Verizon Juggles Data Plan Options Again
20GB for $155 with Verizon or $55 with Cricket (AT&T)?
I mean really Verizon. Shammo must be at it again. ALL the other 3 main companies are offering MORE data for LESS money but these dufuses. AT&T is a lock to pass then as the nation's largest carrier with their owned prepaid division Cricket & their killer deals (5 lines each with unlimited & 2.5GB high speed each for $100 flat or $55 for 20GB & also especially being installed in all new GM vehicles!) but if they keep this up even well-inferior networks T-Mobile & Sprint (poor nationwide coverage) may gain customers as Verizon looses them. What a joke Verizon is. They could be the nations #3 or #4 at some point. Hate to be one of those last few on Verizon. Shammo will be trying to squeeze them for $500 a month for 1GB lol. AT&T SMOKES ...
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Smart people don't use either of the big 2 if they can avoid it. T-Mobile works great for me and I travel. I have to imagine it works for most. If you're that worried, get a Page Plus at $10 per quarter.
Supporting Cricket only perpetuates the cycle. Go Tmo or Sprint and support competition.
Supporting Cricket only perpetuates the cycle. Go Tmo or Sprint and support competition.
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I know in the east everyone has mostly good coverage among the Big 4 but out west I found T-Mobile & Sprint to be mostly pathetic. Take a look at Boost Mobiles (Sprint native) & Simple Mobiles (T-Mobile native) coverage map out west & it is laughably bad coverage. Not just Montana but Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, North & South Dakota, etc. They are nowhere near in the same league as Verizon & AT&T out west. I wish they were. In downtown Albuquerque I could barely make a call with Sprint. Traveling around Colorado I couldn't open up an email with T-Mobile outside a major city's limits. With Verizon I could stream Netflix across the entire state of Wyoming or with AT&T I streamed YouTube from Las Veg...
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I use T-Mobile and live in SF. I used to use Sprint.
For me, I stay in the Bay Area and the Los Angeles, San Diego markets mostly. Sprint had terrible service and coverage and plenty of dropped calls in all these areas. On vacation in Tahoe for 3 months (yes, a 3 month vacation) they were roaming on Verizon anyway most of the time, and I still had dropped calls, slow data, and the like. While I was also carrying a T-Mobile device, I noticed not only HSPA, but faster speed over Sprint (roaming and native), but it had WiFi calling so I could make calls in the cabin when my Sprint device would lock to a Sprint signal (refusing to roam, even though Verizon was stronger) and still produce issues. So for me T-Mobile has been better.
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For me, I stay in the Bay Area and the Los Angeles, San Diego markets mostly. Sprint had terrible service and coverage and plenty of dropped calls in all these areas. On vacation in Tahoe for 3 months (yes, a 3 month vacation) they were roaming on Verizon anyway most of the time, and I still had dropped calls, slow data, and the like. While I was also carrying a T-Mobile device, I noticed not only HSPA, but faster speed over Sprint (roaming and native), but it had WiFi calling so I could make calls in the cabin when my Sprint device would lock to a Sprint signal (refusing to roam, even though Verizon was stronger) and still produce issues. So for me T-Mobile has been better.
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Big difference and you know it is speed Cricket limits speed on LTE it 8mbps and on HSPA+ to 4mbps. Plus if you are actually going to compare you should use att not a mvno that uses the att network. Admittedly most people wont pay for the speed but that is a big difference.
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I did many speed tests around Helena, Missoula, Butte & Billings while traveling (kept one line with Cricket & ported 2 to AT&T) & I can tell you that in Montana at least, the difference is barely noticeable. Usually 1-2Mbps.
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Cricket is not an MVNO, they are fully owned and operated by AT&T under a brand name of Cricket, on the AT&T network.
Both AT&T and T-Mobile artificially cap the data speed for prepaid, as to give postpaid better data speeds as they are paying more. Like giving First Class free booze, and Economy Class just free sodas. Get what you pay for.
In my experience using Cricket (for a month) I found that the capped 8mbps speed is a little loose. On the one side, it will sometimes hit 10mbps, so it is not fully absolutely capped. But on the other side, they do their best to constantly deliver as close to the 8mbps speed rather than it peaking at that, and getting an average of 2-4mbps. As for HSPA, I didnt test it much, but it got 6-8mbps in...
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Both AT&T and T-Mobile artificially cap the data speed for prepaid, as to give postpaid better data speeds as they are paying more. Like giving First Class free booze, and Economy Class just free sodas. Get what you pay for.
In my experience using Cricket (for a month) I found that the capped 8mbps speed is a little loose. On the one side, it will sometimes hit 10mbps, so it is not fully absolutely capped. But on the other side, they do their best to constantly deliver as close to the 8mbps speed rather than it peaking at that, and getting an average of 2-4mbps. As for HSPA, I didnt test it much, but it got 6-8mbps in...
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