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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[–] rottenwheel [S] ago
TIL what MVNO means. Interesting new knowledge, thanks!
What have you heard about Sprint? Thus far there's a balance between those who say their coverage and reliability is acceptable and the others who say it is not worth it and I should not ever try migrating over to Sprint.
Morally speaking I'm going after this kind of handcrafted, local carrier that doesn't happen to have as many customers as the biggest counterparts. Read: AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile or even Sprint itself, yet preserves the functionality intact and has great deals. I keep hearing bad things regarding MetroPCS and Cricket. The former for being just not reliable at all and the latter because it's filled with latinos, lol. That leaves me with Boost Mobile only, as the 'best' option out there to avoid filling rich pockets and receive a good service.
When writing those big companies, I came to the thought Sprint is somewhat the smallest of the biggest, what do you think? Both T-Mobile and Sprind seem to be the smaller, compared to the others. I pursue an ethical company (irony...)
[–] sbt2160p 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Sprint is very location specific, much like T-Mobile. It's a toss-up on whether they're good in a particular area or not. Maybe check RootMetrics' website for details on performance in the areas you're interested in. They have a lot of data and a good coverage map.
http://www.rootmetrics.com/en-US/home
And again regarding MVNOs... MetroPCS is just T-Mobile. Cricket is AT&T. Boost Mobile is Sprint. There pretty much are no small, local carriers like what you're seeking.