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T-Mobile to Acquire Ryan Reynolds' Mint Mobile Brand
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Congrats to Ryan on the successful exit. Can't wait to hear about his next venture!
Exactly. He’s a business man, with good sense of marketing. Not sure why people thinks he owes them something. Maybe those complaining can start using their talents or start a business like Ryan did.
for mint mobile customers, just be glad you Americans have number portability, so you can easily port your numbers out if needed. In my country, each cell provider has their own unique prefix, so switching carriers means changing your phone number. No ways around it.
Why should they? It’s not like there’s any severe consequences wise for the company. Few fines and lawsuits here and there, business expenses. 😅
Maybe, but I’ve been with them for years with no price increase, cheaper than ATT/VXW, and have had features added at the same time. I tend to believe the only increase might be if governments raise fees to the point they need to pass them on.
This really is not a bad move to selloff Mint Mobile to T-Mobile for a couple of reasons. You only get the $15 per month plan if you pay for the entire year. What happens if Mint went out of business? You could lose the rest of your plan that you paid for. Even if that weren't the case, that has been brought up many times in conversations. T-Mobile takes that fear away.
Also perhaps new plans could be offered that include some of the bonuses that are offered to T-Mobile customers. The plan might cost more but it would be something I would consider if I can get the NBA Season Pass included for a little bit more than $15 per month. Data isn't important to me right now as I only use about 300-500MB a month.
Also perhaps new plans could be offered that include some of the bonuses that are offered to T-Mobile customers. The plan might cost more but it would be something I would consider if I can get the NBA Season Pass included for a little bit more than $15 per month. Data isn't important to me right now as I only use about 300-500MB a month.
So, how many businesses are you not selling because of your misguided moral high-ground?
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I've been with Mint for a few years on the 10GB plan ($240 a year). It has been ok, although I had some problems with cell reception from time to time in my area. Seems to have improved the past few months. My plan is up in 2 weeks, was considering switching to RedPocket as that is what I have my parents on. My parents are on even a cheaper plan that is $99 a year which only has 1GB of data a month, but I need more than that. RedPocket has a similar plan (10GB a month) using ATTs network for $219 on sale right now. Debating...
What a bunch of Corporate Speak BS. "We excited to share..."? Sorry the only people who are excited is Ryan Reynolds and the CEO's of Mint that are getting fat stacks of cash. Nearly every lower employee is NOT seeing a dime of that merger money, and honestly there will likely be layoffs. Every merger has layoffs. Its NOT GOOD for the majority of employees. 💩
My US$0.02.
I think what T-mobile is trying to do is create a completely online flanker brand similar to Visible by Verizon. I think this is a different target market from what Metro by T-mobile caters to with its brick and mortar stores.
If I were to speculate further, I would say the intent with Mint is to see just how "virtual" they can run an MVNO. I don't know anything about Mint's customer service. But with Visible you cannot actually "speak" with a real person on the telephone. All tech support is done through some type of messaging service and starts with a chat bot.
Having a separate brand like Mint protects their other flanker brand Metro from getting a bad reputation for poor service like Visible now has.
I think what T-mobile is trying to do is create a completely online flanker brand similar to Visible by Verizon. I think this is a different target market from what Metro by T-mobile caters to with its brick and mortar stores.
If I were to speculate further, I would say the intent with Mint is to see just how "virtual" they can run an MVNO. I don't know anything about Mint's customer service. But with Visible you cannot actually "speak" with a real person on the telephone. All tech support is done through some type of messaging service and starts with a chat bot.
Having a separate brand like Mint protects their other flanker brand Metro from getting a bad reputation for poor service like Visible now has.
I despise t mobile. They had the worst service and when spammers used our numbers we were charged for it and they refused to remove the charges practically accusing us of being involved with the scammers. When I quit they routed me to the 'specialists' that offer you some incentive to stay. I told her I wouldn't use the service if you gave it to me for free after dealing with such terrible customer service and BS charges. I was considering going to mint but now I know not to. It seems every time a small 'rebellious' company rises the big 4 (now 3) consume them. Remember all-tel? The mascot guy busting on the other companies and the ads making fun of the other mascots? Then all-tel gets eaten and he's out hugging the the new owner mascot as their sign gets torn out and the new owenrs goes in. ...And he gets fired.
I quit sprint before the merger because they lied in their iphone forever contract.
I want a phone on Harold Finch's secret network.
I quit sprint before the merger because they lied in their iphone forever contract.
I want a phone on Harold Finch's secret network.
T-Mobile certainly looks to be pushing more business "online" as they have also announced plans to close many brick and mortar T-Mobile stores including closing or divesting all 186 corporate owned Metro by T-Mobile stores as well potentially hundreds more independent dealer owned stores.
Too late for that. Metro by T-Mobile has terrible customer service since majority of their authorized retail stores are run by independent owners. If you go into one of them (authorized retail store) to get a phone, it's like 90% guaranteed that they won't sell it to you unless you also buy an accessory and/or insurance plan for it. Or they'll add on the insurance plan without your knowledge. You have to find a corporate run store to avoid their B.S., but those are few and far between.
Lol, go up north of the US, and you'd think the US is a blessing compared to what we get in Canada for our cellphone bills.
They're real. I got a friend who uses Mint Mobile as their carrier and they've been extremely satisfied.
For many Mint customers though they're worried T-Mobile is gonna do their shenanigans on them now that they're owned by T-Mobile.