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T-Mobile Offering iPad Air and Retina iPad Mini for $0 Down

Lord Hamsa said:
Their service capability may be an issue, but dang, I'm liking T-Mobile's consumer-friendly attitude toward plans. Here's hoping they force the other carriers to follow suit.
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T-Mo is taking that 5 billion dollars they got from the AT&T deal merge failure and using it for LTE / better service, so they are getting better.

I applaud them for rising up from the dead and just kicking butt. Two short years ago people were saying Apple shouldn't even bother release a T-Mo iPhone as they are dead in the water.

Look at them now, not only did they get the iDevices, but they didn't have to give up their first born like Verizon and Sprint did
 
So this requires no extra plan? Maybe I will upgrade if I can essentially get free 2 year financing from T-Mobile, plus 200MB free data...
 
I'm currently a Verizon subscriber for both my iPhone and iPad. But having just placed an order for a Gold iPhone 5S with T-Mobile, I suppose this cements my move to T-Mobile for my iPad as well. T-Mobile's making some aggressive moves in the market. Bravo.
 
Everyone might as well buy the T-Mobile version. If someone needs data reliability, they can always just pop in another carrier's SIM card and still retain their free 200 MB from T-Mobile.

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jclardy said:
So this requires no extra plan? Maybe I will upgrade if I can essentially get free 2 year financing from T-Mobile, plus 200MB free data...
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I think you have to be a post-paid simple choice customer, because of the credit check, in order to take advantage of the zero percent financing.
 
I always get the basic WiFi but this is intriguing. Do we get the option of paying off the iPad early, say to sell it next year when the next one comes out? Thanks!
 
When can we start in on this deal? I don't see it on their website. Pretty much get a new retina mini with no money down and just pay the monthly fee?
 
Blumustang said:
I always get the basic WiFi but this is intriguing. Do we get the option of paying off the iPad early, say to sell it next year when the next one comes out? Thanks!
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Yes. You can pay it off as early as you want. I have an iPhone 5s on T-Mobile and I can pay as much as I want anytime I want online or at the T-Mobile store. It wont reduce the amount due each month but it will reduce the amount of months you pay. You still are still billed the minimum amount due regardless if you pay extra or not.
 
I just spoke to two different T-Mobile stores and it appears that if you're not a T-Mobile customer already you will have to pay $20 a month for data plus the monthly payment on the iPad. Also they will be checking your credit to see how much your initial first down payment is. As they both said on the phone this could change because it was just announced, but this is what they just told me on the phone.
 
Caliguy26 said:
I just spoke to two different T-Mobile stores and it appears that if you're not a T-Mobile customer already you will have to pay $20 a month for data plus the monthly payment on the iPad. Also they will be checking your credit to see how much your initial first down payment is. As they both said on the phone this could change because it was just announced, but this is what they just told me on the phone.
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You get 200mb every month for free. If you want additional data it cost $$
 
Caliguy26 said:
I just spoke to two different T-Mobile stores and it appears that if you're not a T-Mobile customer already you will have to pay $20 a month for data plus the monthly payment on the iPad. Also they will be checking your credit to see how much your initial first down payment is. As they both said on the phone this could change because it was just announced, but this is what they just told me on the phone.
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I don't think this is the case...least I hope not. That sounds like a contract for $20 a month for 24 months plus the monthly fee for the device.
 
Isn't it too good? I mean I hope it is but how does TMob. makes money out of this deal? Device + free 200mb in 24 payments. And the cost is the same as you would buy from Apple store in 1 payment and no data included.

If Apple was doing the deal it would make more sense to me. I hope that's true with no catch and TMob still makes money..
 
AT&T's offered the zero down-pay monthly for iPads with no APR/Interest since Next was announced. Nothing new. Only difference is you have to have the data plan on the iPad for the amount of time you're paying off the device. Actually more handy than you'd think though, and with mobile share $10/mo over the course of 20 months (iPad installment plan length) is nothing.
 
hmmm, so no money down is if you have super super credit. Now as far as the monthly payments I'm wondering if it's on top of the iPad payment or just data only.
 
macornomac said:
hmmm, so no money down is if you have super super credit. Now as far as the monthly payments I'm wondering if it's on top of the iPad payment or just data only.
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There is no data cost so long as you stick to the 200MB.
 
Tmobile isn't making any money on this if u don't buy any extra data. They're hoping that you would buy more data since 200mb is a lot and wifi is not available ant where.
 
tuna9720 said:
Isn't it too good? I mean I hope it is but how does TMob. makes money out of this deal? Device + free 200mb in 24 payments. And the cost is the same as you would buy from Apple store in 1 payment and no data included.

If Apple was doing the deal it would make more sense to me. I hope that's true with no catch and TMob still makes money..
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I think it is a bridge for customers to sign up for phone services and tablet data plans. Kind of the same way the iPhone was a bridge to the Mac for a lot of users. It's just a way to expose more people to the T-Mobile brand as the iPhone exposed people to Apple.
 
crzyp said:
i think it is a bridge for customers to sign up for phone services and tablet data plans. Kind of the same way the iphone was a bridge to the mac for a lot of users. It's just a way to expose more people to the t-mobile brand as the iphone exposed people to apple.
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+1
 
This is, by far, the biggest reason I'm leaning towards the iPad. Really tough to decide.
 
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