VOTE! What phone carrier do you use?

[lifesucksthenyoudie]

I've hopped between carrier to carrier over the years, first AT&T, then Project Fi (which uses T-Mobile's network), then Verizon, then back to AT&T, then back to Verizon, and now I'm back on T-Mobile.
I thought T-Mobile would be awful given that I had a pretty awful time with it back when I used Project Fi years ago (but at least I didn't have extra roaming charges so there's that), but honestly the cell service is pretty good, I always have good coverage wherever I am. The most shit network I've used recently is probably AT&T
Poll is kind of a mess, I tried accounting for people who don't live in America so there's a lot of international carriers smushed in there as well

 

[lifesucksthenyoudie]

And I lost the poll when I moved this thread to /qa/, guess I'll just leave it here
Also Broot let us make polls in /qa/

 

[King of kyrgyzstan]

Datamining thread albiet.

 

[Nihilma]

Other, me da pays something for the whole family, but we switch from one national company to another constantly so idk.
Rn we use SFR I think, or "La Société Française du Radiotéléphone"

 

[Broot]

And I lost the poll when I moved this thread to /qa/, guess I'll just leave it here
Also Broot let us make polls in /qa/

You can do that now

 

[oreoreviewshow]

idk i hold it in my hand or put it in my pocket i dont need someone to carry it for me

 

[ArmaLite]

Metro (T-Mobile) because my family likes to save money. It's pretty decent, I guess.
I think T-Mobile is objectively the best carrier for people who like to modify their phones (custom ROMs.) Verizon literally prevents their Google Pixel bootloaders from ever being unlocked. AT&T has also done some weird stuff like the device whitelist.
That being said, I've been looking at AT&T as an option for when I move out on my own. I've heard their coverage is better in my area.
There's also US Cellular as a weird fourth option (it's not an MVNO iirc) but that only applies to some states.

 

[King of kyrgyzstan]

>Yeah mate, I don't know whatta "phone carrier" is but im pretty sure that its like internet for ya phone so uhh I use Tesco Mobile or something like that.

 

['gatorfag sl33p]

Latinx here, I use the MONOPOLY MANDATED CARRIER SERVICE of CLARO
The service is niggerhell btw, just like the rest of the 3 companies that run around here

 

[ArmaLite]

Latinx here, I use the MONOPOLY MANDATED CARRIER SERVICE of CLARO
The service is niggerhell btw, just like the rest of the 3 companies that run around here

4G (LTE) or 5G? Just wondering

 

[xyz]

who uses phones?

 

[Nihilma]

who uses phones?

>

 

['gatorfag sl33p]

4G (LTE) or 5G? Just wondering

The former, 5G is still a luxury for the time being

 

[xyz]

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i look like that

 

[X Immigrant]

I use T-Mobile for my mobile phone but I have a Vodafone for my home phone.

 

[lifesucksthenyoudie]

I use T-Mobile for my mobile phone but I have a Vodafone for my home phone.

You still have a landline?

 

[X Immigrant]

I do

 

[ArmaLite]

You still have a landline?

not xer but my old house (built in 2008) had landlines until we got rid of them in 2017 or so
you'd be surprised, a lot of people still hold on

 

[lifesucksthenyoudie]

not xer but my old house (built in 2008) had landlines until we got rid of them in 2017 or so
you'd be surprised, a lot of people still hold on

Come to think of it my family never really used a true landline, even when I was 5 (around 2008-9) my parents used Vonage which was just VoIP

4G (LTE) or 5G? Just wondering

I fucking hate how misused the term 5G is, it refers to three different things, low band 5G (which is just slightly better LTE), mid band 5G, and high band 5G
I wish carriers did a better job of making the difference less confusing but unfortunately they won’t because muh marketing

 

[ArmaLite]

Come to think of it my family never really used a true landline, even when I was 5 (around 2008-9) my parents used Vonage which was just VoIP

Odd. It seems like everyone was using them back then.

I fucking hate how misused the term 5G is, it refers to three different things, low band 5G (which is just slightly better LTE), mid band 5G, and high band 5G
I wish carriers did a better job of making the difference less confusing but unfortunately they won’t because muh marketing

That's true, my bad. I only know about sub-6 and mmwave though. Could you explain to a retard what those 3 terms really mean? Obviously they have something to do with radio frequencies and higher is better, but on places like /g/ I've only ever seen those two terms I mentioned being used to describe "5G".
Also 2G kinda had the same issue with GSM, CDMA, GPRS, EDGE, all that shit. 4G had LTE (which isn't even 4G in terms of speed.)