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“T‑Mobile will never change the price you pay for your T‑Mobile ONE plan.” That was the promise. The Un-contract. The whole reason millions of customers picked the magenta team over Verizon and AT&T in the first place. Now T-Mobile is retiring legacy 3G and 4G-era plans — Magenta, ONE, Simple Choice — and automatically moving customers onto “modern” 5G plans at higher monthly costs. Billing changes hit mid-July for the current wave. The company that swore it would never surprise you with a rate hike just sent the notification.

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[–] FG_3479@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Look at MVNOs. They use the big three networks (Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T) but are much cheaper because you are not paying the uninformed tax.

[–] czardestructo@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

If T-Mobile does this I'm gone. SimpleChoice had free international roaming which we use yearly when we visit family. Everyone on my family plan uses it and It was an amazing feature at the time now they charge per month, per line. Been on T-Mobile for 19 years.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] czardestructo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I see no change in my current plan nor have I gotten any emails about any changes to my plan.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The continued enshitification continues.

[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] soul@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago
[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I was on tmo for 15 years. Switched to Mint and am paying less for both phone and home internet and its tmo’s network still. Unless you’re taking advantage of some of their odd benefits there no reason to stick with them.

[–] somethingold@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

USMobile. I prepaid for a year of unlimited service for my wife and I for under $500 total with two lines of service for each phone (AT&T and T-Mobile). I just checked and it was $240 each or $195 for just one line. They're always running promotions.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

TMO owns mint. I wonder how long mint plans will stay at their same price

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

My wife's been on mint for 7 years now, this year they decreased the price of her plan slightlyand added more GBs. I think this is the 3rd time they increase her monthly GBs but the first time they decrease the price

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I’ll switch again.

[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Great, where we supposed to go now? Cape?

[–] discocactus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Safaricom is actually dope

[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i thought ryan reynolds owned mint

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 3 points 1 week ago

T-Mobile bought the parent company of Mint 2 years ago, its wholly owned by T-Mobile now.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He needed money to buy a soccer team or something

Wrexham Football Club?

[–] AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not a happy customer, between this and the talk of Musk buying T-Mobile :(

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Now that would get me to leave immediately, and ive been with T-Mobile for at least 15 years, maybe 20 at this point.

[–] FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Yup. If Musk touches it, I'm gone. I'll just have to pay for my MLB TV subscription and get more reliable cell service. Not much of a loss there.

[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Afaik Deutsche Telekom will do anything so that this will not happen.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Friendly reminder that 5G service availability in the US is still dogshit and often incurs packet loss which you can mitigate by disabling 5G which forces your device to operate at 4G/LTE which has a superior range.

Of course they could have set a software preference for LTE over 5G when PL is detected, but that advanced technology used by literally every other multiband radio standard is too complicated for billion dollar OEMs and service providers to implement.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I get this, we have retired 3G and people bought unlimited 4G 10/month packages which are defo going to be retired at some stage.

The one I cant figure out is the home fibre, a new crowd offer 500gb speeds for 30/month for life. It would take a long time for that bandwidth to become antiquated.

[–] kyTdKZx9PtDQ9e56u06@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thats 500mbs or half a gig right? No one's offering 500 gigs lol.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Sorry yes 500mbps

[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago

hmmm will see, I'm month to month with a 15$ plan. been meaning to look into alternatives anyway.