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T-Mobile Launches 'Go5G Plus' Two-Year Upgrade Plan, Will Help Would-Be Customers Get Out of Device Contracts

matthew12 said:
Meh, this is dumb. Honestly most people only upgrade their phones every 3-ish years or so anyway. Those that upgrade every year either just pay full price for an unlocked phone from the manufacturer or their corporate job pays for it.
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How is it dumb? It’s free phones for the rest of your life lol. If you wanna wait 3 or 4 years to upgrade you can.

It’s an $800 device value over 24 months. That’s about $33 per line every month.
 
BGPL said:
I would switch from Verizon but every time I shop around, getting 3 phones, 1 cellular tablet and 3 Apple Watches is expensive everywhere I go. All of my stuff is unlocked too. The watches are watch prevents people from doing prepaid. And yes I need cell service on all of the watches :(
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Should be around $120 for the phones, $15 for the tablet, and $10 each watch on monthly fees. So like $165 total and you can either keep your devices out get free/discounted new ones.
 
TruthWatcher412 said:
I'm still grandfathered in on the 2/$100 plan. I'll wait till they make me switch, which I'm sure will be eventually.
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I believe our plan is 3/$120, plus at the time adding a fourth line was free (from back when the "uncarrier" stuff was just beginning). It's not unlimited data, but we're not using tons of cellular data fortunately - most of the time wifi is readily available.
 
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interstella555 said:
I mean it makes more sense to get a free phone from them and just pay the remaining balance if you leave before 2 years.

If you stay 1 year you got a new phone for half the price and it’ll be unlocked once you pay the remaining balance. Cheaper than buying an unlocked used phone lol.

No need to save up.
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And i don't know if they also give the crazy carrier deals like VZW. When VZW was 24 months, it was definitely better to pay the other half of the installment off and take the deal. With 36, not so much.
 
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mthomas184 said:
Haven't had a single issue with T-Mobile. As a matter of fact, I have service in places now that Verizon doesn't. They're dragging their feet with their 5G rollout. T-Mobile is light years ahead at this point.
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Yea VZW 5G is fast when it works. But I also blame the phones. Can any of them fallback to LTE seamlessly? Even iP on Auto doesn't; it just hangs with 5G still on if there's an issue.
 
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interstella555 said:
I mean it makes more sense to get a free phone from them and just pay the remaining balance if you leave before 2 years.

If you stay 1 year you got a new phone for half the price and it’ll be unlocked once you pay the remaining balance. Cheaper than buying an unlocked used phone lol.

No need to save up.
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Sure, if that works better for you.
Honestly, do you REALLY think you’re getting anything FREE (half off) from any of those companies??
 
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turbineseaplane said:
No kidding.

I had the displeasure of having to call in to move an eSIM line and it felt like a hostage situation.

My phones are all factory unlocked and I’m on prepaid only, and the amount of times they had to put me on hold to “check if I was eligible to move devices” was super disconcerting

All the while, I could hardly understand the poor English from the rep, and the way she spoke was maddening beyond belief. They seem trained and required to read every prompt from their screen completely and multiple times.

Just awful. Feels like interacting with a broken robot from some foreign land
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Yeah that sucks, here’s a hack, call before 2pm and you get a rep in the US. Those over seas reps are terrible lol. Night and day differnce.
 
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compwiz1202 said:
And i don't know if they also give the crazy carrier deals like VZW. When VZW was 24 months, it was definitely better to pay the other half of the installment off and take the deal. With 36, not so much.
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They give up to $800. So any phone under that price is free, any phone over that amount you pay the difference spread over 24 months.

Those “free” $800 get spread over 24 months. So in 12 months you would have gotten a $400 credit, 18 months $600, etc.

So maybe a more accurate way of presenting the offer would be saying you get a $33.33 credit a month for 24 months lol.
 
sw1tcher said:
If the choice was between one of the three plans listed above, I'd pick T-Mobile. Every. Single. Time.

T-Mobile is a straight $90 since all taxes and fees are included. If you add in taxes and fees, Verizon will be more and AT&T will be about the same. But AT&T and Verizon don't have weekly offers like what you get from T-Mobile Tuesdays, and you don't get all the free bonuses such as Netflix, Apple TV+, MLB.TV, a free season pass for major league soccer, etc.

In the end, T-Mobile is the better value. And I actually get better coverage at my home location than with Verizon and AT&T.

And if you want 5G, T-Mobile's coverage is better and offers better speeds.
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I get the AT&T Unlimited Elite plan with the 40GB hotspot and no high-speed data throttling ever, accidental/theft/loss insurance, and HBO Max for $52.50 per month (with taxes and fees) and no, my employer is not involved. Also, I do not work for AT&T. Every friend I have that is on T-Mobile has horrible reception when they call me and their calls frequently drop on their end. Small sample size I know but these are folks both in major cities in the US as well as rural areas. But hey, if people want to pay $90 on T-Mobile, more power to them.
 
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MacWiz_007 said:
I get the AT&T Unlimited Elite plan with the 40GB hotspot and no high-speed data throttling ever, accidental/theft/loss insurance, and HBO Max for $52.50 per month and no, my employer is not involved. Also, I do not work for AT&T. Every friend I have that is on T-Mobile has horrible reception when they call me and their calls frequently drop on their end. Small sample size I know but these are folks both in major cities in the US as well as rural areas. But hey, if people want to pay $90 on T-Mobile, more power to them.
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You saw my math above after removing perks that I use from the price I pay $30/month per line and that does not consider free international data. At home we have wifi calling so home reception is not an issue.
 
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nimitz9 said:
For 1 line, who's going to choose T-Mo over Verizon and ATT for the same monthly price??
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Me. All depends on location and which carrier is better in your particular area.
 

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