MVNO Question

Do MVNO's use the entire network they buy from? In other words would every MVNO that uses T-Mobile have equal use of T-Mobiles towers or do they only use certain parts of the network?

Edited by Chris Cosgrove, 10 November 2023 - 06:28 PM.
duplicated post deleted.

Do MVNO's use the entire network they buy from? In other words would every MVNO that uses T-Mobile have equal use of T-Mobiles towers or do they only use certain parts of the network?

Accepting that maybe I misunderstand your question, the regular customers to the major carriers(Verizon, TMobile, AT&T) are given priority when the network in the used areas are crowded, while MVNO customers will at times be forced to wait or be given slower responses from the carriers.  I am a subscriber to one of the MVNO's and based on my fairly low amount of usage, I generally find no trouble with talk, text, or data.  The "certain parts of the network" part of your question I do not understand.

By "certain parts of the network" what I really mean is towers. Could you expect 2 T-Mobile MVNO's to have the same coverage since they're both using the T-Mobile mobile network or are they only paying to use towers in certain areas?

If your virtual network operator uses T-Mobile, then the T-Mobile towers where you are give you their service.  You within the service area of a T-Mobile tower?  Then you receive the service.  

So wether you're with mint or let's say boost, you should get equal coverage in any given area since they both use boost towers. One gets full scale so the other does too right?

Yes (basically I believe so.).

What you want to understand is that boost uses T-Mobile towers.  I am unsure what happens about non-T-Mobile customers and service prioritization or deprioritization.  T-Mobile customers have priority if the towers are congested/hi-traffic/very busy.