Reply With QuoteThere are large areas that have no Tmobile prepaid coverage at all - no voice and no data of any kind. Take a look at the large open white spots that scatter across the country - even in populated areas - on the TMobile coverage map.
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Living the 4G life
Originally Posted by gate115
It's good to see that your niece who was just fed up with the lack of interstate HSPA got Page Plus. Now when you take her phone on trips it will have 3G 1X or EV! She should enjoy that tons
*newsflash*: network modernization spending has barely started.
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There are large areas that have no Tmobile prepaid coverage at all - no voice and no data of any kind. Take a look at the large open white spots that scatter across the country - even in populated areas - on the TMobile coverage map.
I've climbed a cellphone tower
T-Mobile needs to stop advertising as the nations "largest 4g network".
These aren't only 'farm towns' where T-Mobile lacks coverage, but bigger cities as well. I drove from Fort Lauderdale, FL to Kinder, LA and Beaumont, TX and to say the least, T-Mobile's coverage on the trip was less than acceptable. My sprint phone maintained a 3g signal 99% of the trip (the other 1% it automatically roamed on to verizon) while my TMO phone was on GPRS and EDGE about 80% of the trip, 10% of the trip was 3G/4G and the last 10% was simply no coverage at all. (And no roaming so I had zero TMO coverage)
May be relocating to Oklahoma soon so this post has me thinking if I really want to keep T-Mobile. When you can't even count on them for any coverage (let alone 3g/4g) in quite a few areas, it makes it all the harder to justify paying them.
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"Counting them all" is the job of the census.
The census data is easily available and the pattern is clear; more folks lived in cities than in rural areas by the early 20th c. It was the most important demographic trend, chronologically speaking, since the closing of the frontier (based on the 1890 census info).
At this point roughly 80% of the American population lives in cities. <-- the information you requested
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Radiation is good
Finally a reply that speaks the truth, is well written and not sarcastic!
Thank you corrupt81!
As for you moving to Oklahoma, this is where my niece goes to school. Depending on where you will be, ie Norman, Okc area, you will have 4g, 3g. Most of OK will be 2g however but you can check their map to see.
Thanks again, good luck on the move.
Living the 4G life
Where did you see posts claiming otherwise and saying that your claims we're untrue? I don't see any posts of the sort.. OK then...
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This thread is fail.
Radiation is good
My town/area has over 24,000 people together and 70% of the town/area is GRPS or no coverage.
My screen is bigger than yours
Plenty of GPRS towers still left here in this county. Population 37,198.
Only the county seat has a EDGE tower for itself. The rest which are about 4 out of 6-7 towers in this county are GPRS.
Yet there's HSPA coverage 10 miles south of here.
They really are very picky in where and which towers get their 4G coverage and leave the rest as they've been for a decade now.
Radiation is good
Wow a decade. That's inexcusable.
Ridiculous really when nearly EVERY other company hasn't kept their rural customers, or as written above, a city of 24,000, in the dark ages of data speeds.
Oh well, on to a more modern company who cares about ALL its customers.
As I wrote above, my niece defected from the forgotten tmo rural data death to Page Plus and in those same areas, we've only seen 3g, never any 1xRTT, even in the most remote areas.
I've climbed a cellphone tower
There are parts of Wisconsin with large populations of 24,000 or greater that still have no native Verizon coverage and very little roaming as of May, 2012. Trust me, I go there. It's tough all over. Get what works for you, where you use it most.
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Those areas are hardly a "metropolis" combined, never mind separate. What is the population density?
T-Mobile absolutely sucks outside of the major metropolitan areas around here for both data speeds and coverage. While Sprint buries them in coverage the 3G icon on the phone means nothing when download speeds are under 50Kbps.
I keep a G2x active on the 30.00 prepaid plan to use as a tethering device. For the money it's OK.
I've got more phones than fingers
AT&T still has large rural areas with EDGE as well.
Fiber backhaul for Verizon in Southern Illinois in 2013 - about time.
Radiation is good
Possibly but no where near that of TMO. They are in the dark ages hands down rurally.
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