Mike Wuerthele
T-Mobile CEO John Legere announced on Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show that the company has executed its plan to only offer T-Mobile One going forward, is keeping the cost of the plan the same, and is eliminating all extra line-item charges in the program.
The T-Mobile One Plan fee remains unchanged. Users still pay $70 for the first line, $50 for a second line, and $20 per additional line up to 10 lines of service. Starting in January, all of the miscellaneous line-item fees customarily seen on a mobile bill are being absorbed into the plan by the company.
Further enticing people to switch over, T-Mobile will also receive a $150 gift card for every line transferred to T-Mobile, with no trade-in required to get the benefit.
Other traditional T-Mobile benefits are included, like data roaming in Mexico and Canada, "carrier freedom" programs where T-Mobile helps cover the cost of switching data plans, and the T-Mobile Tuesday customer bonus program.
Additionally, to lessen the monthly bill further, every line on the T-Mobile One plan that does not exceed 2GB of data consumed will see a $10 credit.
T-Mobile launched the One plan in September, with unlimited 4G data, calling, and text messaging. Tablets can also be added to the plan, for $20 per month. Customers who opt out of auto-pay services see a $5 per line fee assessed.
Customers using more than 26GB of high-speed data per month may still see data traffic prioritized to 3G or 2G speeds, at specific times and places that the network sees high network demand. There is no cap to induce full-time throttling implementation.
Every video service under the aegis of "Binge On" is streamed at standard definition. Higher definition video is available, but at a $15 per line cost. Day passes are available for a single device for $3.
Customers are allowed to remain on an older, now discontinued, plan.
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I used to be on t-mobile customer when they had 4-lines for $100 unlimited text/talk and data(reduced speed after 2.5GB). Those still on T-mobile can comment if this news/deal is as good as AT&T and Verizon. I moved to AT&T because ATT offered shared Data plan(15GB for 10 lines) and than they doubled Data for free to 30GB.
This sounds like a huge price increase for anyone that doesn't use gobs of data. Soneone like myself that uses 2 GB or less of data per month is better off at AT&T (I pay $48) than paying $60/$70 to T-Mobile. (I say "$60/$70" because I sometimes go over 2 GB, but it is always covered by rollover data from the previous month. On T-Mobile, I would pay $70 any month I go over 2 GB.)
Being AT&T for the nonce, the 30GB shared data is $130 for the main line, plus $15 per line, so $190 / per month for 4.
The four of us got sick of pesky overage fees, so now the "no overage" version is $135, plus $20 per line. $160 per month
via T-Mobile seems great with the gift card poaching, but before considering jumping, how is T-Mobile reception in San Francisco?
I'm with TMO and I pay 120 for 4 lines and $20 for a 5th. It used to be the 10GB/line plan but now it says unlimited. So the above plan would be $40 more per month.
We used 32GB of data* last month.
* - not including "free" streaming data. I can't see it any more, but I would guess that adds another 8, mostly from a heavy TV watcher, no not the kids - my mother-in-law!!