What about the free 200 mb offer they gave away for any ipad? I never bought a T-Mobile ipad, but a unlocked iPad. They offered a free sim card with 200 mb of data for life. I'm still using it.
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T-Mobile to Stop Offering 200MB of Free Data for New iPad Owners
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Free 200mb? I'm currently rocking 6GB on my LTE Air2 completely free (well, not counting the whopping $1.20 in taxes & fees). Deal was going on a month or two ago. I wonder how many people took advantage of this?
This is correct. Once the 200MB free data was used up, I could use the sim on any device BUT I had to wait each month until the free data was used up which extremely annoying.
I did! I got two lines on the 6 GB plan. Currently, those SIMs are in two T-Mobile SyncUP Drive devices (also free).
I get 10 GB free every month tethering to my iPhone on my unlimited data plan on Verizon.
I'm not shocked, although it's too bad for those who would benefit from it. I have unlimited data, talk and text for three (iPhone) lines for $80/month including all taxes and fees. It sure hasn't felt like a gimmick when my bill comes every month. I find the customer service to be amazing, too. I say this respectfully - not to be combative.
At the time the smallest At&t data plan for PHONES was 250mb. So a free 200mb for a tablet was a great deal. It's a bit useless now but it was still generous to offer free data. Which is 200mb more than any of the other companies offered.
Meanwhile I picked up free line/unlimited data for my iPad when they offered the "3rd line free" promo so I have an even better deal now. Unlimited data tablet that gives me $10 back if I don't use 2gb. Which I have yet to do.
Tmobile is seriously the best bang for your buck you can find.
Well don't just lob the grenade and run. How exaxtly is TMob turning into another typical carrier? Other than canceling this offer -- after how many years?
Good to know. I would assume taxes are more than the rounded amount, which means you'd still be saving the majority of x cost of taxes.
Cool! Not a fan of thethering though. And with my 20GB of data stash, I essentially have 26GB of individual data for both my phone and tablet!
With my iPad Pro 12.9, adding the 200mb plan to the Apple SIM did NOT lock the SIM to T-Mobile. T-Mobile was one of the few providers that didn't lock the Apple SIM after adding its plan to it. I am able to add plans from other international providers, Sprint, or GigSky. If I do AT&T, AT&T does lock it to AT&T.
I'm not talking about the Apple sim. I'm talking about a sim card that I could move from one iPad to another.
On my iPad Pro, like you, I've used two plans consecutively. I've had T-Mobile and Sprint data plans active on the same iPad at the same time. You just switch between the two.
In our house we have two iPads with LTE, both have the free 200mb of data. We almost never use it, but it's nice to know it's there. The couple of times we used it (power outage) it's been nice. Free is (was) free.
I have a cellular iPad Pro. 200MB/30days is great.
And, no. I do not pay for a monthly plan.
Also, I can use my cellular iPad Pro as a GPS on my car's dashboard with TomTom's GPS app. The app uses no data. But I use the traffic feature, which uses less than 20MB of data on a 300 mile trip that I take a few times per year. It works very well.
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I had two "lifetime" 200MB free iPad plans with T-Mo (they were actually $10 each, and there was a $10 statement credit for each). When I signed up for the new unlimited plan ($100 for two lines) months ago, these two tablet plans skyrocketed to $50/month each (it was more data, too) so I cancelled them, since it was much more cost efficient to take advantage of the more than generous tethering conditions. I'm surprised this is being brought up now and somehow didn't make waves back then.
SoftBank does not own T-Mobile USA. Deutsche Telecom owns a percentage of T-Mobile USA. SoftBank owns a percentage of Sprint. As for Sprint/T-Mobile USA merging I doubt it'll pass even with a Trump admin.
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Yeah, I'm a bit bummed about this because my SIM was set up for my now-warranty-swapped iPad Pro and had I known this change was going to happen, I would've snagged a different SIM and set up a new account. Instead, I'm stuck with one with 200MB of data that I can't use that has to be used before any data that I might use. I don't really mind losing the 200MB, but T-Mobile has made getting replacement SIMs for less than $15-$20 impossible. I get tying the SIM to the device for the promotion, but it also feels like the bad old days of CDMA devices and checking with your carrier before doing anything (and T-Mobile's MetroPCS does this with SIMs)
Disappointing considering that little bit of data couldn't be costing them all that much. Hopefully they will offer something else in the future.
Normally that is the case, but for these plans at least, swapping to a new device only loads the captive portal for account management and anything else just spins or loads the "let's activate your account" page.
It does while you are using the data you are paying for. If you only have the 200MB free each month and no paid data plan, the 200MB portion is tied to the device it was activated in. Once the 200MB is used and you begin your paid data allotment, the sim can be pulled out and use in any device.
So your reply was correct and incorrect depending on the data being used.