Some of these "I'm through with T-Mobile, now" posts are hilarious. T-Mobile has always been trash and always will be trash. That is why their prices seem like such a great deal on the surface. No thanks.
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T-Mobile Automatically Upgrading Users to More Expensive Plans, But There's an Opt-Out Option
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Thank you for sharing your experience. You just summed up the problem with the big wireless carriers. The big 3 are more than happy to pit their employees against the consumer. The big 3 would rather squeeze every last ounce of their marketing power to obfuscate the consumer with convoluted contracts and marketing gimmicks. The big 3 are counting on uninformed or lazy consumers to keep falling for their ploys. It’s not just T-Mobile it’s the other 2 as well.
I am just sick of the marketing games. I would rather just buy a phone outright unsubsidized at the best deal I can find. Not interested in trading in or financing the phone. They can take their bill credits, early upgrades and just shove it. I don’t care about the autopay discounts, respect the method of payment I choose to use.
The solution is rather simple just find an MVNO that suits you best for service under $40 a month. Then focus on finding a phone at the best unsubsidized price and just buy it outright. In a year or less or two years max and you will already be ahead in savings compared to going with big wireless.
The things the American government allows corporations to do to American citizens is truly saddening. The idea that they would just change your plan to a more expensive plan and then have you have to opt out of it is disgusting.
I don't see the issue. They're telling you before they do it and giving you the option to avoid it.
Only if you live in a major city… if you’re in a rural area, 9 times out of 10, there is no other choice.
No they aren’t. I left them because they tried pulling this crap and other stuff. They are all garbage.
They are making it far more expensive than what the credit card charges the merchant and profit out of us.
Let's say the swipe fee is at 5% (I know, it is 2 to 3 % in reality, but the sake of calculation), a $5 increase means your bill have to be $100 per line to be equivalent.
So, if the swipe fee is 3%, that $5 makes the per line bill to be $166.67. (2.5% would be $200 per line and 2% would then be $250 per line)
Fairly sure none of us would be paying that much per line. So, the $5 increase is simply another way for them to raise the price in the name of justifying the swipe fee.
Unfortunately from what I heard from industrial rumor: older plans are planned to be phased out completely sometime next year, so all users will need to migrate to new plan eventually. So essentially, unfortunately this is going to be price increase in the end.
Users can opt out for now, but eventually they’ll be forced to move to new plan if they want to keep T-mobile.
(This is part of carrier’s simplification and cost cutting plan. It’s expensive for carriers to manage multiple legacy plans that are discontinued so now they are eliminating them completely and move the customers to similar plans abeit price increase)
On the one hand, trying to update our plans w/o intervention from us is kinda shady.
On the other hand...it'll cost me a whopping extra $10/month, for a feature I actually use, so meh. Not worried.
ANY other provider that's worth a damn in our area costs an extra $50/month, with less bandwidth, so I'm not too worried about it.
On the other hand...it'll cost me a whopping extra $10/month, for a feature I actually use, so meh. Not worried.
ANY other provider that's worth a damn in our area costs an extra $50/month, with less bandwidth, so I'm not too worried about it.
I had all the same features now, so it would just cost me more money. I also got an insider discount code (20% off) and I wasn’t about to loose that.
I’m delaying my concern until I hear directly from T-Mobile about what they’re doing, if the Reddit post is true. I switched from AT&T to TM years ago, been happy with the service and they’ve saved me a LOT of money, so if I have to pay $10 more, I’ll be fine.
Thanks, good post confirming all my frustrations. Although you can switch to an MVNO, the big 3 will still screw you over, throttling your bandwidth, dropping calls, etc. So seems like you really can't escape it.
I'm waiting to see what they want to do to my old Sprint plan which isn't listed on the leaked documents. I recently got T-Mobile Home Internet which is only $40 per month bundled with the phone plan. It would be $10 cheaper with the more expensive plans. That, together with better trade-in valuations for older phones might make it reasonable. If I dropped T-Mobile phone plan altogether, home internet would be $50 which is still a lot cheaper than the Spectrum which I cancelled. (And my experience with the 5G home internet has been stellar.) 🤞
Garbage like this sure makes me wish we had actual consumer protection laws in our lovely oligarchy. They should be fined back to the stone age for even attempting this.
IIRC, the only real difference that I can think of was 15G mobile hotspot vs 5Gb. Not a big enough difference that I'd willingly switch; but by the same token, I'm paying $100/month for 3 lines and a watch, whereas I was paying $170 with AT&T, so I'm not too upset about it.
(for now)
They are all like this. I had Verizon ages ago and they were throwing extra services on my phone (dumb phone days). I went to AT&T and they did the same. Now I am with T-Mobile and they aren’t any better, but at least my bill is cheaper and my phone actually works in my house and at work. If you think the other big carriers are better and don’t do shady stuff, you’re way wrong.
This is how TMo works. If someone goes into a store and initiates even a fraudulent SIM swap, TMo sends a text saying that if you don’t respond, the swap will go through (rather than one to say no, it wasn’t me). It’s a ridiculous approach.