I finally convinced my husband that we needed to stop with straight talk and go to T-Mobile. We spent several hours in Mankato on Saturday so the phone to get set up. My husband has medical devices hooked to his it is imperative that he have a good signal which we were promised we would. Next day I go to work and I have no signal in my workplace. I call and I was told to come back that it could be a bad Sim card since I had already tried all the other options. I go in and there’s a setting on my phone that was not supposed to be set up so they fix that they gave me a new Sim card and we hoped that would be it. Next day I go to work no signal, nothing, I can’t even send a text message. I called and I told him what’s going on and I said the person I talk to last night said I’d probably just need a new phone so this is what I’m gonna do, come over there tonight and get a new phone. I go there and there’s a very nice girl that was trying to help me but I don’t think she had the knowledge that the other gentleman. He stated that he heard a little bit of this conversation today so he could help can help. So I show him a screenshot of this really odd warning that I get when I try to make a call and it says “ line in use do you wanna use another line?” Never in my life have I seen that. Also when I call a number that I’ve been calling for years I get a recording that says “ this call is not in your pay package you’ll be charged one cent if you continue with this call.” So I am talking to the gentleman and I’m explaining to him what the phone does and I showed him the screenshot that I took. He claims that it was an electric Sim card that was used and not an actual Sim card. I watched the gentleman put a physical Sim card in the phone, Then the next day when I came in he did two or three of them to try to get it to go. And this guy looks at me and says I’ve been doing this a long time and that’s the only way that is possible. OK so either I’m liar or I’m stupid. And then when I ask him why that phone number states that it’s charging me a penny he says well that’s just T-Mobile. And then when I complained about the poor internet service, I was told “you know, you can take your service elsewhere.”( we bought 2 brand new iPhone 13’s, the most unlimited Service and the internet and he just gives up and says that) there would be, of course, a restocking fee.. And this is when I lost my mind with this boy. And I admit it was loud and it was not the best language but you do not come at a customer that is very upset and meet them with sarcasm and arrogance . To say the least it didn’t end well for either of us. I was threatened with a restocking charge if I decided to try to return these phones and get our old ones back. So as of right now I am stuck with these phones and service. We r leaving for vacation on Friday and I hope to God that my husband will have good Internet for his medical devices. And I will never ever ever recommend T-Mobile to anyone. I should’ve went to Verizon.
helpless
The ‘SIM card’ replacement isn’t typically a good sign. I suspect that you spoke to CS (possibly overseas), where the situation goes like this:
- Reboot your phone
- I’ll send you an update
- Network reset
- Replace SIM card
- I’ll file a ticket and it will be ~3 business days.
Meanwhile … local fiber cut / power outage / dead cell tower / upgrade to cell tower going on and they know nothing about it. 3 days later, you get the same recycled message after ‘you’ have to call them because .. they rarely call back, and auto close the ticket.
TBH, I’ve had this issue with all carriers… more so with T-Mobile, especially handling off shore (when they verbally ask for your PIN, you know its offshore).
I was actually in store.. T mobile guys were the ones working on it.,
In store, they could test your SIM in a store demo phone. similarly, they could test your phone with a store sim. if yours isn't working and theirs is, then you know its a sim issue. if no sim works in your phone , then it's an issue with the phone.
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