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what's going on everyone John render from TechnoBuffalo I want to tell you guys a bit of a story when we review devices here at TechnoBuffalo we review them on the carrier that they come with so for it's an 18 18 t device will test on AT&T Verizon t-mobile Sprint and all the rest from about 2005 on I've used AT&T is my primary carrier back then it was singular it's been very easy to pop out a SIM card and move over to another phone it was just the easiest for me but about eight months ago I decided to start experiments where I would try every carrier for a four month period I still have to try sprint but I want to share my experience with switching to Verizon and switching to t-mobile I'm not going to talk too much about how fast networks be dark that's gonna be totally subjective depending on where you live but if you're debating switching or thinking about what are the Curie's might have to offer definitely check this out so going from eighteen t I first jumped over to t-mobile a young carrier been offering a ton of incredible deals incentives free data for music streaming I did their trial where I got to try and iPhone to make sure it worked in my home and worked in Braille so I went and I got sort of sketchy service in my house despite it showing full coverage on the map you're gonna see that's a trend in my home I think my walls must be lined with lead but t-mobile offers Wi-Fi calling so I figured I'd be fine the t-mobile was the first carrier that I went to and again each of the carriers were used for four months and Sprint's gonna be the next one that I'm going to try I hooked up Wi-Fi calling and it worked relatively well but the problem was when I left my house anytime there was a handoff from a Wi-Fi to either LTE or 4G HSPA+ or even 3G the call would drop the call quality on Wi-Fi Colin was also not what I would call excellent very scratchy very similar to the early days of cell phones in fact I switched my wife my wife's been with me on this journey so I keep switching her with me she couldn't use the phone I she had a really hard time making phone calls and that's our primary phones that we use they ran into a bit of a problem we had to turn Wi-Fi calling off and despite second I step outdoors getting three to four bars of LTE indoors I was lucky to get one sometimes I would drop down to only showing 3G service so I made using t-mobile very difficult for us at home so bear in mind the Wi-Fi calling other people have had very different experiences I tried multiple devices as well with t-mobile iOS and Android both make sure was just unique to one device talk to you mobile customer service which was absolutely excellent tried to walk you through some settings and how to tweak things and still is never able to fix the problem completely so if you're considering t-mobile for Wi-Fi calling best advice I can gate would be try the service first make sure it's going to work for you and try the Wi-Fi calling see if it's going to fit I will say t-mobile data speeds and getting subjective work incredibly fast outdoors indoors Oh was another story Fazio go and go shopping for example outside the store three to four bars of LT incredibly fast data speeds inside though that would drop down to 3G connections sometimes not even that I get the dreaded no service t-mobile still is lagging behind getting through those walls at wall penetration they bought a huge chunk of band twelve but not a lot of thumbs up that are supporting at twelve bands hopefully the next few months we'll start seeing more phone support it and that wall penetration should be something in the past I think that's why t-mobile is really pushing the Wi-Fi calling but for us that did not work however having said that when I was getting a strong LTE service there volte which is voice over LTE was absolutely incredible it sounded really good it's hard to describe what something sounds like but you can audibly hear that it sounds different than a normal call best example I can give would be like seeing HD TV for the first time universes standard def you could see a difference I might be able to describe it but it just sounds so much better as able do simultaneous voice and data which was also very nice to have after the four months so I decided I was going to try and go to Verizon and I went to Verizon and I brought my own hardware Verizon now you could centrally do you could do with t-mobile and AT&T swap SIM cards into a new phone and you are good to go I brought my own hardware with me to sign up I had a few unlocked iPhones that I used which will work with t-mobile 18 to get Verizon not sprint which will I haven't tried to print yet and it was they they just didn't know what to do to set up a new phone that didn't have an IME items in their system which should have been 15 minutes the pour-over number took a very long time in many call sequester service what I ended up doing essentially saying use an IMEI of a phone you've got in your store just give me the SIM card account that's all I need I read in the forum's a way to get around that is essentially just create a new account online have them send you SIM cards and then just port your number over that will avoid all those problems so on to Verizon again check the Verizon map had great coverage by my house got the phone in the house and same thing happened I would drop from really strong LTE to almost nothing one or two bars of three Gina think about Verizon their LTE coverage absolutely incredible but they don't have HSPA or 4G or Foe G fallback like AT&T and t-mobile do so if you're not on LTE you are on a really slow 3G essentially it's EVDO Rev a which by today's standard to be considered very very slow and inadequate so again my wife and I are in a problem we couldn't quite make a phone call we have to stay on a picks they're part of the in the kitchen to make a call it have a go through without dropping and then again never sound at all that good because we're gonna really somehow a fringe area so I called the Verizon I was like I got a probably cancel my service what can you guys do and to their credit and excellent customer service they sent me a 3g cell tower out the next day free of charge and that worked very very well so if you have issues with Verizon give them a call that also brought a whole slew of problems Verizon also like T Mobile offers voice over LTE but that cell tower was only 3g because I was in a fringe LT area I had to turn off the voice over LTE so when they also had a turn off simultaneous voice and data which was a bit of a pink if I was doing that and it got one bar of LT or try me to call over LTE and not over 3G which is what that MIDI tower they sent me was so I didn't get some of the things that I would want with Verizon I couldn't do voice and data which is really annoying and beyond that whenever I would drive away from my house I would leave through my Wi-Fi signal that that cell tower was using for 3G I would drop the call and that also got to be a bit of a pain the outside of that Verizon absolutely credible anywhere I went I almost always had service sometimes it would drop that dreaded 3G but I would say with the few exception my house being one of them I could make a phone call everywhere I went whether I was in a huge warehouse shopping center whether I was in the grocery store let me take a call on a movie theater anywhere I went Verizon had service again subject depending on where you are but their ability to get through walls was really second to none so that four months passed I figured I was going to go back to AT&T to see how their service had improved and I will say that dead zone inside my house I can make calls with AT&T I generally get two to three bars of LT note doesn't mean much I went through actually checked with the numbers our service is pretty strong I haven't yet had a dropped call in my home I don't need any sort of cell tower or any sort of extender to make a phone call which is very nice data speeds are not fat typically outdoors as what I've seen with Verizon or t-mobile I don't have Wi-Fi calling I don't have prevalence of HD voice or voice over LTE which TTT keeps saying is coming and it's sort of supported on some devices in always small pockets but far from widespread but I do a simultaneous voice and data so at least for me right now it looks like 18 TS sort of the best option but I wanted to sort of share my story and I've been purposely not sharing what up that happening so I wanted to make a big video detailing what's been going on Suzy decides which carriers not bear this in mind when I went back to AT&T I signed up for a new planet their 10 gig with rollover data they gave me a full month's extra rollover data so now I've got 19 gigs of data which is a lot of data to use I'm gonna try ATT again now for four months and then Sprint is going to be next and I'll share my opinions on Sprint anyway what's your guy's opinion be you're considering switching carriers hopefully you found this helpful I want to do the hard work for you so the memorial being a foreigner fringe area definitely try it first and forsaking about t-mobile make sure you try the Wi-Fi calling before you bikes it might not be able to cracked up to be and I think you guys for watching thank you for sitting through the story I hope it helps you guys avoid some the pitfalls that I went through until next time John rende your TechnoBuffalo hey guys neck video