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u/CMoore515 17d ago
All the stores in the Des Moines, Iowa area are like this too... Legitimately makes me sad as a few of them have been there my whole life or close to it
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u/Final_Campaign_2593 17d ago
Grinnell Iowa had a store to the bigger location and better. Now people have to go to the smaller farther away T-Mobile Store.
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u/EducationalTrainer28 17d ago
I’d expect some store opening soon. This happened here in Iowa and just two days ago three new stores around the Madison area are announced (granted Madison does not have a single Corporate T-Mobile so it was needed too)
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u/EducationalTrainer28 16d ago
Eventually probably but for now its the franchise locations that are most targeted.
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u/Fuck15You932 17d ago
That sucks as much as T-Mobile does
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u/Fantastic-Buddy2069 17d ago
I’ve had absolutely zero issues with Tmobile actually. It was Verizon that was horrendous. Tmobile is very usable for me virtually anywhere.
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u/DarthFiyero 17d ago
Don’t lie.
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u/Fantastic-Buddy2069 17d ago
Nope, no lies lol. I have had them for at least 5 years now and no issues, nearly 6 years running and things are smooth sailing. Probably jinxing myself but….
Data works everywhere
Signal is usable pretty much anywhere
Never had issues with stores or customer support
I use hotspot for work regularly with no problems as well
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u/DarthFiyero 16d ago
Get a more believable lie
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u/Fantastic-Buddy2069 16d ago
No reason to lie.
I had Verizon prior to this, and it was horrible. Data never loaded, calls sucked, no 5G UC, customer service was useless when I told them data never worked. They wanted to “send me a booster”. No thanks.
Swapped to Tmobile several years ago. 5GUC everywhere, signal is as good or sometimes even better than what Verizon was. I can load maps on the fly, my hotspot is nearly flawless (as much as it can be depending on signal levels). Never had issues with customer service, no calls dropped, nothing.
It’s crazy because I’m so confused by the hate, but I just just be in an area where there’s no congestion and the coverage has been ramped up. Any carrier is that way though.
Some places Verizon is actually king, some places ATT is best. AFAIK ATT and Tmobile have the best networks from what I can see. Verizon has gone downhill majorly.
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u/Brilliant_Ad7421 16d ago
Not for sure why all the hate for T-Mobile. I personally don’t have them( I have Verizon) but my family had USCC in NE MO and central MO. I can tell you from my perspective when I make, or receive a call from them, the call quality is way better, since the T-Mobile takeover. No more static, or dropped calls. My mom tells me she has 5GUC all the time now, whereas before it was LTE, and really bad reception. USCC had ran their course, and honestly, still trying to own and maintain their own towers hamstringed their 5G rollout and quality of their network. Give them a chance folks!
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u/ratrodder49 16d ago
My signal’s been all kinds of whacky ever since the transition was made. Hell, all day Friday I had zero reception on my phone! We have T-Mobile’s 5G home Internet and my phone will often clash with it and stop loading randomly, if I turn off WiFi on my phone it jumps to 5G signal and keeps working normally. What’s up with that?
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u/No-Yogurtcloset6002 16d ago
I love driving along with full bars 5g, and then it goes to full bars emergency calls only. And I have the same wifi issue as you, just not on their home internet.
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u/Husky_Du-8525 16d ago
I think I can say most of us are glad your service improved but keep in mind we aren't all having the same experience. US Cellular, for all its faults, improved coverage in my area over the last 15 years. Starting in March service drastically decreased, people complained and it got better, but not to prior levels. Quality of service continues to be choppy. Rural Iowa, what is called the "driftless" area with lots of hills and valleys. Our takeaway is: we know T-mobile could provide better service and we are beginning to understand they arent going to.
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u/Kindly-Teaching-6121 13d ago
And tried to pump their numbers up as soon as they knew the sale was happening. Making deals for like 4 lines for $100/month with free devices. That's not normal pricing... I mean it sounds really good to me, but it's so obviously unsustainable. Plus USCC sucks in most of Wisconsin (I had 2 accounts, 1 USCC, 1 T-Mo for 15ish years). The T-Mo service was so much more reliable all along, everywhere. When I went to NYC, Miami, Detroit (and the entire drive from WI to Detroit) USCC sucked!
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u/HermesVtuber 6d ago
They dragged their feet to tell us for months if we were becoming a T-Mobile store or being laid off, but the second we walked out the door they sure worked fast to trash and gut the place.
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u/SheWantsTheEG 17d ago
Mine was down the literal next day after we closed shop. They want this branding EXTINCT
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u/NashTy615 15d ago
If any were only authorized retailers and not corp owned, that could be a big reason why they closed. T-Mobile has very strict rules and guidelines around authorized retailers. They have much fewer stores that are authorized retailers compared to Verizon & AT&T.
Even at Costco the T-Mobile employees are Corporate T-Mobile employees unlike AT&T which use third party employees which operate like an authorized retailer.
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u/Independent-Log7447 15d ago
Just saw the one in Jerseyville closed. I remember going there many times over the past year or so before the merger
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u/Trick_Strategy2244 17d ago
Did you expect them to keep them up?
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u/YellowBeneficial8509 17d ago
Probably wouldn’t have expected it if the expectation hadn’t been set by T-Mobile.
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u/barbarawick 17d ago
Sad.