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T-Mobile Just Ripped 8 Million Customers Off Their Grandfathered Plans – and Raised Their Bills (www.gadgetreview.com)
submitted 12 hours ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

US Mobile. No significant complaints after 10 months.

[–] Generica@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

We switched to US Mobile last October and I've kind of been a bit shocked at how good and responsive their customer service is to be a MVNO prepaid utilizing Indian call centers.

Also, US Mobile partners with all three major carriers, so you can pick your network! They have to use different names because of copyrights but here is the translation: AT&T = Dark Star, Verizon = Warp, T-Mobile= Light Speed

Their unlimited plans all come with hotspot and start at $25 monthly regular price but they always have promos for new customers and you can prepay for a year of service and get unlimited for as little as around $16 a month. They ALSO always seem to have fantastic prices on the current model Google Pixel base phone and Pro XL, if you're an Android person like me.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Dark Star... Hmm...

It was even blown up once before with the breakup of Ma Bell.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Seconding US Mobile, been with them for 2.5 years and they're only getting better and better.

Dreading the day T-Mobile buys them...

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

we keep looking in their direction but the boss doesn't really wanna change. got some small concession from vzn a little while ago but still more than double what usm would cost.

what would get her to switch would be finding a carrier that actually worked at her house. vzn doesn't, tm doesn't, need to find someone around here with at&t to try but there really isn't anyone around here that does use them.

[–] plenipotentprotogod@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Doesn't US Mobile offer all the of the major networks? I've also been looking at them recently, and my understanding is that the three networks they offer are (despite their silly codenames) in reality just verizon, t-mobile, and at&t. You can pick which one you want to use and even switch between them without too much hassle.