T-Mobile Was the Fastest U.S. Cellular Provider in Q1 2022

[Diablo360]

T Mobile is great here in Seattle. Had better luck with Verizon in many other areas

 

[44267547]

T-Mobiles coverage is garbage here. And their Shystie phone promotions are misleading too.

 

[Shreducator]

I live in the mountains in Colorado and I’m very happy with their 5G home internet. My experience with Verizon in Denver/Boulder is that speeds come to a crawl. Definitely going to switch everything to T-mobile.

 

[deeddawg]

Until you go inside a building...For whatever reason, T-mobile's signal cannot penetrate commercial buildings.

The 600Mhz band 71 works fine in buildings. Neither my wife nor I have any issues using our phones in office buildings in our area.

Now if you don't have a phone which can use that band, then you'll have issues.

 

[Apple_Robert]

They're very fast in my area but more importantly, in terms of the quality of customer service and how they treat me as a customer, T-Mobile is 5G and AT&T is two tin cans with a piece of string between them.

Can you hear me now?

 

[Apple_Robert]

The 600Mhz band 71 works fine in buildings. Neither my wife nor I have any issues using our phones in office buildings in our area.

Now if you don't have a phone which can use that band, then you'll have issues.

That is true for me as well, unless I am in the grocery store and then it's crap like most other carriers. lol

Just tested here in my man cave and I got 83 down / 9 up in the corner area. On the highway yesterday, I got 800Mbps on the down, not that really means anything, as I use my phone as a phone.

 

[DogHouseDub]

Are there certain iPhone features that are only available with an ATT account?

 

[6787872]

sponsored by t-mobile

 

[bushman4]

All 3 carriers are not up to par on the speed they promised. 5G is like 4G or LTE. So TMobile is the best of the worst

 

[SenorWhyMe]

what a joke , still trash here and I was forced to go to T-mobile from Sprint , been with sprint since 1995

 

[mudflap]

Not bad in Chicago, cheaper than Verizon, and I will never give ATT another cent.

 

[mdatwood]

Cell service is personal. IE, you pick a provider that works for the places you frequent. I've been with tmo ever since they bought suncom, so my tmo service has always been great. TMO is also amazing when I'm traveling internationally.

 

[Unity451]

This looks like you are on 4G LTE, not 5G...

In my experience, the 5G is worse.

 

[ghostface147]

Yeah well they all suck at times. There’s this one stretch of our freeway(I-10 and highway 6 in Houston) where I will have four full bars and data just disappears. Streaming music just buffers and if I’m doing a speed test, it never finds the provider.

Verizon.

 

[Taz Mangus]

Not bad from inside my apartment.

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

what a joke , still trash here and I was forced to go to T-mobile from Sprint , been with sprint since 1995

Seems I was always reading Sprint service was terrible (unless you liked those annoying walkie-talkie phones from days long past). Maybe you're on the same crappy Sprint towers, but paying T-Mobile for the privilege?

 

[UnusedLoginID]

T-Mobile is garbage in San Francisco. I was lucky to get 3 mbps down in Eurkea Valley near Castro. Lots of dead zones all over SF. Had to switch to ATT

When? LTE only? You can’t speak for now. You should try with a 5G capable phone and you might come back to T-Mo

 

[UnusedLoginID]

Unless you're in a dead or weak spot... then it's terrible.

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You’re on LTE! Try on a 5G capable phone! Your test is meaningless

 

[alexandr]

This is all assuming you can get T-Mobile coverage anywhere. I switched from ATT to T-Mobile a couple years ago, and it was the biggest mistake ever. Coverage at work and school in a major Metro area was spotty at best. Forget about traveling anywhere. I switched back as soon as I could.

Interesting, I noticed absolutely no difference switching from T-Mobile to AT&T and then going back to T-Mobile. At least in NYC.

 

[alexandr]

They're very fast in my area but more importantly, in terms of the quality of customer service and how they treat me as a customer, T-Mobile is 5G and AT&T is two tin cans with a piece of string between them.

Their customer service and what they offer is absolutely supreme!

 

[UnusedLoginID]

It sounds like your mom needs to be looking for another wireless carrier since it appears T Mobile is going to be unable to reliably service her home.

His mom needs a new 5G phone.

 

[alexandr]

My mom lives in Fort Lauderdale, and maybe a week ago, she had no service. My mom had previously been with Sprint, and recently they migrated her over to T-Mobile's network. I called the T-Mobile rep for her and rep said my mom lives in a "degraded service area." I ask the rep what does she mean by "degraded service area" and she says that means during certain times there will be no service.

Basically, sometimes she'll get service and sometimes she won't.

Yup, I'm currently just south of FL and there will be areas where your service just stops

 

[alexandr]

Are there certain iPhone features that are only available with an ATT account?

Such as what?..

 

[sdhalpern]

When? LTE only? You can’t speak for now. You should try with a 5G capable phone and you might come back to T-Mo

Fair point. My experience was on their 4G LTE network using my old XS Max. ATT 5G is great in SF and I have no desire to switch back to T-Mo. Hopefully T-MO’s 5G is better, but I found their dead spots and coverage issues baffling considering the Bay Area’s special status as the tech and VC hub here on planet Earth.

 

[Zaft]

In New York City it’s pretty darn fast. I average around 150 down with peaks of high 700s on Tmobile.