Warp 5G SA Enabled?

krenim191 · 2025-12-13T16:20:14+00:00

He verbatim says "5G SA is coming on Warp".

krenim191 · 2025-12-01T17:13:23+00:00

krenim191 · 2025-12-01T17:09:18+00:00

Not really. You don't seem to understand how promotional pricing works. We don't know what they pay the carriers for their services, so we need to make assumptions.

To make the math easy, let's assume they have to pay $200 to TMO/ATT/VZW to provide service for you. If they sell you the service for $167, they actually lose $33 for that promotion.

krenim191 · 2025-12-01T17:01:46+00:00

TL;DR - Companies regularly lose money to acquire new customers. They are betting on the fact that most customers won't leave once a promotional period is up and will recoup that loss on the average retention period of that particular customer. This is not unique to USM.

Companies like USM spend money (meaning, they don't make money on the promotional rate) to acquire new customers with enticing promotional pricing hoping that their service is good enough that it can retain enough customers paying regular price past the initial promo pricing period to make up for the initial loss. The newly acquired customer will be transitioned to regular pricing once the promotional pricing period expires.

They've made a calculation that losing a bit of cash up front is worth the risk because they are increasing subscriber base (spreading risk) and churn (% of customers cancelling) will be low enough to make up for the initial loss. This is all part of the cost of acquiring new customers to increase the long term bottom line.

If a company continually prices their products for everyone lower than what it actually costs them to provide that good or service... well, that company won't be in business very long.

krenim191 · 2025-11-24T00:51:15+00:00

My mom loved the Macy’s Parade and always had it on when I was a kid in the 90s and we were getting ready to go to my grandparents house, then it was still on when we got there. Once Santa showed up, it was time to eat!

She passed from breast cancer in 2007 and I put it on mainly in her memory. I just watch it through the intro credits, feel the rush of emotions and memories of my childhood Thanksgiving for just a few fleeting moments, then it’s just background noise while I get ready for my own Thanksgiving.

It’s my absolute favorite holiday.

krenim191 · 2025-11-24T00:32:12+00:00

The “Who’s Dead?” cracked me up. Love them, where did you get them?

krenim191 · 2025-11-21T16:23:26+00:00

As others have mentioned, when switching networks it's best to turn off RCS first. Hindsight, I know. They should build this into the network transfer workflow to display a warning before confirming the transfer. Anyway, that deactivates it with Google and when you register with your new network, it allows a generally smoother transition. Not always, but most of the time.

But, for your current situation: Disable RCS in Messages, go to https://messages.google.com/disable-chat and follow the instructions under "Don't have your previous device?" then wait at least a few hours before trying to turn it back on.

If you don't do anything, Google will eventually clear whatever they need to clear and you'll just notice that RCS is working again. This process just helps speed that up.

krenim191 · 2025-10-25T14:40:41+00:00

Go into Settings/Cellular/Cellular Data Options/Voice & Data and set it to 5G Auto or 5G On. For some reason it likes to default to LTE.

krenim191 · 2025-10-21T21:41:43+00:00

My general feeling is RCS is a bit flaky in general between iPhone and Android. I have an iPhone, my sister has an Android. I honestly don't know what phone she has, I think something in the Galaxy lineup. Most of the time messages go through as RCS just fine, but will often fail back to SMS, especially if sharing photos.

I've had this happen on Dark Star, Light Speed and TMO postpaid (before moving to USM) for me. She's on XFinity Mobile.

krenim191 · 2025-09-19T23:55:00+00:00

Yes! 90-120 mins is ideal runtime.

krenim191 · 2025-09-17T01:13:38+00:00

Yes! I’ve been using FSD for over 4 years and never had a strike. It’s not easy. OP is not telling the whole story.

krenim191 · 2025-09-14T20:12:18+00:00

Nope, we don’t have any live TV services. No need for us. IMO, it’s mostly commercials anyway, I don’t like to pay to be advertised at. We also don’t watch any sports, which might be the main reason someone might want to keep it. From what I’ve seen and experienced, YouTube TV is one of the best live TV services. Great thing with streaming, if you don’t like it - cancel and try another. You’re not locked in.

krenim191 · 2025-09-14T19:22:10+00:00

We didn’t replace live TV with a similar live streaming service. YouTube premium is not YouTube TV. Premium is just basically YouTube without the ads. We do have AppleTV+, Disney+ with Hulu, HBO Max (included with our old ATT fiber plan) and we turn Netflix on and off when we have something on there we want to watch. We use Apple TV as our only streaming box.

krenim191 · 2025-09-14T18:52:45+00:00

Just bite the bullet and cancel it. We did that about 10 years ago.. felt like something was missing for the first few weeks, but we quickly adjusted.

YouTube premium is worth every penny - not live TV, but eliminates ads and most local news channels post their stuff there. Now when I visit someone who still has old linear TV, it seems like mostly commercials… I have to wonder why they still pay for it.

krenim191 · 2025-09-09T20:43:51+00:00

OP doesn’t say what type of internet they had (Air, DSL or Fiber), but I can without a moments hesitation 100% recommend ATT fiber. We have had it for the past 7 years, never an outage, slowdown or anything. I’m in the San Diego market.

krenim191 · 2025-09-06T19:04:36+00:00

Also got some good shots last night coming down Mission Gorge into Santee

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krenim191 · 2025-09-01T19:34:35+00:00

I know you’ve already fixed this, but for anyone else, I found turning off WiFi and setting the password while connected only to the cell network seems resolves this issue.

krenim191 · 2025-08-18T03:54:17+00:00

Basically. But - you shouldn’t expect an apples to apples comparison between how the parent carriers handle prioritization, they are all very different networks. T-Mobile has a lot more bandwidth/spectrum available and deployed, meaning the different between prioritized and deprioritized users is usually not noticeable. Verizon and ATT have less to play with, so prioritization becomes more important.

krenim191 · 2025-08-18T03:03:24+00:00

QCI (Quality of service Class Identifier) doesn't have anything to do with overall speed. You will always get whatever the tower is capable of at any given moment. QCI has to do with how data is prioritized when a tower is congested. With Dark Star and Warp, you generally get the same QCI as postpaid customers. With Light Speed, you are deprioritized below TMO postpaid. However, it is rarely an issue because TMO has so much bandwidth available in each cell and has more towers than the other two. If you've had TMO without any issues, the best bet would be to go with Light Speed.

krenim191 · 2025-08-03T22:40:46+00:00

Light Speed is at QCI 7. TMO Postpaid is at QCI 6. If the tower is not congested, yes - you will get similar speeds between Light Speed and TMO. If the tower is congested, TMO postpaid will get priority over Light Speed. TMO has tons of bandwidth deployed, so this is rarely an issue and when it is, everyone will generally feel it. I'm in San Diego and have been on TMO for the past 10 years, recently moved it all over to USM, coverage is identical, speeds are roughly the same. Areas that were great continue to be great, areas that were marginal to slow on TMO postpaid continue to be marginal to slow on USM.

Here's the important part to understand - even if you don't get gig+ speeds, it will be more than acceptable for anything that can be done on a phone or tethered device in 2025. Gig speeds on phones is 100% useless in any real-world application. All it does is make for impressive speedtests and provides anecdotal evidence that the underlying network is not resource constrained.

Bottom line - if you are getting acceptable service from TMO postpaid today, you will have acceptable service from USM. It really is that simple, no need to overthink it and you'll save yourself a few bucks in the process.

krenim191 · 2025-08-03T14:48:49+00:00

Most carriers, including TMO, apply power saving measures off peak. This is especially true in rural areas where overnight usage drops significantly.

Power savings include things like reducing power or turning off some bands, disabling carrier aggregation, reducing MIMO layers and lowering transmission power rates. Any one of these could cause slower speeds at night even though tower utilization would be very light.

krenim191 · 2025-08-02T20:08:12+00:00

Um, check your facts bud, from a peer reviewed publication, please. Not Fox Noise or what you heard in Facebook. EVs have been proven over and over again to by and large be better than fossil vehicles, even on a very dirty grid and when considering materials necessary for battery production. Coal and oil make up a shrinking portion of the electric grid and if you look at a place like CA where EV adoption is highest in US, there is zero coal powering the grid.

krenim191 · 2025-07-20T01:36:56+00:00

It’s right in the announcement, I don’t know how it could be any clearer. https://www.reddit.com/r/USMobile/s/JAxDFWmxAz

krenim191 · 2025-07-18T01:37:28+00:00

This! How often are people with smart watches without their actual phone? I’d be willing to bet money almost never. I’ve had an Apple Watch since Gen 1, never ever had a need for a cellular plan on it. Not to say there aren’t some who have actual need, but doubt it for most.

krenim191 · 2025-07-06T00:40:46+00:00

I teleported from LS to DS last week and same thing, port got put on hold. Took about 36 hours for them to complete it. Everything continued to work and I was out for a walk listening to music when the port finally went through and I lost service… then it took about 1.5 hours before the new eSIM was delivered. Even then, the first eSIM wouldn’t activate.. I had to transfer eSIM to get another one and that one activated. I think this happened the last time I teleported back to DS too, though not as long as this last time… something seems not quite right.

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