T-Mobile Raises Prices 😑

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Just when you think you’ve got your budget figured out, inflation kicks you while you’re down again. One of the reasons I went with T-Mobile was because I thought they wouldn’t raise prices. Wasn’t that their whole thing when John Legrene was CEO?

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I guess their “Unlimited” campaign meant price increases, too.

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I could swear prices were guaranteed as long as you kept your plan. We got T-Mobile One 55+ plan in January 2018. However using the Internet Wayback Machine I captured this of the feature description:

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But the URL contains “T-Mobile_ONE_for_Age_55_Plus___2_Unlimited_Lines_for__60_Mo__For_Life” so is the URL binding? Class action suit??

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I jumped to Visible+ today because of this. I was on Magenta 55+ with a phone and Apple Watch. Visible+ will save me $22/month over what my new rate was going to be.

(In fairness to TMo, even at the new rates they’d be less than AT&T or Verizon. Still.)

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Been with T-Mo for years now but has become a completely different company since John Legere left and Sprint merger.

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Agreed. I found Legere’s style a bit obnoxious, but I liked what he was doing.

They’re still generally more competitively priced than the other two major carriers. And not all plans got hit. A couple I know who are on Magenta Max 55+ aren’t getting hit with the price hike. Their payment to TMo currently includes device payments, and they’re still paying less than they used to pay AT&T just for service.

But for me, it was time to move. TMo’s free MLB.tv used to make the difference between them and MVNOs pretty much a wash, but now changing carriers means I can save to pay for my baseball fix myself and still come out ahead. ¯\(ツ)/¯

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Thats nice that they aren’t charging more for the 55+ plus. I’m on the first responder/veteran plan and they raised my prices. As long as they continue to provide a good service and don’t raise my prices for another 10 years, I’m ok with it.

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They do have good service.

Some 55+ plans did get hit with the hike. So far it’s looking like Magenta did, but Magenta Max didn’t.

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I think they only raised prices on the most basic version of each plan. Those with more premium versions or the latest plans didn’t get a price increase. However people on those plans already pay more!

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I like several options from NVMOs but none seems to offer AppleWatch cellular options.

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There are a few that do. I went with Visible. I’d tried them a few years back, but they were a bit of a hassle. Their pricing is much simpler now. Their Visible+ plan includes Apple Watch service.

Apple has a list of carriers that support Apple Watch. There are a few MVNOs on there, though in a couple of cases availability will depend on your ISP.

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