Choosing a new US mobile carrier
Aug 1, 2016, 8:39 pm
#16
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Wi-Fi Calling helps a fair bit with those issues, I've found. I own a prepaid Verizon hotspot which my iPhone 6S will work with for the few times I need to make a phone call in such an area. (Of course, I'd probably just use Verizon for my primary line if that was more often than once or twice a year or so.)
Aug 4, 2016, 7:36 am
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Wi-Fi Calling helps a fair bit with those issues, I've found. I own a prepaid Verizon hotspot which my iPhone 6S will work with for the few times I need to make a phone call in such an area. (Of course, I'd probably just use Verizon for my primary line if that was more often than once or twice a year or so.)
It was worth dealing with it when T-Mo was significantly cheaper than the competition (the famous $30/5g plan in 2012 was a truly phenomenal deal), but when I can pay $5/mo extra and get AT&T or Verizon via one of the MVNOs, it doesn't make sense anymore.
Aug 6, 2016, 11:20 am
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Aug 6, 2016, 11:48 am
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Aug 7, 2016, 7:58 am
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I have T-mobile. There are parts of WI where it is useless. The Dells, Adams Co., Boscobel, Minacqua, etc. I don't mind because those are places I go to 'get away'. But if you live around there, it won't work well at all.
Aug 7, 2016, 4:40 pm
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AT&T doesn't throttle their MVNOs (though Cricket is throttled to 8mbps down), nor does T-Mobile.
The networks' own customers do have higher priority, so MVNOs' users will see speed slide first when the network gets congested.
Aug 9, 2016, 7:39 am
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I use both iOS and Android. You have NOT tried android until you have tried Pure stock Android on a Nexus. I would also NEVER go back to a samsung with it's Bloatware and lack of updates.
That said, before switching to Project Fi I was very happy with T-Mo on my iPhone 6s+. The only reason I switched was I got spoiled by the Summer Unleashed (unthrottled unlimited data roaming in Europe) and Fi offers that everywhere indefinitely.
That said, before switching to Project Fi I was very happy with T-Mo on my iPhone 6s+. The only reason I switched was I got spoiled by the Summer Unleashed (unthrottled unlimited data roaming in Europe) and Fi offers that everywhere indefinitely.
Aug 9, 2016, 9:49 am
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I use both iOS and Android. You have NOT tried android until you have tried Pure stock Android on a Nexus. I would also NEVER go back to a samsung with it's Bloatware and lack of updates.
That said, before switching to Project Fi I was very happy with T-Mo on my iPhone 6s+. The only reason I switched was I got spoiled by the Summer Unleashed (unthrottled unlimited data roaming in Europe) and Fi offers that everywhere indefinitely.
That said, before switching to Project Fi I was very happy with T-Mo on my iPhone 6s+. The only reason I switched was I got spoiled by the Summer Unleashed (unthrottled unlimited data roaming in Europe) and Fi offers that everywhere indefinitely.