T-Mobile Tuesdays

When we signed up for T-Mobile, one of the things we had been told about was giveaways that they had every Tuesday. I had been forgetting to look it up, but put a reminder on my calendar so I would remember to look at it this week.

The items for this week were an offer for a $2 Fandango movie ticket to be used on February 14, $25 Restaurant.com gift certificate, and a gift certificate for 1-800-Flowers (I think for $15). As far as I can tell, we could take advantage of none, one, two, or all three of them. We didn't see a need for the Restaurant.com or 1-800-Flowers options, but there are a couple of movies we wanted to see, so we decided to do the movie ticket. It is just one gift code per phone number, and we only have one phone number (for the MiFi device) - so we got one ticket for $2 and one at the senior rate - to see "Lion" on 2/14. It was really easy to use the code that we got from T-Mobile on the Fandango site.

I've got a reminder in my calendar now for each Tuesday to see what other items we might like to take advantage of! It is a nice little perk!

By the way, we were very pleasantly surprised to discover that the T-Mobile MiFi outperformed the Verizon one for streaming videos while we were in Quartzsite. We had thought that we would only get good performance when in cities or right along interstates - and we were about 5 miles out of Quartzsite and away from the interstate at both camping locations, and Quartzsite certainly does not qualify as a "city". Verizon service was good when we first got to Quartzsite, but as more people came, service got worse and worse and worse as the few cell towers got overloaded. Our phone service was acceptable when we were in the rig with the cellular booster, but videos were not doable as we got to the weekend that the Big Tent opened. I guess they might even add temporary towers, but the addition of hundreds of thousands of users in just a 2 week timeframe is more than they can handle. T-Mobile doesn't have as many subscribers, and I guess they have "enough" towers in the area to handle the amount of users. Those who had AT&T service seemed to be ok also, but one of our friends who had Sprint reported that it was nearly unusable.