It appears that the T-Mobile US network will only improve. Hopefully, their creative repurposing of spectrum / frequencies will occur in a quick manner. They appear to be newly focused on stepping out of the shadow AT&T and the failed merger.
Personally, I never believed AT&T’s claims about the “benefits” they would bring to their customers. I cannot recall their ever making a business decision which was also good for the consumer. Customers need to stop asking rhetorical questions such as “why would AT&T do that—don’t they want to make their customers happy?” Well, no. They don’t intend to make their customers unhappy, but that is simply not their concern.
To paraphrase the great George Carlin, “AT&T doesn’t give a f#(< about you; they don’t give a f#(< about you. They don’t care about you, at all, at all, at all.” And it’s also not personal. It’s just business. Their responsibility is purely and solely to their collective shareholders.
DT/T-Mobile, along with every other carrier could certainly be painted with the same brush. However, their focus on corporate self preservation seems to be somewhat more beneficial to us consumers, in terms of comparatively low plan pricing…for now.
I was formerly with Cellular One (yeah, I’m that old), then Sprint, then AT&T, then Verizon, and now I’m a TMo user in the 510.
