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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.
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.
I am almost always on wifi so its not a problem. Up until I switched to them in March, I have never had unlimited cellular data.
256k is surprisingly usable if you're not on the corporate hellscape internet. On Lemmy, nostr, in privacy respecting websites, since they don't have all kind of bloat and crap like that, things actually load pretty well.
I am hoping to get the increase to 512 kbps though, because it would be helpful. I am fully aware though, that higher and higher speeds incur diminishing returns, so 256 kbps is much better than 128 kbps would be, and 512 kbps is much better than 256 kbps will be, but once you get up to a certain level, speed increases stop mattering nearly as much. I would peg that level at probably something like 10 Mbps. Once you get over that speed, things just don't matter quite as much.
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.
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 sims from Walmart. Last time I was around I was using ultra mobile, although Walmart had their own brand. 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 Sims and esims you can get with different deals, I'm pretty sure they also sell mint mobile sims.
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.
That's the price for Germany World Cup failure.
Class-action lawsuit time.
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 !!".
Got the text this morning. God damn scammers.
Yes, they're a company.
This is some straight up MBA enshittificarion. I’m on the military plan with all unlimited yada yada, even then data is throttled down after a certain amount. Waiting for an email that says they’re supporting the troops by increasing the amount we can contribute to the economy or some shit.
Yeah, I'm a bit pissed that the military plan is changing. Bill for me is going up around $20.
T-Mobile raised our rate last year which is bad enough by itself after promising not to, but they also seriously reduced the quality and availability of their customer service. Why stick around for that? We switched to a much cheaper prepaid company (~1/3rd T-Mobile's current price) and couldn't be happier.
Edit: Was thinking about the other problems we had with T-Mobile and forgot to mention one big problem... Incoming calls routinely would not ring and voicemails left just vanished. This happened for months. Multiple friends (and a couple of doctor's offices) mentioned it often enough that we realized we had a problem. T-Mobile's great customer service could find nothing wrong and refused to look at the lost calls that originated from other TMO customers.
Its almost like everyone saw this coming once Sprint was allowed to merge with them, and then US Cellular
Mergers of larger corporations shouldn't be permitted. In fact, any attempt at initiating a merger should instead initiate a breakup.
Ooh, imagine if Spirit was broken up..
