T-Mobile Cell Phone Service in Wisconsin

I have used T-Mobile for a long time and never seemed to have a problem with their service.  Most of my traveling has been in Minnesota around the Twin Cities and into Wisconsin down to Eau Claire.  The best service has always been around the metro areas, but can also be relied upon along I-94 throughout the state of Wisconsin.

The reasons I choose T-Mobile and stuck with them so long is that they had the best plan for what I needed.  This entailed just pure talk minutes, and I used about four hundred a month with the cost being about $45.  Their family plans are also good, you can add a line for about ten bucks a month and share the minutes with unlimited talk between the two.

Some of the the areas that I have visited in Wisconsin where reception wasn't so good are in northern Wisconsin.  These areas out in the middle of nowhere the T-Mobile service drops off, but is usually replaced with a different carrier.  This doesn't really matter because there are no roaming charges and your minutes cover the usage.  The annoying thing is that if you get a voicemail you can't check it, for whatever reason.  When you call your voicemail, it goes to your voicemail, meaning that you hear your message, so if you want to you could record something to yourself.  Any messages you get you have to wait til you get back to civilization to listen to them, which was never a big deal for me anyway.

Another area that I didn't get any T-Mobile reception is in the Wausau area.  When you get off I-94 and drive east on highway 29, your reception will drop off around Cadott, then switch to the AT&T network.  This isn't a problem unless again you need to check your messages.  AT&T seems to have good coverage over the eastern part of Wisconsin.

So I would say that T-Mobile is a good choice if you live or spend most time in the heavily populated areas and they have very good pricing on their cell phone plans.  But AT&T seems to have the upper hand in remote area coverage.  Make sure to compare Wisconsin cell phones providers T-Mobile to AT&T side by side to be able to make the best decision.