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T-Mobile Offered Fastest LTE Speeds in the First Half of 2017
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The main takeaways I got from this is:
- I should finally switch to T-Mobile from AT&T.
- Why doesn't T-Mobile just buy Sprint? It would put Sprint users out of their misery and would expand T-Mobile's coverage.
A few years down the line when everyone has LTE devices and the Sprint CDMA/EVDO network has been shut off/re-farmed to LTE it would make sense. Right now though you would have to deal with the nightmare of maintaining two completely different network technologies. T-Mobile already went through this once when they bought MetroPCS and that was at a much smaller scale and was only in cities and their close suburbs. Dealing with it at a truly nationwide scale is a whole different story.
I’d rather pay more for something that works reliably than save money on something I can’t use when I most need it.
search youtube for John ( CEO TMO) interviews .... he clearly said ... I am not not going to do what these guys do ..... he said customer are the one who make companies or bring them down too .. so I am going to connect my customer and asked them what they want ... he said what is the point creating these wonderful apps which need Data to run and customer is too scared to even open apps or even turning off their data so they should not go over ... and I 100% agree with it. since I kicked AT&T and moved to TMO .. I never have to worry about data .. for anything ... I let my friends and colleague use my personal network to connect their Laptops .. guess why .. they are with OTHER GUYS ...
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I made the switch a few years ago after being a loyal 10 year Verizon customer. I got tired of Verizon's threats of kicking off unlimited users. Since I've been with T-Mobile, very few complaints but that doesn't mean I'm staying with them forever. I've found that people should shop around every few years, new customers always get the best deals. These companies don't reward loyalty so why be loyal to them.
Why are their scores only based on upload and download speeds? Latency and reliability are much more important when it comes to web browsing and audio/video calls. Not like any of that really matters more than just having coverage everywhere, which T-Mobile doesn't seem to provide where I live.
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I’d argue T-Mobile does reward loyalty. The let you keep your plan at the same price for as long as you have service, for the most part. It’s part of the reason their billing system is somewhat screwed up, they’ve got a million legacy plans and rates they have to manage. I know someone with a plan that includes a few hundred minutes, unlimited texts and unlimited data that pays about $30 a month because he got that plan back when mobile data meant WAP sites you’d browse on your flip phone. There are tons of people out there that can tell you similar stories. AT&T and Verizon did pretty much whatever they could to get users off legacy plans they no longer wanted to support.
Nah, we want there to be competition. AT&T has been improving anyway to compete with T-Mobile.
Literally ATT is cheaper if you have 4+ lines... and with the new $10 day pass for international, I can actually use my phone abroad. I travel internationally frequently, so the global roaming was nice on TMO because ATT used to just have the monthly data passes which i ran through in like a day. The last year, TMO international became annoying... 128-256k is absurd throttle for international, so now having the unlimited LTE for 24 hours makes it a lot more practical when i go on a week or two trip. Don't have to worry about data limits or horrid throttling, etc. Love the unlimited and being able to use it like am actual phone not like a 1998 GPRS device haha
Unfortunately, I joined too late to catch a deal like that. We are on the 3 lines for $150 with a free 4th line deal (unlimited everything). I haven't found anything to beat it yet. I'm waiting for next years' phones to take advantage of band 71.
How is this a deal? I have AT&T... an actual data plan with unlimited minutes\text\data.... and reasonable coverage unlike TMO. I have 9 lines, and even after all the taxes and BS fees, the price per line is $34-36 per month.
That's a no-brainer.
Are they joking. Where do they gets these stats? Really. T-Mobile has the most slowest network ever. Forget about streaming video I can barely stream audio. Web pages barely load and time out. Just yesterday in downtown Brooklyn trying to stream Play Music it kept dropping out. I got Apple Music working after a few tries but I could not even browse websites. Even outside the city in towns the connection is barely fast for audio.
Sorry but these young people writing these fake articles need to get there head checked. They are all lies. Okay so why do I stay with T-Mobile the perks and cheaper price and for the most part phone calls are reliable but don't dare compare it to Verizon.
Sorry but these young people writing these fake articles need to get there head checked. They are all lies. Okay so why do I stay with T-Mobile the perks and cheaper price and for the most part phone calls are reliable but don't dare compare it to Verizon.
Aaaaah, yes. The short term memory syndrome, where the original poster forgets he exaggerated based on only his own experience (if he's even a TMobile customer) and implied that TMobile only provides coverage to major metro areas and then gets defensive when someone else's real world experience is different than theirs. Remember this?
Might wanna re-read this thread. For every person that said they got T-Mobile service outside of major metros, there were 3 that did not. If this thread were a representation of real-world coverage (which it's not), it'd show that T-Mobile provides poor coverage overall.
But don't worry, I'm sure they'll give you something "free" next week that'll make you forget about the poor coverage and slow data speeds.