Roaming from tmobile
Taken from their website at:
http://search.t-mobile.com/inquiraapp/ui.jsp?ui_mode ... »
What is Roaming?
Roaming is a feature that allows T-Mobile customers to use their GSM phone outside of their home service area.
See that outside of their home area?
http://search.t-mobile.com/inquiraapp/ui.jsp?ui_mode ... »
What is Roaming?
Roaming is a feature that allows T-Mobile customers to use their GSM phone outside of their home service area.
See that outside of their home area?
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And ATT:
http://www.wireless.att.com/answer-center/main.jsp?t ... »
Question:
What is roaming?
Answer:
By definition roaming is the ability to place and receive calls outside of the AT&T wireless network. AT&T has roaming agreements with many carriers throughout North America and the world. Special features and conditions may apply for the ability to roam internationally.
With certain rate plans, you will accrue roaming charges when you use your wireless phone outside of your home service area. With these plans, when a call is made outside of your home service area, airtime and roaming charges for the call will appear on your bill.
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http://www.wireless.att.com/answer-center/main.jsp?t ... »
Question:
What is roaming?
Answer:
By definition roaming is the ability to place and receive calls outside of the AT&T wireless network. AT&T has roaming agreements with many carriers throughout North America and the world. Special features and conditions may apply for the ability to roam internationally.
With certain rate plans, you will accrue roaming charges when you use your wireless phone outside of your home service area. With these plans, when a call is made outside of your home service area, airtime and roaming charges for the call will appear on your bill.
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I know you are trying to be OMG cool and everything but frankly as we all found out in your other post you don't know what you are talking about and frankly we don't care. Thanks also for quoting stuff that everyone already knows. Just because you are quoting "definitions" doesn't mean that "definition" is the same in ever case. Please excuse me while I throw up.
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I am also talking form experience. But I see this forum has got a bunch of people that really think they know things but state things without any proof. I see I have not miss much in the past year I was in Iraq.
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What experience? Iraq as omg awesome as it is over THERE has nothing to do with roaming over HERE. I can also tell that Iraq helped with your grammar too. Thanks for the post!
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you show your omg dumb as you can't read. I said nothign has changed in this forum since I have been gone. Not it has anythign to do with roaming. Damn dumb!
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Hey..middle school's over there. Why don't you two go there since your acting like it here.
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Wombough you should probably press the "spell check" before you post. Especially if you are trying to tell someone you are better than them or smarter. It would work wonders!
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yeah, he has atrocious grammar too... but, womb-boy, i never stated roaming isn't what takes place OUTSIDE your home area, what i was saying is that, even in your home area, you will be using another providers tower from time to time. it may not say roam on your phone, but you will be using a different providers tower if there is an agreement. your phone may be placed on the HLR not the VLR, but if you have t-mob and it's an AT&T tower, well, it is what it is.
this does happen in your home area.
don't quote me definitions, give me a link that states you will not use another providers tower w/in your home area. if you look at the links in showed you about LTE being a GSM based network, they all go to reputable sites that state exactly tha...
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this does happen in your home area.
don't quote me definitions, give me a link that states you will not use another providers tower w/in your home area. if you look at the links in showed you about LTE being a GSM based network, they all go to reputable sites that state exactly tha...
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here you go:
https://www.phonescoop.com/carriers/forum.php?fm=m&f ... »
You can read the whole discussion but he sums it up as to what I was saying about LTE. Just maybe didn't get it across right!
https://www.phonescoop.com/carriers/forum.php?fm=m&f ... »
You can read the whole discussion but he sums it up as to what I was saying about LTE. Just maybe didn't get it across right!
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I was just pointing out to the ones that said it wasn't true. I told a poster to be careful with GSM carriers if the coverage is not strong were you live as they dont' let you roam in home areas. And I was told that the website and all was wrong but I don't care anymore. Tired of the same people on this forum with differant names.
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what the question is, T-Mon, in your home area (i.e.-home town) will you go off a competitors tower. i realize, technically it isn't roaming, but it still happens, or so i believe due to the info given to me when i worked tech at at&t. wombough states that providers set up blocks that won't allow this to occur, even w/an agreement between the providers, unless you are outside of your home area.
so, as i take it, if i am in tulsa (home area) using t-mo and a friend comes in from nyc, also using t-mo, that because of it being my home area, i won't get signal in all the same places. since he is allowed to use at&t's tower due to agreement AND being outside of his home area. whereas i wouldn't be allowed the handshake, because the providers ha...
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so, as i take it, if i am in tulsa (home area) using t-mo and a friend comes in from nyc, also using t-mo, that because of it being my home area, i won't get signal in all the same places. since he is allowed to use at&t's tower due to agreement AND being outside of his home area. whereas i wouldn't be allowed the handshake, because the providers ha...
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There is a great test to check this. I just did it with my Buddy's phone here in Beaufort SC. He has tmobile. I tied to select ATT and it will not allow you to. So with your phone manually select att if you have tmobile and tmobile if you have att and see if it lets you. I don't think it will. Maybe it is Geographically different so that could be it.
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it could be due to the actual agreements, including both geographical reasons, as well as lack of both providers individually in okla (being generally a smaller mkt), cheaper to strike a deal then to build additional towers.
i do want to ask, was this in an area that had tmo coverage, if so, i feel it is likely that any agreement would generally be to cover dead zones, or at the most area's w/poor coverage. that is something i'm not positive on and won't try to substantiate it, just a thought.
what it comes down to, is just trying the phone, should know w/in a day or 2, plenty of time to meet the buyer's remorse for any provider.
i do want to ask, was this in an area that had tmo coverage, if so, i feel it is likely that any agreement would generally be to cover dead zones, or at the most area's w/poor coverage. that is something i'm not positive on and won't try to substantiate it, just a thought.
what it comes down to, is just trying the phone, should know w/in a day or 2, plenty of time to meet the buyer's remorse for any provider.
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