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My brief experience with Sprint a couple years before the T-Mobile merger had basically unusable coverage. Was genuinely surprised how far it had fallen.
by ewoodrich 3y ago
My brief experience with Sprint a couple years before the T-Mobile merger had basically unusable coverage. Was genuinely surprised how far it had fallen.
- whaleofatw2022 3y agoThey stopped maintenance on some cell sites in anticipation of selling to 'anyone'. Source: used to deal with permits for them in a metro area.
- no_wizard 3y agoexcept Dish network, because they tried multiple times[0] Ultimately they got some assets in the merger though [0]: https://www.cnbc.com/id/100637184 https://www.cnbc.com/id/100637184
- yborg 3y agoAnd T-Mo inherited all that and is now the bottom feeder. It's just a matter of time before one of the other two merges with them to "increase customer value and create jobs".
- rnk 3y agoyields of course layoffs. Tmobile has been laying off people with the reason being overlap between the companies.
- scarface_74 3y agoT-Mobile acquired both Sprint and MetroPCS to increase their spectrum allocation. I literally travel all over the country and don’t have an issue with T-mobiles service Right now I am in small town south GA and getting 120/40 on cellular.
- kulahan 3y agoMeanwhile I live in a city of 300k people about a mile away from the capitol building and I can't get cell access when on the incorrect side of the BK down the road.
- S201 3y agoAnecdotal: I've been quite happy with T-Mobile's coverage for many years now. At least where I'm at they have just as good, if not better, coverage than Verizon does.
- Arrath 3y agoI was quite happy with T-Mobile's service for the last 5 years, in that I had no signal at all at my house and my work phone was, conveniently, T-Mobile! The universe enforced me being unreachable outside of work hours and I didn't mind that at all.
- wannacboatmovie 3y ago"Bottom feeder" is a funny way to describe the only carrier in the US with a realistically functioning 5G network.