T-Mobile in the US
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- nylon
Im thinking about leaving Verizon for T-Mobile.
Any non-sacrcastic thoughts?
Im based in NY
Thanks
- yurimon0
Depends where you are. If your'e in a city like nyc. No problems but if you are traveling, tmobile coverage suffers in certain areas.
- shellie0
Verizon is stupid expensive compared to everything else. It's also the most reliable. After many years and huge phone bills, I'm looking to switch to a different carrier. I travel a lot, and sometimes tour the US by ground. I'm interested to hear any reviews from anyone else that's not on Verizon.
- nylon0
Just to give you my experience...
Im on Verizon with my GF as a family plan.
I called them up to see if they could lower the billet and they got us down to $140 + taxes which I don't think is that bad at all.
We have never NOWHERE NEAR reached our reached our data limit.So technically for $70 each - I don't think its bad...
I do lots of business in the UK and Belgium and T-Mobile lets you call landlines for free providing you pay $10 a month...
I also figured out that the reason for the expensive bills is that the phone is subsidised...
On T-Mobile - they are upfront about this and you pay $27 per month until you have 'purchased' the phone so to speak - I guess this works out to be paid up after 2 years by then the new phone is out and you want a new contract so to speak...
Just my 2 cents worth
- zaq0
I switched to Straighttalk and happy with that. $45/month using ATT network.
The only thing sucks there is customer service. It was a bitch to activate it. Other than that same as on ATT before except cheaper
- fourth0
If you are looking to save money I would look elsewhere- prepaid. I was very happy with Net10 and the phone I had used verizon's towers. Overall that phone costed me $15 a month on average.
When I left net10 (so I could get a newer iphone and data) I went with ATT as they have much better coverage than sprint/tmobile and are cheaper than verizon. LTE coverage was the most important to me and when I walked into sprint/tmobile locations close to my home/work (near LA) none of them were getting LTE or even half way decent coverage in their own stores. Sprint has some catching up to do and it's going to be a couple years.
- vaxorcist0
If you are willing to put up with some hassle, it can be worth it...
Tmobile $30/month 5 gigs + 100 minutes + talk-a-tone app:
(I use lots of data for upload/download, tether android tablet to phone,etc)http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2…
I use this... and talk-a-tone app works well with google voice if you are willing to set it up with google account,etc... but mainly for ciites with 3G/HSPA+/4G, etc...
...and maybe add a pay as you go verizon burner phone for where the tmobile doesn't work....
depends on how much hassle you are willing to put up with....
- nylon0
I use Skype and Skype to go for all my landline calls from NY to the UK and Belgium and honestly it just does not cut it.
I believe a new 5s would cost me around $110 per month BUT I'd be paying $27 per month to pay the phone purchase off if that makes sense...
- shesh0
I use T-Mobile here in NY, no problems or complaints so far...
- 20020
T mobile / ATT sucks
Verizon has the best service in NYC.
my wife has verizon and I have gone through T mobile and ATT.
- utopian0
Don't do it... I switch to T-Mobile last year, the worst phone connection ever. I switched back to ATT 10 days later!
- 20020
My ranking in NYC
Verizon
ATT
TMobile
Sprint
- yurimon0
What you guys thinks of these networks with data etc. images, video, internet?
- 20020
At least in NYC
Sprint has the best data (if you are in the service area)
Verizon is as good
ATT is slow and LTE is spotty. I keep getting throttled.
- ArmandoEstrada0
if you have a decent sized family, do a data share plan. I have 6 iPhones through ATT, 10 gigs data (which we use up about 6 a month) and we all split the cost. comes out to $55 each.
- ohhhhhsnap0
http://gizmodo.com/the-ftc-just-…
FTC: T-Mobile Took Hundreds of Millions of Bogus Charges on Phone Bills