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T-Mobile Announces Price Increases for Some Older Plans

deeddawg said:
Wow, now we're up to a stunning extra $26.20 per week for each employee. Book the cruise!



Not relevant to the "spread the CEO pay to the employees" thrust by some here.

Do share also the IT Security spending for Verizon and AT&T - as they too have had their data breaches - so we can compare. (and companies have to spend on IT security - whether to prevent a breach or in response to one)

Oh and that $650MM spread across 109.54 to 119.7 million subscribers 22Q1 through 23Q4 is almost 24 cents a month per subscriber. Big impact there, yes-siree.
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It absolutely should be considered when the C-Suite has not done a good enough job to stop multiple large data breaches. Who else should be responsible? How has been reprimanded? Did anyone get a pay reduction? Reduced stock options? This is a thread about T-Mobile, so there's no need to bring in the other two behemoths. Finally, that $650M is in addition to T-Mobile's regular IT Security spend. At this point, it's probably approaching $1B of additional spending for the ongoing data breaches.
 
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Straight from the horse’s mouth (or maybe the other end with T-Mo):

www.t-mobile.com

The Un-carrier Goes ‘All In.’ T‑Mobile ONE Now Includes Taxes & Fees.

At “Un-carrier Next,” T‑Mobile charts what’s next in wireless—announces an end to bogus monthly fees and added taxes, abolishes price hikes & pays customers back for unused data
www.t-mobile.com www.t-mobile.com

New Rule: Only YOU Should Have the Power to Change What You Pay – Introducing Un-contract for T-Mobile ONE

Today, T-Mobile introduced the Un-contract for T-Mobile ONE – and notched another industry first with the first-ever price guarantee on an unlimited 4G LTE plan. With the Un-contract, T-Mobile signs, and customers hold all the power. Now, T-Mobile ONE customers keep their price until THEY decide to change it. T-Mobile will never change the price you pay for your T-Mobile ONE plan. When you sign up for T-Mobile ONE, only YOU have the power to change the price you pay.
 
ronntaylor said:
It absolutely should be considered when the C-Suite has not done a good enough job to stop multiple large data breaches. Who else should be responsible? How has been reprimanded? Did anyone get a pay reduction? Reduced stock options?
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Except that's not really their job except perhaps CSO and maybe CIO - and even those are generally strategic roles, with execution tasked to lower level personnel. Rest of the C's are focused on achieving the board's targets - particularly around things like EBIDTA.

I'll leave it to you to research the tenure of the CSO & CIO

ronntaylor said:
This is a thread about T-Mobile, so there's no need to bring in the other two behemoths. Finally, that $650M is in addition to T-Mobile's regular IT Security spend. At this point, it's probably approaching $1B of additional spending for the ongoing data breaches.
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The comparative IT security spend across the three is completely relevant so as to see the differences. Was TMUS under-spending on IT security in some way and the additional spend caught them up? If not, then what specifically was that additional spend to accomplish?

Rhetorical question, I'm not particularly curious as to the answer. Just pointing out that you’re making unfounded assumptions
 
deeddawg said:
Except that's not really their job except perhaps CSO and maybe CIO - and even those are generally strategic roles, with execution tasked to lower level personnel. Rest of the C's are focused on achieving the board's targets - particularly around things like EBIDTA.

I'll leave it to you to research the tenure of the CSO & CIO



The comparative IT security spend across the three is completely relevant so as to see the differences. Was TMUS under-spending on IT security in some way and the additional spend caught them up? If not, then what specifically was that additional spend to accomplish?

Rhetorical question, I'm not particularly curious as to the answer. Just pointing out that you’re making unfounded assumptions
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I’m sorry. You’re being an apologist. There have been multiple breaches at TMO and apparently very little has been done the correct the situation. You say it’s not the C Suite’s job? I would argue that it IS their job to put in place the people and systems to prevent further hacks once they see there is a problem.
 
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Biro said:
I’m sorry. You’re being an apologist. There have been multiple breaches at TMO and apparently very little has been done the correct the situation. You say it’s not the C Suite’s job? I would argue that it IS their job to put in place the people and systems to prevent further hacks once they see there is a problem.
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No, I’m just stating how things work in the real world.

The board - the bosses of the C-levels - cares about earnings targets and share value. Until other stuff materially impacts those, they’re just not gonna care.

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So, I plan on canceling my T-Mobile service in a month, after like almost two decades, and I wanted anyone else's experience. Basically, I just sign up for a new service and port my number over with the new service right? Then I stick it to Tmo because they should be paying my last months service. I turned off auto pay and deleted any payment information....Not sure if there's anything else to do.

A 20% hike is too much when MVNO's are already cheaper. Tmo's service isn't great in my area, so no loss there. The loss of Netflix will bum some family members, but I am a firm believer in the old churn, churn, churn methodology. Maybe the free MLB.TV and VPN usage, but again...No time to watch that much anyway....
 
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rillrill said:
So, I plan on canceling my T-Mobile service in a month, after like almost two decades, and I wanted anyone else's experience. Basically, I just sign up for a new service and port my number over with the new service right? Then I stick it to Tmo because they should be paying my last months service. I turned off auto pay and deleted any payment information....Not sure if there's anything else to do.

A 20% hike is too much when MVNO's are already cheaper. Tmo's service isn't great in my area, so no loss there. The loss of Netflix will bum some family members, but I am a firm believer in the old churn, churn, churn methodology. Maybe the free MLB.TV and VPN usage, but again...No time to watch that much anyway....
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Make sure you’ve successfully ported your number to your new carrier before cancelling
 
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Just started the process of switching to Tello. I will report back as to the process. Much more affordable than the big three.

Sad that this country is fine to let these too big to fail companies merge and do whatever for their anti capitalistic reasons… can’t wait to leave T-Mobile with my last month’s bill. Peace out, Cya-Mobile.
 
So I switched two family members to individual Tello plans. It could not have been easier. Porting our numbers …no big deal. The rest of the lines will be canceled by the end of the week.

The moral of the story - don’t let inertia creep.
 
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