T-Mobile wireless vs AT&T wireless

[pcslookout]

I been testing the two and seem like AT&T is better when traveling in a car (as a passenger of course) with signal and signal strength.

Some parts of the highway I got no service with T-Mobile not sure if that means no phone calls or text too.

Does anyone know if T-Mobile will improve more ?

 

[jlee]

They're constantly updating coverage.

Calls and text require service, so if by "no service" you mean no service (instead of no LTE), then they won't work.

Also, if you have a 600Mhz-capable phone: https://bgr.com/2018/06/06/t-mobile-coverage-fastest-network-vs-verizon-2018/

 

[sourceninja]

Tmobile works great for me in the city. In the country it's a paper weight. Even with a 600mhz capable phone.

I'm still not going back to verizon.

 

[pcslookout]

Tmobile works great for me in the city. In the country it's a paper weight. Even with a 600mhz capable phone.

I'm still not going back to verizon.

How is AT&T ?

 

[Shawn]

AT&T has better coverage in my area but YMMV.

 

[lxskllr]

AT&T has better coverage in my area but YMMV.

It's pretty much always ymmv. I have sprint. They top the bitch list for most people, but I have no complaints about the service. It works just about everywhere I go.

 

[Six]

As someone who travels all day long in SoCal and carries a personal Samsung (T-Mobile) and work iPhone (AT&T), AT&T is much better than T-Mobile. T-Mobile has poor coverage outside of high population density areas. AT&T speed is more consistent. T-Mobile speed is best in high density areas, but starts to throttle down in the evenings. Verizon when I had them a couple years ago had the best coverage and best speeds. With that said, I'm happy with T-Mobile because it's much cheaper if you can get a bunch of people into one family plan, and there are a lot of perks like free Netflix, donuts, etc. 15 unlimited lines for $150-160 per month. I can deal with cell coverage for that price. One last thing....T-Mobile works better than the other carriers when traveling to Mexico and Canada (seamless handoffs from one cell tower to another).

T-Mobile coverage sucks in Wisconsin. Sprint...dunno why they are evens till around. It's the "not now" network when there's rain.

 

[fleshconsumed]

I can backup general consensus by personal experience. I'm using ATT MVNO and I get service in more places than postpaid TMobile. When we went to Mackinaw City up in MI couple of years ago my ATT MVNO had service while TMobile was spotty. When we went to Smoky Mountains earlier this year, again, TMobile had no service by our AirBnb cabin while my ATT MVNO phone had service, which literally saved us an hour worth of driving back and forth to service area - we had to call our AirBnb host twice, once for better directions to the cabin, and second time to get the right code for the cabin, we were really lucky that I had service and could just call the host on the spot, if we only relied on TMobile we'd have to drive to the nearest town for service first, would have been huge PIA.

Moral of the story is, if you don't need reliable service out in the boonies, TMobile is perfectly fine, but ATT sure does come in handy with their better coverage if you need it.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I have had T-Mobile cellular service for longer than I have had my employer-issued AT&T Wireless service, but I can say that in the second most populated county in Georgia that for the past near decade about 50% of my AT&T Wireless calls get dropped. Initially I thought it was the handset (Blackberry Bold back in the day), but then the two replacements since then has shown the problem to continue. And if AT&T Wireless cannot seem to get its head out of the sand to figure out growth, demand, etc., with me complaining internally for said amount of time then I was right in keeping my T-Mobile service where I am at. Now, this says nothing for the millions of other cellular users out there and one's individual experience means little to nothing.

One needs to understand how cellular networking works on the radio access network to understand that sometimes it may not be a carrier [as a whole] but something specific to a land, user, etc.