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Rural coverage

Dizzle1

Oct 27, 2010, 6:16 PM
That would be nice if their 3G coverage wasnt all in the big cities and they'd expand it to the rural areas.
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xxmxxmxxmxxm

Oct 27, 2010, 6:19 PM
spokane has hspa+ just so u know so it does have 4g
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Dizzle1

Oct 27, 2010, 6:21 PM
I've lived there, its not really rural.
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tmorep03

Oct 28, 2010, 7:04 AM
dude i live in north idaho and i have 3g and north idaho is rural
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muchdrama

Oct 27, 2010, 6:28 PM
Dizzle1 said:
That would be nice if their 3G coverage wasnt all in the big cities and they'd expand it to the rural areas.


I hate that stupid 'argument'. People live in cities and metro areas. If you'd like more thorough T-Mobile service, move to one of the aforementioned areas or get Verizon.
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Dizzle1

Oct 27, 2010, 6:29 PM
Yeah, that 'argument' is actually an important one when dealing with cell phones. No coverage no phone lol...and yeah, Verizon's coverage is a LOT better.
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muchdrama

Oct 27, 2010, 6:32 PM
Dizzle1 said:
Yeah, that 'argument' is actually an important one when dealing with cell phones. No coverage no phone lol...and yeah, Verizon's coverage is a LOT better.


T-Mobile covers areas where people are--plain and simple. If someone's a traveling salesman, they might prefer Verizon, even though T-Mobile would probably cover them in 99% of cases.

My parents have Sprint--it doesn't cover the mountains of North Carolina. Big whoop.
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Dizzle1

Oct 27, 2010, 6:38 PM
Are you trying to argue that TMOs coverage is good, or that it doesnt matter they dont have rural coverage?
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muchdrama

Oct 27, 2010, 6:46 PM
Dizzle1 said:
Are you trying to argue that TMOs coverage is good, or that it doesnt matter they dont have rural coverage?


People buy wireless service that works where they live. We're not nomads. I'm tired of juvenile arguments. Don't bother responding, because I've un-clicked 'Notify on new replies'.
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Dizzle1

Oct 27, 2010, 7:46 PM
lol
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Jayshmay

Oct 27, 2010, 8:43 PM
He's right, most people care about where they live, local coverage, not national.
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Menno

Oct 27, 2010, 9:58 PM
people care about local coverage, but idiot arguments like his don't help the matter.

I live in a very developed area and Tmobile and Sprint BOTH struggle here, especially when you drive even 15 miles west.

We're not talking about nomads when you're talking 15 miles. You're talking about running to a pub for live music, or hanging out at a park that's still considered part of your town.
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SublimeDavid

Oct 27, 2010, 6:41 PM
you're dumb, tmobile covers 97% of the population. as far as verizon's 3g map goes, most of that is 1RXTT which is still considered a 3g type techonology yet is slower than edge.
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Jayshmay

Oct 27, 2010, 8:46 PM
I've been with Verizon since March of this year and their 3G does ineed drop to 1x quite often.
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Menno

Oct 27, 2010, 10:00 PM
Actually it's not. Their 3g map that they show in ads is their EVDO RevA map, which you would know if you spent even five SECONDS fact checking.

their 1xrtt map is larger.

and the 97% argument is for ATT's VOICE coverage

Or are you going to say that Tmobile is exactly the same as ATT, and try and argue how EDGE (or even edge) is comparable to EVDO REV A now too?
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furyx639

Oct 27, 2010, 8:01 PM
It's the customer's fault for the service provider's crappy service.
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SublimeDavid

Oct 27, 2010, 8:03 PM
lol! or get a local provider as most of these areas are usually covered in roaming agreements anyways....
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justfinethanku

Oct 28, 2010, 9:43 AM
That meme is dead.

Zombie meme's are annoying.
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furyx639

Oct 28, 2010, 11:40 AM
We're talking about T-Mobile, so for them it's: if you don't get service move to Europe.
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Menno

Oct 27, 2010, 9:57 PM
in fact, I live in one of the most built up stretches in the US. You know, the one that goes from NYC down to DC.

I don't have reliable Tmobile 3g, I go to my favorite pub that is just 5 miles west of here and I'm lucky if my friends tmobile phone can reliably send a text message.

That's what people don't get, especially someone who's not from this area. It's not "city" "rural" city" but a mash of towns that gradually gets bigger until it can be called a city, or spread out enough that it's called a suburb with very little to tell you the difference.

A LOT of people live in that inbetween, and NO coverage isn't decent.

Tmobile is great for a lot of people, but the whole "everyone lives in cities" argument is stupid. I'm not a...
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muchdrama

Oct 27, 2010, 10:05 PM
Menno said:
in fact, I live in one of the most built up stretches in the US. You know, the one that goes from NYC down to DC.

I don't have reliable Tmobile 3g, I go to my favorite pub that is just 5 miles west of here and I'm lucky if my friends tmobile phone can reliably send a text message.

That's what people don't get, especially someone who's not from this area. It's not "city" "rural" city" but a mash of towns that gradually gets bigger until it can be called a city, or spread out enough that it's called a suburb with very little to tell you the difference.

A LOT of people live in that inbetween, and NO coverage isn't decent.

Tmobile is great for a lot of people, but the whole "everyone lives in citie
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Menno

Oct 27, 2010, 10:09 PM
Actually no it's not.

Because with ATT it was largely a capacity issue or something that was fixed by switching 3g to the lower band.

You're trying to say that Tmobile works fine as long as you live in a populated area. It doesn't

Oh, it works great in what's actually considered the "city" but the areas where people live and play? not so much.

Yes, every area is different, but that's the point. The "if you don't get coverage, you must live in the sticks" argument is a straw man, and it has been for years.
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muchdrama

Oct 27, 2010, 11:19 PM
Menno said:
Actually no it's not.

Because with ATT it was largely a capacity issue or something that was fixed by switching 3g to the lower band.



Capacity issues aren't problems? Geezus. Is everyone dense on these forums? All carriers have problems. Most people don't travel all over the damn place. People use what works for them.

End of story.
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Menno

Oct 29, 2010, 10:33 PM
Right people use what work for them

Which is why "Tmobile works for most people" is a pretty bad point to try and make
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muchdrama

Oct 30, 2010, 3:26 AM
Menno said:
Right people use what work for them

Which is why "Tmobile works for most people" is a pretty bad point to try and make


Honestly? I think posters on these threads are seriously uneducated when it comes to wireless coverage.
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Menno

Oct 30, 2010, 8:31 AM
Most are. They only know, at best how coverage works in their area. So a lot of people don't care how a carrier works in a city they might onnly infrequently visit

I don't knowv how it is down there, but up here its very common for people to commute an hour everyday or more for work, so "rural" coverage matters, a lot
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muchdrama

Oct 30, 2010, 6:03 PM
Menno said:
Most are. They only know, at best how coverage works in their area. So a lot of people don't care how a carrier works in a city they might onnly infrequently visit

I don't knowv how it is down there, but up here its very common for people to commute an hour everyday or more for work, so "rural" coverage matters, a lot


Oh, you've magically forced me to change my mind and rethink everything. Thank you.

Even 'rural' carriers have 'rural' coverage problems. Every carrier has its problems. Tmobile covers people where they live and work. If you don't agree with that, then we'll have to agree to disagree.
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justfinethanku

Oct 28, 2010, 9:48 AM
Dude, I know almost exactly what town you're talking about, and T-Mobile isn't as bad as you're making it out to be.

Come-on, I drive through there all the time.
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Menno

Oct 28, 2010, 10:08 AM
In the town itself it is ok. Drive a couple miles west its notrust me, some of my best friends down here have them, and I mt. We have aq major highway and turnpike in town, but it falls off really fast.
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justfinethanku

Oct 28, 2010, 10:54 AM
that sucks. I usually just drive through myself.
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tmorep03

Oct 28, 2010, 1:44 PM
i agree with justfinethanku...i live in north idaho which there is nothin out here and i have good service when i travel around the area..so the service is better than u think
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ells2187

Oct 29, 2010, 8:09 AM
same here menno. technically i live in another state from the nearest metro area, but thats only becuase of a river. portland OR is covered pretty well by tmobile, but on the washington side (vancouver WA) where a lot of people live that work in porltand, the story is not the same. spotty as hell. and only really strong on the freeways and interstates. I moved to sprint awhile back with the promise of better coverage and better value in plans. the phones at that time werent the best, but nothing could beat a blackberry in the early 2000's. I have been pretty happy with sprint since the move. customer service wasnt always the greatest but no complaints from me.
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furyx639

Oct 28, 2010, 11:37 AM
For a company that's one of the most likely not to exist for more than a year, that's a longshot.

How can you ever expect them to roll out 3g when they already fail at making calls anywhere.
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justfinethanku

Oct 28, 2010, 11:45 AM
Oh, you read the Wall-street tabloids too?

Not a SINGLE one of the "10 companies not likely to last another year" are out of business, and that article was written a year and a half ago.

T-Mobile is raking in cash, turning huge profits and has a growing customer base. It's also parented by one of the largest telecommunications companies on the planet, Duetch telecom.

So maybe you haven't heard the news yet, but T-Mobile is here to stay, no matter what your Metro PCS salesperson tells you.
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furyx639

Oct 28, 2010, 11:50 AM
Their parent company had stated multiple times that they want to sell. Most likely T-Mobile will be gobbled up by a carrier that can actually expand their network instead of run it into the ground.
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justfinethanku

Oct 28, 2010, 11:56 AM
Their parent company wanted to go public with T-Mobile sell STOCK. That's what an IPO is, an Initial Public Offering.

Gobbled up by another company? I don't think so, talks of T-Mobile purchasing Sprint have been around forever. Dann Hess and T-Mobile have publicly stated it's a possibility, albeit unlikely.
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justfinethanku

Oct 28, 2010, 12:00 PM
Technically, selling stock in T-Mobile would be selling the company. But not in the way that you're implying.

The headline "T-Mobile for Sale" was used by a lot of journalists as an eye catcher to sell papers, magazines and get more hits on their websites. It worked, but none of them actually reported the company was literally "for sale".
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notatechie

Oct 28, 2010, 12:31 PM
I love how you're an expert on the network, the stock market, T-mobile and even what magazines really mean when they say "T-mobile for sale". You're like Yoda, or a T-mobile apologist who sees the need to comment on every comment like you know more than the rest of the world.
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justfinethanku

Oct 28, 2010, 12:51 PM
I love how you're an expert on...and even what magazines really mean when they say "T-mobile for sale".


Not an expert on what people really meant to say, I just read the articles, thats all.

And you don't really have to be a Wall-Street analyst to know that when a company puts their company on the stock market it doesn't equal selling the company. (well, for the most part.)

If you're here to discuss the topic, cool. But I'm not sure anything you've said here is relevant.


I also love how you appear to have opened an entirely new account just to make this comment.
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notatechie

Oct 28, 2010, 1:10 PM
I just find it funny that you feel you're an expert in all that is cellular. I read all of the articles as well but I don't have any insight into what the magazines are "really thinking" or "really mean" when they come up with their stories. Do you have an inside source that I'm not privy to? If you read google finance or the wall street journal you would know that T-Mobile has been "for sale" for over 8 months now. Or did I just not get the "secret meaning" of the article right?
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justfinethanku

Oct 28, 2010, 1:50 PM
For crying out loud, when the article is titled "T-Mobile for sale" and the body of the article talks about a "spin-off" or an "IPO" it means that Deutsche Telekom (DT) has considered putting them up on the US stock market. There are also Rumors of DT purchasing Sprint and merging with them.

There is no reading into that, it is what it is. A mildy misleading and sensational title to draw people in to reading the real story.

No inside information, no special insights, I just read the articles. I needed a little help with some of the terminology so I looked up the definition of "IPO" and "Spin-off". Turns out, all DT wants to do is find ways to quickly EXPAND the network and infrastructure, an Initial public offering (IPO) would genera...
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SublimeDavid

Oct 29, 2010, 4:24 PM
yeah tmobile is a cash cow unfortunately most of it probably goes into investors for DT which is the trade off. Not sure how a spin off would play but would give tmo its own balance sheet so might actually help coverage expand drastically pretty quick. Either way our CEO has said he is committed to the company and have had memos to negate peoples questions on this so highly doubt it up for sale, if anything the only thing that could and may happen would be a merger with sprint or some other wireless carrier like they did in the uk with orange so well see.
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