What Phone Carrier do you like best?

Looking to simplify our phones and bills, have 6 iPhones, 1 home line, and 1 watch with Verizon.

Anyone here enjoy their smaller / more simple carrier company?

Outside of service areas, pros and cons?

T-mobile said they’d take all of us over but I’m not looking to go from big company A to big company C unless I have to.

 

T-Mobile has pretty good veteran's discount. I've got unlimited everything, including high speed data with no slowdowns and hotspot, for $40 per line all in per month. Other benefits too like AppleTV subscription, free wifi on domestic flights, etc.

 

Thanks! I spoke with them and the dreaded AT&T today and it sounds like either way my bill would go down (after paying off a few phones with AT&T, whereas T-mobile gives us cards to pay off all unresolved lines).

Seems like the only options right now. Have been looking into Mint and Republic and all of those but hard to tell how transitioning so much would go with them.

 

Google Fi is pretty solid, price and coverage. More than happy to bring your old phone over if jailbroken too.

 

Appreciated.

 

To me they are 6 of one, half dozen of the other. I have had Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T and a few others I dont remember. I have always had my personal phone with AT&T but work phones when issued were likely to be any carrier. T-Mobile was great in Dallas proper, sucked ass when you were in the sticks. Same for Verizon, AT&T was good in the sticks. My phones were used for work and I traveled a bit so my truck was rigged with external antenna and boosters.

If you are in a large city, just get the cheapest, if you spend time in the sticks, just check coverage maps.

 

Sub'd.

I've been with Verizon for years but considering a switch. Looking at Patriot Mobile since my wife will be needing a new phone soon.

 

T mobile

2 lines all you can eat US Canada Mexico, 60/mo (for both. Not one, total cost)

In most rest of the world text/data is free, voice is .25/min if you don't buy a travel package or have the ability to use WiFi calling

5 years ago we signed papers to sell our house sitting in the Bejing airport, on cell. The country everyone said you'd never have connectivity in.

 

I feel this conclusion for sure. When we’re not in our small town in our small state we’re at remote free camping sites or in small countries so coverage is about all that matters. Unfortunately every one of these companies are hot garbage.

 

This is our strongest contender for reasons stated as well as paying off some of our phones. We have 5-6 iPhones, 1 house phone, 1 watch so most companies we talk to have to punch some numbers to give us quotes ha.

 

I ditched a 30 year land line number when we made the move selling the house I mentioned. I used a service called 'number barn' that allowed me to preserve that number for a minimal monthly fee, I could put a message on it for callers, and I could see who called.

This allowed us confidence in transition that we'd notified everyone we wanted to. We left it active for about a year, probably 6 months longer than we needed to. No more land line.

I know all the stories about land line reliability. It has 'some' truth if you have a POTS set up, but most landlines piggy on folks internet these days. And if your provider loses power (not you, just them) at the point you are served from, you're in the dark anyway.

 

I own my folks house and they don’t have cell phones, just a house phone, so that’s theirs in there ha. All the other lines are my wife and siblings. Folks have no interest in smart phones (their house phone even had a cord) and never will. My dad makes fun of all of us on ours haha.

 

My work phone is Verizon, my personal is ATiT.

I would not do a Verizon as a personal, purely because they are far and away the most expensive and have been for years. As far as coverage, ATT and Verizon are about equal, but not necessarily in the same spots.

I have sometimes taken my work phone on camping trips because when skirting the edge of the remote boonies, one phone gets signal when the other doesn't. I would be curious to see how the other guys do. I've heard that T-Mobile is dogshit outside of town, but that's old info.

 

I feel like Verizon costing more used to be worth it because they had such better coverage (here, at least), but now AT&T has more coverage in my area. They’re worse from what I’ve seen for rip off fees and oops we don’t notice that charges like Wells Fargo though is what I’ve been told ha.

 

If your iPhone supports an e-sim (most modern ones do) you can try T-Mobile free for 3 months.

T-Mobile Free Trial

We used to have T-Mobile and we liked it except for poor coverage around my wife's office.

We ended up going back to ATT due to that coverage spot.

I recently tried the trial and everything is great except for the same coverage around her office.

The office is moving soon so I will try it again and hopefully it will be OK there.

 

The one I bought on Amazon that has belt loops.

 

I switched from Verizon to Straight Talk several years ago and have never had an issue with coverage or anything. $45/ month for unlimited talk/text and like 300GB data. Supposedly runs on the same towers as Verizon. Works for me

 

Looking at prepaid options for AT&T and some of the others. Would be nice to not have contracts again.

 

I have used Fi for some time now. No complaints.