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Tomorrow's T-Mobile 'Uncarrier' Event to Include iPhone Announcement

scapegoat81 said:
I see youre from BOS, their service is the same down here in PHI. Terrible service
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I have a few friends who have tmo, and they all tell me how iffy the coverage is, but how great the prices and customer support staff are.

I have Sprint, which doesn't have the best reputation for coverage, but makes for it in great price, unlimited everything, and free roaming on verizon (effectively making their coverage as good as verizon's for much less cost).
 
iSunrise said:
"From now on, many of the things are competitors do, we don´t."

WHAT??!

Do these guys even proofread their advertisements?
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A pair rent Lee they don't wind there Russian. ;)
Two bee fare, its a leek add so May not bee a proved.
 
Xenomorph said:
AT&T shared data plan for me: $195
T-Mobile shared data plan for me: $115

The difference? AT&T actually gives me the "3G" and "4G" indicator, since it doesn't use the 1700 MHz moon-frequency everywhere like T-Mobile does.

Unless they have a 1700 MHz iPhone, or have re-farmed 100% of the areas I'm in, I'm going to stick with AT&T a big longer.
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you forgot the LTE also; it screams until it is capped by Verizon and ATT :D
 
Xenomorph said:
AT&T shared data plan for me: $195
T-Mobile shared data plan for me: $115

The difference? AT&T actually gives me the "3G" and "4G" indicator, since it doesn't use the 1700 MHz moon-frequency everywhere like T-Mobile does.

Unless they have a 1700 MHz iPhone, or have re-farmed 100% of the areas I'm in, I'm going to stick with AT&T a big longer.
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It if is LTE + the refarmed area for backup, it could be great. The STL seems decently covered on http://airportal.de/

The map isn't perfect. I'm on the Northwest suburbs of Chicago and coverage looks "thin" on this map, but I am mostly in 3G areas with great signal.
 
shanmugam said:
Americans would not like paying $649 (Full price) for the iPhone :cool:

Let us see how t-mobile plans succeeds!! :)
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I'm not in the US and would never buy an iPhone outright. Much better to get a contract but make sure the plan and carrier are good.
 
shanmugam said:
Americans would not like paying $649 (Full price) for the iPhone :cool:

Let us see how t-mobile plans succeeds!! :)
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Let me do the math for you. An unlimited voice, texting, and data plan, with hotspot included, costs $60 a month under T-Mobile. The same plan minus the unlimited data and the hot spot feature costs $130 on AT&T. On T-Mobile if you don't have the money to buy your iPhone outright, T-Mobile will give you a loan. You will pay something like $199 dollars down, and make monthly installments of less than $20 dollars a month until paid off on the rest. Add the $20 a month to the $60 for the plan, and you are paying $80 a month for the plan and phone. That is still $50 less than on AT&T.
 
abbstrack said:
i did it. paid 849 for mine, and i am sans at&t headache because I can take my phone and leave whenever i want. I'll never pay a subsidized price again.

*i do understand there are people who can't afford to pay $900 for a phone upfront, so I agree not everyone will be happy with this arrangement.
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I can afford to buy my phone outright, but I don't think the benefit of "taking my phone and leaving anytime I want" is really a benefit. And if something did come along that made me want to change carriers, I'd pay the ETF and go.
 
oneMadRssn said:
I would be all over this if either their coverage was any good, or they had a roaming agreement with another carrier to make up for the spotty coverage.
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As far as coverage goes, it depends on where you live. That is the beauty of no-contract if the coverage sucks, you move on. With contract plans, T-Mobile does have roaming. I live in Michigan. In some places the coverage is better than AT&T. When I go to Northern Michigan, I roam on AT&T's network.
 
In NYC tmobile has great coverage. $118 for 2 lines w unlimited talk text and unthrottled data. Almost forgot unlimited teathering . And 3days ago they add a 3rd line for free(talk and text)
 
sulpfiction said:
I can afford to buy my phone outright, but I don't think the benefit of "taking my phone and leaving anytime I want" is really a benefit. And if something did come along that made me want to change carriers, I'd pay the ETF and go.
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It is if you are paying a lot less for the plan by paying for your plan outright. Carriers like AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon charge you the same price no matter what. Companies like T-Mobile and Straight talk give you a great price on the plan if you bring your own phone. As I stated earlier I would pay $130 a month on AT&T as I pay now on T-Mobile.

I have suffered maybe one dropped call in the last year, and for all I know, it was the other person's network.
 
Terrin said:
Let me do the math for you. An unlimited voice, texting, and data plan, with hotspot included, costs $60 a month under T-Mobile. The same plan minus the unlimited data and the hot spot feature costs $130 on AT&T. On T-Mobile if you don't have the money to buy your iPhone outright, T-Mobile will give you a loan. You will pay something like $199 dollars down, and make monthly installments of less than $20 dollars a month until paid off on the rest. Add the $20 a month to the $60 for the plan, and you are paying $80 a month for the plan and phone. That is still $50 less than on AT&T.
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The average person who failed math in high school is saying: "you make it sound so complicated, can't I still just get a free phone?"

I'm not kidding. There are people left who can still think but "free phone" is still a very powerful marketing gimmick.
 
One way T-Mobile is 'not like a carrier' is that they have no service in a lot of areas, according to a lot of reports.

I believe they are ranked last in coverage. It's possible they have improved service.

All I can say from direct observation is that they have (and have had) the hottest spokesmodels.
 
shanmugam said:
Americans would not like paying $649 (Full price) for the iPhone :cool:

Let us see how t-mobile plans succeeds!! :)
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I'm baffled that Americans are actually thinking mobile phone subsidies are discounts or something. You're paying the whole thing (and more, of course), whether they hide it in exorbitantly high contract costs or not. It's a trick, you see.
 
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