I would switch over but unfortunately TMO doesn't offer LTE in my area...their signal actually isn't all that great for the friends of mine that have them.
You may want to try them out. I have a couple cities I go to where I thought the LTE would be a big deal, but they've upgraded a ton of cities to HSPA+ 42mbps. I figured it'd be like ATT where if there was no LTE it was back to the stone ages, but when T-Mo built out their HSPA+ network, unlike AT&T, they actually did it right, so in some areas TMO's HSPA+ nets speeds faster than ATT's LTE.
But with any carrier, you just have to test it out. If you have reasonable speeds in 90% of the areas you go, who cares about that 10% where it's a bit slower if you're saving 50%?
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Well, for one, there is always fine print.
Speaking entirely hypothetically, let's say that the old plan had unlimited 4G data that was truly unlimited ... meaning no throttling. Then, let's say that the new plan throttles 4G data after 2GB in the month. Would that be worth it? I guess you would have to decide on an individual basis.
But then again, I'm a pessimist.
Yeah, you've been jaded by AT&T like many of us. T-Mo's UNLIMITED plan is just that, UNLIMITED... no throttling, no caps, etc. Everyone is going to have fine print to protect them legally (i.e. if you run your Exchange server off their hotspot and are using it to pass HD movies to your users, that might trigger them to reach out and ask you what's going on, lol).
T-Mo is a business, but they're goal is to shift the way cellular works in this country to align it more with the rest of world. Only in America do we have these shady deals like ATT and VZW. The rest of the world lets you chose what you want. If you want unlimited data for a day, you can have it in most countries, at a reasonable price.
US Carrier policies have allowed them to deliver mediocre service because consumers didn't have a choice.
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Why can't AT&T copy them instead of V.
Because ATT's primary shareholders are fund managers who only care about the instant gratification of short term profits and will dump the stock from the fund if there's any lapse in the profit margin, whereas TMO's biggest investor is DT, who has a long history in running a reliable, customer-friendly business, and realizes that there are rebuilding years and then years where they will reap the rewards of having customers who WANT to be subscribers, but aren't forced to be subscribers because they are locked into a contract with a thousand anti-customer terms.
