T-Mobile Coverage

[Community Alumni]

What has your experience been with T-Mobile as you travel around? How is the coverage along the highways, semi-rural and rural areas?

We travel extensively and have been very satisfied with Verizon coverage, however, our Verizon plan offers little in terms of data and increasing it is pricey for our overall needs.

T-Mobile offers some decent plans that will allow us to get considerably more data for the same amount of money we currently spend with Verizon.

I don't want to take the plunge and find out when we hit the road I made a big mistake.

Thanks in advance for sharing your experience.

[wanderingaimles]

One suggestion, dont change both lines if you have two. Having one on each system will help occasionally.

[theoldwizard1]

T-Mobile is merged with Sprint for several months now. I have had Sprint for many many years (remember the red "candy bar" Nikia phone ?) and have never had a coverage problem, but then again, I don't go "far off the beaten track".

Older T-Mobile phones won't work with Sprint towers and vice versa.

[Lwiddis]

I’m a T-Mobile customer and their service is okay. Was throttled only once by one of their contractors in Death Valley in 2018.

[agesilaus]

Another option is Visible $40/mo unlimited, no contract, uses Verizon network and is supposedly a spinoff of Verizon. No throttling tho excessive use of a single cell tower can result is a slowdown on that tower only. I haven't seen that but I only use about 40GB/mo. They have a party plan where you can knock you cost down to $25/mo. I had extensive dealings with their tech support last summer and they were adequate if you use the chat function. You have to use a phone they support or buy one from them. They will send a free SIM if you have a supported phone.

[Ranger_Smith]

Well if you are a member of FMCA you can get the TMobil/Sprint for $50 a month unlimited and no throttling. We used it all over the country and it worked good enough to stream tv.