T-Mobile Rocks

Post by bshep » Mon, Oct 14, 2013, 1:05 AM UTC

michaelgold wrote: post #126

MacsHeadroom wrote: post #45

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Your bill won't go down much? 5GB of 4g internet with 3g speeds after that, unlimited texting, and 100 minutes of non-wifi talk (unlimited on wifi) per month is only $30 flat on T-Mobile if you buy the start-up kit at Walmart. If you need more minutes than that you can either call over wifi, pay $0.10/minute or talk all you want for free over Wifi/3g/4g using a VoIP app like GrooveIP.

I don't think the iPhone 5s has wifi calling. Is this accurate? http://support.t-mobile.com/thread/52768?start=0&tstart=0

Post by reedlaw » Mon, Oct 14, 2013, 1:32 AM UTC

fatjokes wrote: post #152

T-Mobile has to do this because their network is the worst. For a lot of people, that's more important than device availability, customer service, data limits, international roaming and contract terms. I say this as a T-Mo customer.

Post by shliachtx » Mon, Oct 14, 2013, 1:53 AM UTC

rogerbinns wrote: post #80

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…

T-Mobile in the US is a separate company. The German parent has tried to sell it in the past, and no doubt would gladly sell it in the future should a willing suitor come along and the regulators okay it (that caused the last sale to fail).

Post by commandar » Mon, Oct 14, 2013, 1:59 AM UTC

Hengjie wrote: post #138

mynameisvlad wrote: post #120

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Generally, MVNO customers have lowest priority on a network. I know AT&T, for example, gives network priority to Postpaid first, then Prepaid, then MVNOs. So on a congested network, you'd be the first to be kicked off.

Generally speaking, I don't think the experience would be as bad as you say. Yes they get the lowest priority but given how good AT&T's network is, you generally won't be kicked off and would probably incur a reduction in speed. The reality is, you aren't going to need (insert super fast speed here) on a day to day basis. There are exceptions of course, such as tethering or streaming content, but really, how often wo…

Post by maxsilver » Mon, Oct 14, 2013, 2:09 AM UTC

Guvante wrote: post #131

hkmurakami wrote: post #122

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To elaborate, Sprint and T-Mobile have been trying to merge, arguing that scale is fundamental in competing in the market. Regulators have argued that 4 carriers are essential to keeping parity and competition in the market.

Actually Sprint and T-Mobile have never officially tried to merge. So far all the executives have done is deny that such talks are in progress. At one point AT&T tried to buy T-Mobile, citing Verizon being bigger as why it was okay. They even put a bunch of money on the line if it fell through. Regulators decided that either they wanted 4 parties, or that Verizon would be forced to buy Sprint to compete, leaving 2 pa…