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Carrier T-Mobile $30 Prepaid plan (100 min, unlimited text, 5GB of 4G LTE data)

Your take on T-Mobile $30 Prepaid plan (100 min, unlimited text, 5GB of 4G data)

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My comparison of TMobile Prepaid to ATT Contract Plan

Tmobile so far is faster. On an Unlocked Iphone 5 in Bridgewater, NJ. Only issue I have so far is that I'm on Edge inside my workplace.
 

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cfs said:
Thanks. I see what I was doing. I went directly to the Tmobile website and clicked Tried to buy A SIM activation kit but it kept asking me to pick a plan first. Finally, I did a Tmobile online chat witn a rep. and she gave me the link for the Pre-paid tmobile SIM and I was able to purchase without picking plan. Either I am navigating the site wrong or the new Tmobile home page doesn't want to make it wasy to find the Pre-paid SIMS.

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Isn't it $30 plus whatever your state tax is? I'm not arguing here, I'm just trying to get my facts straight.

As for postpaid accounts, I went to Tmobile to get some info. and they kept trying to sell me a postpaid account. Granted, if you have two line, their $80 for both is a good deal. However, when I asked about fees because it is postpaid, the representative said that there were taxes and fees but the fees were only a few dollars. He wouldn't give me an exact number though. I'm curious about how much the fees will be.

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No it's $30 plus about three extra bucks. The rep at the store did tell me the new plans tax isn't the same as the regular tax like on AT&T and Verizon. He said about ten dollars, I'm in NYC and I know the tax for cellphones is about 25 percent or around there, so if the guy at the Tmobile store is correct than the tax is half or a little more than half.
 
Pinkstiletto66 said:
No it's $30 plus about three extra bucks. The rep at the store did tell me the new plans tax isn't the same as the regular tax like on AT&T and Verizon. He said about ten dollars, I'm in NYC and I know the tax for cellphones is about 25 percent or around there, so if the guy at the Tmobile store is correct than the tax is half or a little more than half.
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If you buy the $30 from T-Mobile, you are only charged sales tax on prepaid. There are no fees.
 
Pinkstiletto66 said:
No I wasn't asking about the prepaid fees I was talking about post paid. I just bought the 30 plan and I just paid like three dollars extra for tax.
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There is no $30 postpaid plan so I am confused at what you mean. So you are saying where you live is 10% sales tax?
 
The postpaid plans will have lower taxes/fees than other carriers postpaid since you paid sales tax already on the full price of the device. Usually it's only around $7-10 dollars per line.
 
CEmajr said:
The postpaid plans will have lower taxes/fees than other carriers postpaid since you paid sales tax already on the full price of the device. Usually it's only around $7-10 dollars per line.
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Thanks. Damn they were adding all kind of taxes in there. Now I can do an extra $10 dollars, 25 percent only if I HAD to. Makes choosing the simple plan if I needed to in the future, a lot easier.

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bozzykid said:
There is no $30 postpaid plan so I am confused at what you mean. So you are saying where you live is 10% sales tax?
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No bozzy, the CE cleared it up for me. In my state cellphone tax on regular post paid lines is about 25 percent additional. So about $20 added to an $80 plan. Sales guy told me it should only be $10 and gave a short explanation that wasn't as detailed as I'd like. So if I go by what CE said its because I paid for my phone in full. Meaning those additional taxes in fees before were partly for the phone.
 
If I cut a reg sim and put in iPhone 5 instead of buying a nano sim basically do u loose any feature with a reg sim cut vs nano. Thanks
 
This prepaid plan is able to get lte where it's available correct? Or is it limited to 4g no matter what phone you have?
 
Letting TMobile go for now

Ok, so I tried the prepaid TMobile plan on my ATT Unlocked IPHone. Everything was super great with one drawback; Limited or no Service inside my work place:(. Speed and call quality was great when on the road, but inside my job it was a no go and that's where I spend as most of us do, most of my time. It may be a different story for the TMobile IPhone and I guess I'll have to see how others do inside their work place with their TMobile IPHones. This is a very similar issue I had years back with TMobile specific phones and why I left to ATT.
 
JavierDiaz4 said:
Ok, so I tried the prepaid TMobile plan on my ATT Unlocked IPHone. Everything was super great with one drawback; Limited or no Service inside my work place:(. Speed and call quality was great when on the road, but inside my job it was a no go and that's where I spend as most of us do, most of my time. It may be a different story for the TMobile IPhone and I guess I'll have to see how others do inside their work place with their TMobile IPHones. This is a very similar issue I had years back with TMobile specific phones and why I left to ATT.
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Yeah it might be better with the Tmobile iPhone 5. The refarmed 1900mhz network has really bad building penetration in my experience.
 
Just got my tmobile iPhone 5 set up pretty good speeds for 4g, saw an article should be getting lte for tmobe in Los Angeles in the next few months (fingers crossed) also anyone know how this wifi calling feature works?
 
K1ngkev1n1 said:
Just got my tmobile iPhone 5 set up pretty good speeds for 4g, saw an article should be getting lte for tmobe in Los Angeles in the next few months (fingers crossed) also anyone know how this wifi calling feature works?
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There is no wifi calling on the iPhone 5, yet. I think they said it would be an app that they would be putting in the app store.
 
When I activated my phone he asked for my info to activate wifi calling. That's why I ask about it.
 
My question would be:

What happens after you hit 5 GB of 4G data?

Is it like Boost Mobile where your account goes into lockdown status? Or something else?

Does the data "roll over" and same for the minutes if you don't use the time? How long is the expiration, 30 days?
 
pilot1226 said:
My question would be:

What happens after you hit 5 GB of 4G data?

Is it like Boost Mobile where your account goes into lockdown status? Or something else?

Does the data "roll over" and same for the minutes if you don't use the time? How long is the expiration, 30 days?
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After 5GB you get slowed to 2G speeds. Data doesn't roll over, it just resets when the next billing cycle starts.
 
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