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Re:T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iClou... by tristor on Monday January 10, 2022 @04:59PM (#29883325)
This is the only reason I switched to T-Mobile originally and the only reason I still have them. Their coverage is so poor that I get no LTE service sitting in my house in a core part of the major metro area. I'm only able to maintain them because they were an early and ardent adopter of WiFi Calling. On a recent trip in the US I had no service off major interstate highways. Internationally though, T-Mobile is amazing. I honestly wish my experience in the US was as good as my experience while traveling... there's not much point in having uncapped LTE when you get 1 or 0 bars of service, at least internationally I get great service even if it is speed capped at 256kbps.
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Re:T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iClou... by coffeecat on Monday January 10, 2022 @10:21PM (#29887036)
Does your phone support band 71 (600 MHz)? This band is only a few years old, and T-Mobile has been deploying it as their primary long-range, building-penetrable band. It's unsupported on phones made before approximately 2018.

Band 12 fulfills the same role in some areas, and is supported on most phones, but T-Mobile doesn't have a nationwide license for it.

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Re:T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iClou... by diebeforei485 on Monday January 10, 2022 @09:13PM (#29886371)
FWIW, I found the coverage to get a lot better when I got a 5G phone.
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