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cortney

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  1. I want to see these results. But outside of that. I do have a question. If T-Mobile has a more dense network, why didn't they win too many reliability always via rootmetrics?

     

    And as always, the bulk of their density is closest to and in the cities than other carriers, especially in some areas where they have the lowest density in suburbs and exurbs.

  2. LOL  this is funny (would be funnier if it wasn't a serious issue) hope its not a repost (this does have new stuff though) 

     

    #eff 

     

    http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/7/10733298/john-legere-binge-on-lie

     

    "Who the f*** are you, anyway, EFF?" 

    — T-Mobile's CEO

     

    T-Mobile, who the f*** are you anyways? And where is your coverage outside of my town center, mall, and nearest city? And no, 2G in between doesn't count in 2016:P

     

    (rhetorical)

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  3. I saw that last night lol. But he did dance around the question that was asked if he had T-Mobile service. I'll take that as a NO.

     

    5000+ dances and counting. Quite the professional dodger, deflector and derailer.

     

    You have to admit, it takes skill to defend a company like that. Especially not being an employee!

  4. I think as time goes on, customers will continue to embrace those perks (Music Freedom, BingeOn, etc.) and use them as a rallying cry around T-Mobile services. While some customers who are internet-savy will raise their arms and complain, the vast majority will continue business as usual. 

     

    My wife's cousin and I recently had a debate about T-Mobile vs. Sprint, and he kept repeating the list of perks that he got as a customer (Music Freedom, etc.), even though he rarely used the services. That's just the nature of their customer base, to be honest. 

     

    Blind fanboy base, like Apple. It seems like everyone needs something to defend nowadays, and T-Mobile is the religion du jour for some. Same with older VZW users: "My coverage, coverage, coverage, coverage, coverage". 

     

    Reminds me of a decade to few years ago when Sprint trumped VZW in certain areas in the rural and suburban tri-state. "I have coverage here on Sprint and you don't B) " *silence* 

     

    It'll be nice when this fad cult simmers down to a few cranky employees as well. And good luck to however they'll messily scatter their B12. 

  5. Can't believe T-Mobile brass instructed employees to *throw away the baskets,* snacks and all. Total grinch move.

    At the very least, they should have quietly donated the food items to a local food bank or something. Instead, they just look like over reacting tools.

     

    It goes to show you how miserable and nasty they all are. Any normal person would have thrown the basket and cards away and laughed it off eating free treats. 

     

    Another shining example of what kind of people support T-Mobile.

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  6. I only noticed that they used a Galaxy note edge in San Antonio and at the Houston airport but a Galaxy s6 pretty much everywhere else in Texas.

     

    Which is unfair, meaning markets using the other phones could now have different results. Also any market they don't use the same phone for all carriers I'm not happy with. 

     

    I wonder if RM will have the decency to retest those markets (wishful thinking), or are we going to have to wait for them to choose better phones from the start next semester.

     

    I'm really not happy with what's going on for the 2H results. 

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  7. This is the kind of B.S the T-Mobile community has.

     

    Band 12 seems to fix speed issues and upgrading your phone will fix things!

     

    That's the type of deflection that's not even trying. Not a single one of those post addresses the issue at hand, either. And although no one should really take upvotes or downvotes seriously and emotionally as some of them do, it is ironic how they gang up and do just that to show their support for deflective, noncontributing nonsense. 

     

    So yeah, low-band is only good when it's branded, apparently. AT&T, Verizon and Sprint's low-band is crap, but theirs is a speed supplement worth getting a new phone over. 

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  8. Their policy is absurd. They aren't even allowing the new Nexus devices to use VoLTE or even have VVM. While T-Mobile and even Verizon of all carriers, grants them access to VoLTE.

     

    I really hate being with at&t but I get too good of a deal to let my feelings dictate whether to stay or not, and the service works well for me. Oy.

     

    It doesn't bother or affect me, but that's why Sprint is the only hope for a lot of us. I have my fingers crossed for next year, especially seeing how much they've done just finishing most of NV (on time) alone this year. 

  9. Root isn't the best testing methodology, but it's still way better than anything that is crowd sourced. Now should they be open to using the GS6 for all carriers and also weight things a little better and more transparently? Absolutely.

     

    I can't disagree with the argument I've seen that they should've used Nexus 6s or something better for this quarter. Reusing S5s for AT&T and Verizon and two different phones for Sprint and T-Mobile isn't fully unbiased. All phones should be the same, and IMO I wish they'd use more than one e.g. including an iPhone for far more inclusive results.

     

    They have a great platform but it feels like they can't go that extra mile.  :wacko:

  10. According to Root they don't even test VoLTE yet. I'll try to find the tweet they made about it.

     

    In other news, T-Mobile is really talking up BingeOn as innovative. See comments at UBS

     

    https://np.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/3vxqs5/braxton_carter_cfo_mike_sievert_coo_neville_ray/

     

    EDIT: Here's the tweet: https://twitter.com/rootmetrics/status/649734293023920128

     

    YIKES. Good find! They're just testing the call quality we all use day to day (unless a T-Mobile user has a contact list full of T-Mobile users) and it's this bad. 

  11. T-Mobile should get all areas onto LTE, then shut down the older technologies A.S.A.P. Spectrum wise, it may be what they'll need to do, considering how T-Mobile is fairly low on that spectrum in many areas.

     

    That's not completely wrong. LTE is important in general and it's massively important in cities and the densest parts of metro areas.

     

    However for GSM networks, HSPA+ is very necessary (and efficient) for outlying suburban and exurban areas, because LTE simply can not fully cover these areas and low band LTE either isn't available, they've not deployed it yet, or they need something more than low-band. 

     

    As I've said before: AT&T, Verizon and Sprint were all competent enough to create virtually ubiquitous (unless on the edge of native coverage) 3G networks and have that fallback no matter how dense an area is - not 100% always for legacy devices. That can't go away for a while although LTE densification and prioritization are indeed inevitable. 

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  12. Seriously, Milan should be advocating for EDGE shutdown first. Fully modernized rural setups would allow for TMo to decommission EDGE and GSM altogether. That is the biggest spectrum savings around for T-Mobile. HSPA is still efficient.

    Sure, but -- typical city universe logic. There's no such thing as suburbs or commuter towns. Well maybe some will admit direct suburbs exist and call them commuter towns (which is wrong). It's cities, and then desert and mountains. 

     

    Well for those of us in the "rural", 3G is really damn important for edge cases, pesky areas (elevation, for those of us not in flat areas) or older buildings. And this need for 3G will not go away until LTE is really, really dense. 

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