dtsm

My bad for not being clearer. CS told me adding lines to piggyback on my grandfathered plan was ok and did not constitute change of plan.

glennaa11

That's the plan I am on too. If you don't use your phone much for phone calls it's a great deal. I've been pretty happy with it for the last few years. Can't beat the price.

Sant

For those who rarely exceed 2GB on their 3GB plan, we'd be paying to be downgraded to 2G tethering.

CPRich

Isn't $70/month less than €105/month?

And is it really a telefoon?


Sprint has quickly entered the unlimted arena. $60, $40, $30 for next 8. TMo is same/chearper for 4+, only $10 more for 1 and 3. For the superior network, I'd stick with TMo. Even $20 more for 2 phones, I'd probably stay. My extra 3GB sign-up bonuses are expiring next month, after 2 years. I'm hoping Vz joins in - the kids are starting to hit data hard, and I don't really want to change.

pseudoswede

I'm on an even older grandfathered plan. Maximum 5 lines. Now, since it's so grandfathered, I cannot even cancel the 5th line because I would not be able to restore it at a later date.

What I find funny was that a few years ago, T-Mobile was very adamant about getting rid of all of the grandfathered plans to move people to Simple Choice plans. Now, they have a be-all-end-all plan, but they will allow existing customers to have a boatload types of grandfathered plans.

HockeyCoachBen

Actually, as part of Un-Carrier 9 and the Un-Contract move, T-Mobile introduced price/plan lock. Even if new plans are added and others deleted, you can stay with your current plan at the same price, forever. The "old" plan only ever goes away when you switch to a new plan, which you are under no obligation to do.

Un-Carrier 9 Press Release for reference.

WIRunner

Reddit has been calling this, and the $20 assisted upgrade fee, Re-Carrier 1.0 and 2.0.

I'll stick with them so long as they don't monkey with my plan. They did change my tablet plan from $10 per month to $20. Not sure what is going on with that, but if thats the case I'll just drop to the free 200 MB plan and call it a day.

RedElmo

Then they will monkey with the free 200MB and drop that too

WIRunner

WOuldn't surprise me.

I'm more concerned that they'll monkey with my plan. I've got a great promo plan from 2 years ago, $50 for unlimited voice, text, data (well, until you get congestion throttled), $5 for the iPhone, $10 data match iPad plan, and $21 for the iPad. I'm coming in at about $110 per month for everything.

We'll see what happens after the iPhone 7 is introduced. Won't be too interested if it doesn't have a regular headphone jack, but the 6s should drop in price again.

nkedel

All the more reason to buy an unlocked phone elsewhere.

WIRunner

Downside is that it may not have WiFi calling, VoLTE, or Band 12. You can do the upgrade via the web portal to avoid this though. Otherwise, I agree. No carrier bloatware to deal with either.

nkedel

My impression was that both of the current Nexus phones (and the sadly-deprecated Nexus 6), and current-generation iPhones purchased directly from Apple support all of the above.

My favorite current phone (albeit a rather dated one -- the Moto X Pure) supports two of the three, but not wifi calling.

Some T-mobile stores will also sell a phone at full retail to non-T-mobile customers, and some of their phones sell at the same price for both prepaid and postpaid. So (assuming you don't actually need upgrade assistance) it may be possible at some T-mobile retail outlets to upgrade without saying you're upgrading and avoid the fee.

I think you can still get carrier-branded T-mobile phones from a non-T-mo retaillers like Best Buy/Target/Costco.

So this mainly effects people who want to finance but who don't want to pay for Jump.

HockeyCoachBen

That sounds like some sort of a mistake. I still have the $10 tablet plan which doesn't exist anymore. The difference is when they changed the plans to "Double Your Data" as part of Binge On, the base tablet plan went from 1GB with Data Stash for $10 (after discount) to 2GB with no Data Stash for $20 (after discount). I currently have 20GB in my iPad Data Stash so I had no plans to move to the new plan. So far everything is ok.

WIRunner

All the iPhones from the 5s and 5c up have wifi calling if the carrier supports it. You can take a Sprint iPhone and put it on AT&T and activate wifi calling, or a US Cellular one and activate it on T-Mobile, and things will work just fine. (They'll need a carrier update which would be downloaded into the phone shortly after it activates on the network.) Androids are a bit more particularly, it feels like hit or miss for wifi calling on them. For the most part they need to be "Band 12 certified" to gain wifi calling. Which the Nexus phones were. I don't believe that androids outside of the Nexus line (maybe one of the cheap-o Blu phones) have that.

I had the data match plan from last year. I got 200 MB of data for free, and 5 GB of data for $10 -- without credits -- since I have an unlimited data plan. That $10 cost jumped to $20 apparently.

Sant

Latest change announced today:
https://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news-a...-one-amped.htm