What Are You Doing Right Now
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@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller If you enjoy not having signal, then I agree! T-Mobile has a really bad rap around here. So does Straight Talk & Cricket.
AT & T is supposedly good as well as Verizon... but I've been with verizon a number of years and they have always done me right. I don't mind paying for a service that works. Even if it is one of (if not) the most expensive.
If AT&T works so would Circket as well as straight talk. ST is an MVNO on AT&T and Verizon (for CDMA). Circket is a MVNO fully owned by AT&T and operates on the AT&T network.
T-Mobile by far has the worst coverage of any I've tired. Way worse than even Sprint/Nextel.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
If AT&T works so would Circket as well as straight talk. ST is an MVNO on AT&T and Verizon (for CDMA). Circket is a MVNO fully owned by AT&T and operates on the AT&T network.
You would think that would be the case... but around here Cricket and T-Mobile have horrible reviews. (And this is coming from customers local to this area).
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@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller said:
It was so dangerous for me to use and worked so poorly that I removed it from my phone. It felt like it was going to be good but once I used it for a bit I realized that it was dangerous and poor. I took it off my phone completely to keep my wife from opening it and making me upset. I found it mostly unusable, the interface was just terrible.
Are you talking about Waze? What is dangerous about it? I can't speak to the Windows Phone version, but the Android version has always been pretty good.
I use Here Maps but have used Waze in the past both worked fine.
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@dafyre said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
If AT&T works so would Circket as well as straight talk. ST is an MVNO on AT&T and Verizon (for CDMA). Circket is a MVNO fully owned by AT&T and operates on the AT&T network.
You would think that would be the case... but around here Cricket and T-Mobile have horrible reviews. (And this is coming from customers local to this area).
They think they are getting better coverage when it's the same exact thing with cricket but, they pay more so it seems better. . You're throttled to 5Mbps with HSPA, or 10Mbps with LTE, but no one would really notice that even with video streaming.
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With SIM based phones I suppose moving to one of the cheaper carriers is OK as long as service works... I was on sprint for over 10 years, but I finally was fed up with the lack of coverage that I moved to AT&T and now have 4 bars in my basement.
What phones are available on T-mobile and Cricket are one of the leading factors that kept me away from them.. but as I said.. if I can buy an unlocked phone today and move my SIM card into it.. that might be the way to go.
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@Dashrender said:
With SIM based phones I suppose moving to one of the cheaper carriers is OK as long as service works... I was on sprint for over 10 years, but I finally was fed up with the lack of coverage that I moved to AT&T and now have 4 bars in my basement.
What phones are available on T-mobile and Cricket are one of the leading factors that kept me away from them.. but as I said.. if I can buy an unlocked phone today and move my SIM card into it.. that might be the way to go.
Or get a phone that can do calling via Wifi/broadband and you really don't have any issues. If my company wasn't supplying my phone I would look at Republic Wireless.
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Don't you need a carrier who does WIFI calling too?
It's also ridiculous to pay these high phone bills to use your wireless to make calls..
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@Dashrender said:
Don't you need a carrier who does WIFI calling too?
It's also ridiculous to pay these high phone bills to use your wireless to make calls..
Hence the looking at an alternative carrier. I know a dozen people on Republic with Moto X and X2s. They have really good luck where ever they are, it roams to Verizon if needed, and when they are on wifi the quality is comparable.
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@Dashrender said:
What phones are available on T-mobile and Cricket are one of the leading factors that kept me away from them.. but as I said.. if I can buy an unlocked phone today and move my SIM card into it.. that might be the way to go.
You don't even need an unlocked phone for Striaghtalk or Cricket. With Circket the SIM cards are AT&T compatible. with ST you just have to make sure you order the AT&T sim. So you can use any unlocked phone (that supports the GSM bands for AT&T) or you can used a locked AT&T phone, which are cheap to come buy on ebay and such.
T-Mobile would be harder as they use odd GSM bands that many unlocked phones don't have unless you buy the pentaband. And well there coverage sucks most everywhere I've been.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Don't you need a carrier who does WIFI calling too?
TMobile for the win again!
So get a carrier that has no coverage in many areas to get Wifi Calling?
A Micro/Femto Cell will let you use your phone of your network connection if you need to.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Don't you need a carrier who does WIFI calling too?
TMobile for the win again!
So get a carrier that has no coverage in many areas to get Wifi Calling?
A Micro/Femto Cell will let you use your phone of your network connection if you need to.
In my testing it's the best combination. It's coverage has gotten really good and in lots of areas is the best. Getting a Femto cell is only useful for a huge investment in your home or stationary location. But wifi works pretty much everywhere. So the advantages to having Tmobile + partner coverage for cell and wifi anywhere is pretty awesome.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
So get a carrier that has no coverage in many areas to get Wifi Calling?
That's every carrier. TMobile lacks a lot of rural coverage. Verizon has the best overall coverage but since it lacks some major metros like Dallas and lacks wifi in my testing its usable coverage is a fraction of TMobile's.
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So do you just hop on any o' free wifi to make calls?
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@Dashrender said:
So do you just hop on any o' free wifi to make calls?
Why not? It might be encrpyted but even if not POTS is not either and it's easy to listen in on calls.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@Dashrender said:
So do you just hop on any o' free wifi to make calls?
Why not? It might be encrpyted but even if not POTS is not either and it's easy to listen in on calls.
It's not easy! You have to go to the person's home you want to listen in on.. or know where the lines are running through and get into that box.. etc!
It's much easier to listen to VOIP calls by planting a bug/virus in a computer on the network where the VOIP system is.
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Verizon does have Wifi calling now, only had it for a year I think. For where I am Tmobile is just beginning to have coverage and it's still spotty at best.
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@Dashrender said:
It's not easy! You have to go to the person's home you want to listen in on.. or know where the lines are running through and get into that box.. etc!
It's much easier to listen to VOIP calls by planting a bug/virus in a computer on the network where the VOIP system is.
I call splicing into two wires much eaiser than getting a way into a network..
Also Cellular signals are even easier to snoop on.
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@Minion-Queen said:
For where I am Tmobile is just beginning to have coverage and it's still spotty at best.
I think that's most locations, just Scott lives in a different world sometimes.
