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http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/24/technology/mobile/tmobile-tech-company-of-year/?google_editors_picks

 

Thoughts on this? I don't think they deserved it. They aren't a technology company to me. Technology companies are companies like Google, Apple, Intel, and Qualcomm who are actively innovating and pushing the envelope. T-Mobile does not innovate, they only make use what technology companies have created.

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Just saw a commercial of Tmobile claiming they have the only unlimited LTE plan... Well, that's clearly wrong. How can they claim that

 

 

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Only unlimited LTE family plan, key word being family
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http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/24/technology/mobile/tmobile-tech-company-of-year/?google_editors_picks

 

Thoughts on this? I don't think they deserved it. They aren't a technology company to me. Technology companies are companies like Google, Apple, Intel, and Qualcomm who are actively innovating and pushing the envelope. T-Mobile does not innovate, they only make use what technology companies have created.

Talking about CNNMoney, if it was Fox Business, than I be concerned, but we are talking CNN here, only one worse is MSNBC.

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What about the 2 for 100 family plan right now on sprint with unlimited everything?

 

 

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Was it out before tmobile had their plan, or was it in reaction to tmobile? That commercial has aired since the day they released the plan? Just curious, is sprints plan two lines only or more ate a discounted rate?
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The plan changes may have affected many but obviously it didn't affect the vast majority of customers.

 

A majority is not the point.  For example, a majority of Sprint subs have been fine with the company, the network, the service, etc., during implementation of the Network Vision initiative.  But it is largely the unhappy, vocal minority that give Sprint its currently poor reputation.

 

In the poll for the TmoNews article, over 20 percent of the respondents have been unhappy with the forced plan changes.  That is a significant percentage.  Also, some of the commenters have reason to believe that T-Mobile employees/astroturfers have been intentionally skewing the poll results and comments in T-Mobile's favor.  If true, that could indicate the minority percentage is actually even greater.

 

In the end, why does this matter?  It shows that T-Mobile (and its "un-carrier" shtick) is not the greatest thing since sliced bread -- despite any marketing campaign or tech press celebration to the contrary.  And, about these plan changes, many T-Mobile users feel that John Legere lied to them -- the same charge that gets lobbed at Sprint regarding many things.  Now, personally, I have little sympathy for these affected users -- because most of them seem to be or have been on grossly inexpensive and/or perk laden "unlimited" data plans that are out of whack for the LTE smartphone era.  Regardless, this goes to show that the current Magenta cause célèbre still has a whole lot of users who feel wronged or dissatisfied.

 

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http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/24/technology/mobile/tmobile-tech-company-of-year/?google_editors_picks

 

Thoughts on this? I don't think they deserved it. They aren't a technology company to me. Technology companies are companies like Google, Apple, Intel, and Qualcomm who are actively innovating and pushing the envelope. T-Mobile does not innovate, they only make use what technology companies have created.

100% agree on the classification that they aren't a tech company the same way MS, Google, Apple, and hardware/software companies are; however, they do play in the tech sector as a utility/services company, so I can see why they were picked by the editors.

 

I'm honking for Apple as a long-time shareholder & 30 year user, but Apple Pay is making NFC a BFD for retailers and banks. That's disruption. They'd get my vote...

 

 

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100% agree on the classification that they aren't a tech company the same way MS, Google, Apple, and hardware/software companies are; however, they do play in the tech sector as a utility/services company, so I can see why they were picked by the editors.

 

I'm honking for Apple as a long-time shareholder & 30 year user, but Apple Pay is making NFC a BFD for retailers and banks. That's disruption. They'd get my vote...

 

 

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Except Google already did NFC payments.... But as usual they didn't pressure retailers to adopt the technology. Even them there are a bunch of popular retailers who have disabled their NFC terminals because they're adopting CurrentC, which is a crappy solution.
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Except Google already did NFC payments.... But as usual they didn't pressure retailers to adopt the technology. Even them there are a bunch of popular retailers who have disabled their NFC terminals because they're adopting CurrentC, which is a crappy solution.

In classic Google fashion, they launched a feature without a plan to grow adoption beyond launch. After all, NFC payments aren't going to take off on grandma's free-with-contract phone... Apple had banks on board well before launch (I have friends at MasterCard who had NDAs in place for 18+ months). I'm not sure how Google prepared/launched NFC Payments...

 

(At least, I didn't see any banks sending out emails about loading up your Google Wallet with NFC Payment cards like I've seen with Citi, Bank of America, Chase, USAA, etc for Apple Pay. )

 

CurrentC is currently a ham-fisted solution at best, and the shareholders will ultimately decide if that impacts their bottom line. My guess is that eventually, you'll see retailers who cater to a tech-savvy crowd acquiesce. Others, like WalMart (the ringleader of CurrentC merchants) will resist. Time will tell!

 

 

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Google Wallet's doing better than Apple Pay, even though carriers like T-Mobile push Isis/Softcard on most of their android devices. 

 

http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-pay-responsible-for-1-percent-of-november-digital-payments-google-wallet-garners-4-percent/

Don't forget the amount of Google Wallet capable devices vs the amount of iPhone 6/6+ in the US. Google Wallet's been around for a 3+ years.

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5Ghz LTE? How much power will be required to make that work  :o

 

I use 5Ghz wifi at home for speed in most areas, but need 2.4Ghz to reach some parts of the house. Obviously a cell tower will have more power, but geez.

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5Ghz LTE? How much power will be required to make that work  :o

 

I use 5Ghz wifi at home for speed in most areas, but need 2.4Ghz to reach some parts of the house. Obviously a cell tower will have more power, but geez.

5GHz LTE would not be on the macro network. And it isn't designed to replace the licensed system on 700/AWS/PCS, but to supplement it with additional capacity through on-demand carrier aggregation.

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5Ghz LTE? How much power will be required to make that work  :o

 

I use 5Ghz wifi at home for speed in most areas, but need 2.4Ghz to reach some parts of the house. Obviously a cell tower will have more power, but geez.

 

A cell site could pump out a gigawatt transmission on the downlink, but that would not matter if it could not receive a milliwatt transmission on the uplink because of path loss.  The error in thinking is that the amount of transmitted power is the key.  Instead, the amount of received power is the issue.

 

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In classic Google fashion, they launched a feature without a plan to grow adoption beyond launch. After all, NFC payments aren't going to take off on grandma's free-with-contract phone... Apple had banks on board well before launch (I have friends at MasterCard who had NDAs in place for 18+ months). I'm not sure how Google prepared/launched NFC Payments...

 

(At least, I didn't see any banks sending out emails about loading up your Google Wallet with NFC Payment cards like I've seen with Citi, Bank of America, Chase, USAA, etc for Apple Pay. )

 

Not this again.  Basically, you are insinuating that a mobile technology does not really matter until Apple embraces it and makes the hoi polloi feel they need it.  And you do not see this as a problem?

 

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