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future t mobile customer former att

and their data will be cut off for using only a few hundred megabytes while roaming. that policy is going to drive me away from T-Mobile before anything else does.

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How in the heck are they that expensive? T-Mobile has the most coverage and data for the money. Everybody else either has crazy data overages, while T-Mo throttles. Or you can spend more money elsewhere for more native coverage.
Early termination fees are stupid cheap. $200 compared to $350 from others.

It's a poor value. Around here, they have EDGE in the nearest CITY. Their coverage nationwide is atrocious, it's no wonder they aren't doing well. Apparently that AT&T roaming agreement wasn't very good, as they are having to cap off so low while roaming.

T-Mo strategy is to cover major cities not small cities. That is where VZW comes in, and expect to pay for the privilege.

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Sprint has one as well.

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T-Mobile's 3G+ network in Chicago area is very small and only covers city and suburbs while at&t's hspa+ covers a lot more state and nearly all interstate highways.

As far as for logo's color - magneta (its not pink) does not disturb me at all. Its like to complain about color orange from cell phone company Orange in europe that sells their service in many countries. Hey here in States at&t uses orange design in stores and their website.

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call them, get yourself on a 5GB data plan and it's included free...

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That probably would be relevant if this discussion were about Sprint.

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I get free tethering with T-Mo on my HTC HD7 since the WP7 Mango update. I'm finally starting to use up some of that 5g unlimited data I've been paying for. I'm posting this from my tethered laptop.

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They could at least cover all the cities in the Northeast Megaregion. I guess the people who can afford smartphones that need 3G can afford AT&T...

If u work for mega company u can get 23% off discount on services.also if u gotten phony early enough with cheap text plan ( not all people need unlimited) and unlimited or 2gb data plan then I'll notice the monthly cost are nearly same as with tmobile today. I pay only $70 monthly plus tax. And never go over minutes any time of year I need to talk more thanks to their rollover .

If u travel or call internationally You find tmobile has little bit edge for talk and texting but AT&T has edge on int data roaming. Also I believe on both prepaid for international ld call or roaming is cheaper than postpaid (it only works for a few select countries though)

No wireless company has anything even remotely reasonable for international calling or roaming. Google Voice and Vonage for calling internationally, and local SIMs and XCOM global for roaming are the only way to no end up with a massive bill.

That's an app. If they can offer it on an app, why not on their regular plans? Greed maybe?

Domestic data is $10/GB. Global data is $20,000/GB, and even with the absurd plans, is $1000/GB. That's absolutely insane. There is no reason is should cost any more than domestic data. Charge me $10/GB per country I roam in or a flat rate of $.05/MB, $.01/text, and $.10/min plus local termination with free roaming in Canada and Mexico, and I'll be quite happy to use their international service.

What is even more insane is that in about a month and a half, I will be traveling to Barrow, AK, which has no terrestrial communications with the outside world, no 3G, is about 4500 miles from where my account is located, and is about 55,000 signal miles from home (satellite). There, I will be roaming for FREE on a company that competes head to head with AT&T in much of Alaska. Yet, if I go to Montreal, which is 370 miles from "home" and surely connected to the US with at least 10gbps fiber and has HSPA+ on both sides of the border, if I used my AT&T phone, I would be charged $2/minute and $20,000/GB to roam on a carrier that AT&T doesn't compete with. Oh, but roaming on arch-rival Verizon in New Hampshire (ex Unicel GSM) is free.

Quite frankly, if roaming was $1/minute in Barrow, I wouldn't think it that ridiculous, since there just isn't good connectivity up there. However, paying ANYTHING for roaming in Montreal is absolute insanity.

The liability of having a massive bill is too high. Here, at $10/GB, there's not much liability. OMG, $10 of overage for a GB of data. Why can I buy an iPad SIM and tether off of that and get 5GB for $35CAD, but, ignoring currency differences, since they are minimal, even with AT&T's plans, that same amount of data would cost me $5,000? That makes NO SENSE.

If I start traveling internationally a lot, I will have to seriously think about getting an unlocked iPhone. The iPad looks like a better deal though, as Apple has forced carriers to have prepaid plans at reasonable prices, often much more so than prepaid phone SIMs. Throw it in my backpack, and I'll have my own hotspot. For countries where it's not possible to buy a local SIM, than XCOM global will be the way to go.

Until AT&T makes their international plan reasonable, I will be pulling my SIM when traveling outside the US so that those greedy bastards don't rip me off. Same for cruise ships, which I'm pretty sure are 100% hopeless for any kind of connectivity unless you're in a foreign port and can grab a local SIM.

They provide add-on to regular plans for discounted calling but u still have to pay more for rates than with their app. Even their prepaid virtual card for international calls has higher rates than their own app. My guess is, to push more smart-phones for sale. Greed? Of course for greed, they are business to make money.

No carrier in the world has reasonable international plans! It's not just AT&T. Period. Uk t-mobile charges more for data roaming that either verizon or AT&T. You'll find discounted roaming inside eu from European provider but outside its insane.

Market will pay what it bears. U cite "heavy" use, domestic like use abroad. That's wrong comparison. For light use they are fine and at much better rate than pay as u go no matter how ironic u find it given it is still truly overpriced. There is no strong regulatory body for international roaming nor there is competition there. Your domestic carrier charges u what foreign carrier charges them in roaming agreements. Plus they surely add their own rate to rates already charged by foreign carrier.

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interesting article

»www.againstmonopoly.org/index.ph···00004233