Alert T-Mobile False Advertising - FRAUD!

[Just George]

@Neal I feel your pain! Also experienced less coverage on our T-Mobile i-phone 11 than on our AT&T i-phone 6 during our travels to South Dakota, Colorado, and then to North Carolina. I don't recall ever having T-Mobile signal and not having AT&T. As you can see my equipment is a good bit off of the leading edge so perhaps that's part of the issue. I have no 5G equipment so I don't get to complain about that yet. but that won't stop me form providing some thoughts Regarding 5G. I believe T-Mobile took the low road (regarding frequency) vs AT&T and Verizon using higher frequencies for their "5th Generation network". If my recall is correct on the frequencies in use that could be a reason T-Mobile is claiming the huge coverage, the low frequency signal just covers more ground. Not trying to justify the map just offering my experience and thoughts.

 

[Xzyfsk]

If you are not getting a signal be sure to power your phone off and then back on. They don’t always pick it up the next network without going through the boot process.

 

[Neal]

A simpler technique is to go into airplane mode then back to normal. But that's not the point of this thread. All carriers are deceiving in their coverage maps. T-Mobile, IMHO, is taking this too far. I'll never use their service again regardless.

 

[CaptainGizmo]

Hey, just found this map from the FCC.
It’s in the ARCGIS platform and, with a couple of my tests of known weak spots, it wickedly accurate!

Maybe a new thread is coming to discuss how well it works!

FCC 4G Coverage Map

 

[MapNerd]

Spent the week at Myrtle Beach State Park. Kind of a dump. AT&T was worthless delivering less than 2mbps, barely enough to check email and not good enough for loading any kind of rich media news website. T-Mobile wasn’t great but it delivered 8-12mbps - at least something that I could work with.

 

[Neal]

Not bad with you and the other T-Mobile user in the area The problem I've had in Myrtle Beach especially now at peak season is network saturation.