Wow, this is pretty good! I wouldnt mind being able to switch over and take advantage of this deal if I werent stuck in an ATT contract :[
Agreed. What I don't understand about T-Mobile is that they are so quick to get customers to switch to their network.
Wouldn't it be in their best interest to focus on improving their network. It's like they are going about it backwards.
Jumping to get the customers on board rather than jumping to improve their network. Maybe someone can enlighten me on this particular issue, but does it benefit having new customers jump on their network.
As in they get some type of incentive for having a certain amount of new customers jumping on their network. But the only problem with that is AT&T & Verizon has better network coverage... it's as if the only way T-Mobile can respond is to take away their customers in order to get the support to build a better network, I assume.
T-Mobile has 1GB for $20 a month without a contract.
Well, since you have Tmob for phone, the 1GB/month iPad plan is only $10 for you, which is pretty close to your $25/qtr plan, anyway. And starting Saturday, it is free for the rest of this year. You might want to change. They'll probably give you a SIM for $0-$1 if you go in and ask.
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Yes. You don't even have to buy it from Tmob and you can get the free 200MB.
I would love to just pay full-price of my iPhone every two years and pay less per month with Verizon. If I can buy the phone outright, and pay $25 less per month, I'd jump on that in a heartbeat.
I use Verizon for my phone service, but I wanted to purchase my iPad Air through T-Mobile to get 200mb of "free data for life". I was going to purchase a WiFi tablet, but decided this was too good a deal to pass up.
I was on the phone yesterday for an hour with a supervisor telling me that I do not get 200mb of free data. It's $10 a month, due to me not being attached to any other T-Mobile services. I wish this was a joke. They said their website is "confusing" and they will need to escalate this to change their website so it's not misleading. They told me I need to have a phone line with them to get the free data. They credited my account for a year for 200mb, but in a year I will have to call back to complain again, since they can only do things in yearly increments.
From T-Mobile's site:
"FREE DATA FOR LIFE
Anybody who wants to use a tablet on T-Mobile's 4G LTE network gets 200MB free data for as long as you own the device, whether you pay for it up front or you choose to finance it.
You can buy a tablet from us, or bring your own device. Either way, you will get 200MB free data for the time you own the device and use it on our network."
What's confusing about this T-Mobile?
Not interested in getting a contract though on an iPad.
It would be nice if they put a cellular toggle in control center, that would be nice. I don't want to dive into settings.
This is an incredible deal for existing TMobile customers. I honestly wonder what hit they're taking to their bottom line. All of these promotions cannot be cheap.
Either way I'd be terrified of having such a small cap, not linked to a main or shared plan account. It would always be in the back of my mind when I'm at home and watching netflix, etc. What happens when my Comcast goes down and I eat through a few gigs of overages? When I'm out and about, I'd be worried about high bandwidth sites and have to steer clear of certain apps or the apps store.
It would be nice if they put a cellular toggle in control center, that would be nice. I don't want to dive into settings.
Agreed. What I don't understand about T-Mobile is that they are so quick to get customers to switch to their network.
Wouldn't it be in their best interest to focus on improving their network. It's like they are going about it backwards.
Jumping to get the customers on board rather than jumping to improve their network. Maybe someone can enlighten me on this particular issue, but does it benefit having new customers jump on their network.
As in they get some type of incentive for having a certain amount of new customers jumping on their network. But the only problem with that is AT&T & Verizon has better network coverage... it's as if the only way T-Mobile can respond is to take away their customers in order to get the support to build a better network, I assume.
I bought an iPad from an Apple store - an AT&T model at that - walked into a T-mobile store, bought a SIM card with cash, never gave them any personal information, put my new SIM card into my iPad and I receive 200 MB of free T-mobile LTE each month.
Nothing confusing about that.
I also have ATT unlimited ipad data and I am thinking about this deal. It is $130 off the LTE iPad and I can dump tmobile after the first month and pay the balance of the ipad. Why not do it? I will have to pay full price for the next iPad so I will take the discount.
By the Way, how much data do you use in a month? In February I burned through about 24 Gb, never turned on the wi-fi once.