Since I don't post on Reddit anymore, I feel as if I have nowhere else to post this.
I used to be a near-lifelong T-Mobile US customer. My family started on T-Mobile via Omnipoint in NYC.
When we moved to Houston two and a half years ago, the coverage here was absolutely garbage. Trying to find signal anywhere was a pain, and cellular often didn't work in our house.
So we switched to AT&T, and I deleted my account with TMUS thinking that I wouldn't look back.
I was wrong.
After yet another string of bad service and slow 5G, I decided to give T-Mobile another try. It is leaps and bounds better. It's almost as if I'm using another carrier. 5G especially.
I never had working 5G before and largely thought it to be a gimmick, until I started using T-Mobile 5G Ultra Capacity. At one place, I had bandwidth over cell that was as fast as my gigabit Wi-Fi mesh at home. Insane speeds.
And it wasn't limited that one spot. I got a T-Mobile prepaid SIM while we were on a road trip to compare coverage. TMUS trounced over AT&T in just about every market. It was a night and day difference.
Between this, T-Mobile Tuesdays, Netflix and Apple TV+ on them (including Premium), an extremely seamless onboarding process (which surprised me, given that TMUS's IT has gotten a fair share of criticism), why anyone would bother with AT&T in most cases.
> According to the letter, the layoffs will primarily hit workers in corporate, back-office, and technology roles. Retail and customer service workers won't be impacted by the cuts, it's said.
As a corporate and technology worker for my whole career, this seems perfectly reasonable?
It costs them $450M. For 5K employees, that comes down to 90K/employee. Of course, that doesn’t mean every one of the 5K employees is going to get that much as severance, but it seems they are spending a decent chunk on severance.
For perspective, Amazon pushes out more than 7% of its workforce every year for "performance reasons". For a far more stable company like T-mobile, this feels like cruft-culling.
I used to be a near-lifelong T-Mobile US customer. My family started on T-Mobile via Omnipoint in NYC.
When we moved to Houston two and a half years ago, the coverage here was absolutely garbage. Trying to find signal anywhere was a pain, and cellular often didn't work in our house.
So we switched to AT&T, and I deleted my account with TMUS thinking that I wouldn't look back.
I was wrong.
After yet another string of bad service and slow 5G, I decided to give T-Mobile another try. It is leaps and bounds better. It's almost as if I'm using another carrier. 5G especially.
I never had working 5G before and largely thought it to be a gimmick, until I started using T-Mobile 5G Ultra Capacity. At one place, I had bandwidth over cell that was as fast as my gigabit Wi-Fi mesh at home. Insane speeds.
And it wasn't limited that one spot. I got a T-Mobile prepaid SIM while we were on a road trip to compare coverage. TMUS trounced over AT&T in just about every market. It was a night and day difference.
Between this, T-Mobile Tuesdays, Netflix and Apple TV+ on them (including Premium), an extremely seamless onboarding process (which surprised me, given that TMUS's IT has gotten a fair share of criticism), why anyone would bother with AT&T in most cases.