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Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. -- James Madison
The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms. -- Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87 (Pearce and Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)Comment
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OP, that $30 a month no contract is a Walmart special. I don't think T-Mobile offers anything like that, but I might be wrong. The offers come and go at T-M. I've been looking at it, but I want to tether the phone to my laptop. T-M charges $15 a month to tether, but I've seen people claiming work arounds to tether without the fee. Have you bought into T-M? Anybody else know about fee free tethering?Comment
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I have t-mobile and my phone has WiFi Hotspot capabilities built in. I don't pay the fee and tether just fine. I occasionally get a warning on my phone that my plan doesn't include tethering and if that is what I am doing I need to upgrade. They must send that based on activity or data usage I would guess.Comment
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The warning is something I've read other people mention, but I have seen people claim they were warned and then T-M actually did something, like slow down the download to dial up speeds. What kind of phone? I just looked at the Nexus 4 the OP was mentioning, nice phone. Just that it's about $400 out the door with tax and shipping.Last edited by klewan; 03-05-2013, 11:33 AM.Comment
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My touch 4g - I have never noticed a slow down, but haven't tested for it either.Comment
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It all depends on what data plan you have with T-Mobile. If you have the unlimited 4g then you don't have to worry about it. There are a few other plans where you get 5gig or 2 gig or something like that of 4g speeds and if you exceed that then it will throttle you down to a slower speed. What the exact speed is I'm not sure but I think it's like being on the 3G network.Ray
"If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you." - Randy Paush, Carnegie Mellon UniversityComment
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I have had the opposite experience. T-Mobile is awful in Downtown LA, but pretty good elsewhere. AT&T used to be awful in Downtown LA, but they seemed to have FINALLY beefed up the network. Verizon has the best overall coverage. I have both T-Mobile and AT&T, so at least one of my phones usually works.Comment
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I use to sell cellphones for ATT Verizon TMobile. It really depends on where you live and how your going to use it. If you want all the bells and whistles than you will probably want the best data plan, which at the moment is 4G. Keep in mind you want a phone that is backwards compatible with 3G. Some areas only have 3G, in which case you'll be glad you have a 3G capable phone.
The two most common places you'll use your phone is your home and work. Ask your neighbors and co-workers what they have and how they would rate their service, and look at how many bars they have. Ask them if their signal drops as soon as they walk inside, or into the bathroom. Don't buy a phone/ plan just cause its a good value. Buy something that works! I use to have a T-mobile dealer plan, and an un-locked phone.. I love the phone but the over service was not that great (for my area).
In the Los Angeles area Verizon is the overall best. With that said for where i work and live I use boost mobile and i'm very happy with my service for the price im paying.Comment
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From my point of view, I'm not short on minutes at all because I only need the plan minutes for when HSPA+ or WiFi data connections aren't available (and I'm on a WiFi network tied to a 25/25mbps fiber connection 95% of the time). Groove IP integrates fairly seamlessly into the phone.
The plan is available directly through the T-Mobile website for new activations. As for tethering, I haven't given it a shot yet but some poking around online indicated to me that their methods for detecting tethering are somewhat crude. It looks like just connecting to my home VPN server would likely break their tethering detection.Comment
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I recently used T-Mobile for my 4g mobile broadband, and the service was pretty great. Los Angeles areaComment
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Peace, love, and heavy weapons. Sometimes you have to be insistent." - David Lee RothOriginally posted by KestryllComment
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I've been using them for about 8 years, and am going to drop them when my contract expires in 7 months.
I got a new phone last year, with a new unlimited 4G data plan that is slowed down to 2G speeds after 2gigs. I rarely even use 1 gig. The main reason I went with this plan was because it had the free ability to use your phone as a free WiFi hotspot.
About two months ago, they took this ability away, wanted to charge me an extra $15/month to use it as a hotspot, and said I had to "upgrade" to the 5gig/month NONunlimited plan, which cost more. So not only were they wanting to charge me 30% more than I had signed on for, they were cutting back my data usage availability.
The free WiFi hotspot ability was written into my service plan, as was the unlimited data. They refused to honor both and just turned off the WiFi ability on me, and said I could sue them for WiFi rights if I wanted.
**** 'em. They lied, and changed my contract without my consent.Comment
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