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I even said in the other thread, it's pretty useless for me. It's not even enabled on my AT&T iPhone.
If I did the same with my TMobile iPhone, it would be near worthless.
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T-Mobile Launches New 4G LTE CellSpot, Free for Simple Choice Customers
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I even said in the other thread, it's pretty useless for me. It's not even enabled on my AT&T iPhone.
If I did the same with my TMobile iPhone, it would be near worthless.
So much lack of credibility. Every mention of T-Mobile and it's a bash from you. Someone obviously hurt your feelings at T-Mobile. It's time to move on. Get over it, let it go.
I hate the idea of the network extender, I think if you don't have service at home you might want to consider changing carriers.
That being said, this is the best way to do it. If you want one, here, it's free with refundable deposit.
Sprint you have to argue with to give it to you for free, AT&T you really have to argue with but most of the time you have to pay for it, and Verizon it's just $250 that could go down to $175 which is a joke.
That being said, this is the best way to do it. If you want one, here, it's free with refundable deposit.
Sprint you have to argue with to give it to you for free, AT&T you really have to argue with but most of the time you have to pay for it, and Verizon it's just $250 that could go down to $175 which is a joke.
Actually, most phones on TMobile have WiFi calling on them and have had it for at least a year or two now.
but whats the point if you have internet?? just use t-mobile wifi feature to make calls and send texts. what am i missing?
The document from t-mobile seems to say different.that ANY customer can access without login or passwords. Seems to b that in contrast to the AT&T microcell, these may just allow anyone nearby to access. doen't detail any listed access controls.
I'm not too eager to allow people to connect to my microcell at random (and possibly access to network if not truly in the DMZ) or use my bandwidth.
$25.00 for a deposit @ 1 million users seems like a lot of $25,000,000 *free*
...please forgive my needing to say
against probably 100,000,000$ in hardware liability, that's not a balance sheet benefit.
not all phones have wifi calling capabilities, hence the need for devices like this, and for tablets and other mobile connected devices, laptops, watches, etc.
I'm sure they're hoping to deploy as many of these as possible so that their customers can jump on these microcells, where available, instead of relying solely on traditional towers or having to obtain credentials for secured Wi-Fi networks when on the go. That has to be the reason why T-Mo won't let you restrict access to the microcell to certain phone numbers.
Not a balance sheet benefit, no; but I suspect that this move is all about grasping at straws trying to improve their LTE network. If they can get 10 or 15 microcells within a small area, it will create the illusion for any T-Mo customer that T-Mo has excellent LTE coverage, when, in fact, they really don't when you take the microcells out of the equation.
Yeah, this strikes me as a way to remove the "I don't get service where I need it" reason for not subsrcibing. Instead of Tmobile building out real towers at who knows how many millions each, they just let people pay for these things. Sorry "put down a 25 refundable deposit and receive it for free".
If you are required to give them $25 -- which they keep for as long as you have the device in your possession, the device costs $25. It's not free. If you got the deposit back after a year or something like that and you also got to keep the device, then the device would be truly free at that point.
You're loaning them $25 for the privilege of having better access to their network and also giving others around you better access to their network, as well. It's a win-win for T-Mo.
It's funny though...and could be counter productive in that way.
If say a user only has a DSL connection of 1-2 mb, and has this mini home tower connected, once a couple ROGUE users get connected and try and stream a netflix video or update apps or download content, it's going to not only bring the phone users connections to a crawl, but the HomE OWNERS connection to a stop. Even though it's going to say "LTE" on the device, it's going to be near dial-up speeds on the device - and then we'll start the "they're throttling me" discussion all over again!
;-)
How are they any different?
Connecting to this TMobile femtocell doesn't give you unlimited service either. Depends on the caps of your plan, it is still the same.
Just a couple of data points about the two.
The mcell is only "3g", but since it's connected via internet not sure why that is an issue, but it could simply mean that the phone will never go to an LTE speed even if there internet connection it is connected to could support it (although true full bandwidth LTE is something like 300MB - never to be seen in the real world of course)..
The AT&T mcell requires setup and login and assigning account #'s of users to access, but this new tmobile version doesn't. That is both good and bad, the good making it easier to get up and running (although it only took me 10 min to get the AT&T mcell running - not including time to activate on the network), and the bad - well that's listed above.
That's a strange reaction to my post. I'm not a T-Mo customer so I won't be getting one.
It's ironic that John Legere goes on and on about how much better T-Mo's network has gotten over the past year and yet they're now handing out microcells -- well, leasing them to qualified customers for $25, actually.
It's as if T-Mo has finally admitted to themselves what most of us have known all along -- they still have a long way to go to be viable alternatives to Verizon and AT&T for many people. No amount of persuasive discourse by John Legere can cover that up; and it seems like T-Mo is finally seeing past their own "reality distortion field" and embracing reality.
Believe me, I would like to be able to be a T-Mobile customer because a lot of what John Legere says about Verizon and AT&T is absolutely true. Unfortunately, there are huge sections of the country that I travel in that are still either white (no service) or gray (2G) on T-Mobile's map. And we're not talking about out in the middle of the desert. I live east of the Mississippi. There are no deserts around here.
I have excellent service outside my house with all carriers, but only Verizon gets acceptable coverage inside. Verizon is also significantly more expensive. They gave me (loaned me) a booster for inside, but it doesn't work well. My mom's phone doesn't have WiFi calling, so that's out. This femtocell is perfect for my use case.
I installed the cell spot router a while back and have noticed issues with DTMF tones not working properly on WiFi calling. Basically, the issue comes in when trying to press buttons to navigate through automated phone menu systems. I suspect this is similar to an issue that happens when trying to send faxes over a digital line.
That's one area this device could improve things.
I'll note I also had an problem with my Amazon purchased Nexus device not wanting to make WiFi calls until Android 6 was released. At the time, I had the T-Mobile build [of the previous release] which supported WiFi calling on paper, but didn't on my phone. The first T-Mobile rep I spoke with told me it was because I didn't buy the phone from T-Mobile... This really didn't make sense and luckily, after giving the guy an earful and asking for someone who knew what he/she was talking about, another rep sent me the router- while agreeing the purchase location didn't matter. The router fixed my wife's wifi calling issue, but left me signalless until android 6 came out, so the issue is clear: Third party [purchased] device support is left wanting. First you tell me I should uncarrier and bring my phone over, then (at least half the time) tell me I need to buy my phone from you to get the full service... I suppose this is a second area of improvement.
P.S., I can foresee someone pointing out that my diatribe sounds like a list of complaints- it is to a large degree. To that person: I feel these flaws are totally worth disrupting the contract based strong-arm tactics that have lasted too long in the US. I don't want to *have* to purchase a new phone every 2 years to make "their" prices seem worthwhile. I believe T-Mobile is trying, and I'm willing to hear them out a bit longer while saving some cash in the mean time. I'm glad I, and many others, have supported this market changer; I'm not the biggest fan of T-Mobile, but I am the biggest fan of what they've done to the industry.
It's important to note that femtocell hand-offs only occur in one direction, versus WiFi calling, which can go back and forth. With this LTE Cellspot, you can hand off from the femtocell to a macro site, but coming into your house, it will drop the call.
VoLTE to VoWiFi is supported in both directions.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/3r8vio/more_info_on_the_4g_lte_personal_cellspot/
Also, it counts against your data plan, so just like any other carrier's Airave/Microcell, etc, so it's not like everything is unlimited (unless you have an unlimited plan)
Oddly, I drop calls with iPhone 6 when switching to VoWIFI on Tmobile. Are you sure about this? The reddit link you provide doesn't say.
I was considering the new device for this reason, if it solved this transition.