Well, prior to buying my phones outright I was paying close to $290 lol
If I were to move I'd cancel our 4th line since no one uses it since my Grandfather passed. That would be T-Mobile down to $150 with BYOP phones.
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Well, prior to buying my phones outright I was paying close to $290 lol
If I were to move I'd cancel our 4th line since no one uses it since my Grandfather passed. That would be T-Mobile down to $150 with BYOP phones.
I had ATT since 2005 when I lived in Seattle. I changed a couple years ago to VZW. A bit cheaper though not much, and a way to get free phone upgrades for the whole family. VZW’s service is a bit worse in the boonies than ATT, which is unfortunate for me as I commute 3 hours each way through rural PA. It’s not dramatically worse, but it’s noticeable. I get 5GUW in a few random places: by the Italian market in South Philly, near Bloomsburg, near Bryn Mawr, but I’m usually stuck at 5G and more often than seems reasonable, LTE. My house is a weak 5G signal. Thought about T-Mobile, but folks tell me that where I work there’s little connectivity.
Freedom Mobile in Canada. 5G coverage seems quite good, and speeds are decent. All their plans treat all of Canada and US as the same, so no roaming worries, which is nice. Been with them since 2017ish. Recently got significantly better with the elimination of separate home and away zones– which was a pretty big pain point
FirstNet for my main line. T-Mobile for my secondary line (since sprint). I also have a Visible line but I don’t use it much. I notice midband with all three carriers pretty frequently, especially in urban areas. T-Mobile has the most midband near me but I’ve noticed their density isn’t as good as the other two which results in T-Mobile being really good or really bad. Verizon seems consistent and reliable. I trust AT&T the most though and that’s what my main line is on. The main thing with AT&T’s reliability is the FirstNet contract.
I have traveled in various areas of the US and found that AT&T and Verizon are about the same for coverage. There have been several areas where my T-Mobile line had no service within the last year.
I have traveled in various areas of the US and found that AT&T and Verizon are about the same for coverage. There have been several areas where my T-Mobile line had no service within the last year.
Live in NYC. I switched from AT&T to Verizon in 2016 or so because I was so fed up with AT&T's poor coverage in the city. Loved Verizon at first, and I still believe they have the best LTE network in America, but their 5G rollout has been bad. It's up to my phone to juggle 4 networks at once: LTE, 5G Nationwide, 5G C-Band, and 5G Ultra-Wideband. It does a bad job of this. I can't tell you the number of times my phone can't connect to data because it's trying to connect to a poor 5G signal when LTE would work perfectly. I keep thinking it's going to get better but it really hasn't... pretty disappointing. Verizon does have great customer service though, so I'll give them that.
Same, and I am still using the Cingular issued phone number. Nearly 20 years.. Wow! I did move to AT&T Prepaid for at least a few years.
My most recent cell service provider is Mint — two or three years now. 5G coverage appears good, at least when I pay attention.
P.S. I’ve also been using VZ 5G Home Internet for nearly three years, if I’m recalling correctly. For the most part it’s solid.
P.P.S. When I joined Cingular, I went with the Nokia 6820, a nifty flip phone design with QWERTY keyboard. My first mobile phone was the Nokia 5110, during the college years and still on the parents’ wireless plan.
TMHI?
There's no way I could use that. Connectivity at home is bad natively, the one place I am that T-Mobile does not do well. I already have the Cellspot femtocell which uses my ISP (Cox Communications) for backhaul. On top of that, I have over 20+ computers and devices riding my home internet and I pull down roughly 1.2 to 1.5TB a month on my ISP. Part of my data usage is streaming TV (Amazon Firesticks), but a large part is work from home.
Glad TMHI works for you though.
I’ve tried two of their routers but couldn’t get better than 2 bars at any window on the 2nd floor. Was really hoping this would work as I was going to keep Spectrum as primary and Tmo as backup since I work from home.
Sprint when they first went digital (PCS) from 1999 - roughly 2001 when I got sick of their service.
Nextel until 2004 when I got sick of their phones.
Verizon currently, though the customer service centers take forever to fix anything. There was a period over two years where I suffered dropped calls and bad service in some areas near by. It seems they finally fixed the problem but they never acknowledged the issue which was upsetting.
I generally have 5G where I live and in most large towns.
Nextel until 2004 when I got sick of their phones.
Verizon currently, though the customer service centers take forever to fix anything. There was a period over two years where I suffered dropped calls and bad service in some areas near by. It seems they finally fixed the problem but they never acknowledged the issue which was upsetting.
I generally have 5G where I live and in most large towns.
Verizon. NYC. Over 20 years. Pretty much the only time I don’t have 5G is on the subway between stations, or several rooms deep in the center of an office building. For my use cases (no audio or video streaming or videoconferencing on the go), 3G was plenty, tho.
t-Mobile went from the worst to the best so im glad to have that now. Especially today when AT&T is down allover Lol
$25 a month on ATT Prepaid. 8gb data and the rest is unlimited. Data rolls over and I have like 49gb data available.
BUT, my ATT is down in Jacksonville FL today due to the outage.
BUT, my ATT is down in Jacksonville FL today due to the outage.
Longtime Verizon customer until about 4 years ago, since then have tried AT&T, T-Mobile, a few prepaid MVNO. T-Mobile has gone from worst to best especially over the last 2 years where I live (Chicago area). Currently with T-Mobile with 20% off for life using insider hookup code.
Same. Have been on TMobile for 3 years, and have 4 lines. I see 5G UC in dense urban areas as expected - but sitting at home I get some of the worst reception anywhere. Luckily I've got gigabit service through my ISP...
I've been with at&t Mobility, since it was AT&T Wireless. I see a lot of 5G and 5Ge (which is their multi-band LTE implementation). There are a few spots on my island with 5G+, but I usually see that when I'm driving or in other populated areas. I do see LTE when I'm in the back country, and when driving cross-country in the fall of 2022, long after it was supposed to be shutdown, I even got some 3G/4G indicators in Wyoming and Utah.
Long ago I tried T-Mo and it was horrible. Got no calls inside but when I walked outside I would see missed calls. With ATT no missed calls, no dropped calls ever and now no service today in Jacksonville. I know T-MO has greatly improved today.
I have line of sight from a nearby T-Mob tower from a window in my house, so I think that's part of what helps. I'm using it for routine connectivity, streaming music and TV/movies, work from home (constant connection to our back end, generally with a VPN, plus Slack and Zoom) and there have been rare occasions when my connection has dropped but it never lasted long and was always fixed with a router reboot. I can't stand the local cable company, Cox, but if I had another option such as ATT&T or Google fiber I'd look into them too but neither are in my neighborhood. I hope you get a better solution!
