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Got my T-Mobile s3 the other day. I roam allot on att in my area with my old phone but with this s3 it says I have 3 bars but i get a not registered on network error when I try to make a call. It will do this till I get back on T-Mobile.
Anyway to fix this crap? Is this phone not able to roam?
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You have to go to settings and network to enable, I believe they do charged for roaming unlike sprint tho
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I checked under settings and the only thing I found for roaming was data. I have free roaming. I tried manually selecting network when the only thing that was found was att and had bars but got the same error. Thanks for the reply
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Mm I see that's weird
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think I'll call T-Mobile and see what they have to say about it. Will check back for replies.
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T-Mobile was no help. They said I should have a network mode option in settings but I don't and my brothers s3 didn't either. His phone is stock no root and has the same roaming issue mine does. This is crazy that we can't roam with this phone.
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T-Mobile escalated the issue to some engineers who have been calling me back. Apparently me and my brother aren't the only ones with this issue but a ton of people have been having this issue.
And there still stumped as to why these phones are missing the network mode option. Can Anyone with T-Mobile version confirm if they have this option?
Settings> more settings> network mode. I have 2 s3 missing that option
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No, I don't have that option.
But is this what you're looking for?
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NVM, just saw your post where you said you found this already.
Yeah according to the techs at T-Mobile there should be a 5th option there and he said he has it on his. Can you manually select att or any other carrier to roam on?
Any time we try it fails to connect and returns to T-Mobiles tower.
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mustk1ll20 said:
Got my T-Mobile s3 the other day. I roam allot on att in my area with my old phone but with this s3 it says I have 3 bars but i get a not registered on network error when I try to make a call. It will do this till I get back on T-Mobile.
Anyway to fix this crap? Is this phone not able to roam?
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It's *not* the phone. I have the same problem with my rooted G2. My wife has a stock G2 with the same results.
Likewise I used to be able to roam and force to ATT when TMo was poor or non-existent.
I first noticed that I hadn't seen it roam in a while....like within the last year or more. And the inability to roam *greatly* limits TMo's coverage.
We recently had to travel for a funeral into a very rural area with really poor coverage. Couldn't coordinate with family or friends. No Google Maps. Home security sys and cams were innacessible. We usually care for my sister who has Lupus....we didn't even have a way to check up on her.
In short, I've been a TMo cust for a decade and that experience was enough to make me switch. And the fact that it appears to be a widespread problem that *still* isn't fixed makes me even more angry.
Like you, TMo says it should work. I'm beginning to suspect a SIM card issue.
I think it's the phone. Never had any issue with roaming on previous android phones. Also I unlocked it and I'm now using it with att. Now I can't roam on T-Mobile with it. Other phones on my account that aren't s3 can roam fine.
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I have T-Mobile right now and at my home up until about 10 days ago I received an amazing connection. Data was at 90ms 25MB Down and 4MB UP.
Now I am lucky to ping 1000ms. My fastest DL is 0.59MBPS and I get ZERO upload. T-Mobile has been creating engineering tickets for me with a promised response in 72 hours and it hasn't happened. I've been waiting 10 days now. I am about ready to leave them and head over to Verizon or Sprint.
I had the same issue with roaming with my s2. It's not the phone...I spent 2 weeks argueing with T-Mobile and have yet to EVER be able to roam. My wife has the sensation, now I've moved to the s3 and neither of us have successfully been able to roam. Makes me wonder if T-Mobile is full of **** with their "free" roaming agreements.
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For some reason my s3 has the network mode option. I have great coverage here in the nyc area so I have never needed to roam but I do have that option under more settings.
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I had the same issue with roaming with my s2. It's not the phone...I spent 2 weeks argueing with T-Mobile and have yet to EVER be able to roam. My wife has the sensation, now I've moved to the s3 and neither of us have successfully been able to roam. Makes me wonder if T-Mobile is full of **** with their "free" roaming agreements.
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Then it's something Samsung is doing wrong. Like I said, unlocked using att now and can't roam on T-Mobile. It works fine att but roaming on other carriers is still an issue. It's something with the phone.
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Then it's something Samsung is doing wrong. Like I said, unlocked using att now and can't roam on T-Mobile. It works fine att but roaming on other carriers is still an issue. It's something with the phone.
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Which release are you on? Roaming for tmobu is controlled by SIM card. Weather the settings there or not. The towers won't allow you to connect if the SIM card doesn't match
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Lol
the phone is working fine on at&t with at&t SIM. But still won't roam to other networks. Did the same thing before I unlocked it and was using T-Mobile SIM.
In the end no matter which SIM I use in the phone it will not roam. It's the phone. 3 SIM cards 3 different carriers NONE WORK WITH ROAMING ON THIS PHONE.
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the phone is working fine on at&t with at&t SIM. But still won't roam to other networks. Did the same thing before I unlocked it and was using T-Mobile SIM.
In the end no matter which SIM I use in the phone it will not roam. It's the phone. 3 SIM cards 3 different carriers NONE WORK WITH ROAMING ON THIS PHONE.
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Yes because the SIM cards do not allow you to connect to other towers that are not branded to that SIM card. A T-Mobile SIM will connect to T-Mobile towers and att SIM will connect to att towers.
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Yes because the SIM cards do not allow you to connect to other towers that are not branded to that SIM card. A T-Mobile SIM will connect to T-Mobile towers and att SIM will connect to att towers.
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So what your saying is roaming is no longer possible for any carrier? What's the point of at&t and T-Mobile to having roaming agreements? My T-Mobile flip phone roams no problem back and forth to at&t and back to T-Mobile no problem.
This s3 is the only phone I have ever had a problem with roaming.
I don't think your understanding the "roaming" part of this. So,,,, I have T-Mobile SIM and phone.. I go out of range of the T-Mobile tower. If at&t towers are around the phone should connect to it for roaming.
I have changed SIM cards out, I have also traded phones out. T-Mobile reps agree that the phone should roam. I had free roaming.
T-Mobile has always connected to other carrier towers for roaming till I got this phone.
I'll be borrowing an iPhone tomorrow to check for roaming.
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So what your saying is roaming is no longer possible for any carrier? What's the point of at&t and T-Mobile to having roaming agreements? My T-Mobile flip phone roams no problem back and forth to at&t and back to T-Mobile no problem.
This s3 is the only phone I have ever had a problem with roaming.
I don't think your understanding the "roaming" part of this. So,,,, I have T-Mobile SIM and phone.. I go out of range of the T-Mobile tower. If at&t towers are around the phone should connect to it for roaming.
I have changed SIM cards out, I have also traded phones out. T-Mobile reps agree that the phone should roam. I had free roaming.
T-Mobile has always connected to other carrier towers for roaming till I got this phone.
I'll be borrowing an iPhone tomorrow to check for roaming.
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Did you get a new SIM card with your s3? If so the roaming agreements change.
I have never went roaming with my s2 or s3 and they both have been everywhere. Not to mention roaming agreements aren't for everywhere, your area may not have the roaming agreement on that SIM. Have you put the old SIM from the flip phone into your s3? Either way roaming is controlled by either SIM or prl. And since T-Mobile doesn't use prl, it's gotta be your SIM.
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Loss Wages getting some LTE love... SOON!
http://www.tmonews.com/2013/01/t-mo...arket-launch-happening-before-end-of-january/
Great, hopefully Houston next month
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So, I wonder when we'll be able to turn on LTE on our Note 2s.
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Lucky me I live in Vegas
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Lucky me I live in Vegas
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Me too can't wait
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Awesome news. Can't wait to see this in action.
which data plan will it available? i mean like i have the unlimited data plan. is that mean i will have unlimited LTE data plan?
Tmo also just announced an LTE variant of the GS3. It is getting serious. So much for guys saying "no LTE until 2014"...
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Love it! I'm in Vegas, I wonder when we will be able to use LTE on our Note 2
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The obvious question is when will the Note2 update with the new modem roll out? Hopefully in 3 weeks when LTE goes live in Vegas? I smell a road trip!
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The question is... what if they take months just to deliver a new modem...
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Tmonews just mentioned a software update for the note 2. Didn't mention any specifics though. I'd bet it will coincide with the initial markets go-live.
This is starting to play out just like the installation techs said it would when they installed the new equipment at a local tmo tower.
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Great, hopefully Houston next month
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I'm right there with you! Considering our city is one of the biggest in the country we should be getting it not too long after release. We are one of the first receiving upgrades like that. The network reform for example...
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I'm right there with you! Considering our city is one of the biggest in the country we should be getting it not too long after release. We are one of the first receiving upgrades like that. The network reform for example...
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Yep, we are usually next after las Vegas, I live in Pasadena near 610 and 225.
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S.f hopefully we get soon
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I just read this online, how cool! :thumbup:
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North Jersey also
Outside of where I work there were guys working on a tower. I asked them who were they worked for.... They told me Tmobile and they were putting in LTE ...that was in Elizabeth NJ... he said by the 13th it would be working.
Sure hope the they hurry up. I'm still on 2G here at work and it's infuriating.
I assume since they were gonna use the 2G frequencies for LTE I might finally be able to pull at least 3G here?
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NYC should be soon also. Towers are more than likely already wired for LTE. Of course my speeds now are pretty great. No complaints.
I am SO TEMPTED to switch back to T-Mobile for the Note 2 and their upcoming LTE network.
1900mhz & AWS 3G bands
LTE capability
save loads of $$$$
TRULY unlimited HSPA/LTE data
Fast data speeds during phone calls
Hate AT&T, but love how their network is mature. My friend's T-Mobile phone likes to occasionally switch to E.
Here's some news. Talked to a tech today for awhile resolving an account issue. During our conversation I asked about deployment plans. Here is the top five things they said they're doing:
1. Rolling out LTE upgrades to current 4g towers. Which may cause temporary service loss of data.
2. Upgrading all towers along the interstate system in their current footprint to hspa and to LTE in larger cities with 4g already deployed.
3. LTE will roll out in large cities with 4g first that have completed upgrades.
4. Metropcs lte towers may be given greenlight for us to roam on until the switchover (which is contrary to previous statements)
5. Acquire more 1900mhz and AWS spectrum for more buildouts of hspa and LTE.
They're also looking at possibly doing unlimited data with tether soon. But no word on pricing or availability.
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does that mean I can use unlock AT&T phone with T-mobiles LTE contract OR any unlock LTE phone?
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does that mean I can use unlock AT&T phone with T-mobiles LTE contract OR any unlock LTE phone?
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No clue. I'm just repeating what the tech told me.
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Im here at the one of the tmobile store in california. A regional manager is here today at the store. I ask him if our note 2 will need any update to use the new lte services when it out. He said no! He told me there actually installing lte towers right now in la and oc county! No wonder my service is been off and on today! Just did a speedtest and wow its getting faster and faster! !!
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Yeah my speeds have been spotty the past few days
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Same here in San Jose CA. I assumed its due to towers being upgraded. Download speeds have gone down but upload has gone up slightly. I was a bit concerned but I figured its due to some upgrades their doing. Hope my download speeds picks back up.
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Same in pittsburgh. Speeds have been **** the last few days.
sent via note 2 in boss mode @ quad core 1.9 ghz
No big change antioch ca here
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San Diego seems untouched...
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Dallas has been becomming spotty. Lewisville, irving, and coppell. Dunno much bout carrollton though
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does that mean I can use unlock AT&T phone with T-mobiles LTE contract OR any unlock LTE phone?
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If the phone can support Band 4 LTE (which I do not think AT&T uses for their LTE), it can support it.
These threads seem silly, because what tech and care know is far from the truth. Also to whoever thinks that you don't need a update for lte, you are most certainly wrong. We just got LTE installed on the towers on our building and it is not working on my note. But other notes in the building we have for testing have LTE up and running just fine. Unfortunately these notes were sent already put together, so whether it was a update or a sim card is hard to tell because I haven't got hands on time alone with them yet. Another possible solution is a provision, through one of tmobiles systems for troubleshooting I have seen lte settings for a phone line specifically but wouldn't have the information to properly set it up.
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My speed are even faster today!!!
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dannydv said:
My speed are even faster today!!!
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NICE! Where are you located?
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NICE! Where are you located?
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Southern California. I also live in las vegas!
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Have experienced crap downloads but in South Phoenix where I live im 5 miles away from the nearest TMO advertised tower (and coming from cricket, its still fast in my mind) but this past few weeks I have experienced better speeds but more intiguing is my connectivity has gone haywire at times resulting in excessive batter consumption (periodically)... hoping this is LTE configs at work but its all a waiting game at this point
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Los Angeles has been loss of data and very slow data at times mostly all the time spoke with tmobile rep she said she dont see no problem
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Hope something happens soon. I'm kinda hating the slow speed I'm getting lately.
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I know dude where are u at ? City?
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Mine is slow too at times. Used to get 27mbps now average between 15 to 19 never over 20. I'm in sd
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Curious.
I wanna say I prepay your mom for service so bad.
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I wanna say I prepay your mom for service so bad.
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Immature and stupid comment.
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Curious.
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I'm using Ptel mobile $50 plan on an S3 flashed with tmokeiths mod. I'm getting speeds of 6mbps download in the Inland Empire California.
Using straight talk. Started off with good speed about 5-6mbps dl and 2-3 upload. Now it's been slowing down every month to .5-1 Mbps DL and under 1Mbps upload. Getting really annoying
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Straight Talk. 45/month unlimited everything.
StraightTalk T-Mobile here.
Net10..but for some reason my outgoin text is not working..everything else is working tho..calls, mms data in an out all work...even more strangly people on att are the only ones receiving my text
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Just switched from ATT GO Pre paid to T-Mobile's $30 100 + Unlimited Data/Web after converting my i747 SG3 to T999, heh
H2o $40 unlimited text and calls and 6 hours to Mexico landlines (I need it) and for Internet I use my unlimited hotdpot with I bigger battery so last me the whole day
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I'm using net10 with AT&T Galaxy SIII, and I have to say I am very impressed. The data speeds are faster than they ever were with my Sprint service. It baffles me. If anyone needs a good hookup on prepaid service cards as well, I sell tmobile, straight talk, virgin mobile, Verizon, AT&T, and net 10 all at major discounts.
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Does MMS work for you on via Net10? What rom? MY brother is using a AT&T S3 with Net10 t-mobile sim, and he can't get MMS to work for the life of him. He has tinkered with APN settings, rom's, modem's, etc...
Does everyone have to shave the sim cards down? Or can you get microsims for the prepaid carriers?
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Net10 came with a total of 3 sim cards, two were att one being a micro and the other tmobile standard sim
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So they sent you multiple sim cards for non net10 service? I thought you needed the providers simcard?
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I bought a simcard package from best buy,it included 3 simcards,one micro net 10 att sim,one standard,an a standard net10 tmobile sim.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/NET10+-+Pre-Paid+BYOP+SIM+Cards/5852681.p?id=1218696495010&skuId=5852681
I'm using simple mobile on my att gs3 service sucks they claim to be unlimited data but once you hit a certain point they turn data off..speeds suck I don't get more the 1.5up
Anyone recommend another good unlimited prepaid service with good data speeds that work in LA?
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jeffyv2 said:
I'm using simple mobile on my att gs3 service sucks they claim to be unlimited data but once you hit a certain point they turn data off..speeds suck I don't get more the 1.5up
Anyone recommend another good unlimited prepaid service with good data speeds that work in LA?
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once my month is up on net10 I plan on going with h20 or red pocket,both operate on the att network
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once my month is up on net10 I plan on going with h20 or red pocket,both operate on the att network
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Do you know if h20 has LTE? I just want good speeds and unlimited data simple mobile isn't working for me
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Straight talk
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I'm using net10 with AT&T Galaxy SIII, and I have to say I am very impressed. The data speeds are faster than they ever were with my Sprint service. It baffles me. If anyone needs a good hookup on prepaid service cards as well, I sell tmobile, straight talk, virgin mobile, Verizon, AT&T, and net 10 all at major discounts.
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Im interested shoot me a mesg, I cant stand my AT&T service at all spotty coverage, get throttled and they added a .64 "administartive" fee on the bill to bump up their bottom line, greedy as f*ck company lol ready for a change haha
I'm using straight talk att. Went with them instead of tmobile cause tmobile coverage sucks.
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I just got wind of Net10 and apparently they're offering unlimited data with AT&T SIMs.
How's their service? Also I see in the details that no tethering is allowed. How do they know when you tether and what do they do?
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Does it support AT&T LTE? If it does that would be awesome, if you're not throttled
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It seems that there is no LTE with any MVNO but that doesn't matter much to me because AT&T's LTE coverage is spotty and the speeds I've experienced really disappoint me
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I have been on a straight talk sim for almost a year now. 45.00 a month unlimited!!! Im running both this device, and my butterfly s on it. I get the exact same service as if i were using att!! For less than half the price! Net 10 is the exact same service, hspa+ speeds, which is fast enough for me, i do all my downloading and youtubing off my wifi at home. One thing to note is that the data part is NOT truly unlimited. If u stream videos, and dl large files, they will throttle u until the next month. And if it happens to often, they will disconnect u for good. But for me.....i couldnt b happier, like i said im constantly on wifi for the data part of it.
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Dang, that sucks to hear about the throttling. But everything else sounds great!
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I just came to att from boost and att is 100% better I can't believe it I will never go back to pre paid again you get what you pay for
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I've never been on prepaid before. I was with T-Mobile 3 years before coming back to AT&T and honestly I regret coming back. This phone is great tho!
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Aio Wireless does hhave LTE
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It seems that there is no LTE with any MVNO but that doesn't matter much to me because AT&T's LTE coverage is spotty and the speeds I've experienced really disappoint me
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Actually Aio Wireless (AT&T MNVO) offers LTE. Granted they just recently released it, they do offer LTE.
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Actually Aio Wireless (AT&T MNVO) offers LTE. Granted they just recently released it, they do offer LTE.
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I will definitely look into it!
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