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[Nexus 4 General] ryuker:
I love T-mobile! I used the $30 a month plan for the VoIP and it works fine using my own PBX.

No complaints....4g speeds down are a bit underwhelming but the upload and pings are decent. I don't really need crazy speeds for down anyway.
[Nexus 4 General] THEindian:
Up in Madison, WI here. Coverage is very good in the city, HSPA42 coverage and it degrades as you leave the city. T-Mo is definetly an urban carrier, don't let anybody tell you otherwise, but that said, they have decent roaming agreements.
[Nexus 4 General] osi13:
I'm very pleased with T-Mobile. Much happier than when I was with Sprint, and Verizon. Verizon's LTE is about 5-10Mbit faster than T-Mobile in my area, but that means nothing to me. Verizon isn't worth the $100/month for 1GB of data. I regularly hit over 20Mbit down in numerous different areas with T-Mobile, and I've beat friend's with a SGS4 on Verizon's LTE a few times. I'm on the $30 plan, btw.
[Nexus 4 General] hp420:
I haven't had any worse experience with Tmo than anyone else. I pay less for totally unlimited than I did with sprint, and these are the only two companies that even offer that option. I get decent coverage almost everywhere, I have yet to get one dropped call since February, and I even get LTE on top of all that!!!

All in all, I can not complain!
[Nexus 4 General] ghostrid3r:
Former Sprint customer here. Switched to Tmo $30 5GB prepaid plan and couldn't be happier with their LTE speeds. I don't call much and when I do make mundane calls, I use VOIP apps such as Vonage, Talkatone, Skype, etc.. and never have gone over my monthly allotted 100 minutes in the 6 months I've been using this plan. I also hear Tmo HSPA/LTE speeds are a bit faster than ATTs.

If/when you do go over your 5GB soft cap on Tmo, you will also get throttled to edge/2G speeds until the monthly reset.
[Nexus 4 General] deanesn:
I live north of Chicago and I've had tmo for the last 12 years and i couldn't be more happier. No dropped calls and their internet is fast. I get perfect services with 3g all the way in McHenry county.
[Nexus 4 General] dave__:
Is LTE available on T-Mobile in/near the Loop?

I have great (fast!) coverage almost everywhere except in my building at work which is in the Loop... then I can barely get data to work!

Dave
[Nexus 4 General] kingjing1975:
I just switched to T-Mobile from att it's only been a week but I travel a lot and so far so good
[Nexus 4 General] SpookyTunes:
Google Wallet works just fine with a T-Mobile SIM on the Nexus 4.

The only exception is the ISIS SIM cards issued in test markets (Salt Lake City and Austin).
[Nexus 4 General] thfreedumb:
It's because there are a ton of people in the loop. I got no reception in my office highrise in the loop with Verizon. With t mobile I get about 5 mbps. Success for sure.

Lte went live in the loop first in Chicago
[Nexus 4 General] pshaww:
I'm a huge fan of T-Mobile. My data speeds are not as fast as Verizon LTE in the Tampa Bay Area, but I'm also paying a fraction of a Verizon price. Never have dropped calls due to signal from T-Mobile. For me calls drop because a specific phone has a weak radio. For example, in the same places I usually am driving to and talking on the phone, my Blackberry bold always had great signal and never dropped a call. I switch to the Nexus 4 and now it is a little more of an issue. Still like the Nexus more than crackberries though. So I'll compromise.
[Nexus 4 General] air2k57:
They used to be okay, now... Awesome. I am not in Chicago, but I was out that way a month ago. In Denver, Atlanta, DC, Virginia it is great. Texts send within a second, kind of neat because on sprint it'd take ages. Call quality is great too, coverage is amazing in all major cities. In Atlanta I often break 35mbps on lte and 15 on hspa, although, I pretty much have never lose lte.

I had t-mobile a year ago but canceled due to terrible customer service. I signed back up this past December and actually had to call in quite a few times due to my HTC one order and some weird charge. Everything people were so polite and us based, very impressed at their turn around. Check them out, I had no problems in Chicago area when I was there for few days.

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Pretty sure that's due to lte on the nexus. I have all same issues on top of my phone not able to get mobile location unless I force gps, and gps takes ages to lock on. I switched to HTC one, and all of those issues went away.
[Nexus 4 General] G2_Gordon_G1:
T-mobile service on my wife's stock Nexus 4 in Houston has been terrible. Tonight I will be attempting to roll back to an earlier radio such as .27 or .33 but if that doesnt work...bye bye T-mobile.

The dropped calls and Data dropouts have become unbearable.
[Nexus 4 General] dblake15:
Not sure if anyone put this because I am not going to read throughout all of the posts. But there is a problems with dialing numbers with google voice. It never rings on my end and just sits there with dead air. I had to get rid of them because of that. No Google Voice support was a deal breaker for me
[Nexus 4 General] r1nstang:
Im in the DFW texas area reception is great but seems randomly text messages just stop both sending and receiving. it shows they sent from my phone but my friends never get them. some on sprint, AT&T, verizon. i try wiping cache sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt. not sure what causes it. other than that its great
[Nexus 4 General] Scoobyracing03:
Although I don't live in the Chicago area anymore I am often up there visiting my parents in the Naperville area and I'm happy with the coverage and data speeds there.
[Nexus 4 General] RayLancer:
I've been pretty satisfied, besides a few spotty areas. I get great reception and speed in Sacramento and in LA. Though on the last road trip to LA, I was on Edge for the most part on Interstate 5.
[Nexus 4 General] AgentCherryColla:
The only issue with TMOUS is the fact that I get no service when I vacation. I live in the Chicago land area. Anytime I goto Wisconsin I have zero service. Otherwise. It's fine.
[Nexus 4 General] davwman:
I'm on long island and T-Mobile has been great. Especially, since I left the nexus 4 and went back to a carrier unlocked atrix hd. LTE works and picks it up by just adding the APN settings. One word FAST. 21mbs down and 11mbs up. I miss the nexus 4 but I got horrible reception with it. (No troll)
[Nexus 4 General] Snorbro:
great reception and speeds in the san francisco bay area region. It seems that they have put up a lot of LTE towers around here and seems very uncongested. I've had t-mobile since the Even more plus plans and never had a drop call due to an issue from my end.

The funny thing is, my friend who has the prepaid 5GB plan gets slower speeds than me. I confirmed its the service since the results are the same when we swap sim cards. I wonder if the post-paid users get higher QoS...
[Nexus 4 General] sn0warmy:
T-Mobile's service has been amazing (relatively speaking, of course) here in Colorado. I've had H+ service in most places over the past couple of years and recently I've had great LTE signal around the Denver metro area. However, I just went home to Michigan last week to visit family near the south Detroit area (Commerce) and visited Traverse City as well. In Commerce, at best I had 1 bar on H+ bust mostly just 2-3 bars on 3G. In and around Traverse City I was roaming the entire time. Even during our 4 hour drive from the Detroit area to Traverse City I was roaming the whole time.

If I had to move back to Michigan there is absolutely no way I'd keep T-Mobile.
[Nexus 4 General] otariq:
I live in a smaller town just outside Toledo Ohio and I get 10mb down at the most but majority of the time it's around 5. And if I'm driving around town or to campus signal drops to 2g making streaming music a pain
[Nexus 4 General] gotzaDroid:
Well, it looks as that I won't be making the switch till next year. At&t was pulling some BS on my main line of the 4 in the family plan and was trying to say that not only I had 3 months left on a contract that I haven't upgraded that line in over 2 years, that it was going to cost a ridiculous amount to cancel that line 3 months early. Two other lines would be victims of ETFs too.

That was found out at a cooperate store... My wife, not satisfied with that answer, called at&t and *****ed them out. She found out that the corporate store was wrong. That the ETFs were a lot lower, but still there. She told the rep we wanted to leave due to the high cost of our plan vs. other provider's plans and the rep lowered our monthly bill and sent us a free microcell to help with our home reception issues. She did ask about lifting a data throttling cap and the rep said "that's something they can't do just yet". That got me thinking about what's going to be announced on the 16th....

Anyways, I'll be staying at least 11 more months now till the last ETF goes away and then I'll think about leaving again. Thank you all for the info in this thread! Very helpful.
[Nexus 4 General] kpjimmy:
You got a microcell. That is a cell-fi correct? I got one through tmobile as well. But mine wasn't "free" I had to agree with a 2 yr contract and at the time, I had just upgraded to a HTC Sensation and so tacking on 2 yrs again didn't matter, which it didn't. So my point is that if the microcell was indeed free and that you didn't need to agree to any type of contract. Being from ATT it may be different, but I figured I'd ask to double check, you know? I mean when calling any corp/home office you will always get different answers depending on who and where you are calling.
[Nexus 4 General] TacticalDesire:
The entire state of Michigan is pretty much a deadzone for t-mobile. Detroit, Lansing, and Grand Rapids are your best chances for 3G. Forget 4G except maybe downtown Detroit.
[Nexus 4 General] gotzaDroid:
I did ask and they said contract extension isn't even an option with it. I had one before, I paid for it and it died after the warranty period. When it died, I called at&t and they said there was nothing they could do but charge me again. My guess is that this time I threatened to leave and that's why the "free trigger" was pulled. Either way, the shipping order is showing up on my account and nine of the dates have changed. Thanks for the heads up though!
[Nexus 4 General] Stories:
Yeah, actually. DC has great coverage. I get 10mbps down on HSPA+ pretty much everywhere. My apartment and work also have wonderful coverage and I'm paying 1/3 the cost I did on Verizon. My immediate family lives in Denver, and coverage there is great, too.

The only places where there was stronger coverage is inside certain buildings. But that's the limitation of 1700MHz/1900MHz spectrum, I guess. Tougher time penetrating buildings that are made with super stone or metals. Most buildings are just fine, though. And funny enough, I still usually get HSPA+ on the subway. Go figure.
[Nexus 4 General] Uncle Lizard:
I came from Sprint so I'm more than happy.
[Nexus 4 General] N10AP:
I`m happy with T-Mobile. I`m not a customer but their pink logo is nice

mwahahaha
[Nexus 4 General] IRX120:
I'm fine with T-Mobile, I only get edge at my house, but I do have WiFi for most things.

Never had calls drop (while in a call)but I do have my service drop out and sometimes calls won't connect when I call.

Sent from my Nexus 4 @1.728 GHz on Stock 4.2.2
[Nexus 4 General] piscesjoey:
You & me both lol! Just jumped ship last week & I'm mad at myself for not jumping sooner, plus T-Mobile just turned on LTE here yesterday so I'm very happy with them!
[Nexus 4 General] portis:
yes i am , 50 mbits on nexus 4, i am verry satisfied customer , just waiting to cover the rest of the area.
[Nexus 4 General] wideasleep1:
Fast data=check

Great coverage=check

Excellent customer service=check

Low price=check

What's not to love? ;)
[Nexus 4 General] blankit:
I love T-Mobile.
[Nexus 4 General] abhipati:
Are you using nexus 4?? How do you end up getting such high speeds??

I never get pass 20
[Nexus 4 General] pwc realtor:
If what I'm seeing in my area (DC suburbs) is any indication of the speed of LTE rollout and the rumors are true that they will be turning on LTE-A at the same time that compatible handsets (Note 3 and Nexus 5) are released T-mobile is in a real position to make a dent and overtake Sprint.
[Nexus 4 General] piscesjoey:
Yes I'm using a N4 & I have no clue tbh lol, I'm on CM10.1.1 stable & Franco kernel, & all I did was went into *#*#4636#*#* & change the radio preference & changed the APN to fast.T-Mobile.com.
[Nexus 4 General] Kalama83:
Been with T-Mobile for a long time. LTE activated in McKinney, TX loving the fast speeds and coverage
[Nexus 4 General] sub1287:
I'd imagine not many people are using the LTE there yet. Nice speeds though.
[Nexus 4 General] kthejoker20:
I just LOVE reading when people post that they left sprint.

Makes me so happy, I hate sprint so much.
[Nexus 4 General] smeppy:
Definitely happy with T-Mobile.

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet.

The California State PTA has a 15 percent discount on T-Mobile service & you don't have to be a California resident, I'm in Erie Pennsylvania.

The membership fee is $10 a year. It took me about two weeks to get my membership card in the mail.

Once you get your membership card you contact T-Mobile's corporate discount department give them the information on the card.

They approved mine within 72 hours & the discount was on my next bill.

I'm stuck on contract until next year so I don't know if it will work with the new un-carrier plans they have or not, but if your cheap like me it cant hurt to call T-Mobile and ask them. I have 3 lines, first line with 5 gigs data the other 2 lines with 2 gigs data. I'm on one of the unadvertised preferred ft plans from 3 years ago. My monthly bill is $105 and some change. So yeah I'm really happy with T-Mobile.
[Nexus 4 General] naan-consensual:
I live in Lakeview East/Lincoln Park and am on their prepaid $30 plan - completely pleased with their service and price. No complaints.
[Nexus 4 General] mynigman:
I just jumped ship from ATT n couldn't be happier. Went from paying $95 n change a month without being able to use data beyond email or I would definitely go over my 1gb allotment. Now im paying $70 n im able use unlimited 4g data. Im in Jersey City New Jersey and 4g is rampant. Sooooo happy. Paid the ATT etf btw. Well worth it. Using ip5 temp. White n4 tmobile post paid comes tom. The store rep said why r u downgrading?? Some people just don't know any better. Sent back the Google version cause it was having difficulty connecting to tmo's network mainly 4g. Btw, fyi, white n4 isnt available on their prepaid. If u want it u gotta go postpaid. Slick move on their part. Did get a free wireless charger tho. ParanoidAndroid im baaack.
[Nexus 4 General] XGrinder911:
Love it!
[Nexus 4 General] gotzaDroid:
at&t is pulling some more BS... As I said earlier, I decided to stay with at&t since they agreed to save me the 40 dollars a month difference (80 dollar a month T-mobile savings minus the ETF cost spread over a year). When I spoke with the CSR, she ASSURED me that I would KEEP ALL my plan features including a-list, which is very important for me.

So I go to update my a-list yesterday and wouldn't you know... IT'S GONE. So I call at&t and ask why it's gone. I was told that the CSR lowered my plan to save me money and the lower plan losses my a-list. I told the current CSR that I was promised that I could keep it. She tried to add it, but couldn't, so a ticket was created to try to add it back. I flat out told her that if it isn't added back, I will pay the ETF and leave. So we'll see... If it isn't added back, I'm leaving in October when the ETF goes below 300 dollars.

Just a bit to explain the lowering of the plan. The last CSR said the one before dropped the plan because I rarely go over 700 anytime minutes. I asked the last CSR if that number reflected my a-list use and she said no, that the a-list minutes don't count. I asked if she could tally the a-list minutes and those added numbers would blow the 700 minutes out of the water. The CSR said, "well you have roll over minutes". I explained that those would be eaten through fast and once gone, I'll constantly be going over. She said, "oh..."
[Nexus 4 General] lwfb:
I'm just curious... Are most of your A-List numbers mobile numbers or landlines?

Reason I ask is because AT&T discontinued that feature like three years ago and replaced it with free Mobile to Mobile calling, so those 700 minutes would only be used for landline calls.

If you are primarily calling to mobiles, you might save money with the plan they moved you to. Obviously if you call landlines a lot then A-List is going to be your best deal...

I'm just trying to help clarify because sometimes CSR's aren't very helpful. Let me know if you have any questions.
[Nexus 4 General] gotzaDroid:
Sorry, should have mentioned that. Landlines. My folks, in-laws and grandparents refuse to give them up.
[Nexus 4 General] DatBSlim:
I switched to t-mobile from sprint iPhone 4s. It was going good at first (only had n4 for a month by the way). And now I have data issues,... Sometimes it's OK, but most of the time it doesn't like to connect to 3g or h+, won't load some apps unless I completely restart the phone, And even then it goes back doing the same thing... Brought from t-mobile by trading in my iPhone 4s..its a great phone best Android experience. Actually android came up since I was last on it with the evo 3d. IPhone user for two years(4 att and 4s sprint). I tell people irs the iPhone of android.
[Nexus 4 General] livethisfight:
5GB of LTE, unlimited texting 100 minutes and Wi-Fi calling for $30 a month. Done deal. Service has gotten significantly better since they started rolling out LTE, I can't justify going back to any other carrier.
[Nexus 4 General] lwfb:
OK, so you definitely need your old plan back.

Even though AT&T discontinued that plan, the SOC for it still exists in their systems. I've seen some SOCs for plans that are over 15 years old. So the good news is that you can be re-provisioned on that plan. The bad news is you might have to go through multiple tiers of customer support.

Best thing you can do is get a detailed bill from the last bill that had that plan. You should see a code next to the minutes portion. For example, nationwide unlimited would look like NWUNL or something along those lines. That's the code you can give them as a reference.

I hope that helps, unfortunately this is par for the course when it comes to dealing with them. I've known a lot of reps that possessed no common sense and quite a few with no morals either. Usually when stuff like this happens it's because they try to make commission off of "saving you money" and have no idea what the repercussions of messing someone's account up are, leaving it up to the manager to fix. Trust me from experience...
[Nexus 4 General] Sihle:
I've been with them since they were VOICESTREAM and have always received great service. With their new plans and expanding network they're just going to get better.
[Nexus 4 General] duckied:
I live northside Chicago and I have excellent service sometime even when my gf Verizon s3 having reception problems.
[Nexus 4 General] beefynick:
I have no complaints with T-Mobile. I am near Cleveland and I usually get H+, with a few areas of 3G. I work at a chemical manufacturer and I even get H+ and 2 bars of service right in the middle of our plant (which is a dead space for everyone with Sprint and Verizon).

I plan to add another line when I am forced to get rid of my blackberry and bring my own device for work (hello second Nexus 4).
[Nexus 4 General] Batmensch:
Very happy with my $30 5 G plan

works great for me. I need data, not voice, and even when I sometimes need voice I can use any of several VOIP apps and put that time on my data plan anyway. My coverage (in SF Bay area) ranges from 3 Mb/sec down to 20+Mb/sec down. Pretty darned happy for the money.:)
[Nexus 4 General] sub1287:
Took speed test across town on the transit train ...

Yeah i'd say they have done a great job on their LTE rollout. I've watched this city light up little by little.

So for anyone in a newly covered market not getting the best speeds, it does get better!
[Nexus 4 General] hlt4668:
satisfied

i am satisfied with my tmobile service in raleigh nc area i have the 30$ prepaid plan. i get good lte speeds in the city.
[Nexus 4 General] JuanOfMany:
Compared to my experience with a Galaxy Nexus on Verizon, I'm ecstatic to be on T-Mobile.
[Nexus 4 General] Sully6789:
Best decision I ever made was dumping AT&T and moving to T-Mobile. It was worth every penny of the ETF to be done with those money grubbing crooks. The only place I don't get good service with T-Mo is sitting on my couch in the living room. But that's not a problem since I just use Vonage over WiFi. I don't get LTE where I'm at either (Oak Harbor, WA) but their H+ service is more than enough. Overall, I'm extremely pleased. :thumbup:
[Nexus 4 General] Rakeesh_j:
I switched from Sprint to T-Mobile in February of this year - best decision I've ever made when it comes to wireless services. My bill went from $300 a month to $115 a month for my 5 lines, and I no longer have to count minutes. Best of all is I actually get data services - Sprint has no data services to speak of in the Phoenix area where I live - their data rates don't even meet t-mobile's 2g speeds.

Bunch of other nice things too, like for example when somebody calls me my phone actually rings the instant they hear the ring tone on their end, whereas on Sprint they would hear my phone ring up to 4 times before my phone itself would start ringing, and I would often miss their call to voicemail as a result. In addition, the Nexus 4 supports HD Voice on t-mobile.

I honestly have no idea how Sprint is possibly the #3 carrier over t-mobile's #4 rank as their service is by far inferior, not to mention costs much more.
[Nexus 4 General] eddychecker:
I've been using t-mobile for years and I'm out west of Chicago near DeKalb with no problems. No LTE, but good coverage. The instant I go west the signal gets weak. I'm still a fan though.
[Nexus 4 General] FeintDoxx:
I'm a bit South East. I talked with a T-Mobile technician after an out sourced rep couldn't help me. The technician had told me even though Aurora was a weaker spot for T-Mobile that I still would experience good coverage. And its true. Although I was calling to see if they'd send a coverage booster for my home since the house seems to block off most reception. But once I walk out I get great reception and Data/voice is still good despite the fact that I average 1 bar inside the house. Although I seem to average 3 bars outside. And of course full bars whenever I go to Chicago.

sent from the lone wolf next door with a Nexus 4 using XDA Premium.
[Nexus 4 General] paranoid android85:
Just joined t-mobile, is the first bill the highest? Because the bill that's due next month is at $190 for 2 lines. They told me it'll be around $120
[Nexus 4 General] pudgybunnyBry:
Usually the first bill is the highest it will get. If you are paying an EIP, your bill is going to be a little higher until those are paid as well.
[Nexus 4 General] bioyuki:
I've been a T-Mobile post paid user since 2007 in the Bay Area. Their coverage has improved over time and there's no more deadspots for the most part in San Francisco proper. However, I have seen congestion issues for the last 4-5 months but that's been resolved with the LTE launch for the most part. I never saw congestion issues outside of SF in the rest of the Bay Area.

As for prepaid vs postpaid, T-Mobile def. prioritizes postpaid traffic in the event of congestion.
[Nexus 4 General] kBTWOFOUR:
I live in the west suburbs of Chicago and I know T-Mobile has a bad rep when it comes to services in Chicago, but I am very satisfied with the service. I can honestly say I had a better experience and service with T-Mobile than I did with Sprint and AT&T. The only thing I wish T-Mobile would do is expand their LTE coverage to the rest of the Chicagoland area.