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We have been grandfathered into a Simple Choice Plan for ~13 years and just switched over to whatever their comparable current plan is, and only saved $10 (woohoo). What'd you go with? I was looking into prepaid with Tmo but they've been in quite the steady decline for a while now.

What's the new carrier? I want to ditch T-Mobile they are ripping us off. I was thinking about switching to Mint mobile.

Edit: Thanks for the heads up and suggestions. I'll avoid Mint and take a look into US Mobile.

they all pull this shit.. three different providers besides tm here, just in the last 2-3 years.

and they get away with it, so it continues..

Don't forget that part of the merger was Dish buying Boost Mobile with the supposed intent to build their own network. Which anyone actually paying attention knew would never actually happen. Dish Network says a lot of shit, and follows through with basically none of it.

On July 1, 2020, Dish Network officially purchased Boost Mobile per their agreement with the companies and the United States' Department of Justice. The purchase was valued at $1.4B and transferred 9.3 million customers.[67] The intent of the US government was for Dish to erect a new nationwide wireless mobile network in order to compensate for reduced competition following the Sprint–T-Mobile merger.[citation needed]

However, in the years following the transaction Dish failed to sufficiently grow Boost Mobile's subscriber base and in 2025 announced that it will decommission its 5G network infrastructure, sell most of its wireless spectrum assets to AT&T, and shift Boost Mobile's operating model from a facilities-based network to a mobile virtual network, with its subscribers being hosted on AT&T's wireless network.[68]

T-Mobile followed the timeframe they agreed to for the merger to be approved, which was very public.

On March 11, 2020, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced he will not appeal the judge's decision made during the previous month to reject the state AGs’ lawsuit against the T-Mobile-Sprint merger. He, instead, struck a settlement with the defending parties. The terms of the settlement include making its low-cost T-Mobile Connect plans available in California for at least 5 years, that T-Mobile customers can keep their T-Mobile plans held in February 2019 for a total of five years ...

Hmm... 2020 plus 5 years is... 2025... would you look at the calendar.

Mergers of larger corporations shouldn't be permitted. In fact, any attempt at initiating a merger should instead initiate a breakup.

Yes, they're a company.

I also am a fan of Mint Mobile, but IIRC they were bought up by T-Mobile a few years back. I'm waiting for their inevitable enshittification, but riding the wave until it crashes.

A few years ago I tried to buy a couple of phones at a T-Mobile store and the manager flatly refused to sell to me unless I also purchased their monthly phone insurance add on. The manager openly admitted he knew the practice was illegal but didn't care.

The company is also famous for refusing to pay customers trade in value by fraudulently claiming phones have cracked screens and significant damage.

T-Mobile's been a shit company for years.

Rinse and repeat

They don't even hide it any more. Rug pulls left and right because fuck you.

"What are you going to do about it? Absolutely nothing."

That's their thought process.

US Mobile is still in the "good prices, good service, be nice" phase of their existence. Buy out or enshittification should still be a few years off. It's a fraction of the price of TMO's new rates too.

Every time I’ve tried one of MVNOs I’ve got shit service at my work. I’m affected by this new price hike from T-Mobile so I’m going to try one again but not expecting great results.