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Verizon vs AT&T vs Sprint vs T-Mobile: Which is your preferred US carrier in 2017?

Posted: 26 Dec 2017, 04:29 , by Victor Hristov

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Verizon vs AT&T vs Sprint vs T-Mobile: Which is your preferred US carrier in 2017?

Having a great smartphones is one half of having a great smartphone experience: the other is having good signal and when it comes to signal, your carrier is the one that is responsible.

That is why as 2017 winds down to a close we turn to you, our readers, to share your favorite US wireless carrier.

Throughout the year, many important things happened in the wireless carrier industry. Operators now support more and more people in the most distant places in the States, with faster and wider-spread 4G LTE connectivity. Also, this important 600MHz spectrum auction happened, giving one of the carriers - T-Mobile - expanded coverage.

With all these developments, and with your personal experience at hand, which one is your preferred US wireless carrier? We have the big four, but if you do prefer some other carrier like Xfinity Mobile or Google's Project Fi, please do let us know in the comments about your time on those carriers. With no further ado, let's get to voting...

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Which is your preferred carrier in 2017?: AT&T 10.49% (661 votes) (661 votes); Sprint 6.38% (402 votes) (402 votes); T-Mobile 60.2% (3795 votes) (3795 votes); Verizon Wireless 19.99% (1260 votes) (1260 votes); Other 2.95% (186 votes) (186 votes)

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posted on 26 Dec 2017, 05:48 3

1. KillerKeyboard (Posts: 372; Member since: 21 Nov 2013)

TMo...

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 05:56 4

2. Soundjudgment (Posts: 270; Member since: 10 Oct 2016)

T-Mobile. Naaaaturally.

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 06:38 2

3. Jrod99 (Posts: 324; Member since: 15 Jan 2016)

Wow. That many people enjoy bending over. Never again Verizon. Go ________ yourself.

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 13:59 4

22. applesnapple93 (Posts: 179; Member since: 06 Jan 2016)

nah, we're just not broke and can afford what we want.

posted on 27 Dec 2017, 16:08

40. southernzombie (Posts: 287; Member since: 17 Jan 2017)

ooooo. nice burn

posted on 28 Dec 2017, 00:02

41. fastfreddy123 (Posts: 52; Member since: 25 Mar 2017)

so you like paying more for a network that throttles speeds.https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/22/16181362/verizon-new-unlimited-data-plan-video-throttling-net-neutrality.
lol@less then 1080p for network speeds but hey its what you want right?
you just paid 1400 bucks for an iphone 10 that cant get 1080p on YOUR network. Gj Genius

posted on 04 Jan 2018, 17:12

46. Bernoulli (Posts: 4358; Member since: 01 Sep 2012)

To some extent, but where I live at&t outperforms verizon (east texas) in houston t mobile dominates it's all about preference, verizon, while good, is not better than at&t especially when you look over the progress of their north America network when they started it a year and a half ago.

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 18:54 2

32. VZWuser76 (Posts: 4955; Member since: 04 Mar 2010)

Some don't have any other option. Right now I have 2 choices, Verizon and AT&T. They're essentially the same. Both cover about the same amount of the country, both charge relatively the same amount for their service. The only difference is, in my area, Verizon covers more of it. I can't vote for T-Mobile because.its not available in my area, so I have no way of knowing if they're decent or not, and I've seen people who cuss them out as well, so who's to say I wouldn't have the same experience if I had them. Until I can actually use their service, I can't speak on them one way or the other.

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 07:05 5

4. Xavier1415 (Posts: 86; Member since: 26 Feb 2012)

Verizon duh

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 07:09 4

5. bwstonemd84 (Posts: 4; Member since: 06 Jul 2017)

T-Mobile all day.

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 07:42

6. fahady2f (Posts: 3; Member since: 02 Mar 2016)

Verizon is the best.

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 07:47 1

7. sissy246 (Posts: 4887; Member since: 04 Mar 2015)

AT&T
For my area they are the best.

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 08:01 3

8. xtroid2k (Posts: 562; Member since: 11 Jan 2010)

T-Mobile!

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 08:18 3

9. 1phoneman843 (Posts: 2; Member since: 25 Oct 2017)

T-Mobile all day

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 08:30 4

10. roldefol (Posts: 4677; Member since: 28 Jan 2011)

Cricket FTW! (Yeah, I know, that's AT&T.)

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 14:26

24. domfonusr (Posts: 756; Member since: 17 Jan 2014)

Agreed. Cricket is excellent. Affordable devices, affordable service, and the coverage is AT&T. And the nicer devices (Apple iPhones, Samsung Galaxies) are still available for those who have a proclivity to the "finer" brands.

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 17:06 1

31. roldefol (Posts: 4677; Member since: 28 Jan 2011)

I had to get on AT&T towers at work, and Cricket has better prices than AT&T prepaid. Throw in $50 off an unlocked phone + SIM at Best Buy, and it was a no brainer.

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 08:48 1

11. DavidH (Posts: 1; Member since: 26 Dec 2017)

MintSim - a LOW cost MVNO using T-Mobile's network. Just $300 a year for unlimited talk and text and 10 GB LTE data per month.

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 09:18 1

12. fgpalm (Posts: 11; Member since: 22 Apr 2017)

In my area of upstate New York Verizon wireless seems to be the only provider that is continually building new towers. There are at least seven or eight new cell sites that have gone up around me in the last two years. Also Verizon has at least two dozen small cells up with 80+ more on the way according to a family member that works on running fiber in the area.

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 10:23 1

13. Rampage_Taco (Posts: 670; Member since: 17 Jan 2017)

From past experience I'd say T-Mo but now that I work as a rep for VZW and live outside T-Mos network I have to say Verizon

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 10:35 1

14. Not_Amused321 (Posts: 51; Member since: 06 Jan 2013)

Tmo all day

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 10:50

15. MagentaWarrior88 (Posts: 1; Member since: 26 Dec 2017)

In my personal experience, T-Mobile has always been reliable for me. I have a T-Mobile phone for personal use, and a Verizon phone for business use. Comparing the two carriers in my area (remember, I said in my area, other areas may be different), T-Mobile and Verizon have the exact same coverage.T-Mobile blows away Verizon when it comes to data speeds where I live though. T-Mobile all day, every day!

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 11:05

16. Metalspy8 (Posts: 102; Member since: 27 Feb 2012)

tmobile and verizon all day

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 11:55 1

17. anshephe (Posts: 1; Member since: 26 Dec 2017)

Ok I’ll be the first for sprint. We all live in a world now where we use our phones to mostly look t what other people in the world are doing and we pay monthly for that. I made the sprint switch and I must say it’s really good now. Yes I have a few slow areas but I’m saving 100 a month 1200 a year that’s why I like it

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 12:26 1

18. Derekjeter (Posts: 1361; Member since: 27 Oct 2011)

Let’s be honest though, all carriers are a piece of s**t. They all charge too much money for what they offer. Sprint and T-Mobile should be like $10 a month. AT&T should only charge $12 a month and Verizon $12.50.

Greedy MFs

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 13:53 1

21. roldefol (Posts: 4677; Member since: 28 Jan 2011)

What year is this, 1972?

posted on 27 Dec 2017, 00:04

35. B3NN377 (Posts: 24; Member since: 20 Jun 2017)

And professional baseball players should be paid in bubble gum.

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 12:26

19. jim262 (Posts: 7; Member since: 07 Jul 2017)

The ISP that charged the least and doesn't throttle my internet content. That's the one I choose.

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 12:28

20. Gsmalltheway (Posts: 240; Member since: 15 Aug 2009)

AT&T becuase GSM and way better coverage then TMobile

posted on 26 Dec 2017, 14:32 1

26. Quicksword_Phantom (Posts: 167; Member since: 15 Jun 2015)

I agree. The comments show how easily the masses are brainwashed by an organization such as Tmobile. They practice shady throttling and data count tactics, their coverage is trash anywhere outside a city or in a building, and they have always been anti net neutrality because they throttle the s**t out of video streams where you can only view SD even though you have the HD option. Verizon/At&T/Cricket are leaps and bounds better networks.