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T-Mobile unveils new plan: 10GB family plan 4 lines for $100 (undercut rivals by $60)

In term of subscribers, I think T-Mobile is growing the fastest out of the 4 carriers in the last 18 months or so.

Lot of "Un-Carrier" / customer-friendly moves contributed.

All customers benefited, even none T-Mobile customers since the other carriers had to react.
 
AutoUnion39 said:
Dirt cheap. But still can't do it. Service isn't even remotely as good as AT&T/VZW
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yeah said:
For you, maybe T-Mobile isn't right

For 50+ million customers on T-Mobile, they are having great coverage.
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Yep! up here in Minneapolis Verizon's LTE network is still bogged down at certain times of the day if you are in the downtown area. T-Mobile's LTE works better here than both AT&T & Verizon simply because there are less users.
 
I'm on the AT&T version of this ($160 for 10 GB shared among 4 lines).

T mobile wins on no overages for non-LTE data (though how fast is that? decent 3g or some EDGE crap?) and on the price for sure.

But we won't be switching. First, because two of our users use way more than their share of data, while the others use less. So 10 GB shared is better for us than 2.5 GB per line. And second, because it's still all about coverage. $60 less per month is great, but not great enough given the coverage difference, especially because the LTE per line drops to 1 GB (really not enough) in 2015.

So we'll stick with AT&T, but kudos to t-mo for continuing to put pressure on its competitors here in the US.
 
EbookReader said:
In term of subscribers, I think T-Mobile is growing the fastest out of the 4 carriers in the last 18 months or so.

Lot of "Un-Carrier" / customer-friendly moves contributed.

All customers benefited, even none T-Mobile customers since the other carriers had to react.
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Exactly. I'm currently on T-Mobile and very happy with the service. Last year, they were the only non-MVNO carrier that met my exact needs. In fact, before last year, I was more content to go without a smartphone altogether than get ripped off by the carrier plans available at that time.

However, competing carriers now also offer plans that I can live with, and this change goes back to T-Mobile doing away with contracts and expanding their prepaid options. Even though I'm a satisfied customer, I'm not locked into T-Mobile and like the fact that other carriers now seem more eager to actually compete for my business.
 
Keep in mind everyone that the plan is the base plan to replace (till 2016) the 4x$100 plan with 1gb starting data per line. You can add more data to this package like I did.

I have 4 lines. Prior to this plan 3 lines were capped at 1gb before throttling. They were ok, some went a hair over but it was good. I had the 5GB plan. I called in and switched to this and my plan remained the exact same price, but now lines 1-3 had 2.5gb a piece... No brainer in my book.

No T-Mobile isn't the best, but they are great and continue to do great things... That 700mhz block the just got (hopefully the iPhone 6 can make use of that) could pretty much end T-Mobiles building penetration woes.
 
Altimax98 said:
Keep in mind everyone that the plan is the base plan to replace (till 2016) the 4x$100 plan with 1gb starting data per line. You can add more data to this package like I did.

I have 4 lines. Prior to this plan 3 lines were capped at 1gb before throttling. They were ok, some went a hair over but it was good. I had the 5GB plan. I called in and switched to this and my plan remained the exact same price, but now lines 1-3 had 2.5gb a piece... No brainer in my book.

No T-Mobile isn't the best, but they are great and continue to do great things... That 700mhz block the just got (hopefully the iPhone 6 can make use of that) could pretty much end T-Mobiles building penetration woes.
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Hopefully you live in the 700mhz block that was acquired...

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While TMobile has become better their data speeds have not yet caught up to ATT & Verizon in many places
while their plans seem to be cheap for 10gb of data remember that you have to buy the IPhone outright and the upgrade comes when yor are ready to pay for another new IPhone Doing the math the plan + the IPhone may come out cheaper in time but the availability and speed quality of the service of TMobile are not great
One last thing once the TMobile merger is complete what will happen to their plans? Those grandfathered in are good but going forward is a Different story.
 
uwdude said:
I repriced it now that it's on the website- looks like you have to get 4 lines though to get that deal. And with my two lines if I get a higher data plan it's not much of a deal.

The Edge/Jump plans don't seem like a rip to me- it's interest-free payments, and you only pay for about half the phone before upgrading. And no hassle with buying the unlocked version and then trying to sell on craigslist.
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I'm pretty sure you have to have 4 lines only for this plan. I went to add a line and it wanted me to change my plan back to the other one before this new plan. I was like NO THANKS.
 
As usual, these new family plans aren't so great once you read the fine print. If you don't already have your own phones then guess what? You are on the hook for four new smartphones at almost retail prices. You also have to sign up for AT&Ts Next plan and verizon edge which also adds costs and inconveniences. Your monthly payments jump considerably due to all of this.

Just face it: they KNOW they got everyone hooked on this cell phone thing like druggies on heroin. There is NO deal, you are just paying for the phone in monthly installments. They are spreading costs around making it look good on paper. It isn't.

We just have to accept that cell phones are an incredibly expensive toy to have. Oh well. I'll stick to my Tracfone.....:D
 
s2mikey said:
As usual, these new family plans aren't so great once you read the fine print. If you don't already have your own phones then guess what? You are on the hook for four new smartphones at almost retail prices. You also have to sign up for AT&Ts Next plan and verizon edge which also adds costs and inconveniences. Your monthly payments jump considerably due to all of this.

Just face it: they KNOW they got everyone hooked on this cell phone thing like druggies on heroin. There is NO deal, you are just paying for the phone in monthly installments. They are spreading costs around making it look good on paper. It isn't.

We just have to accept that cell phones are an incredibly expensive toy to have. Oh well. I'll stick to my Tracfone.....:D
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Thats not exactly fine print, that's common sense, even if a lot of people lack quite a bit of it to understand that phones aren't some free or cheap things, but are expensive electronic devices.
 
s2mikey said:
As usual, these new family plans aren't so great once you read the fine print. If you don't already have your own phones then guess what? You are on the hook for four new smartphones at almost retail prices. You also have to sign up for AT&Ts Next plan and verizon edge which also adds costs and inconveniences. Your monthly payments jump considerably due to all of this.

Just face it: they KNOW they got everyone hooked on this cell phone thing like druggies on heroin. There is NO deal, you are just paying for the phone in monthly installments. They are spreading costs around making it look good on paper. It isn't.

We just have to accept that cell phones are an incredibly expensive toy to have. Oh well. I'll stick to my Tracfone.....:D
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Actually, I feel the exact opposite. Subsidized plans are what load you down with fine print and hidden costs. At least with the family plans, you have transparent pricing for the service itself, and unbundle the service from the cost of the device.

Most people already have a smartphone. As long as the device can be unlocked beforehand, a non-subsidized plan (at least on the GSM carriers) allows you to just add the service without paying for a subsidy that almost forces you to take an upgrade. Uncoupling the device from the service plan allows you to use your current phone and upgrade it when actually want to.

If you want an upgrade, then you can either sign on with Next or Edge or Jump (which are indeed confusing, but allow for frequent device upgrades). Or you can pay for the retail price of the device in installments, which is no different than paying the added cost every month on a contract subsidy. Only difference is having the amount you pay on the phone explicitly itemized, and having a lower bill once you pay off the device.

It's this unholy intermingling of the service and device cost, and all the accompanying lockdowns and opaque terms, that steered me clear of smartphones until last year when the contract-free and prepaid options greatly expanded. I did not want a contract or a device lockdown, so I paid for my phone up front and shopped for a service plan that best met my needs. These family plans aren't perfect, but they're far better than the crap that the carriers were trying to sell a couple of years ago.
 
s2mikey said:
As usual, these new family plans aren't so great once you read the fine print. If you don't already have your own phones then guess what? You are on the hook for four new smartphones at almost retail prices. You also have to sign up for AT&Ts Next plan and verizon edge which also adds costs and inconveniences. Your monthly payments jump considerably due to all of this.

Just face it: they KNOW they got everyone hooked on this cell phone thing like druggies on heroin. There is NO deal, you are just paying for the phone in monthly installments. They are spreading costs around making it look good on paper. It isn't.

We just have to accept that cell phones are an incredibly expensive toy to have. Oh well. I'll stick to my Tracfone.....:D
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Yea unfortunately by the time you add in the Jump fee ($10 per line), and the payments for any new devices, you're pretty much back up to the same old amount again.
 
uwdude said:
Yea unfortunately by the time you add in the Jump fee ($10 per line), and the payments for any new devices, you're pretty much back up to the same old amount again.
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Then don't add Jump and use your existing phones. Problem solved.
 
Fattytail said:
Then don't add Jump and use your existing phones. Problem solved.
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Except, as I've said on another thread already, Apple has all of us trained like Pavlov's dogs to open our wallets the minute the keynote starts. So just using the existing phones won't be an option, lol.
 
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story...t-mobile-merger-usher-us-price-war/2014-08-07
Will the collapse of the Sprint/T-Mobile merger usher in a U.S. price war?

If Sprint want to gain users, it will have to price competitively versus T-Mobile.

Sprint could do something thing like to stand out.

No more family plan. Individual plan only.

$25 a month: unlimited talk, unlimited text, 0.5 GB of data
$30 a month: unlimited talk, unlimited text, 2.0 GB of data
$35 a month: unlimited talk, unlimited text, 4.0 GB of data
$40 a month: unlimited talk, unlimited text, 7.0 GB of data
$45 a month: unlimited talk, unlimited text, 10 GB of data
$50 a month: unlimited talk, unlimited text, 15 GB of data
 
PRICE WAR WILL COMMENCE

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/With-Hesse-Out-Sprint-Hints-at-a-Price-War-130003

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son also told an earnings briefing on Friday that Sprint had beefed up its network to the point where it could start cutting prices and aggressively woo back subscribers - underscoring analysts' predictions that Sprint may embark on a price war to regain market share. "Price competition will likely heat up," he said..."Until now, Sprint didn't have the network to participate much in tough price competition and marketing battles, but now it's ready to move aggressively."

Even if you are not T-Mobile or Sprint customers, this PRICE WAR will have a positive effect on your phone bills. Unless AT&T and Verizon choose to do nothing and willing to lose customers/market share.
 
EbookReader said:
PRICE WAR WILL COMMENCE

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/With-Hesse-Out-Sprint-Hints-at-a-Price-War-130003

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son also told an earnings briefing on Friday that Sprint had beefed up its network to the point where it could start cutting prices and aggressively woo back subscribers - underscoring analysts' predictions that Sprint may embark on a price war to regain market share. "Price competition will likely heat up," he said..."Until now, Sprint didn't have the network to participate much in tough price competition and marketing battles, but now it's ready to move aggressively."

Even if you are not T-Mobile or Sprint customers, this PRICE WAR will have a positive effect on your phone bills. Unless AT&T and Verizon choose to do nothing and willing to lose customers/market share.
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So they're trying to do like tmobile. Hope it works out for them. Competition is always good.
 
Truefan31 said:
So they're trying to do like tmobile. Hope it works out for them. Competition is always good.
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It's either that or Sprint will keep losing customers.

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T-Mobile added 8 million net customers in the last 18 months.
Sprint lost 3 millions in the same time frame.
 
P A U L said:
Hopefully you live in the 700mhz block that was acquired...

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T-Mobile needs to buy more 700Mhz Block A license.

There are a lot of companies who bought it just to sit on it hoping for a payday down the road.
 
I love price wars.
Glad the AT&T-tmobile merger and the sprint-tmobile merger didn't go through.
Competition is great.
Having only 2 or 3 major carriers would have been a disaster and a price fixing monopoly that would had our phone bills keep rising while having less options and getting less while paying more.

EbookReader said:
PRICE WAR WILL COMMENCE

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/With-Hesse-Out-Sprint-Hints-at-a-Price-War-130003

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son also told an earnings briefing on Friday that Sprint had beefed up its network to the point where it could start cutting prices and aggressively woo back subscribers - underscoring analysts' predictions that Sprint may embark on a price war to regain market share. "Price competition will likely heat up," he said..."Until now, Sprint didn't have the network to participate much in tough price competition and marketing battles, but now it's ready to move aggressively."

Even if you are not T-Mobile or Sprint customers, this PRICE WAR will have a positive effect on your phone bills. Unless AT&T and Verizon choose to do nothing and willing to lose customers/market share.
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AutoUnion39 said:
Dirt cheap. But still can't do it. Service isn't even remotely as good as AT&T/VZW
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True. In my area of the suburbs there are still a few spots where my T-Mobile test SIM will start searching and then a few seconds later my iPhone shows "No Service". In T-Mobiles case I fully believe in the saying, you get what you pay for. My testing of T-Mobile will not end with me extending my service with them. AT&T's coverage is far superior to theirs in every place I've compared the two so far.
 
EbookReader said:
PRICE WAR WILL COMMENCE

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/With-Hesse-Out-Sprint-Hints-at-a-Price-War-130003

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son also told an earnings briefing on Friday that Sprint had beefed up its network to the point where it could start cutting prices and aggressively woo back subscribers - underscoring analysts' predictions that Sprint may embark on a price war to regain market share. "Price competition will likely heat up," he said..."Until now, Sprint didn't have the network to participate much in tough price competition and marketing battles, but now it's ready to move aggressively."

Even if you are not T-Mobile or Sprint customers, this PRICE WAR will have a positive effect on your phone bills. Unless AT&T and Verizon choose to do nothing and willing to lose customers/market share.
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Or not. Maybe they won't do anything and not lose market share.
 
Can't get an answer from T Mobile. Does anyone know if they will be selling or will Apple be selling the iphone6 on the scheduled release date in September that will work on their network. Same for Virgin mobile you can not get an answer from them

Thanks
 
billp1 said:
Can't get an answer from T Mobile. Does anyone know if they will be selling or will Apple be selling the iphone6 on the scheduled release date in September that will work on their network. Same for Virgin mobile you can not get an answer from them

Thanks
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Why would they not be selling it? They sold the 5S/5C on release date last year. All 4 of the major carriers (VZW, AT&T, TMO, Sprint) sell them on release day. Prepaid carriers like Virgin get them at a later date.
 
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