I live in San Francisco and there is no coverage when walking around the city with T-mobile. Verizon has coverage everywhere.
I'm not even talking about elevators. Just sidewalks of major central pedestrian roads like Bay St and Hyde St.
I also have no coverage in my apartment with them or at work.
Coupled with the cancelation of Cel-Fi, it is impossible to use their service in many densely populated areas.
I live in San Francisco and have T-mobile service, and don't see what you're seeing. I'll hop on up to Bay and Hyde tomorrow to double-check, but in the past I've gotten adequate coverage everywhere aboveground I've been in the city.
The voice calls were cutting out on a Nexus 4 on those streets when walking on the right side of the sidewalk North from Broadway to Bay and walking East on Bay from there.
I also never used ATT so I don't know how their service is.
Basically, the only time I've ever gotten good quality calls from T-mobile was when I was calling the emergency number from an area I normally have no service in.
I'm considering T-Mo as they seem the less douchy of the bunch. Right now I have Sprint and the service pretty much sucks everywhere in the city. I don't use the phone much and the data blows. I can get LTE in a few places, but it's no where near AT&T that my wife has. I usually have to drop down to 3G as LTE seems to stall a lot (on a 5s). A lot of the time there's the 1x business goin on my connection, which I feel is like iPhone 1 days (or worse).
I switched to Sprint because I felt like I wasn't going to be nickle and dimed (and despised as a 'data hog') like I was on AT&T. I'll never got back to AT&T. For the most part my plan on Sprint is great - unlimited data, phone, and text and 5GB hotspot for little bit less than what I was paying for AT&T.
But the network in SF just sucks. Ya know, it's 2014 and I'd just like decent LTE. I'm shelling out a lot of money for sub-par service. So, I'm gonna ask around about T-Mo and if it has good service, I'll switch over. Now they seem least douchy of the bunch.
I rather have no data at all than constant disconnects and cut offs for the 2-3 phone calls I place a day. I really wanted to like T-mobile, but their service in SF sucks for me.
The other issue I have with them is that if you cancel your month-to-month subscription, they don't let you keep talking for the month you already paid for if you move your phone number to another company. That is they won't issue you a new phone number if you transfer the one you had with them.
I also hate Verizon because of the 2 year contract and useless preinstalled apps, but that seems to be the only option.
I'm not even talking about elevators. Just sidewalks of major central pedestrian roads like Bay St and Hyde St. I also have no coverage in my apartment with them or at work.
Coupled with the cancelation of Cel-Fi, it is impossible to use their service in many densely populated areas.