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T-Mobile's coverage has gotten significantly better in the last couple years since they bought 700Mhz spectrum from Verizon. Before this, T-Mobile had no low-fr

by uep 10y ago

T-Mobile's coverage has gotten significantly better in the last couple years since they bought 700Mhz spectrum from Verizon. Before this, T-Mobile had no low-frequency spectrum. Low-frequency spectrum has much better range. According to wired: "T-Mobile customers saw an LTE signal 81 percent of the the time in the fourth quarter of last year, just a bit less than what AT&T delivered. Yes, both still lag behind Verizon (87 percent), but it’s a level of saturation that lets them claim nationwide reliability." http://www.wired.com/2016/02/t-mobiles-finally-good-enough-to-put-pressure-on-verizon/ http://www.wired.com/2016/02/t-mobiles-finally-good-enough-t... They're within striking distance these days.

technofiend 10y ago
>T-Mobile's coverage has gotten significantly better... Can't argue that in the main that's true, unfortunately due to construction where I am downtown my T-Mobile service has dropped off considerably and it's useless where I spend my weekends. They've also shifted customer policy recently and don't try as hard to retain customers - in my case refusing to refund a couple of months of excess billing that was their fault. Previous mistakes were corrected with apologies that bordered on the obsequious. Needless to say I won't be a TMO customer much longer. But I'll take a free share of stock on the way out.