T-Mobile billing is straight up weird, but it'll settle down and make sense after the 2nd month.I rarely watch television, but the wife does, so we only have an antenna that receives local over the air channels. We had Cox Cable for television and internet for years. We ditched the television part 5 years ago and only had internet with Cox. The Internet worked well for the most part. A couple months ago Cox raised our internet bill by $9.00/month. I decided to look to an alternative.
Right before Christmas we went to T-Mobil and switched from Cricket cell phone service to T-Mobil and got two new phones as our old phones did not work well with T-Mobil, even though they were supposed to be compatible. The new phones were basically free, as they are pro-rated on a monthly basis and as long as we stay with T-Mobile for two years, there will be no cost for the phones. There is no contract, but if we were to decide to leave T-Mobil the remaining balance would be due for the phones.
T-Mobil offered as a special unlimited voice and data plan for the two phones for people 55 and older @$70.00 per month and their Home Internet Service for $25.00 per month, both with guaranteed price lock for life.
It gets complicated, but there was a billing issue with the first month’s billing, so I got on the phone with T-Mobil and after a 30 minute phone call was able to resolve the billing issue and they dropped our monthly bill for both phone and internet service from $95.00/month to $85.00 per month locked in for life. (I was not nasty, but firm in my displeasure about the billing) Squeaky wheel gets greased.
The phone service has worked great and same with the internet service. The internet speeds are running between 250 megabytes per second to 400 megabytes per second, which is comparable to the speed we had with Cox.
One of our daughters has T-Mobil Internet, but is not receiving the same speeds we are. Her speeds are much lower, but she is still happy with the internet service.
The T-Mobil Home Internet is normally $50.00 per month, which is what our daughter pays.
When I called Cox Cable to cancel our service the rep. offered me $49.00 per month for Internet to stay with Cox. I told the rep, if she could match T-Mobil at $25.00/ month locked in for life I would consider staying with Cox. Cox would not match.
We are with CREC rural electric and they are installing fiber optic which will be available to us in the next couple years. We might consider going with CREC Fiber Optic Internet, even though it will be more costly than T-Mobil Home Internet.
To sum up, T-Mobil Home Internet might be worth looking into. Your results may not match our results.
I was glad to dump Cox. For many years they were the only option we had.
We got OEC firer about a yr or two ago, it has been great, but that was THE only option for internet short of Hugh's net or a local guy who was absolutely awful and only like 3 =down load if it was a good day, and constant outages and he was always out of townWaiting for OEC or ATT fiber but I don’t think I can wait. Plus we have the turnpike coming less than a quarter mile away
Yes I could see how a sizable apartment complex connected up would affect it. Now that you mention it I have a complex to my north that could be grabbing the bandwidth from the tower closest to me. Hadn't thought of that.@Shadowrider : Our T-Mobil tower is about 3 miles away, so we get good connection and speeds. My daughter lives in Edmond in an apartment complex and her speeds are a little over 50 mps. She says that many of the people in the apartment complex have T-Mobil Home Internet that slows speeds down. I have noticed during peak times our speeds slow from around 400 mps to 250 mps, so I am guessing the more users connected the slower the bandwidth. Even so T-Mobil internet is working well for us.
One other thing, the rep at our local T-Mobil store told me they are upgrading their towers and should increase speeds over time.
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