T-Mobile pokes fun at Verizon's LTE outage in a tweet
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But times have changed. In the cut throat world of the cellphone industry, we have seen finger pointing, law suits and name calling just to name a few things. Verizon became a target when its 4G LTE service went down on Wednesday. And who better to poke fun at Big Red's woes than T-Mobile. The nation's fourth largest carrier had ironically poked fun at its merger partner AT&T and Apple in a series of television commercials that are still in rotation on some stations.
This time, T-Mobile resorted to sending out a tweet that mentions some of the wonderful things that took place on its 4G pipelines during the time that Verizon's 4G network was kaput. According to T-Mobile, 22 million photos, 17 million eBooks and 1 million apps were downloaded over T-Mobile's 4G network while Big Red's LTE customers had to
source: Twitter via AndroidCentral
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T-Mobiles tweet points out some of the things that took place on it's 4G network while Verizon's LTE service was down |
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28 Comments
2. bossmt_2 posted on 30 Apr 2011, 17:30 2 1
That's funny. I'm a VZW customer, but that's good comedy. At least you know the T-Mo writer was in a city, cause well that's the only place you get T-Mo internet.
3. joseg81 (unregistered) posted on 30 Apr 2011, 17:39 2 2
funny cuz the 4g was out for about 2days in albuquerque
4. luis_lopez_351 posted on 30 Apr 2011, 17:51 4 0
:) Love t-mobile. there actually having tons of fun b4 at&t eats them...We will all miss you T_T...unless the merge fails and u get 3 billion dollars from att Kudos :D
5. edbdroid (unregistered) posted on 30 Apr 2011, 18:17 4 4
Funny... Here in the aftermath of the killer storms in Alabama, VZW has service and TMo doesn't. Think they'll show their arses about THAT anytime soon?
6. codymws posted on 30 Apr 2011, 18:49 2 2
Nice to know that T-Mobile is spying on how many different types of media we've downloaded. ;)
7. Mikelowerey (unregistered) posted on 30 Apr 2011, 19:09 3 3
You do know that all of these phone companies get the numbers of what items have been downloaded by their service right? This whole damn apple spying thing is making everyone look idiotic. And T-mobile shouldn't be so damn cocky, considering who has the better 4g service between them and verizon.
15. remixfa posted on 01 May 2011, 09:48 4 3
lol. Lets see.. HSPA+ is in more cities and Tmobile is now upgrading it from 21mb/s to 42mb/s. I get 6mb/s on my 3g vibrant. The glory of HSPA+ is its backwards compatable to all 3g phones giving EVERYONE a speed boost, not just 1 phone.
VZW's LTE is in less cities and maxes in the 30's with real worlds on average about the same as HSPA+ (yes, it does spike high though, but thats not average)
your right. Tmobile's 4g is better. :)
16. lollipop posted on 01 May 2011, 10:26 2 2
42mb/s HSPA+ will still be slower then Verizon's LTE... Verizon's LTE is rated at 150mb/s just like rogers but real world performance will not provide those speeds.
Why do you think people in Dallas were reporting speeds of over 35mb/s+ over Verizon LTE? HSPA+ 42 will not provide those speeds just as HSPA+ 7.2 never got anyone near breaking 5mb/s.
18. luis_lopez_351 posted on 01 May 2011, 16:35 1 1
Dont you mean people only in Dallas? but what about the rest of the U.S.??? T-Mobile has more areas with HSPA+ 14,21,42 than verizons premature LTE. T-Mobiles HSPA+ is actually stable. T-Mobile is used by alot of data hogs and they still run great Averaging 11 mbps. Verizons "4G" is used by a small amount of its data hungry pigs (Like about 250,000 out of 1000+million) and there speeds are decreasing very Fast! at first i seen 28 mbp on most of its 4G devices but now im seeing 12-18 whats up with that? wait till more people use its 4G too see how fast it really is. verizon promised 6-12 mbps when almost the entire nation was covered, so do you still think verizon is faster?
19. luis_lopez_351 posted on 01 May 2011, 16:35 0 0
100 million+*
26. luis_lopez_351 posted on 02 May 2011, 16:57 0 0
really? oh gee ima going to an airport thats in the outskirts of the city to use 4G but when i aboard the plane i have to turn if off, but what if i just go for the coverage, then my network blows.
25. not quite (unregistered) posted on 02 May 2011, 11:51 0 0
HSPA+ is backwards compatible in the sense that they can put the coverage in place, and HSPA devices will still communicate. They do not work at HSPA+ speeds. The people that get the speed boost are those using new devices with HSPA+ radios.
8. Rawrzellers posted on 30 Apr 2011, 19:14 2 2
And Verizon fanboys will start firing angry ticks out of their nipples. U mad bro?
9. herbie1960 posted on 30 Apr 2011, 21:56 2 0
Lol, T-mobile your so cute, you will be missed if you become part of att. :)
10. theguy (unregistered) posted on 30 Apr 2011, 23:16 1 0
Funny, those things happen everyday on Verizon 3G
11. verizontech8902 (unregistered) posted on 30 Apr 2011, 23:29 4 4
Wait, you guys have it all wrong. The network was down for 16.2 hours officially. In that time, my grandmother dowloaded more on her 3g service than my little bro did with his tmo 4g. Hmmmm...no wonder you need a chick in a little skin tight dress on your commercials. I guess sex does sell.
23. jbash posted on 02 May 2011, 11:02 0 0
16.2 offically? is that like 2-3 business days is 3-5 actual days?
27. verizontech8902 (unregistered) posted on 02 May 2011, 19:42 0 0
Nah, its like how many seconds it took me to get with your mom.
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13. Fleg (unregistered) posted on 01 May 2011, 02:05 0 0
joseg81, you don't know what you're talking about because Albuquerque doesn't have 4G, yet.
20. verizontech8902 (unregistered) posted on 01 May 2011, 20:14 0 0
I think its just funny that a company that is so close to being bought out has the gumption to poke fun at the king of their little world. AT&T is the only other company that has bragging rights. Cause they can buy tmobile out. Weak sauce man.
22. daniel_bargs posted on 02 May 2011, 01:18 0 0
haha sometimes a little bit of comedy lightens up my day. nice tweet TMO!
28. Matt (unregistered) posted on 13 May 2011, 08:22 0 0
This whole business is pretty funny. I have a Vibrant and a Galaxy Tab (T-Mobile 3G Devices). My contract is up in June so I have been shopping around. I speed tested both my devices against a co-workers Verizon Thunderbolt and a 3G Incredible.. Their speed 5.72mbs LTE 1.56mbs 3G which is ok for a cellphone...I guess. Mine 6.13mbs on the phone and 7.28mbs on my tab... ive done it with a few friends also, in other areas of the city, same results. So i decided on a more accurate test, I went to the mall, and the TMO manager allowed me to take a 4G TMO phone over to the VZW booth for a speed test. TMO G2X(which is a junk phone made by LG) 19.2mbs Thunderbolt (VZW supposed monster phone) 7.88mbs. Lets just say short of VZW offering me free service for life, I wont be switching. Several servers on Speed Test app and all the same results VZW=FAIL.
