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i have cricket wireless and i have never had a problem and they have the same coverage as at&t so ive been happy with them, but today they have had a nationwide outage which is very strange. It has been going on since early afternoon.

 

article: http://www.smobserved.com/story/2016/06/03/news/cricket-atandt-wireless-suffer-widespread-cellphone-outage/1355.html

 

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huh, i thought this was happening for a while, because my dad's phone service wasn't working for a while.

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doesn't Cricket use T-Mobile's and AT&T's lines?

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I've been on WiFi all day so I didn't notice. That's crazy though, I remember the last AT&T outage a few months ago and it was painful because my internet was also out because AT&T uses my ISP for their backbone around here. The outage was almost a whole day so I was stuck on a 4G Hotspot with FreedomPop and re-watching stuff on my NAS.

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2 minutes ago, Aytex said:

switch to ting :)

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but tings coverage isnt as good :D

 

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1 minute ago, Aytex said:

wut u mean, we use At&t-t-mobile's towers

Where I live it has better service than verison (alabama)

oh i didnt think they were with at&t oops i thought they were just tmobile :D

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1 minute ago, PaulKolby said:

oh i didnt think they were with at&t oops i thought they were just tmobile :D

its great, i like it

I pay 18 bucks a month :D 

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1 minute ago, Aytex said:

its great, i like it

I pay 18 bucks a month :D 

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how much data? cause i pay $35 for 2.5 gigs 

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12 minutes ago, PaulKolby said:

i have cricket wireless and i have never had a problem and they have the same coverage as at&t so ive been happy with them, but today they have had a nationwide outage which is very strange. It has been going on since early afternoon.

 

article: http://www.smobserved.com/story/2016/06/03/news/cricket-atandt-wireless-suffer-widespread-cellphone-outage/1355.html

 

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i bearly use data so $3 bucks for 100mb

it says 2.5 is about 36 dollers

lol its like the same so ill just stick with cricket if it works :D

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Happened yesterday, my phone was affected but my parent's weren't. So I though my phone had problems. Did a hard reset still didn't work. Took out SIM card and try on my HTC, same thing. Could it be SIM card, was about to go to them, so they can give me another one. Then I saw this thread. So it was cricket all along then.

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@PaulKolbyT-Mobile has better coverage than AT&T or Verizon. (sorry for weird quote can't figure out how to delete it in mobile.)

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23 hours ago, PaulKolby said:

i have cricket wireless and i have never had a problem and they have the same coverage as at&t so ive been happy with them, but today they have had a nationwide outage which is very strange. It has been going on since early afternoon.

 

article: http://www.smobserved.com/story/2016/06/03/news/cricket-atandt-wireless-suffer-widespread-cellphone-outage/1355.html

 

thought u guys might be interested

 

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3 hours ago, BingoFishy said:

@PaulKolbyT-Mobile has better coverage than AT&T or Verizon. (sorry for weird quote can't figure out how to delete it in mobile.)

tmobile doesnt have better coverage than at&t tmobile isnt bad and they have gotten much better but at&t has the most coverage im pretty sure

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6 hours ago, BingoFishy said:

@PaulKolbyT-Mobile has better coverage than AT&T or Verizon. (sorry for weird quote can't figure out how to delete it in mobile.)

In what universe? AT&T and Verizon still easily destroy TMO in voice/3g coverage. LTE on Tmobile is only just now catching up, but they are still in third.

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@Rune @PaulKolby Ehm...

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7 hours ago, BingoFishy said:

@Rune @PaulKolby Ehm...

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I doubt that's accurate T-Mobile is generally right behind Verizon and AT&T but that's not coverage and T-Mobile doesn't have the most coverage at all. The top is Verizon has the best speed, AT&T has the best coverage, and T-Mobile is less of both but not terrible and cheaper 

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42 minutes ago, PaulKolby said:

I doubt that's accurate T-Mobile is generally right behind Verizon and AT&T but that's not coverage and T-Mobile doesn't have the most coverage at all. The top is Verizon has the best speed, AT&T has the best coverage, and T-Mobile is less of both but not terrible and cheaper 

Why wouldn't it be accurate? Speedtest.net is the most used internet speedtest service (AFAIK) and is quite accurate from my experience. In PCMag's test, T-Mobile came right behind Verizon, and that test was done nearly a year ago. T-Mobile has doubled it's coverage over the course of last year, while Verizon hasn't done much at all.

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9 hours ago, BingoFishy said:

@Rune @PaulKolby Ehm...

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Speed is not coverage. Notice how that says "strongest in the urban Northeast and Western cities" meaning in rural areas or along major highways where people actually NEED mobile devices out in the middle of the country, they are still shit.

Don't get me wrong, I love Tmobile for everything they have done with pricing structures, but for actual usability they are still a far third.

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