Hi,
I'm currently living in the suburbs, USA. I've been using T-Mobile for roughly a year and I'm looking for options to migrate over essentially because data is unreliable and coverage keeps dropping at random places, such as my college or the warehouse I work at. When there's coverage, the service is acceptable, yet it has its hiccups from time to time. What bothers me the most is the unreliability of the coverage in the area, not to mention the big city.I've been asking my classmates, coworkers and friends. There's mixed opinions as to which carrier I should try out. Boost Mobile seems appealing as it's cheaper and has very few good reviews among my circle, which signals less users and more likelihood to be stable.
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[–] Xicronic 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
My parents have a Sprint family plan so I'm on it, the service is pretty terrible. IMO Verizon would be the highest quality provider (and maybe the only real option in some rural areas) but they are also pricey. Once I finish college and self-sustain I plan to go T-Mobile since they use GSM and let you unlock the bootloader, so it is easiest to get a custom ROM and root.
[–] rottenwheel [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Do you mind disclosing where you live, whether suburbs or big city? I keep hearing Sprint is unreliable in terms of coverage, yet others have said otherwise in both cases: Sprint and Boost Mobile, piggybacking their network services, as you may know.
[–] Xicronic 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
I visit family during the weekend so I'm usually in a big city during the school week and in the suburbs during the weekend. I get LTE most of the time in the city and a mix of LTE and 3G in the suburbs. But the connection is very spotty if you are indoors or in a car, for example I will usually not receive texts while I'm at the mall until I go outside. And the connection speed is a joke. We have unlimited high speed data and with a full bar LTE connection I can download files at 50-800 KB/s, usually hovering around 200 KB/s. As a "power user" I am unsatisfied but if you only text you'd probably be fine.