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

Tethering, meaning connecting your phone to another device, such as a laptop or tablet to use your phones Internet on another device. Like right now I have my phone tethered to my iPad to make this post. With an unlimited plan I wouldn't be able to do that.

 

So on my phone it has a hotspot wifi for 10 connections does that mean I gotta pay extra to use that?

 

T-mobile is great. Not sure what the guy below you is talking about. Besides trucking, smart phones and computers are a specialty of mine. I have had Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, and T-mobile all in the past 6 years. T-Mobile is by far the best, and for numerous reasons. T-Mobile and AT&T share towers because they use the same frequency. There has only been one place where I cannot get any kind of signal and that's in Big Island VA.

The problem with T-Mobiles unlimited plan is that you only get 50mb's of roaming data, which isn't good if you're fairly active on the internet. Also, you cannot tether if you have the unlimited plan. With the 10gb plan you get all the roaming you need, and tethering is free. As far as network speed, T-mobile rocks. Dallas, 20+ mbps speeds, Nashville 20+, Atlanta 25+.

T-Mobile always gets the best phones. T-Mobile has 4g.. With T-Mobile, you only have to change out the SIM card, and you can use any T-Mobile phone.

A lot of people blame their reception, or data speeds on the network, or provider when a lot of times it's the phone/operating system within the phone. Take the Galaxy Note 2, if you don't update the radio in the phone, your reception/data will suffer. If you don't update the AGPS settings, your GPS lock time will suffer. More often than not, it's the phone/user that's the problem.

Personally, I have 2 lines. I have one where I have unlimited data that I use for downloading, and my main phone line. The second I use as an internet connection to my laptop that has 10gb's of data. It's just a phone that sits on my dash tething 24/7. I watch a lot of football so during the season I use all 10gb's. During the off-season I drop it down to 5gb's.


A good site to check out is XDA.com

 

I live in ca and have sprint switched from Verizon after13 years my coverage is fine. Actually have same phone as you cowboy, anyways.
I run all over western states and in some uncommon routes also and have no complaints and have service up into Canada as well full bars 3g up in Princeton BC. Pretty much the same area I had service with Verizon I have it with Sprint.
But I do have 4g in areas I never had with Verizon as well.

 

Cool... Are you stock? If so, the EVO will show 3g even when only connecting to 1x. The PRL I'm running is 59006 for 3g roaming.

sent from my EVO4gLTE
OCed and MEANbean

 

Are you saying as an OTR driver you never drop calls with T Mobile? That is pretty hard to believe as many people complain about this. If you look on T Mobile's coverage area in the link I provided it's pretty scarce compared to Verizon. Verizon is expensive but well worth it if you travel a lot. Being a CDMA network is a negative as you can't take their phones to any other carrier but Sprint BUT they have world phones like the Blackberry Bold 9930 which works on CDMA and GSM.

 

I have no idea what he's talking about either, T-Mobile is to the point I lose calls in my house. Upstate PA across 80 there are several spots I have no coverage for 15-20 miles at a stretch and out west in the desert forget it too. The 4G is extremely spotty almost everywhere. To top it off their customer service sucks too. Neither the phone nor the user, here, are the problem.

 

as long as you don't re-up your contract with an upgrade you keep your unlimited status. you just have to pay full price for new phones.

 

I switched from verizon to sprint because I needed the unlimited data it works well enough for me I run mostly the mid atlantic region though .

 

so on one hand we got a guy that says he doesnt drop any calls while on the road with tmobile, and other hand we gotta guy that can barely get a signal in his house.