They are increasing GREATLY the costs of all lines on Apple/Smart watches even if you are on their "lock" plan. Also it seems they care cutting back on the number of lines you can have to max the overall discount. I have 12 lines total including watches, family, internet... and trying to sort out the price increase today on their website was miserable so I just gave up and will have to see what it is.
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T-Mobile Announces Price Increases for Some Older Plans
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Ah, hadn't even thought about watches since I'm not in the iPhone/watch ecosystem currently. Are those watch-specific, or general data plans? Cheaper data plans have got me thinking again about the viability of people buying tablets with cellular connectivity, and using earbuds and a VOIP with their data plan instead of a phone
Especially since AT&T banned phones that couldn't do "Wi-Fi calling" from their network.People talking about this rate increase being due to inflation have some interesting arguments, but the specific timing sure makes it look like users are paying for the acquisition of Mint. I don't recall them announcing any other new huge capital outlays recently, though I'm not a shareholder and haven't read their reports. If Mint actually had its own backhaul and spectrum I could see an argument for the purchase being a net benefit for customers, but they're an MVNO, so it's really about reducing competition, consolidation of billing and other systems that will cut expenses (and presumably mean layoffs at Mint), and increasing profit. I'm not necessarily against that to some extent, but let's not pretend it's about something else if it's not.
Since most are losing money don't see how they can be called greedy.
T-Mo will probably increase those plans by 15-25 dollars within a year or two
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I’ve read online that T-Mo will announce more rate increases for other plans. It may be too soon for Mint, but other plans including Sprint legacy plans may be next.
More like he has to keep hungry investors well fed. They were probably putting pressure on him to do what other companies are doing to various degrees of success and that is using inflation as cover to create a new normal.
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They also promised that the ONE plan would never change in price. They are using their lock policy now that states if they break that promise they will pay your last months bill if you switch away. Basically, they are consciously breaking their promise.
Total greed? In the case of T-Mobile, some of the affected plans haven't seen rate increases in nearly ten years. Adjusting for inflation, if a plan cost $50/month in 2014 it would be around $66/month in today's dollars. A $2 to $5 increase is well below that.
The T-Mobile/Sprint deal closed in 2020. The agreement was that they wouldn't raise rates for three years (2023) and we're now beyond three years.
Time to switch over to a cheaper plan. I have Consumer Cellular for my business phone and it's only $30/month and I get the same quality of service. So… No I will not be financially supporting the already mega wealthy CEOs of corporations like T-Mobile. They raise prices, take away product or services, and then have "record braking profits" - To themselves. Nope… no more.
I received the text yesterday. Plan is going up $10/month since it’s my wife and I on Magenta. I priced out both AT&T and Verizon, and even with the increase, TMO is still cheaper. I removed Netflix “on them” from my plan and will just pay that directly to Netflix, so that more or less offsets the price increase to TMO.
The only option at this point is to go to a MVNO. However, we can’t take advantage of the 0% iPhone financing through Apple since it’s now only available for the big three carriers. Looks like we’ll probably just stick with TMO for now.
The only option at this point is to go to a MVNO. However, we can’t take advantage of the 0% iPhone financing through Apple since it’s now only available for the big three carriers. Looks like we’ll probably just stick with TMO for now.
MVNOs (some of which are owned by major carriers) like Consumer Cellular can offer lower prices especially for those who don't want/need unlimited data but for those who do, Consumer Cellular isn't necessarily any better than T-Mobile or AT&T as far as price.
Consumer Cellular calls their $50/month (for 1 line with AutoPay discount) unlimited plan a "great value" but T-Mobile's Essentials Saver plan is also $50/month (for 1 line with AutoPay discount) and AT&T's Value Plus VL plan is only slightly higher at $50.99/month (for 1 line with AutoPay discount).
T-Mobile also offers an Essentials Choice 55 plan for $45/month (for 1 line with AutoPay discount) which is even less than Consumer Cellular. Of course, you have to be 55 or older to qualify.
Sorry to disagree but the ONE Plan Unlimited 55 is a plan for seniors (you have to be 55 or older to get the plan). By definition they are targeting seniors. Having said that it doesn't mean they are only going after seniors.
While some 55+ plans may be included, the price increases impact a lot more than just 55+ plans/subscribers. If it was only or mostly 55+ plans and subscribers, I would agree with you but it's not. Far from it. T-Mobile is not "targeting seniors" here as these increases are across-the-board i.e., include regular and 55+ plans.
I guess cancelling netflix keeps your tmobile bill the same, but now your netflix bill is higher. At least TMo gives you a $10 subsidy (or about that).
Hey, don't you know that the rich are hurting? They may have to rent out their third house, while we're living on the street.
Going to try this trick. Paid my bill with card I get 5% back on phone wireless services and left $1.50 in the auto pay which should be taken out in a few days. Thanks!
The rich CEO doesn't cost a company nearly as much as all of the "regular" employees. I believe T-Mobile has around 67,000 employees. If the average T-Mobile employee made $70,000 (plus benefits) per year, the cost to the company is around $4.7 billion (plus benefits) per year. That's SIGNIFICANTLY more than the CEO's compensation. If the average employee's pay raise was $3,000, that would cost the company over $200 million which is also much more than the CEO's ENTIRE compensation.
I'm not here to defend CEO pay, only to point out that it's typically a very small percentage of a company's total payroll and benefits costs. Even if a CEO’s entire pay was eliminated, it wouldn't likely make much of a dent in the company's overhead and therefore blaming bloated CEO salaries for price increase (such as the T-Mobile $2 to $5 increase) isn't really logical.
I imagine T-Mobile has given employees raises at a much higher percentage than the $2 to $5 price increases being discussed here. Some of the T-Mobile plans hadn't seen price increases in nearly ten years but I'm sure employees saw annual pay increases during that time. If a plan was $50/month in 2014 and is now $52 to $55/month with the increase today, that amounts to an average annual increase of just 0.39% (if $2) to 0.97% (if $5) which I'm sure is far lower than the average annual percentage wage increases employees saw.
I was trying to look at what it would be if I switched to one of their Go plans from Magenta Max 55. When I choose one of the Go plans in the plan switching screen, it pops up a button that says Contact Us. If I choose an Essentials plan, it will let me go through it without contacting anyone. Weird.
I think you might be surprised by how many streaming service CEOs (or just any CEO in general) are still taking home 7 figure salaries even though they're losing money. Corporations need to re-evaluate how much money one person really needs to survive and be successful. Seniors, the middle class, and young adults are getting seriously stiffed by billionaires and corporations right now. It's nearly impossible for this group to afford an apartment, much less a new home the way things are going. Something is going to have to break. We can't sustain the current economic climate for much longer. Corporations need to tighten their belts and lower prices or wages need to increase drastically.
I see the same thing. You can see the plan prices here: https://www.t-mobile.com/commerce/cell-phone-plans
Yes. If they give employees an average of 2.5% annual increase, then payroll costs increase by 10% in five years and 25% in ten. If the increase is more then of course the payroll costs would climb even higher over that time.
Let's say a CEO make $5M/yr - now cut that in half and spread the savings across 5,000 employees. Woot! They each get a life-changing $9.62 extra per week, which after-tax won't even buy a beer in most places today.
Complex matters like inflationary money policy and spiked interest rates aren't solved with simplistic meme suggestions like "cut CEO wages!