T-Mobile Offers Unlimited Plan, Too

verizon shares tower with Alltel.

its not all their own towers.

Verizon uses very few Alltel towers. Probably

SunCom Started the UnPlan! Everyone else is just catching up. 😲

And who is suncom apart of now? Duh.

don't you mean investing billions in buying out smaller companies?

Alltel has crap coverage unless you want to pay for roaming.

not true. they've managed free roaming agreements all over now, but yes, you still roam in SOME areas. but they've got wider COVERAGE than T-Mo. It's just more expensive.

THEY don't but verizon does. Paying for roaming nowadays is backwards thinking. Alltel isn't even in Southern California and their coverage sucks down here because of the roaming.

that may be true, and I'm no advocate for alltel, but to say that they have horrible coverage nationwide is a lie.

just because so cal isn't covered, doesn't make them a bad network. they just haven't reached there yet. I have a feeling they will sooner than later, with the bidding war on the spectrum going on. maybe.

trust me, i hate alltel. i have to sell them, and i'd much rather hook someone up with a t-mo BB 8100. but service wise, alltel takes the cake in the midwest.

haha alltel does not have better coverage than tmobile

Sure they do. Don't kid yourself. It's a fact.

T-Mobile is good here in L.A., however, AT&T covers my house, while I typically have very weak service.

The only problem with that is that Consumer Reports never did a network test. They merely sent out 40,000 emails to their subscribers who they have been recommending Verizon and T_Mobile to for years and used their responses as a "scientific" conclusion.

In the Telephia and the Mind Wireless studies Sprint and AT&T did considerably better than Everyone else in dropped calls. T-Mobile rated just slightly better than Nextel's iDen network for dropped calls.

Data Speeds? let's see Sprint is moving on to 4G while T-Mobile is not even at 3G. Aren't dial up speeds just great?

Capacity? GSM will block way before any CDMA network (including UMTS). T-Mobile's worst nightmare is if their customers were to take them up on the offer of unlimite...
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cough ***3G*** cough

It's a lost cause. T-Mobile doesn't believe the network is important. None of the sales associates I have competitively shopped even knew what 3G is. If they can offer their customers a sidekick or the hotspot at home they think they have done their job.
Unfortunately people who live in rural areas can't get broadband unless they go with a Sprint aircard.