Anyone go with T-Mobile? How is their network as you don't pay the $40 line charge Verizon makes you pay.
I switched last year from Verizon and love it. I'm in Dilworth just a couple miles outside downtown Charlotte but Verizon & AT&T don't have coverage in my place thanks to some weird positioning of their antennas down a small hill from me, so Verizon actually offered to waive the ETF on my family plan rather than give me a discount on a network extender for my place. T-Mobile gets a couple bars when I'm by the window, but really I didn't care because they have the WiFi calling for when I'm home.
Coverage outside my house is great around town and most places I've traveled (Dallas, Denver, St Louis, Cleveland, Hilton Head, Honolulu). LTE the majority of the time and it's blazing fast. You will drop down to "4G" HSPA+ when you're in a more remote suburban area which is still more than sufficient for most needs, and if you're on a long road trip you'll run into spotty coverage in the middle of nowhere.
Free international data and texting is what really will keep me around. Abused it in England and looking forward to the benefit for my upcoming trip to India. Speeds are of course much slower but it's great for GPS, the occasional Facebook post, and keeping up with email.
Price is of course the main motivation for people. I moved 4 lines over from VZW, upgraded 2 of them to smartphones, and dropped my bill about $20. Once the phones are paid off, I'll drop another $80. Although I'm less than a year in and I'm already itching to get the next big thing...
