decifal
join:2007-03-10
Bon Aqua, TN
kudos:1 | keep Keep expanding guys, keep expanding.. It is the only way to have a chance to grow.... And remember.. Not everyone lives in the dam city... |
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 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | T-mobile will always only offer coverage to those that live in or near a metro area. The rest of us don't matter to them. So honestly they can take their whole "we have the most 4G coverage" claims and shove them. |
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| T-Mobile I was looking at the company and seems they have been at a loss all year. I hope they catch up some how. |
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| Full Listing? Does anyone have a full listing of the markets that have been upgraded? Even better would be that and a list of planned launches. |
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| This is customer generated, and not official:
»airportal.de/ |
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BiggA
join:2005-11-23
EARTH | reply to BF69
Re: keep Exactly. Their coverage is just as bad as ever, and as areas not near the city lag farther and farther behind in technology upgrades, in some ways it's actually getting worse. |
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I am waiting for the Arkansas market to get upgraded. Fort smith, Vanburan, ALMA. Still edge here. |
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| reply to BiggA
I go to the country side all the time and always get coverage. In this area they just roam on another carrier I guess. |
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 ·voip.ms
·Sipgate VOIP
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| reply to dave49er
Re: Full Listing? Does anyone know what they are actually changing? Now there are a lot of 2G Edge towers that use 1900Mhz, lots of slow speed UMTS 3G 384Kbps towers using 1700 Mhz and a few high speed 4G 24Mb towers using HSPA+.
I wonder if they are going to convert all the 3G and 4G 1700 Mhz towers to 1900Mhz or just the the 3G or just the 4G towers to 1700 Mhz? There are about 50 towers withing a 10 mile radius of me with most of them being 2G and slow speed 3G but only 4 of the high speed 4G towers that I can find. If they convert all the 3G and 4G towers to 1900 Mhz there will be very good coverage everywhere and if they convert just the 3G towers there will be pretty good coverage but not everywhere and if they convert just the 4 4G towers to 1900Mhz the coverage will be terrrible! On that map it shows just ONE 3G tower on 1900 Mhz in my area and it's in the location that used to have one of the 4 4G 1700Mhz towers.
On the other hand the guy who made the map is located in Germany and doesn't really seem to know how the American phone system works so it might not be accurate. |
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ssavoyPremium
join:2007-08-16
Dallas, PA Reviews:
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| Metro or National You can't be both a metro and national provider, and yet T-Mobile is. Their HSPA+ works excellent but it still seems like they half-ass everything.
Looking at their coverage maps, their cell site density isn't even that much outside the cities on the highways, and if they share the same towers as their competitors, rolling out 3G/4G is fully their responsibility at this point.
Some of AT&T's LTE rollouts already dwarf the T-Mobile 3G coverage in the same market. All I want to see is more transparency on what their plans are for EDGE. They seem to be catering a lot to BYOD-from-another-carrier customers right now, not their own. |
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Re: keep it has never been a secret on their coverage area. So why keep complaining about it? It's never going to change. They have their right to market to where they're going to get their ROI just the way as other carriers. I'm sure though if you wanted coverage they'd bring you on as a network partner as they do have them.  you build them out and combine the networks as they have done with i-Wireless- and NOT the prepaid company owned by the Kroger Company. |
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Re: Metro or National They are defined as a national carrier as they operate out side of one metro area. Hence- National. As far as sharing the same towers as others, this is common. Many of those towers are owned by American Tower or Crown Castle. And to top it off. T-Mobile DOES in fact own a lot of their towers. |
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| T-Mumble Propoganda For UNLOCKED IPHONE users in the MAJORITY OF Southern California, THIS ADVERTISING/MARKETING IS A LIE.
I tested it TODAY, with the help of T-Mumble technician (person on the towers), and the very best we could get, with LIMITED RANGE FROM THE CELL OR TOWER (approx. 1/2 mi. from the cell) was 11.5 Mbps down, 4.0 Mbps up. That's to T-Mumble hosted servers....
Sorry the rest of you humble iPhone users... Magenta is STILL a joke. |
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Re: Metro or National T-Mobile doesn't have any coverage at all in most rural areas. I don't know where they get all the red dots on that map they show behind the girl in the TV ads but it shows coverage across most of the Southwest and there isn't any such thing. I recently drove across Texas and there is no signal at all when you leave El Paso until you get all the way to San Antonio, not even Edge. Coverage is pretty good all around the Phoenix area but it's mostly 3G since there aren't many 4G towers yet. It seems to be improving though. Before I could only get about 1Mb in the downtown area now it's up around 5-6Mb. |
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| They get all the red dots the same as VZW does by claiming that they have the largest network until you zoom in and find a good chunk in a LOT of areas is roaming. |
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Re: T-Mumble Propoganda you do realize the closer to the tower you are the less signal you will have and also coverage is subject to change due to environmental issues. |
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BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to TBusiness
Re: keep said by TBusiness:it has never been a secret on their coverage area. So why keep complaining about it? It's never going to change. I'm not complaining about not having their coverage. Try READING what I wrote. I'm complaining about their contention they have the most 4G LTE coverage which is untrue. Something wrong with expecting a company to adhere to truth in advertising standards? |
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 gninkeBuck30Premium
join:2004-03-03
Tempe, AZ | reply to decifal
I have been super pleased with Tmobi, but, I live in Phoenix, when I go to visit realatives in South Dakota, i only have Edge (one downfall of the failed merger) |
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 WiFiguruTo infinity... and beyondPremium
join:2005-06-21
CLMTCAXF
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Re: T-Mumble Propoganda said by TBusiness:you do realize the closer to the tower you are the less signal you will have and also coverage is subject to change due to environmental issues.
This is true. Think of it as turning up the volume so loud on a speaker that it starts distorting. Same difference of having too good of a signal. |
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Re: Metro or National said by TBusiness:They are defined as a national carrier as they operate out side of one metro area. Hence- National. As far as sharing the same towers as others, this is common. Many of those towers are owned by American Tower or Crown Castle. And to top it off. T-Mobile DOES in fact own a lot of their towers.
They don't technically own them anymore..
»T-Mobile Sells Tower Rights For $2.4 Billion
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