What are some value adds to using T-Mobile over AT&T?
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The goal of reviewing choices on occasion is always to ensure that I am getting the best value for my money.
I was not expecting to save much money by switching to T-Mobile. I was surprised to come out a bit higher.
@scottalanmiller said:
Getting out of a contract or finance deal can make the equation skew a lot. Green field, TMobile is a pretty clear win, I think.
I am not trying to get out of any contract or finance deal. AT&T and T-Mobile are almost identical in how they offer financing for your device. You are not under contract, but you are making installment plan payments (a loan) for your device. Both companies let you simply buy the device outright if you choose. Both companies make you pay the remainder of the loan if you choose to cancel service. Nothing really complicated about it there.
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@coliver said:
@creayt said:
Having recently switched from ATT to T-Mobile all I can say is DONNNNNNNNNN'TTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's the worst thing ever. We all ( 4 of us on my family plan ) have iPhone 6 and 6 pluses and get no reception anywhere. Like anywhere. New York, Seattle, everywhere we've been it's an embarrassing, crippling struggle.
That said, if your only goal is to save money, and you're fine w/ maps, data, pretty much everything just not working a lot of the time, switch to T-Mobile. It does, techncially, let you successfully make phone calls sometimes. You can also text, though my gf and I will text each other in the same building and sometimes one of us won't get the other's for over an hour, even on our amazing fiber-powered wifi, it's just shocking and absolutely GD MF terrible.
I plan on switching back at some point, or to some other carrier. T-Mobile is just... the absolute worst. It's almost like not having a smartphone.
The end.
I think most companies have this texting issue. It can regularly (a few times everyone week) take 1-2 hours for my texts to get to my wife, we are on Verizon.
I think it is just part of the texting infrastructure.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@creayt said:
Having recently switched from ATT to T-Mobile all I can say is DONNNNNNNNNN'TTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's the worst thing ever. We all ( 4 of us on my family plan ) have iPhone 6 and 6 pluses and get no reception anywhere. Like anywhere. New York, Seattle, everywhere we've been it's an embarrassing, crippling struggle.
That's so weird. NY it had the best reception of anything I tried (AT&T was the worst.) Dallas, it was better than Verizon (didn't test AT&T.) Seattle it worked fine. I use it everywhere without issues. Even the places where @Minion-Queen goes that she has issues, it routinely works for me.
That is crazy. It'd take us 2-3 minutes to load a web page in the area around the Lincoln Center consistently ( was there for a conference in May ). At one point we just stopped using/relying on our phones at all or pursing wifi to plan out our adventures and then transcribing them some other way. It was an absolutely weird experience for 2015. Uber drivers couldn't find us and we ended up having to coordinate a specific intersection to meet them almost every time. I would presume it's my phone but it happens to my gf's and mom's too, hers is actually even worse than mine sometimes.
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@JaredBusch said:
The goal of reviewing choices on occasion is always to ensure that I am getting the best value for my money.
I was not expecting to save much money by switching to T-Mobile. I was surprised to come out a bit higher.
That's surprising. We save over $200 a month on T-Mo versus our AT&T plan. Is it worth it? I guess, but just barely, and mostly only because we don't use our phones much except while traveling.
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@creayt said:
@JaredBusch said:
The goal of reviewing choices on occasion is always to ensure that I am getting the best value for my money.
I was not expecting to save much money by switching to T-Mobile. I was surprised to come out a bit higher.
That's surprising. We save over $200 a month on T-Mo versus our AT&T plan. Is it worth it? I guess, but just barely, and mostly only because we don't use our phones much except while traveling.
The screenshot above are my actual numbers and what I assume to be the best rate I can do on T-Mobile.
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Are you maybe not on iPhones? We've had great luck on iPhones. With Android I've had those issues with every service.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Are you maybe not on iPhones? We've had great luck on iPhones. With Android I've had those issues with every service.
1 iPhone 6 Plus, 2 iPhone 6s, and 1 5S on my plan.
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Strange. I know that each of our phones acts very differently but our reliability on TMobile, especially around the city, has been excellent.
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@creayt said:
@JaredBusch said:
The goal of reviewing choices on occasion is always to ensure that I am getting the best value for my money.
I was not expecting to save much money by switching to T-Mobile. I was surprised to come out a bit higher.
That's surprising. We save over $200 a month on T-Mo versus our AT&T plan. Is it worth it? I guess, but just barely, and mostly only because we don't use our phones much except while traveling.
Wow - how many lines do you have on there? Save $200+ a month, Jared's bill isn't even $200/month.
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@Dashrender said:
Wow - how many lines do you have on there? Save $200+ a month, Jared's bill isn't even $200/month.
Never used Verizon, have you?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Wow - how many lines do you have on there? Save $200+ a month, Jared's bill isn't even $200/month.
Never used Verizon, have you?
Verizon has gotten cheaper recently but not by much. We have 6 phones and 3 mifi packs and it's about $400/month for 20 gigs data.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Strange. I know that each of our phones acts very differently but our reliability on TMobile, especially around the city, has been excellent.
Well I'm effing jealous
It's been a nightmare for me.
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@Dashrender said:
@creayt said:
@JaredBusch said:
The goal of reviewing choices on occasion is always to ensure that I am getting the best value for my money.
I was not expecting to save much money by switching to T-Mobile. I was surprised to come out a bit higher.
That's surprising. We save over $200 a month on T-Mo versus our AT&T plan. Is it worth it? I guess, but just barely, and mostly only because we don't use our phones much except while traveling.
Wow - how many lines do you have on there? Save $200+ a month, Jared's bill isn't even $200/month.
4 lines. I had an iPad on the ATT plan too but ditched that as part of the move.
Our new plan is only $125 for unlimited everything though. Pretty ridiculously cheap. If only the service wasn't abysmal.
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2 Phones (one on Edge plan) x Unlimited Talk & Text, 1 Tablet, 10G of data, and my Phone bill is about $195 a month.
I could probbaly shrink the data back a bit, since we haven't been using that much latley... Without the edge payment, my phone bill would be around $160.
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I wish I could shrink our data. And I do some months but when traveling I have to keep it up there. Cause we go through it fast.
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@dafyre said:
2 Phones (one on Edge plan) x Unlimited Talk & Text, 1 Tablet, 10G of data, and my Phone bill is about $195 a month.
I could probbaly shrink the data back a bit, since we haven't been using that much latley... Without the edge payment, my phone bill would be around $160.
What carrier is that?
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@creayt said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Strange. I know that each of our phones acts very differently but our reliability on TMobile, especially around the city, has been excellent.
Well I'm effing jealous
It's been a nightmare for me.
Sorry to hear that. We will see how my experience is now that my old phone is dead and a new one is on its way. Every new phone means a new roll of the dice as far as... well everything. So maybe I will get bad service this time.
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@scottalanmiller It's Verizon.
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@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller It's Verizon.
That would do it. Same kind of pricing that I was seeing when on Verizon. I was with them for forever. Got my account in 1992 and kept it until 2013. Twenty one years on the same account. When they introduced the "loyal customer $30 penalty" I turned around, walked out and went right to TMobile and have never felt any "leaving a long trusted vendor" was ever so good. I've been so thrilled with my phone situation ever since doing that.
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$30 Loyalty Customer fee? Is that a line item, or are you talking about the $30 activation charge when you upgrade your phone?
