by listenallyall on 5/30/23, 11:51 AM
Anyone remember way before cell phones, when Sprint was just a long-distance provider like MCI? They rolled out fiber optic lines, the idea was that fiber optics were so perfect you could hear a pin drop over the phone.
https://youtu.be/k4dIDl8sjJk
by sacnoradhq on 5/30/23, 12:36 AM
IIRC, wasn't the low-cost carrier MetroPCS also acquired by T-Mobile?
Seems like oligopoly and higher prices are on the horizon. Americans pay way, way more than European consumers do for the same/worse service.
by TheJoeMan on 5/30/23, 12:37 PM
One aspect I don't see discussed as much is the shutting down of the infrastructure used for the IoT. 3G/4G/5G/etc. were all pitched as revolutionizing connections for more than just cell phones. But these devices, such as refrigerated truck remote monitoring, older vehicle OnStar, many depend on 3G.
This is going hand-in-hand with browsers increasingly putting up roadblocks to configuring said IoT devices. Guess what? The tiny device setup webserver on my low power embedded device isn't going to be able to https sorry. So now you have to dismiss more and more warning dialogs.
by Baljhin on 5/29/23, 8:03 PM
> T-Mobile merged with Spring on April 1, 2020, and has been chiseling away at Sprint products & services ever since. The plan was always to envelop Sprint’s customers into the T-Mobile brand and now the final stages have been scheduled.
by arnon on 5/30/23, 11:14 AM
Makes sense as the cost of running two operators' networks is insane overhead
by thedanbob on 5/30/23, 11:54 AM
I miss Sprint. Their network had the best service in my area, and Tello (NVMO formerly using the Sprint network) was the cheapest I could find. Win-win! Now I have to pay more for worse service.
by unstatusthequo on 5/31/23, 2:52 AM
Whenever I see T-Mobile, my brain thinks T-Minus XX days until another reported breach. Can’t be coincidence, can it?
by tamade on 5/30/23, 5:46 PM
Always found T-Mobile to be an odd brand for the US market since Americans still refer to these devices as cell phones rather than mobiles like the rest of the world. Wonder if they considered keeping the Sprint brand instead?