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Re: T-Mobile Rocks

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Post by anonymoushn »

draebek wrote: post #167
goggles99 wrote: post #118

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You clearly have never used an MVNO(Reseller) I just went to Verizon and chose a free SmartPhone (Droid 4) with a 500MB data plan. It was $80/mo 2 yr contract I can buy that phone outright (brand new) for $300. If I go to PagePlus (Verizon MVNO) and sign up for their $1200 Minute, $3000 Text/MMS 500MB $30/mo plan here is what I paid after two years. Verizon - $80 * 24 = $1,920 PagePlus - $30 * 24 + $300 (phone) + $50…

FWIW, Verizon MVNOs do not get to use Verizon's LTE network AFAIK. Actually, that may be the case with AT&T too? I'm not sure.

AT&T MVNOs other than the two owned by AT&T do not seem to get to use LTE. That said, non-LTE 4G is fine.

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Post by tracker1 »

maxsilver wrote: post #159
Guvante wrote: post #131

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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…

Actually, Sprint and T-Mobile are both on-record as planning on merging. They aren't planning to do so in the immediate future, but they both see the long-term end game being just three carriers in the entire US. All they are waiting for is the DOJ to make a mistake and let it slip through. "T-Mobile exeutives say Sprint merger the 'logical conclusion'" http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/25/4769794/t-mobile-executive...…

Aren't Sprint and T-Mobile using fairly different tech? Also, sprint is way over-sold

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Post by caycep »

That being said, Speedtest reported Hong Kong 3G speeds on my (recently unlocked) iPhone 4 that are better than any of the reported 4G LTE speeds of any carrier in the US (7-9 mbps download...it was great!)

Re: T-Mobile Rocks

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Post by eropple »

kevingadd wrote: post #113
eropple wrote: post #47

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I've read that elsewhere, but that doesn't match my experience in the New England area on TMO. I had my connection completely croak after my phone read 2GB of data usage. Maybe the behavior is different in different geographic areas? (The last time I went over 2GB was a year ago on TMO when my home internet wasn't yet installed, so for me it's basically academic.)

Are you sure you weren't just on a plan with a 2GB cap? Different plans are different.

$30, "Unlimited" data and text, 100 minutes?

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Post by Ntrails »

joelrunyon wrote: post #127
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…

The purpose isn't to pledge loyalty to one company forever - it's to vote with your dollars to encourage the type of behavior you'd like to see. If enough people switch - the others will have to make some changes in order to stay competitive. He's not suggesting that we all pledge loyalty to t-mobile until the end of time.

I used a tethered unlimited data iphone 4 as my only internet for 18 months after I got my first job (and thus treated myself to a smartphone). Three (UK Carrier) never complained - even when I was downloading seasons of shows or 20gb games from steam. My usage was hundreds of GB.

As far as I am concerned that is worthy of loyalty, and I intend to remain with them unless they change their behaviour - even if not the absolute cheapest.

Bizarre that them doing what they said they would should surprise me and engender loyalty ofc, but it did. Just my 2 cents.

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Post by andyhmltn »

It's weird how different the are across the pond. Here in the UK the old TMobile (now EE) was absolutely terrible. I took out a new contract for the iPhone 5 on Preorder. They never delivered it and started harrasing me to pay my contract that was due to start when the phone arrived (which it didn't.)

It took me 25+ hours on hold and in the end I ended up tweeting them. Their twitter support team was a billion times better than anyone on the phone and the guy got it resolved for me.

Re: T-Mobile Rocks

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Post by kuschku »

timthorn wrote: post #142
noloqy wrote: post #50

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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...

The commisioners only lowered the charges for users in the EU roaming in other EU-countries. For example, if you bought your contract in Germany, you'll have to pay only 0.10 € / minute while you're in Denmark.

(Which is quite funny, 'cause I have to pay 0.11€ / minute for calling to other german carriers.)

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Post by danielweber »

I moved from T-Mobile from AT&T because AT&T started demanding I buy a data plan if I were to have a smart phone, and automatically signed me up for one and billing me for it.

T-Mobile's network is worse. Really, it's worse. I'm considering going back to AT&T despite all the crap because I'm sick of picking up my phone and seeing "no coverage available" in places where I had five bars yesterday.

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Post by askew »

officemonkey wrote: post #145
judk wrote: post #133

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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.

Crikey. They must have the patience of a saint! Ended up having to use a 3GS when my 4 failed, and the number of times I wanted to throw it against a wall while trying to browse the web on it...

Re: T-Mobile Rocks

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Post by officemonkey »

askew wrote: post #179
officemonkey wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A friend of mine is still using an original iPhone.

Crikey. They must have the patience of a saint! Ended up having to use a 3GS when my 4 failed, and the number of times I wanted to throw it against a wall while trying to browse the web on it...

He pretty much just uses it to make phone calls.
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