this is something I hope AT&T will adopt...in fact, it might be good to call ATT and ask for matching service
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T-Mobile Adds Apple Music to Music Freedom, Offers Free 'iPhone 6s' Upgrade With iPhone 6 Trade-In
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this is something I hope AT&T will adopt...in fact, it might be good to call ATT and ask for matching service
No, what he is saying is the installment wont go up. If it is $15 now, it will remian at $15 and not increase as it does for a new model.
If they did, it would more than likely be filled with asterisks, such as being restricted to 30 minutes of listening per day, support only a few services, etc.
Based on experience, give it no less than a 4-5 days before you call Customer Care, and at least two weeks before you visit a store. By that time, the correct information would have filtered through all the reps.
As best as I can tell, getting a new device restarts any installment plan from scratch. If you're on JUMP on Demand, it's back to the start of the 18-month lease, with the final due at the 18th month, or return it to the store. If you're on an older JUMP plan, you start over at the 24-month financing (EIP).
If you're looking to trade in your 128GB iPhone 6, I suggest you don't trade it in at a T-Mobile store. Make sure it's unlocked by T-Mobile, then sell it off locally, as they'll give you a much higher value than T-Mobile will ever do. I had eight $25 payments left each on two 16GB iPhone 5s, totaling $400. Had I traded it in, T-Mobile would've given me $120 for each, leaving me with $160 to finish off my EIPs. I had them unlocked, sold them both in one shot on CraigsList in 24 hours for $600. Paid off $400 EIPs and had $200 to spare.
Yes, it totally does raise net neutrality questions. However, there are a few differences:
(1) T-Mobile whitelists lots of competing service, and isn't picking just one or a few. Indeed, it has been adding new services as they gain popularity.
(2) T-Mobile doesn't receive compensation from the music services it whitelists.
(3) At the beginning, T-Mobile allowed users to vote for what music streaming services they wanted whitelisted, in a psudo-democratic fashion.
All of these taken together, I think, do mitigate the net-neutrality concerns. Not completely though. However, if someone asked me to come up with a way of doing whitelisted data services that doesn't run afoul of net neutrality, I would probably look to T-Mobile as the model to begin with.
I was planning on a switching to T-mobile a week ago. There's always a catch. In this case, T-mobile will happily pay off the installment plan on my ATT NEXT 64GB 6 Plus. However, I'd have to restart paying $850 AGAIN on a new 6 Plus after I trade in my old one. They really aren't doing you any favors. I'm already down to $500 on my current 6 Plus, meaning they get my prestine iPhone 6 Plus for $500 while I will have to give them another $850 for a new Phone.
After figuring out the catch, I decided to wait to until the 6S to switch. If I have to start paying $850 from scratch again, I'm getting a totally new 6S plus and not year-old hardware.
Yes... if anything, he sounds like a fun CEO to work with. I can't imagine our companies CEO using words like "BS" or "Greedy Bas#!%" in any public forum.
Why not just pay off your current one and then migrate your phone to T-Mobile? That way you're not starting over and can get all their other advantages?
I wonder if this offer will be available in conjunction with any of the offers to switch from another carrier? My wife and I have 128GB Verizon iPhone 6 Pluses on a two year contract with just over a year remaining. Verizon service quality in my area has taken a shocking nosedive and I was already thinking of moving to T-Mobile when the 6S and 6S Plus become available. Will T-Mobile still pay off ETFs?
I'm still trying to figure if this is right for me because my monthly payment for a 6+ is 31 dollars, could someone explain this a little netter for me because I am a little confused.
I called just because I didn't want to make assumptions, stick to them, and feel like a fool when I tried to trade-in. The representative I spoke with said device trade-ins are equivalent. So if you have a 128 GB Plus, you get the next model's 128 GB Plus. My only question is for those on JUMP!, can we upgrade to JUMP! On Demand and take advantage of this with our iPhone 6's that were bought with JUMP!?
Your payment would stay $31 a month I believe, you just trade in your current iPhone for the equivalent model of the next model. I'm certain there'll be conflicts between JUMP! and JUMP! On Demand, I'm just not sure how it'd work for those on the former.
I don't understand this deal at all. What's being offered? If the iPhone 6 is $15 a month, why wouldn't the new one be $15 a month? The phones are probably going to be at the same price points as usual.
Not if their list pretty much includes all of the major services. And probably their market position doesn't make a big enough impact yet.
I was planning on deciding whether to keep paying $15/month for the iPhone 6 I borrowed from T-mobile or jumping to the iPhone 6s for $30/month, but now I don't have to worry about it! I had a feeling T-mobile was going to do something like this, so I'm glad I signed-up!
A bit misleading though. While T-Mobile's Equipment Installment Plan (equivalent to AT&T's Next) or JUMP! plans do indeed waive any upgrade fees, if you decide to buy the phone outright, they charge you $15 for SIM card (it is waived if you buy iPhone directly from Apple).
Doesn't this run afoul of the new net neutrality regulations in the US? Seems like data carrying music is being privileged over other types of data...I'm surprised the FCC hasn't stepped in on this yet. Or does this include every music service so there's no competitive advantage?
This just convinced me to do the T-Mobile test drive program to see how their coverage is in my area.
I live in the Puget Sound area (western Washington state), and have been with all three large carriers. T-Mobile's coverage matches AT&T's and Verizon's quite well - they all have the same dead spots.
Verizon has some level of coverage in the sticks, though - which is why I have a Verizon iPad in addition to my T-Mobile iPhone. When we visit the in-laws I pay for a month of their data service, since no one else has coverage in that area.