• T-Mobile to Give Users Free Data Toward Pokemon Go for a Full Year. Part of T-mobile Tuesdays
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[quote] T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) today announced that, with next week’s T-Mobile Tuesday, the Un-carrier is thanking its customers with free, unlimited data for Pokémon Go—the new sensation that’s taking the world by storm. On July 19th, as part of next week’s T-Mobile Tuesdays, the Un-carrier will give customers great ways to take their Pokémon Go skillz to a whole new level, including … Free, unlimited data on Pokémon Go, so it won’t touch your high-speed data—for a full year! Free Lyft rides up to $15 to get to a new PokéStop or Gym Free Wendy’s Frosty to fuel up for your hunting trip 50% off select accessories – including portable power packs and chargers at T-Mobile stores – so you can keep on playing for hours On top of that, 250 people will each win $100 in PokéCoins, and five people will win a Pokémon Go hunting trip anywhere in the U.S. for themselves and a guest! [/quote] [url]https://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news-and-blogs/free-pokemon.htm[/url] The CEO seems pretty cool [media]https://twitter.com/JohnLegere/status/753673528981884928[/media]
Stuff like this makes me regret my switch to ATT, if they didn't have bad service in my area at the time I switched I'd still be with tmobile, they truly are one of the better mobile providers IMHO.
[QUOTE=Rocko's;50712949]Stuff like this makes me regret my switch to ATT, if they didn't have bad service in my area at the time I switched I'd still be with tmobile, they truly are one of the better mobile providers IMHO.[/QUOTE] I'm actually just switching from ATT to T-Mobile, prices are much better with them where I am and they offer better plans
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;50713016]Why can't every country have a cell phone carrier as good as T-Mobile USA?[/QUOTE] There's a reason they have all these extra benefits. The coverage is terrible.
[QUOTE=sgman91;50713146]There's a reason they have all these extra benefits. The coverage is terrible.[/QUOTE] It's shitty if you leave the populated urban and suburban areas. I've only ever had bad coverage in South Lake Tahoe(the only place I could get a 4G signal there was literally at the top of the mountain I was skiing on) but apparently it's also because South Lake Tahoe is so technologically behind that Blockbuster still exists there
[QUOTE=Ricenchicken;50712935] The CEO seems pretty cool [/QUOTE] [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T39RxxyLLBs[/media]
PGo is actually pretty data efficient lol. I've played it for hours and hours and it's barely used up a quarter gig. It'd be better if they packaged the phone with the world's hugest battery so one can survive the day glued to PGo
What kinda bandwidth would Pokemon GO be using?
[QUOTE=Zeb Brown;50713344]What kinda bandwidth would Pokemon GO be using?[/QUOTE] like 20 mb every few days it burns very little, especially on t-mobile where unused data stacks ( i got like 18gbs stacked up)
[QUOTE=Dr.C;50713273]It's shitty if you leave the populated urban and suburban areas. I've only ever had bad coverage in South Lake Tahoe(the only place I could get a 4G signal there was literally at the top of the mountain I was skiing on) but apparently it's also because South Lake Tahoe is so technologically behind that Blockbuster still exists there[/QUOTE] I live in Southern California about 1 hour out of LA and it drops all over the place.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;50713273]It's shitty if you leave the populated urban and suburban areas. I've only ever had bad coverage in South Lake Tahoe(the only place I could get a 4G signal there was literally at the top of the mountain I was skiing on) but apparently it's also because South Lake Tahoe is so technologically behind that Blockbuster still exists there[/QUOTE] i thought t-mobile made their money by mainly having coverage in cities and higher population areas though
[QUOTE=sgman91;50713387]I live in Southern California about 1 hour out of LA and it drops all over the place.[/QUOTE] T-mo uses a higher frequency band, so it carries a lot less further. They've started rolling out 700Mhz (Same as Verizon, just a different block) which is going to let them go head-to-head with AT&T and Verizon. You're also going to need a device that can use Band 12. Once they can roll out their whole E-LTE network, they're going to have coverage up there with Verizon and AT&T, and their already rolled out higher-frequency networks will be even faster.
...so what? Pokemon Go barely uses any data. It doesn't download anything. All the assets are on your phone and all it does is communicate your location to the servers, and the location of pokemon and your chance of capture to you from the servers. I've been playing this game NON STOP since it came out, which includes having it running the entire time I'm working (delivery driver) on 4-9 hour shifts and I've used 68mb of data in a week.
Does pokemon Go use a great amount of data? Gps/sat nav is normally free, so surely it only has to download the locations of the pokemon
[QUOTE=Doozle;50713757]Does pokemon Go use a great amount of data? Gps/sat nav is normally free, so surely it only has to download the locations of the pokemon[/QUOTE] Look one post up dude
[QUOTE=Doozle;50713757]Does pokemon Go use a great amount of data? Gps/sat nav is normally free, so surely it only has to download the locations of the pokemon[/QUOTE] It barely uses much data, I've used 20mb/day usually. But free is free, even if it's a small amount some people may not have much data.
[QUOTE=Ricenchicken;50713813]It barely uses much data, I've used 20mb/day usually. But free is free, even if it's a small amount some people may not have much data.[/QUOTE] Just because it's free doesn't mean it's good. I'm not going to switch to a carrier with a worse network because they'll give me unlimited data on an app that would theoretically use 250mb or less data in an entire month. It's like if someone offers you a free meal, but it's very badly made and tastes like crap. You're not gonna eat it just cause it's free are you?
tesco mobile? please? i'm on a staff tariff, at least give me something
this kinda shits all over net neutrality though
[QUOTE=Snoberry Tea;50713904]Just because it's free doesn't mean it's good. I'm not going to switch to a carrier with a worse network because they'll give me unlimited data on an app that would theoretically use 250mb or less data in an entire month. It's like if someone offers you a free meal, but it's very badly made and tastes like crap. You're not gonna eat it just cause it's free are you?[/QUOTE] No, there's no point in switching carriers for it. But for people who have t-mobile it's a good offer and allows you to use your data, no matter how small the amount, else where.
Reddit are bitching about how apparently this goes against net neutrality or something, it doesn't, doesn't it? I mean it doesn't prioritise PG, it just nulls the bandwidth it uses, right?
I'm on a virtual carrier (aka a phone provider that gives service on an existing major network, but just offers their own pricing) which operates on the T-Mobile network. I can safely say the coverage is really flaky. The place I work at is just outside the city and even outdoors my signal is weak as hell, let alone indoors where you're under a metal roof.
[QUOTE=343N;50714039]Reddit are bitching about how apparently this goes against net neutrality or something, it doesn't, doesn't it? I mean it doesn't prioritise PG, it just nulls the bandwidth it uses, right?[/QUOTE] Of course it does. Suppose that a carrier provides this kind of service for Facebook, but not for Google+. Then, said carrier proceeds to lower the cap limit to something absurd (they are well within the rights to do that), like 10 MB per month. Isn't that a de-facto 'block' of G+? If you support net neutrality, you must support it both ways, not just where it benefits you.
[QUOTE=343N;50714039]Reddit are bitching about how apparently this goes against net neutrality or something, it doesn't, doesn't it? I mean it doesn't prioritise PG, it just nulls the bandwidth it uses, right?[/QUOTE] Net Neutrality involves treating all traffic as equal, and that involves more than just priority/throttling. Making traffic related to certain applications free and charging for the rest isn't treating everything the same.
Infringement on net neutrality...The biggest thieves come beating gifts. If this becomes normalised then its very easy to get traffic penalised to certain sites later down the line.
[QUOTE=Merijnwitje;50714049]I'm on a virtual carrier (aka a phone provider that gives service on an existing major network, but just offers their own pricing) which operates on the T-Mobile network. I can safely say the coverage is really flaky. The place I work at is just outside the city and even outdoors my signal is weak as hell, let alone indoors where you're under a metal roof.[/QUOTE] MVNO's get the shit end of the spectrum, you're always going to get worse coverage with them than with the provider that owns it
I dunno but i see this as plain net neutrality infringement. T Mobile probably knows this so they went for it anyway and are perhaps hoping for a backlash so they can educate the common people that net neutrality is very bad and that it should not be law because look at us, just trying to bring pokemangs to everyone and we get called out of it because of this silly net neutrality thing. Yeah, not cool with this
i thought all civilized western nations had unlimited 4G
[QUOTE=Saturn V;50715395]i thought all civilized western nations had unlimited 4G[/QUOTE] Smaller, less dense countries have unlimited 4G as far as i know. We had unlimited 3G here in the Netherlands but as soon all phones had 3G/4G connections they started to cap it because if we all had unlimited 3G/4G the entire structure would probably cramp under the weight. Edit: I checked and countries as Sweden and Finland have the same capped data packages as us
[QUOTE=Jund;50713453]i thought t-mobile made their money by mainly having coverage in cities and higher population areas though[/QUOTE] they do. they focus more on speeds and consistency of their service than they do their service area. quite frankly I'm 100% okay with this business model. if you don't have T-Mobile in your area, go and join another provider. it is the same exact thing with residential cable - if you don't have Verizon, you probably have Comcast or Time Warner. that doesn't mean the other company is shittier, it means you don't live in an area they support. [editline]15th July 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Blizzerd;50714303]Infringement on net neutrality...The biggest thieves come beating gifts. [/QUOTE] also the people who cry "infringement of net neutrality" when it comes to T-Mobile USA are fucking delusional. an optional program to lower the quality of streaming video in order save you data is not an infringement of net neutrality god fucking damnit. it is totally different than throttling speeds, which you'd get on Verizon or almost any other network
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