can work out the numbers with this:

1. T-Mobile has to have a more dense network, so overall they have more towers to provide the coverage they do.

2. Not all of Verizon's towers were converted to LTE. The same is true today. They initially provided just enough LTE coverage to put some red on the map and provide basic blanket coverage, but a lot of the cell towers in between were still CDMA-only. This is changing as Verizon fills in their coverage.

Remember when VoLTE on Verizon kept dropping calls? This is partially why.

T-Mobile has the same issue in rural areas, but they have it easier: in most cases the towers can be upgraded with a software update and changing a few panels. With Verizon, it was almost entirely a rip-and-replace operation.

Ultimately, this is also why both carriers can claim all kinds of "bests." Verizon definitely blankets the nation with coverage, including rural areas. But, in the urban areas where T-Mobile provides LTE will usually get you better throughput and speeds than Verizon.

Not true. I'm directly responsible for rolling out Verizon site upgrades and new site builds in a state in the north east. CDMA equipment and lte equipment are completely different and not dependent on each other except for handoffs and using the same bandwidth pipe. Lte base stations are co-located with cdma equipment at site.

It's a lot more involved than just panel swap outs and software upgrades for new spectrums being used or technology all together. Now that T-Mobile has 700 spectru, coverage. They have legit skin in the game. That gives them three spectrums of lte, same as vzw and att.

 

[Noble Actual]

It's like I want to switch to TMobile because paying $250/month for 12GB for 4 iPhones seems like a lot Verizon...

But TMobile literally is kinda ****** here.

 

[Septembersrain]

In major cities, I've had some decent T-Mobile speeds. Band 12 is really helping out when traveling outside major cities. Here is my most recent:

On the 3rd, I'd bought a new phone, think it was still provisioning.

 

[willmtaylor]

It's like I want to switch to TMobile because paying $250/month for 12GB for 4 iPhones seems like a lot Verizon...

But TMobile literally is kinda ****** here.

So they literally leave sh*t everywhere? That sounds awful. How does the FCC or the local authorities not step in and stop that?


Seriously though, $60/mo. for each line doesn't sound unreasonable, though 3GB each does sound a bit low.