T Mob will be on par with Verizon Coverage by End Of The Year

[R=G]

T-Mobile’s longstanding reputation is for great prices and bad signal. But as recent reports have shown, the network is making big strides in catching up to Verizon’s industry-leading coverage, and the gap looks like it’s going to be nonexistent by the end of the year.

Buried in T-Mobile’s earnings report yesterday were two maps showing T-Mobile’s coverage. One shows the current coverage across the US, and the other shows where T-Mobile is planning on being on December 31st, 2017.

As the map shows, T-Mobile is planning on plugging big coverage gaps that currently exist, particularly in areas like Montana, Wisconsin and West Virginia. The end result is a map that has more magenta and fewer white holes, which should help T-Mobile poach more of Verizon’s rural customers.

In addition to the coverage improvements, T-Mobile is also planning to aggressively use new technology to improve connection speeds. In particular, it’s promising to keep pushing voice over LTE (VoLTE), which allows it to repurpose spectrum from slower 2G and 3G speeds to LTE.

Of course, Verizon won’t be standing still during all of this. All the carriers are pushing ahead with research and testing of 5G network technologies, promising theoretical gigabit speeds. There’s also an ongoing sale of new spectrum through the FCC, which could dramatically change the landscape depending on which networks end up with the all-important new spectrum.

 

[JordanWearinThe45]

I was just about to switch to Verizon new unlim plan too Tmobile service is kinda trash where I'm at, but the price and unlimited data kept me here. I'll stick it out

 

[Liquid]

That's cool, but verizon/AT&T will be rolling out 5G soon

 

[neph27]

That's cool, but verizon/AT&T will be rolling out 5G soon

Realistically 5g is a few years on the horizon. It's in initial testing by Verizon in a couple locations nationwide.

This thread is also some guy looking at a map and seeing gaps being filled in and trying to connect dots

Verizon spends a ton more actually maintaining, developing, strengthing and building out their network

T mobile just advertises well.

You're gonna get a more consistent, likely faster signal no matter where you are in the US with Verizon

 

[itsyoung!!]

been hearing this for about 10 years

 

[head shots101]

Doubt it.... Service fukkin sucks at my hospital.....They still can't penetrate buildings like Verizon

 

[StatUS]

Verizon will still be better but Tmo is for the people.

$30 plan got me well.

 

[R=G]

been hearing this for about 10 years

Never heard it once.

 

[stealthbomber]

i just switched from att to tmobile in november

it's been good, only 2 times where i noticeably lost signal