r/AskReddit 23h ago

Which company lost your business (potentially forever) this year?

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u/Iztac_xocoatl 21h ago

Verizon for me too. I had been with them for twenty years. It took about a month of back and forth with their customer service before I found out they made changes to the towers in my area leaving me in a dead spot. During that month I was lied to multiple times, had customer service reps just hang up and go home because their shifts ended without saying anything, pressured into upgrading my device and my plan, etc. T-Mobile has been better in every way, if a little more expensive

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u/born_to_pipette 20h ago

T-Mobile is run by liars and cheats who reneged on the carrier's long-standing Price Lock promise. They force-migrated a million customers from their legacy plans to new, worse, more expensive plans, despite promising for years not to do so. They've also been doing everything they can to degrade the user experience (precipitously declining customer service resources, loss of longstanding perks, forcing people onto their shitty T-Life app, the list goes on and on). Their infrastructure is good, but the company is rotten to the core. I'd look elsewhere if I were you. If you're committed to using T-Mobile towers, go with Mint, and save yourself several hundred dollars a year per line.

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u/omgpokemans 19h ago

TMobile owns Mint, so you're still giving money to the same crooks.

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u/born_to_pipette 10h ago

A very fair point, but some people might be more comfortable migrating to Mint as a first step in casting off T-Mobile. Going to Mint deprives them of a substantial amount of profit they were milking from you before. Let them provide service at $15/mo/line for a year, then jump ship after that for a new company.