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Visited my parents in another state a couple weeks ago. There's a Tmobile tower like a 5 minute walk from where their house is. Wish I had taken a screenshot, but I did a speedtest and it was a consistent 65 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up. I've never seen such high speeds where I live. I was getting three 3 times the speed tethering my wifi tablet to my phone than I did using my parent's Mediacom wifi connection. I haven't gotten anywhere near close to that speed in any part of the city because some reason the 3 T-mobile towers are placed in the outskirts of where most of the population is.
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WeaselWeaz posted:Is WiFi calling legit? Seems like it would fix that. My MIL's condo has no cell coverage due to the building so that seems like a solution for her (and us when visiting). Yes. Wifi calling works great on my iPhone 6.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Basically right now I'm torn between a G2 and an Idol 3, but it looks like the Idol 3 doesn't have a scratch-resistant screen, and I had bad experiences with that with an S4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=user?AGCAsahiGlass?videos
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Oh. Okay. I guess that's what I get for just looking at phone specs on one of those comparison sites instead of the company's site. That's looking pretty good now, although I really wish the 4.7 wasn't lovely in comparison. I'll probably get used to a huge phone, eventually.
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Jun 5, 2015 20:50
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So I know the $30 nerd plan doesn't include free streaming or whatever but does it use minutes if I use Wifi calling? E. I've been told wifi calling goes against my 100 minutes but I wanted to be sure.
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Jun 9, 2015 04:41
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Skeezy posted:So I know the $30 nerd plan doesn't include free streaming or whatever but does it use minutes if I use Wifi calling? Wifi calling counts against the 100. Hangouts dialer and Vonage do not.
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Jun 9, 2015 05:39
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Skeezy posted:So I know the $30 nerd plan doesn't include free streaming or whatever but does it use minutes if I use Wifi calling? I get free music streaming on my $30 plan. Specifically with Google Play Music.
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"d[-.- posted:b" post="446331922"] Confirmed, I pulled down ~7-8GB last month but TMo only called it about 4GB due to Google Play Music.
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 You mean I didn't need to severely curb my usage last month when I hit 4 GB used about two weeks in???
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Uthor posted:
Correct. Dial #932# to check your actual usage.
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LG G4 question, I use Verizon now but I'm thinking about buying the T-Mobile version for the 128gb card and to have the option of switching. Has anybody tried popping in a VZW SIM to test 4G and possibly 3G?
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ijii posted:Visited my parents in another state a couple weeks ago. There's a Tmobile tower like a 5 minute walk from where their house is. Wish I had taken a screenshot, but I did a speedtest and it was a consistent 65 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up. I've never seen such high speeds where I live. I was getting three 3 times the speed tethering my wifi tablet to my phone than I did using my parent's Mediacom wifi connection. When I first started on T-Mobile last fall the first place I speed tested was my mom's house in the suburbs of Portland. I got 86mbps (I just checked, still in history). I have never, ever, ever, seen anything close to that again. I thought T-Mobile was Jesus Christ for approximately 2 hours. Not that my normal 15-20mbps is lovely, but goddamn, 86.
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Holy poo poo, is TMobile awful in Iowa. I was roaming on Iowa Wireless along I-80 pretty much the entire way from the Mississippi to Des Moines (and 0 reception inside of Iowa 80, the World's Largest Truck Stop). I had decent reception downtown Des Moines, but spotty in the suburbs north of the city. On the plus side, my Moto X had excellent battery life because I wasn't using it for anything! My friend's Virgin Mobile phone worked as expected the entire time except for little reception in the house we were staying at.
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Is it normal for T-Mobile reps to slip in JUMP into your plan after buying a new phone? I requested no phone insurance on my phone. A week later I get a text welcoming me to JUMP. I searched google and apparently this is common. Is this legal for them to change your contract without your permission? I have the printed plan receipt with no JUMP on it when I left the store last week. Edit: just got off the phone with a T-Mobile rep. It was added in store. And it was added today, not last week, the last time I was at the store. Rabid Snake fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Jun 15, 2015 |
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Just out of curiosity, was June 15th your billing date and that's why you noticed JUMP? In Quickview, it doesn't show when the feature was added, just when it went into effect. It was most likely added at the store.
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FordPRefectLL posted:Just out of curiosity, was June 15th your billing date and that's why you noticed JUMP? In Quickview, it doesn't show when the feature was added, just when it went into effect. It was most likely added at the store. No, my bill date isn't until the end of this month. It was definitely added after I left the store. I was checking my billing online every couple days to monitor usage data (I wanted to see if adding unlimited data on one of the phones was worth it since they only used 1-2 gigs a month when they were on a 3 gb limit). It definitely wasn't added on until the 15th when I saw my bill was $10 more. I asked a couple of former T-Mobile reps online and I guess happens a lot since they have to meet impossible JUMP quotas. It's kind of disappointing that this happens. I wish it was just my own retail T-Mobile store that did this but google tells me otherwise. I'd avoid retail T-Mobile stores from now on so this doesn't happen. If you ever want to get a phone, I'd recommend ordering through the T-Mobile website. Rabid Snake fucked around with this message at 08:16 on Jun 17, 2015 |
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I really hope this doesn't happen: Comcast is reportedly interested in acquiring T-Mobile US
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The Merkinman posted:I really hope this doesn't happen: Comcast is reportedly interested in acquiring T-Mobile US Jesus loving Christ NO I just got here 
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Rabid Snake posted:No, my bill date isn't until the end of this month. It was definitely added after I left the store. I was checking my billing online every couple days to monitor usage data (I wanted to see if adding unlimited data on one of the phones was worth it since they only used 1-2 gigs a month when they were on a 3 gb limit). It definitely wasn't added on until the 15th when I saw my bill was $10 more. I asked a couple of former T-Mobile reps online and I guess happens a lot since they have to meet impossible JUMP quotas. It's kind of disappointing that this happens. I wish it was just my own retail T-Mobile store that did this but google tells me otherwise. I'd avoid retail T-Mobile stores from now on so this doesn't happen. If you ever want to get a phone, I'd recommend ordering through the T-Mobile website. My parents had this happen with the family line that we're all on a couple years ago. Somehow a $40 unlimited data tethering plan got added to my wife's line when they called to inquire about unlocking their phones for travel in Europe. This was extra funny since my wife's phone was a four year old flip phone that essentially couldn't use data really at all, much less tether. It was a huge pain to get everything fixed and the money refunded, especially considering they could see the phone on the line and also see that she'd only used a few kilobytes of data in the last two months. Multiple phone calls, escalating to managers, etc. I'm still not sure if it was just a typo somewhere or if someone was just trying to make quota. It's the loan bad experience I've had in like 13 years with T-Mobile, so I guess its forgivable. The Merkinman posted:I really hope this doesn't happen: Comcast is reportedly interested in acquiring T-Mobile US Ah, the life of being a T-mobile customer. Constantly worrying that your provider will be bought by some horrible company or another.
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The Merkinman posted:I really hope this doesn't happen: Comcast is reportedly interested in acquiring T-Mobile US This would be horrible and they would find a way to end my really awesome two lines unlimited $100 plan, Guarn-loving-teed.
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spiralbrain posted:This would be horrible and they would find a way to end my really awesome two lines unlimited $100 plan, Guarn-loving-teed. Oh yeah, all the "un-carrier" stuff would fly out the window, because Comcast is the shining example of how to treat your customers!
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spiralbrain posted:This would be horrible and they would find a way to end my really awesome two lines unlimited $100 plan, Guarn-loving-teed. I will WEEP if I lose this plan
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Luceo posted:Oh yeah, all the "un-carrier" stuff would fly out the window, because Comcast is the shining example of how to treat your customers! http://youtu.be/CHgUN_95UAw We don't care. We don't have to!
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Uthor posted:Holy poo poo, is TMobile awful in Iowa. I was roaming on Iowa Wireless along I-80 pretty much the entire way from the Mississippi to Des Moines (and 0 reception inside of Iowa 80, the World's Largest Truck Stop). I had decent reception downtown Des Moines, but spotty in the suburbs north of the city. On the plus side, my Moto X had excellent battery life because I wasn't using it for anything! Yeah Iowa is weird for T-Mobile. They only have native coverage in Des Moines and most of the rest of the state is covered via a roaming agreement with Iowa Wireless which is a joint venture between T-Mobile and a consortium of local telcos. If you're on a postpaid plan you'll have unlimited data roaming on the iWireless network (unlike the crappy 50mb limit on AT&T data roaming) but I don't know if prepaid gets any data since there's normally no data roaming for prepaid at all.
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15x15 just went live in Chicago  I hope that helps with the congestion.
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I don't have a paid data plan on my line and receive 30mb/month for free. If I exceed that, does it just throttle data on my line, or will I get charged a usage fee?
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UserErr0r posted:I don't have a paid data plan on my line and receive 30mb/month for free. If I exceed that, does it just throttle data on my line, or will I get charged a usage fee? You just get throttled. Just so you know. Music streaming shouldn't count towards your data on that plan.
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Burden posted:You just get throttled. Just so you know. Music streaming shouldn't count towards your data on that plan. Music streaming in what form? Do I have to use a specific service like Pandora or Spotify? Because I play my music over Google Play
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UserErr0r posted:Music streaming in what form? Do I have to use a specific service like Pandora or Spotify? Because I play my music over Google Play Most streaming music services qualify, as does Google music, but I would double check to be sure
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hiddenriverninja posted:Most streaming music services qualify, as does Google music, but I would double check to be sure http://www.t-mobile.com/offer/music-freedom-list.html It's on there. Unfortunately, the 3.5mm jack on my phone is broken, so I've been listening to music on my tablet. How does T-Mobile handle sharing data over a hotspot? I have limited access to the account settings (it's not my plan), but if the answer depends on which plan I'm on, I could look if I knew where to.
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UserErr0r posted:http://www.t-mobile.com/offer/music-freedom-list.html It's on there. The music freedom doesn't work over hotspot.
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Anybody know how Metro PCS handles device locking/device usage on T-Mobile? I've got the nerd plan and MetroPCS's price on the Lumia 640 is just silly, especially compared to the $130 T-Mobile wants. Could I buy it from them and just pop in my T-Mobile SIM? https://www.metropcs.com/phones/details/microsoft-lumia-640/610214640475.html
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Tivac posted:Anybody know how Metro PCS handles device locking/device usage on T-Mobile? I've got the nerd plan and MetroPCS's price on the Lumia 640 is just silly, especially compared to the $130 T-Mobile wants. Could I buy it from them and just pop in my T-Mobile SIM? Since MetroPCS is now just a T-Mobile MVNO, locked Metro devices should work with T-Mobile SIMs and vice versa. However, the price on that Lumia is after mail in rebate. EDIT: The rebate is only $30. goku chewbacca fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Jun 23, 2015 |
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Tivac posted:Anybody know how Metro PCS handles device locking/device usage on T-Mobile? I've got the nerd plan and MetroPCS's price on the Lumia 640 is just silly, especially compared to the $130 T-Mobile wants. Could I buy it from them and just pop in my T-Mobile SIM? Metro phones don't work on T-mobile unless they are unlocked and vice versa unfortunately. If you can get it unlocked it will work fine though.
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I'm going to need to get a new nano-sim for my new phone, since my current phone is a mini-sim. Is T-mobile going to charge me for this? If so, how much? I'm on a post-paid plan, or whatever the traditional one is called.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I'm going to need to get a new nano-sim for my new phone, since my current phone is a mini-sim. Is T-mobile going to charge me for this? If so, how much? I'm on a post-paid plan, or whatever the traditional one is called. Bestbuy has nano sim kits for $5 http://www.bestbuy.com/site/t-mobile-complete-sim-starter-kit-white/8699899.p?acampID=0&ref=8575135&loc=0&id=1219359704883 Even comes with adapters for larger sim trayhs
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I'm going to need to get a new nano-sim for my new phone, since my current phone is a mini-sim. Is T-mobile going to charge me for this? If so, how much? I'm on a post-paid plan, or whatever the traditional one is called. They charged me ten bux and insinuated that I got a stolen phone from a shady dealer because the phone didn't come with its own card (it was a brand new phone from Amazon).
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UserErr0r posted:http://www.t-mobile.com/offer/music-freedom-list.html It's on there. Hot drat I had no idea. I'm going to bring my good headphones to work tomorrow.
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