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T-Mobile Wins Title of Fastest U.S. Carrier in 2021 5G Test
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Same in Austin, I actually had to set my Cellular Data back to 4G/LTE because half the time I lost reception with 5G on. And for some reason you do not only lose data access but voice is affected as well.
Not sure why this is newsworthy when 5G has such limited coverage. Speed doesn't matter if I can't use the function.
Band 71 (600Mhz) is/was supposed to alleviate that. Also band 12 (700MHz), to a somewhat lesser extent. The problem is they have to actually deploy them for them to alleviate the problems.
Meanwhile I switched my Sprint sim for a T-Mobile sim and I went from two bars at work and home to no signal. T-Mobile said to drive up the street to make a call and they won’t switch it back to my 20 digit CDMA sim until the tower are ready. Verizon is looking better every day. 
Exactly.
To me... coverage is more important than outright speed.
Instead of 1,000mbps in certain areas or under certain conditions... I'd rather have 20mbps consistently everywhere.
I never complain when a connection is "slow"
But I always complain when a connection is "nonexistent"
Get on the phone to TMO CS and use the magic words "escalation" and/or "customer retention."Meanwhile I switched my Sprint sim for a T-Mobile sim and I went from two bars at work and home to no signal. T-Mobile said to drive up the street to make a call and they won’t switch it back to my 20 digit CDMA sim until the tower are ready. Verizon is looking better every day.
I've generally experienced satisfactory results from TMO CS, but I had to employ those, once.
T-Mobiles early adoption of midband is showing it’s strength here, but that 95% availability hurts
Just get AT&T until T-Mobile fixes their coverage.Meanwhile I switched my Sprint sim for a T-Mobile sim and I went from two bars at work and home to no signal. T-Mobile said to drive up the street to make a call and they won’t switch it back to my 20 digit CDMA sim until the tower are ready. Verizon is looking better every day.
I'm sure the hackers that breached these *******s sure appreciated those hyper-fast data transfer rates.
Some of us might like to know roughly where you live. T-mobile coverage is getting better, but it's hard to know if you are talking about the wilds of Maine, the plains of Kansas, or the nowhere of SE Oregon.
I’m in central Cali (in cities). T-Mobile 5G has been pretty useless. LTE is almost always faster than 5G. Sometimes in an area where LTE isn’t good indoors, I’ll switch to 5G and get the data I need. Other than that specific use case, 5G hasn’t lived up to the hype, to say the least. I saw speeds of 330mbit one time and was impressed, but outside of that one speed test, 5G has done nothing for me.
I tell everyone I know to disable 5G and opt for better battery life instead.
Also, Verizon doesn’t have a clean slate either. No company is immune to data breaches unfortunately: https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/verizon-breach-6-million-customer-accounts-exposed-a-10107
I tell everyone I know to disable 5G and opt for better battery life instead.
Also, Verizon doesn’t have a clean slate either. No company is immune to data breaches unfortunately: https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/verizon-breach-6-million-customer-accounts-exposed-a-10107
Fastest to lose your personal identifying information, too!
I really have enjoyed the overall value of Mint, but I did recently discover one of the catches to using it versus T mobile. I was at a family event in a small town (population 5000) in Nebraska, everyone else had coverage, including t mobile users. T mobile had coverage through a roaming agreement though. So when a small carrier advertises that they use a big carrier’s towers, that doesn’t mean you always get the same coverage when roaming kicks in.
The title is rather meaningless. If I can get phone calls, texts, and the occasional internet without drop-outs, I am happy. I am not hung up on speed numbers.
I’ve had Verizon for many years. I did the T-Mobile test drive and have been impressed with their speeds and their coverage.
that being said, I keep holding out for Verizon’s C-Band coverage to come online.
when you get Verizon’s UWB, it’s fast- like blazing fast. I pulled down 3.1 GB earlier this year. But when its LTE or just nationwide 5G? It’s slower than what At&t and T-mobile have. Verizon is experiencing a lot of congestion right now that will hopefully be alleviated once their c-band network is deployed later this year, but in the meantime, it’s no surprise to see them struggle in these tests.
that being said, I keep holding out for Verizon’s C-Band coverage to come online.
when you get Verizon’s UWB, it’s fast- like blazing fast. I pulled down 3.1 GB earlier this year. But when its LTE or just nationwide 5G? It’s slower than what At&t and T-mobile have. Verizon is experiencing a lot of congestion right now that will hopefully be alleviated once their c-band network is deployed later this year, but in the meantime, it’s no surprise to see them struggle in these tests.
I tried their esim Test Drive app about a month or two ago. Their service was slightly better where I live and a lot worse where I work, which is where I need it more. I currently have cricket wireless, thought about switching but between the service and data breach, I’ll pass on them.
It's a heck of a lot better than it used to be, but it still has a ways to go. The company gave me a 4G router so that we at least could have coverage in our home. When I switched to T-Mobile years ago, we had a pretty steady three bars of coverage. But since 5G launched, we've been lucky to get 1 bar.