I just saw an ad for Noble Mobile on TYT. On the face of it, this was pretty good, but I became concerned to check who is providing the carrier services (if that’s the right wording). It appears to be T-Mobile. Ok, pretty good. I mention this because years ago, AT&T appeared to have a hand in starting the “OAN” network (which is far right if I recall), and within a day I switched from AT&T to T-Mobile. AT&T did a decent job of trying to obscure their role in this network start, but it was there, and I had enough.
This consumer cancel culture inclination of mine can be taken too far and so I do not mean to imply that all potential advertisers on TYT should to the “nth degree” be squeaky clean in all of their associations, but I was glad to see this new carrier avoided association with AT&T.
Ok, I have gone with Noble Mobile for a few weeks now, and it is going “ok”. However, I think it will be a few months before I am able to really say.
One concerning point:
My main concern, in switching from a major carrier to a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) that pays a major carrier, is whether the major carrier will consistently treat the MVNO with respect, or whether my calls, sms and/or data are somehow de-prioritized by the major carrier in favor of their own customers. I am very bad with some aspects of tech, and it could take me awhile to figure this out. And I haven’t gone to try and research whether it’s a thing any more (or ever) for an MVNO customer to get de-prioritized by a major carrier? But for now I’m going with the hypothesis that it is. This is complicated by the carrier (T-Mobile) being generally inconsistent or bad in parts of my hilly rural county.
Yesterday, I was in town, away from my house (in my house the phone is set to using the wifi data from my internet, since T-Mobile is so bad here) and I found that one of my attempts to browse the web using Noble Mobile was so slow as to be useless. At the same time, I did manage somehow to pull in a youtube podcast, though only after waiting for a very long time for the thing to start up.
Again, I’m not sure, but it’s possible this is just plain poor T-Mobile service to that area, and may not be about Noble Mobile getting the short end of the stick.