I live in League City. The coverage here is not good with T mobile. I have been with them since 2006 and it started to get bad about 6 months ago and keeps getting worse. As soon as my contract is up, I am getting Verizon.
I've found t-mobile coverage in Houston to be excellent so far in my 3 months with them. Lots of LTE and pretty much guaranteed HSPA+ almost everywhere else. There is the odd pocket here and there (typically deep in a big building) with loss of coverage, but I haven't found it to be a significant issue. WiFi calling picks up the slack. Data speeds are great. I love having unlimited data because I can stream high quality music (Google Play) at will and watch Dish Sling player with impunity. Great for those UEFA Champions League games on weekdays at work... Hehe. All this on two lines for $110/mo (unlimited data for me, 2.5GB for my wife who talks and texts at an unbelievable rate). T-Mobile may not have the best network coverage compared to vzw/att, but the value proposition isn't even a fair contest.
Sucks ass, don't ever get this piece of **** service. Every week it seems like there's a problem with people's phone calls or text messages going through. What's the point of trying to save money if what you're paying for doesn't even work properly. **** T-mobile.
Set up T-Mobile service yesterday. I still have ATT, and have been carrying both phones. So far, T-Mobile actually has better service. Looks like I'm not alone: T-Mobile US Reports Largest Customer Growth in Four Years By BRIAN X. CHEN Published: August 8, 2013 SAN FRANCISCO — T-Mobile US, the fourth-largest American carrier, lost thousands of customers over the last few years to rivals that offered more popular phones. But it appears to be rebounding. The company on Thursday said it had gained 1.1 million customers, including 685,000 contract subscribers, in the last quarter. That compares with a loss of 557,000 contract subscribers, the most valuable type of customer, in the same period a year ago. The upswing was its largest customer growth in four years. The company, based in Bellevue, Wash., started offering the iPhone in April, when it also began offering new phone plans that addressed common frustrations with wireless companies, like confusing contracts and expensive data plans. “By fixing the things that drive them mad, like contracts and upgrades, and freeing them from the two-year sentences imposed on them by our competitors, they are choosing the new T-Mobile in unprecedented numbers,” John Legere, chief executive of T-Mobile US, said of his customers in a news release. Over the last several years, T-Mobile lost many customers largely because it lacked the iPhone and they were unhappy with its service. But this year has been full of change at the company: it finally landed a deal with Apple to sell the iPhone, it began an overhaul of its network and it started offering lower-cost plans to lure customers from competitors. The company also added extra muscle in its merger with the smaller carrier MetroPCS, which was completed in May. The change is costing T-Mobile. The company posted a loss of $16 million for the quarter, compared with a profit of $207 million in the same period a year ago. But it also reported revenue of $6.23 billion, up from $4.9 billion last year. (A majority of the company is still owned by Deutsche Telekom, the German carrier. This quarter was the first time T-Mobile US reported earnings as a separate company after its merger with MetroPCS.) The net income was above the expectations of Wall Street analysts. They had expected revenue of $6.01 billion, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters. In March, T-Mobile discontinued traditional two-year contracts, allowing customers to buy a smartphone for a lower upfront cost and adding the cost of the device to their monthly bill over two years. It also continued to offer plans with unlimited data, an option that the top two carriers, Verizon Wireless and AT&T, killed years ago. In general, T-Mobile’s plans are also cheaper than its competitors’ — for $70 a month, a customer can have unlimited minutes, text messages and data. The plans offered by AT&T and Verizon cost about $100 a month or more. T-Mobile expects the growth to continue. For the full year, it said it expected to add 1 million to 1.2 million contract subscribers. In its effort to lure customers from competitors, the company has been working on its wireless network. It is far behind Verizon and AT&T in rolling out a faster fourth-generation network, called LTE. T-Mobile has LTE deployed in about 120 metropolitan areas, while Verizon has LTE in about 500 cities and AT&T has LTE in about 360 markets. The company will continue to expand the network throughout next year, according to Neville Ray, T-Mobile’s chief technology officer.
I think my niece got no signal in Jamaica Beach, that would be a deal breaker for me. Anybody know for sure?
T-Mobile has no signal in Memorial. Also, on large scale events like Texans/Rockets game, my phone becomes completely useless. I was at the Woodland Pavilion for a concert two weeks ago, and I couldn't meet up with some of my friends because of T-Mobile. I'm switching to Verizon. You pay for what you get for. T-Mobile is cheap and usually great, but I live in Memorial during non-school time and in Austin where T-Mobile is also not that good.
i live in galveston and i know for fact there is no signal in jamaica beach. also network congestion can be an issue for tmobile in parts of galveston (upper-half). had to pay 25 bucks to unlock my s4 and switch to gophone (att) since they now have lte w/no restrictions.
Gophone is awesome Only pre-paid provider that has legitimate LTE. I don't count Sprint's LTE as legitimate (they have MVNO's that use it) You had a Tmo S4? It works on ATT LTE bands?
FWIW, it looks like T-Mobile is actively improving their service coverage in Houston. They just turned on a new LTE tower near my house (a few miles outside the Beltway) recently -- suddenly went from 2 bars HSPA to 4 bars LTE. Tested 30Mbps.
It seems to me that the service started going downhill as soon as the AT&T merger fell apart. I have virtually no cell service at home anymore, and when I talked to customer service they told me that my area is in the "good coverage" zone so it should be fine. We have three different phones through them in the family and they all suck.
yepperz. tmo s4 has att's lte bands, but att s4 doesn't have tmo's. why anyone bought att's variant... i dunno.
Thanx for the JB info guys, it takes T-mo out of consideration for me. Our Ipad is the only computer we have there (DirecTV)
yep. it sure does. main reason i got it. a trip to cellunlocker.net and i was all set. it may be gone like a fart in the wind once the moto x comes out.
OP don't let people who pay double than you for cell service try to justify themselves because they don't get a dropped call once in a while.
if you're referring to tmob's 30 buck plan... ok. i use quite a bit more than 100 mins a month and google voice is a necessity. and yes... when my phone has four bars, i'd like to be able to make a call and use data. whether it be in remote places such as jamaica beach or more populous areas like bellaire (tx of course) and the reliant area by 610 S/288. aio and gophone are definitely worth it, imo.
