Questions about T-Mobile's PrePaid Plans from a noob
I thought I'd piggyback on this thread since I'm looking to join T-Mobile on this plan. Here is my situation and any feedback/ insight would be greatly appreciated:
I'm currently a VirginMobile USA user with a CDMA iPhone 4S device. My plan is 30$ / month for 300 minutes, unlimited text and data. I didn't want to be on contract so I chose VirginMobile since at the time, they were the first to offer the iPhone off-contract starting with the iPhone 4 and 4S (they first offered it last year even though Apple had already released it 2 years ago). After paying 400$ for the instrument and a year and a half later, it's still not completely mine to own and cannot be legally unlocked which is making me want to....
... buy an unlocked Sim-free iPhone 5S ( (since I'll also be able to use it internationally) from the Apple Store and use one of the TMobile prepaid plans.
I'm between the 30$ / month prepaid plan (100 minutes, unlimited text, first 5GB of data at LTE speed) and the 40$ / month prepaid plan (unlimited talk and text, with 500 MB of data at LTE).
My questions are:
- Do either come with visual voicemail? I don't want to pay 700$ + dollars on a phone and not be able to get full functionality of the device, and the iPhone voicemail feature is very handy.
- Will I be able to FaceTime on the prepaid plans?
- I'm usually connected to WiFi (at home and even at work), and I don't use the phone to talk a whole lot. Wouldn't this mean that I won't use a lot of minutes and data? Keeping this in mind, would the 30$ / month prepaid plan be better (I think its 10 cents / minute if I go over and I'm fine with that in the rare event that I do go over).
- What is the difference between the TMobile PrePaid plan and the Simple Choice Plans? I was comparing plans here: http://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans/individual.html and notice how the 30$ / month prepaid plan isn't on the chart.
The cheapest on that chart instead is the 40$ / month one. So is the 30$ and the 40$ / month two different kind of plans? I understand they are both off-contract but I was told the 40$ (and up)/ month Simple Choice Plan come with Visual Voicemail unlike the TMobile Prepaid Plans. Is this true?
I'm sorry if I'm over-complicating this. I spoke to the T-Mobile sales chat representative and I kept getting different answers. Like one rep said that I will not be able to add money to my account for minutes and 20 minutes later, he said I'll be able to? Things like this just lower their credibility and my trust in them so I'm asking on here before I put down that kind of money.
Thank you very much!
I thought I'd piggyback on this thread since I'm looking to join T-Mobile on this plan. Here is my situation and any feedback/ insight would be greatly appreciated:
I'm currently a VirginMobile USA user with a CDMA iPhone 4S device. My plan is 30$ / month for 300 minutes, unlimited text and data. I didn't want to be on contract so I chose VirginMobile since at the time, they were the first to offer the iPhone off-contract starting with the iPhone 4 and 4S (they first offered it last year even though Apple had already released it 2 years ago). After paying 400$ for the instrument and a year and a half later, it's still not completely mine to own and cannot be legally unlocked which is making me want to....
... buy an unlocked Sim-free iPhone 5S ( (since I'll also be able to use it internationally) from the Apple Store and use one of the TMobile prepaid plans.
I'm between the 30$ / month prepaid plan (100 minutes, unlimited text, first 5GB of data at LTE speed) and the 40$ / month prepaid plan (unlimited talk and text, with 500 MB of data at LTE).
My questions are:
- Do either come with visual voicemail? I don't want to pay 700$ + dollars on a phone and not be able to get full functionality of the device, and the iPhone voicemail feature is very handy.
- Will I be able to FaceTime on the prepaid plans?
- I'm usually connected to WiFi (at home and even at work), and I don't use the phone to talk a whole lot. Wouldn't this mean that I won't use a lot of minutes and data? Keeping this in mind, would the 30$ / month prepaid plan be better (I think its 10 cents / minute if I go over and I'm fine with that in the rare event that I do go over).
- What is the difference between the TMobile PrePaid plan and the Simple Choice Plans? I was comparing plans here: http://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans/individual.html and notice how the 30$ / month prepaid plan isn't on the chart.
The cheapest on that chart instead is the 40$ / month one. So is the 30$ and the 40$ / month two different kind of plans? I understand they are both off-contract but I was told the 40$ (and up)/ month Simple Choice Plan come with Visual Voicemail unlike the TMobile Prepaid Plans. Is this true?
I'm sorry if I'm over-complicating this. I spoke to the T-Mobile sales chat representative and I kept getting different answers. Like one rep said that I will not be able to add money to my account for minutes and 20 minutes later, he said I'll be able to? Things like this just lower their credibility and my trust in them so I'm asking on here before I put down that kind of money.
Thank you very much!
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