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I switched to T-mo a few weeks ago and couldn't be happier. I get great coverage here.
I did too in 99% of my world but I have a daughter that travels inter state for work, she got creamed by a tractor trailer on the highway in WVa (she's fine) and I was without signal or roaming on AT&T for far too many hours for me to stick with them. Most of the trip I couldn't talk to her, the hospital, the police, the insurance company , etc. Couldn't even text her. 15 hour drive,I had signal about the first 2 and last 2 hours of the drive.I switched to T-mo a few weeks ago and couldn't be happier. I get great coverage here.
For future reference no corporate store in that amount of distance is usually a good indicator their signal won't work for you.You have to physically bring it back to an official t-mobile store.
Which sucks for me cause the closest one is 2 hours one way drive.
That's even better than having to mail it in, for me at least, since there are plenty of T-Mo stores around my area.You have to physically bring it back to an official t-mobile store.
Which sucks for me cause the closest one is 2 hours one way drive.
Mike, I don't understand a few things.
Why didn't you do the test drive first?
Also, if you had a newer VZ phone, you could have popped in that TMO sim and had a half-judgemental viewpoint of TMO. My wife switched from ATT. She loves it. I popped in the sim into my note 3. I didn't have the best coverage. Granted, I was missing a band that she had, but, even us being together and going to some of those places she'd drop to E while I was still LTE.
Finally, the return fee should be only $50, and not $75. Dunno if it's because you could have bought the phones from a 3rd party source that made it higher though. You might wanna call customer service and alert them about that. They might waive it for you.
The one thing about TMO is that they WILL waive stuff. The thing I still loathe is how I tried signing up for TMO last year via a rep on a message board and he bofangaled all my contact info up! Then, my phones were backordered, BUT, my bills weren't. So, I was racking up hundreds of dollars while waiting on stuff I never received! Took various phone calls, but they finally zero'd me out. Even sent TMO a letter to remove the hard credit pull and they did. I apperciated that..
They'll "sell" you a SIM card for $10 worth a 7 day return window. It's what I did before going back and buying a phone. I used the SIM card in my Note2That's even better than having to mail it in, for me at least, since there are plenty of T-Mo stores around my area.
I wouldn't mind giving the network a shot if I could choose something other than an iPhone. The iPhone would ruin the whole experience for me.
My wife, on Verizon, had almost as bad of signal as me . She lost it about the state line and had spotty coverage, mostly not, until we got almost back into Virginia. She has an iPhone 4 so that might be part of her lack of signalI'm a VZW mark anyway, however I will not go to a "cheaper" plan because it's cheaper, I need reliable service for when I'm travelling, at home or at work. I never want to get into a situation like mountainbikermark had in WV in an emergency situation. I am happy to pay a bit more. In this area, T-M, Sprint and AT&T are all inferior to the network of VZW. In the building I work in, none of the 4 major cell companies had reliable service. That all changed about 3 months ago when a tower was put up literally across the street from our building. After a quick Google search, and to my delight, it was a VZW tower! Now I have 4G and never a problem surfing, texting or making reliable calls in the building. In fact, what's really funny is I can look around at someone and know they're on another carrier because they look like they're trying to take selfies, when in fact all they're trying to do is find signal
That's even better than having to mail it in, for me at least, since there are plenty of T-Mo stores around my area.
I wouldn't mind giving the network a shot if I could choose something other than an iPhone. The iPhone would ruin the whole experience for me.