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Carrier What carrier are you using ? And why ?

Abs_p said:
I am on their grandfathered plan. $100/5 lines/5GB each. The 5th line was free back when I got it so I just took it just in case lol. The non-unlimited plans are not limited to 3mbps, they used to be capped at 8mbps and still are. Video streaming works fine for me right now.

I need to look into the new unlimited plans but yeah afaik, they are capped at 3mbps which tbh wont be that huge of a deal. If you are just using sites like reddit or macrumors and all, 3mbps is MORE than enough. Most YouTube videos/netflix will still work fine as well.
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Thanks for the info. Unlimited isninoortsnt tocisnsince two of our four lines are heavy streamers. But it's almsot all YouTube on one line and almost all Netflix and YouTube tv on the other. I imagine that he'd should work on.

Researching their current lines, they do offer an uncapped unlimited, but it's much more expensive. Then there's the 8mbps capped and finally the 3mbps which is the 4/$100 deal.

I'm planning on giving them a shot for a couple months at least since T-Mobile annoyed me backtracking on giving me $140/4 lines and then saying I'd have to either add two new lines or have been a new customer. If I'm unhappy I can always hop back to T-Mobile as a new customer anyway.
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gurase said:
5 lines for $100 is a grandfathered plan. It’s 5 GB per line @8Mbps then throttled after that. I am on the 4 line version of that plan (also no longer offered, but we only use about 1 GB or less a month so I haven’t seen a need to switch to the unlimited plan). I would probably only switch if we plan a trip to Canada, since Canada roaming is not included on my plan.

I’ve heard plenty of positive reviews of the 3 Mbps limit, and that it’s only noticeable if you’re updating apps over cellular or running a speed test. I have stream saver turned on for all my lines which the unlimited plan always has on (video @1.5 Mbps or 480p) and have no complaints.

Edit to clarify: the 4 for $100 plan that is currently offered is unlimited data @3 Mbps
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Thanks for the feedback. I'm going to give it a go. See how things are. Worst case I find myself back on T-Mobile.

I found some SIM cards at Best Buy in clearance for $3 so trying out the service won't put me out more than $12 for the sims.
 
I have Verizon and it seems fine (little expensive though, that “smartphone line access” fee always annoys me like I’m already paying for data, and but I still have to pay an extra $20 on top of that because it’s a smart phone?). Step parents and several friends have ATT, which from what I hear is a hot mess when it comes to reception (I’m in L.A.). Another friend has boost mobile, seems to have zero reception problems and I used to have T-mobile and I don’t remember any real connection problems but that was years ago.
 
AllergyDoc said:
Have you had any problems with dropped WiFi calls?
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No not that I noticed. I did notice slightly less cell coverage at my house compared to verizon(same towers though, maybe the xs signal is just worse than my 7 was) but I use wifi calling and no issues(I don't talk on phone much but the wife does and hasn't complained)
 
jdsmitty10 said:
No not that I noticed. I did notice slightly less cell coverage at my house compared to verizon(same towers though, maybe the xs signal is just worse than my 7 was) but I use wifi calling and no issues(I don't talk on phone much but the wife does and hasn't complained)
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Thanks for replying. I’ve been interested in switching to Xfinity until I landed on their user forum and found a long thread about WiFi calls being dropped or consistently not going through, and Xfinity’s lack of decent mobile tech support. I don’t talk on my phone that much, either, but my uses hers all the time at work. She has lousy cell coverage in her building and really needs WiFi calling. It’s a shame because our bill out drop to $36/month (we’re not heavy data users).
 
My wife and I use Consumer Cellular because we have AT&T coverage with it and pay for only the data we use. We are usually on WiFi so don't need a lot of data.
 
My history has mostly been jumping back and forth with T-Mobile and AT&T in some capacity: T-Mobile To Go > AT&T > T-Mobile > back to AT&T (T-Mobile coverage wasn't up to par for some family members that lived elsewhere) > Cricket. Service has been effectively the same as we had with AT&T and iPhone support is on the better end of the spectrum (VoLTE and Wi-Fi calling). I'm the only one who gets flagship iPhones, with everyone else keeping old devices around, SEs, or hand-me-downs, so the lack of carrier financing and such isn't a big deal.

As for plan, I moved us to the 4/$100 unlimited one about a year ago and despite being 3Mbps, the latency is good enough that for my needs, it feels snappy enough. I've also found that prepaid services on AT&T tend to do pretty well in many cities, while Verizon seems to heavily deprioritize them. Coverage has been pretty good and the referral program and discounted refill cards have made the service even cheaper.

I keep my iPad on the T-Mobile 5GB/150 day/$10 promo plan (it appears you can renew it if you buy it before the current one expires). It's cheaper than adding the hotspot option on my phone and I get some carrier diversity when traveling.
 
T-Mobile because at the moment I have a bill of $120 flat for my personal line, my work line, and my iPad all with unlimited data and all of them have a grandfathered ONE Plus Promo so I don’t have to worry about my streaming being capped. I don’t think I’ll be able to do better on Verizon or AT&T, and I’m especially not interested in AT&T because I don’t want them permanently locking down the embedded SIM in my 10.5 Pro.
 
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My husband and I have Straight Talk. We live in a small town (Fallon, Nevada) and there are only two carriers that work here. We can't afford Verizon so we just buy our devices outright and use them on Straight Talk.
 
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I'm still in T-Mobile because they are the only carrier that gets me service at my house. I had an AT&T line since about April also but I finally got tired of no service at my house so I ported the number to my T-Mobile line which closed the AT&T line. I'm very happy with T-Mobile.
 
I recently switched to Vodafone, because I'm in a legal battle with Optus. :mad:
$35 for unlimited talk, unlimited text and 30GB data.
Customer service is better, but mobile reception isn't as good.
 
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laurianne9 said:
My husband and I have Straight Talk. We live in a small town (Fallon, Nevada) and there are only two carriers that work here. We can't afford Verizon so we just buy our devices outright and use them on Straight Talk.
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Should look at boom.us they are a Verizon mnvo with good rates.
 
Verizon. Company paid. Old unlimited plan back from the iPhone 5 days. No throttling, no tethering...no perks. Did use 108 gigs last month. Our billing cycle started on the 10th and I’m at 11 gigs.
 
Just moved from Cricket to Mint.

Cricket:
- uses the AT&T network, which is spotty where I'm at
- $35/month for 5GB of 4G seemed like a good deal
- personal hotspot is extra

Mint:
+ uses the T-mobile network, which has better coverage for me
+ $20/month for 5GB of 4G (if you're willing to pay 12 months at a time) is a great deal
+ $15/month for 2GB of 4G is another great option, as it's about what I use
+ includes personal hotspot

Both include wifi calling and visual voicemail; both have unlimited data (at slower speeds once 4G allotment used).

I'm very pleased to pay $20/month for good coverage and all the features I want. (I might even drop that down to $15/month).
 
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In the US, I have AT&T. This is what I started with because my parents used AT&T Wireless in the 90s, eventually Cingular, and back to AT&T. I split out their plan when I went to college, and I stuck with Cingular because it was recommended by the school I was going to, I think they had discount plan or something.

There was a time I considered switching to Verizon because at home I got very poor reception with AT&T (even to this day--T-Mobile and Sprint were even worse so they were not considered), but didn't because Verizon was a CDMA carrier and AT&T was a GSM carrier and I traveled around the world often getting local SIM cards to save on roaming. This was very advantageous, I would have this little box of different SIM cards I could put the right SIM into my phone when I traveled to a given country. Eventually I got his fancy data plan that let me roam anywhere in the world with AT&T with unlimited data for $65/month and there was even less reason to switch to another carrier. Eventually my home reception issues were solved with the microcell, and these days with WiFi calling.

Nowadays, I guess everyone is using SIM cards, so I don't have a reason to restrict myself to AT&T, but there isn't really a reason to change either. I dropped that unlimited international data plan because it wasn't cost effective anymore. Seems unlimited data is similar prices between the major carriers.
 
Cricket wireless. 5gb plan for $35. Been with them for 4yrs. I’m always bought unlocked iPhones so this works for me. I am planning to jump to red pocket where you prepay for a 1 years. There’s a plan for $25 for 10gb. Or 5gb plan for $20.
 
At&t. Came from Sprint several years ago on family plan "parents" in SoCal and now Arizona PHX area. I'm actually interested in T-Mobile. They seem to have better LTE speeds and they're cheaper. It seems the problem with att is that too many people are on the network. I know Verizon has best coverage nation wide. Att close second, follwed by T-mobile and Sprint.
 
T Mobile. We have 4 lines for $120. We get 10gbs of data per line and tethering. It has been unlimited data since 2017 but that ends in February 2019. We have data stash and music freedom so we never came close to using 10gbs.
 
Been with Verizon since the iPhone 4s (my first iPhone). Lived in Morris County and Warren County, NJ, as well as Portland, OR and now Wilmington, NC.

In Portland, OR I tried Project Fi when it first came out, only stopped using it because I didn't like Android in the end (I used to constantly go back and forth). Gave T-Mobile a try there too, with a pre-paid Windows 8 phone which was fun for a little while. In the end, the rest of my family is on Verizon so I stick on their account (why pay extra account charges rather than adding a line to family's account?). We've never had service problems, coverage is great. My mother gets a discount because of her work, and I would get the same discount should I have my own account because of my work too.

The only times I don't like Verizon is when I wanted to try out Android, because their network uses CDMA, greatly limiting the phones you can use (I hate Samsung's version of Android, and only want close to pure Android; thus only Google phones work, and even then, you want to get them directly from Google for ROMing and rooting). But since I'm all Apple now, the carrier doesn't matter.
 
I’m using EE. Best coverage and service. No problems with quality. Yes it is more expensive then rest carriers but I’m happy with EE. Monthly I paying £49. But for that price I get iPhone 7 Plus. Without upfront cost. Couple month later after release.
 
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I am with AT&T for the second time and very happy. (I am in the NYC/CT area)

I got my first wireless phone through work in about 1998 or so and it was with AT&T. The service coverage was fine, but what set them apart was their customer service. It was terrific then and now. I also traveled internationally quite a bit, and their international coverage was seamless --- Europe, South America, South America, Africa, Japan, China, Asia...no problems at all.

Then in the 2010 timeframe our company made everyone switch to Verizon--- and it all went downhill fast. International coverage was horrible/terrible...calls to the US that had been connecting seamlessly now were all interrupted because Verizon's international carrier partners do not forward caller id information...which meant at the time any domestic number that would block calls without caller id were no longer reachable: my home, friends, even some of my office locations.

Worse yet was Verizon's customer service --- absolutely horrible.

When I retired about 2 years ago, I switched back to AT&T with the rest of the family and have never been happier.
 
darksithpro said:
At&t. Came from Sprint several years ago on family plan "parents" in SoCal and now Arizona PHX area. I'm actually interested in T-Mobile. They seem to have better LTE speeds and they're cheaper. It seems the problem with att is that too many people are on the network. I know Verizon has best coverage nation wide. Att close second, follwed by T-mobile and Sprint.
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BostonQuad said:
Just moved from Cricket to Mint.

Cricket:
- uses the AT&T network, which is spotty where I'm at
- $35/month for 5GB of 4G seemed like a good deal
- personal hotspot is extra

Mint:
+ uses the T-mobile network, which has better coverage for me
+ $20/month for 5GB of 4G (if you're willing to pay 12 months at a time) is a great deal
+ $15/month for 2GB of 4G is another great option, as it's about what I use
+ includes personal hotspot

Both include wifi calling and visual voicemail; both have unlimited data (at slower speeds once 4G allotment used).

I'm very pleased to pay $20/month for good coverage and all the features I want. (I might even drop that down to $15/month).
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I wish mint/T-Mobile works in my work area (middle of nowhere). They have one of the best prices.
 
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