Unusable signal in congested areas.

[PhiPsi32]

This has happened on 3 occasions. Once at EDC in Las Vegas, my texts would fail to send and i would generally fail to receive anything. Verizon customers nearby were unaffected. AT&T text were slightly delayed. I was inside T-Mobile's network. I understand the area I was in was heavily congested, so the towers could've been overwhelmed.

The good news is that now T-Mo rolls out mobile towers for EDC! Text away!!!!

 

[Guru]

Really? I wonder how EDC Vegas 2016 will be. It's not the service, it's just overwhelmed by the 120,000 people all trying to use their phones. I always time stamp messages during EDC due to delivery and sending delays. I also reboot often in there but mostly I make sure everyone has our schedule and also a meeting spot circled on a map where I am at between sets whenever possible

 

[Apexeon]

Following up on this, I continue to have problems at any place where there's more than, say... a 100 people around me.

However, I found that if I set my phone from "Automatic" to "2g", disable data, disable roaming data I can text and make phone calls as normal. I tested this in a heavily congested area and it worked then too.

I'm wondering if this isn't related to T-Mobile throttling certain users in congested areas based on usage. What I don't understand is why this affects my calls and text, which aren't made via data.

 

[Shilohcane]

The Moto X 1st gen doesn't support T-Mobile Band 12 so it will have many more signal problem areas that a phone that supports Band 12 on T-Mobile. San Francisco is a Band 12 area where T-Mobile took out some Band 2 and Band 4 units to add Band 12 cell units. Las Vegas is a non-Band 12 area but T-Mobile has just agreed to buy Band 12 spectrum in Las Vegas so after FCC approval it will have Band 12 a few months after.

Rootmetric just awarded T-Mobile tied with Verizon and AT&T for 1st place in Las Vegas even without Band 12. {{ $root.meta.title }}

 

[Killinmesmalls]

Yep, that's why I gave up on T-Mo after thirteen years. Too many dead zones.

Except , T-Mobile hasn't been around for over 13 years

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[PapaGary]

Except , T-Mobile hasn't been around for over 13 years

It was called Voicestream in the beginning (1994) and in 2002 (13 years ago) it was renamed T-Mobile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Mobile_US