Executive Tweet Suggests Cellular iPads Coming to T-Mobile

[carlgo]

Now for TMob coverage equal to ATT and VZ. Even though I can't use TM I appreciate the way it is wagging the dogs.

 

[BruiserB]

I'm very curious about plan prices. Doing a fast google it looks like Walmart has a few mobile broadband refill cards at interesting prices. $25 for 1.5gig, $35 for 3.5gig and $50 for 5gig. (As well as the ridiculous $15 for 300meg, but that only lasts seven days)

Wonder if those would work if you already had a nano sim...

Also, if I bought like five of those cards, do they expire if I don't activate? Might be a half decent way to lock in that $25 price or something before tmo can remove it and make the minimum like $35 or something...

These cards won't do anything to lock in a price....they are just prepaid cards worth the face value on them. You choose your plan separately from T-mobile. In fact there's no difference between these recharge cards and the ones for voice plans other than marketing. I'm 95% certain you can apply a data recharge card to your voice account and vice versa. A $25 card just adds $25 to your credit value. Then depending which plan you have, a corresponding value is deducted from your balance. Therefore a $50 card can be used for one month of the $50 plan, a month of the $35 plan and $15 towards your next month, 2 months of the $25 plan, or 3 months of the $15 plan.

I don't think anyone needs to panic and try to get a good deal now. If T-mobile changes anything, they will probably make prices even better. It also wouldn't surprise me to see them offer plans by the day, etc like ATT just introduced for casual users. I have a feeling ATT's new plans are because they got wind of what T-mobile had planned.

 

[TEG]

Nope, the current iPads have support for T-Mo's LTE also (assuming you get an "AT&T" model). Source: The "LTE" icon on my iPad.

The issue is that is doesn't support AWS for 3G, and doesn't support all of the LTE bands for T-Mo. If the new iPad is anything like the iPhone 5s/c it will support all major NA bands on GSM/LTE.

 

[joshdammit]

Yet, let's look at how well this has benefitted consumers:

• Unlimited Everything (Including Data) are the only plans they offer and at the same (or lower) prices than the competition's limited plans. Yes, there is throttling, but choose how much based on how much you pay, even at the high end, they still are competitive.
• Free International Data Roaming in over 100 countries (Yes, it's slow, but it's there)
• Free International texting in over 100 countries
• $0.20 per minute phone calls to over 100 countries and in over 100 countries when roaming there.
• Better coverage than ever, thanks in large part to the merger with MetroPCS
• Eliminated cell phone contracts
• Ending grandfathered plans; however, offering new plans at about the same price, but with more features in many cases and allowing you leave without penalty until next year if you don't like the changes.

So, this may seem unprofessional, but really, T-Mobile is the only one of the major companies that I see standing up and actually doing what customers want to see happen. Do, I fail to see how he is unprofessional, he is just showing a sense of humor.

What this guy said.

I'd rather give money to an unprofessional CEO who openly gives his competition the finger while actively seeking new ways to make his customers happy, than Sprint, who has been dishonest and aggressively apathetic (I didn't even know that combination of qualities was even possible!) towards their dissatisfied customers.

I called Sprint the other day to dispute the ETF I received that they assured me they would waive (wouldn't have jumped ship if they had refused) and I laughed out loud at the recording that played between songs on hold: It was something along the lines of "We're doing our best to get our network upgraded in a timely manner," etc. It was almost as pathetic as the four individual departments I had to talk to to get this issue resolved.

Anyway, T-Mobile is awesome. Sure, their network might not be the best out there, but where I live it's "good enough" at WORST, their customer service is much better than what I'm used to on Sprint and their "unprofessional" CEO is finally offering us what we deserve as customers. For years, I wondered why we're still counting minutes or why there were still different texting packages when most of us text more than we talk, and the SMS signal exists on your phone whether you're paying for it or not.

He can be a smarmy jerk on Twitter all he wants. He's earned it.