Who has recently switched from Verizon to T-Mobile?

by philg

We are in an abusive relationship with Verizon right now. They gaslight us by showing at least 2 bars of 5G service in our neighborhood (Abacoa; part of Jupiter, Florida) and at the beach, but, in fact it isn’t possible to view a Web page, use Google Maps, or send a photo via iMessage. I upgraded from an iPhone 12 to an iPhone 13 and the behavior is the same.

Rumor has it that T-Mobile runs a superior network in the Palm Beach area. So… who has recently switched from VZ to T-Mobile and how did it go? Verizon seemed like a better choice in the pre-coronapanic days because they had better coverage in out-of-the-way places where travelers might find themselves. But for the next 5 years of 14 days to flatten the curve I expect that I’ll be mostly walking distance from our apartment.

For our brothers, sisters, and binary-resisters who are shoveling snow in the Northeast and showing their vaccine papers… our neighborhood in December:

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8 thoughts on “Who has recently switched from Verizon to T-Mobile?”

  1. My employer provides Verizon wireless service and iPhone 11 at no cost to 400 workers deemed essential. I’ll soon be reviewing those users to determine whether they are, in fact, essential as defined by the IRS and, if not, the employer-provided cell phone service will be taxed as a taxable fringe benefit.

    For years, I’ve had a flip-phone running on a $25/mo. unlimited talk+text MetroPCS plan (no data). A friend recently gave me a like-new original iPhone SE, and I switched to a $15/mo. T-Mobile unlimited talk+text plus 2.5G data plan. Connectivity has been fine. Of course, Metro PCS is now Metro by T-Mobile. After claiming I didn’t need one, it’s been fun learning all the cool things I can do w/ a smartphone.

  2. > We are in an abusive relationship with Verizon right now.

    They are really not very good at all, are they? My basic cellphone service drops out in several places whenever I drive more than a couple of miles, and there is no 5G within a 10 mile radius of my home – and Verizon has had trucks on the ground with crews taking lunch breaks for a good 14 years now.

    They configure their $5/month “great deal” phones with so much parasitic bloatware/spyware/suckware that tries to inhale gigabytes of data through the pipe that a $400-500 phone winds up costing you more than that in roaming data charges within a few months, unless you’re OCD about turning everything off app by miserable app. I am investigating other carriers, but I’ll have to break my contract, which will probably mean they will take back my phone and/or try to get me to pay the remaining balance to purchase it.

    I may not have good cellphone coverage, but at least for a couple days a year the lake is pretty.

    https://i.ibb.co/5TbC9xQ/LAKE-PIC-ONE.jpg

  3. The lion kingdom has been on T-Mobile since they bought out Sprint & shut down the Sprint network. Just wait for T-Mobile to buy out Verizon & get grandfathered into your cheaper plan.

  4. Why don’t you just buy a couple of monthly SIM cards from different providers and try them ? I had relatively good experience with prepaid AT&T in the area, good, but not great.

    I doubt that T-mobile is better because historically it has had much fewer towers in all the areas of the country I’ve been to except perhaps NYC. Cell signal propagation is heavily dependent on cell towers availability in the area, obviously.

    I recall that whenever I went to ski (or drove by) St. Anne’s in-the-Fields, I loss connection both with T-mobile and AT&T sims. Pretty bizarre.

    As mentioned, you need to experiment with actual sim cards.

  5. I’ve made this comment before, but Verizon is dead to me. In our Cat 5 hurricane (2018), Verizon went down completely, not even the police had service. T-Mobile and AT&T (both GSM) were solid at all times. When they staggered back up in a couple of weeks, Verizon promised to build out mm-wave 5G as a make-up gesture. Now they are defacing the whole county with butt ugly short poles/antennae every few blocks. I have no idea how the service compares in Palm Beach County (North FL is Lower Alabama). I recently installed a T-Mobile wireless internet router so they are my ISP too. Two lines, unlimited T/T/Data (whatever that means), and wifi/internet for $123 per month including tax and fees. F you, Verizon!
    My wife has an iPhone 12 which shows “5G” bars, presumably 600MHz low band, or maybe mid band. We stream Netflix etc on Roku, smart TV, and phones, usually just one stream.
    Finally, T-Mobile has upgraded their network and lowered our rates over time, we are quite satisfied.

  6. After the dreaded virus locked down the country in 2020, I bough truck and RV trailer, and after few trips I ended up with all three providers. Our main phones are on TMobile, and I have back up phone and iPad on cheap NVMOs that run on AT&T and Verizon. There are places where only one of them works, and some places where none work 🙃

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