T-Mobile to Simplify Phone Bills With Single Unlimited Data Plan and No Additional Fees

[justkj]

This is not clear on International High speed Internet or per minute calls. They had International included but at 2G speeds and $.020 per minute calls (Except Europe high speed for a period of time) and Mexico and Canada included. I wish they had a totally transparent plan for International with high speed as well

I believe it is 3G speeds. I have used this in the UK, Canada, Japan, Singapore and yes it is slow if you are trying to watch video but for google maps, iMessage, and email it is perfect. Your hotel/restaurant/coffee shop wifi will cover you for the rest and you call make calls on WiFi calling at no cost when conencted to WIFI.

For comparison, the evil empire, AT&T used to charge me 1.59 per minute unless I paid $15 a month for an international upgrade where I would pay 1.39! Data was by the KB and would KILL your bill. T-Mobile international, at least for me, is perfect.

 

[ray737]

I believe it is 3G speeds. I have used this in the UK, Canada, Japan, Singapore and yes it is slow if you are trying to watch video but for google maps, iMessage, and email it is perfect. Your hotel/restaurant/coffee shop wifi will cover you for the rest and you call make calls on WiFi calling at no cost when conencted to WIFI.

For comparison, the evil empire, AT&T used to charge me 1.59 per minute unless I paid $15 a month for an international upgrade where I would pay 1.39! Data was by the KB and would KILL your bill. T-Mobile international, at least for me, is perfect.

Very true post!!! I am currently in Germany enjoying free texting and running my apps 2G/3G. AT&T would cost me $$$$$. They offered me the ATT "passport" plan for free for 1 month to keep me with ATT. 200mb crazy TMO has been awesome!!

 

[kingtj]

You know? One thing I keep seeing repeated here by the crowd that dislikes T-Mobile is the complaint that you can't get unlimited "full resolution video". Personally, I thought that move by T-Mobile to let you stream unlimited lower-res compressed video from a huge list of popular sources was a big BENEFIT that nobody else really has!

Who are all of you who actually feel you NEED to stream high resolution HD video all the time, to your PHONES?! I mean, my iPhone 7's screen isn't big enough to make individual pixels large enough so this becomes much of an issue. But even if you're streaming to a larger tablet? How do you figure it makes sense to burn through your data allotment in this manner anyway, no matter what cellular provider you use? If you're on Verizon or AT&T, for example, all of their plans are going to start throttling you back if you exceed some number of monthly GB of data transferred. And watching movies over cellular in full HD is a sure way to hit that quota quickly.

T-Mobile will let you turn that feature OFF too, should you desire. If you do though, your HD video streaming will count against your monthly LTE data quota you purchased with your plan, just like it would with any other service.

 

[JackieInCo]

T-Mobile will let you turn that feature OFF too, should you desire. If you do though, your HD video streaming will count against your monthly LTE data quota you purchased with your plan, just like it would with any other service.

I have four lines on my T-Mobile plan, all with 10GB data and 20GB data bucket on each line. I have binge on turned off so that I get HD video no matter what site I go to.

On normal use, I have never EVER gone over 10GB on my main line or any of other three. Came close on my main line, about 8.1GB but then my 20GB data bucket would have been used.

One time I did go over 10GB because my Comcast went down and so I was tethering from my phone to my ATV2 so I could stream some shows. I used just over 11GB that night and went into the data bucket for the rest of the month. This was around October or so and of course, I have replenished that data I used in the data bucket so it's back up to 20GB again.

I find it's very hard to use that much data these days even though I keep my T-Mobile data turned on 24/7 on all four of my lines just because I have so much data to use.

 

[31 Flavas]

Nevermind, I see now. First I'm wrong about 16gb being $80. But I'm guessing you have the 8gb plan for $70 and got 2gb/line bonus, getting you up to 16gb. $70+$80 is $150. But there's still another $20 (give or take) in taxes/fees. Still better than T-Mobile's 4 plans though...

Except with Verizon the data is share between the 4 lines. And with T-Mobile each line would have unlimited data. And any line that doesn't use over 2GB of data gets you a $10 credit for the month.

The person you were replying to said they had 32 GB of data this month because of carryover data. That means all 4 lines on his plan used -0- data. Which would be $40 credit with T-Mo, which would bring his bill down to $120/mo, all-in.

T-Mo isn't going to be for everyone, but seeing as they've added +37 million subscribers since 2012/2013 when they started this -- It isn't just smoke and mirrors. You don't more then double your subscriber base without substance behind the bark. Moreover, though, it hasn't just been T-mo customers that have benefited.

 

[zzu]

Because water, electricity and gas are finite resources?

The Internet itself may appear infinite; however, it still uses electricity and other resources to keep it running. On the other hand the price gouging utilities will quickly exploit any move to unit price; so I remain in the camp of unlimited internet Internet access and net neutrality.

 

[nofear1az]

One who lives in a desert and expects water to be free and/or plentiful is a fool, but that does not change the fact that water does not leave the planet and does not in normal human usage change or degrade into something else. Its still water and its still here.
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Never said water was infinite. What is will always be with normal human usage. Water is not made nor is it destroyed with human usage. We can drink all we want, wash all we want, flush all we want and the amount of water available on the planet stays the same. Now if you chose to live in a desert then just a little bit of schooling would let you understand that water evaporates in a desert and you will have to pay to get it back just like you paid to get it in the first place. But that is not my problem, I for one, would never chose to live in a desert. My parents taught me some common sense.

and your point is what.... to rant.

All I said was there are costs to get water to you and you go on a rant about water is always there and you think it's common sense to not live in a desert. Yah, OK, I can see you just like to argue.

 

[ovo6]

I love att and tbh I don't think I ever gonna change but data prices needs to be lower

 

[unplugme71]

I use Skype on the free data plan and it works fine. No need to use call minutes. I don't get calls but could use Skype in or other VOIP if I needed that.

But you need to be on WiFi.

 

[jlc1978]

But you need to be on WiFi.

Uh, no. Works fine with the free data as well. Either way I get Skype calls for free overseas.