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I am using Mint Mobile’s unlimited plan and paying peanuts compared to my partner’s Verizon plan. But their signal is often completely fine where mine even an hour or two outside of a major metro is bad to unusable. Doubly so in large buildings.

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I've been on Straight Talk, which was great because they spanned carriers and you could pick whichever carrier worked best in your area. I used T-Mobile with them and coverage + speeds were all around great, in and out of the city.

Then Verizon bought them and forced everyone on their network. My in-city speeds went down significantly (as in, over 75Mbps slower) in the city, and the coverage in rural areas was not any better than my spouse who's on AT&T.

Verizon missed the boat on 5G, they are no longer the one stop shop for coverage that they were.

Frankly even 10MB is much more than an average person need.5G on phone is almost unnoticeable . Best strategy would've been to provide more coverage than faster coverage.

Verizon certainly have but have an excellent network and brand name. At the moment, T Mobile have the most amount of spectrum bandwidth available

10MB? That's like half a Javascript framework

That’s just Tmobile - we have plans both directly and with Mint and the coverage is identical. There are some other first party MVNO’s like Visible which run on Verizon you might be interested in.

To add more, this depends on area a lot. Basically MVNO or not some areas would be better with T-Mobile and some with Verizon.

Yes purely depends on your coverage areas as in few areas T Mob would be better and in other verizon or ATT. Best is to get a sense of the area you mostly spend time in. For home/office. Wi-Fi calling does the job

Turn on Wi-Fi calling & that'll help with the coverage part. They operate on T-Mobile which generally has sub par coverage. I expect it to improve in a year or so

That only works when you have useable WiFi and that’s far from guaranteed even in a major city.

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