For anyone who has tried switching over, what’s your experience with them been like? Were there any hidden upsides or downsides you weren’t expecting? What about coverage? It’s really hard to ignore them when they keep spamming ads to YouTube, my favorite podcasts, etc.

  • llama@midwest.socialEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I’ve used it for a few years and I like it, I pay once per year and it’s the same T-Mobile service. There’s no roaming though so I always get a local esim when I travel abroad. Kind of iffed T-Mobile just bought them though. They say oh we’re actually keeping prices the same and giving you more data (as mint has traditionally done every other year) but I have a feeling this will be the last data increase we’ll ever see. And also some people complain about deprioritization but as a former T-Mobile customer I can tell you it’s the same places like busy malls or stadiums where direct T-Mobile customers aren’t having a good time either.

    • SenorBolsa@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, even on magenta Max the fundamental limit seems to always be network capacity and no amount of priority gets you enough. I’m sure some edge cases it helped but eh. Now that I don’t need unlimited data and rely on having it realized I should switch to at least try it out, took like 30 min because say what you will about TMobile they are fairly pro consumer when it comes to migration tools. I literally did it all through the app seamlessly and they automatically canceled everything an buttoned it up when I had no devices, numbers or outstanding balances. I didn’t have to call anyone or answer a survey or any bullshit, just a small box on the transfer page asking me to reconsider.

      Personally they’ve treated me well as a customer apart from the price for a single line being eye watering.

      • llama@midwest.socialEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        My moment with T-Mobile was when I got a Pixel and needed the new smaller SIM size and they wanted to charge me. I was like okay well if you won’t give me the SIM then I can’t pay you for service, and that was that.

        • SenorBolsa@beehaw.orgEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Yeah that sucks, they shipped me a new SIM in the box with my 6 pro. All stupid because they could have easily issued an eSIM (like mint did for me)