My Hands-On Experience With T-Mobile Home Internet: Can It Really Replace Your Cable Connection?

Editors' note, September 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, it remains largely unchanged. Check out our 2024 T-Mobile Home Internet review for our latest opinions on this service. It was back in early 2021 when I first started to test T-Mobile Home Internet. At the time, T-Mobile was running a pilot program that hadn't fully rolled out yet and was priced at $50 a month -- a very competitive 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 interest of going all-in, I canceled my Comcast Xfinity internet service, which had been billed at $106. But did I make the right call, and did I encounter any m ... Read full article.