[SML] (Sort of semi-OT) The Un-Carrier

[Rob Graham]

I switched about a 14 months ago.  In metropolitan areas, even
relatively small ones, coverage has been ok.  As Bill said, rural
coverage is spotty at best.  However, since T-Mobile has a "wifi
calling" capability, I've been able to deal with it as long as I've
had access to decent wifi; the phone will even automatically switch
for stable connection.

I'm not wild about the cost, but they're all pirates.  I have a data
limit, but the nice thing is I just get throttled back; not penalized
as though I'm fed by Fort Knox financially.

I've thought of switching because of coverage issues from time to
time, but every time I do, I hear new complaints about VZW, and
remember why I left.  I'm never totally 'out of service,' but
frequently in the 'extended network,' where internet access is very
slow, or nonexistent; I generally still have phone service.

YMMV,

Rob G.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Bill Conner via Stagecraft
<stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
> My associate just did just that - Verizon to T-Mobile. I think that he
> is pleased except that coverage is undeniably less complete and good
> in rural areas, which is an irritant and when we are on job sites in
> the middle of cornfields in Iowa or Illinois or other similar locales
> - it annoys him.  My son did same - changed from (my) T-Mobile plan to
> his employer's Verizon plan - in a rural area of Pennsylvania - 3 or 4
> years ago.  T-Mobile was hopeless there. Verizon still covers better.
> (He still has to have a repeater box that takes internet and provides
> cell service around his home.) I'm a long time - like 2002 - T-Mobile
> customer and fine with it - and accept I won't have service in some
> areas.  (Though oddly it does well in the Boundary Waters - thanks to
> a new AT&T tower - and I will leave it in the car after that one
> experience of having service.  I'd rather it was stolen than my
> wilderness trip be interrupted by business.)
>
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