What the hell is wrong with T-Mobile?

[John Connor]

I use Ting for my Galaxy S4 (former T-Mobile GSM)
Average monthly bill has been $14.44 - usually only use Wi-Fi for data

If you want to help me out - here's my referral which supposedly will reward me for suggesting this

https://z67eqg3rp2.ting.com/

Enjoy.

 

[KillerBee]

Enjoy.

I just hope I don't get banned for throwing in the referral.
It really is the best deal if you don't use much data

 

[brianmanahan]

Because T-mobile is ghetto. That's what White people say anyway.

if t-mobile is ghetto, then revol wireless was the ghettoest ghetto

 

[John Connor]

Sounds like a great deal. Who do they lease from for the tower? Like Sprint or something?

I just hope I don't get banned for throwing in the referral.
It really is the best deal if you don't use much data

 

[KillerBee]

Sounds like a great deal. Who do they lease from for the tower? Like Sprint or something?

Wish I knew more about the specifics ...also wish they had a set price unlimited data ...but they only have a pay as you go which can make your bill increase a lot more.

ie: if you don't use your phone much - a couple calls under 100 min for a month
and can keep it to less than 100 text messages -
and only use WiFi for data
this is the best

 

[XavierMace]

Wish I knew more about the specifics ...also wish they had a set price unlimited data ...but they only have a pay as you go which can make your bill increase a lot more.

ie: if you don't use your phone much - a couple calls under 100 min for a month
and can keep it to less than 100 text messages -
and only use WiFi for data
this is the best

So it's the best cell phone plan for people who don't use cell phones. Got it.

 

[zinfamous]

I use Ting for my Galaxy S4 (former T-Mobile GSM)
Average monthly bill has been $14.44 - usually only use Wi-Fi for data

If you want to help me out - here's my referral which supposedly will reward me for suggesting this

https://z67eqg3rp2.ting.com/

I like that Paymodel with a more diverse tiering of minutes, texts, data (which goes below 1gb)

I switched from Cricket to Project Fi two weeks ago because it will save me about $8 per month compared to my basic Cricket plan. I use about 20-40mb cellular data, send maybe 50 texts, and use under 500 minutes of talk per month. I hadn't heard about Ting before...maybe I will switch next month or something--I signed onto Project Fi for the $100 off a Nexus 5x (first new phone since 2010-11 and my SGS2 )

How is the coverage/what towers do they use? Cricket didn't work as well for me now on the east coast, as ATT towers have no access to my building at work. T-Mobile/Sprint/and of course Wi-Fi are fine using Google Fi.

 

[zinfamous]

So it's the best cell phone plan for people who don't use cell phones. Got it.

with open Wi-Fi becoming more and more available and these services primarily defaulting to VOIP when they can, well, your comment doesn't make any sense.

 

[cronos]

So it's the best cell phone plan for people who don't use cell phones. Got it.

Well it depends. Some ultra low users like me use my phone *a lot*, but it's 98% not using minutes/txt (even some voice calls are through WhatsApp, for instance) and I'm covered with wifi almost everywhere I go. So my phone gets heavy use every single day, for a lot of different things, I just don't need minutes or text and at most 250 MB of data.

The kicker is, Ting doesn't even work for me because of the $6 entry fee. When I was with H2O wireless I easily averaged about $6.50/month, although I have to be conscious of my data use and protect my data connection with a firewall so they don't accidentally go through when I don't have wifi, if I don't want them to. Now with Tracfone it averages around $10/month or so, but I don't use firewall anymore and my data is always on. I can't do this with Ting.

 

[Staples]

Ting uses Sprint towers. Having been a sprint customer since 2004, data works, it is just way slower than the bigger three carriers.

 

[cronos]

Ting uses Sprint towers. Having been a sprint customer since 2004, data works, it is just way slower than the bigger three carriers.

The reason why Ting is mentioned in this thread is because it has a GSM version that uses T-Mobile network. I think Ting added GSM to their service since about last year.

 

[BUTCH1]

My wife sent me a text, it took it 3.5 hrs to arrive, AND we both use T-mobile. Yea, T-mobile has slid WAY downhill.

 

[KillerBee]

The reason why Ting is mentioned in this thread is because it has a GSM version that uses T-Mobile network. I think Ting added GSM to their service since about last year.

That's true about GSM - Ting originally used Sprint then added T-Mobile towers. If you have a newer dual-SIM phone you can use both CDMA and GSM and get it all under one bill - though believe you will have to pay an extra $6.00 to get both.

 

[zinfamous]

That's true about GSM - Ting originally used Sprint then added T-Mobile towers. If you have a newer dual-SIM phone you can use both CDMA and GSM and get it all under one bill - though believe you will have to pay an extra $6.00 to get both.

oh that sucks. Guess I stick with Fi service. It's the same networks + wifi calling w/o need to pay for both networks and my plan will have me paying about $28 total per month with my typical usage ($37 if I use my full 1gb data)

 

[KillerBee]

oh that sucks. Guess I stick with Fi service. It's the same networks + wifi calling w/o need to pay for both networks and my plan will have me paying about $28 total per month with my typical usage ($37 if I use my full 1gb data)

I was just looking at that Project-Fi - they cover my area (Washington DC) with LTE pretty good apparently - nationwide though looks pretty sparse. It does seem pretty good for data prices and has the refund for unused data.

Weird - if they use the same towers as Ting I wonder why their coverage map doesn't look as good