AT&T vs T-Mobile wireless pricing
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I thought the new T-Mobile plan was 50 bucks contract free ( if you own a phone ). The sad thing is that T-Mobile is a laggard when it comes to network coverage.
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people keep saying that but I have had T-Mobile for 15 years or so(before it was even T-Mobile, it was Powertell when I got this number), a few years back I drove a truck OTR for a year up and down the East coast to Florida and west to around Wichita, And I only had issues in the mountains. Where I currently live, I have my T-Mobile android phone and my work issued ATT iPhone. I can go to the lake or anywhere else out in the bushes around here and have not once had my android drop a signal before the iPhone, in fact, I have had it the other way around a few times.
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How is AT&T getting away with their pricing model? I just compared individual and family plans and T-Mobile simply blows AT&T away. Sadly only AT&T have the Nokia Lumia 920 :-(
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Ah, the 920. It's a great phone. Had mine since the first of the year and absolutely love it. As to at&t, I don't complain about their rates, but I wish we had a more reliable data signal at work -- I'm on the 1st floor (which is actually undergound) of my building and every day, late morning to early afternoon I lose the ability to stream music. The phone reports a good signal and I still get emails, but streaming goes pffft. I also want them to hurry up and bring LTE to my area.
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people keep saying that but I have had T-Mobile for 15 years or so(before it was even T-Mobile, it was Powertell when I got this number), a few years back I drove a truck OTR for a year up and down the East coast to Florida and west to around Wichita, And I only had issues in the mountains. Where I currently live, I have my T-Mobile android phone and my work issued ATT iPhone. I can go to the lake or anywhere else out in the bushes around here and have not once had my android drop a signal before the iPhone, in fact, I have had it the other way around a few times.
Treat stressful situations like a dog, if you can't eat it, play with it or screw it, then just piss on it and walk away. Be careful which toes you step on today, they might be connected to the foot that kicks your butt tomorrow.
It may also be because I've been traveling mostly to mountains. :) I have a Verizon phone and my wife, the T-Mobile. She does not even get a basic cellular signal when we're on road trips. It gets okay once we get to cities. It's also a blessing in disguise because her workplace has no clue as to what a vacation means and keep calling at odd hours even after being informed that she'll not be reachable. :-D
SG Aham Brahmasmi!
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I thought the new T-Mobile plan was 50 bucks contract free ( if you own a phone ). The sad thing is that T-Mobile is a laggard when it comes to network coverage.
SG Aham Brahmasmi!
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The sad thing is that T-Mobile is a laggard when it comes to network coverage.
Interesting. I have been using T-Mobile for a while in remote and urban areas without much issues.
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The same way VZW gets away with charging a lot more than Sprint. Their network has significantly more coverage.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
Well that is surprising to me. Been an ATT user for years and I always felt their coverage sucked outside city limits.
Regards, Nish
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Well that is surprising to me. Been an ATT user for years and I always felt their coverage sucked outside city limits.
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
outside of the city Tmobile will generally have whatever bit of network capacity ATT is willing to share. ATT's network is second (by a small amount) to Verizon's in terms of coverage area. You can see the difference between them and Tmobile/Sprint by moving to a rural area and zooming in. On Tmobile's map if you're zoomed out, even if you select 3/4g the dark green areas are tmobile 2/3/4g; light green is roaming (mostly ATT) voice. Once you zoom in farther in rural areas lots of the dark green areas will switch to yellow (tmobile 2g only). Their color code doesn't appear to have a color for roaming 3g so I assume they don't have it at all. Do the same with Sprint and select "3g and more" on the data map; this hides LTE/Wimax 4g differentiates between where they they have internal 3g (dark purple), roaming 3g (medium purple) and roaming 2g (light purple, mostly VZW). If you do the same with Verizon you'll see VZW 3/4g almost everywhere with only a few scattered patches of roaming coverage. Do it on ATT and you'll find large areas where they only have 2g coverage; a lot of this is roaming 2g but western Texas is a big area where ATT hasn't upgraded its network to 3g yet. Edit: PS I live in rural central PA (with low mountains to make it even harder to get good coverage) and pay the VZW tax because their network is much better than the competitions locally. With VZW having recently started to let Sprint MVNOs (discount carriers) have roaming access to its voice network (but not data) I'm half tempted to jump to save a bit of cash since I couldn't care less about data. OTOH I also enjoy being able to troll phone snobs by answering "what phone do you have" with "8 year old, was the free option at the time, flipphone" and optionally referring to it as a VZW deskphone to emphasize not caring about their fingerprint smeared leash.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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outside of the city Tmobile will generally have whatever bit of network capacity ATT is willing to share. ATT's network is second (by a small amount) to Verizon's in terms of coverage area. You can see the difference between them and Tmobile/Sprint by moving to a rural area and zooming in. On Tmobile's map if you're zoomed out, even if you select 3/4g the dark green areas are tmobile 2/3/4g; light green is roaming (mostly ATT) voice. Once you zoom in farther in rural areas lots of the dark green areas will switch to yellow (tmobile 2g only). Their color code doesn't appear to have a color for roaming 3g so I assume they don't have it at all. Do the same with Sprint and select "3g and more" on the data map; this hides LTE/Wimax 4g differentiates between where they they have internal 3g (dark purple), roaming 3g (medium purple) and roaming 2g (light purple, mostly VZW). If you do the same with Verizon you'll see VZW 3/4g almost everywhere with only a few scattered patches of roaming coverage. Do it on ATT and you'll find large areas where they only have 2g coverage; a lot of this is roaming 2g but western Texas is a big area where ATT hasn't upgraded its network to 3g yet. Edit: PS I live in rural central PA (with low mountains to make it even harder to get good coverage) and pay the VZW tax because their network is much better than the competitions locally. With VZW having recently started to let Sprint MVNOs (discount carriers) have roaming access to its voice network (but not data) I'm half tempted to jump to save a bit of cash since I couldn't care less about data. OTOH I also enjoy being able to troll phone snobs by answering "what phone do you have" with "8 year old, was the free option at the time, flipphone" and optionally referring to it as a VZW deskphone to emphasize not caring about their fingerprint smeared leash.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
Interesting, thanks. So it's either ATT or Sprint then.
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
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Interesting, thanks. So it's either ATT or Sprint then.
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
If you want a smart phone sprint only having 2g roaming outside the city is a problem; and while VZW is letting sprint on its network if you read a sprint contract you'll probably find terms that let them disconnect you for using too much roaming data. I've never bothered trying to find out if VZW nerfs the quality of roaming service they let sprint customers have beyond the base 2g suckage levels. Being highly cynical I wouldn't be surprised if they do.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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If you want a smart phone sprint only having 2g roaming outside the city is a problem; and while VZW is letting sprint on its network if you read a sprint contract you'll probably find terms that let them disconnect you for using too much roaming data. I've never bothered trying to find out if VZW nerfs the quality of roaming service they let sprint customers have beyond the base 2g suckage levels. Being highly cynical I wouldn't be surprised if they do.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
What annoys me most now is the text-message pricing. The whole thing's a scam!
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
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How is AT&T getting away with their pricing model? I just compared individual and family plans and T-Mobile simply blows AT&T away. Sadly only AT&T have the Nokia Lumia 920 :-(
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com