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I happen to have a newly bought T-Mobile prepaid SIM card. It offers limited "high speed data" (4G, 5G, etc) and unlimited "slow speed data" (2G, 3G). Once I ra
by dmos62 3y ago
I happen to have a newly bought T-Mobile prepaid SIM card. It offers limited "high speed data" (4G, 5G, etc) and unlimited "slow speed data" (2G, 3G). Once I ran out of "high speed data", my service was supposed to fallback to 2G, but it doesn't work. I asked why via customer support and the consultant said that they know that it doesn't work, even though they're selling it. Took me 60 minutes on the phone to get to that point. I just gave up. I ended up paying 30 dollars for around 3gb of data and wasting a bunch of time. T-Mobile has been horrible in my limited experience.
- fwmcbumcrumble 3y agoYou don't fall back to the actual 2g connection. You're supposed to fall back to 2g speeds aka 128kbps or 256kbps. You'll still be connected to LTE towers, just at painfully slow speeds.
- tass 3y agoCorrect, it just feels like it’s not working because almost nothing is designed to function at such slow speeds (HN is one of the good ones though!)
- lacrimacida 3y agoThere’s a hidden advantage: you use the phone a lot less when outside. It’s enough for email, chat and a slow map. Could feel both annoying and a blessing at the same time
- dmos62 3y agoThat would be great, but in my case I am getting no connection at all. Hacker News times out.
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- numpad0 3y agoIn case it actually meant unlimited data on actual 3G, the towers are not going to force downgrade to 3G just because the data plan had ran out. You’ll have to turn off LTE from phone’s settings app.