Comments on: T-Mobile: always the bridesmaid, never the bride

By: dedee

dedee — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:39:37 +0000

Yea I agree… I have a sidekick slide and now I have prepaid but when I had a plan with tmobile I was constantly calling them inquiring why I cannot make calls or why I don’t have access 2 the internet, it becomes annoying afterwhile. My biggest question is why they haven come up with the bright idea 2 make one of these sidekicks a touchscreen. It seems like a given. Sidekick is they’re thing like the iphone is at&t’s. They’d make a killing if they’d add that one obvious feature to it. I mean they just started adding video 2 the damn things… so behind the ball. And I have 2 admit im disappointed. I’ve had a side kick as a young adult it should be growing with me! They charge too much money for a phone that’s behind the times.

By: NPS

NPS — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:50:59 +0000

Hmmm. Coverage on ANY network is subjective to where you live and work. Here in So. Calif, I get good reception on T-Mobile at both places and everywhere else I need to go (local, regional and national). The dead spots I have are about the same number friends have on AT&T and Verizon.

Contrast this with friends who get slightly better reception on AT&T in a few areas but can NEVER make a call at peak hours due to “Network Busy” messages.

Coverage as in signal strength means nothing if the RF layout was done by brute force of more towers/masts with no proper balancing of the network.

Most carrier dead spots are well known and all carriers including T-Mobile add new mast sites (see. http://compass.t-mobile.com ). Local opposition to new sites is what prevents better coverage. More and more carriers though are co-locating their mast sites with other carriers. If a city wants to put up opposition to improved coverage then they either need to pre-build co-location sites or FORCE co-location on existing sites.

That would solve coverage issues once and for all if the carrier is willing to make the infrastructure investment.

By: Triston McIntyre

Triston McIntyre — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:43:21 +0000

T-Mobile has fantastic service in the cities. Outside and in between cities is where it suffers.

By: Surfer

Surfer — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:58:34 +0000

I agree I have never had a problem with T-Mobile either my service has been great for the past 5yrs I do agree they need better handsets and 3g.

By: shoe

shoe — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:17:54 +0000

and yet i have never had a reception problem. so it might be safe to say that issue doesn’t apply to everyone. nor does it just apply to you. but this is the case with EVERY provider.

if they could just get on the ball with the handsets and 3g network, they’d do alright!