Carrier T-Mobile is Fantastic!

[BiggAW]

Was with Verizon but they had capacity issues and werent great in NYC when i left. I dont know if you have ever been to the financial district early last year but if you did, you would know how terrible they were. Now with them getting AWS available, they are better or best. However, i am happy with my service with T-Mobile and wont switch to Verizon even if they work "elsewhere". Dont need to go to other places as much as others who "need" it everywhere. I pay less for more where i go and live.

I rather give my money to T-Mobile and support their cause to help them build their coverage. That would truly help them compete better with the doupoly.

Edit: Btw, 200 million pop has LTE coverage with T-Mobile. If thats not competition to AT&T and Verizon, i don't know what is.

Have fun with EDGE and no coverage when you travel.

POPs is highly misleading. The first 150-200M POPs is a small % of land area coverage. You have to be up into the 95+% of POPs to have good land area coverage. AT&T is at 98% total coverage, with upper 90's for HSPA+ and LTE.

T-Mobile is not some charitable cause. They are a business, albeit one that's not good at it's core business.

 

[GigabitEthernet]

Wow you Americans get ripped off on your mobile phone contracts!

 

[rui no onna]

Wow you Americans get ripped off on your mobile phone contracts!

Unfortunately true. Went on vacation to Asia and I paid $30 for local prepaid cellphone service - $25 for unlimited data (used around 20GB since we tethered quite a bit) and $5 for pay per use calling and texting. I still have over $2 balance left on that actually.

 

[Menel]

Have fun with EDGE and no coverage when you travel.

I concede your other points.

But travel is not a problem with TMo.

LA, Boston, NYC, Savannah, Palm Beach. Had great coverage in my recent travels.

Visit family out in hicksville ga... No coverage. Who cares. I can survive a rare Sat. afternoon without coverage. Let them pay for the infrastructure build out if they want to live out there. Im not a charity, not putting up with ATT's **** to help subsidize those out in the sticks.

 

[GigabitEthernet]

Unfortunately true. Went on vacation to Asia and I paid $30 for local prepaid cellphone service - $25 for unlimited data (used around 20GB since we tethered quite a bit) and $5 for pay per use calling and texting. I still have over $2 balance left on that actually.

I'm in the UK, hi .

I can pay £15 a month on a one month contract. I then pay full price for a SIM-free phone, say an iPhone 5S 16GB at ~£500. Over 24 months, that's ridiculously cheap compared to what you poor Americans pay!

Why is your mobile industry so screwed up?!?

 

[Menel]

Wow you Americans get ripped off on your mobile phone contracts!

Unfortunately true. Went on vacation to Asia and I paid $30 for local prepaid cellphone service - $25 for unlimited data (used around 20GB since we tethered quite a bit) and $5 for pay per use calling and texting. I still have over $2 balance left on that actually.

The big 2-3 rip people off. Many refuse to research alternatives, or have their nose too high in the sky for what they really need for personal data. And/or have unrealistic expectations for streaming music and video nonstop. Over cellular data.

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I'm in the UK, hi .

I can pay £15 a month on a one month contract. I then pay full price for a SIM-free phone, say an iPhone 5S 16GB at ~£500. Over 24 months, that's ridiculously cheap compared to what you poor Americans pay!

Why is your mobile industry so screwed up?!?

UK:679 people/sqmi
America: 83 people/sqmi
Why are your people practically living on top of each other?

UK: 93,000 sqmi
USA: 3,700,000 sqmi
Why so teeny tiny?

 

[CEmajr]

Wow you Americans get ripped off on your mobile phone contracts!

Our mobile industry is a near duopoly with AT&T and Verizon and they have managed to convince quite a bit of people that they need to pay extra to have coverage in the far reaches of the country that they'll never likely visit. Add it that they have successfully conditioned the average American consumer that using data on your phone is a bad thing. Pretty ingenious from a business perspective, terrible from the consumer perspective though.

 

[bhags8]

You could buy T-Mobile's $30 prepaid plan (1,000 minutes, unlimited texting and 5 GB 4G data, after that, you get unlimited 2G) and test out T-Mobile's network.

By the way, the Verizon iPhone 5S supports all of T-Mobile's network , except their upcoming 700A MHz LTE.

Where do you buy this prepaid plan and when is this upcoming 700a coming?

 

[Anijake]

Was already to switch but, why not share data plan with phone plan? $20.00 for 500mb? are they insane?

Is tethering really a viable option? and even they only 2.5gigs

 

[I7guy]

Our mobile industry is a near duopoly with AT&T and Verizon and they have managed to convince quite a bit of people that they need to pay extra to have coverage in the far reaches of the country that they'll never likely visit. Add it that they have successfully conditioned the average American consumer that using data on your phone is a bad thing. Pretty ingenious from a business perspective, terrible from the consumer perspective though.

Your post begs a very sardonic response. Are you now the spokesperson for Verizon's 10s of millions of customers and you are tuned in all of VZW customers travel habits? And know for a fact they all overpay because none of their customers leave the radius of 100 feet of within their home address?

I do agree the wireless providers levy big data tariffs including tmobile. See my post above. Tmobile is only cheap for the cheapest data plan and even then you have buy your phone.

I'd rather stick with the subsidized model.

 

[wordoflife]

Why is your mobile industry so screwed up?!?

Lack of true competition. But it's getting better. One might also argue that rates in the US are more expensive because there is more area to cover.

Have fun with EDGE and no coverage when you travel.

Depending on where and how often you travel, it might not be an issue for that many people.

 

[sixrom]

T-Mobile has made great progress with their network. I use 6 to 7 GB of data on my unlimited plan monthly with no throttling. Saves me lots of money compared to my AT&T plan on my other phone. Ones for work and ones for personal use. I'm covered no matter where I travel.

 

[GigabitEthernet]

Your post begs a very sardonic response. Are you now the spokesperson for Verizon's 10s of millions of customers and you are tuned in all of VZW customers travel habits? And know for a fact they all overpay because none of their customers leave the radius of 100 feet of within their home address?

I do agree the wireless providers levy big data tariffs including tmobile. See my post above. Tmobile is only cheap for the cheapest data plan and even then you have buy your phone.

I'd rather stick with the subsidized model.

Well then, have fun being ripped off.

 

[I7guy]

Well then, have fun being ripped off.

Absolutely, it's my money. Thank you. I'm guessing you don't go very far from any large city.

 

[Retired Cat]

Looks like T-Mobile raised the price of their unlimited data plan for new customers.



http://www.tmonews.com/2014/03/50-s...national-texting-double-4g-lte-datatethering/



It's now $80 instead of $70.



But they did increase the $50 option to 1GB and added free international texting. I have a feeling unlimited will eventually be phased out for new customers like the other carriers did.

Does this apply to prepaid as well as postpaid? The news release says that the new benefits start on March 23 for postpaid, and unlimited international text starts for prepaid on April 26. Doesn't say if prepaid gets the other new benefits too.

 

[yeah]

Where do you buy this prepaid plan and when is this upcoming 700a coming?

You can buy the prepaid plan at T-Mobile stores or online.

700A LTE will come later this year.

 

[GigabitEthernet]

Absolutely, it's my money. Thank you. I'm guessing you don't go very far from any large city.

I don't even live in the USA!

I was saying: have fun being ripped off by your mobile phone companies .

 

[CEmajr]

Good news for those against the possible Sprint merger:

http://www.tmonews.com/2014/03/dt-chief-t-mobile-sale-unlikely-in-the-near-term/

DT finally reaffirms a long-term growth strategy for T-Mobile USA rather than trying to offload it to the highest bidder.

Things aren't looking too good for Softbank's plans right now and it looks like Son may back down without making an official offer.

 

[I7guy]

I don't even live in the USA!

I was saying: have fun being ripped off by your mobile phone companies .

Oh so that was a generic slam against the US cell phone companies rather than a dig against me because I feel that VZW is worth it.

 

[bhags8]

You can buy the prepaid plan at T-Mobile stores or online.

700A LTE will come later this year.

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Thank you. Now if I do this and they send me a SIM card, do I need just pop it in or do I need to contact verizon first considering I am keeping my service with them but just want to try it out.

 

[yeah]

Thank you. Now if I do this and they send me a SIM card, do I need just pop it in or do I need to contact verizon first considering I am keeping my service with them but just want to try it out.

You can pop in the SIM card and use it.

 

[BiggAW]

I concede your other points.

But travel is not a problem with TMo.

LA, Boston, NYC, Savannah, Palm Beach. Had great coverage in my recent travels.

Visit family out in hicksville ga... No coverage. Who cares. I can survive a rare Sat. afternoon without coverage. Let them pay for the infrastructure build out if they want to live out there. Im not a charity, not putting up with ATT's **** to help subsidize those out in the sticks.

If you travel around the US, you WILL hit large areas of T-Mobile EDGE and no service, where other carriers do have service. With AT&T and Verizon, you WILL hit some pockets of no service here and there, but by and large, you will have service. AT&T has some EDGE, and Verizon has some 1x roaming, but by and large with the big two, you will have 3Gish type of service, if not Faux G or Four G, which is popping up in more and more places.

It really sucks when you have no service at all or borderline unusable service for half of a trip. I used to have a lot of AT&T EDGE when traveling, but their network has gotten way better, and now it's pretty much all 3G or Faux G, with bigger and bigger areas of LTE as well.

 

[JoeG4]

I've been visiting Las Vegas quite a bit, and T-Mobile has terrible reception, at least from my experience.

Meh. I disagree. But the T-Mobile towers seemed to be in pretty close proximity to my favorite places xD

 

[keitarou]

Have fun with EDGE and no coverage when you travel.

POPs is highly misleading. The first 150-200M POPs is a small % of land area coverage. You have to be up into the 95+% of POPs to have good land area coverage. AT&T is at 98% total coverage, with upper 90's for HSPA+ and LTE.

T-Mobile is not some charitable cause. They are a business, albeit one that's not good at it's core business.

That wasn't my point. Yes land coverage might not be good but having covered that many POPs means competition for those people living in those cities to choose between 4 carriers. Competition is good for the consumer as you are seeing changes with all of the carriers giving more data for less money compared to before.

I do travel but it is limited to cities as I am not much of a "country" person. And when I do travel for business purposes, my clients are all located in cities. Those places are well covered by T-Mobile.

Majority of the people, probably don't travel much from where they live. So having "more" land covered isn't a big issue. You can stay with your AT&T/Verizon's and pay what you pay for the feeling of being "covered" all over the US. For those of us who don't travel by car every time we go somewhere and maybe travel for a week or two a year are very happy with T-Mobile. Especially with more data for same price now (except for unlimited data users).

You are also right. T-Mobile is a business and businesses need to make money. T-Mobile isn't making enough money for all of the changes they are making so they are raising prices for the unlimited data users that sign up after 3/23. Another reason why as more people join and pay T-Mobile for their service, they will make money. Will it be soon? Maybe, maybe not. But I hope they do well for our sake.

 

[I7guy]

That wasn't my point. Yes land coverage might not be good but having covered that many POPs means competition for those people living in those cities to choose between 4 carriers. Competition is good for the consumer as you are seeing changes with all of the carriers giving more data for less money compared to before.

I do travel but it is limited to cities as I am not much of a "country" person. And when I do travel for business purposes, my clients are all located in cities. Those places are well covered by T-Mobile.

Majority of the people, probably don't travel much from where they live. So having "more" land covered isn't a big issue. You can stay with your AT&T/Verizon's and pay what you pay for the feeling of being "covered" all over the US. For those of us who don't travel by car every time we go somewhere and maybe travel for a week or two a year are very happy with T-Mobile. Especially with more data for same price now (except for unlimited data users).

You are also right. T-Mobile is a business and businesses need to make money. T-Mobile isn't making enough money for all of the changes they are making so they are raising prices for the unlimited data users that sign up after 3/23. Another reason why as more people join and pay T-Mobile for their service, they will make money. Will it be soon? Maybe, maybe not. But I hope they do well for our sake.

Wow, talk about making one huge sweeping generalization to support your notion that VZW users "overpay". Of course they overpay if you believe:

1. all VZW customers don't use data or are very low data users
2. are located next to tmobile towers
3. never leave their dwelling.