Comment on T-Mobile switches users to pricier plans and tells them it’s not a price hike

• triptrapper@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  About a year ago?

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  • Dressedlikeapenguin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for not saying “look it up”. We can’t seem to keep anything nice. We were just about to leave for Mint. Do you like it?

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    • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have mint: The connection sucks, you get deprioritized against other traffic so bandwidth is usually garbage. It’s fine if you just need text and phone calls though.

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      • maccentric@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Is that what’s going on? So often since I switched to Mint I’ll have full bars and can’t do anything online.

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      • Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think this experience might be region-dependant. I’m in a major city on Mint and I routinely see 900Mbps+ down and never have any issues with streaming. I think the lowest speed test I ever saw was around 200Mbps.

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      • IamtheMorgz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I have mint too and haven’t had much trouble with bandwidth. But to be fair I don’t use my phone for very much while not on wifi, mostly just streaming music and Google maps.

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      • Dressedlikeapenguin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I was worried about that since they buy access to towers, thank you for sharing your experience. Are able to see when that happens in a concrete way, or is more just the noticable lag?

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    • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Mint got sold when Ryan Reynolds needed more money to buy that soccer team

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      • Dressedlikeapenguin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ha, good point! They had to replace the entire pitch, twice!

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    • extant@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I switched from T-Mobile to mint not long ago and only two things changed, how much and who I pay, but like he said they’ll come for us soon enough now that they bought mint.

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      • Dressedlikeapenguin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s how it feels

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    • jmankman@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      tbf that “When did they buy Mint?” could just have easily been typed as a search query

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      • Dressedlikeapenguin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re right, I wrote it out, hit send them thought to myself, I should’ve googled that. But, it was in the ether already, and we’re trying to build a bigger community through interactions. So it was a win-win as I see it. Plus it got us talking, too.

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    • SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If Verizon is good where you are look at us mobile. “Warp 5g” is Verizon. The gsm carrier they offer is T-Mobile. There’s also visible but they’re owned by Verizon.

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    • SocialEngineer56@notdigg.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I also have Mint - it’s fine. I pay $66 for 3 months at a time of 15gb data per month. It’s a little annoying you have to buy in 3 month increments using the family plan discount, but still way better than the 2 year contracts of most providers. My service experience has been alright - every once in while it’ll be slow on me but that’s pretty rare. I’d cautiously recommend it if you’re looking to switch. Worst case scenario you’re only out a few dollars if you don’t buy the year long plan.

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      • anotherandrew@lemmy.mixdown.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I got in on a $45 for three months, unlimited everything. So far so good in LA, but I definitely get the “full bars but where’s my bandwidth?” at least once a day. They’ll put me on an unlimited everything for $120/3mos and I’m not sure I’d be happy with the slowdowns at that price.

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