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T-Mobile Giving Customers a Free Subscription to MLB.TV Premium

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T-Mobile today announced that it is once again partnering with Major League Baseball, this time to give all T-Mobile customers a free one-year subscription to the MLB.TV Premium service. This is the third year in a row T-Mobile has partnered up with Major League Baseball, and this year's giveaway is in celebration of three more years of partnership.

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"For the last three years MLB has been with us every step of the way as we have re-written the rules of wireless. This year we're doubling down - and expanding the relationship even further to include the Home Run Derbies and free MLB.TV for customers," said John Legere, president and CEO of T-Mobile. "This isn't just some corporate sponsorship. It's the combined effort of two passionate teams bringing even more amazing perks and game-changing moves to baseball fans over the next three years!"
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T-Mobile Simple Choice customers on qualifying plans are able to sign up for a full MLB.TV Premium subscription valued at $109.99 starting on April 3. To get the discount, customers will need to subscribe using the T-Mobile network.

The service will allow T-Mobile subscribers to watch 2,430 out-of-market regular season games live on their T-Mobile devices. It will take advantage of T-Mobile's BingeOn feature, so streaming MLB content on a device connected to the T-Mobile network will not count against data caps. MLB.TV Premium is available on Macs, iOS devices, the Apple TV, and a number of other consoles and set-top boxes.

Also included is a free premium subscription to MLB.com At Bat, something T-Mobile has given away in past years.

(Thanks, Asa!)

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Westside guy said:
This is exactly what I was thinking! My MLB.tv subscription auto-renewed the end of February...
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I just sent them an email saying I thought I had turned off auto renew, which isn't untrue. I had logged into my account to pay for it and saw it had renewed. lol. Anyway, I emailed asking to cancel/refund. Couldn't hurt!

UPDATE: Success!
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Westside guy said:
This is exactly what I was thinking! My MLB.tv subscription auto-renewed the end of February...
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I cancelled MLB.tv subscription two years ago. They auto-renewed a year ago. I called, cancelled, and also turned off auto-renew. This year, they auto-renewed again. I had to call and cancel it again.
 
Ugh....out of market games only. It'd be awesome to catch Astros games while out and about live. Root Sports doesn't have that option on Comcast.
 
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Free stuff is always great, but who watches baseball on tv outside of the world series? Boring.
 
E3BK said:
That's always been the case for MLBTV. The ability to watch in-market games through your cable provider was removed years ago. BUT...it will return next season.
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No bueno. I specifically want to be able to stream my in market games so that I DON'T have to subscribe to cable or satellite. Essentially, this one channel that carries my local team would be the only reason I would be paying for cable.
 
rdlink said:
No bueno. I specifically want to be able to stream my in market games so that I DON'T have to subscribe to cable or satellite. Essentially, this one channel that carries my local team would be the only reason I would be paying for cable.
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Yup. I'd happily pay the equivalent carriage fee on top of the MLB.tv subscription to watch my local team play. But what I will not do is pay another $68/month to the cable company just to move up to the next tier, which includes the local ROOT sports channel (and is majority owned by the Seattle Mariners).

Until then, I'll just keep using Protect My Privacy on my jailbroken iOS devices... er, I mean, keep moving to Munich for the duration of the baseball season so I can watch the Mariners play.
 
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rdlink said:
No bueno. I specifically want to be able to stream my in market games so that I DON'T have to subscribe to cable or satellite. Essentially, this one channel that carries my local team would be the only reason I would be paying for cable.
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I hear you and I'd love that option as well but local games has never been available directly through MLBTV. Many sports are blacked out locally on digital platforms due to the very lucrative and restrictive existing licensing contracts with RSN's. This isn't new information.

If you're a baseball fan, why not get the free account and keep an eye on other teams you might be battling it out with come October? The account gives you access on your computer as well where you can use a VPN or Hola Unblocker to get around the blackout restriction.
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Westside guy said:
Yup. I'd happily pay the equivalent carriage fee on top of the MLB.tv subscription to watch my local team play. But what I will not do is pay another $68/month to the cable company just to move up to the next tier, which includes the local ROOT sports channel (and is majority owned by the Seattle Mariners).

Until then, I'll just keep using Protect My Privacy on my jailbroken iOS devices... er, I mean, keep moving to Munich for the duration of the baseball season so I can watch the Mariners play.
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I seem to be in "London" a lot during the season. lol

Semi-off topic: I grew up in Seattle and am an...avid...baseball fan. I love Felix so so much. One of the saddest days of my (baseball) life was when I was coming back form Costa Rica on vacation and I landed in Miami for a layover back to NYC. When I turned on my phone I had a million texts & notification from FB & Twitter asking how I felt about Felix's perfect game...that I must be so happy and proud of him. I thought everyone was playing a cruel joke on me :( I had missed the whole thing because I was in the air. But later that week I found out that my brother had taken his son, my nephew, to that game and another fan for life was born. So it all evens out in the end, I guess. haha.
 
Wow, this is a great deal. We love MLB.tv and have been subscribers for years. But on AT&T now, so can't take advantage. As soon as my one daughter finishes college (she's in a very rural area) I am going to look at moving out family to T-Mobile. I had them for work for the last year and they weren't that bad... especially with free international text and data.

For those complaining about blackouts on MLB.tv, its always been that way, but its not that bad... particularly if you don't live in the area of your favorite team. The only time its a problem for us is if we are playing a team in our region. But in those cases, you can still watch the game if you wish one hour after it finishes. And if the games are on the weekends, they are usually picked up on the national channels anyways. So we miss maybe 10% of the games in a season and there are so many games in a season that its not a big deal.
 
E3BK said:
I hear you and I'd love that option as well but local games has never been available directly through MLBTV. Many sports are blacked out locally on digital platforms due to the very lucrative and restrictive existing licensing contracts with RSN's. This isn't new information.

If you're a baseball fan, why not get the free account and keep an eye on other teams you might be battling it out with come October? The account gives you access on your computer as well where you can use a VPN or Hola Unblocker to get around the blackout restriction.
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I understand the situation very well, and it's been a point of contention for me for a long, long time. There was a time that doesn't seem that long ago that I could watch my local baseball team on free, commercially supported television. Now every baseball team in America is behind a paywall called cable/satellite, (that also has commercials) and I refuse to play that game. I was disgusted this past October to learn that the entire MLB playoff season before the World Series was restricted to pay television. Enough is enough.

I would gladly pay MLB $130 a year for a streaming package if it included local market games. I'd even accept watching the regional sports channel's commercials on the stream. But I am finished paying for a cable/satellite subscription in order to watch a local team whose stadium I am paying for.
 
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I wonder if this will work with those of us who have our plants through Ting, which piggybags on T-Mobile. It did last year with the At Bat Service, and was one reason I kept my Ting subscription going even after my six-week summer vacation in the States.
 
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