T mobile

smkettner wrote:

wa8yxm wrote:
But park Wi-Fi is great.

I believe T-Mobile was first to allow wifi calling.
This is what sold us a few years ago as ALL 4G is poor at my home.
Now I have a 4G antenna in my home connected to my cable internet. Perfect reception for talk and data, no charge for the equipment.

Yeah, they were 1st as defense for their mediocre coverage at the time (good idea) and ATT now does it too. It's a wonderful thing. Now if I could talk TW into public POPS anywhere ATT is not :)

wa8yxm wrote:
But park Wi-Fi is great.

I believe T-Mobile was first to allow wifi calling.
This is what sold us a few years ago as ALL 4G is poor at my home.
Now I have a 4G antenna in my home connected to my cable internet. Perfect reception for talk and data, no charge for the equipment.

This is what I'm getting from T-Mobile unlimited (unmetered) hotspot account referenced from this post here. It's month to month account.

One caveat, stay away from the Huawei B890 4G LTE hub as it has a SIM card issue. T-Mobile's full size SIM doesn't seat properly to register. You need to push the card all the way down, fighting with the internal spring, to make contact. Ended up temporarily jury rigging wire ties and a pvc end cap to keep the card full depressed. :S May just try to trim the SIM card when I get time.

I can attest that 4Glte coverage is much improved over last year.. However still no coverage where I'm parked, 100 yards away, SOLID, but where I'm parked, Nothing, dead, 1 bar if I'm lucky usually zero.. But park Wi-Fi is great.

smkettner wrote:
I am a satisfied T-Mobile subscriber. Yes coverage is an issue at times when on the road.

concur

Verizon has a new deal going as well since July 2016...

I guess us grandfathered guys will get another fine increase in cost for not switching over.. I am being 'fined' a total of $100 a month now for having two cell phones using grandfathered unlimited data and email on my plan...

My 3G MIFI grandfathered Account is still at $35 for 3GB of data per month...

Will be making some changes soon I guess since my RV camping is becoming on the decline due to my old age I guess... Also staying closer to home with my RV OFF-ROAD camping...

I could probably get away with one of those WALMART deals pay as you go things on the Verizon Network and go back to the standard GIBBS flip lid cell phones. I will miss my Internet BROADCASTIFY Radio Scanner Operations big time however from my cell phone... Would still have that at home from my regular Internet provider being METROCAST. Can't afford the high dollar digital radio scanners - cheapest one is around $500... All of my older scanners don't work anymore since the whole Radio World community changed over to digital radio everywhere... Ham radio is probably next to change over...

We are in a small depression behind some high hills where we live and only VERIZON works here at the house. The kids have to pull a GREEN ACRES here and climb a telephone pole to use their cell phones on the other networks...

My VERIZON cell phone bill is now $290 a month for two phones with unlimited data and text and one GIBBS flip-lid phone with 800 minutes long distance. I also have my 3G Mifi Account for 3GB per month included... Kinda getting out of hand now... It was a $190 a month a couple of years ago until VERIZON started their 'fine' for not upgrading haha...

I never considered changing because the other networks would not usually work where I go. Now Verizon is just now changing their plans around like the other networks are doing.

Might be time to make some changes here... I still have my older GIBBS Motorola flip-phones here in a drawer somewhere so get a couple of new batteries and start over again hehe...

After three or four months maybe I couple buy one of those high dollar Radio scanners hehe...

Roy Ken

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Moisheh

I am a satisfied T-Mobile subscriber. Yes coverage is an issue at times when on the road.

I agree, T-Mobile's coverage has improved pretty impressively over the past year or so. For the best 4G/LTE coverage though, you do need a device that uses the 700Mhz Band 12 frequencies. That's what T-M has mostly been building out rapidly. At our Adirondack cottage, we couldn't even get a sniff of a T-M signal a year ago, but now we're getting a usable T-M 4G/LTE Band 12 signal there even without our powerful MaxAmp booster turned on. Verizon is still the coverage king of course, but I think T-M is getting close to giving AT&T a run for it, and has already passed them in some categories.

SCVJeff wrote:
Problem is that their primary coverage is and always has been focused in major metro areas. Even in LA if you walk into a T-Mobile office their primary concern is where you live and shop.

The good news down here is at least now they have additional spectrum to build infrastructure in but it's currently clogged up by existing TV stations and one in proximity of the other ain't good depending on the channel the phone has chosen. I'm in possession of a modified T-Mobile phone built for engineering analysis of this problem and what it might take to get them to live together. Both LA and SFO have these additional channels and I've been able to get them both to work with minor antenna tweaks :) I just wish their coverage map really was a good as they advertise in the burbs.

It's definitely gotten better though. My in-laws live in rural Pennsylvania, and two years ago I barely got a 2G signal. Now I get 4G LTE. I can definitely see that they are investing in expanding coverage. They have to start somewhere, and expanding coverage takes capitol. They gained subscribers and are now making investments. I live and work in the DC area, so coverage is fantastic for my daily needs, but traveling on interstates it has gotten better there too. I recently took a 4,100 mile trip using Waze and mostly had good data the entire trip.