• Hazor@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Ugh. I’m on on of T-Mobile’s MVNO’s. Unfortunately, it’s not like Verizon or AT&T are morally superior. What’s a guy to do?

      Remind me why we allowed this much consolidation of the industry?

      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Because polticians are simultaneously too stupid to understand the problems they must regulate and too greedy to want to understand them.

      • Pup Biru@aussie.zone
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        1 month ago

        Remind me why we allowed this much consolidation of the industry?

        because telecom is somewhat of a natural monopoly (cables for sure; wireless less so, but for wireless you still need cables and spectrum)

    • extremeboredom@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Problem is, T Mobile bought so many other carriers that their coverage is unbeatable in the US. I’ve been all over the entire country and had coverage everywhere others with competing carriers didn’t. That’s anecdotal I suppose, but I’m afraid to switch to a carrier with worse coverage.

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        1 month ago

        T-Mobile doesn’t work everywhere, but nobody does. There’s a town in Tennessee that I visited for work twice last year, and the moment I got to my destination, I lost coverage. If I wanted to make a call, I haf to drive a couple miles down the road.

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          That’s fair. I was definitely exaggerating, but I do know I had coverage in much more of the country than the people I traveled with.