Not that I’ve noticed. There are lots of people walking around with cell phones, but I have no idea what network they’re on. I know the AT&T hotspot works FINE. Visible sucks, but Visible sucks most of the time ‘cause it’s Verizon’s left-over garbage. Even so, at least Visible, on the OLD, cheapest possible ZTE Blade A7, will run the TV on SD, which the T-Mobile phone hotspot won’t do.I figure it’s either the phone or T-Mobile. It’s a Samsung Galaxy S22, and we’ve had Samsung devices several times in the past - they’ve all been more than adequate, so I suspect the problem ISN’T the phone. That leaves T-Mobile. I figure it MIGHT be acceptable if the phone doesn’t work in the middle of Monument Valley or the middle of Death Valley, but jeez, I’m in the middle of urban sprawl in Fort Myers, with the most major highway on the Gulf side of Florida nearby, and this thing is a data paperweight.Give or take 100 feet, the black dot is where the RV is. The huge, pink road about a quar
Bought from T-Mobile.This whole topic is just anecdotal - of the “this is what I’m using, this is where I’ve been for the last X weeks, this is how well T-Mobile has worked” - variety. YMMV.The chances are pretty slim that I’m going to run into someone and have a conversation about how their T-Mobile phone does with data…Isn’t that what the COVERAGE MAP is for? To show a detailed view of where you SHOULD be able to expect various levels of performance? Or is that marketing hype too? The favorite excuse with Visible has always been that “you’re in a micro-dead spot and that’s why performance is poor”.And it wouldn’t matter anyhow - if they said it was “great”, it still wouldn’t tell me it actually WAS great - there are people that think Visible is “great”… If they told me it sucked, it would just further confirm that T-Mobile service doesn’t match what you should be able to expect from their coverage map.It’ll be interesting once I get into Big Cypress and/or the Everglades to see
Now at Midway campground in the middle of Big Cypress swamp… Visible (Verizon) has 1 bar - it’s functional but low data - less than 1MB - adequate for email. AT&T hotspot - 26Mbps for the high and it hasn’t been lower than 9. T-Mobile - dead. ZERO bars, no 5G, no 4G, no ANY Gs.
Yeah, I presume that’d be the problem. Lots (LOTS) of noise at sign-up about how T-Mobile has DRASTICALLY improved, AND gained a bunch of <something> from Sprint, and they’re now the absolute BEST for coverage. Even discounting the usual sales “exaggeration”, it seems odd that it’s worked so consistently poorly . Apparently, they haven’t done a lot of that “improving” on the Gulf side of Florida… BTW: Here’s where we are at this time. ON the T-Mobile coverage map. Looks like a huge RED area with at LEAST 4G all around here. So far, the “coverage” on the coverage map has been very optimistic (ok, completely inaccurate) in the locations I’ve been in Florida. So what information can we actually expect to be accurate from the coverage map?
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