TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR
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@MattSpeller said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
@scottalanmiller said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
@MattSpeller said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
@scottalanmiller said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
@MattSpeller said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
@Minion-Queen said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
@scottalanmiller said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
One thing that is a big deal with T-Mobile, they have local stores everywhere. I mean all over the world. You get off the train in Bucharest, T-Mobile is at the end of the platform before you even get coffee. For traveling that's a big deal. With Google, if your phone dies while abroad, what do you do?
For 90% of the people the fact that it works outside of the US doesn't matter. This is why I have a Tmobile phone because I do travel to Canada often enough to make it worth it and of course my one trip to the UK a couple years ago.
They must have a roaming agreement with someone, I can't recall seeing them anywhere!
I think that they are local. In most countries they are known as T or any number of other brands. Looks for someone with pink as their corporate colour.
Virgin?
Rogers Bell and Telus are the only ones that own towers in Canada (with exceptions)
Canada might be the one country without a local T brand. Canada is the wasteland of business, if there is one country that international companies want to avoid, it's Canada.
I think it's more like
"Why would we setup an office in that frozen wasteland when we can just use the American office and make the northerners pay more"
Actually, now that we are talking about it, I'm pretty sure that I talked to people in Canada about how brilliant T-Mobile was and it turns out that you can't even get service there. Canadians have to have a US friend with a US address get the phone in the US and ship it to them in Canada. So it isn't that they charge more, but that they just avoid it. Then AT&T (Rogers) charges more as there isn't any competition.
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@dafyre said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
@Minion-Queen said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
I so wish I could be a T-mobile customer. We just do not have good enough coverage. I would be off line so much if I moved to them. I spend way too much time in rural areas that they just don't' cover.
I am constantly checking other providers. 200 a month is killing me for phones.
Just have to be able to live on the Sprint or T-Mobile network. Paying full price for the phone is the only real painful thing, but it's also part of how my bill is so tiny.
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@travisdh1 said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
@dafyre said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
@Minion-Queen said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
I so wish I could be a T-mobile customer. We just do not have good enough coverage. I would be off line so much if I moved to them. I spend way too much time in rural areas that they just don't' cover.
I am constantly checking other providers. 200 a month is killing me for phones.
Just have to be able to live on the Sprint or T-Mobile network. Paying full price for the phone is the only real painful thing, but it's also part of how my bill is so tiny.
Yeah. Neither of those networks gets great coverage in this area.
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Wow with that I would be paying more than I do through Verzion but we have about 15K in text messages, 30 gigs of Data some months and about 6000 minutes calls a month.
Keep in mind that we use this as our backup internet connection when it goes out (which is more often than it should). And I use follow me or Zoiper for our phone system to my phone etc. so we do a TON of data. Also I use one of the phones for GroveSocial so there is lots of minutes used there. Text messages I have deaf siblings and this is how the whole family communicates with each other.
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@Minion-Queen said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
Wow with that I would be paying more than I do through Verzion but we have about 15K in text messages, 30 gigs of Data some months and about 6000 minutes calls a month.
Keep in mind that we use this as our backup internet connection when it goes out (which is more often than it should). And I use follow me or Zoiper for our phone system to my phone etc. so we do a TON of data. Also I use one of the phones for GroveSocial so there is lots of minutes used there. Text messages I have deaf siblings and this is how the whole family communicates with each other.
Yeah, got to watch that. I remember you mentioning how crazy your usage is. Figured that usage chart needed to be included for some odd reason.
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@Minion-Queen said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
Wow with that I would be paying more than I do through Verzion but we have about 15K in text messages, 30 gigs of Data some months and about 6000 minutes calls a month.
Keep in mind that we use this as our backup internet connection when it goes out (which is more often than it should). And I use follow me or Zoiper for our phone system to my phone etc. so we do a TON of data. Also I use one of the phones for GroveSocial so there is lots of minutes used there. Text messages I have deaf siblings and this is how the whole family communicates with each other.
You're paying less than $70 a month (for one phone, $40 for 4) for unlimited on Verizon?
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No with that plan above I would be paying FAR more than I do through Verzion. Sorry didn't mean to confuse
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@Minion-Queen said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
No with that plan above I would be paying FAR more than I do through Verzion. Sorry didn't mean to confuse
Ooh ok. I was going to say, that's pretty amazing with Verizon.
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Saw an ad last night for T-Mobile, $40/month taxes and fees included. This changes things HUGE! This could easily knock more than 15% off my bill.
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Math is hard.
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@dafyre said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
Hmm... 222-110 = 112?
awww.. so it is - but who cares about that number? that's a misleading number that no one gives a shit about. And while it's completely accurate, it just shows how advertisers are trying to mislead people, and for what? $62 savings isn't enough for people to switch?
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@Dashrender said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
@dafyre said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
Hmm... 222-110 = 112?
awww.. so it is - but who cares about that number? that's a misleading number that no one gives a shit about. And while it's completely accurate, it just shows how advertisers are trying to mislead people, and for what? $62 savings isn't enough for people to switch?
For me it would be, if they had good service in the areas where I spend most of my time.
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@dafyre said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
@Dashrender said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
@dafyre said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
Hmm... 222-110 = 112?
awww.. so it is - but who cares about that number? that's a misleading number that no one gives a shit about. And while it's completely accurate, it just shows how advertisers are trying to mislead people, and for what? $62 savings isn't enough for people to switch?
For me it would be, if they had good service in the areas where I spend most of my time.
For most American's it would be, it's more than a day's take home pay.
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I do think their use of the WTF is pretty awesome though.
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@Dashrender said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
@dafyre said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
Hmm... 222-110 = 112?
awww.. so it is - but who cares about that number? that's a misleading number that no one gives a shit about. And while it's completely accurate, it just shows how advertisers are trying to mislead people, and for what? $62 savings isn't enough for people to switch?
holy crap.. I channeled Scott for this post.. I need to be careful
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@Dashrender said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
I do think their use of the WTF is pretty awesome though.
Well That's Fantastic!
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@dafyre said in TMobile CEO on Trash Talking in the HBR:
For me it would be, if they had good service in the areas where I spend most of my time.
It's almost worth the risk of paying for one month, get a SIM card and try out a temporary number for 2 weeks or so and see how the service is. Of course that would royally screw up my Telegram account
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In slightly related news from about a year ago:
Apparently TMobile may be violating Net Neutrality laws. For price? I'd switch. Though, for me personally, learning about this makes me wonder if I'd support TMobile. Though, still not sure how much into the whole Boycotting thing I am. So, for now, just information for you guys.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/friends-please-tell-t-mobiles-ceo-about-eff
