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Hi, After financing a PhD for myself and a degree for my son, my credit is in bad shape. Therefore, I purchased a Virgin Mobile Phone for my son several Christmases ago, and he has had the best service with it. In fact, he has moved to Hawaii, and he can call me from Honolulu (I live in Massachusetts) with absolutely no interference.
. Home Media Favorites Menu Devices Apps & Games Android Lounge Automotive App Development Smart Home Wearables Browse More I am currently on Virgin Mobile's Beyond Talk plan which is $25 per month and has 3G speeds with unlimited web, data, messaging, and email plus 300 minutes. T-Mobile has a plan that is $30 per month and has 4G speeds with unlimted web and text plus 100 minutes. I'm thinking of making the switch from Virgin Mobile to T-Mobile. Anyone know how the service compares? It's $5 more per month and has less minutes, but I'm tempted by the 4G. Download the Forums for Android⢠app! Download TMO is also GSM. It means some things will be done differently. And it will depend on the bands on your phone. TMO uses the 1700 band, but the newer phones will do 1900. TMO does have value "bring your own phone" plans where you don't get charged for a subsidized amount. For practical purposes, it means you won't be able to use the same phone on T-Mobile that you used with Virgin Mobile. I'd been using T-Mobile for 2 1/2 years before I just canceled. Great customer service. Very reliable (no dropped calls or finicky connections). Better integration with Google Voice than Virgin Mobile (not sure if that matters to you). And the 4G speeds are fast (maybe not as fast as LTE, but fast still). I ended up switching just because T-Mobile's coverage in certain less-populated areas isn't that good, and I do sometimes visit some remote suburbs (not always in urban settings). I don't know if this has changed, but when I used Virgin Mobile, it was renting its network from Sprint, and I think Sprint has better coverage than T-Mobile does (in terms of area). Hey I am thinking of switching from VM to TMO since vm is hardly breaking 1mbps. What kinds of speeds would you get from TMO (i am sure it would be a little better now since they are close to LTE). Also, how was the general coverage (3G/LTE vs 2G etc) as you went about your daily life? Thanks Ugh, always kills me when I see how much folks pay for their plans. I have to bend over every month for Verizon. Ever hear the phrase "You get what you pay for?" There's a reason the plans are so cheap. I was so tempted by their $30 monthly 4G plan that I jumped off a very grandfathered plan to take advantage of it. I was sworn to that nothing would change by way of level of customer service I was receiving. Bullsh*t. I came to find this was NOT the case. I always liked using their chat function to troubleshoot with tech when I had a problem. It kept my hands free so I coupd go through their steps on the phone. I don't know if it was just my account or if all of their customer service took a nosedive, but I found I was no longer able to chat with tech, and the troubleshooting chat reps could only tell me to pull the battery or do a factory reset. So I took my phone into the store. The chick working the counter was like "Oh yeah I can fix that, give me a few minutes." I walk around the store for a few and she calls me back. The b*tch had moved all my apps to my sd card! She did NOT ask permission to do this! What's worse, many of my widgets and shortcuts were displaying errors! I told her to put everything back and set me up for a warranty replacement. First she told me my phone was out of warranty. It was an HTC Amaze that was just launched in NOVEMBER. She did a second look and found out I was right. Then she said in order to do a warranty replacement I would have to send in my phone first and take a loaner dumbphone in the meantime since I was now on the monthly 4G plan. Again, bullsh*t. I've done several warranty replacements while on T-Mo's post paid plans and they went flawlessly. That was the tipping point for me to switch to Verizon. OP, take all this into consideration. But since you asked about speed, they are fast but coverage is a huge huge issue. ETA: T-Mo recently laid off thousands of employees and shut down 7 call centers, including one just a few miles from where I live. While getting my account set up at Verizon I had to call T-Mo to get my account number to port my phone number over. THEY'VE OUTSOURCED THEIR CUSTOMER SERVICE!!! i am hearing very mixed reviews- some folks say they are awesome, others not so much- the '4g' is what i really like however i am concerned about coverage etc- i live in a pretty suburban area, no huge distances between centers of towns and populations etc so i am confident i would have great service, but still a little ehh vm is great (for the most part) except the recent text outages and stuff like that- not sure what to do!! haha Gmash Extreme Android User Take any opinions or experiences on a forum like this with a grain of salt. ALL carrier coverage issues depend hugely on where you live and plan to use your phone. I have Cricket and have full bars everywhere in my building at work. A co worker has Verizon and barely gets a signal at all. It all depends where the towers are. Try asking people in your area about their service. Greatly depends on your location. At work inside my building/office, I get measly GPRS speeds (~50Kbps up/down). If I go outside to the parking lot, I get 1Mbps. At home 6Mbps. yeah i mean VM i am getting just about 1mbps anywhere and frequently way less- .7mbps to .5mbps at the lowest ive seen- its really sucky but i do have the $25/mo plan and the 300min while i dont use them all now is nice to have... Its an issue of sacrificing ok coverage with godawful speeds for decent speeds and no coverage haha Share This Page
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killer007 [OP] Deal Addict Mar 7, 2010 2638 posts 346 upvotes Mississauga Jun 25th, 2012 5:02 pm Hello, what is the pros and cons with those two company? I am looking at their $50 plan and virgin offering free call ID and vm, and bell isn't offering any, but they are almost the same plan to me someone told me virgin is under bell and using bell's towers, but they are cheaper. is it because the coverage area isn't bigger than bell Last edited by titaniumtux on Jun 25th, 2012 5:02 pm, edited 1 time in total. Reason: added poll Jun 25th, 2012 5:04 pm #2 PressureBoom Deal Addict Aug 9, 2010 1338 posts 838 upvotes Waterloo Jun 25th, 2012 5:04 pm Virgin is Bell except with better plans. Jun 25th, 2012 5:09 pm #3 killer007 [OP] Deal Addict Mar 7, 2010 2638 posts 346 upvotes Mississauga Jun 25th, 2012 5:09 pm @[email protected] but why Bell is getting knock off by themself? like isn't it better if bell can take all the business? Jun 25th, 2012 5:10 pm #4 killer007 [OP] Deal Addict Mar 7, 2010 2638 posts 346 upvotes Mississauga Jun 25th, 2012 5:10 pm i am actually looking to get the gs3 that is coming out soon, so that is why i am trying to decide which carrier i should go with ah i was reading the plan carefully, and its almost the same price for the $50 cuz virgin is 100 mb data and bell is 500 mb data Jun 25th, 2012 5:24 pm #5 shushwap Deal Addict Sep 17, 2011 3799 posts 604 upvotes Jun 25th, 2012 5:24 pm Virgin owned by Bell and runs on Bell towers... The service is exactly the same.... Koodo is owned by Telus and runs on Telus towers.... They are simply sub brands.... Jun 26th, 2012 7:30 am #6 Neovingian Deal Fanatic Feb 6, 2004 6796 posts 514 upvotes GT'eh Jun 26th, 2012 7:30 am to elaborate on what others have said, Yes Virgin Mobile Canada and Bell are 1 in the same, Virgin mobile prides itself on offering better promos and sometimes better plans. Bell doesn't entirely own VM, they have a license to use the name or brand. As i'm sure many of you know, Virgin and Virgin Mobile are mega brands owned by billionaire, Sir Richard Branson, Bell bought and retained rights to use its license exclusively in Canada to fool the public and give the illusion of choice. VM uses Bell's towers and Network, and even distro channels. Each Virgin Mobile branded entity acts independently from the others, handsets, service plans and network radio interfaces vary from country to country. In a given country, the Virgin Mobile wireless entity is typically a partnership between Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group and an existing mobile network operator or mobile virtual network operator. Oh yeah Bell also owns PC Mobile too in case you didn't know. âĄNe0's Bio: âĄRetired [email protected] & t31GB data and according to them it shouldn't kick in before because a lot of the time when I'm on 1xRTT I'll enable WiMax and it'll be no faster. Other times WiMax is super fast and it's fantastic. Usually I'm very happy with VM. Seem better than metroPCS #18 I've used tmos $30 UL plan for over two years now and I still love it. I used to have VZW back in the 3G UL days and I've prob saved $1K since switching. I've moved back and forth between CA and WA and coverage is good for me in these metro areas. Dec 17, 2008 2,129 222 106 #19 Virgin Mobile unlimited data throttles after a certain amount (2 or Gbs if I recall) Virgin Mobile uses the sprint network. It is different than the contract sprint for contract sprint can roam on verizon network so make sure you have coverage. You can't choose your device with Virgin you have to select from their limited choices. T-Mobile's "Walmart" plan gets you 5GBs of high speed data. T-Mobile contract phones getter better coverage than the Wal-Mart prepaid plans since you do not roam on the prepaid plan. You can choose any compatible sim device with T-Mobile It all comes down to how your coverage is where you plan to use your phone. Nothing else really matters in comparison. This, this, a hundred times this. If equal coverage get T-Mobile for you can get something like a nexus or a good used phone for cheap, but you can have the cheapest phone or the most expensive phone and you get crappy coverage and suddenly it doesn't matter. Oct 27, 2000 9,904 510 136 #20 their data speeds are fine when on 3g. I routinely get 100KBytes/s, very low latency etc. Unfortunately a lot of the time I seem to be on 1xRTT which is way slower. This is my main beef with them, and is probably why most people think they have terrible speeds. I think most people think it's slow because 100KB IS slow. That's barely fast decent enough to stream music. I know because I had sprint and my music would always skip. I switched to TMo and average 3mbps, which is what I averaged on sprint LTE. On tmobile LTE I see 10-15. Sprints 3g is horrible and their 4G is still only as fast as others 3g. #21 Sprint is so slow that they honestly shouldn't be a consideration by anyone for any reason. And now I'm stuck with 1 year and 10 months left to go with them. But I thought what the heck Sprint is cheaper than Verizon or ATT for unlimited data. Not saying it's worth it. Did XtremeLabs speed testing with their mobile app. Don't really want to post the results. Using the Samsung GS4 btw. #22 chose VM over tmobile due to cheaper with a usable number of minutes. their data speeds are fine when on 3g. I routinely get 100KBytes/s, very low latency etc. Unfortunately a lot of the time I seem to be on 1xRTT which is way slower. This is my main beef with them, and is probably why most people think they have terrible speeds. I think their throttling algorithm kicks in sometimes too when it shouldn't (I never use >1GB data and according to them it shouldn't kick in before because a lot of the time when I'm on 1xRTT I'll enable WiMax and it'll be no faster. Other times WiMax is super fast and it's fantastic. Usually I'm very happy with VM. Seem better than metroPCS You consider 100KB/s on 3G to be fast? D: That's just terrible. On Straight Talk, I got 5 times that amount. Umm...If you "routinely"(translation: once in a while) get 100KB/s, but "a lot of time"(translation: mostly) I get 1xRTT why wouldn't anyone have a right to think Sprint has terrible speeds? And now I'm stuck with 1 year and 10 months left to go with them. But I thought what the heck Sprint is cheaper than Verizon or ATT for unlimited data. Not saying it's worth it. Did XtremeLabs speed testing with their mobile app. Don't really want to post the results. Using the Samsung GS4 btw. The results are that bad that you're ashamed to post them? Good Lord... For me, Sprint was just as expensive as AT&T and Verizon(or maybe only $10/month less which is essentially peanuts) when I checked them. Hopefully this SoftBank acquisition will make Sprint competitive(both in terms of prices with T-Mobile and coverage with Verizon/AT&T), because as it is now they're not. Mar 22, 2013 4,627 129 101 #23 Blah, I just realized that Tmobile has *no* coverage in my area. The coverage maps for Tmobile are really misleading, because they also count their roaming agreement with ATT...which isn't available on the $30 plan. So then the next closest thing available for me is the Virgin Mobile, either an iphone 4s for $350 about, or a Galaxy SIII for about $330. It's $30/mo with automatic billing. Which...kinda sucks. I was excited for getting the cheap Nokia 521. Thanks to the HSN for putting the brakes before I purchased. I thought that as time went on, the coverage would improve, but it appears to not be the case. Anyone tried Republic Wireless? I'd try it if the phone weren't so lousy. #24 I heard that StraightTalk has ATT sims again so that might be an option. Mar 22, 2013 4,627 129 101 #25 Right now I'm thinking that I might be able to justify a Nokia 820 purchase for use offline. micro-sd card means I can put lots of music on it. But the true killer app appears to be Nokia drive, which is offline navigation (GPS?). The main reason for me to have a smartphone is for navigation functions, honestly. Advertising Cookies Policies Privacy Term & Conditions About us This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. By continuing to use this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.
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