The death of a network and a company!

[Al C]

I really dont understand the comments here. MetroPCS moving to GSM is a disaster. Where I am T-Mobile's network sucks. Here in NJ it has such a terrible rep, I dont think they have any base.

What we are really talking about, is MetroPCS moving all of their customer base in about a year onto a god awful network from a network that works great.

GSM will always have flaws that CDMA. It is much cheaper to run a GSM network, it dont need as many towers. But the networks usually suck and calls always and I mean always get dropped. When Metro PCS forces me to move to GSM I will be giving up on them. I wont work on T-Mobiles network to many bad past experiences here in NJ.

Its a real shame cause I loved Metro PCS and I totally dislike T-Mobile.

 

[Hadron]

GSM will always have flaws that CDMA. It is much cheaper to run a GSM network, it dont need as many towers. But the networks usually suck and calls always and I mean always get dropped.

I can't speak for TMO in your area, but most of the world has been using GSM for 20 years and I can assure you that dropped calls are not normal. I've even used TMO in other parts of the US without problems.

 

[Gman9831]

I really dont understand the comments here. MetroPCS moving to GSM is a disaster. Where I am T-Mobile's network sucks. Here in NJ it has such a terrible rep, I dont think they have any base.

What we are really talking about, is MetroPCS moving all of their customer base in about a year onto a god awful network from a network that works great.

GSM will always have flaws that CDMA. It is much cheaper to run a GSM network, it dont need as many towers. But the networks usually suck and calls always and I mean always get dropped. When Metro PCS forces me to move to GSM I will be giving up on them. I wont work on T-Mobiles network to many bad past experiences here in NJ.

Its a real shame cause I loved Metro PCS and I totally dislike T-Mobile.

Sorry that you're the one in a few that feel that way but this GSM network/merger has been giving us much more options for phones, better call quality since for now only tmobile has HD Voice, an exponentially bigger coverage area and much faster speeds. The only reason I switched was so I could EIP on the Note 3 and I am on the same exact network so I know.

 

[averagewonder]

Yeah dont let past experiences sour you towards what is happening. Also maybe you should say something like in my opinion there seems to be more drooped calls instead of there is always dropped calls. At least don say that with out some actual statistics. Tmobile is expanding they just announced a bunch of new LTE cities so maybe you just have or had bad coverage at your particular location.

 

[SEMIJim]

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[OcalaFlGuy]

What we are really talking about, is MetroPCS moving all of their customer base in about a year onto a god awful network from a network that works great.

Its a real shame cause I loved Metro PCS and I totally dislike T-Mobile.

That's not what WE are talking about, that's what YOU are talking about and that part has not the slightest relevance to The Facts that are out about the merger. The part after the moving part of the sentence is again, just your, one person's experience.

What the real shame is IMO, is that your first post here is one in a carrier sub-forum telling us how crappy our carrier is.

Bruce in Ocala, Fl

 

[dportal2006]

I really dont understand the comments here. MetroPCS moving to GSM is a disaster. Where I am T-Mobile's network sucks. Here in NJ it has such a terrible rep, I dont think they have any base.

What we are really talking about, is MetroPCS moving all of their customer base in about a year onto a god awful network from a network that works great.

GSM will always have flaws that CDMA. It is much cheaper to run a GSM network, it dont need as many towers. But the networks usually suck and calls always and I mean always get dropped. When Metro PCS forces me to move to GSM I will be giving up on them. I wont work on T-Mobiles network to many bad past experiences here in NJ.

Its a real shame cause I loved Metro PCS and I totally dislike T-Mobile.

The call quality in my house is significantly better in my house with T-Mobile than with Metro PCS.

Maybe if you get the call drops in your house you should try out wifi calling with t mobile or the new GSM phones Metro PCS is supporting.

 

[alfick3]

He's only made 1 post. I wonder if it was for trollin' purposes?

 

[tcomotcom]

The death of a network and a company!

The company that died was T-Mobile USA, Inc.

When MetroPCS and T-Mobile USA merged, the surviving entity was MetroPCS Communications, Inc. Immediately after the completion of the merger, Metro PCS Communications, Inc. changed its name to T-Mobile USA, Inc.

This allowed the merged company to continue to be publicly traded while keeping the T-Mobile name. (Because prior to the merger MetroPCS was publicly traded but T-Mobile USA was not - if T-Mobile USA, Inc. had been the surviving entity the merged company would have lost its stock listing.) The "old" MetroPCS never died; it still exists, but has a different name.

On the network issue, CDMA vs. GSM is only going to matter for a few more years, so there's no point in getting too fired up about it. The path forward for all cellular networks, both GSM and CDMA, is LTE. Verizon has already publicly stated its plan is to move to Voice over LTE and then turn down the CDMA elements of its network. The other large carriers will follow the same path.