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T-Mobile has such shitty IT, infrastructure, and security practices.

My last experience with them caused me to switch away from them permanently. I switched away from them after getting SIM jacked, with real money stolen from me. Happened exactly like in this article[0].

Another incident happened where my online account was merged with someone else's in California (I'm in Texas). Our billing information was merged, with the others paying for the whole account. I couldn't make changes online- only after sitting on hold and explaining what happened was I able to get the whole situation unfucked, but there's no telling what amount of my data still lives in that other account.

Come to think of it, my first experience with T-Mobile was as a Radio Shack employee, circa 2010. When a customer came to the store to pay their T-Mobile bill with cash, if I took too long to enter all the data into their awful online portal the money would sometimes go to a completely different person's account. Many hours were spent on the phone with the local and regional rep resolving multiple instances of this happening.

[0]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/3kx4ej/sim-jacking-mobile-ph...



Tmo is pretty shitty, but i'm grandfathered in to 5 lines for $93, so i pretty much can't leave them. Not that much better in the jail cell next door or across from me anyways.




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