Anyone notice bad coverage lately?

Fuzzy13 · May 11, 2013

Seems like in all the areas of my house that I normally have at least some signal have no service at all. No bars, empty icon. And then for about 2 minutes Ill have 2 bars, then 1 bar and then back to 30-45 minutes of nothing.

Is anyone else having issues with service that they normally have?

jhawkkw · May 11, 2013

That's exactly how my T-Mobile service is whenever I visit my parents. I've tried to get them to fix it, but they won't.

Fuzzy13 · May 11, 2013

jhawkkw said:
That's exactly how my T-Mobile service is whenever I visit my parents. I've tried to get them to fix it, but they won't.

Yeah I use the T mobile sim as the data speeds dominate the ATT speeds. The ATT sim had good coverage in my house but the 2-3mbps is just pathetic compared to the 20-25 I get with T mobile.

Has it always done this with you or is it something that has started recently?>

jhawkkw · May 11, 2013

Fuzzy13 said:
Yeah I use the T mobile sim as the data speeds dominate the ATT speeds. The ATT sim had good coverage in my house but the 2-3mbps is just pathetic compared to the 20-25 I get with T mobile.

Has it always done this with you or is it something that has started recently?>

It was like that from day 1 when I activated at the end of March with no signs of improvement. It is in a rural type area though; t-mobile + rural = YMMV.

Where I normally am is fine though, getting speeds around 10mbps consistently. Only hspa+21 here though.

new optimus · May 11, 2013

Fuzzy13 said:
Yeah I use the T mobile sim as the data speeds dominate the ATT speeds. The ATT sim had good coverage in my house but the 2-3mbps is just pathetic compared to the 20-25 I get with T mobile.

Has it always done this with you or is it something that has started recently?>

Here in jacksonville fl I have noticed sporadic outages, though living right in town ie no rural area I have not lost service, just seen my signal at or over -100dbm.
That was a few weeks ago to a few days ago, Right now my signal is -81dbm and has been in that area of strength fairly consistently.

Granted this is on tmobile directly.

Joshb101 · May 12, 2013

Not having quite the same problem, but I've noticed since the whole AT&T deal went south my data connection just sucks now. I never lose the 4G connection, but its now really inconsistent. Horribly slow, then the next instant it will be nice and speedy again, then back to timing out just on simple web searches.

shortduck · May 21, 2013

Fuzzy13 said:
Yeah I use the T mobile sim as the data speeds dominate the ATT speeds. The ATT sim had good coverage in my house but the 2-3mbps is just pathetic compared to the 20-25 I get with T mobile.

Has it always done this with you or is it something that has started recently?>

20-25 Mbps because it is 4G on T-Mobile ?

new optimus · May 21, 2013

shortduck said:
20-25 Mbps because it is 4G on T-Mobile ?

T-mobile HSPA+ 42 gets a theoretical speed of 42mbs/s if you have a good connection 25 is quite likely
I saw a tmo LTE speed test of 50 something.

Fuzzy13 · May 22, 2013

So I confirmed with a buddy that his T mobile service has been acting up as well so Im assuming it's something to do with T mobile.

Maybe with the Ghetro PCS merge?

new optimus · May 23, 2013

Im getting some wild fluctuations here in jacksonville, one is 16+mb/s then minutes later 2-4mb/s

DonB · May 27, 2013

Am I missing something here, isn't Straight Talk part of AT&T and not T-Mobile ?? or is it because they use the T-Mobile network ??

jhawkkw · May 27, 2013

DonB said:
Am I missing something here, isn't Straight Talk part of AT&T and not T-Mobile ??

Straight talk is an MVNO that operates on all 4 carriers depending on which device you get from them. If you bring your own gsm device, you can use either at&t or t-mobile. However straight talk no longer provides at&t sims, but will honor them if you get one.

Fuzzy13 · May 28, 2013

jhawkkw said:
Straight talk is an MVNO that operates on all 4 carriers depending on which device you get from them. If you bring your own gsm device, you can use either at&t or t-mobile. However straight talk no longer provides at&t sims, but will honor them if you get one.

Well said sir.

droidcaptain · Jun 30, 2013

Fuzzy13 said:
Seems like in all the areas of my house that I normally have at least some signal have no service at all. No bars, empty icon. And then for about 2 minutes Ill have 2 bars, then 1 bar and then back to 30-45 minutes of nothing.

Is anyone else having issues with service that they normally have?

Friends don't let friends use T-Mobile.

Fuzzy13 · Jun 30, 2013

droidcaptain said:
Friends don't let friends use T-Mobile.

All ears for a better suggestion.

flash912 · Jul 2, 2013

Can I get a ST T-Mobile sim and just simply use it in my bionic? I was told that the bionic was already unlock and I don't have to do anything! Please someone give me some insight on this! Thanks

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