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Let’s be honest for a moment: T-Mobile was the one who pulled ALL of its products out of every single national retailer (Best Buy, Walmart, Sams Club, Target, etc) a few years ago because they were so cheap (in terms of quality and customer experience) they wouldn’t allow any store that is not their own to make a commission on any sale.

T-Mobile is now back because they inherited all of Sprint’s national retailer agreements from the merger and it would cost T-Mobile way too much to rip up all of their contracts and get sued by Best Buy/Walmart.

Remember how they called themselves the “uncarrier”? All these years later it’s finally obvious T-Mobile is the most dishonest, consumer-hostile, substandard cell phone carrier there is in the US.
 
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Run away from T-mobile as fast as you can. My iPhone 12 could receive 5G full signal and download speed was 700Mbps at my home. I even live in a big 5 city in US.

But I transferred away from T-mobile some days ago. Reception was the worst. No signal in 1/4 area(I couldn’t even receive text messages), weak signal in 1/4 area and very slow speed like 2G phone. In 1/4 area, it felt like 3G phone. 5G phone in 1/4 area.

I paid off $1,000 for two phones to get away. (I got a promotion in 10/2020, 30 month contract for 2 free phones).

Don’t make mistake like me
 
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Looking at these comments, US carriers are so complicated.... :D
Seems like nobody else in the world have such complicated relationships with the wireless providers. Well, except maybe Canada (I heard they are so expensive as well)....
 
I'm sure if this was an AT&T or Verizon thread we would hear similar complaints. T-mobile is no different. They all have their good and bad.
 
T-Mobile will definitely be getting the benefit of a ton more traffic and eyeballs on their offerings. And no doubt T-Mobile will sue Walmart later to not have to pay them anything to sell their wares out of their store. /s
 
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T-Mobile will definitely be getting the benefit of a ton more traffic and eyeballs on their offerings. And no doubt T-Mobile will sue Walmart later to not have to pay them anything to sell their wares out of their store. /s
This sounds familiar? Epic vs Apple? 🤔
 
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