Do you have T-Mobile?

I'm about to switch from AT&T to T-Mobile. My only reservations are how their service is indoors and outside of metro areas.

Can anyone advise on their experience in Maplewood and NYC? From looking at their coverage maps I'm almost never in an area outside of their LTE zone but curious how bad it drops off and if anyone has problems here.

Also concerned about inside homes or other buildings as I've heard that is a weakness of the frequencies they operate on.

I care mostly about data service.

Thanks!

I switched to T-Mobile about a year ago, and just switched my wife and Mother In Law over as well. I have had almost no issues. I do have some issues inside Trader Joes and Home Depot - but right outside the door I am fine.

I also lose singal on the train when we enter the tunnel.

If you travel to rural areas, you will find that you have no data service. You will not have data service through the tunnels on NJT as I think you do on AT&T. T-mobile will provide you with a signal booster for your home (for free), which I do use. I notice that there are a few places in town where we get no service (around Clinton school, for example). But for the price difference, it works for me.

I have had Tmobile for years and am quite satisfied with it. I regularly travel through most areas of Maplewood/South Orange, Millburn, Short Hills, Summit, Livingston, West Orange and more.

I have rarely had a problem with service indoors unless I was deep inside Costco or the Short Hills Mall.

Outside there are a few spots where I lose signal. They are: on Parker and Elmwood for a 2 or 3 block stretch beginning about a block east of Prospect. 2. For about 200 feet on Old Short Hills Road in Short Hills ( about 1/4 of the way from S. O Avenue to Millburn Avenue) and a few spots in the South Mountain Reservation - for about 50 to 100 ft on Brookside Drive, and for about 50 ft on South Orange Avenue.

Both data and phone service have been fine for me all along the Eastern Seaboard, from Vermont to Florida.

However, Driving to Stowe , Vermont and Ithaca NY and through Pennsylvania to Cleveland, there were occasional stretches of perhaps 10 minutes to less than 30 minutes that I did not get data and on lesser occasions even phone signal was sketchy. However my companion with Verizon usually also had reception issues at those times as well.

I have T-Mobile and don't have any problems on the east end of Maplewood. I usually have the WiFi on and that seems to help. When I had Verizon (which I loved, but could no longer afford) I had very sketchy cell phone service in this same house. No data problems either.

thanks for the replies.

for what it's worth i don't get service on at&t in the train tunnels or trader joe / petsmart buildings either.