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Carrier T-Mobile $30 Prepaid plan (100 min, unlimited text, 5GB of 4G LTE data)
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It's under your profile settings. It didn't work for me. I went to a TMo store to handle it.
I'd love know if anyone else has had success getting tethering going. Called and they didn't know much, but that would be the final piece of the puzzle to make this plan perfect (that, and T-mobile UnCarrier 5.0 to double their network coverage and kill edge).
Why the **** do I bother asking the internet to help any more?
Read the thread. People have been getting 100mb tethering with that plan included. It's just a matter of device level activation.
If i'm coming from AT&T, I cannot switch to this plan and take advantage of having T-mobile pay my ETF? It's only for post-paid plans?
There's no contract, so there's nothing preventing you from switching to postpaid, and then switching to prepaid.
You will have to pay the full price of the new phone for the deal though.
Hmm. Because when I went to the T-Mobile store today they said I couldn't get the deal if i wanted the $30 pre-paid plan. You make a lot of sense though.
If I can get the $30 per month pre-paid plan, even after a month or something, I'd switch in a second.
None of that.
You strictly have 100 minutes of talk time regardless of when you use it.
Ok that made the deal a little more justified. Huge challenge staying within 100 mins but $30/month is insanely cheap!
Yeah, it's a really good price. And, like someone mentioned earlier, $5 more could buy you 50 extra minutes. Whatever extras you don't use will just get rolled over to the next month. So it's pretty good
Yeah, it's a really good price. And, like someone mentioned earlier, $5 more could buy you 50 extra minutes. Whatever extras you don't use will just get rolled over to the next month. So it's pretty good
Nothing gets rolled over. You get 100 minutes per month and that's it.
Wonderful.
I'm looking forward to a $30 per month plan. With FaceTime audio calls, i'm sure i can bring down my cell minutes to 100 per month.
i hear if you have $35 on your account the next month the extra 5 will carry over and can be used for .10 a min
is this not true?
You can put at much credit on your account as you want. The credit goes towards either monthly charges or minutes as needed.
For instance, if you have $50 on your prepaid account, you will be charged $30 on your plan renewal date and your balance will then drop to $20. If during your month you exceed the 100 minutes, you will begin to be charged $0.10 a minute for each minute you talk. So if you spoke 130 minutes during the month, an additional $3 (30 x $0.10) will have been charged and you will have $17 credit still in your account. You will need to add enough more to have at least $30 in your account on your renewal date. You could add $20 and bring your balance to $37 and then the renewal will take you back down to $7 which will stay as a credit balance should you exceed 100 minutes in the next month.
I usually keep $40 to $70 credit in my account so that I never have to worry about going over 100 minutes or having to recharge at the last minute on my renewal date. I usually use VOIP to make calls when at home or work on a good wifi signal, so I've only exceeded my minutes once. I buy T-mobile refill cards either on eBay for a 2-10% savings (though savings are becoming rarer and smaller as I think T-mobile restructured their commission structure to card resellers) or from Callingmart.com where they are sold for full price, but I avoid sales tax that I would pay locally at a T-mobile store or if I recharged online through T-mobile's website.
Yeah I suppose so. I only pay $30 per month and don't go over 100 minutes so I don't worry about it. If you did use all of the minutes I guess you would get an automated message when trying to make a call letting you know to add funds.
They don't reset till the new month starts. It will just deduct calls from the $30 till the new month.
I don't think 100 minutes is enough, even for someone like me who barely makes calls. I need at least 300-400 minutes to last through a month.
Of course I have unlimited Mobile-to-Mobile minutes, so I guess I never use my minutes. I guess T-Mobile won't offer that with this plan.
Sadly the US is unlike many places in the rest of the world and we get charged for both calling and receiving calls.
Of course I have unlimited Mobile-to-Mobile minutes, so I guess I never use my minutes. I guess T-Mobile won't offer that with this plan.
Sadly the US is unlike many places in the rest of the world and we get charged for both calling and receiving calls.