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 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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