T-Mobile Revamps webConnect Pricing

With their poor coverage and slow speed compared to Verizon's G4 they are asking the same money; not a good deal.

OK 4G.

SO MANY G's!!

Especially 6G beiber fever!

That was my thought. I'd hoped that things would be liveable while I traveled, but found their service really does suck.

Spokane Airport - Failed! Edge Network/Map says 4g
Home- Failed!
Traveling between Tucson and Phoenix - Failed!
Hotel off Strip in Las Vegas - Failed!

I can get a very strong Edge signal, but that's not what I signed up for. Funny, the ads showing the "crippled" ATT network. Most of the time, my solution is to turn on MyWi and tether from the iPhone instead of using the USB device that I pay for. I certainly hope things improve or I will have to bite the bullet and pay the early term fee. There is no way in hell I could even come close to using up 5GB of data, let alone paying more to get to 10GB...

T-Mobile wants me to charge me more than Verizon for worse service? What am I missing here?

no voice minutes.

Wish they would have re-vamped their pre-paid...

$50 for 1 GB of data... geeze.

I just bought the prepaid LapTop stick. I only need it for a week at a time for 6 weeks during the year. I do not know yet what my actual usage during a week will be. The first time I plan to try it will be this weekend when I will buy the 100Meg for $10 plan and renew it twice if needed to get the same 300Meg for the same $30 as the $30 plan.

I agree there should be more bandwidth allowed. There is also the issue of paying an extra $20 just for the insurance of having an extra 700Meg just in case you go over 300Meg during the 1 month period of the account.

I would rather have the plans (such as the $30/$50) with a rebate option. IOW: I buy the $30 or $50 plan and use it. When I no longer need it, I cancel it. I then get a rebate for the extra payment based on my actual usage. Use under 300Meg on the $50 plan and get a $20 Credit on my account. Use under 20Meg for a period under 2 weeks get a $10 or $30 credit (ie: Treat it as 2 Back-to-Back $10 accounts). The idea is to be billed for my actual usage not my potential usage.

This is like the Roll-Over Plans (where you get your unused Phone Minutes for use the next month). As to Roll-Over, I feel that once you have more than a month's worth of minutes Roll'ed Over, you should be allowed to turn them in for a free month. If you are being given the full number of minutes you bought and paid for (the idea of Roll-Over), you should not need to pay for more until you use the Roll'ed over ones.

So I bought the iPad 2 without 3G service. I wouldn't spend the extra $$$ for AT&T or Verizon. I have never had a problem with T-Mobile. Perhaps there will be an App for T-Mobile in the future. In the meantime, I'll do just fine with WiFi, FaceTime, and Skype.

Let me make myself more clear. I want more selections besides merely AT&T or Verizon. I want to be able to chose any provider that I want and not what AT&T and Verizon paid Apple for.

I'm paying my ETF tomorrow. $100+$17 taxes on the ETF. smh.

$85 for 10 Gig good grief. And only on HSPA devices tuned to AWS frequencies. Which nixes 95% of the device market.

Versus the 700 MHz LTE devices in the market today? There's not many of those either, unless you're going with a 3G solution.

What's the costs of equivalent plans on AT&T or Verizon?

Hmm.. on AT&T, it's $60 for 5GB and the $0.05 per MB overage.

On Verizon, it's $80 per 10GB then $10 per GB overage.

You're definitely doing the right thing there paying ~$117 to get out of T-Mobile's webConnect plan.

for as low as $68 per month

as low as? LOL!

ALL ABOARD THE FAIL BOAT!!!!!

is Clearwire reselled by Sprint and cable ISPs. They don't have a cap but I believe at some point they throttle. Are they clear when they do that?

Too bad, that Sprint as an awesome company with good ideas and technology, struggles the most financially of all mobile providers in the U.S.

I'm surprised that Karl didn't mention this, but it looks like T-Mobile has jacked up the pricing of their 5GB package by $10/month. I signed up last July and have been happy with the service for $39.99/month but »www.t-mobile.com/shop/pl ··· Shop_1_3 shows that the price has been hiked by 10 bucks now.

I'll probably cancel the service if existing customers aren't grandfathered under the old price. It's nice for $40, but not nice enough to justify spending $50.