• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz
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      8 months ago

      Where I am they’re pretty reliable, and have better coverage than Verizon. My company provides a Verizon hotspot for work on the road, but I had to add hotspot to my at&t plan because Verizon leaves me without service too often.

      I’m not affected by this outage where I’m at, but my wife at home lost service and had to restart her phone to get it back.

      • Ilikecheese@lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        I’m not affected by this outage where I’m at,

        This didn’t appear to be location based. I’m on a family vacation with 7 total people on AT&T and 3 of us were affected and 4 were fine. Didn’t have anything to do with the model of phone, the plan you were on, or your location/tower you were connected to. Seemed to just straight up be random. Also a reboot fixed one phone, but not the other 2.

      • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        I’m not from the US, I only know AT&T from Last Week Tonight where John Oliver made fun of them many many times.

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          8 months ago

          Actually now that I think about it, they’re probably talking about it being unreliable in larger cities. I know I get much slower internet speed whenever I go to any larger cities due to network congestion.

          But outside of major population areas they’ve been really good in my experience.

          • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
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            8 months ago

            Last time I had anything less then 5G full bars was when I traveled across Europe to the middle of the desert in Portugal, to a festival of 40.000 people. The cell towers there weren’t built for that many people.

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      8 months ago

      It depends. Every carrier has better or worse spectrum and/or tower coverage depending on where you are.

    • Scott@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      Last time I had issues was because I was still using my original sim from over a decade ago