“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.
T-Mobile has always been like this.
Every time I upgrade my phone they charge me an upgrade fee.
I’m like how are you charging me for spending money with you?
Unfortunately, compared to Verizon and AT&t they’re better in many regards and that’s saying a lot since they’re crap.
I suppose this is what we get for letting monopolies exist within our country.
“Of the people, by the people, and for the people” died long ago. The people don’t have much say in a government run by oligarchs and corporations.
I pay like $6 a month to Tello.
I pay about 3x that to US Mobile so I can use mobile data for all my devices. I hotspot or Bluetooth-tether for everything and intentionally have no ISP-provided home Internet so I can save money and also avoid those crooks.
Anyone upset about this should consider prepaid service. I’ve been on prepaid service (a couple of different companies over the years) for almost 15 years and haven’t had any serious issues.
I have, however saved serious money.
people won’t go on pre-paid service because of the social stigma of it being for ‘poor people’
I’ve been on a 20-25$ cell plan my entire adult life… but it’s Boost, and people think it is ‘ghetto’ due to the fact Boost was originaly marketed as ‘urban’ cell phone company. It’s insane. I even got my mom to switch over to it when she retired to save money. but my sister found out and was RIPSHIT i put my mom on a ‘phone plan for black people’… because she’s racist AF, and she took my mom off the plan and put her back on a $100 Verizon plan again… and bought her a fancy iphone she had no clue how to use, because ‘successful people use iPhones, poor losers use Android phones’.
my plan on Verizon would be like 80 bucks a month. a lot of people take pride in throwing away money because it makes them feel they are ‘not poor’. and marketing loves them.
In other news, my nephew turned 18, wanted to get off the family plan and get his own phone and plan, and wanted Boost w/android because it’s cheap and he can easily afford it. She was furious with him and basically told him he can’t do it, because she’d lose the ability to track him via his iphone, which is precisely why he wants to get rid of being on the family plan… but she tells him he can’t do it because ‘people won’t respect him’ if he has an android and not using Verizon.
Any adult who cares what kind of phone another adult has needs to grow up and get a life.
Glad your nephew thinks for himself.
thinking for yourself isn’t very advantageous when everyone hates you for it.
Lol like the respect of die hard apple users is worth anything. Something about people being snobby about the shittier option (though Google is doing what it can to catch up in that regard) is hilarious.
Guess I’m switching to C-Spire.
I’ve been a T-Mobile customer for over 10 years, but this isn’t acceptable.
They do shit like this and get away with it because it’s slim pickings for a plan that has phone, internet, and most importantly no data cap. All carriers suck at one of those three.
I’m using Cricket wireless. $45/mo gets me unlimited internet on my phone with a 15gig hotspot.
I’m all physical media, but if I need to download something, I do it on my phone (sorry, seeders) and transfer it over to my PC to watch on my TV.
I’m all physical media, but if I need to download something, I do it on my phone (sorry, seeders) and transfer it over to my PC to watch on my TV.
that sounds like a lot of hassle. why are you downloading on the phone?
The only hassle is the tranfer, and that’s set & forget.
And I don’t spend $50-100/mo (wifi + streaming)to waste time channel surfin.
you can share your phones internet connection (including wifi) with a computer over USB. you need to enable it on the phone. its cool I think. this way you could also be seeding.
on linux, with some distros you need to load a kernel module by hand. for some reason it does not load automatically on some of them. if you are interested I can look up my notes about it
Lmao I’m amazed cricket still exists. I remember using their shitty USB internet sticks 15 years ago.
There’s a small profit to be made administering a plan on a common carrier while the bigger operators. rake in the big money from idiots permanently leasing a fucking cell phone.
Airtel did that to me when I got the first Smartphone. They argued that the forever was for 3G, not 4G, although there was no mention of such a thing in the contract. They lost 4 mobile lines, a landline, and ADSL forever.
The same company that told me they would give me a $300 prepaid visa to switch. Then told me I had to stay a customer for 30 days before I would get it. And at 30 days told me I was outside the 30 day window to claim it?
I’m so surprised.
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 phone insurance monthly add on. The manager said 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.
I guess YMMV. I have 6 lines and I’ve traded in phones worth $200 on eBay for $1200 credit which is insane. I’ve never had them say they were damaged and do any bullshit. In fact I traded in my mom’s barely functional iPhone 13 like 5 months ago for a 17 pro which ended up being kike $2 a month for 2 years.
Which I get that’s their plan, keep you on their network with credits over 2 years. But I’ve never had a problem over a decade so I’ve never cared. I’m in a magenta plus plan so maybe I’ll call to see tomorrow.
But I’m just saying, I had nothing but good things with them. Not saying others haven’t, or they e never tried pulling some bullshit, just that I personally haven’t experienced it over a decade.
In 2025 T-Mobile reported a net income (net profit) of $11.0 billion. Think of the poor shareholders!
Well, fuck. These companies move in step with one another and I’ve been paying the same 60-something per month since January 2007 before AT&T gobbled up Cingular.
Guess I’m probably next.
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.
Came here to say this. I know the enshitification will come. It always will come but for now US mobile is fantastic.
Damn dude that’s rough.
I pay €15/m for 35GB EU-wide data and unlimited talk/text. Sim only and not an introductory rate. In fact, I’ve been paying the same for years and the only thing that’s changed is my data limit slowly increasing.
I think unlimited plans are roughly double but I don’t use that much.
1 Gbps fiber at home for €50/m but unfortunately they do jack that up slowly over time so you either need to switch providers or lock in again for a promotional rate.
I don’t miss living in the US and getting fucked in the ass by Comcast and the like…
I have a deal in Ireland, 7.99 month for life, unlimited calls and data EU wide. Currently paying €30 pm for 1gbps fiber. Still remember being amazed at the cost of mobile phones in the USA when I was there on a summer visa as a student back in 2005, sounds like things haven’t changed a bit.
I am using Cloaked wireless which allows me to pay my bill in Monero. I get unlimited talk, text, and data, with 500 megabytes of that data being 5G speed, and the rest of it being at 256kbps, with a possible raise to 512kbps coming in the future.
500MB of 5G is crazy, I use double or quadruple that in a day. Great way to be forced to use your phone less I guess. One of my favorite features of recent mobile plans is truly unlimited data with deprioritization once you hit a certain limit, as I’m almost never in a location where I get deprioritized.
When I’m back stateside I just grab one of those monthly unlimited sims for like $35 and forget about it. Dang, you could probably get away with that $10 Xfinity wifi if you have a voip number although coverage probably isn’t amazing.
Buddy, I live here and I have no idea what you’re talking about. If you’re telling the truth, I send me a link, because $35 for unlimited mobile data is a steal.
The catch is that it’s “unlimited” in that sense that the mobile companies have made people accept now, i.e., deprioritized. I’m on Visible, which is Verizon’s MVNO; my plan has unlimited deprioritized everything, and it’s $25/mo, with $5/mo discount for the first two years so I’m actually paying $20/mo for now. It’s mostly good enough for my purposes; I’m usually on Wifi anyway. When I was leaving a protest and turned my phone back on, I couldn’t get enough access to check the bus schedule or text my family, so that was frustrating; dense crowds are a problem. But I was previously paying like $130/mo for Verizon, so it’s more than worth putting up with. I got some mesh radios for emergency comms.
You can buy sim cards from Walmart. Last time I was around I was using ultra mobile, although Walmart had their own brand (can’t remember the name). It was $40 no subscription for unlimited talk, text, and data although I think mint now has a similar plan for $30 Link there’s like a ton of these companies, just go to Walmart in the electronics area near the laptops and whatnot there’s a bunch of sum cards and esims you can get with different deals, I’m pretty sure they also sell mint mobile sim cards
US mobile is $25 for unlimited everything. I don’t remember the cap before throttle though
I think Mint offers that, similar deal with Xfininity mobile but you need to have an Xfinity cable subscription
I used their wifi for my place without a Xfinity cable subscription but you could only connect two devices so I used my old phone as a hotspot and that worked for like up to four devices. It was like $10 per month.
Old TMobile user… Haven’t gotten the messages. Going to look into this.
The anti-consumer practices going on in business right now are becoming insane.
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.
The modern consumer has a spine made from jello. They’ve had company after company fuck them over but rather than slightly inconvenience themselves to find an alternative or do without, they’ll just bend over and get fucked.
People have forgotten that they’re the power and companies can be told to go eat shit.
Now if you don’t mind I am going to beat off to all these crazy noncon-cheating stories I’ve been reading…
I wonder if there is AI porn of AOC
And I don’t need you to like me. I just need you to give in enough for us both to have a good time ;)
I know more women who take issue with trans than men.
The primary themes of women’s porn is cheating on their SO and getting “taken” by men and monsters. And “taken” is code for Non-consensual but not that they didn’t enjoy it.
Well if it is that easy to get away with…
Don’t take this user seriously. He’s all over Lemmy fantasizing about rape and being transphobic.
And the other user is cray cray not understanding what anyone says, or when others are no longer taking them seriously.
These are your comments. Calling me crazy doesn’t take away how often you fantasize about raping women openly.
Yup, right again. You totally understood it all…
I don’t need to understand hidden meanings or what you really meant, because what you said is clearly rape fantasies:
And I don’t need you to like me. I just need you to give in enough for us both to have a good time ;)
The primary themes of women’s porn is cheating on their SO and getting “taken” by men and monsters. And “taken” is code for Non-consensual but not that they didn’t enjoy it.
Well if it is that easy to get away with…
I wonder if there is AI porn of AOC
Now if you don’t mind I am going to beat off to all these crazy noncon-cheating stories I’ve been reading
It’s not hidden, other people are saying to you too.
Do you think I give a shit what a man who fantasizes about holding women down and forcing his penis inside of her against her will and ignoring her screams and struggles thinks of me?
No other man is telling me about how he should go rape women like you do.
I’m on Visible and it’s great. Unlimited Verizon 5GUW priority data (on select plans). It actually costs the price advertised, no shitty fees or taxes.
https://www.visible.com/get/?66MG8D7 and if you sign up with this link I get a free month of service (=
That’s the price for Germany World Cup failure.
You know all the corporations are now thinking…“The prez lies with immunity. The precedent has been set. Let’s go boys…SELL SELL SELL !!”.
