T-Mobile Adds New Plans With More Hotspot Data

[Duke24]

I'd leave, but T-Mo offers free MLB TV...plus I have an old One plan.

 

[rillrill]

Mike Sievert has been a good CEO for T-Mobile in the same way Tim Cook has been a good CEO for Apple. T-Mobile's business is strong; They continue to grow subscribers at a faster rate than AT&T and Verizon.

Since taking over the CEO role in April 2020, T-Mobile's stock is up over 184%. Compare that to AT&T (up 20.25%) and Verizon (down 25.44%) over the same period.


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Not going to argue your point about the stock. I don’t hold any T-Mobile stock, and what’s good for stockholders is rarely good for consumers. We will see if his leadership will result in a decline in customers. He lost six customers with my family. I see the current t-mobile acting like Verizon, and look what is happening to them.

 

[Apple MessagePad]

Really curious how you could have done this given the plans were only released yesterday.

Not talking about these plans but rather the Experience More plan from the previous Magenta plans.

 

[matsan]

There's no question that the US carriers are quite greedy. But I will say, it is significantly more expensive to roll out and maintain a reliable network across the massive land mass that is the US vs. smaller countries like Sweden.

No question about that, US has 17x larger area and population is 30x larger, with population densities (source: wikipedia) 87 (US) vs 65 (Sweden) per sq mi. So here fewer people have to pay for coverage per sq mi, but still our rates are way lower with more data.

 

[EuroChilli]

No question about that, US has 17x larger area and population is 30x larger, with population densities (source: wikipedia) 87 (US) vs 65 (Sweden) per sq mi. So here fewer people have to pay for coverage per sq mi, but still our rates are way lower with more data.

Then there is Belgium, only about 300km across, the 2nd most densely populated country in Europe after The Netherlands yet we have some of the most expensive telecom in the world across 3 MNOs, and a good few MVNOs.

But, a newcomer, a full MNO, has just arrived from Romania, Digi, and they have come in really low, and I tried their offer for about a week but there is still a lot missing so I had to go back to a higher price operator.

At least some operators have lowered their prices or added more data etc in response to Digi, but others like Telenet have hiked their prices across the board by as much as 2,9% citing inflation. Ok, why are some others dropping their prices? Oh wait, Telenet is listed so they have shareholders to keep happy. Telenet is also owned by Liberty Global, if that means anything...

Moral of the story, Belgium telco has been a prime example of price gouging of the highest order. Here's hoping the new kid on the block can keep rattling their cages. At least Digi isn't a new company, they have been and still are very successful in Romania, Italy and Spain. They might just need a bit of a thicker skin to take on the rest of Belgium telco.