What T-Mobile is missing is coverage. All the free data in the world won't do me any good if I don't have a T-Mobile base station near me or I have to pay to piggyback off other carriers' base stations.
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T-Mobile Unveils Doubled Data Plans, Free Video Streaming at Un-Carrier X Event
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Been on t-mobile for 3 years and the LTE service has improved and available in so many more areas in NC. It would be a bonus if cell service would be available in more rural areas. Although a break from my phone is also welcomed.
Pretty sure I wasn't a sleep for more than a few months. I tried them a few months ago, when their map said they have full LTE coverage. Yet, I was greeted with Tmo Edge 10% of the time, and ATT roaming the other 90%, which makes all their new options worthless. I got the same performance when it tried them later last year AND NOTHING CHANGED!!!
So they either severely jumped the gun on their coverage map, or their maps are utter BS not to be trusted.
its all relative. Many areas at&t is weaker (charlotte for example). Obviously if coverage of tmobile is a concern then don't use it :-/
I am curious to where I live if they are good carrier. I had Verizon and did not like and AT&T is fair. That said, I hope this will push At&T and others to follow suit and give more for less. Competition is good.
I would love to move to them. They are network foot print poor. This is different than a poor network. I would argue in many areas of Nashville Verzion is network poor. I can barely get an iMessage off and forget about loading reddit mobile. They however are footprint huge. The perfect world I would live in a split house where one of us had t-mobile the other had verizon.
Good-bye net neutrality, good bye consumer pressure to create better plans.
I love T-Mo USA (emphasis on USA) just like the next guy, but this is just horrible and you guys keep clapping.
Yuck. Meanwhile in the EU, we legally abolished net neutrality.
No, carriers won't abuse this outright, but salami tactics always work wonders when the audience eating the salami isn't knowledgable of how salami is made.
And because every complete idiot these days uses computers and is a paying customer of something IT, this will be the way forward if we don't speak up at least eventually.
Many of those who spoke up however, learnt, that they remain unheard.
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I love T-Mo USA (emphasis on USA) just like the next guy, but this is just horrible and you guys keep clapping.
Yuck. Meanwhile in the EU, we legally abolished net neutrality.
No, carriers won't abuse this outright, but salami tactics always work wonders when the audience eating the salami isn't knowledgable of how salami is made.
And because every complete idiot these days uses computers and is a paying customer of something IT, this will be the way forward if we don't speak up at least eventually.
Many of those who spoke up however, learnt, that they remain unheard.
Glassed Silver:mac
Wake-up there's no such thing as network congestion. Carriers are been lying to you all this time and please stop believing. That was the reason when they want more money from unlimited customers. Forcing them to take the shared data plans and throttling them while they are still on unlimited plan. Now when you want unlimited you pay more than double. When you go over your allotted data they're smiling big time. Basically they're lying like Al Gore when he ran for president telling people that the the ice cap will melt by 2014.
Wow, here in Canada my plan costs nearly that and includes only half a GB. I wish T-Mobile would come up here.
what? They doubled your data plans without requiring you sign new terms or anything. Use that extra data to visit whatever service you wish. This is horrible?
Yes, it works for tethering plus they also just doubled your hotspot limit from 7GB to 14GB.
Depending on where one lives one carrier is better than the other.
Problem in general is not money hungry providers alone.
The explosion in data usage can only be addressed with additional capacity,
new compression schemes, inventions etc..
The construction, cell tower upgrades , additional satellites all cost money and
can't be pulled out of a drawer.
T-Mobile right now puts mostly a prick into the sides of ATT and Verizon.
They are not a big enough competition to make these big guys flinch.
Until they have better coverage, nobody is scared.
But, I give them that they are trying.
Still like the idea of a free WiFi network.
Google with Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Instagram and other partners can probably do it.
Problem in general is not money hungry providers alone.
The explosion in data usage can only be addressed with additional capacity,
new compression schemes, inventions etc..
The construction, cell tower upgrades , additional satellites all cost money and
can't be pulled out of a drawer.
T-Mobile right now puts mostly a prick into the sides of ATT and Verizon.
They are not a big enough competition to make these big guys flinch.
Until they have better coverage, nobody is scared.
But, I give them that they are trying.
Still like the idea of a free WiFi network.
Google with Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Instagram and other partners can probably do it.
Just a guess here, but you're probably missing 4 other lines?
Damnit, I live in northern NJ also and wanted to switch from AT&T....and then I saw your post. What town are you in? I'm in Montville and I have solid service on AT&T.
And I have unlimited for $80 w/ T-Mobile
Yes, they still do not the crappiest but better than Sprint. I'm on T-Mobile right now and the network is spotty. The only reason tech news talks about them is because of their promos and gimmicks. But if you have a very good coverage you're good to go. Beware when you travel though because you might start hating them. I hope the network keeps improving.
I think they're talking about the whole "here is a list of videos you can watch for no data cost" possibly leading to an unfair advantage. I don't agree with it, T-Mobile is not a huge player, but that's an argument.
Regarding the network, the switch from AT&T to T-Mobile has been mixed. In some areas, I get more bars and crazy fast data. In other areas, voice still works, but data is slower. I've run into very few situations where I've lost calls (just a couple, but not sure if it was my carrier). So, the network downgrade the I feared so badly didn't impact me. The price is cheaper $80 unlimited everything vs my $120 grandfathered unlimited AT&T. I also get Canado/Mexico calls and roaming free, which saves me a bit. Most importantly, I finally get my wifi hot spot! If AT&T would have offered me this, I would have stayed with them forever. But they didn't, so I left. Now, after having had the capability a bit, I wonder how I ever lived without it?
Seemed like AT&T kept doing everything in their power to get me off their unlimited plan, while T-Mobile kept sweetening the pot to get me into theirs. Now that T-Mobile is offering free streaming, I may not even use more data than one of their lower caps. But I just like unlimited... AT&T didn't get that, and T-Mobile does.
But overall, I'm pretty ticked at how so few carriers offer unlimited, or charge an arm and a leg for it. A few years ago, I had a mobile hot spot that was attached to my Time Warner Cable plan. I paid $10mo for unlimited data with it, provided by both Clear and Sprint. What are the chances of finding a deal like that now?
And T-Mobile's customer service is great. I called them yesterday to check on all my billing stuff. They said not to expect to have to pay anything until February, because of the trad-in value from my last phone. And they're also giving me a debit card for the ~$280 AT&T charged me to leave them. Call quality is good, monthly price is down, I can upgrade my phone 3x a year, my current provider actually likes that I'm an unlimited customer, I get free roaming and calling to a few other countries, I get free wifi calling in tons of countries around the globe (this will save lots of money and eliminate tedious expense reports), and I now have a mobile hot spot.
Life is good, post-AT&T.
Seemed like AT&T kept doing everything in their power to get me off their unlimited plan, while T-Mobile kept sweetening the pot to get me into theirs. Now that T-Mobile is offering free streaming, I may not even use more data than one of their lower caps. But I just like unlimited... AT&T didn't get that, and T-Mobile does.
But overall, I'm pretty ticked at how so few carriers offer unlimited, or charge an arm and a leg for it. A few years ago, I had a mobile hot spot that was attached to my Time Warner Cable plan. I paid $10mo for unlimited data with it, provided by both Clear and Sprint. What are the chances of finding a deal like that now?
And T-Mobile's customer service is great. I called them yesterday to check on all my billing stuff. They said not to expect to have to pay anything until February, because of the trad-in value from my last phone. And they're also giving me a debit card for the ~$280 AT&T charged me to leave them. Call quality is good, monthly price is down, I can upgrade my phone 3x a year, my current provider actually likes that I'm an unlimited customer, I get free roaming and calling to a few other countries, I get free wifi calling in tons of countries around the globe (this will save lots of money and eliminate tedious expense reports), and I now have a mobile hot spot.
Life is good, post-AT&T.
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