Also tested in Tbilisi Republic of Georgia and the international access didn’t work on the new free plan. Local esim purchased.
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T-Mobile Offering Three Months of Free Service for Prospective Customers
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Thanks for this article. I'm going to try this as a longer term test would be useful. I'm in the Charlotte NC area and if I'm at two bars with Verizon, on 5GUW, that basically means no network traffic is passing. Its great at full bars, but it shouldn't be better when I'm on 5G or LTE at 1-2 bars than 5GUW
You have to pay extra for worldwide roaming on T-Mobile’s most basic plans. I’m surprised that isn’t obvious.
I’m in Charlotte too. Using it since last night. The data speeds near my house is twice as fast on T-Mobile 300-400 on Verizon and 600-750 on T-Mobile. Driving to work and around seemed great today all day.
I’m just worried about coverage in remote areas where I travel a lot. Need to compare those spots.
My neighbor has T-Mobile and travels a lot, and he said they are great. He also have Verizon and likes T-Mobile better. One of the reasons I’m trying T-Mobile also.
I just set it up last night, and data speeds are about 3x what Verizon has, but it's still only about a 100Mb. (Goose Creek, SC). Verizon doesn't have 5g here, still LTE. T-Mobile says it's 5G. The big test will be tuesday at where I work, if it works at all, I may just switch. T-Mobile is a decent amount cheaper than Verizon. I never played with eSIM's before and I'm surprised that it works pretty well on the iPhone! They have it for Android now too, but only one trial per customer, so I can't try it on my Flip4.
Big thing I've found so far is that the 1-2 bar speeds, which is my biggest current issues, are insanely different. T-Mobile is 40 meg down, where Verizon is at essentially useless 5 Meg. Both are claiming to be 5G which I think is the problem, Verizon is just simply lying.
It’s kind of awesome you have 3 free months to try it out.
I’m going to start mine once I receive my 14 Pro Max since it’s going eSim and no physical sim anymore.
I set mine up today and so far so good. I’m having an issue activating my 14 Pro Max, so I’m relived I’m using T-Mobile’s eSIM until Verizon can sort this out. I’m currently in the Verizon store now.
I switched my family to T-Mobile. They paid the entire balance on device payments on the 2 iPhone 13 Pro Max’s we have and my daughters got $200 for her line. So $1500 for switching. Plus the ultimate plan for 3 lines, an iPad and 2 watches cost $130 a month. Not bad at all. Total bill at Verizon $275 and at T-Mobile $130. And all devices paid off.