Carrier Poll: Who is your wireless carrier?

[Channan]

Main phone with unlimited data: Verizon
iPad with unlimited data: AT&T
iPad with 200 MB: T-Mobile
Two spare phone lines with free service: RingPlus (Sprint)

 

[janeauburn]

t-mobile all the way, every day.

Went to Europe twice this fall and each time I had unlimited 4G data for no extra charge. You can't get THAT with those other crappy carriers.

 

[Zaft]

Sprint NYC.

Its very good now and competes with the other carriers.

I get around 50-100mb/s download around my neighborhood.

 

[imlynxy]

Att old UDPs, also have T-mobile, but network is oversold and congested in Boston.

 

[C5.4]

At&t. Absolutely hate them in every possible way, but I get a discount with my employer. Plus they are the only carrier with half decent reception out here...still only get -113 signal strength on average. Probably 5-10mbps download.

 

[Channan]

I've found, in all the places I've tested them...

Speed:

1. T-Mobile
2. Verizon
3. AT&T
4. Sprint

Coverage:

1. Verizon
2. AT&T
3. Sprint
4. T-Mobile

 

[dk001]

Started with Verizon and after getting crammed and very poor customer service I switched to AT&T. Have stayed with them for several years now (Cingular to SBC to AT&T). Great coverage for my travels, employer discount, and my customer service has been good.
Tried Google Fi and found it to be very good. Employer doesn't discount for this carrier.

 

[KUguardgrl13]

Verizon. I'm still on my parents' plan (parents and brother live on the east coast, I'm in the midwest, and Dad travels for work). Coverage is key for us, so the price is worth it (about $260 a month for 4 iPhones and an iPad). I'm close to Kansas City where the Big 4 all seem to have decent coverage, but it varies once you leave the KC Metro. Verizon does really well along I-35 and into rural Iowa and Nebraska. It struggles out in the Ozarks.

My fiancé has T-Mobile unlimited that he's pretty happy with. I have coverage where he doesn't, and where I don't he somehow does. My parents keep suggesting I move to his plan sometime, but having at least one phone with coverage just about everywhere is really handy! The downside to that is I still have an iPhone 5

 

[Bkfraiders7]

Switched from Verizon to T-Mobile a month ago and have enjoyed it. I'm about 30 miles west of Atlanta and speed and coverage has been great. While at school in Athens, inside is only 2 bars but wifi texting and calling make up for that. The only place my family has had no service is in Alabama, which is a cellphone deathspot for Verizon too, and Dad had a deathspot in Tennessee last weekend too. Otherwise, good service. Great speed. And good customer service.

4 lines unlimited everything for $120.

 

[mitchsaunders]

Telstra (Australia).

I'm on a MVNO running under them for now, porting over to full Telstra next month and taking up one of their $50 BYO SIM ONLY 12M offers.

 

[bgalakazam]

Used to be on T-Mobile. Switched to sprint, got more data, 2 new iPhones and cut my bill by $50. Coverage about the same in SC.

 

[Closingracer]

I've had all four major carriers and my like and dislike is according to value and customer service I am getting out of the service more than the actual service.


AT&T: coverage and data speeds is great but expensive. For me the best coverage



Verizon: coverage was close to AT&T for me and data speeds was fast but really expensive. Paid $150 a month just for myself including plan, taxes, and phone payment




T-Mobile: coverage was poor, expensive and customer service was horrible. Was paying $130 a month for myself which at $10 less than Verizon I chose better coverage. Their customer service is so bad that I got fooled by them twice. First time I left for AT&T for the iPhone since at the time they were the only ones with it. 2nd time I have now decided to never do business with them again.



Sprint: service is acceptable and price is the cheapest. I'm paying under $100 a month for my lease and service and "unlimited" data. Service in terms of talk and data is pretty much everywhere I go in terms of getting a signal but signal strength and data speeds could be better. For the price I won't complain though. If I'm in the city or in downtown Brooklyn or my neighborhood I get good data speeds.

 

[Closingracer]

I've had T-Mobile for 2 years now. I live on the South side of Chicago. I've witnessed first hand The improvements on their network. I also have unlimited data which is keeping me from going anywhere as well. To those debating the switch, I say go for it as long as you have coverage at home and work.

Meh if you're happy with the carrier you have I wouldn't.... Specially if you're not data hungry. If you don't use a ton of data I would honestly either stick with your carrier or switch to Verizon or AT&T. They do have some fairly cheap plans if you want low data buckets.

 

[Closingracer]

I was an AT&T customer for about 15 years, but this year I switched to Verizon. I live about 20 miles south of Portland, Oregon. Verizon LTE is 4-6 times faster than AT&T in quite a few places. They've got coverage in most of the AT&T dead spots that I knew about. There are a few spots where AT&T worked fine, but Verizon doesn't. I have heard horror stories about T-Mobile where I live, so they unfortunately don't get a chance.

At least when I was a customer of T-Mobile they offered a free way to try their network. You would get an iPhone 5s I think it was and you get to try their service with no strings attached. All you need to do is allow a hold of $800 or whatever it was and give it back in 2 weeks.

 

[T5BRICK]

At least when I was a customer of T-Mobile they offered a free way to try their network. You would get an iPhone 5s I think it was and you get to try their service with no strings attached. All you need to do is allow a hold of $800 or whatever it was and give it back in 2 weeks.

Well, being that I have unlocked Verizon phone, I could just sign up for one of their pre-paid plans and try the service out for a month.

Either way I know the coverage isn't as good in outlying areas, so I'll stick with what I've got.

 

[Closingracer]

Well, being that I have unlocked Verizon phone, I could just sign up for one of their pre-paid plans and try the service out for a month.

Either way I know the coverage isn't as good in outlying areas, so I'll stick with what I've got.

That's up to you but I would give it a try IMHO. Got nothing to lose. I loved Verizon but they got so expensive for me.

 

[Suckfest 9001]

Other: my carrier is not available in third-world countries run by corrupt billionaires.

 

[KUguardgrl13]

Other: my carrier is not available in third-world countries run by corrupt billionaires.

 

[Lloydbm41]

T-Mobile. Have watched their network go from downright garbage to faster than all other networks over the course of 2.5 years.

And I just started working for them.

 

[Black05Hemi]

Verizon. I pull LTE out in the middle of the desert. Tried T-Mobile a couple years ago, only pulled 2G.

 

[T5BRICK]

That's up to you but I would give it a try IMHO. Got nothing to lose. I loved Verizon but they got so expensive for me.

Eventually I'll have to try it. I have seven lines on my account, so any carrier switch can become a monumental task pretty quickly.

 

[Velkus]

Verizon .... For all the US.

 

[I7guy]

Vzw, 3 lines Udp. I travel the desert areas and there is coverage virtually everywhere I've gone except down the stretch of pch between Carmel and Santa Barbara where actually lost all coverage for brief periods.

 

[DrewDaHilp1]

AT&T Death Star until my unlimited goes away.

 

[Daki]

I use Tmobile with the $30/month prepaid plan (100 minutes/ 5Gb data). I don't talk much (less than 30 minutes/ month), so it's perfect for my needs. I'm also in the Atlanta metro area and have been happy with the data and phone coverage, especially after switching from my 5S to iphone 7. With the 5S, I used to lose signal in the center of my office building and there was also a dead zone at the building entrance. The iphone 7 keeps a strong LTE signal in the same areas. I have an ipad mini on Verizon which is good for alternative coverage when traveling.