Other carriers have cut prices and shook up their plans to better compete with T-Mobile.Ĭustomers can sign up for the new deal through September, and the boosted high-speed data lasts all the way until the end of 2015. The efforts have been effective in bringing in new users, but have also been costly for the company. The carrier, the fourth-largest in the nation by subscriber base, has been aggressively working to increase its customer base through a handful of offers, such as paying for customers' early termination fees to get out of their cell phone contracts with rival carriers. The promotion could help T-Mobile continue to capture more customers, especially amid the school-shopping frenzy. In the end only you can put a dollar amount on what's best for you.In a blog post introducing the promotion, T-Mobile CEO John Legere took the opportunity to take shots at AT&T, as he's done repeatedly before, saying it "infuriates" him that his rival is selling its plan for $60 more to "hardworking families who could use that money for more important things."ĪT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said his company declined to comment about the post. I'm pretty sure consumers across all carriers can and will justify why they stick with "X" carrier.
If phase 5 of tmobile's Un-carrier promotion was $50 a month for 4 lines, I still wouldn't switch. Now with my bill being cut by more than 30% is a definite win win for me. As a matter of fact I have been paying in excess of $100 per month with my carrier just for the reliability factor alone. Again, based on your analysis I'm willing to pay >$100 extra per month for solid coverage. On a good note, when I came back home to Dallas Tmobile speeds were out of this world, far exceeding the other Big 3. Depending on what side of the state I traveled to I would sometimes drop calls or simply couldn't make calls until I was near a major interstate(I-20). Ended up having to use one of my co-workers data connection to upload some documents. I travel to Central Mississippi every week and when I was with Tmobile it was a total nightmare trying to obtain high speed data to tether my computer with. For some, saving $20 per month may be a priority. Reliability of coverage is a necessity for my day to day usage. Since I travel quite frequently the $20 per month savings with tmobile is a mute point. Recalculation for T Mobile vs ATT would come out to $20/month savings and $480/2yr. In all fairness you would need to spread out the iPhone plans to 24 months for all carriers if you're basing your analysis off 2yrs, although ATT next program is a different beast altogether. In conclusion, there are people who are die hard Sprint customers, despite constantly hearing and experiencing, the fact that their network is inferior in every carrier measured category(technology not customer base). It really boils down to individual needs, usage type (data vs text vs call minutes). My point is we can't make a blanket case of which carrier is BEST solely on price, data allowance, etc. However when you go to their respective coverage maps, ATT is the clear winner (US only). Therefore I can narrow my choices down to tmobile or ATT, based on GSM capabilities and costs. Now looking at the comparison chart all but 1 of my requirements are transparent, coverage. In reality I travel quite frequently in the States and abroad and the key qualities I look at for my travel requirements are reliability (Coverage), technology (GSM vs CDMA with GSM being my personal preference) and costs. Example, I live in a area where all 4 carriers have a strong LTE buildout, therefore if I were to never leave my area it would come down to which carrier can offer me the lowest family plan price. Arguably Verizon has the strongest coverage, however when it comes to falling back on 2nd tier coverage HPSA 21 vs CDMA 3G, ATT win hands down.Ĭarrier Quality of Service has so many variables with different results for many people across geographical areas. AT&T is a force to be reckoned with at this point. The extra data not needed will just be given/shared with other lines.Įxactly.
So if a line only need 500MB, there won't be $$$ saving. T-Mobile and Sprint Family Plan are more flexible in which if a line doesn't need a lot of data (500MB / 1GB), it will be a $$$ saving.ĪT&T and Verizon are "Shared" Data. Sprint and T-Mobile Plan allow any particular line to add more data for a fee.ģGB on EACH Sprint Framily line (all line need 3GB of data)Ģ.5GB on EACH T-Mobile line (all line need 2.5GB of data) These are the cheapest Family Plan (no subsidy) for these carriers. T-Mobile offers 500MB of 4G data for each line, throttled to unlimited 2G data after Sprint offers 1GB of 4G data for each line, overages after the limit As for dataĪT&T offers 10GB of shared 4G data, overages after the limit Each offer unlimited talk and unlimited text.
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