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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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[–] czardestructo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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.

[–] FG_3479@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours 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.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours 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.

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

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours 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.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 42 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The continued enshitification continues.

[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] soul@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago
[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 31 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml 15 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 23 points 10 hours 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 2 points 32 minutes 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.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago (2 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.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 hours 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 10 hours ago

I’ll switch again.

[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Great, where we supposed to go now? Cape?

[–] discocactus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Safaricom is actually dope

[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 1 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

i thought ryan reynolds owned mint

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

He needed money to buy a soccer team or something

[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 1 points 6 hours ago

Wrexham Football Club?

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 3 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 hours ago

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