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Re: T-Mobile Rocks

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Post by voltagex_ »

Hengjie wrote: post #139
rradu wrote: post #96

T-Mobile simply doesn't have any data coverage outside of major metropolitan areas. If you're someone that travels outside these areas, you will be unable to use your devices for anything but calls and texts. That's a big caveat that should be mentioned. (If you never leave the Bay Area, for example, then T-Mobile is a logical choice. It works well for me 98% of the time here.)

Couldn't T-Mobile use another carrier's cell towers and allow their customers to fallback into those networks?

They do (although I was only able to test this in a very small part of Idaho) allow roaming on to AT&T. Supposedly it's free with a data limit.

Re: T-Mobile Rocks

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Post by timthorn »

noloqy wrote: post #50
stevenleeg wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But at least there are no 2 year contracts to keep us locked into T-Mobile if they ever turn into dirtbags!

Though T-Mobile seems to have adopted an interesting strategy in the US - as a European customer I find their proposition not to be notably better than that of other carriers. Here, it takes European commissioners to lower international roaming charges. T-Mobile doesn't rock across the globe.

As an EU customer, try roaming to the USA and seeing if the Commissioner has done anything about those charges...

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Post by AlexC04 »

I understand that Fred Wilson is an important voice in the startup / ycombinator world... But is this really the quality of content that really deserves to be on the front page here?

Re: T-Mobile Rocks

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Post by notatoad »

AlexC04 wrote: post #143

I understand that Fred Wilson is an important voice in the startup / ycombinator world... But is this really the quality of content that really deserves to be on the front page here?

it's sunday afternoon. this is pretty normal sunday afternoon HN content. If you want something more insightful, come back tomorrow morning.

Re: T-Mobile Rocks

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Post by officemonkey »

judk wrote: post #133
bsimpson wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I made a spreadsheet for my girlfriend when she bought the iPhone 5s. She was debating between AT&T, StraightTalk, and AIO wireless. On AIO, you're still better off on AT&T over the course of a 2 year contract by $90. If you choose StraightTalk, you'll save $174 over 2 years. (That savings goes up to $299 if you buy an AT&T phone and then immediately cancel and pay the ETF; both prices combined are less than the $749…

What phones from the 2009 still have a serviceable battery and USB/charge port? And what are the 2013 versions of these phones?

A friend of mine is still using an original iPhone.

Re: T-Mobile Rocks

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Post by chrsstrm »

"I was a T-Mobile customer for more than a decade from the late 90s until a year or two ago."

Unless he was a T-Mobile customer in Europe, I don't see how this is possible. T-Mobile in the US was formed circa 2001 with the purchase of Voicestream Wireless. I remember because I've been a customer since 2002, and all their equipment was tagged with Voicestream logos.

Unless of course he was a Voicestream customer first, who was then rolled into T-Mobile. Who am I to say, I just pay attention to details.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Mobile#United_States

Re: T-Mobile Rocks

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Post by phaus »

judk wrote: post #134
eonil wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So what's the contribution of Google, Sun and MS? It's you who should show example if you want to claim. Do you have any access to Google Search API? Or BigTable source? How about Google Maps? Google Apps? What Google is releasing is "Chrome" which stole (as like your word) from WebKit, and Android. (which actually stolen from Sun, so still in lawsuit) Well there's more. V8, Dart and Go. Maybe bunch of funny dead pro…

Google is a major committer to Linux and to Java Guava, the premier general purpose library (standard library extension/replacement). And they paid Guido to work on Python for years.

Wasn't it Google that made a huge donation to Kubuntu after Ubuntu pulled the plug on supporting them?

Re: T-Mobile Rocks

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Post by jordanbaucke »

This is such an obvious puff piece. Has T-Mobile been paying these people to write these things for them? I'm still awaiting a response from T-Mobiles legal department after I threatened to sue of their refusal to release me from my contract without the $300 fee http://www.scribd.com/doc/169303371/Demand-Letter-T-Mobile

Re: T-Mobile Rocks

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Post by joepour »

skrause wrote: post #18

> Because if all of us move to T-Mobile, the other carriers will have no choice to join them in being customer friendly. No, if all people move to T-Mobile, they will just start behaving like the other carriers. The only reasons they're customer friendly is because they have a low market share and try to win customers, not because it's their company culture. Just look at their German parent company, Deutsche Telekom…

You say it like they are not already a massive telco. They might not have the market share in North America, but elsewhere they are very established.
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