they support the shareholders I guess šš, screw us the consumers, they were good for years then got so greedy
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T-Mobile Adds New Plans With More Hotspot Data
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lets keep screwing the people and make the shareholders richer YESSSS and less competition too by buying them!!!
Pretty disappointing (but sadly unsurprising) that you just parrot the press release and don't bother mentioning any of the problems with this:
- They broke the last two price guarantees they offered, the latter of which was all but meaningless (they claim it meant they would pay your last month if they raised prices and you left, despite the press release saying something completely different).
- They are currently in court fighting consumers over the issues mentioned in point 1.
- The new price guarantee doesn't include fees or taxes. One of their current fees is to recover costs for "complying with legal obligations, 'charges imposed on us by other carriers for delivery of calls,' and the cost of leasing network facilities that are needed to provide service", per Ars. In other words, literally basic costs of doing business. But under this new
scamscheme, that fee and others can continue to increase whenever they want without them "breaking" the "price guarantee". - And, as others above have mentioned, this isn't a price decrease when you factor in the fees and taxes that are no longer included in the sticker price.
Recently upgraded to their new plans. It doubled my hotspot data while keeping all the same benefits as before, and saved me $5/month even after their new rate increase.
Our currency has crashed against the USD - we are near historic lows, so thatās not gonna help.
Whatās with āhot spotā charges ? Rubbish. Itās data one pays for. The telecoms have no reason to police its use.
It is a cancerous business tactic, I agree. I own my phone outright now after paying it off, but I still can't get a mobile plan cheaper than $85/month through my provider. The cheaper providers often are just resellers with less coverage, so it's a no-win situation.
Providers make these plans sound like a "good deal" by including large data buckets, but the reality is ā which they know! ā is that most people will never use up that much data, but they've gotta pay the monthly fee anyway.
Don't fall for it.
Thats only 4g hotspot, once you use it up you auto swap to 3g hotspot which is unlimited for all plans. I have 50gb grandfathered from sprint And i use a ton using my phone to hotspot youtube all day at work. I go way over 50gb and never notice a drop in performance
The 50gb usually lasts me maybe 2-3 days (hd streams kill data asap, specially on things like netflix where you cant control quality) youll get a text saying you hit the cap and thats really it ime
The cheaper option is get there base crap plan and just pay for 5g internet box which u get unlimited 5g speeds all the time no matter how much data you use
Hopefully we keep the option to hold on to our legacy plans. Personally, I switched from SC to ONE in 2017.
Looking at this graph and information, wind the clock back 15 years or so and things werenāt looking good for T-Mobile. I think the AT&T merger was a discussion point then too
What? As a European I pay 25,- for 5G unlimited data / calls in Europe + US
If you have either of the plans itās replacing thereās no additional costā¦
If you donāt, then donāt switch plans. No need to throw a tantrum over something that doesnāt apply to or make sense for you.
I know, we have similar plans in Australia. Americans are being ripped off big time by their telcos!
We don't have 3G in Australia - it was turned off last year. Old and out of date.
T-Mobile removes plans that include taxes and fees in another anti-consumer move.
There you go fixed the headline for you.
There you go fixed the headline for you.
Or Tello (who runs on T-Mobile) with their current promotion of $45 for 3 months of 'unlimited' everything.
Digi is busy shaking up the Belgian market, it's about time. For just ā¬5/month you get unlimited national, then ā¬0.01/min for calls to the rest of Europe and 15GB. Over 15GB just ā¬0.60 per 1GB. You can then use it like at home all over the EU. And no hotspot limit!
Even Tello is still expensive compared to European prices. Look at Italy, Spain, Romania etc. It's so cheap there. In many countries you can get home fibre 500Mbps up and down for just ā¬10/month.
Iām a 6-7 years Tmo customer on an essentials plan ($100/mo for 3 lines unlimited) and Iām just waiting for the letter/email saying my plan has been discontinued and Iāll need to pick a ānew plan with more featuresā like one of these. I donāt want more features; I want what I signed up for.
