Losing my smartphone virginity - T-Mobile, Virgin, Boost, or MetroPCS?

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With my employer discount I can get the $70/mo 4G unlimited everything T-Mo plan for ~$65 after taxes. OR I can go with one of the prepaid companies and pay $40-50/mo where they give you very limited 4G and is dropped down to 3G after a low data point is reached. I don't plan on heavy internet usage but it would be nice to have something that runs decently fast when I do use it. I've never really used phone internet before so I have no idea on the actual speed difference between 3G/4G. For network coverage purposes, I'm in San Diego. Is it worth the extra $ to go with T-Mo?
 
you would have to check your area for best coverage. Remember that Metro PCS was just bought out by T-Mo, i am personally on T-Mo , no issues, have the unlimited 4g, and hit 10gb a month regularly, mainly because I can ..... if you plan on streaming music at all, it would be worth going to that plan, since music can / will eat up your data allowance while streaming if not on wifi.
 
I didn't have the best experience w my Sprint phone while I was in San Diego last summer. Very very spotty 4G Wimax. I don't think Sprint has rolled out LTE in that region yet.
 
Tmobile, virgin and boost I believe are sprints network, sprints network has always blown chunks for me. I'm on verizon and its wonderful.
 
Avoid Virgin Mobile! Good customer service, and you will need it. Your actual phone service will be terrible, and data speeds are less than AOL on dial up.
 
c00LaS1cE said:
With my employer discount I can get the $70/mo 4G unlimited everything T-Mo plan for ~$65 after taxes. OR I can go with one of the prepaid companies and pay $40-50/mo where they give you very limited 4G and is dropped down to 3G after a low data point is reached. I don't plan on heavy internet usage but it would be nice to have something that runs decently fast when I do use it. I've never really used phone internet before so I have no idea on the actual speed difference between 3G/4G. For network coverage purposes, I'm in San Diego. Is it worth the extra $ to go with T-Mo?
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If you don't plan on heavy internet usage, I'd go with their $50 plan (500mb of high-speed, throttled thereafter). I get throttled 2-weeks into my billing cycle, and I've tested it to be throttled to about 128k up or down with 3G/H+, and up to 128k on Edge as well. I've found both Pandora and Google Music to stream just fine on Edge, though the initial startup and skipping tracks can cause a 3-5 second buffer (not always). It's adequate, but you won't get Youtube/Netflix/etc when throttled.

I say this because you may find this adequate, and if not, you can bump yourself up to 2.5GB ($60) or unlimited ($70) as needed.
 
T-mobile used to have better plans, but they are on average 5-10$ more per level because they are forcing unlimited mins on people. But They are still best out of the bunch. Sprint's 3G is a joke plain and simple.
 
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