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T-Mobile Reaches Agreement to Acquire Mint Mobile for Up to $1.35B

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Re: T-Mobile Reaches Agreement to Acquire Mint Mobile for Up to $1.35B

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Post by orangepurple »

zamnos wrote: post #168
orangepurple wrote: post #125

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Check if your phone has Band 71 support for good long range communication to the tower with T-Mobile. It's 600 MHz and has excellent penetration through trees. I got 7 mbps up and down through SIX MILES of 100 ft tall trees in Michigan at a cell aimed away from me using a high gain 600 MHz yagi on T-Mobile band 71. The other bands were uselessly attenuated (with smaller yagi antennas and diversity). Verizon has histo…

What do you mean by "high gain 600 MHz yagi"? you can't just attach an antenna to a cellphone, the phone doesn't have the connector for that, but also the FCC has Opinions about you doing that

I used a USB modem and had multiple antennas at my disposal

Re: T-Mobile Reaches Agreement to Acquire Mint Mobile for Up to $1.35B

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Post by rasz »

pastor_bob wrote: post #94
deepzn wrote: post #28

This is Ryan Reynolds' second company he has sold which he has a "significant stake" in after he sold his Aviator Gin to the big whale, Diageo brands. He's been able to leverage his status and marketing talent to grow those brands significantly. Other actors, athletes also do this, but perhaps he is the most noticeable. George Clooney also sold an alcohol brand to Diageo. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-…

The alcohol stuff always amazes me. Making a gin isn't rocket science. Aviation Gin was basically a no-name brand. The fact that attaching a celebrity name brings so much value is mind-boggling to me.

https://www.complex.com/style/hip-hop-celebrity-liquor-brand...

Re: T-Mobile Reaches Agreement to Acquire Mint Mobile for Up to $1.35B

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Post by haswell »

yencabulator wrote: post #180
haswell wrote: post #105

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I understand this argument, but in practice it has never been a factor in my daily usage of the service. I think the bandwidth improvements by providers over the years have made this a mostly academic concern. I live in a major metro area that should theoretically be impacted by sheer volume of use, and I’ve also spent significant time on the road traveling (recent 7K mile overlanding trip through 15 states is one ex…

> I live in a major metro area that should theoretically be impacted by sheer volume of use, Nah, those towers tend to be built & upgraded to have the capacity. Where you mostly notice the MVNO suckage is if you take the biggest road out of town, drive two hours, make a left turn, and then drive an hour away from everything. But then again, wide coverage has historically not been T-mo's strength anyway (they've impro…

> Where you mostly notice the MVNO suckage is if you take the biggest road out of town, drive two hours, make a left turn, and then drive an hour away from everything.

I covered this in the 2nd half of the quoted sentence. I spent over a month in places like that throughout the US, and didn’t have issues.

I’m not saying issues don’t exist, but I never ran into the described suckage.

Finding a spot out there with poor signal isn’t hard, but that’s a separate issue.

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Post by monksy »

chillel wrote: post #174
BeetleB wrote: post #164

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> Why are they popular? It makes little sense to pay $90 a month per line. Whoever is paying that much probably doesn't do his/her research or have access to some providers. I pay $35/mo to T-Mobile. 5 GB at high speed per month. Unlimited everything else. Seems their minimum is now $40/mo, but it goes down to $35/mo if you have two lines. I'm sure some MVNOs are a lot cheaper, and I'm all for it. But complaining tha…

Magenta MAX is T-Mobile's unlimited data plan; $170/mo for 2 lines. 2 lines with unlimited data with Mint is ~$60/mo. You are paying $35/mo because you're only getting 5GB data. Check how much similar plans cost in India, Europe, Israel, UK (spoiler: they are drastically cheaper). You are delusional if you think T-Mobile and the other big network providers offer good value for money. Having recently switched to Mint…

It's about $3.6 for 2gb in india for a month. (2gb a day) Germany it's about 15e for 10gb UK it's usaually 12quid for 10+gb.

etc.

It's been that way for a long time.

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Post by BenjiWiebe »

vgeek wrote: post #166
unshavedyak wrote: post #112

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For MVNO on Verizon's network, any recommendations? I pay some absurd number for my Verizon plan in the Pacific Northwest because the mountains cause other providers (TMo, for example) to have no reception constantly. Verizon is basically the only choice. However i rarely use it, i spend 90% of the time on Wifi. I just want to be able to get texting/voice SMS/Phone/Data for emergencies (not just 911). So perhaps an M…

RedPocket has $10/mo for 1gb data plans on VZW, which is marked as the CDMA provider on their site.

And you can buy annual plans from RedPocket via eBay for even cheaper.

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Post by BenjiWiebe »

gms7777 wrote: post #44
amalcon wrote: post #32

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Honestly, this kind of statement makes me more likely to consider them. I was on post-paid T-Mobile many years ago, but I left because it was entirely unusable outside of cities. Signal would cut out entirely 4-5 times on a 2 hour drive. If my destination was anywhere with more than about 500 feet between houses, I was probably impossible to contact until I left. This just tells me that the situation might have impro…

T-mobile coverage got considerably better in rural areas sometime around 4 years ago. I did a lot of long drives and would completely lose service for long stretches in upstate New York, Pennsylvania, much of Ohio. Now I can't think of any time in recent years that I've gotten no service. The strength of coverage does occasionally drop if I'm way out in the boonies but it's so much better than it used to be.

Would that be because of the Sprint merger, I wonder? Maybe Nebraska had good Sprint coverage.

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Post by BenjiWiebe »

laweijfmvo wrote: post #50
bearjaws wrote: post #6

I used to love Mint, but since the population boom in Central Florida it is entirely unusable due to being a low priority network. This means on many occasions you will have almost no bandwidth, I am talking cannot stream Spotify bad. The worst IMO is traffic jams, the one time I really want to listen to music and it will start cutting out. If you're downtown there is a 80% chance you will not even be able to load a…

I have full fledged TMobile and my service has never been worse. I've just gotten used to the idea that I won't have service outside of wifi range.

Does your phone support band 71?

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Post by wtallis »

mikewarot wrote: post #148

I went with Mint and a 5g unlocked Motorola phone when T-Mobile stopped supporting the 3g phone I got from T-Mobile. I wonder how long it'll be before I'm forced to discard another otherwise fully functional phone? I'm not a happy camper, but that's par for the course in this, the worst timeline.

Your 3G phone may not have been broken, but using it was like driving a tractor or horse-drawn buggy on a freeway. RF spectrum with propagation characteristics amenable to cellular networks is a precious finite resource, and older, slower radio protocols are downright wasteful to keep operating when LTE and 5G can accommodate more customers and more voice/data throughput with the same bandwidth.

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Post by adolph »

recuter wrote: post #153
adolph wrote: post #147

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Post by joenot443 »

TMWNN wrote: post #159
joenot443 wrote: post #47

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Maybe I just have a soft spot since he's Canadian, but I think in this case Mint's provided some real genuine net benefit for consumers and I think using Reynolds positioning helped them get there.

> Maybe I just have a soft spot since he's Canadian Given that Mint isn't available in Canada, I presume that you must be in the US.

Exactly! I'm a Canadian living in New York. Reynolds & Gosling are two Ryans we hold pretty dear to our hearts, though they're both are so world famous folks often guess them to be American.
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