T-Mobile will start charging a $35 fee on all new activations and upgrades

Re:T-Mobile will start charging a $35 fee on all new activat... by vel0city on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @01:20PM (#33439494)

Another person here chiming in with my experiences, I see it a good bit but it is not as bad as one might think most of the time.

If I do a speed test in the city square near me late at night, I'll easily pull >100Mbit on my phone. Utilization at like 3:00 AM is next to nothing. All the bars closed over an hour ago, there's nobody out and about but me coming home from a late night datacenter run.

I go to the same public square at 3:00 PM and I'll likely get 10-20Mbit. More than enough for most things I need, but definitely nowhere near what I was pulling at 3:00 AM. Friends with T-Mobile postpaid plans with me will probably still be able to pull ~100Mbit.

At big crowd events especially in places where there aren't usually as big of crowds (balloon festival, airshow, etc.) connections can be anywhere from okay to next to worthless. Maybe I'll get a megabit, but chances are even Signal might have to retry every now and then to send a text message.

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Re:T-Mobile will start charging a $35 fee on all new activat... by nimajneb on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @02:11PM (#33440408)

Does everyones speed decrease like that or only MVNO?

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Re:T-Mobile will start charging a $35 fee on all new activat... by vel0city on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @03:25PM (#33441566)

I've definitely experienced big crowd events where friends with me on T-Mobile on similar generation phones had plenty of network performance available to even stream video while my phone on Mint could barely load a webpage.

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