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Re: AT&T says it has big problems. A T-Mobile salesman showed me how big

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Post by weeblewobble »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #98
mchusma wrote: post #49

Somewhat related: this idea of adding a "digital waiting line" on top of a normal one is horrible, the author mentions this in ATT. Disneyland has done this with food, and it's really really irritating. Here is an example of what it is like to get Blue Milk at Star Wars Land in Disneyland: 1) order it in the app and pay for it. 2) it tells you when to go there 3) wait for your phone to turn green, with a group of oth…

What do you do if you don't have a smartphone?

You can pay with cash or card like normal. The thing described above is a special feature where you can order ahead from your phone.

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Post by xxpor »

0x000000001 wrote: post #6
chomp wrote: post #2

Yeah, T-Mo may fighting a better fight, but their security issues dog them. Maybe the average consumer doesn’t care, but I find it hard to champion a brand that gives such a half effort to protecting their customers’ information.

How the tables turn. Have we forgotten that Snowden revealed all the phone companies handed over data/back doors to the NSA except TMobile? There is no perfect carrier; the best you can do is pick the one least likely to sell you out or get hacked today.

Most people's threat model considers their personal data leaking to someone who might financially exploit them MUCH MUCH MUCH more of a threat than their call records ending up in bulk in some NSA db. Because most people are rational.

Re: AT&T says it has big problems. A T-Mobile salesman showed me how big

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Post by jareklupinski »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #91
mchusma wrote: post #49

Somewhat related: this idea of adding a "digital waiting line" on top of a normal one is horrible, the author mentions this in ATT. Disneyland has done this with food, and it's really really irritating. Here is an example of what it is like to get Blue Milk at Star Wars Land in Disneyland: 1) order it in the app and pay for it. 2) it tells you when to go there 3) wait for your phone to turn green, with a group of oth…

Sounds like they need a Star Wars themed Automat.

yea how hard would it be for Disney Imagineers to make a C3-PO bartender that understands all the galaxy's languages

or paint a beer keg blue and white and give it wheels, i'll have a draft from the R2D2

Re: AT&T says it has big problems. A T-Mobile salesman showed me how big

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Post by afn »

lr1970 wrote: post #116
logosmonkey wrote: post #76

Att was destroyed as soon as they sold to cingular. I worked as a billing call center rep for Cingular when they bought them. The spent millions to rebrand everything with AT&T including signs at small ballpark fields etc. They had a bounty system where you could get paid if you found an old AT&T sign that hadn't been converted. About six months in they realized that Cingular's brand was despised by customers and tha…

> Att was destroyed as soon as they sold to cingular. The story of AT&T and Cingular is much weirder, see [0]. Once there was AT&T Wireless that became Cingular (with the help of SBC). Then SBC bought AT&T (landline) then the combined AT&T bought Cingular that became AT&T Wireless again. [0] https://www.att.com/Common/merger/files/pdf/Cingular_timelin... EDIT: typos

It’s the T-1000 of corporations.

http://www.phonenews.com/images/2007/1/colbert-report-roasts...

Re: AT&T says it has big problems. A T-Mobile salesman showed me how big

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Post by cbozeman »

gregkerzhner wrote: post #79
cbozeman wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it's worth taking the time to cool down from the initial frustration No it isn't. Every single company in America needs to operate like Chick-Fil-A. You will never have a bad Chick-Fil-A experience. Ever. I've eaten there for over 25 years. The slightest problem with anything is immediately resolved to your satisfaction. And why is that? Because there's competition, and because they want to be the best fast food re…

Chick-fill-a might be a bad example given their history with LGBT folks. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A_and_LGBT_people

I've typed up about three long responses, but I don't know why, because this is just an idiotic segue with nothing to do with what I said... I can't believe I almost fell for this stupid troll shit.

Re: AT&T says it has big problems. A T-Mobile salesman showed me how big

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Post by orangepurple »

RKearney wrote: post #37
orangepurple wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

100% FALSE Check 4G coverage with cellmapper.net Make sure your phone supports Band 71 - it's everywhere nowadays - and band lock your modem to band 41 for crazy speeds in congested metro areas.

As someone with both Verizon and T-Mobile on the same phone using dual-SIM, I can confirm that T-Mobile's coverage is worse than Verizon.

Indisputable. Everyone knows T-Mobile has worse coverage than Verizon. But not everyone knows just how much improvement has been made in the last 5 years, especially due to Band 71 coming online in most places.

Re: AT&T says it has big problems. A T-Mobile salesman showed me how big

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Post by orangepurple »

nemosaltat wrote: post #22
bluedino wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Too bad their coverage in smaller cities and rural areas is still pretty bad.

Yeah, I’ve been quite happy with T-Mobile as my personal carrier for the last 7 years or so. Up until recently I had an AT&T phone for work, but the new company is T-Mobile. I’m on the road a lot didn’t realize how much I took for granted with AT&T tethering speeds. Even in greater LA area, the tethering seems markedly worse with T-Mobile (N=1).

T-Mobile uses deep packet inspection to kill VPNs with TCP RST packets and has arrangements with Android to throttle tethering to hell.

The solution is only use TCP networking (UDP transit is intentionally FUBAR) and EasyTether Pro on stock Android.

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Post by orangepurple »

redtexture wrote: post #83
selectodude wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iDEN was 800MHz, the 600MHz stuff is UHF spectrum from when all the OTA television channels went digital.

Where can I learn more about frequencies and towers, by vendor,in my region?

cellmapper.net
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