We No Longer Need a Big Carrier's Wireless Plan. Discount Ones Are the Way

Re:We No Longer Need a Big Carrier's Wireless Plan. Discount... by notesinthefield on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @08:22PM (#38284788)

I am using Mint Mobile’s unlimited plan and paying peanuts compared to my partner’s Verizon plan. But their signal is often completely fine where mine even an hour or two outside of a major metro is bad to unusable. Doubly so in large buildings.

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Re:We No Longer Need a Big Carrier's Wireless Plan. Discount... by lldb on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @08:30PM (#38284856)

That’s just Tmobile - we have plans both directly and with Mint and the coverage is identical. There are some other first party MVNO’s like Visible which run on Verizon you might be interested in.

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Re:We No Longer Need a Big Carrier's Wireless Plan. Discount... by lostmsu on Thursday November 16, 2023 @01:34AM (#38286374)

To add more, this depends on area a lot. Basically MVNO or not some areas would be better with T-Mobile and some with Verizon.

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Re:We No Longer Need a Big Carrier's Wireless Plan. Discount... by ahaseeb on Thursday November 16, 2023 @09:44AM (#38290108)

Yes purely depends on your coverage areas as in few areas T Mob would be better and in other verizon or ATT. Best is to get a sense of the area you mostly spend time in. For home/office. Wi-Fi calling does the job

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Re:We No Longer Need a Big Carrier's Wireless Plan. Discount... by mullingitover on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @09:03PM (#38285082)

I've been on Straight Talk, which was great because they spanned carriers and you could pick whichever carrier worked best in your area. I used T-Mobile with them and coverage + speeds were all around great, in and out of the city.

Then Verizon bought them and forced everyone on their network. My in-city speeds went down significantly (as in, over 75Mbps slower) in the city, and the coverage in rural areas was not any better than my spouse who's on AT&T.

Verizon missed the boat on 5G, they are no longer the one stop shop for coverage that they were.

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Re:We No Longer Need a Big Carrier's Wireless Plan. Discount... by ahaseeb on Thursday November 16, 2023 @09:43AM (#38290095)

Frankly even 10MB is much more than an average person need.5G on phone is almost unnoticeable . Best strategy would've been to provide more coverage than faster coverage.

Verizon certainly have but have an excellent network and brand name. At the moment, T Mobile have the most amount of spectrum bandwidth available

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Re:We No Longer Need a Big Carrier's Wireless Plan. Discount... by solardev on Thursday November 16, 2023 @09:46AM (#38290137)

10MB? That's like half a Javascript framework

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Re:We No Longer Need a Big Carrier's Wireless Plan. Discount... by ahaseeb on Thursday November 16, 2023 @09:42AM (#38290075)

Turn on Wi-Fi calling & that'll help with the coverage part. They operate on T-Mobile which generally has sub par coverage. I expect it to improve in a year or so

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Re:We No Longer Need a Big Carrier's Wireless Plan. Discount... by alphabettsy on Thursday November 16, 2023 @02:50PM (#38294503)

That only works when you have useable WiFi and that’s far from guaranteed even in a major city.

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