I hate how T-Mobile keeps raising their prices though. $70 2 years ago, then $80, and now $95. Sure you can keep your old plan, but they don't let you take advantage of most new "uncarrier" features on old plans. Like the $70 unlimited plan doesn't include LTE in Canada and Mexico, among others.
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Carrier So about T-Mobile Binge On...
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Yup. 480p streaming on devices with 1080p/1440p displays. All this push for better display and then T-Mobile goes and encourages you to stream SD video.
Plus, with Binge On you are now limited to 20GB of data stash, where before it was unlimited.
Another huge bullet point is that binge on now limits rollover data to 20GB. You can no longer accrue more than 20GB in your rollover pool. This may not effect many people very heavily, but it was definitely left out from any announcemnt.
Has anyone tried Binge On yet? What's the general consensus on quality? At my current rate of accrual it would take about 4 months to pool 20GB, assuming I am not streaming video (10gb plan and use about 5GB a month). I am still on the fence on whether I'd rather have the streaming or give up the rollover. I guess I can micro manage as needed, though knowing me that will not happen lol.
Has anyone tried Binge On yet? What's the general consensus on quality? At my current rate of accrual it would take about 4 months to pool 20GB, assuming I am not streaming video (10gb plan and use about 5GB a month). I am still on the fence on whether I'd rather have the streaming or give up the rollover. I guess I can micro manage as needed, though knowing me that will not happen lol.
This has been discontinued in favor of a 30 day trial. Walk into a store, pick a phone, pick a plan, and if you're not happy take it back within 30 days for nothing out of pocket. Not even sure why that old splash page exists anymore.
It's the way of the world. Imo we should be glad grandfathering is a thing. Literally every other service in aware of raises prices as time goes on and you either deal with it or dump the service.
This isn't in defense of any company. But irbid the way of the world. You can choose to have a lower monthly rate without newer perks or you can pay for newer perks. People said the same about hd versus sd content when it first was coming out. And probably just about any new service ever.
If something similar ever happens with att what they DO have the power to do is put you into a higher data bracket for that month. Generally speaking, overages cost more than just buying a larger dats pool. I've had this happen before, with minutes as well (particularly calls to Europe). It turned a $240 overage into something like $60. I wasn't happy about the $60 but it was better than nothing. By the way, it was my mother making calls to relatives not realizing skype and cell service are not one and the same lol. It's life. We pay for our mistakes. But it's a shame they didn't offer to move some data packages around for you since that is absolutely a thing they can do
This makes sense if you consider that T-Mobile might possibly be trying to do a couple of things with unlimited.
1. Make those who use it pay for it.
2. Transition unlimited users to tiered plans.
The fact that there is evidence that T-Mobile is indeed moving away from unlimited plans bears this out. Despite what all of us may like to think about Legere and Uncarrier, the fact of the matter is that T-Mobile is a business and it answers to it's stockholders.
They have to make money.
I'm just glad that when I jumped from Sprint to T-Mobile a month ago it was the $80 plan with 7GB tethering. If I jumped now, I'd get an increased tethering allotment, but it'd be $15 more.
When I look at how these are billed it seems to only care about single lines. Family plans seem to allow the $30 addition per line (still) to make it unlimited. Strange, no?
Not really. Well, to me at least.
The last plan I had was on Sprint. It was the Best Buy promotion family plan. $100 first line, $19.99 second line. The plan before that was originally $110 first line with $9.99 second line until they changed it to $100 first line and $19.99 second line. In each case additional lines after that were $19.99 per line. In between Sprint had plans (now since retired) where additional lines were even more pricey.
I go into detail on this to make a point. Since 2008 my wife and I have had a family plan where it was broken down in this manner. So, when T-Mobile tells me it's $80 for unlimited and $30 for the second line (unlimited) I am STILL coming out $10 ahead. It's nothing new or confusing to me. The first line is the most expensive, the second less so and additional lines after that the cheapest ($10 under my current plan).
I guess, I'm just used to this.
Charging the full cost of a single plan to the second and subsequent lines would kill business I believe so I'm not surprised by this at all.
So I went ahead an tried it out on a 6s and a 6s plus. While the quality is indeed downgraded it is far from unwatchable. I dare say it didn't bother me at all.
One interesting thing to note is that on one of my lines my son burned all of the monthly and rollover data and I couldn't get past the loading screen. I'm unsure what the deal was, whether it's a bug or whether it actually requires some amount of unthrottked data to get going, but I sat there for maybe five minutes to no availe. Meanwhile music streaming works just fine (suggesting to me that thisnsomehownstill requires unthrottled data). I'll be able to test in the 17th when a new billing cycle hits.
One interesting thing to note is that on one of my lines my son burned all of the monthly and rollover data and I couldn't get past the loading screen. I'm unsure what the deal was, whether it's a bug or whether it actually requires some amount of unthrottked data to get going, but I sat there for maybe five minutes to no availe. Meanwhile music streaming works just fine (suggesting to me that thisnsomehownstill requires unthrottled data). I'll be able to test in the 17th when a new billing cycle hits.