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Evanston, IL | unlimited talk is overrated these plans are squeezing those of us that don't use a ridiculous amount of voice minutes. Hell, I average damn near 20 minutes a month. These plans are a really bad joke. | |
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| Re: unlimited talk is overrated As opposed to 2 year contracts where over the course of the contract you have effectively paid for the phone twice. For many people this will be a good deal, for some such as yourself, not so good. My MIL would not like such a plan. The rest of my family would like such a plan. I am leaving Verizon at the end of this month because of their costly contracts. What T-Mobile is doing is a step in the right direction. | |
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| Re: unlimited talk is overrated I set my mom up with the same deal. She only uses her cell phone a few minutes each month. $100 per year through T-mobile is way better than the $39.95/month basic plan she had with AT&T.
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| | | | | | Re: unlimited talk is overrated It's not a bad deal at all Chester2. My wife and I have been on this plan since 2003. Eventually down the road we'll upgrade and when we do I bet we will live and die by our phones.  | |
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Why is that one a joke? | |
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Evanston, IL | Re: unlimited talk is overrated I can't get it. It is only for new customers. | |
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kudos:1 | Re: unlimited talk is overrated then get unlimited voice/text and 2GB data on Straight-Talk for $45? | |
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| Re: unlimited talk is overrated said by tiger72:then get unlimited voice/text and 2GB data on Straight-Talk for $45?
ST is unlimited, but you will get throttled once you hit a certain point if the local network is busy. I have yet to be throttled on ST on ATT, and I used 4GB last month. | |
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| | | | |  dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | Re: unlimited talk is overrated said by Chubbysumo:said by tiger72:then get unlimited voice/text and 2GB data on Straight-Talk for $45?
ST is unlimited, but you will get throttled once you hit a certain point if the local network is busy. I have yet to be throttled on ST on ATT, and I used 4GB last month. No tethering on ST however.
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| | | | | | | | Re: unlimited talk is overrated works fine on my SGS3, as does some spotty LTE jolts here and there. | |
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Chesterfield, MO | I have ST too but on the ATT side. Curious, does the ST TMO experience behave erratically? On the ST ATT side when sending an MMS picture, sometimes ST just stalls half-way through the upload. I've also noticed erratic behavior on the Ookla speed test app. Often the download portion of the test does not transfer data until about 75% of the way through and sometimes not at all. The upload works right away but sometimes it too hangs half way through, just like MMS messages.
I moved my iPhone4 from ATT to ST. I never had these issues with ATT. Since the phone and locations are the same, it's almost like the data experience on ST is somehow purposefully degraded so that it is inferior to ATT.
I'm wondering if I need to explore ST TMO because the performance of the ATT MVNO network is starting to get frustrating. I might send 100 texts in a month and maybe one or two pictures.
Either ST give me 2GB or not. Until I get to 2GB, it shouldn't be an inferior experience.... Especially considering I don't use more than ~750MB unless I'm travelling. Locally, my phone is almost always on WiFi. | |
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| Re: unlimited talk is overrated im on the att mvno network. throttling depends on your area for mvnos, and aftrr switching from iPhone 4 to a samsung galaxy s3 I'm no longer throttled.
Answer to your question, unless the iPhone is unlocked you can only use the AT&T MVNO Network. | |
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Chesterfield, MO | Re: unlimited talk is overrated It's unlocked. That's the least of my problems. So you are saying it's the iPhone's performance on the ATT MVNO network and not the MVNO network in general? Is TMO better for an iPhone then? | |
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| Re: unlimited talk is overrated said by Teej :you weren't throttles on your iphone 4.. .That is only a 3g device which is why you couldnt; connect at 4g at all...
Do you really not understand what 3G is? the Iphone is on the AT&T UMTS 1900mhz 3G band, and so is the SGS3. I just confirmed that I get a 3.4mbps down, 1.1mbps up speedtest(or somewhere thereof) on the SGS3, on AT&T 3G coverage, since MVNOs do not have LTE yet offically. I put my SIM back into the iphone, and I get under .5mbps down and under .3mbps up, consistently. The iphones are throttled. | |
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| said by rradina:I have ST too but on the ATT side. Curious, does the ST TMO experience behave erratically? On the ST ATT side when sending an MMS picture, sometimes ST just stalls half-way through the upload. I've also noticed erratic behavior on the Ookla speed test app. Often the download portion of the test does not transfer data until about 75% of the way through and sometimes not at all. The upload works right away but sometimes it too hangs half way through, just like MMS messages.
This is actually a problem with the iphone, as mine did exactly that same thing. The iphone does not handle the APN settings correctly, even if you punch them in correctly, they only work about half the time. ST even says this on their APN settings site, that an Iphone works or it doesnt, but they have no control over that, its an issue between apple and AT&T. I have sent numerous MMS picture messages since I got my SGS3, and none have failed, to all types of phones. The Speedtest.net thing is because with the iphone, you have no APN setting for the MVNO "proxy". ST runs you thru one of their servers, which is how they throttle you. The iphone cannot change or ignore this setting, whereas, android phones can(and do!). As I said in another post, I just tried it again to confirm it, but, with my SIM in my iphone 4, i was getting .5mbps down and up or less, and once its in my SGS3, i get 5mbps down, and 1mbps up. AT&T is deliberately throttling iphones on its network.
said by rradina:I moved my iPhone4 from ATT to ST. I never had these issues with ATT. Since the phone and locations are the same, it's almost like the data experience on ST is somehow purposefully degraded so that it is inferior to ATT. It is, as I explained, ST tries to run you thru a proxy they own to slow you down, thus, use less data, meaning they pay less for data. They could care less if you sit on the phone for 5+ hours at a time(have done 10 for a job), but once its data, NOPE.
I couldnt respond properly because im not used to the SGS3 yet, and the voice thing does not understand me well enough to not get errors all the time. | |
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Albany, CA | lol
I was going to ask ST AT&T users the same thing. I have ST T-Mobile and the data service is spotty. I see the exact same behavior you describe. Like you, I've been thinking AT&T and T-Mobile may not be providing the same level of service to MNVO users.
But I have to say that I was a T-mobile customer for 6 years prior to switching to ST and where I live, T-Mobile data was shit -- although this may have been fixed recently.
I'm going to go to walmart and get the T-mobile 5gb data 100 min deal for $30 and give that a shot. I never use voice or text, only use data and around 3GB/mo so I thik that will fit the bill.
Edit: Upon reading another post, it looks like ST is the throttler. I will definitely get the $30 T-Mobile deal. | |
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1 edit | said by Chubbysumo:said by tiger72:then get unlimited voice/text and 2GB data on Straight-Talk for $45?
ST is unlimited, but you will get throttled once you hit a certain point if the local network is busy. I have yet to be throttled on ST on ATT, and I used 4GB last month. Yeah i've been throttled on ST ATT. As soon as I hit 2GB, got the dreaded text and was throttled for the next 2 months. Then I cancelled.
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| | | | | | | | Re: unlimited talk is overrated never heard a peep. used 4GB last month. | |
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Evanston, IL | ST doesn't roam where I need it to roam. | |
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Evanston, IL | and lose roaming? yeah no thanks. | |
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| | | | | | Re: unlimited talk is overrated ST roams on what ever they can get and depends on your phone. They use T, TMO-USA, Spent and VZW. Spent & VZW phones will roam on each other and T and TMO will roam on each other. | |
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Chesterfield, MO | Re: unlimited talk is overrated Will an iPhone work on ST TMO? I switched my iPhone from ATT to ST but I'm still on the ATT network (ATT MVNO). If it will roam on ATT's network and use TMO when available, I might try TMO because I'm getting frustrated with ATT's MVNO network. It's almost like they purposefully degrade the data experience to make it inferior to ATTs regular network. | |
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| | | | | | | | Re: unlimited talk is overrated Tmo does not have the 1900mhz band that is needed for the 3G services on Tmo in all places, so you would likely be stuck on 2G speeds... | |
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Madison, AL | said by FBGuy:I can't get it. It is only for new customers.
What's stopping you from ordering a sim, activating the plan, then porting your old number to the new plan? You may have a temporary layover in the middle porting your number to a 3rd party provider for a bit, but it's still more than doable. Or just make your life easier and port your number to Google Voice and change your plan behind the scenes at will. | |
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Evanston, IL | Re: unlimited talk is overrated i tried that, they won't let you port an existing t-mobile number over to it. | |
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I managed to get on the $30 plan (as an existing prepaid customer) by going thru some loopholes.
I purchased a new 99-cent prepaid SIM card (now $10) at t-mobile.com, switched my number to the new sim, called back and said that the last guy messed up my new activation, got them to switch from the "crappy" $30 plan to the one with 100 minutes and 5GB. | |
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| said by FBGuy:these plans are squeezing those of us that don't use a ridiculous amount of voice minutes. Hell, I average damn near 20 minutes a month. These plans are a really bad joke.
Customers like yourself are still in the minority by a little bit, but alot of people I know just starting to get away from using alot of phone minutes. All the carriers are looking for high-revenue, low-usage subs though. This is a step in the right direction. More for less is never a bad thing.
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| Re: unlimited talk is overrated said by bobjohnson:said by FBGuy:these plans are squeezing those of us that don't use a ridiculous amount of voice minutes. Hell, I average damn near 20 minutes a month. These plans are a really bad joke.
Customers like yourself are still in the minority by a little bit, but alot of people I know just starting to get away from using alot of phone minutes. All the carriers are looking for high-revenue, low-usage subs though. This is a step in the right direction. More for less is never a bad thing. its not more for less, its more for a lot more. | |
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Evanston, IL | Re: unlimited talk is overrated yeah and I want to pay less for less. I don't want to pay for stuff that I won't use. | |
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| | | All "postpaid" have gone unlimited on voice/text. That is done. If you want boutique plans, you need to go prepaid now. The $30 5GB/100min should fit the bill.
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Collegeville, PA | Is the $30 100 minutes and unlimited text/web still limited to new online & new Walmart activations only?
It used to state that on their website, however now with the plan changes I don't see it limited that plan to new customers only. I'm not a T-Mobile prepaid customer either so I can't check to see if it's an option. Can anyone that is a T-Mobile prepaid customer verify this?
But according to their site now, I get the impression that only the $30 1500 talk & text with 30MB data is limited to in-store only | |
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| said by FBGuy:these plans are squeezing those of us that don't use a ridiculous amount of voice minutes. Hell, I average damn near 20 minutes a month. These plans are a really bad joke.
$50 for 500mb of data (factored in to a triple play wireless plan of talk-text-data) is overpriced. You can use wifi networks for free and chew up more data than that in an hour. Plus, many net10, straight talk subscribers claim they are able to eat as much data as they want (flying under the radar) for upwards of $50 and never get FAP'd for it! IMO, these are probably post-paid contract cancellers who went prepaid-- never realizing it's a form of retention to let them have their way and stay paying the same company less money, just through a middleman/MVNO.
Today, unlimited talk/text & data upto 1meg should start out at $20 a month, tier-upwards for higher bandwidth and be unlimited.. maybe with some marginal FAP requirements on a per cell site basis. Providers seem to want to get $10/gigabyte of data or more (in this ca$e) which is OBSCENE based on how much it costs to deliver.
Tmobile + Metro can do a much better deal as the one I advise above. This would take 25% of Net10/Tracfone/SprintMVNO prepaid customers away and keep the ones they have (over time, 50%) | |
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| Unlimited talk is good Unlimited talk is good for those who don't want bill shock. Some people just like to talk on the phone.
Thanks to the unlimited minutes that I have on Verizon, I'm downgrading the home phone to a regional calling plan (so the burglar alarm can dial out) but I use my cell phone for most of my calls.
I have Verizon and I'm happy with them.
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| | | Re: Unlimited talk is good Yes we know you are happy with VZW.  You also pay a great deal more than what a lot of unlimited customers pay. I pay $49.05 in taxes. you pay what? 99$? | |
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| | | Yes we know you are happy with VZW. You also pay a great deal more than what a lot of unlimited customers pay. I pay $49.05 in taxes. you pay what? 99$? | |
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| Re: Unlimited talk is good You pay $50 in fees? That's ridiculous.
My family is on Verizon as well. We have unlimited mobile-to-mobile & unlimited texting, and I'm grandfathered with unlimited data. Can't beat their coverage around here... or else I'd probably switch us to prepaid... | |
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| | adding lines a real benefit seems to come when you add lines... 4 lines at 500MB data each is $100 per month (add $10 each to give any line 2GB). that is a good deal. Pair that with Nexus 4s and that is about the cheapest way to go. | |
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join:2004-02-21
Lakewood, OH | Simplify I like how they are making the complex more simple. Before they had a good variety of plans but it was challenging to navigate. with a majority of users going towards data obviously the 20% that dont use data (or less than majority), it wont benefit everyone but every carrier is trying to increase the monthly amount. $70 for everything is not a bad deal. You can buy a high end phone like a nexus without contract at a price pretty comparable to the subsidized smart phones now. I wonder how this will affect their prepaid plans and if they will keep them. | |
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join:2003-10-28
Monroeville, PA | Value Plans were better Value Just last week I was considering buying an IP5 outright and using T-Mobile's sim service. You were able to get 500min talk/unlimited text/unlimited data for $50/month.
Doesn't seem to be an option anymore :/ | |
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| | | Re: Value Plans were better Value Are you sure about that pricing? For example, their website was mistakenly advertising Unlimited talk text and 4G data for $50/line for two lines. In reality it was Unlimited talk text and 2G data plus 2GB of high speed for that price once you went to check out.
Sorry I really only know the two phone pricing, but I thought the one phone pricing was in line with the 2 phone approximately cut in half plus $10. Here are a couple of examples for pricing differences (Talk, Text, high speed data):
Before: (U, U, U) $120; Now: (U, U, U) $120
Before: (U, U, 2GB) $100; Now: (U, U, 2.5GB) $100
Before: (U, U, 200MB) $90; Now: (U, U, 500MB) $80
Before: (1000, U, U) $100; Now: (U, U, U) $120
Before: (1000, U, 2GB) $80; Now: (U, U, 2.5GB) $100
Before: (1000, U, 200MB) $70; Now: (U, U, 500MB) $80
This was all off the top of my head, so I could have misremembered something. Note that sometimes you do better sometimes you do worse. I also couldn't remember the pricing for dropping unlimited text, so you could get an even cheaper plan before. I think the new plans while the starting point is a little higher aren't bad and they make a lot more sense when it comes to valuing each add on piece (in this case data). Before I found them much more confusing.
So I think it depends on what you want. I would be happier if the first phone was $40 instead of $50. However, T-mobile's pricing is already well below the rest of the major's pricing. I guess if you want a little cheaper, you can go with one of the MVNOs. Although, I haven't found their prices to be drastically better, but maybe within $10 before taxes and fees per line. That doesn't seem unreasonable to get first carrier support and phone options.
Also, the old value plans also have a term and etf. I don't know how to directly value the lack of term, but it is a bonus. | |
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| Re: Value Plans were better Value I have the value plan Gordo74  is talking about. It was advertised as unlimited data but only the first 2GB are at full speed and therefore in the notation you used it would be: (500, U, 2GB) $50. It did have a 2 year term with etf.
I can't find any plans now that don't have unlimited voice (with the associated high price tag).
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| | | | | Re: Value Plans were better Value That fits in line with what I remember with divide by two and add $10. Agreed they don't have a plan as cheap, but for $10 you get unlimited voice, 500MB more, and no contract. That isn't bad. If you completely don't need it, it is a higher price for nothing though. | |
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Glen Head, NY | Business I would be curious how these plans would compare to Sprint's business plans come this fall. My company's contract with Sprint is up then and if we can get our iPhone 4S's unlocked somehow, it might be a good deal to switch if I can convince the powers that be to do it. The data plan on Sprint is useless so that is money thrown away. HSPA would be better hands down than the "throttled" Sprint EVO service.
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00000 | Re: Business Sprint and T-Mobile use different cell technologies. I'm not sure it would make sense to leave for that because the phones wouldn't work. | |
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Glen Head, NY | Re: Business said by morbo:Sprint and T-Mobile use different cell technologies. I'm not sure it would make sense to leave for that because the phones wouldn't work.
Our iPhone 4S's would work fine. I use mine now at times in Canada with a Rogers micro-SIM. The problem is Sprint refusing to provide domestic unlocks even for paid off phones.
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00000 | Re: Business My mistake. I didn't know the 4s was a world phone. | |
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| | | T-mobile's pricing is good compared to their old pricing if you use a lot of voice min. But not so much for moderate or lite users.
However as said before when comparing price these companies plans don't hold a candle to MVNOs. Even T-mobiles own MVNOs beat it pretty soundly on price/data and it's the "same" network (Example: Family Mobile run on T-mobile has unlimited talk/text/data for $40).
I know they don't want to break the carrier model to much to keep up revenues. But with the emergence of MVNO's I think if they are to compete they will need to play more to their strengths that a big carrier can do which is FLEXIBILITY (Example: wi-fi calling, and useful plan options for the non-heaviest of users) than what they willing to offer now. A lot of T-mobile customers chose them because they are deal hunters. It encourages these customers to stay for T-mobiles for the cost/value. But T-mobile should also remember these same customers could more readily leave for cost/value as well.
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| | No more $30 plan They got rid of the $30 plan that included 100 minutes and unlimited data.
I was seriously considering this. 
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@clearwire-wmx.net | Re: No more $30 plan You sure? I thought it was only offered at WM and wasn't going anywhere... | |
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| | | | | Re: No more $30 plan The $30 prepaid plan doesn't have unlimited data, but you can use up to 5GB per month. If you use so much as a bit over that amount, you immediately get a text message saying "you will be limited to 2G speeds for the rest of the month". The 2G speeds are completely useless for anything, so effectively there is a 5GB cap. Also if you need to tether the phone to your computer, it costs another $15 per month to do that, for a total of $45 each month. It is still the best plan for rural areas where cable internet will never be available, and satellite internet is very expensive. | |
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| | Boost Mobile is the way to go Boost Mobile is cheaper with shrinkage at 2.5gbs of data before they throttle you, but have never reached the max yet, at $45.00 a month now, and no complaints. | |
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kudos:5 |  Some info on T-Mobiles no contract plans
The plans are affordable, considering what you get. Fifty bucks a month will get you unlimited minutes, unlimited text messages and 500 megabytes of data. Ten bucks more gets you two gigabytes of data; ten bucks more than that gets you unlimited data.
There are no data overages, but there’s a catch. Let’s say you opt for the $50-per-month plan to try to save some money, but you blow through your 500-megabyte data allotment. You won’t be charged extra and your data won’t be turned off, but it will be slowed down to almost unusable speeds
There are no two-year contracts, but there’s a catch. Your smartphone that cost you $200? So how can T-Mobile continue to offer cheap phones when there are no two-year contracts anymore? One way is by letting you pay full-price for a phone. Samsung’s Galaxy Note II costs $680 that way. That’s the most expensive one; some are far cheaper. The other option is to get the phone at a discount, but pay up to $20 per month for two years as an equipment fee. In this scenario, the Galaxy Note II costs $200, plus $20 per month for two years.
You can use the iPhone, but there’s a catch. AT&T and T-Mobile use similar cellular technology, making it possible to use AT&T phones on the T-Mobile network and vice versa. If you pay full price for a T-Mobile phone (as in the previous scenario) and you decide you don’t like T-Mobile, you can jump ship and use it on AT&T.
Run the numbers to see if paying full price for a phone makes sense. Using the $680 Samsung Galaxy Note II as an example, over the course of two years on the $50-per-month plan, you’d spend $1,880. If you were to pay $200 for the phone, plus $20 in equipment fees for two years, the total cost with the $50-per-month plan would also be $1,880. | |
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Collegeville, PA | Re: Excellent move said by cb14:One problem with the TMO prepaid plans is the limited coverage- there is no roaming on prepaid. From the major carriers only Verizon has prepaid plans with coverage comparable to post paid.
There is roaming for T-Mobile prepaid however it's only for 2G/voice and not 3G/4G. Postpaid gets full 2G/3G/4G/voice roaming.
Postpaid Coverage: »www.t-mobile.com/coverage/pcc.aspx/
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join:2000-08-06
Santee, CA | prepaid is king Just dropped Sprint last week for Net10 on AT&T's network (tried the T-Mobile SIM first - service at home is/was abysmal). Monthly charges went from $165 to $85/month for two lines unlimited voice & text & 1.5GB of data. HSPA/HSPA+ service is fast enough for anything me & the spouse do on our phones (including Netflix & YouTube), and we're on WiFi anyway while at home, work, friends/relatives homes, and other places. | |
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| | oh no I'm about to change my plan to value plan once it's up, now the value plan is gone, and I don't need unlimited talk and data, I just need a cheap plan... 3 lines, 1000 shared minute, 1 line text and no data was only 60+tax... now it's gone | |
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4 lines with Straight Talk is about $180/month..
4 lines with these plans (2 GB each line) is $140/month... my parents wouldn't use much data (heck I am on wifi most of the time) so if some or all of us can do 500MB we are at $100-$120/mo. or so. | |
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| Re: Comparing to MVNOs said by naveed101:4 lines with Straight Talk is about $180/month..
If they don't use data, they have a 30 plan with only 200mb of data and 1000 minutes/1000 texts. 1x45+3x30=consistent, steady bill, with no unfees, no fuckups, less taxes, and the freedom to kill a line or start one without any activation or cancellation fee. sorry, but postpaid still is a bad idea. I bet your total bill after untaxes and unfees is more than it would be on a prepaid plan of some kind. | |
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| |  jbgroup1Non ConformistPremium
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| Re: Comparing to MVNOs said by Chubbysumo:said by naveed101:4 lines with Straight Talk is about $180/month..
If they don't use data, they have a 30 plan with only 200mb of data and 1000 minutes/1000 texts... To clarify this plan has 1000 texts/mins. combination. That is any combination of texts and minutes that equals 1000.
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| I don't really see a great deal here Our family is with Verizon. I'd love to find something more reasonable, but this T-Mobile plan doesn't seem that way. We currently have 4 smartphones all purchased with a subsidy for anywhere from $200-$300 ea. We have insurance on 3 of the 4 phones and that runs about $10/month. 2 of the phones are on 2GB plans and 2 are grandfathered with unlimited plans. Our total monthly bill is right around $300 taxes and junk fees included. That works out to $75/phone/month. For the T-Mobile deal with 2GB I would be looking at a base rate of $60/month/phone. Assuming you can buy insurance the price goes up to $70 per phone. Add taxes and junk fees and we would be above Verizon's charges and have to pay full price for the phones. What a deal? | |
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| | Minutes text Guys, question. What is the least expensive talk and text on Verizon or Att ? i say 1000 talk minutes or so minimum and about 500 text ? No internet at all. No sprint no tmobile please. This thread got me thinking... | |
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