Left Sprint back in November when I got my Nexus 4, decided to give the T-Mobile $30 plan with 5GB high speed data a shot and couldn't be happier. T-Mobile works well in Central, VA and MD. I was averaging just over 100 voice minutes with Sprint over the last 12 months before I left, so voice usage wasn't a big concern for me.
Are your trying directly to sign on to TMobile for their prepaid. I'm signed on to the TMobile network via Solavei. I read in some other thread though that the network coverage via Solavei is not as good in some areas com paired to direct TMobile. P
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That is true.
Solavei roaming agreement is not accurate. For example tmobile proper works with at&t roaming when I'm snowboarding but Solavei did not.
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Are you talking about T-Mobile prepaid or postpaid? Postpaid has different roaming agreements/footprint than prepaid. Postpaid has more roaming coverage.
Solavei allows 2g data roaming in places T-Mobile prepaid only has voice. My limited experience in Colorado has shown the roaming coverage map to be accurate.
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Prepaid.
Solavei didn't work at all the mountains but pre paid worked just fine using at&t network. The data didn't work at all.
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Are you talking about T-Mobile prepaid or postpaid? Postpaid has different roaming agreements/footprint than prepaid. Postpaid has more roaming coverage.
Only voice and SMS texts. No data roaming.Does TMO prepaid allow roaming? Not that I can tell.
They have what they call "domestic roaming." It's places they have agreements in place and they are marked on the coverage map as striped "service partner" areas. T-Mobile does voice roaming only in these areas - Solavei does 2g data roaming.Does TMO prepaid allow roaming? Not that I can tell.
I'm using Straight Talk with AT&T.
I'd love to do the T-Mobile $30 plan for 100 minutes / 5GB. It would be perfect for me.
Alas, I tried T-Mobile the first month I had my N4 and, while the speed was great, the coverage just didn't cut it for me. So that left me with AT&T. Straight Talk seems to offer the best AT&T bang (data) for the buck.
Last month I was on the T-Mobile unlimited everything for $70. I had great speeds outside and I used 8gb's of data with no speed issues. My problem was I wasn't getting building penetration at home or work. I ended up buying a ST AT&T sim from Walmart.com (just in time, out of stock). Had to cut it down to micro-sim size. Anyway, getting great speeds indoors. I'm not to worried about the data throttling since I now have Wi-Fi at home. I'll use all my data at work to download apps and ROM's
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Giving iWireless (regional T-Mo affiliate) a try for the first month. Coverage at home and work isn't as great as I had hoped, so planning to switch to ST AT&T next month.