AT&T’s “5G E” is slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G, study finds

Re:AT&T’s “5G E” is slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G, stu... by ineedasername on Friday March 22, 2019 @11:47PM (#19468949)

I get 18mbit down, 4 up on the lowest end pre-paid tmobile plan. But I'm also in the suburbs of large metro areas where the networks are fairly well built out. However, this is one of the reasons I pay full price on my phone and stick to pre paid. Lot's more flexibility to up stakes and move to a different carrier if they start downgrading service.

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Re:AT&T’s “5G E” is slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G, stu... by kakarot on Saturday March 23, 2019 @12:00AM (#19468994)

I'm on prepaid but I'm paying for data consumption I just don't utilize given the abysmal speeds. I have to use a mobile VPN just to achieve decent peering.

Basically to get around this absurd policy I have to switch to another carrier and back over two months. However, I don't plan to switch back once I make the jump.

In the last year I've traveled to a couple states and a few dozen cities and I had garbage speed and latency in all of them. T-Mobile's solution was that I buy a new phone. But the phone achieved 100mbit when I first got my plan.

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