Verizon: Donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration
AT&T: Donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration
T-Mobile: Donated millions to Trump’s ballroom, agreed to run the network for Trump Mobile, partnered with and promoted Musk’s Starlink, ended DEI to bend the knee to Trump
Best thing to do is just choose an MVNO or prepaid that uses one of the other networks. That’s the problem with boycotts in an oligopoly of something “needed” - one can’t easily full-boycott.
Choosing something that costs you $25/mon versus a $110/mon post-paid plan hits them in their ARPU (average revenue per user) which is a metric carriers heavily try to keep looking good to make shareholders happy.
Only caveats, is MVNOs often do not have domestic roaming, nor access to accessory products you might need for service. Carrier prepaid often does, although sometimes it is a bit less. They also tend to have less priority, and some will plug their QCI level as being on par with a carrier plan (which is a network priority tier at the radio level) but they can and do still get traffic-shaped below primary carrier/post-paid/business/responder traffic.
Domestic roaming is not such a big concern in most developed areas of the country these days, but some places like the Intermountain West do still have a lot of off-carrier roaming where your phone will just stop working when you are domestic roaming.
Some sources from that “other” social site to compare:
Also, while AT&T and Verizon have storied histories for various reasons, they at least haven’t used mango 1.0 and mango 2.0 to manipulate their position in the market like T-Mobile did. They’re greedy shits and do terrible things themselves, but somehow the mostly German- and partly Japanese-owned (not a bias against those two nations, just pointing out the odd hypocrisy, looking down upon us while profiting from our wallets) T-Mobile is capitalizing on manipulating our markets, regs, and laws to give themselves a leg up above the other two.
FWIW, AT&T has the most square miles of coverage in the US, but it tends to be razor thin in rural areas. AT&T has been very sluggish on upgrading their network, in many markets they broadcast the 5G network flag so your phone says 5G, but they run on old LTE equipment, or run a tiny 5G carrier on ancient hardware on their old 850MHz band to claim it is “real”. They always tend to work for basic voice and text, and some data just about anywhere. Verizon hasn’t ever back-filled their CDMA holes across the US after their 2023 CDMA shutdown, and actually roam on AT&T in places where their gaps are huge. They have done a great job of updating their network in populated or even semi-populated areas, on par with or surpassing T-Mobile. They also didn’t buy spectrum for 12 years, so they have a huge spectrum gap compared to the other two, so if you’re in a busy traffic market, you may have a poor experience.
Wireless in the US is stupid, for so many reasons.
How do I avoid T-Mobile when I don’t want anything to do with Verizon or ATT?
I do need some degree of cell access for work.
It’s about harm reduction…
Verizon: Donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration
AT&T: Donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration
T-Mobile: Donated millions to Trump’s ballroom, agreed to run the network for Trump Mobile, partnered with and promoted Musk’s Starlink, ended DEI to bend the knee to Trump
I know who I’m not choosing.
Best thing to do is just choose an MVNO or prepaid that uses one of the other networks. That’s the problem with boycotts in an oligopoly of something “needed” - one can’t easily full-boycott.
Choosing something that costs you $25/mon versus a $110/mon post-paid plan hits them in their ARPU (average revenue per user) which is a metric carriers heavily try to keep looking good to make shareholders happy.
Only caveats, is MVNOs often do not have domestic roaming, nor access to accessory products you might need for service. Carrier prepaid often does, although sometimes it is a bit less. They also tend to have less priority, and some will plug their QCI level as being on par with a carrier plan (which is a network priority tier at the radio level) but they can and do still get traffic-shaped below primary carrier/post-paid/business/responder traffic.
Domestic roaming is not such a big concern in most developed areas of the country these days, but some places like the Intermountain West do still have a lot of off-carrier roaming where your phone will just stop working when you are domestic roaming.
Some sources from that “other” social site to compare:
https://prepaidcompare.net/
https://www.bestphoneplans.net/
Also, while AT&T and Verizon have storied histories for various reasons, they at least haven’t used mango 1.0 and mango 2.0 to manipulate their position in the market like T-Mobile did. They’re greedy shits and do terrible things themselves, but somehow the mostly German- and partly Japanese-owned (not a bias against those two nations, just pointing out the odd hypocrisy, looking down upon us while profiting from our wallets) T-Mobile is capitalizing on manipulating our markets, regs, and laws to give themselves a leg up above the other two.
FWIW, AT&T has the most square miles of coverage in the US, but it tends to be razor thin in rural areas. AT&T has been very sluggish on upgrading their network, in many markets they broadcast the 5G network flag so your phone says 5G, but they run on old LTE equipment, or run a tiny 5G carrier on ancient hardware on their old 850MHz band to claim it is “real”. They always tend to work for basic voice and text, and some data just about anywhere. Verizon hasn’t ever back-filled their CDMA holes across the US after their 2023 CDMA shutdown, and actually roam on AT&T in places where their gaps are huge. They have done a great job of updating their network in populated or even semi-populated areas, on par with or surpassing T-Mobile. They also didn’t buy spectrum for 12 years, so they have a huge spectrum gap compared to the other two, so if you’re in a busy traffic market, you may have a poor experience.
Wireless in the US is stupid, for so many reasons.
I appreciate you.
Walmart. I already arranged that. They want login info?
User Email: irrelevant@dispostable.com
Password: Walmart1
Fuckem, last I checked, that still works for Walmart.
It’s registered to the name Anonymous Human.