I'm not trying to compare 3G to LTE. I am just pointing out that Verizon and ATT both get LTE in this same exact area that T-Mobile only gets either "E" or "G". Everyone always points out how bad the the sprint network is, of which I totally agree, but even their terrible 3G network is much fast compared to all of this "E" or "G" that we get with T-Mobile. We are paying 2013 money for a network that is comprised of mostly 2003 technology to a company that is gladly claiming they are "working" on it, but giving no ETA of when all of this "E" and "G" coverage will be taken care of. How many more years are we supposed to pay them for this lack of service? The truth is all they are doing is racing to put up an LTE network in all metropolitan areas to cash in quick and they don't really seem to care about the rural areas. It is absolutely understandable that LTE would take time and I never expected that overnight, but how many more years of all of this "E" and "G" nonsense that is pretty much unusable by today's standards in 90% of rural areas are we required to endure? If they wanted to focus their efforts on all of their customers, they would have started with making all 1g/2g into HSPA+ first and then rolled out LTE. Their HSPA+ network is plenty fast enough to do pretty much whatever a normal user would need online.
I guess my money is less important than the NYC based customers, perhaps I should take my business elsewhere, to ATT for example. For $60 bucks under their Go program, the same price as T-Mobile, I can bring any phone, get unlimited talk and text, and 2 Gigs of 4G and LTE data. Where is the incentive not to switch? So what if I lose 500mb of data, what good is data when you can't connect to the internet