Good. AT&T is a really bad company. If someone in your household is 55 or older you can get 2 unlimited everything plans for $70 per month. Great deal, includes 5G. I have never regretted leaving AT&T. You can also add a cellular line if you have an Apple Watch for $10 more for each watch. We pay $90 a month for 2 phones & 2 cellular watches. Great service too, even with just 1 bar. We live in SF, so YMMV.
About as safe as falling off the edge of the earth. Try not to rely on Facebook bots, politicians and me... look it up.
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I'd settle for slower if I didn't have to deal with ATT crap. I just turned 55 so T-Mobile seems like a no brainer.
Don't forget that 5G also allows more capacity per channel, so you can fit more calls into the same towers than you can with LTE or earlier. While the speeds are already fast enough for my needs, it's nice to have the extra capacity.
Tried Verizon, AT&T, and Tmo all back to back and recently. Verizon had the worst connection time lag. It’s not latency, it just wouldn’t get an IP for a while. AT&T ironically was the best in latency but worst in 5G coverage. Tmo is right between both. Overall Tmo best for not having to deal with AT&T.
100% yes I’m experiencing this on my iPhone 13 on 5G or 5Guc I’ve been thinking my old iPhone 11 on LTE was faster surfing and what not. Once connected yes it’s great but I’m dealing with this right there with you. That initial connection takes 5-8 seconds some time.
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Are you talking about a regular cell phone plan? I had an older 3GB plan, and a few years ago they just gave me unlimited data for no additional charge. I thought they did that for everybody.
Oddly enough, whenever my phone switches from 5G to 5GUC, my service DECREASES in quality.
T-Mobile today announced that its high-speed "Ultra Capacity 5G" is now available to 200 million people across the United States, with the carrier hitting the milestone weeks ahead of schedule.
Ultra Capacity 5G is T-Mobile's higher-speed 5G network that's faster than the Extended Range 5G network that covers 308 million T-Mobile customers. While Extended Range 5G offers LTE-like speeds, Ultra Capacity 5G is more capable.
T-Mobile initially planned to cover 200 million people by the end of 2021, and has met that goal early. As noted by The Verge, this is a theoretical maximum based on the coverage that T-Mobile offers. In reality, T-Mobile has just over 100 million subscribers, not all of whom will be able to access the 5G speeds due to location or device limitations.
T-Mobile's Ultra Capacity 5G largely relies on mid-band 2.5GHz spectrum rather than the mmWave 5G spectrum used by other carriers like AT&T and Verizon. As T-Mobile explains in the press release announcing the coverage, the company aimed for mid-band spectrum to bring 5G speeds to the maximum number of people, and T-Mobile has been rolling out the 2.5GHz spectrum since it acquired Sprint.
Faster mmWave 5G speeds from AT&T and Verizon are largely limited to select areas in major cities, though both carriers have slower sub-6GHz 5G coverage available as well. AT&T and Verizon were planning on rolling out mid-band spectrum starting this year, but their plans have been delayed due to the FAA's concerns about aircraft interference.
T-Mobile's focus on mid-band spectrum is the reason why T-Mobile was the fastest 5G carrier in the United States in PCMag's annual test. T-Mobile's wider coverage allowed the carrier to achieve the highest average speeds of 162.3Mb/s, beating out AT&T and Verizon. Verizon had the fastest speeds overall, but its coverage was much more limited due to the current lack of mid-band spectrum and the limited availability of its mmWave speeds.
Article Link: T-Mobile's 'Ultra Capacity' 5G Now Covers 200 Million People
I live in Lake Oswego, and FiOS is not an option. I think Comcast & Century Link are the only options. I don’t like Comcast very much, but their service has been very reliable.
It's been available for a while.
Now that you mention it, it has said unlimited in the usage details for a while. I just assumed it was a glitch. The plan name still said 10gb. Just hadn’t thought about it too much. That’s awesome!
In theory maybe it keeps the network clear for more users. If over LTE it took me 1 minute to download a file and on 5G it takes me 20 seconds, that’s 40 seconds I’m using zero bandwidth, and it’s free for another customer? So faster speeds could arguably mean less traffic/greater capacity.
Same in Berkeley and San Jose. I'd rather have a solid 10mb/s almost everywhere (which I more than get with AT&T) than 700 or 0 with T-Mobile.
The one use case I can think of is you're using 5G for your home internet and have multiple people sharing it for their video calls where there are multiple other participants. That can mean like 20 simultaneous 720p H.264 video streams.
They do. T-Mobile Connect. Prepaid and you can set it up through the T-mobile eSIM app on the App Store. You have to set it up at the $25 level to do the from-home eSIM setup with the app, but you can drop to the $15 plan for subsequent months once you set it up. I even set it up from abroad (using it to get a US number and service via wifi calling, which works over cellular data from my local carrier as well).
That's a valid point. Though only truly relevant for mass events, like festivals or sport stadiums, I guess.
Well your download speed was impressive, upload on the other hand could have been way better
