Downtown Billings, MT - DO NOT SWITCH TO TMO - THEY NEGLECT OUR TOWERS
hello, i thought id drop by here to let everyone in my area who might be thinking about switching to them know that the service is godawful, and it appears they have zero plans for midband 5G here. it's especially pathetic that the midband is in most small townsBUT not the largest city in MT. The tower downtown (the big one on n. 22nd street) is insanely overloaded and oversubscribed. it was erected a few years back after people started jumping ship again from the bad signal from lack oftowers. now they've neglected the overloadedtower and it malfunctions practically every weekday from 9a-9p. AT&T has actually rolled out 5G service correctly, and so has Verizon. T-MO is once again left as the worst and slowest carrier in Billings. (don't believe me, check rootmetrics!) i would love to switch but i'm currently stuck with them and have major buyers remorse. also, youd be lucky if a call goes out or comes in when roaming. so listen fellow Billingsites - don't do it. you've been warned.
Modernization speeds all over the place
Hi, We live in a rural area and rarely get over 2 bars of cell service on LTE with download speeds MAYBE as good as 15mbps. Recently, things got worse and our bars have been dropping to nothing, or 1 bar, with speeds of under 1mbps. I called T-Mobile and was told that they were doing Modernization of the towers and that it should be done within a few days. Fast forward to today (a week later) speeds were still bad until this morning when I woke up to 2 bars of 5G with download speeds of over 100mbps! To my delight, I thought we were getting somewhere and that T-Mobile had finally delivered on the promise they made over a year ago that things were being upgraded and improved. That lasted for approximately 1 hour, then we dropped off the face of the earth again, back down to record low, unusable LTE speeds of less than 1mbps. My question is, obviously we now know we are capable of receiving 5G and super good speeds, but my worry is that this happened by accident or some fluke and we won't be getting anywhere near this once modernization is complete. Any insight into how this modernization works, the technical side of these things, or if we should hold our breath would be great. As I'm writing this, I now have 1 bar of 5G back and getting 70.5 mbps down! Please Lord, please let this hold! Hubby and I have been working from home for the last year with terrible speeds, and have been praying for a solution this wholetime. Thanks for any insight! McMurray
