Bill, I looked up many comparisons between the three carriers, T-Mobil had the best in many categories, but coverage they were the poorest.
John
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On Jan 26, 2023, at 7:02 PM, Bill Rising via groups.io <brising@...> wrote:
?Hi all,
There was lately effusive praise of T-Mobile as a provider on this list. I would like to offer another opinion.
My wife and I switched to T-Mobile on Black Friday, because we had had enough of AT&T and it expensive craptastic service.
In Louisville, T-Mobile works fine. Still have plenty of dropped calls at home, but that happened with AT&T even more often.
In rural New Hampshire, it is even worse than AT&T, which is truly hard to believe.
Most of the time I have no service. When I have service, it is usually USCellular, but the service is flaky and often disconnects and drops calls. This happens even if I have three bars. If I am lucky enough to get a call through and I walk one step or maybe two, I will be disconnected. I can only rarely send regular text messages to non-Apple phone users, as most texts fail to send most of the time. When I have weak or no service, my phone somehow doesn't make use of wifi calling (the one thing that worked on AT&T). I have set up e911. I do have wifi calling turned on on my phone. Wifi works well for other things on my phone and on my computer. When I looked on T-Mobile's site, they advise 'restarting my device' and even have a link as to why it is important to restart devices often. Note: restarting does nothing.
The odd thing is that USCellular runs over AT&T's towers, so my switch to T-Mobile may have saved some money, but, at least in northern NH, it hasn't made my service one iota better. It's made it worse.
Anyways, this'll end my rant. I am just amazed at what crap can pass for 'service' as long as the stockholders are well-serviced.
Bill
