T-Mobile Offers Verizon Customers Free Year of Hulu to Switch

[MacClueless]

Just another T-Mobile marketing gimmick.

Verizon customers aren't stupid enough to switch because they get a year of Hulu. That's trading in a Mercedes for a Kia and getting a few pennies in your pocket. Terrible. T-Mobile can't match AT&T/Verizon for overall network coverage/reliability.

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I find a Daewoo owner making fun of Kia amusing. And Verizon "Mercedes"? Really? More like John Deere.

 

[rdlink]

For what it's worth, the porting ratios of Verizon to T-Mobile are pretty strong, meaning a lot more people are switching FROM Verizon than TO Verizon. As for "premium", really? More rural coverage, yes, for sure. But T-Mobile wins in JD Power and Consumer Reports. In my book, if you are a rural person, go Verizon, if you're live in a major city, travel internationally, and/oruse a lot of data T-Mobile is a clear winner.

I'm not sure it's a slam dunk. Especially not everywhere. But TMO has definitely made inroads in recent years. And where signals are even TMO is usually much faster than Verizon or AT&T. I did a TMO Test Drive earlier this year, and on my commute to work the TMO iPhone consistently beat my VZW phone on speed in almost all tests. Sometimes it was more than 20 times as fast using Ookla.

But again, when I go to the mountains I find VZW to be more reliable. If TMO were to get that problem fixed I would jump in a heartbeat.

 

[C DM]

For what it's worth, the porting ratios of Verizon to T-Mobile are pretty strong, meaning a lot more people are switching FROM Verizon than TO Verizon. As for "premium", really? More rural coverage, yes, for sure. But T-Mobile wins in JD Power and Consumer Reports. In my book, if you are a rural person, go Verizon, if you're live in a major city, travel internationally, and/oruse a lot of data T-Mobile is a clear winner.

Well, with Verizon having way more subscribers it wouldn't be surprising that the numbers would be larger in comparison.

 

[I7guy]

The "horrible deal" statement was a bit much. But as a Verizon customer who would have kicked the tires a little if the offer would have been closer to what they offered Sprint and AT&T customers I'm saying "meh" and walking away.

Fact is this "deal" was probably calculated on the fact that they knew the likelihood of snagging many Verizon customers is going to be low. Verizon customers usually pay a premium for what they believe to be superior coverage, and don't even sniff too hard at TMO because they're afraid of losing that reliability. I will say that, as much as I hate Verizon on many fronts the only thing that keeps me on their network is the fear of losing signal. Not in the city, but when I go to fringe areas like the mountains. TMO probably knows this, and doesn't see any reason to throw a bunch of money out there for Verizon users to switch.

If you are lucky enough to always be in a t-mobile coverage area, it seems like t-mo is the better deal than verizon. However, if you do a lot of travelling and are in fringe areas where t-mo has no coverage, but verizon does, you can appreciate Verizon's broader coverage.