Your iPhone and iPad Are Limited. T-Mobile is the Exception

Re:Your iPhone and iPad Are Limited. T-Mobile is the Exception by danielweber on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @06:26PM (#5829072)

I switched from AT&T to T-Mobile because AT&T just pissed me off with mandatory data plans.

T-Mobile's network is nowhere near as good for me as AT&T's was. I hope that it improves. The biggest problem is looking at my phone and seeing "0 bars."

Also, the data plan doesn't work with one of my phones. Ironically, the same phone AT&T forced me to have a data plan for. Maybe it would have never worked.

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Re:Your iPhone and iPad Are Limited. T-Mobile is the Exception by ScottWhigham on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @06:51PM (#5829187)

As someone on AT&T now but whose contract has expired, I read stuff like this with great interest. I tested my friend's iphone 5 last week here and he was getting 22mb d/l and 10mb u/l. I could swear at AT&T a whole lot but still enjoy those speeds.

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Re:Your iPhone and iPad Are Limited. T-Mobile is the Exception by fady on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @08:29PM (#5829617)

are you in SF? i live in cole valley and have terrible at&t service. its been terrible ever since i moved here, though, at&t has given me discounts, credits, even a microcell (requires highspeed internet). now i get full bars in my house, though,as soon as i step outside its back to one little bar.

i wonder if my microcell will work with tmobile? i'm out of contract and have been thinking about switching.

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Re:Your iPhone and iPad Are Limited. T-Mobile is the Exception by snsr on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @10:20PM (#5829990)

> i wonder if my microcell will work with tmobile?

It will not. Instead of a dedicated unit T-mo uses UMA to allow phones to make calls via any wifi connection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Access_Network

I believe it had previously been implemented in hardware (BB Curve etc.), these days it's implemented via software for Android handsets. Not yet supported on iphones.

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Re:Your iPhone and iPad Are Limited. T-Mobile is the Exception by whafro on Thursday June 06, 2013 @10:30AM (#5832625)

I'm in Cole Valley too, and being in the shadow of Sutro causes all sorts of RF issues, especially on the southern half of the neighborhood. AT&T and Verizon are worthless, T-Mobile is barely usable, and the TV signals coming from Sutro pass overhead, while the mountain itself blocks NBC coming from the south. Even Monkeybrains has had trouble with Cole Valley.

I love the neighborhood, but the wireless situation sucks.

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Re:Your iPhone and iPad Are Limited. T-Mobile is the Exception by ScottWhigham on Thursday June 06, 2013 @08:33AM (#5831958)

Sorry - I'm in Dallas.

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Re:Your iPhone and iPad Are Limited. T-Mobile is the Exception by untog on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @11:35PM (#5830234)

Also, the data plan doesn't work with one of my phones.

If its an AT&T phone, it's likely because AT&T uses different frequencies to T-Mobile. This is likely also the reason for your 0 bars- many AT&T phones will only ever get EDGE at best.

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Re:Your iPhone and iPad Are Limited. T-Mobile is the Exception by joelrunyon on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @06:28PM (#5829085)

I did the same thing.

No issues as far as service goes unless I go someone in the middle of nowhere Indiana.

TMobile isn't perfect, but they don't have me swearing at them every month like AT&T did. The fact that I can bounce anytime is a huge bonus in my opinion.

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