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T mobile Sprint Merger approved ... Not Good
T mobile Sprint Merger approved ... Not Good
I am not too sure this is a bad thing. Neither T-Mobile nor Sprint was big enough separately to really scare Verizon or AT&T. Together they may be. Hopefully this will lead to better network coverage for both carriers, with prices staying competitive due to there still being three major carriers. We are currently a Sprint customer, but my coverage is not nearly as good as it was when I was with Verizon. We have friends with T-Mobile, and their phones do not even work in our house, and it's not as if we live in a rural area. I switched after retiring, as Sprint was substantially less expensive and I no longer was on-call 7x24x365. It's still frustrating to lose coverage in areas where I know Verizon works, though.https://www.wltx.com/article/news/n...iXSYuSWg9qizHG6w9ubiNcLwuJLxkPp84CJ-e2pygQcu0
T mobile Sprint Merger approved ... Not Good
Choice Wireless is a bit of a joke. Coverage only extends about 100 mile radius, and they are on their own network. Ironically, for the longest time, T-Mobile was sub-contracting with Choice, using Choice's network as a roaming partner. That partnership soured about five years ago, and just last year T-Mobile began offering 4G LTE service here in town, and we were part of their initial 5G rollout last month.I agree, Todd. If the competition is big giant corporations, the only way to keep them honest is to have equally big giant corporations competing against them. A tiny mobile company with a small user base isn’t a threat to Verizon and can be ignored; another national behemoth vying for the same large customer base can’t be dismissed so easily.
I did my switch from Sprint to T-Mobile and it went well and a upgrade from my iPhone 11 to the free 12. Now i just pay for the phone service.Well, we just migrated our Sprint phones to T-Mobile today. My wife's LG phone wasn't compatible with the T-Mobile network and was going to stop working in January, while my Samsung S10e phone had developed a hardware problem == the battery was expanding, which was causing the phone to separate. I had glued it several times, but this last time it was near the power button (which was also the fingerprint reader), and that button stopped working reliably.
Anyway, T-Mobile gave us a great price on two new Samsung Z Flip 3 phones (right now they don't have many models to choose from due to chip shortages) -- basically $360 paid over 24 months for each phone after trading in our old phones. We kept our 55+ plan from Sprint, too.