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decifal7
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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...
88615298 (banned)
join:2004-07-28
West Tenness

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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.
BiggA
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join:2005-11-23
Central CT

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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.

jchambers28
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Peculiar, MO

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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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I go to the country side all the time and always get coverage. In this area they just roam on another carrier I guess.
TBBroadband
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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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Tempe, AZ

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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)
88615298 (banned)
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said by TBBroadband:

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?
BiggA
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Why woud you want to have a tiny amount of slow data when you could have your regular plan and fake 4G that's cranking along at 3-5mbps?

DataRiker
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Oh, I don't have a smartphone.

I guess you guys are referring to Data coverage. I was just assuming voice.

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Rudie32
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San Diego, CA

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You realize they stopped using "most 4g coverage" months ago., right?
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Sure, 3-5Mb down. Got this while on the bus near mexico with t-mobile.
88615298 (banned)
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You realize they stopped using "most 4g coverage" months ago., right?

Well their "nationwide" and 220 million covered by 4G is equally BS

»videos.t-mobile.com/

buddahbless
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MY friend BF69 you may need to look at Tmobiles ads again as you are highly mistaken. Never once did TMO say they had the " largest 4G LTE coverage" they do however claim "largest 4G coverage" which did hold true given the loose definition of "4G" until just recently as Verizon LTE coverage is now on par and is now surpassing TMO HSPA+ network coverage. There was truth in advertising as they were the largest 4G network just deceptive marketing. The new ads says faster and more dependable nothing about largest anymore.

»www.youtube.com/watch?v= ··· ML7aphSc


The same can be said for Verizon which also runs deceptive advertising commercial ads when there asking people on the street which network would you chose and show people the amount of coverage all the carriers have on a bar graph Verizon ,ATT, Sprint, & TMobile of "4G LTE" they omit the fact that "4G" is not just "LTE' it also covers HSPA+ so there coverage looks like its leaps and bounds over everyone else. Why did they not just compare all "4G" (LTE & HSPA) coverage? because then they would not have the superior coverage map, there is no lies in there advertising but they also withheld some truths, in other words deceptive advertising .

»www.youtube.com/watch?v= ··· G8VkE6yA

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Rudie32
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I call bull at that too. On my trip from Illinois to San Diego, my T-Mobile phones had 4g a hell of a lot more often than my Verizon lte mifi. 1xrtt sucks!
BiggA
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You totally missed the point. When you go outside the city, you go to EDGE, GPRS, or throttled roaming, while AT&T is cruising right along with Faux G, and soon Verizon will have LTE everywhere.

@Buddahbless, AT&T passed T-Mobile with the exact same fake 4G quite some time ago. Verizon is behind AT&T if you count "4G", not 4G LTE.

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Rudie32
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No I didn't. I had full 4g in my T-Mobile going through rural MO, TX, OK, when my Verizon was lucky to even be on evdo, usually on 1xrtt.
BiggA
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If you look at the map, go a few miles outside a city, and T-Mobile is back on "2G" or roaming. Verizon is on LTE or EVDO. Some of the 1x roaming areas on Verizon, which are pretty much beyond where T-Mobile even has service, are being fixed with LTEiRA.

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Rudie32
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I know what's on the maps. It isn't reflective of new coverage. Tons of the coverage i had was listed as pure roaming. Some had the icons for new towers but still roaming. Real vs. map coverage isn't the same.
BiggA
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Yeah right. You're trying to tell me that T-Mobile has done some massive stealth build-out to cover the massive areas that they currently have 2G or no service with 4G? Yeah right. Maybe here or there, but definitely not anywhere close to where AT&T is. And even AT&T will fall back to EDGE occasionally, but at least they have something pretty much everywhere.