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T-Mobile Unveils New 'Data Stash' Program That Allows Unused Data to Roll Over Each Month

Rogifan said:
So what does he mean by "buy additional data"? Does this mean the only roll over is unused data you purchased above and beyond your data plan?
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No. You get a default 1GB a month, that plan doesn't include this. If you chose to "boy addition data" and have a 3GB plan a month and don't use it all, the extra data rolls over.
 
kittycat40 said:
I get great coverage where I am in CA. It is not a gimmick for my family and it will be very useful. I have 4 lines on T-Mobile 1 with unlimited data and the other 3, 4.5 GB of high speed data. Their usage fluctuates every month. Thus, it will come in handy to be able to ROLLOVER unused high speed data for up to 12 months. You sound like an Atat or Verizon worker trying to downplay how great this is because those 2 companies are NOT doing any uncarrier moves to change the industry.

You're ignorant. There network is currently not as good. However, T-Mobile has greatly improved their network compared to where it was at a year ago. Furthermore by the end of next year T-Mobile coverage will be on par or nearly on par with At&t and Verizon's network. So to call their network ****** is ignorant as can be.

Once T-Mobile gets their native coverage footprint to 300 million covered they will be on par with Verizon and AT&T or nearly on par with them atleast.

T-Mobile currently covers 284 million with 2G EDGE and 260 million people with 4GLTE. They bought 700mhz spectrum from Verizon a few months ago and have already deployed recently started deploying that spectrum in a few cities and will aggressively roll out more of their 700mz spectrum to more areas. This 700mhz spectrum will expand T-Mobile's coverage footprint beyond their current coverage of 284 million people to 300 million people. They plan to have their native foot print increased to 300 million by the end of 2015. John Legere announced in March 2014 that they were upgrading all their 2G edge towers to 4G LTE. They had 234 million covered with LTE in July 2014 and then in OCTober they had 250 million covered and today John LEgere announced they have 260 million covered with 4G LTE , 2 weeks ahead of schedule. They plan to have 284 million covered with 4g LTE by mid 2015 and 300 million by the end of 2015.

T- Mobile has spent billions of dollars upgrading their entire network to 4G LTE and will expand their native coverage footprint from 284 million covered to 300 million native footprint coverage by the end of next year for the first time in the company's history.

http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/issues-...f-schedule.htm



More people covered is more land mass covered. AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint all use people covered aka POPs when talking about their networks and sometimes use percentage of Americans covered to talk about their networks. So why should T-Mobile not be able to do the same in their advertising when talking about their network coverage.

Yes, 300 million POPs covered with LTE would mean T-Mobile is covering way more land mass than they currently cover. T-Mobile currently covers 260 million with LTE and about 284 million with 2G EDGE.

If you got to AT&T's website they say the following and I quote "Overall, AT&T covers over 320 million people with its voice and data service, with over 300 million people covered by our 4G LTE network." http://www.att.com/network/en/index....id=o-vrx8GSTU6



John Legere did give a progress report on the Edge to LTE upgrades. They had 250 million covered with LTE at the end of OCT now they have as of today 260 million covered with LTE. A 10 million POPs increase of LTE coverage in just the past 2 months alone.

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/...art/2014-12-16

"Legere also disclosed that T-Mobile now covers 260 million POPs with LTE, beating its year-end coverage goal by around two weeks. He noted that T-Mobile has increased its LTE coverage by 10 million POPs in the past 60 days."
I interpret AT&T statement to mean that 320 million are covered on 2G/3G and that 300 million our covered with 4G LTE.

On Verizon site they just say they cover 97% of Americans. I am sure they cover about 320- 330 million with their native CDMA/3G network and over 306 million with their LTE network

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/...lte/2014-09-04

This article from September 4, 2014 by fiercewireless states
Atat LTE covering 300 million people
Verizon LTE covering 306 million people
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Yeah...okay.
Let me know exactly when their coverage is on par & all this greatness is still happening.

I asked my coworkers with T-Mobile about their coverage.
General consensus is that it's great in the city but suburbs & beyond is unreliable.
 
Great that T-Mobile is offering increased competition in the telecom market. Unfortunately I won't be using their services due to their bad coverage in my area, but competition benefits the consumer :rolleyes:
 
kittycat40 said:
You're ignorant. There network is currently not as good. However, T-Mobile has greatly improved their network compared to where it was at a year ago. Furthermore by the end of next year T-Mobile coverage will be on par or nearly on par with At&t and Verizon's network. So to call their network ****** is ignorant as can be.
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Speed counts more than coverage. tMobile is lacking in real world tests, and pretty much everyone I know who jumped in the tMobile bandwagon jumped ship once they spend some time trying to actually use their network.
 
i-John said:
Speed counts more than coverage. tMobile is lacking in real world tests, and pretty much everyone I know who jumped in the tMobile bandwagon jumped ship once they spend some time trying to actually use their network.
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Could be the area. I'm actually very happy with T-Mobile. I'm getting the same or faster speeds then my former AT&T and some locations, I get signal while my friend who has Verizon gets no service.
 
shenan1982 said:
2 lines on the $80 simple choice
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I presume you have 1gb per line. That isn't enough for most people. I advise you to move up in plans.

Well if you use 3GBof data or more than get the 2 lines unlimited for $100.

Why? If you get 2 lines with 3GB each line it be $100. How? 50 1st line+10 additional 2gb of data+$30 2nd line +10 additional 2gb of data =$100. Where under the limited time promotion it'll be 2 lines of truly unlimited data for $100.
 
Rockadile said:
Yeah...okay.
Let me know exactly when their coverage is on par & all this greatness is still happening.

I asked my coworkers with T-Mobile about their coverage.
General consensus is that it's great in the city but suburbs & beyond is unreliable.
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http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/issues...illion-americans-months-ahead-of-schedule.htm

I have no issues with T-Mobile coverage and I have been a customer for years.

I already let you know when T-Mobile will be on par with the big 2 and that is the end of 2015.

READING COMPREHENSION is lost on some people.

I said "Once T-Mobile gets their native coverage footprint to 300 million covered they will be on par with Verizon and AT&T or nearly on par with them atleast."

I also stated "They plan to have 284 million covered with 4g LTE by mid 2015 and 300 million by the end of 2015".

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/...lets-customers-rollover-speedy-data/20478301/

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maxwelltech said:
Great that T-Mobile is offering increased competition in the telecom market. Unfortunately I won't be using their services due to their bad coverage in my area, but competition benefits the consumer :rolleyes:
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You live in Irvine CA. I have relatives that live their and I frequent that area often. LA county and Orange county have EXCELLENT coverage with T-Mobile. So I am not sure how you get bad service in your area.
 
kittycat40 said:
http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/issues...illion-americans-months-ahead-of-schedule.htm

I have no issues with T-Mobile coverage and I have been a customer for years.

I already let you know when T-Mobile will be on par with the big 2 and that is the end of 2015.

READING COMPREHENSION is lost on some people.

I said "Once T-Mobile gets their native coverage footprint to 300 million covered they will be on par with Verizon and AT&T or nearly on par with them atleast."

I also stated "They plan to have 284 million covered with 4g LTE by mid 2015 and 300 million by the end of 2015".

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/...lets-customers-rollover-speedy-data/20478301/
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"Let me know exactly when their coverage is on par & all this greatness is still happening."

Anyways, I'm glad T-Mobile is working for you. I was with them 8 years ago but moved on to Verizon due to dropped calls than to AT&T three years ago. When they catch up on coverage and still offer these "Uncarrier" deals by than, I'll come back.
 
itr81 said:
The one thing I notice on their website it doesn't mention how many gb your stash can hold. It would be interesting to know if your stash data is throttled or not.
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I dont think that would make sense - because as it is already - when you go over your allotted GB, you just get throttled a bit - so what would be the advantage of doing this then? It would be the same.

For those of you saying T Mobile service sucks - that depends on a few things. I live in Los Angeles - but on the rural edge. I was on Verizon for years and happliy switched to T mobile in Sept. half the price for the same plan, and I have noticed a couple things for coverage - I drop more calls when I am driving than I did before, and driving long road trips outside of town - signal can be less strong.
But I also have wifi calling - so in buildings where even Verizon and At&T have spotty or no service - I can call all I want - like my work. I am the ONLY one with service where I work because of wifi calling.
Otherwise its been about the same coverage.
So it depends on where you live and in some ways its better.
Im VERY happy I switched.
 
Finally, some mobile carrier with their head screwed on right.

This is how it should of always been

It doesn't look right anyway where data is not rolled over, sine that means more money for them.... What's in it for the customer ?? Nothing.

I wish every mobile carrier did this.

Unfortunately, they HAD to start this in U.S. didn't they.... I would of felt happier if they did this in Australia first.
 
Currently on T-Mobiles 4 line promotion. Decided to switch to their 3GB plan.

So for $20 per month, I get:

Unlimited minutes
Unlimited text
4.5 GB of data with rollover data
Free tethering
Free international text
Free international data
Free music streaming

Nice.
 
I already have both rollover minutes and unlimited data with AT&T so I think I'm just fine.

And considering that AT&T has better coverage and speeds than tmobile it's a win situation, I'll never leave. Unless tmobile can increase their coverage and drop prices to where it just makes no sense to be with AT&T. Right now I pay about $90 a month
 
tmobile is pretty good but can never match the service verizon has with it's data speeds/coverage if they had better coverage and net id go back to tmobile,not only that they don't offer any upgrades anymore have to buy phones full price now
 
Rud3Bwoy said:
tmobile is pretty good but can never match the service verizon has with it's data speeds/coverage if they had better coverage and net id go back to tmobile,not only that they don't offer any upgrades anymore have to buy phones full price now
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Higher monthly plan + lower phone cost versus lower monthly plan + higher phone cost... Difference is often small over 24 months, with the advantage after that given to the latter. May not be as big of a deal that many make it seem.
 
Competition benefits all consumers, no matter who your carrier is. I'm so happy with TMobile. As they continue to cause the competition to take notice and do something competitive in retaliation, so much the better.
 
swarmster said:
The T-mobile site is confusing. I'm not sure this lets customers "roll over their monthly unused data". It sounds like it rolls over extra data, as in, when you're approaching your limit one month and pay an extra $10 for 1GB of data (or whatever), that 1GB data will remain in a bank. Your monthly data does not?
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not sure how you are at all confused by this or would even think that.

any data you pay for gets rolled so if you have the 1gb plan ($50 a month data/txt/1gb lte +unlimited 2g) and use .5 gbs, you get .5 gbs rolled over
 
Ivabign said:
Unfortunately, T-Mobile has the spottiest service of all the major carriers. If they can build their 4G system out so they have more and better coverage, they will be able to put real pressure on the big 2. As it sits, half the places I use service, T-Mobile gets zero bars.
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That's the issue. But for those that have good service where they use it Tmobile is hard to beat. They do have a very fast Data network in some places. I tried Tmobile a few times in the last year and service was still pretty bad in major metro areas. They were talking about adding MIMO antennas to their towers to improve coverage and Indoor coverage but I'm not sure if that ever happened/will happen. Another thing that I really hate about most carriers is that they have nothing in place to track service issues unlike AT&T which has the very useful Mark the Spot app. I applaud AT&T for that! Carriers could really benefit to improve their network if they all had an app like that which can easily be used anywhere at any time to report all sorts of service issues and provides the carrier with very valuable accurate information.

For now I'll stick with AT&T, I enjoy the fact of knowing that I will have service everywhere including indoors. I do hope and believe AT&T will implement something similar.


-Mike
 
Aspasia said:
Yes, if it covers your region. I just checked their map for my area and all they offer is "service partner" coverage (with plenty of "no service" squares) - which means the service will be like as AT&T's Edge. In other words, awful.
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Some of their roaming partners don't throttle speeds, nor does data count towards your monthly roaming data cap. Now only if they would say who you'll be using in what area...
 
MacAddict1978 said:
not sure how you are at all confused by this or would even think that.

any data you pay for gets rolled so if you have the 1gb plan ($50 a month data/txt/1gb lte +unlimited 2g) and use .5 gbs, you get .5 gbs rolled over
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I'm not sure how you are at all confused by this or would even think that.

Phone plans do NOT get Data Stash on the minimum level of service with 1GB of unthrottled data. Data Stash is only for phone plans with at least 3GB of unthrottled data.

Mobile data plans do receive Data Stash starting at 1GB of unthrottled data.

And if you're on a prepaid plan, all of this discussion isn't for you either. Data Stash is currently only for postpaid plans.

It is all spelled out here: http://www.t-mobile.com/offer/data-stash-data-roll.html

Make sure you "view 8 more questions" in addition to the 4 shown by default at the bottom of the page under "Questions about Data Stash?"
 
Codybanks said:
I already have both rollover minutes and unlimited data with AT&T so I think I'm just fine.

And considering that AT&T has better coverage and speeds than TMobile it's a win situation, I'll never leave. Unless T-Mobile can increase their coverage and drop prices to where it just makes no sense to be with AT&T. Right now I pay about $90 a month
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I thought the unlimited AT&T plan isn't truly ' unlimited' you're throttled after a certain amount of GB I think 4,5,or 7 , I have T-Mobile and have the unlimited plan I use about 20GB a month and sometimes more, as far as speed tests go the highest I've gotten is 45mpbs around here at home I get about 15 or so , no complaints whatsoever
 
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