it really depends on where you use t-mobile. Their networks is well not the best. I expect you would have had better results using Verizon or AT&T. yes more expensive but you do get what you pay for.
Corey Cook Facebook: corey.coo...@gmail.com -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2013 8:32 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: My experience with T-Mobile, was: T mobile users out there, question I was in Las Vegas a few weeks ago and while I was only there for 4 days at a trade show, I still wanted to be able to have access to my email and use Facetime and other VoIP services. I have an unlocked iPhone 5S which I bought from Apple here in Canada directly. I went to a T-Mobile store in a mall and bought a Nano SIM for $10. On top of that I spend $15 for 5 days of service at $3/day. I was told this would give me unlimited calling and texting in the States and 200 Mb of data each day. Where I live in Canada we don't yet have LTE service and I was looking forward to seeing how fast this was. I was shocked how poor the coverage in general seemed to be. I sometimes had LTE showing in the status bar when I was outside and at one point I was walking from the Flamingo where I was staying to the Mirage where the trade show was. Both resorts are on the south end of Las Vegas Boulevard right in the heart of the Strip and as I was walking it showed LTE and 5 of 5 bars signal strength. I started Blindsquare and since I hadn't used it since I got my 5S it wanted to download the additional voice. The download was 25 Mb and I thought this would take a few seconds on LTE. I started the download and after my almost 10 minute walk to the Mirage it had downloaded less than 20% and all in all I think the download took about an hour. On the 11th floor of my hotel in an outside room I could hardly use my phone because I only had 1 or, if I was luck 2 out of 5 bars signal strength and the status bar displayed 4G all the time which I thought was something only AT&T was doing. All in all I was quite disappointed in the service and I ended up spending another $15 for 2 days of WiFi access at the convention centre where the show took place and that turned out to be much more reliable for email, VoIP calls and so on. When I ran a speed test in Vancouver at the airport the LTE connection gave me 21 Mb/s down and almost 8 Mb/s up which I thought was pretty impressive. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kelly Pierce Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2013 6:05 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: T mobile users out there, question I live in Chicago and use the T-Mobile prepaid $30 a month plan that I described in my article on iPhone on the cheap. I have an iPhone 5 from December 2012, before Apple supported the AWS band. I regularly obtain download speeds of 10 Mbps and upload speeds 700 to 900 Kbps. Sometimes my upload speeds are one Mbps. When I visit family in northern Indiana, the iPhone falls back to 2G EDGE speeds that are only two to three times as fast as a dial-up internet connection. By next spring or summer, T-Mobile said that all cell towers will be refarmed to HSPA+ and/or LTE, making this a non-issue. Call quality is excellent and very clear. My calls are much clearer than on a friend's iPhone 5 with AT&T. With the $30 a month plan T-Mobile says that five Gb of data is at LTE speeds and speeds are reduced to EDGE when five GB of data is used in a month. I listen to iTunes radio, TuneIn and download two or three talking books from NLS each month and I don't even chew up one megabyte of data. Kelly On 12/8/13, Kathy Brandt <katya20...@gmail.com> wrote: > What hotspot are you using? A while back with my iPod touch fourth GEN I > used a virgin mobile one, which was pretty good for radio. It was great to > have something like that while on the road :-) > > > > On Oct 27, 2013, at 11:52 PM, "Kevin Minor" <kmi...@windstream.net> wrote: > > Hi again. > > I haven't used the amount where they may throttle back your data speed. I > also have a WI-FI hot spot, and I specificly asked them if I could get an > unlimited data plan for it. They said I couldn't. The maximum amount of > data that I can get for my hot spot is 12 gigs per month, which is quite a > bit. They advertise their cell phone data plan as unlimited, so that's what > I'm assuming, but you know what happens when you assume. I don't download a > lot with my iPhone. I listen to iTunes Radio and sports, and that's it. If > I encounter any problem with running into a throttle back on my cell phone, > I'll call them up to get a clarification of their so called unlimited plan. > > Here's an update. I just called up T Mobile, and I specificly asked if my > cell plan was truly unlimited data, and they said it was. If, however, I > used my iPhone as a tethered hot spot, I'm limited to 500 MB of data using > it that way. 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