Any OTR Truckers with Sprint or T-Mobile Unlimited Data?

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  1. truckermario

    truckermario Road Train Member

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    Sprint is an absolute nightmare. They're known to be the slowest network of the big providers. Internet data speeds crawl in most places I go to.
     
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  3. Mattress Monkey

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    maybe it's just your phone because of my Sprint service I've been driving down the road down for the last 200 miles watching Hulu and texting
     
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  4. al_huryn

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    Yeah T-mobile works in Canada, they charge out the ### too. Verizon you can add a temporary international plan if you need it, T-mobile doesn't offer anything like that, you may be able to purchase an international sim card but they(t-mobile) are not very knowledgeable about that and really aren't much help..
     
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  5. truckermario

    truckermario Road Train Member

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    My phone is actually faster than my laptop device. But only barely. Everytime I do a speed test, either on Sprint's own website or some other speed test website, it's never pretty. A third party test even verified that Sprint was the slowest and even noted that they were the only company to go down in speed from the previous year.

    http://www.dailytech.com/Sprint+is+Biggest+Loser+in+Nationwide+3G4G+Speed+Test/article24494.htm
     
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  6. Mattress Monkey

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    I have a state of the art phone a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 I can put my phone on watching Hulu set up on the dash and Bluetooth the sound to my Cb radiowhich has a built in speaker right next to my left ear turn on low listen to TV shows as I go down the road if I just so happen to look at it then all the better I have an amazingly huge 64 gigabyte memory card so when I have 4 G service I downloaded 2 or 3 movies or a half a dozen television shows and watch them going down the road whenever I want it's all about the phone the service is secondary..
     
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  7. Mattress Monkey

    Mattress Monkey Medium Load Member

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    I have all that for 78 dollars a month I'm running on a company discountit would have it would be hard to beat that deal
     
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  8. rachi

    rachi Road Train Member

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    Post removed, mattress monkey lead me in the right direction.
     
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  9. Mattress Monkey

    Mattress Monkey Medium Load Member

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    on my settings I can turn off wifi when I need to
     
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  10. WiTrucker29

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    How about US Cellular? They allow Tethering for free and have Unlimited Data.
     
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  11. bstromback2002

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    I had T-Mobile for ten years and finally had enough of there crap service. The only time I seen 4 g was in the bigger cities otherwise it was just edge which is just down right slow. Signal in rural Wisconsin anf illinois was lime playing Russian roulette. I switched to Verizon and couldn't be happier I have 3g (which is a step above T-Mobile edge) almost everywhere and even 4g where I wouldn't expect it. Only downfall so far is the no unlimited plan but like someone else said on T-Mobile once you hit a certain amount of usage it drops down to edge speed which sucks. Stick with Verizon they seem to be the real cell phone company with more bars in more places!!!
     
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