I am about to give up on TMobil

Dumped AT&T after at least 15 years. Relocating to the Oregon central coast, reception was very spotty, except at residence.

After 3 years, decided since "we use the same towers as Verizon", decided to switch to T-MOBILE.  

First complaint before walking out the store is the lead weighted brick Samsung phone provide. It's not just the size and weight, it's a bug filled nightmare to navigate with bloatware. 

Come from using a 2018 Nokia 8, bare bones Android purchased graymarket. Asked if I could use the T-MOBILE simm in the Nokia, just holding the brick a few seconds knew it wasn't for me. The clerks were nice, but obviously well coached. Oh, but the antennas are "tuned" to the T-MOBILE network, and the Nokia won't work as good. False, the Nokia has made 6 trips to Europe and never missed a beat.

Well, it's not 5G. Right, don't care. Turns out, in Florence, lucky to get 4G LTE, much less a 5G, if that even exist here. We're located 2 blocks off the 101, reception is poor to non existent at home. Text arrive a day or more later than sent//received at times.

And to think the sales rep was trying to sell us on 5G data for the home network :) Granted, they are in a city 50 miles away, but should be educated on the pros and cons of the service they are promoting with respect to where a customer lives.

T-MOBILE may be the right choice for those living in larger cities, surely not for more rural areas. 

Then there is the spam and junk mail associated with setting up the account. I'm waiting for one of their affiliates to offer Medicare supplemental coverage..…

So back to paying Verizons high rates after a 16 year hiatus.  At least the data and cellular coverage is throughout the area, and the sales rep had no qualms testing a Verizon simm in the Nokia. "But no 5G" she says.

I just smiled.

Congrats, it not for AT&T's reluctance to block sms via smpt, would of even stayed with them.

The one good serve I found with T-MOBILE is their security and sms spam filtering.  Top notch.