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Tmo went anti consumer over last 2 years.
"Inflation" and don't get me started on 5g. So much money spent but nothing to really show for it. What is it doing what LTE hasn't done?
Remember when John Legere was CEO and doing Livestream cooking in his house? Those were the good times.
John Legere was hired specifically to make the merger between Sprint and T-Mobile happen, and he resigned right after. He put on a charade to make people think that T-Mobile was a customer-friendly company that would continue to be customer-friendly after merging with Sprint, while knowing the entire time that everything would go to hell after the merger happened and he was gone. John Legere is a con man that pushed a giant anticompetitive corporate merger through antitrust scrutiny, not a benevolent person.
It’s because they merged with Sprint and don’t need to give a fuck anymore. They used to be the”uncarrier.”
Even their earliest "uncarrier" features weren't without issue. Making certain services (spotify, apple music, youtube, netflix, etc.) not count against subscribers' data caps, while continuing to enforce data caps for other uses, goes against the spirit of net neutrality. This also includes throttling video streams by default to force lower quality (with opt-out on their site).
Promos like a free pizza on Tuesdays seems like a neat optional perk on the surface but their existence fundamentally mean subscription expenses on cellular network service are partially going towards things that have not even the slightest tangential connection to the service.
Don't you realize 5g is spreading the covids?! $5 + 5g = COVID 19! Wake up sheeple! The math is right there! Do your own research!
Edit: I'm happy that most people on Lemmy get an obvious joke without the need for the /s
Exhibit no 1: too much politics will cause brain damage.
how is this sarcasm? you came in a bit heavy with a political/al right angle but it was not "opposite" (aka sarcasm). It was clear you were mocking me but I did not come to comment from political or alt right angle.
5g is literally me being robbed to pay for some "owner's" capital, income producing assets.
Bandwidth. I’ve got faster upload on 5G than my home cable internet. It’s a massive speed increase vs LTE, and I’ve not had issues for a long time.
Fair... But that's home internet is not primary usecase tho
Why as cell customer I am paying for this shit?
IIRC, 5g is a much nicer generation for the carriers than for consumers. It can be more easily deployed with microcells on light poles vs requiring the tall cell towers. There's ultra-wideband, which is definitely faster, but plain 5g is roughly the same, just easier to roll out.
Fair enough! I definitely read this around the time 5g was coming around but apparently I was misinformed.
Thank you!
Don't we all love funding CapEx of a shiti compamy that really doesn't even benefit us?