thebryceee
Android Expert
I've only used it to call my wife, she said it was pretty clear.
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$70 plan to lose 5GB soft cap!
- Thread starter septembersrain
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I've only used it to call my wife, she said it was pretty clear.
septembersrain
句_句 Smurfing Awesome
I still have Boost Mobile too. Just really wanted the Note II. ^.^
thebryceee
Android Expert
Ahh. I dropped the Evo for a Nexus 4 hahah. I still use it as a Wi-Fi device though.
Carolina Media
Member
Since the Unlimited data on the Postpaid value plan is also the same price at $69.99 I wonder what T-Mobile will do to differentiate these plans and give people a reason to choose the contracted value plan over prepaid. I'm guessing they will restrict their upcoming LTE network to only their postpaid subscribers.
The difference is going to be with a contracted value plan you'll be able to get a new phone for the $20 extra a month and with the pre-paid you still have to pay outright for a new phone.
Remember T-Mobile is trying to be unique from the other big carriers. So where as the others like ATT and Verizon prepaid options are extremely limiting T-Mobile is trying to offer the same access as their contracted plans just with the caveat of if you want a new phone you have to pay outright for it.
Remember T-Mobile is trying to be unique from the other big carriers. So where as the others like ATT and Verizon prepaid options are extremely limiting T-Mobile is trying to offer the same access as their contracted plans just with the caveat of if you want a new phone you have to pay outright for it.
jhawkkw
Chinchillin'
Probably, considering Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint don't allow pre-paid users onto their LTE networks at this point in time.
That isn't really a fair comparison. Neither AT&T nor Verizon are competitive for prepaid, and Sprint has just had LTE a few months and still only in limited (12?) cities. I'm not sure why the MVNO's on Verizon's and AT&T's networks aren't allowing LTE, if they are too cheap to buy the access or that Verizon/AT&T don't want to sell it. Additionally, the rumor is that Sprint (through Boost and Virgin Mobile) will be allowing LTE in the next couple of months and MetroPCS already allows their prepaid users to use LTE.
I think T-Mobile will allow Monthly users to use LTE. The biggest limited factor, in the short term, will likely be that most users won't have phones that support LTE, as well as the limited availability of LTE for the next year. Also, as others have said, the huge advantage with the Value Plan is that people can buy a phone with a no interest loan, rather than having to buy it outright.
septembersrain
句_句 Smurfing Awesome
By March Boost Mobile will have LTE. At least that's the word from our Regional Rep.
Virgin Mobile will get it shortly after. Though they may decide to give it to them first since Virgin Mobile already flopped on the WiMAX introduction.
I think that T-Mobile will likely give LTE to their prepaid but it's a question on pricing. It's highly unlikely it'll be unlimited considering they've made the true unlimited move with their HSPA+. That's what I think anyways.
jhawkkw
Chinchillin'
That's good news. Probably won't help me here because Sprint doesn't have LTE where I live, and probably won't for a while. Rochester was a launch LTE city for Verizon and it took AT&T well over a year after launch to bring it here. I don't imagine T-Mobile will bring it here any time soon either.
T-Mobile has never discriminated against their prepaid plans in terms of network capacity, and I doubt they are about to begin now.
What will differentiate their contract plans from their prepaid plans will be the same things that thus far have:
- Prepaid users cannot choose a different number to forward for voicemail (they can only deactivate this feature).
- Prepaid users do not have roaming data access.
They can partially, T-Mobile prepaid does offer voice roaming but you do not get data roaming; so that is another difference (as yfan mentioned).
As yfan also mentioned, I also think T-Mobile will allow prepaid users LTE. I think they keep true unlimited on the $70 plan since Sprint offers unlimited. I don't believe, if T-Mobile were going to not allow unlimited LTE, that they would have introduced it to the $70 plan just a matter of months before the LTE rollout.
NeXuS4
Android Enthusiast
Quoted for obviousness. Also no battery drain...
Because LTE is faster, particularly the newer LTE that T-Mobile is deploying. The other advantage is much better upload speeds, HSPA+ upload speeds are little faster than 3G speeds.
So Chong T-Mobile didn't sell their towers they leased them out for 28 years with an option to buy them at the end of 28 years for $2.4 Billion. A practice which other carriers do as well.
There are several reasons for going to LTE Advanced. #1 an extremely high data throughput capability with one demonstration showing 5Gbit/s which means significant future proofing.
#2 By going to LTE it opens a wider range of handsets to be able to hop on their network and also makes phone costs for T-Mobile go down as they'll be in line with other carriers.
#3 It takes advantage of the spectrum they acquired from AT&T and Verizon and will take advantage of MetroPCS's already in place LTE service.
Will a better technology come out in a few years? Probably, though will it be so good that all the US carriers will switch to it? I doubt it unless it can get around not having enough spectrum to give terrific speeds. Remember ALL the major carriers are investing heavily in this technology so they won't be quick to change it.
There are several reasons for going to LTE Advanced. #1 an extremely high data throughput capability with one demonstration showing 5Gbit/s which means significant future proofing.
#2 By going to LTE it opens a wider range of handsets to be able to hop on their network and also makes phone costs for T-Mobile go down as they'll be in line with other carriers.
#3 It takes advantage of the spectrum they acquired from AT&T and Verizon and will take advantage of MetroPCS's already in place LTE service.
Will a better technology come out in a few years? Probably, though will it be so good that all the US carriers will switch to it? I doubt it unless it can get around not having enough spectrum to give terrific speeds. Remember ALL the major carriers are investing heavily in this technology so they won't be quick to change it.
