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    maximuslyricus
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    Man. It's like I am obsessed with T-mobile. But, you know what it really is? I am a champion of the little man in a questionable economy, with limited resources. I have to find ways to stretch my dollar in order to have a few of the modern comforts that many others with more money possess. That being said, I was late to get a cell phone (probably getting my first in 2005 with SunCom. The service was spotty at best, but I was happy as a pig in slop to finally be getting cellular service. I then upgraded to Alltel which was wonderful until they were swallowed up by Verizon. Don't get me wrong, I loved Big Red's network (which, service-wise, for me was no different than Alltel), and I would still be with them today had they provided me a better value. The problem with Verizon is that they just got too expensive for even the unlimited talk and the few texts that I wanted to send at the time. Because I wanted the ability to talk and text whenever I wanted to, I eventually switched to the budget-minded Walmart Family Mobile (ironically, powered by T-mobile). Everything was all good until I moved. I got decent reception on the outside, but on the inside of my new, thick-walled place, having a quality call was pretty impossible. After suffering for more than a year, buying a repeater that never really worked, and running outside to have conversations in the cold of winter and the mosquitoes of summer, I had had enough. It was at about that time that I began to pay even more attention to what was going on in the wireless industry. I hitched my hopes to Sprint.

    Sprint was going to be my savior. I paid very close attention to the proposed SoftBank purchase of Sprint, and I was drinking the SoftBank Kool-Aid. I thought that Masayoshi Son was gonna shake America's wireless carrier industry up the same way that he had done in Japan: by strengthening his company's network, offering more services and devices, and markedly lowering prices. I made more than a few comments throughout the web in support of the merger. I was a happy camper when the merger was approved, but Sprint didn't really revolutionize things like I had thought, so I waited. Of course amid the waiting I continued to read, and when I was searching for news on Sprint, I came across more and more information about T-mobile. I decried AT&T's proposed takeover of T-mobile in the comments section of more than a few web sites as well, and I was glad that the government had the foresight to throw a monkey wrench into that deal. But, again, I was basically looking from the sidelines regarding that proposal. I was still waiting for Sprint to transform the wireless industry in the U.S. At the time, there was no way I was going with T-mobile because of my home reception issues with Walmart Family Mobile, so I didn't really give T-mo a second thought. But, you know, I started coming across more and more information on T-mobile, and began paying attention to the TV ads and their Uncarrier promotion. After reading about John Legere's proclamations this past spring, I couldn't help becoming more interested.

    The tipping point (unbeknownst to me at the time) was when I found out that T-mo had free WiFi calling on T-mobile-branded WiFi-calling-enabled devices. That was the game-changer. After finding out about T-mo's WiFi calling, researching, and then finding out that unlike other third party apps, T-mo's WiFi calling really works, I finally took a glance at T-mobile's web site and was highly surprised that I would be paying a cheaper price with T-mobile than I was with Walmart Family Mobile that was powered by T-mobile. I was somewhat shocked actually. I could not only get the unlimited calling, text and picture messaging, but 500 megs of high speed data on top of that. Being the budget-minded person that I am, I immediately began researching my first smart phones. Before I made my final commitment to T-mo this past summer, I still waited for Sprint and Masayoshi Son to one-up Big Magenta, but it was T-mo and John Legere that was doing everything that I thought that Sprint was going to do, and more. Now it's almost like a cult thing with me. I love T-mo and everything about how Legere has conducted his business.
    Granted, T-mo needs to not only update its existing network, but expand its coverage by putting up more towers outside of the beaten paths where coverage doesn't exist or reminds me of my SunCom days with the spotty service, but I trust that T-mobile will do what it needs to do to keep customers happy. In the case of T-mo, patience really is a good thing.

    Right now, T-mobile is working for me. T-mo enabled me to make crystal clear calls from the house, not to mention use all the data that I desire via my WiFi connection (or any WiFi) without counting against my 500 megs per line (which is 400 megs more than anyone in my family has ever used so far). Sure there are a few dead zones here and there, but they are few and far between, and for the price I am paying for three lines ($107 and some change), my complaints are few and far between as well. I love T-mo.


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    nataliamasajes
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    Re: T-mobile is revolutionizing the wireless carrier industry like I thought that Sprint was going t

    wowww you said it hahahaha



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    maximuslyricus
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    Re: T-mobile is revolutionizing the wireless carrier industry like I thought that Sprint was going t

    Yeah. John Legere needs to offer me a job, send me some free phones, or something for as much as I prop T-mo.



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