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> 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 is shaking up the industry like Apple should have (and could have) done with the launch of the iPhone in 2007.
Let's not discount what Apple pulled off. Before the iPhone, carriers ruled handsets with an iron fist, dictating what features they would have and what apps would be available. Apple completely smashed that. Carriers now, for the most part, accept that they don't get to decide what your phone does, only how you use your connection with them. The carriers used to do things like disable Bluetooth and charge you extra…
My comment was more about the leverage it had over the carriers and completely squandered. IIRC, AT&T was paying Apple $10 or so per user per month. A carrier paying a handset manufacturer a fee seems like a lot of leverage. At this point, Apple had the potential to turn the industry away from fleecing customers. Instead, in 2013, we're lauding an upstart-ish company for contract-free smartphones. Great progress, but its taken far far too long.
[1] http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jul/10/business/la-fi-tn-if...
T-Mobile is shaking up the industry like Apple should have (and could have) done with the launch of the iPhone in 2007.
Let's not discount what Apple pulled off. Before the iPhone, carriers ruled handsets with an iron fist, dictating what features they would have and what apps would be available. Apple completely smashed that. Carriers now, for the most part, accept that they don't get to decide what your phone does, only how you use your connection with them. The carriers used to do things like disable Bluetooth and charge you extra…
I think Fred might be disappointed when he switches back to t-mobile. I was a t-mobile customer for years and I agree they have awesome customer service. The big problem for me was the terrible cell reception in many buildings in NYC. That said, I hear there are many areas in the US where t-mobile provides decent service. For people considering switching if t-mobile's international data deal isn't that important to y…
I was in NYC last week using T-Mo and noticed this too. Is it due to the GSM frequencies they use? I was told by a rep in Seattle that "new towers have just gone in for NYC", though YMMV.
In my apartment in the Upper West Side, I was getting a 3G data on an unlocked AT&T iphone 4S with a t-mobile sim, but only 2 bars of voice service. I'm tempted to try t-mobile's $30 / month 5Gig data + 100 minutes plan to use with my iphone 5s.
If their LTE service has decent coverage I may be able to get away with using facetime audio + google voice + talkatone.
Has anyone done this in NYC?
and they have IPv6 across their entire network. As someone who does research in this space, and advocates for it as a matter of religion^W principle, this alone makes me want to give them money.
http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements/
- Verizon: 40.11%
- T-Mobile: 1.57%