I know what you are saying... using cellphone carrier as a status symbol is childish. I enjoy the back and forth between AutoUnion34. He has some valid points and some generalizations. But he is now starting to see the goodness in T-Mobile... hence his comment above.
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I know what you are saying... using cellphone carrier as a status symbol is childish. I enjoy the back and forth between AutoUnion34. He has some valid points and some generalizations. But he is now starting to see the goodness in T-Mobile... hence his comment above.
I just recently switched from AT&T to T-Mobile and I'm enjoying it. It's not horrible here in Austin, TX. I get 4G/LTE everywhere in town that I frequent.
It is nice having unlimited data, I don't have to worry about overages anymore while streaming music in the car/at work.
When I lived up north (northeastern Ohio) T-Mobile wasn't even an option and still is not. Coverage is horrible as far as data is concerned and you can barely make a phone call. Since I only visit home once a year it's not a huge problem to go with T-Mo now. Who knows if I'll stick with it, I tend to carrier hop as I don't place myself under contract.
It is nice having unlimited data, I don't have to worry about overages anymore while streaming music in the car/at work.
When I lived up north (northeastern Ohio) T-Mobile wasn't even an option and still is not. Coverage is horrible as far as data is concerned and you can barely make a phone call. Since I only visit home once a year it's not a huge problem to go with T-Mo now. Who knows if I'll stick with it, I tend to carrier hop as I don't place myself under contract.
It's good once you get past Richmond and points north. Through the Carolinas and Georgia though they don't have LTE or HSPA+ yet except a brief stretch in Fayetteville, Rocky Mt. and Florence. For me it's not a big enough deal to make me fork out the extra $1000+/yr to AT&T/VZW because they still at least provide service along that stretch. By mid next year that should all be LTE anyway as long as they meet their goals. I look forward to it.
Looks like AutoUnion will be switching next year as well.
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I bought a $70 unlimited prepaid TMO sim on Sunday. The service is great when it works. I have noticed that you have to be pretty much in site of the cell tower to get usable service. The "4G" HSPA+ network is not really a network that you fall back on. I say this because it eventually turns to EDGE the further you travel from the tower.
I like having unlimited data and hotspot (att unlimited data user here) so i will take full advantage of the tmobile unlimited service. It is very unfornuate that their 700mhz spectrum from verizon won't cover their entire network. I'd switch in a second. AWS is terrible. Just terrible.
If only there was a way to force an iPhone 5S to use only 1900 HSPA+ since T-Mobile's AWS on HSPA+ sucks.
I like having unlimited data and hotspot (att unlimited data user here) so i will take full advantage of the tmobile unlimited service. It is very unfornuate that their 700mhz spectrum from verizon won't cover their entire network. I'd switch in a second. AWS is terrible. Just terrible.
If only there was a way to force an iPhone 5S to use only 1900 HSPA+ since T-Mobile's AWS on HSPA+ sucks.
Just read a twitter response from one of T-Mobile's executives (Mike Sievert) that someone posted over at HoFo. He said they'll be using the 1900mhz PCS band to put LTE into most of the EDGE areas. AWS LTE/HSPA+ will be used where the population is high enough to demand it. So it looks like some of the more rural areas will be 2G/LTE only while the populated areas will be 2G/HSPA+/LTE.
Please tell me you're either joking or doing this drive for some other reason.
LOL that would be hilarious. Quite a dedicated forum member we have
Enjoying Tmobile
I had been on AT&T since 2010 and just moved to T-Mobile, as mentioned above, love the unlimited data not to mention the talk and text, my plan on AT&T used to be 450m/1000text/2gb data for a monthly charge of $75+tax and now I have unlimited data/talk/text for $30+tax (add on in a family plan) , its awesome , however the service in my home sometimes drops , when I called Customer Service I was told New Tower installation is imminent.
Thank you T-Mobile
I had been on AT&T since 2010 and just moved to T-Mobile, as mentioned above, love the unlimited data not to mention the talk and text, my plan on AT&T used to be 450m/1000text/2gb data for a monthly charge of $75+tax and now I have unlimited data/talk/text for $30+tax (add on in a family plan) , its awesome , however the service in my home sometimes drops , when I called Customer Service I was told New Tower installation is imminent.
Thank you T-Mobile
What an amazing "nationwide" 4G network. I'll be sure to use unlimited amounts of data with these speeds.
Suburb of Chicago (40 mins from the city).
Suburb of Chicago (40 mins from the city).
Your 4g is 50mb/s !!!!!!!!!!! That is faster than my home wifi. This on Tmobile?
I myself have Verizon and I am in NYC in Queens on Myrtle Ave I do not get LTE anywhere only in few spots and this is highly populated and popular area I always get there only 1X ***** lol.
Verizon is not that great anymore.. just waiting for my contracts.
it says T-Mobile LTE
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I get 55+ down on verizon lte.
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Just landed in TPA I'm still on the runway. So far so good seamless LTE in st Petersburg. Update started my drive about 5:30am. I 275 to I 4 complete LTE I dropped to 4G briefly. Now I'm taking I 4 to Orlando. Great 4g coverage on I4 to I95 I would say about half between 4G and LTE. The last 3 miles on I4 I was on Edge. 8:38am I'm on i95 headed toward Jacksonville lots of LTE dropped to edge a couple of times. I'm Also streaming YouTube while testing. 12 noon there is over 100 miles of edge on i95 from GA border to savannah airport area. Now I'm back on LTE go a short period. From savannah to Virginia was all edge with brief periods of LTE.
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I get 40-50 down at night on my tmobile phone. The most I ever get on AT&T is 20 or so. In the daytime though sometimes I barely get 1 or 2 down. So maybe tmobile is good for urban night people?
That's pretty consistent with what I see in the Denver Metro Area, including Broomfield, Westminster and parts of Boulder
You're point? Here's a screen shot of some historical tests I did on AT&T from my home, a suburb of Houston (also about 40 mins from downtown).
Note these are tests I did awhile ago. Ignore the signal info in the status bar. At the time the phone reported "4G" coverage.
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T-Mobile is indeed awesome especially for international travel! Was in Taiwan for almost two weeks and got free text and data at 3G, which is more than I need and it worked great. I really hope this lasts!
You said "T-Mobile needs to upgrade EDGE in order to compete" and now you are saying that it won't solve their coverage issue.
AT&T knows that their network is better than T-Mobile's. So does anyone who has access to a web browser and can look at their coverage maps. It's odd that they [partially] took Legere's bait, but at the same time, I think they were looking for an excuse to finally get rid of handset subsidies, and now they can advertise much lower prices against their actual competitor, Verizon.
GPRS holes? We have no service holes here in CT, a state that has 100% LTE from AT&T, 100% coverage from Verizon (mostly LTE), and 100% cable buildout. But yes, it's pathetic how bad their network is compared to the big guys.
That's a complete false equivalency argument. T-Mobile has a tiny fraction of the coverage that AT&T or Verizon has. We can have an AT&T vs. Verizon argument all day long, but T-Mobile and Sprint aren't even in the running. With T-Mobile, unless you never travel anywhere, you WILL hit large patches of EDGE/GPRS and no service. With AT&T and Verizon, those patches are much smaller, and when you have coverage, it's pretty much all 3G or LTE.
Then get Verizon if AT&T doesn't work for you. Have fun with EDGE and no service all over the place with T-Mobile.
You said "T-Mobile needs to upgrade EDGE in order to compete" and now you are saying that it won't solve their coverage issue.
Upgrading EDGE would help, but that's not going to fix their fundamental coverage problem. Using their roaming agreement with AT&T to it's fullest extent would definitely make the coverage a lot more palatable, even if it's throttled to ~200kbps.
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