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  • I’m late to the conversation to have read them all but i must say…..that photo of her face from that angle is just creepy.

  • Wouldn’t be surprised if this was them saying they’ll carry the Apple Watch and let you pay for it it in installments (EIP) as long as you have a simple choice plan.

  • I’ve been on T-Mobile contract free for a year now. So far, these uncarrier changes have just made my choice better and better. (I’m lucky to live in a city that has great T-Mobile LTE coverage.)

  • 20+20MHz (MIMO) AWS LTE on T-Mobile, near LAX. And it’s no wonder I’ve used over 8GB in a week. Well, streaming House of Cards season 3 did that. Oops. Unlimited anyway. At my house, it’s about half: 40-50Mbps.

    On a Verizon XT1060 2013 Moto X to boot.

  • I’m interested in how business helps the general consumer. Most of their other announcements have been made to help draw in customers. They took away business discounts last year so how could they get business attention this year as well as attract non business customers.

  • My thoughts: That is one unflattering photo of her. Time for a new stock image.

  • I was already planning to leave verizon later in the next month or so after having to dispute 3 bills in a row. This event will more than likely make that switch even easier. I already have a Nexus 5 i can use on t-mobile, but very tempted by the M9 – maybe this event will make that choice even easier.

        • Tried cricket. Couldn’t do it. I know they get capped at 8 but that doesn’t mean you get 8 all the time. I was getting .86 down with three bars of LTE. I’m getting 38 down with gophone….. There is a big difference in quality.

          • 8mbps is the average either way. And that .86 was probably an issue with your APN settings. Had the same thing happen to me when I first switched.

            That’s what I’m getting with 2 bars in Orlando.

          • Had Cricket for a month and couldn’t last. Tried couple apns didn’t help. In the day time I was getting 2G speeds when I was on LTE. Had to switch to 3G in mobile settings. I understand everything is relative to coverage you get in the areas you live and commute in but if you live in a strong T-Mobile zone its no question T-Mobile is better…lol while Cricket struggled to get 8MBPS I get 70+MBPS.

          • Seeing as ATT allows 8 at the very fastest, no you don’t, everyone with cricket feels the need to try and convert everyone. You get what you pay for.

          • No. It is possible to get 8-10 depending on location. Happens all the time.

          • That’s the average most carriers get including Verizon. That’s typical LTE speeds which most users can fully enjoy without going over some ridiculous cap.

          • No it’s not…. Cricket, at its greatest, can do 8 down. Verizon and ATT at their best can do 80-90 down….. Cricket is about as good as sprints unlimited.

          • Yes… It is. People actually on Cricket are telling you. And no one on Verizon or ATT is getting 80-90 outside random moments. Otherwise it’s 8-10

          • Ummm a lot of people are getting that down… Especially XLTE areas… If cricket was oh so good then people would we jumping ship. It’s not as good as you’re trying to convince everyone it is… We get it, you like cricket. No need to be an advertisement. I don’t want just good enough. To try and compare verizon and Att to cricket is delusional.

          • People actually on Cricket are lying to themselves about not needing extra speed.

            Stop trying to convert everyone and just enjoy your service. I know my speed is regularly ~30. And it comes in handy.

          • I tried Cricket and it just didn’t make sense to pay for hspa and be capped at 8 down. It worked fine and had no issues at all, but little things I noticed that bothered were downloading apps and such that makes a huge difference when Verizon pulls down up to 80 here in Atlanta. I have unlimited data and Verizon cost and I choose to keep it because you get what you pay for as stated.

      • If Cricket actually works in your area like it’s supposed to. I’ve heard people have some issues where speeds are much worse than AT&T. Talking speeds in 1-2 Mbps range while regular AT&T and StraightTalk get 10+ Mbps

        • All MVNOs have to go through a proxy server which increases lag (higher pings). An LTE signal run through a proxy server and capped at 8MBPS is basically HSPA. AT&T INTENTIONALLY degrades Cricket speeds so it’s only HSPA quality………..you get what you pay for.

          • I like the way you think sir. Lol. Which is why I will never go through straight talk or cricket. I don’t care if they pay me to switch… I won’t do it. There’s no way in hell I’d ever switch to cricket to at&t Verizon sprint or straight talk. I have T-mobile and I love them. Not trying to sound like a fan girl here or whatever but I mean who can put a price on truly unlimited data? Which no other company offers without a contract.

          • This is inside my house with T-Mobile. You mean to say that cricket a prepaid service degraded by at&T gives you these speeds? And, I’ve had way better speeds then these. This is just inside my house. And, you mean to say that cricket gives you unlimited data? Truly unlimited data?

          • Do note that you’re most likely doing that speed test without a cell booster. I have to have a booster in my house. Cause, otherwise I get edge in the house. But, still not bad. I like tmobile it works for me. I’m happy. It’s unlimited data. You have 3 gb of data. I have unlimited. With no throttles. None.

          • I hear you. I wasn’t trying to outdo you lol I was simply showing the stark contrast between cricket and gophone. If Tmobile had an unlimited prepaid tablet data plan, I’d be all in seeing as my iPad is unlocked. Sadly, Att and Tmobile are about the same price with prepaid. Their 3gb of tablet data is 30 and 5gb is 50. It just makes me laugh when the same people come to every one of these threads and brag about their 20gb of cricket data and go ranting on how it’s the same thing as gophone. No, it’s not by a long shot. You truly get what you pay for. Gophone customers get the same quality network as post paid. I’d rather not be handicapped to a slow HSPA+ network with no real LTE.

          • Goodie for you. Not everyone is going to have the same luck with T-Mobile. For them, “Cricket prepaid service degraded by AT&T” is a hell of a lot better than T-Mobile if you happen to be stuck on Edge.

          • There’s nothing on your phone that can even remotely take advantage of those speeds. Enjoy paying more for less, including data caps.

          • Stop while your behind…. If I’m downloading an app that’s larger then usual… Would I rather have maybe 2-3mbps down or 45? Stop trying to convince yourself that your precious cricket is worth it. Cricket is cheap for a reason. I will gladly pay more for better service. It’s ok if you can’t afford the extra couple bucks 🙂 and your 20GB of data is pretty much as useful as sprints unlimited. Handing me keys to a lambo in a school zone lmao.

          • It is worth it. Now Pardon me while I stream Netflix over my LTE connection on the go without worrying about hitting my precious 3GB cap

          • Really? I have 150 down with FIOS. Then again if you have cricket for your carrier you probably can’t afford wifi.

  • T-Mobile needs to stop with this stuff at this point and focus on their NETWORK instead.

    Tried them THREE TIMES over two years and voice/SMS was acceptable but data wasn’t even in the realm of acceptable; just horrid. Work on fixing that T-Mobile.

    • I hate to finally be one of the guys… but they are, slowly but surely, they certainly are.

      Two months ago, I was bathed in an ocean of EDGE/GPRS, but now I have LTE all over where I live/work/play. LTE on prepaid, where it’s throttled to HSPA+ speed, is faster than Verizon’s LTE at my house, just sayin. If they hold true to their promise of the map they showed for the end of the year for coverage, this issue will finally be solved.

        • There are 2 cities I can think of that I once had 2G and now have LTE. My speeds appeared to have improved been getting 50+ MBPS. Highest speed test I had was 70mbps…

      • I have seen the same thing since the beginning of the year in various areas. They are really starting a great push at the beginning of 2015.

    • Horrid in the Midwest. Sprint is better in many areas – and that isn’t saying much!

      • I’m in the Midwest, Sprint sucks balls in my city and surrounding areas. T-Mobile has pretty good LTE coverage in the city only.

        People need to absolutely STOP expanding their very local experience to a larger area.

        • You ever look at a TMobile map in the Midwest? Do you know which states are considered Midwest? You realize White is No Coverage and Dark Purple is Service Partner Coverage?

          You are the one sharing your local experience all zoomed in on your city, I’m talking about the Midwest region as a whole. Zoom out idiot.

          • I’m in Wichita.

            Experience zoomed in is the ONLY personal experience that matters. Do you need service throughout the entirety of the Midwest? Is that how you live your day, in every nook and cranny of the Midwest?

            Your over-generalizing does no one any good. Do I need the whole Midwest covered? Do you? T-Mobile has sufficient coverage and speed in my area, for my tasks, and that’s all I’m qualified to talk about.

            Verizon may have been able to “cover” the whole country by placing the bare minimum of now over-loaded towers everywhere so people like you can sleep at night, but that means nothing about actual local service. Again, here in Wichita, it blows. People on dual-band LTE phones are doing great, but once everyone has one of those, it will blow. Verizon does jack-all out in the Midwest now that it’s “covered.”

            Name calling never got anyone anywhere, either.

            And of course I’m sharing local experience. No need to state the obvious. You’re the one over-generalizing to make some vague point that likely doesn’t even apply to you.

    • They are. T-Mobile just scored a HUGE band 12 LTE license for the majority of Southern California, excluding San Diego. They’re rolling out band 12 to a lot more areas too. It’ll be much like Verizon’s band 13 – only 10MHz wide, so it’s not really for speed, but for wide coverage. CA B4-B12 or 20+20MHz band 4, and that’s all they’ll need.

      Band 2 PCS (1900MHz) LTE is rolling out to extra rural areas, but the towers won’t have HSPA. So, you’ll either have EDGE or LTE with a capable phone.

      T-Mobile has bandwidth, I’ll give them that. Outside of a larger city, Verizon’s band 13 LTE would hit 5-10Mbps, which is equivalent to T-Mobile HSPA+. However, I was near the mountains, in the boondocks basically, and I was pulling over 45Mbps on T-Mo AWS LTE. I didn’t even expect to have LTE, honestly.

    • Hate to be that guy, but where do you live? Maybe you should move to a major metro area where services are abundant?

  • Every time I hear about a new Uncarrier announcement, I always wonder “What more could they do to improve other than cell service?”. Here’s hoping they don’t disappoint.

    The best news would be all 2G/EDGE spectrum fully converted to LTE but that may be another year or so before that happens.

    • T-Mobile’s “uncarrier” announcements are rarely focused on improving spectrum. Uncarrier is for new ideas, not for improvement. Whenever they improve their network it’s usually a task that they don’t make a big fuss about.

      • It should be the only thing they make a big fuss about because it currently stinks.

          • I said improvements, not new developments – I know carriers do that, every one went bonkers when 3G, 4G, and 4G LTE were new.

        • Well, I’m not sure what t-mobile can do. They don’t have the money to outbid Verizon and AT&T during spectrum auctions.

        • Maybe that’s why they are the “uncarrier” because their service level isn’t good enough to be officially called a carrier….

    • They make coverage announcements outside of the Uncarrier events, but they have the intention of making their entire 2G area covered by LTE. I have seen a lot of coverage enhancements in my area, and in areas outside of the “big cities” people assume they only have coverage in. They are using their 1900 Mhz PCS spectrum to reach out to rural areas and I have noticed a huge difference since just January 1st.

  • Are they going to announce that they finally have reception outside of big cities?

    And whatever happened to that hot T-Mobile chick?

  • There is an old coal mining town in west/central Pennsylvania I passed through recently with a population of about 2,700 people (67 miles from the nearest big city) that had LTE coverage from T-Mobile. They are working at it.

    • So driving by one small town with T-Mo signal = they are working on it?

      Okay.

      They certainly aren’t working on anything in the Midwest.

      • Just because the area you live in has not seen vast improvements does not mean they are not working on it. That was an example, but that entire section of Pennsylvania is popping up with lots and lots of LTE coverage. They seem to be putting in the effort, but hey naysayers will never be happy with anything.

  • The launch of a new business plan to get people to convert their old AT&T and Verizon lines to TMobile. Not a rate plan perse but some new devices for B2B

    • Yes! It’s like getting a preview of what ATT will be copying, er I mean offering soon.

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