Just switched from T-mobile

[asanatheist]

New to verizon. Really liking the way their prepaid plans work. $45 for 1.5gb (autopay). $20 for 3gb of data making it 4.5gb total, and the 3gb of data doesn't expire until 90 days. If I really wanted I could do 7.5gb for approximately $85.

Problem I had with T-mobile was spotty reception on my iphone 6. Wouldn't be a problem because if I didn't get LTe Id' get 4g except t-mobiles 4g is very slow (can't really use it), and calls were not reliable on 4g (poor audio quality, and dropped calls).

Wish T-mobile was better at my house but gotta get a service that will work reliably every time.

 

[mdk32014]

Glad you like it. You should look at crickt. It is like 10 gb for $60.00.

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[sulla1965]

t-mobile is great in areas they cover. Unfortunately their overall call coverage is definitely less than Verizon's. Cricket is good since they use at&t which is almost as good as Verizon in call coverage. I've tried t-mobile several times over the years but always come running back to Verizon fairly quickly

 

[mdk32014]

Tmo is alot better than people ke it sound.

 

[asanatheist]

Tmo is alot better than people ke it sound.

Yeah quite frankly I was surprised by T-mobiles service. It was really good when I had my note 3. In fact all points to tmo having better service in the Dallas area than AT&T.
No real issues except home, work, and a few places around.
I believe the iphone 6 doesn't have as good of an antenna for band 4 or something compared to my previous phones. I've been having issues where I had none with my note 3. I've had apple replace the device, and troubleshoot. Also had T-mobile do the same. It is unclear what the problem is.

On Verizon so far in the past 5 hours I haven't had a single drop in service from LTE. I got Verizon mostly to test the iphone 6 to make sure it was just t-mobiles network vs the iphone 6. I also wanted to try the last carrier I haven't tried for mobile service. (I've tried the other three).
However if the service in the past few hours is indication of how things will be, chances are I will stay on Verizon for a while longer, albeit I am not sure if I can live with no data during a call...

 

[mdk32014]

Verizon is a bit betteer but there is only one place that was a dead. It was in the App mountains county Ashe. There were alot of places it did work how ever. I was shocked.

 

[Almeuit]

Yeah quite frankly I was surprised by T-mobiles service. It was really good when I had my note 3. In fact all points to tmo having better service in the Dallas area than AT&T.
No real issues except home, work, and a few places around.
I believe the iphone 6 doesn't have as good of an antenna for band 4 or something compared to my previous phones. I've been having issues where I had none with my note 3. I've had apple replace the device, and troubleshoot. Also had T-mobile do the same. It is unclear what the problem is.

On Verizon so far in the past 5 hours I haven't had a single drop in service from LTE. I got Verizon mostly to test the iphone 6 to make sure it was just t-mobiles network vs the iphone 6. I also wanted to try the last carrier I haven't tried for mobile service. (I've tried the other three).
However if the service in the past few hours is indication of how things will be, chances are I will stay on Verizon for a while longer, albeit I am not sure if I can live with no data during a call...

Yeah surprisingly the iPhone doesn't work super well on T-Mobile. I had an iPhone 6 plus with them and would drop to 4g randomly in buildings that I would get LTE the next time at.. At home I only got 4g as well.

Now on my S6 I get LTE literally all the time.. Even at my home I get LTE (about 16 Mbps down) whereas my iPhone never showed that. Something about the radios in the iPhone hate it lol.

 

[Almeuit]

Verizon is a bit betteer but there is only one place that was a dead. It was in the App mountains county Ashe. There were alot of places it did work how ever. I was shocked.

The mountains are tough for every provider. It's hard to get cell towers out there for the coverage.

 

[asanatheist]

Yeah surprisingly the iPhone doesn't work super well on T-Mobile. I had an iPhone 6 plus with them and would drop to 4g randomly in buildings that I would get LTE the next time at.. At home I only got 4g as well.

Now on my S6 I get LTE literally all the time.. Even at my home I get LTE (about 16 Mbps down) whereas my iPhone never showed that. Something about the radios in the iPhone hate it lol.

Interesting. Thank you so much for this information. I was seriously wondering what was going on but it appears the iPhone's radios may be to blame not t-mobiles service.
This is exactly why I went to Verizon to test. Seems you helped verify.
I am going to finish my month with verizon and see how it goes. I can always go back to T-mobile.
(The wonders of buying unlocked phones).

 

[mdk32014]

Alot of people say iphone has worse reseption than Android.

 

[asanatheist]

Apparently iphone 6's do indeed have worse reception than many other phones.
In any case I may be sticking with Verizon. They are the only ones who can get me extremely good signal at my work place (near DFW airport. I've had Sprint, AT&T and T-mobile all within a 5 month time period).

I could never get T-mobile to run a speed test because it's like 1-2 bars of 4g, and loses signal a lot. (note 3, LG G3, Note 4, S6 and iphone 6)
AT&T would lose signal or give me 1 bar of lte, usually about 2mbps at best. (Note 3)
Sprint gave me 0 service. (iPhone 6)