Metro on the 9th spot of companies that could dissapear in 2013 !

[EdwardP]

Yeah I don't know, it's a big mystery as to what Metro's fate will ultimately be although buyout seems to be the most probable at this point.

I've noticed a bunch of people go over to T-Mobile too since they typically get a nicer selection of phones and that's been a major weak area for Metro. They haven't released anything all that good since the Connect and they feel fine with just releasing newer versions of mediocre phones than giving them updates or upping the standard. I've debated going over to T-Mobile myself but after doing some number crunching it still doesn't beat what Metro's currently offering me, not by a long shot.

Ultimately I just hope the company stays around so that I can keep my enjoying my Connect at a great no contract price.

An article I read the other day, suggested that the best thing metroPCS could do, is buy back some shares with some of the cash they have, since the stock price is currently cheap and they would still have plenty of cash left over for spectrum purchases. This does make sense...

I bought a Samsung Dart on T-Mobile no-contract and am currently testing it out with an already-activated SIM that I had. I have to admit, on the Dart, it's nice to see a 3G icon for a change.

The Boston area does not have EVDO on metroPCS, it's all 1X everywhere I've gone since I've had the service (March 2011) and there have been questions whether the Boston network will get EVDO at all. I've gone down the Massachusetts Turnpike and through heavily congested areas of Boston itself, all 1X.

[n4zty]

if metro never would have changed their plans i would have no prob staying with them.sometimes i wonder if they ever bother listening to the consumers, would sure help them alot by listening to our feedbacks.

[ChazzMatt]

if metro never would have changed their plans i would have no prob staying with them.sometimes i wonder if they ever bother listening to the consumers, would sure help them alot by listening to our feedbacks.

yeah, back end of 2010 into half of 2011, they were doing great -- rolling out Androids and going hard with LTE. All they had to do was keep their promises and people would be flocking to them.

I still have them, because for the little I use my phone (LG Esteem) $50 per month is fine. I wish I had a stronger signal here at home (get occasional 1 bar), I wish LTE was more places (I have wi-fi at home, but other places drop to 3G and even 1x here in Atlanta area.).

However, my wife wants a new phone to replace her old Optimus M. I was hoping by now a better LTE phone would be out, and I could get that and give her my Esteem. To me, the LG Connect feels not quite there for my purposes. I love the 4.3" screen of the Esteem and don't want to go any smaller for my next phone.

Where's more dual core CPUs?

Where's ICS?

Google is about to release Jelly Bean and Metro still does not have even ONE ICS phone? ICS was released back October 2011. Verizon's first ICS phone was November 2011. This is now June 2012.

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I wonder what T-Mobile's pre-paid plans look like? And phones.

UPDATE: here's their monthly pre-paid "4G" plans - http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans

[ChazzMatt]

T-Mobile was on a similar list in the past (brands that will/could disappear). We all know how THAT worked out.

Another anecdote that should be taken with the proverbial "grain of salt"...

You forget to mention T-Mobile is only alive because AT&T gave them $3 billion in cash and $1 billion worth of spectrum earlier this year. Otherwise if the FCC had approved the deal, T-mobile would no longer exist. They would have been swallowed up by AT&T as they were on the verge of bankruptcy. The money and spectrum was penalty T-Mobile smartly wrote into the contract if the deal did not go through.

So, why didn't you mention that in your retort?

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-va...le-breakup-fee

The provision required that if the companies could not complete their $39 billion merger bid, AT&T would pay T-Mobile $3 billion in cash and $1 billion in wireless spectrum assets.

By the way, RIM (Blackberry) is #4 on that list. Sounds pretty accurate to me.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/10-bra....html?page=all

[mike2828]

I still believe lol they can pull this

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[Acemania]

I still believe lol they can pull this

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Well if they continue messing up thats a NO

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[n4zty]

They will back paddle mark my words watch the $70 plan vanish!! remember before we ever had the $30 plans it was just 50-60 plans then they dropped the maultiple plan categories loool didnt last very long but its going to crumble faster than they can say "hello hello hello"

[Kamex009]

I had the same predicament as some of you guys, regarding leaving MetroPCS and going to Tmobile, I even do IT consulting for approx 11 TMobile stores and they always laughed at me having my Optimus M with Metro ... anyways, I recently got an estimate of how much I would pay for 2 lines with unlimited call/txt 2gb of 4G data and international calling and it came up to be around $170 , that's not counting the $20 per line for the financing on the newer phones ... anyways , I left and went to buy 2 LG Connects (one for me one for the GF) and total with the international calling and insurance is $115 ! ! ! , I'm glad that I get full bars 4G in mostly everywhere i go here in SoCal ! !

[mike2828]

I had the same predicament as some of you guys, regarding leaving MetroPCS and going to Tmobile, I even do IT consulting for approx 11 TMobile stores and they always laughed at me having my Optimus M with Metro ... anyways, I recently got an estimate of how much I would pay for 2 lines with unlimited call/txt 2gb of 4G data and international calling and it came up to be around $170 , that's not counting the $20 per line for the financing on the newer phones ... anyways , I left and went to buy 2 LG Connects (one for me one for the GF) and total with the international calling and insurance is $115 ! ! ! , I'm glad that I get full bars 4G in mostly everywhere i go here in SoCal ! !

I know what you mean I went through the same I will never leave metro it saves me a lot. Of money is nice to call relatives overseas unlimited text overseas as well :thumbup:

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[n4zty]

I cant complain either even if i rant sometimes about things metro do and change around it does get on my nerves but for 2 lines i pay $85 and on my esteem i have insurance so thats why i pay $85 but even with that im still saving money.

[mjlove209]

Metro is not getting the s3 soon are ya insane? the damn company is hustling to keep afloat and ya talking about it getting the rolls royce of all samsung android lte smart phones? the samsung note when released was at $750 without contract on at&t and its only a dual core compared to the quad core that the s3 has........ im not sure if those speculating have been reading blog post and links on this forum but metro is doing really really really pitiful.....even so bad that for the first time since 08 ive been looking and thinking about switching carriers even logical evil said hes thinking about porting out his htc phone to something else. fact is even before all this bs started to appear metro has been nortorious with only releasing phones that were already been out on other carriers atleast for 8-9 months... all they did was slapped on their brand logo on it and named it something else and hope we wouldnt notice. so if you expecting the s3 on metro best bets are metro will get it in the year 2015 if not later.

are you sure about this mr. now it all lol