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T-Mobile Announces Price Increases for Some Older Plans
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What I meant is the "T-Mobile Unlimited Plan" provided when I migrated from Sprint is still in place. I never switched to one of T-Mobile's current plans. Perhaps "grandfathered" was the wrong way to put it.
I don't think this is 100% greed. They need to make money to keep going. Inflation has been high. For us, $25 per month with taxes and fees included is still a great deal.
You can save money by going to prepaid or cycling through carriers for the new user promotions. T-Mobile is betting that most of their customers don't want to go through the hassle.
If I am Verizon and AT&T, I would go hard after T-Mobile customers now. T-Mobile’s advantage is gone. They raised what we pay for Netflix and now raising rates on my Military Plan and on my Apple Watch plans. T-Mobile Tuesdays is mostly a joke now.
I am going to see if Verizon and AT&T follow suite and if not will be switching to Verizon when the new iPhone comes out. Or just leave the big three and go to the cheaper providers.
All these companies are getting greedy. They are causing inflation. Since Covid, who knows what prices are real any more, since most companies raised prices so far during Covid and really never lowered them back down. Just look at food prices. Have stayed high since then. Total greed.
There old CEO would never do this. He was a marketing guru and great at what he did.
Also - T-Mobile told the government they would not raise rates when they purchased Sprint to get that approved. Well, now they are. Wonder if our govt will go after them. Somebody will.
I am going to see if Verizon and AT&T follow suite and if not will be switching to Verizon when the new iPhone comes out. Or just leave the big three and go to the cheaper providers.
All these companies are getting greedy. They are causing inflation. Since Covid, who knows what prices are real any more, since most companies raised prices so far during Covid and really never lowered them back down. Just look at food prices. Have stayed high since then. Total greed.
There old CEO would never do this. He was a marketing guru and great at what he did.
Also - T-Mobile told the government they would not raise rates when they purchased Sprint to get that approved. Well, now they are. Wonder if our govt will go after them. Somebody will.
Yeah. Nobody really wants to talk about the costs of all that equipment and fiber to hook up a nationwide network. And you know what else nobody really wants to talk about?
Wireless Carriers Spent $100B on Spectrum in 2022.
That's $100B that US consumers will have to pay for. By paying monthly fees. The US government decided to make the cell companies outbid each other for the right to use public resources (radio bands) and either pocket the money or give it to others like TV stations. Why? TV stations incurred cost to switch radio bands so they could be used by cell phones. Do you know how many TV stations have paid the FCC for their broadcast frequency? Zero.
Only the cell companies are required to play the game of throwing huge sums of money at the US government to keep their business running. And everyone with a cell phone pays. THOSE are a big portion of the rising costs.
Stop using logic and reasoning. The internet is angry and needs to vent!
Yep. Cancelling and moving on to an MVNO. **** T-Mobile. What sucks is my family has been sharing the account and bill. So decoupling will be messy, but necessary. This combined with the Netflix debacle and **** service anyway means buhbye...
I plan to do exactly that. TMO shouldn’t have made promises it had no intention of keeping.
LMAO, I keep trying to access my T-Mobile account online. I can login fine and view my bill and usage, but every time I try to click on my account section it keeps taking forever to load, eventually showing the attached message below. I guess a ton of people are cancelling their accounts! I know I'm going in to cancel some things I don't use much to offset the increase, such as an iPad data plan.
It also bothers me that the T-Mobile logo, the warning icon, and the button are all out of alignment.
It also bothers me that the T-Mobile logo, the warning icon, and the button are all out of alignment.
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They released their Q1 financials recently and boasted about "industry-leading" profitability growth - net income up 22% YOY, Core Adjusted EBITDA up 8% YOY despite a $3.6 billion buyback of common stock. If their costs are rising, it ain't hurting their bottom line in any way, shape or form. Least of all enough that they have to gouge customers for more money. https://s29.q4cdn.com/310188824/files/doc_financials/2024/q1/Q1-2024-Earnings-Release-vFinal.pdf
God forbid people make a living wage. FWIW telecom expenses, not including internet, account for 2.5% of CPI. It’s a higher percentage for Core CPI
That’s some BS PR speak right there. We looked at switching from Verizon and T-Mobile had the most expensive plans of anyone.
They agreed not to do so for three years; that timeframe (more than that, actually) has passed. No company in their right mind would agree to never again raise prices, and no government agency in their right mind would request it because on its face it doesn't make any sense.
Sadly I wonder if it really will. Guess who's going to write history.
Not that anyone learns anything from history anyway.
They're all about the same now. They also all have "budget" brands.
This is because they're a cartel and not only does US antitrust law not apply to cartels, it seems to actually encourage them.
Which plans were you comparing? For postpaid unlimited plans with AutoPay and 1 line, AT&T's cheapest appears to be Value Plus VL at $50.99/month, Verizon's cheapest appears to be Unlimited Welcome at $65/month, and T-Mobile's cheapest appears to be Essentials Saver at $50/month. That would make T-Mobile the lowest priced, although barely.
Alright, if we have an old 55+ 2-line deal for $60 (taxes included) from Costco years ago, and have not gotten a text saying we're going to get charged an extra $5/line, what are other good options (in California)? Prepaid, mvno, or other?
Also have T-Mobile home Internet, which enabled me to drop Comcast/Xfinity, with great speeds and good reliability (in my area) for another $50.
That's $110 total for everything, but now it's going up almost 10%, so just entertaining viable options.
Also have T-Mobile home Internet, which enabled me to drop Comcast/Xfinity, with great speeds and good reliability (in my area) for another $50.
That's $110 total for everything, but now it's going up almost 10%, so just entertaining viable options.
Last week (just after the merger) I heard an ad for their $15(?) unlimited lines. Wonder how long that will last? Cricket Wireless (AT&T's MVNO, if you don't know) raised their rates on our family plan a while back and we're spending $110 for 4 not-unlimited-data phones now, so I'm looking to jump. Especially since they want to charge an extra $25 per line if we tether, and so we don'tT-Mobile also completed its acquisition of Mint Mobile this month.
Mint and Ultra: Welcome to the T‑Mobile Family! - T‑Mobile Newsroom
Un-carrier closes transaction to acquire Ka’ena Corporation, will supercharge brands to deliver more value and benefits to customers on America’s most awarded 5G networkwww.t-mobile.com
(and without tethering we never use up our data buckets, either).BTW, it's weird how some of you at T-Mobile are getting texts saying it's a $5/line increase, but others have texts saying $2, etc.
If you have a watch line, it will be $12 / month instead of $10.Last week (just after the merger) I heard an ad for their $15(?) unlimited lines. Wonder how long that will last? Cricket Wireless (AT&T's MVNO, if you don't know) raised their rates on our family plan a while back and we're spending $110 for 4 not-unlimited-data phones now, so I'm looking to jump. Especially since they want to charge an extra $25 per line if we tether, and so we don't
BTW, it's weird how some of you at T-Mobile are getting texts saying it's a $5/line increase, but others have texts saying $2, etc.