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T-Mobile Renews MLB Partnership to Offer Subscribers Free MLB.TV Access for Next Six Years
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Right? Such great perks and pretty darn good service. I see no reason to even consider switching from the magenta service.
Yes! I mean international roaming alone is a game changer. And now they made it high speed!
That's exactly why I switched to Mint Mobile. T-Mobile bought 'em anyway but it's still a cheaper way to get the same service.
Mint is a good value for many customers but t mobile might not be overpriced, depending on what all you use it for. I got a free iPhone 13 last year on t mobile (with trade in if my old phone). I forget the exact amount but it was like $800. Break that out over 24 months and my cost per month is probably lower than you are paying for mint. They also offer things like international roaming that have saved me a lot of money/ inconvenience over the years.
But seriously, keep supporting T-Mobile... my wife and oldest kid are in a lot of commercials you're seeing from them and we are getting PAID.
I've taken advantage of this offer since it was first offered via T-Mobile Tuesdays. Helps to not ignore it even though 95+% of the freebies are a no-go for me. Between this and the reduced Netflix subscription, I’m glad I switched to T-Mobile many years ago.
This is great but T-Mobile is very congested in the Long Island area of NY . Trying watching the Yankees do there thing and it’s buffering like a mutha.
I would like to officially thank MacRumors for only posting about this after the offer was over, leading many of us to heartbreak.
I am happy with T-Mobile. Plus free MLS, MLB and a year of AAA is not a bad perk.
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You got it! I mean we only do it for your wife and kid!
Yet Youtube TV, which sponsored the World Series lost MLB Network and can't get it back. And they are raising prices again.
All I want is to pay a reasonable fee to watch just Chiefs games. And yet the MLB can't even give away their streaming service.
Turns out I'm going to have to pay $72.99/mo for YouTube TV in only 1080p in 2023. Then on top of that there is an as-of-yet undisclosed but rumored to be quite large fee to add the Sunday Ticket to this thing I don't want to use. And for some reason it's still called Sunday Ticket even though the games happen on Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays depending where we're at in the season. And rumors say they want to add even more days of the week.
I live too far from KC to get TV signals, but close enough that I'm usually considered in the market area. Even the regional TV station is only about 30 miles away but DTV doesn't make it to my house. And since the Chiefs are so popular nowadays, they are on different networks every week so I can't even just sign up for CBS or something.
So I will continue to pirate crappy streams of the games except for the one time they're on Amazon which is also the one day per year I actually use my Prime subscription for TV. I hate the NFL. Apple was so close to getting the rights...
Turns out I'm going to have to pay $72.99/mo for YouTube TV in only 1080p in 2023. Then on top of that there is an as-of-yet undisclosed but rumored to be quite large fee to add the Sunday Ticket to this thing I don't want to use. And for some reason it's still called Sunday Ticket even though the games happen on Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays depending where we're at in the season. And rumors say they want to add even more days of the week.
I live too far from KC to get TV signals, but close enough that I'm usually considered in the market area. Even the regional TV station is only about 30 miles away but DTV doesn't make it to my house. And since the Chiefs are so popular nowadays, they are on different networks every week so I can't even just sign up for CBS or something.
So I will continue to pirate crappy streams of the games except for the one time they're on Amazon which is also the one day per year I actually use my Prime subscription for TV. I hate the NFL. Apple was so close to getting the rights...
This is probably small or no comfort but.. If you don't watch the game live, you CAN watch it later as the blackout expires some short amount of time after the game ends (I don't know the EXACT time). You can catch it in the morning (and tell the app to turn on spoiler protection) or after work. Like I said, it's not a proper solution (like how Apple TV+ has all MLS game with NO blackouts), but it might help.
There is value in the MLB.TV subscription for those outside of their favorite teams markets...unless they do something about the blackout rules - which is just ridiculous and the consumers/fans ultimately get the shaft. But you're right, I would 100% rather have a bundle to pay for my AppleOne subscription, something I use every day, not just 6 months out of the year.
You're right! One of their best perks is leaking their customers' social security numbers and private information, throughout over a 100 breaches in 2022: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/02/hackers-claim-they-breached-t-mobile-more-than-100-times-in-2022
Depends. It's great if you are traveling out of market and want to watch games. Last season, my son and I went to Orlando for a week and caught all the games live in the evenings. Its also good to stream the radio broadcast if you are driving somewhere and can't pick up the local broadcast.
Having said that, would I pay for it? Probably not. (The NFL app that, I think, Verizon offers a deal on is just as bad.)
But as long as T-Mobile is giving it to me I won't complain.
FWIW
DLM
there are no codes, as of this year the redemption is in the TMobile Tuesday app which only works if you are a T-Mobile customer. No codes are even visible. They locked it down.
Yes, a completely unprecedented thing. BTW they make up for that by offering you free identity monitoring.
You can get Sunday Ticket directly off YouTube. No TV service required. And Sunday… ticket… because it grants access to all the games on… Sunday. And 1080p… because broadcast tv is only available in 720p or 1080i, so you’re getting upconverted. And you can add 4K if you want… which is available on a growing number of sports events. Notably Fox and NBC (and the now-lost MLB TV).