T-Mobile's Home Internet gateway serves as a modem and router, but you can also plug in an existing router or mesh network. Editors' note, July 2024: This article was written in early 2021 when T-Mobile first unveiled its 5G home internet product and updated six weeks later with additional impressions. We've updated it to reflect current pricing and speeds where noted (with accompanying editors' notes), but the original hands-on article is presented below; otherwise largely unchanged.
Check out our 2024 T-Mobile Home Internet review for our latest opinion on this service. It was early in 2021 when I started testing T-Mobile Home Internet . It was part of a pilot program that hadn't fully rolled out yet and was priced at $50 monthly -- an exciting price point for a then-new player in the home internet space.
(Editor's note: The price has bounced around a bit, at some points hitting $60.) In the interim, I canceled my Comcast Xfinity internet service, which had been billed at $106. Did I make the right call? Did I encounter any major problems? What was the overall experience and would I recommend it to others? Locating local internet providers Here's everything you need to know about the service, including what I learned during my first several weeks.
T-Mobile Home Internet rollout I was overjoyed when I learned this was available in my area. (Although limited initially, T-Mobile Home Internet is now available to some 40 million US residents, including a third in rural areas.) .
