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I've been with Mint Mobile the last 4 years. I pay $15 per month and that includes 4GB of data and converts to Hotspot. Talk and text. No monkey business with billing. I just pay $15 plus tax.
In fact it was Verizon that got me to switch to Prepaid plans many years ago. They have some of the screwiest billing in the business. Sprint at one time used to be as bad.
In fact it was Verizon that got me to switch to Prepaid plans many years ago. They have some of the screwiest billing in the business. Sprint at one time used to be as bad.
same, i used to live in midtown before moving to upper east side, verizon has the most reliable, not the fastest, but fast enough, with tmobile, it was either all or nothing, and when i say nothing i meant literally zero signal, i might as well have turned on airplane mode.
i know tmobile hasn't improved cause my friends who has tmobile still gives me the same crap excuse everytime they are parking or going into a elevator lol
US is such a huge country, that I don’t understand the insistent of some people defending certain carriers or bashing other carriers just because they have specific experience on the few spots they stay in. That experience might be true on that specific area, but one cannot generalize that to be the fact all over the US, no?
In terms of signal and service, yes. Where I used to live, Verizon was amazing and T-Mobile was poor. It’s flipped with where I live now, with Verizon having a poor signal and I routinely see 600 Mbps download speeds. What has nothing to do with region or location is increasing costs and Verizon attempting to force people off of of grandfathered plans by tacking on surcharges. Even with Verizon not being great here, I was willing to stay with them because I am almost always on Wi-Fi. That last $12 per month charge was the end for me. Customer loyalty means nothing to any of these companies and if they are not loyal to us, I see no reason to be loyal back. The best anyone can do for themselves is to find the best deal for the best service and go with that.
Extremely annoying when people don't spend a bit more to get reasonable quality in 2022 cell phone service.
Funny considering just a few months ago tmobiles service had a nationwide outage. Second one in 12 months.
T mobiles had two nationwide outages in 12 months. And tmobiles SMS has outages regularly. Look it up.
So does this include C-Band access or not? Because Verizon is the only major carrier to put paywalls between different frequency bands…
Verizon and AT&T made poor choices in the 5G spectrums they purchased and initially rolled out. T-Mobile has now overtaken them. It may be impossible for them to catch up.
RootMetrics ran its tests in the largest 125 cities in the U.S., and found that T-Mobile had the fastest 5G download speeds in 48 markets, compared to three for Verizon and zero for AT&T.
5G report just revealed fastest carrier in the US
T-Mobile leads on speed — but how long will that last?
Old article but latest test results confirm the trend:
Verizon's deep pockets will do little to threaten T-Mobile's crushing 5G supremacy
While Verizon is expected to dominate the biggest ever US wireless spectrum auction with $44 billion in spending, T-Mobile's 5G mid-band holdings will continue to reign supreme.
www.phonearena.com
Oh, like the national Verizon outage in April, and again in June? Or the 911 outage from Verizon in October?
No carrier is perfect - it’s all a matter of cost:benefit ratio. I’ve used Verizon for the past 6 or 7 years, but ONLY because my employer had negotiated a 50% discount. So at that cost the benefit was there. But the discount is over with now, and I’m not paying $200-some/mo to Verizon when I can get equivalent service (and FAR better data speeds, in my area) for half that cost from T-Mobile.
Unlocked Pixel 6a with unused eSIM and the My Verizon app says the phone isn't compatible with eSIM. Is this a sign of just how great Verizon service is?
Pixel 6a is even in the list of compatible phones.
Grrrrrrr......
Pixel 6a is even in the list of compatible phones.
Grrrrrrr......
Back in the days of analog cell phones AT&T could not be beat, perfect coverage from coast to coast. Then came CDMA & GSM and Verizon was king, but Verizon is shutting down its 3G CDMA network Dec 31, 2022, and they are the last provider to have a running 2G or 3G network backbone. Everyone else has bailed already, so when 2023 arrives service for Verizon will be worse, not better. In the meantime T-mobile had been buying up spectrum everywhere and getting further ahead with 4G & 5G, so I suspect the future will be bright for T-mobile. 👀