T-Mobile to buy US Cellular's wireless ops, plus slice of spectrum for $4.4B T-Mobile US says it will buy US Cellular's wireless business and 30 percent of its spectrum assets for $4.4 billion. The deal means the so-called un-carrier telecoms company will take possession of US Cellular stores and will handle US Cellular customers' phone plans from now on. US Cellular customers will apparently not see …
Mint Mobile was a Virtual Network carrier on T-Mobile's system. I had it for 9 months and the service was pants. Constant outages and interruptions that lasted for as long as 26 hours with no explanation. Try to call customer service and if you don't have a full battery/plugged in, the phone would go flat playing the usual "your call is important to us" and highly distorted renditions of "The Girl from Ipanema" over and over. It would take a CSR ages to get around to looking up the system status in an area to tell a caller there are no issues when I can tell them there is and others in the neighborhood are having the same problems connecting. The Indian or Eastern European accent always makes one wonder.
The ‘free Int Roaming’ is not that generous, once you factor in the very. high monthly (qualifying monthly plans only) cost you are paying whilst at home. Turning your main contract into an eSIM and getting a cheapo local physical SIM still better (Boo to Apple and eSIM’s only going forward in USA iPhone 15 models).
Go5G Next and Go5G Plus
5GB of high-speed data in
215+ countries & destinations.
Unlimited basic data, unlimited texting,
and $0.25/min calling.
Whereas a PAYG month only SIm far more flexible, unlimited tethering and EU Roaming (12Gb fair use) if for example coming to Europe by comparison. Similar in other countires anround the world available.
https://smarty.co.uk/plans/16gb-data For GBP£8 no commitment past month 1.
I don't know, it looks pretty good in comparison with the other operators. Of course, getting a local SIM will generally be much cheaper if you're going to spend any time in a country or region but then, of course, you may to need to inform some people of a new number, or set up a VoIP system.
But, now that there are only three networks, you can probably expect prices to go up as they have pretty much everywhere else after consolidation. And it's already expensive in the US!
"But, now that there are only three networks"
In the US, there have only been three major nation-wide tower operators, AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, as they are known now. In a few regions there are some local networks, but they get bought up when the customer count is high enough.
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