T-Mobile CEO Kicked Out Of AT&T's CES Party

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Why in the world would AT&T have the guy escorted out by security? That's pretty lame. I would have used it as a PR move by announcing "AT&T's parties are so good...even T-Mobile's CEO showed up." :D

While Legere claimed he was attending for the music, it's more likely he was looking for the kind of outcome where he was going to be kicked. AT&T, alerted to his presence at the party, had him removed.
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Anybody that screws with AT&T is ok in my book.

AT&T - worst service/customer service on the on the face of the planet.
 
Verizon Wireless has pretty bad customer service as well. Add Cox Comm in there, too... :mad:
 
It's almost like I want VZW to take away my grandfathered unlimited data so I can kick them to the curb forever and run into the arms of T-Mobile.

I am SO glad that ATT never got to buy them out. We dodged an enormous bullet there.
 
I'm a terrible racist. Before I looked it up, I thought the Asian guy was the CEO.
 
How cute.

Two cellphone service providers whose products are useless as phones due to their shitty coverage with constant dropped calls are fighting with each other.

As long as they focus on gimmicks and fight with eachother it will stay that way, and Verizon will remain the only viable wireless provider in the U.S. for those of us who care about reliable service...
 
cyclone3d said:
Anybody that screws with AT&T is ok in my book.

AT&T - worst service/customer service on the on the face of the planet.
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Having had experience with both Vzw and AT&T, VZW's customer service is way way worse than AT&T's, but the fact that VZW has the only wireless network in the U.S. that actually works, makes me put up with that fact...
 
Zarathustra[H];1040525596 said:
How cute.

Two cellphone service providers whose products are useless as phones due to their shitty coverage with constant dropped calls are fighting with each other.

As long as they focus on gimmicks and fight with eachother it will stay that way, and Verizon will remain the only viable wireless provider in the U.S. for those of us who care about reliable service...
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I found a prepaid provider called Page Plus that uses the Verizon network, and activated an old Droid X I had off contract with them for the princely sum of $10 every 3 months.

Gave it to my mom for an emergency phone when she's out.
 
TMobile kicks ass in Houston for coverage. *shrugs* Just depends who has the most towers in your area, and that will vary by region.
 
Ducman69 said:
TMobile kicks ass in Houston for coverage. *shrugs* Just depends who has the most towers in your area, and that will vary by region.
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Good for you that Houston got the goods b/c Dallas got screwed. Tmo coverage up here is horrible.
 
Ducman69 said:
TMobile kicks ass in Houston for coverage. *shrugs* Just depends who has the most towers in your area, and that will vary by region.
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Don't get me wrong. Many of the other carriers have their sweet spots. I had AT&T (well, Cingular at first before they became AT&T) for ~10 years starting in 1999. When I lived in Western Mass they were pretty good, but in Boston they blew.

Verizon is the only carrier I have found that has pretty decent coverage wherever you go. I'd rather have a carrier that works everywhere, than one that just works well in a specific local market.
 
Zarathustra[H];1040525596 said:
How cute.

Two cellphone service providers whose products are useless as phones due to their shitty coverage with constant dropped calls are fighting with each other.

As long as they focus on gimmicks and fight with eachother it will stay that way, and Verizon will remain the only viable wireless provider in the U.S. for those of us who care about reliable service...
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Actually, VZW service pretty much sucks at my house. And we are less than half a mile from a cell phone tower. If I want to keep my call connected, I have to go outside. If I am inside and the call actually stays connected, I usually miss about every 3rd word because the connection is so bad even if it says a I have 3-4 bars of signal.

They used to be better, but it has gotten really bad the past few years.
 
cyclone3d said:
Actually, VZW service pretty much sucks at my house. And we are less than half a mile from a cell phone tower. If I want to keep my call connected, I have to go outside. If I am inside and the call actually stays connected, I usually miss about every 3rd word because the connection is so bad even if it says a I have 3-4 bars of signal.

They used to be better, but it has gotten really bad the past few years.
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Where though?
 
Zarathustra[H];1040525603 said:
Having had experience with both Vzw and AT&T, VZW's customer service is way way worse than AT&T's, but the fact that VZW has the only wireless network in the U.S. that actually works, makes me put up with that fact...
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I'm not even sure how it is possible to have worse customer service than ATT.

As for the cell phone customer service, when they bought Cingular, they tried to double charge me for a month of service.

Then, quite a few years after that, I called in to get the minutes raised on my plan. They raised my minutes, but eliminated the family plan on my plan. They then tried to charge me for all kinds of overages.

It took me about 6 months for them to finally fix it. I must have wasted at least 6 hours on the phone with them. Last time I told them I would stay on the phone until it was fixed. They finally got somebody on the phone that took care of it.

Also, around the same time, they tried to charge me for overages for calls that connected to a tower in Mexico for some reason when I was still in Arizona (close to the border). To top it off, I wasn't even able to make calls that day because from what I could gather from the spanish recording that came on when I tried to make a call, it was saying something about me being out of the service area or something.

We used to have ATT DSL where I work. Anytime it went down.. and it was quite often, I would have to wait on hold for 1-2 hours before I would even be able to put in a ticket.

I will never have ATT service again unless it is completely free. Even then, I would dread having to call them for any issue, no matter how small.
 
cyclone3d said:
Huntsville, AL. Not out in the boonies either. I am still in Huntsville city limits.
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Ah ok. I got pretty spotty coverage in California too. It's not that it sucks terribly all the time, but especially when I drive it's pretty meh and it seems like the battery goes down the drain much faster than when I was in PA. It still actually gets coverage though, but I would check out which carrier has the best coverage in your specific area, and go with that unless you have to travel a lot.
 
Zarathustra[H];1040525664 said:
Don't get me wrong. Many of the other carriers have their sweet spots. I had AT&T (well, Cingular at first before they became AT&T) for ~10 years starting in 1999. When I lived in Western Mass they were pretty good, but in Boston they blew.

Verizon is the only carrier I have found that has pretty decent coverage wherever you go. I'd rather have a carrier that works everywhere, than one that just works well in a specific local market.
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Actually Sprint is pretty comparable to Verizon as far as overall coverage goes...

People dog on them for lacking in 4G (which they do, but they are working on and may catch up soon) but to me, as someone who doesn't want stream video or anything or anything else overly bandwidth intensive (which is pretty much mostly pointless on a cell phone anyway) 3G works just fine, and w/Sprint you have a coverage map that is pretty decent over much of the country.

I do a lot of traveling, and Verizon without question has the best coverage (but boy do you pay for it) and if you need to find a signal in the middle of nowhere, they usually have you covered.

Sprint doesn't usually go quite as far into the boonies as Verizon, but they are close, and unlike AT&T or T-Mo (which you'll lose signal with as soon as you leave a large metro area or major interstate corridor) you can go most places and get pretty good service.

Of course, as you said, every carrier has their sweet spots, and by contrast areas in which they suck balls... but having spent years traveling the country w/multiple wireless devices/carriers, I'd rank Sprint pretty close to Verizon... and their biggest draw (at least for the moment) is their unlimited data and the fact that they don't rape your wallet so badly as the big V or AT&T.
 
Sprint is terrible in the greater Seattle area. T-Mobile has them beat here. Possibly because this is where the US headquarters for T-Mobile are, but Sprint is laughably bad. My company used Sprint for years and field people had dropped calls, latent e/vmail, latent text, and dropped internet on a daily basis.
 
Ducman69 said:
TMobile kicks ass in Houston for coverage. *shrugs* Just depends who has the most towers in your area, and that will vary by region.
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Same goes for Chicago. In the NW suburbs my download speeds are better on T-Mo than my dad with Verizon. He usually gets around 15mbps at home, where as I'll get around 25-30 mbps. Pretty neat considering my cell phone bill is half what his is :D
 
Dbag and unclassy behavior on AT&T's part. Better for PR if they welcome their competition plus didn't they recently want Tmobile to become part of their family with the acquisition attempt?
 
mi7chy said:
Dbag and unclassy behavior on AT&T's part. Better for PR if they welcome their competition plus didn't they recently want Tmobile to become part of their family with the acquisition attempt?
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I agree 100%
 
Zarathustra[H];1040525596 said:
How cute.

Two cellphone service providers whose products are useless as phones due to their shitty coverage with constant dropped calls are fighting with each other.

As long as they focus on gimmicks and fight with eachother it will stay that way, and Verizon will remain the only viable wireless provider in the U.S. for those of us who care about reliable service...
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I've had more problems with crappy Verizon then I have ever had with T-Mobile.
 
I've been with both ATT and VZW, and I definitely think ATT has the better customer service.

Coverage is always dependent on where you happen to be. My VZM data card for my laptop can usually find LTE. However in my house I barely get 1 bar...and this is in the middle of silicon valley.

I don't even remember when I last had a dropped call with ATT (but I'm almost always in urban areas).
 
Xrave said:
I've been with both ATT and VZW, and I definitely think ATT has the better customer service.

Coverage is always dependent on where you happen to be. My VZM data card for my laptop can usually find LTE. However in my house I barely get 1 bar...and this is in the middle of silicon valley.

I don't even remember when I last had a dropped call with ATT (but I'm almost always in urban areas).
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Union Square in NYC. SO SO bad on AT&T...
 
Typical lame behavior that is the epitome of every American Corporation.
 
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