T-Mobile to let US customers swap phones twice a year
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/10/tmobile_jump_phone_swap_plan/
They're really trying hard to attract customers. This is a serious hook, that's for sure.
True...but do the math. It will definitely draw people to T-Mobile, but they are just throwing away money. You are better off buying the device upfront than selling it yourself after 6 months instead of the 'JUMP' deal. If you upgrade after a year, you have just spent 150 for a phone, 240 for the monthly installments, and 120 for jump...that's 510 to lease a phone for the year. You probably could have purchased that same phone for 600 originally. I'm guessing you could have sold it for more than 90 dollars at the end of the first year.
Plus that includes insurance, so may be worth it for people that are willing to pony up for that anyway. T-Mobile is starting to look awfully tempting especially after the new sprint plan details that leaked recently.
What sprint deals leaked? I thought they weren't getting ride of unlimited data
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What sprint deals leaked? I thought they weren't getting ride of unlimited data
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http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/10/sprint-leak-shows-new-unlimited-plans
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What sprint deals leaked? I thought they weren't getting ride of unlimited data
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http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/10/sprint-leak-shows-new-unlimited-plans/
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Wow had no idea that was happening. Does that plan allow you to have more than 5 phones on your account
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That sprint plans seems like what I'm paying now for everything unlimited for one line. I don't see a difference unless you have more than one line.
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I have a family Plan and would actually be paying more with the new plan.
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I have a family Plan and would actually be paying more with the new plan.
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Same here
Back when I actually had a 2 line family plan, I payed $142 after taxes (unlimited talk not included, 1400 minutes)
New plan, would be paying $150 if I still had the family plan.
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Seems to me then it might only be worth it to stay if you have just one line and if the service is better than t mobile. I winery if this will let people out of their eTF?
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I have 4 lines with the everything plan. this new plan increase my bill about $25 (4 lines 140 + 110 for the new All-in) but it comes with hotspot on every phone.
I suppose that is fairly reasonable to have the hotspot on the phones; as I don't root my wife's and kids phones anymore. talk about a headache. hehehe
On T-Mobile, I am interested to see what amount of $$ they'll give you when you want to trade in for a newer model. Sprint's current trade in is horribly in inadequate.
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Seems to me then it might only be worth it to stay if you have just one line and if the service is better than t mobile. I winery if this will let people out of their eTF?
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Unless they force you to make changes before your contract is over then no you wont get out etf free.
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Tmobile seems like a good alternative to sprint. My old carrier doing what I wanted before I left them unlimited data. I might go back they have lte in my town and hspa to fall back on.
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What will that mean to us? I hope lower plan prices.
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What will that mean to us? I hope lower plan prices.
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At first probably nothing. Eventually who knows. Plan rate drops? Doubtful but always possible. Honestly the value plan with unlimited data is the sickest postpaid plan out there. In my opinion it destroys any thing Verizon att and sprint can offer. I just dropped Verizon for Tmobile and I couldn't be happier.
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What will that mean to us? I hope lower plan prices.
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Probably nothing significant.
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Maybe their next flagship phone won't cost $80 more than the other carriers.....
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Lower plan prices???? I just signed up for my first plan and Verizon would have cost me $75 more a month. That's including me paying for my phones each month. I'd like to see more 4g coverage and that means huge investments by tmo. Lower prices won't get us there.
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Lower plan prices???? I just signed up for my first plan and Verizon would have cost me $75 more a month. That's including me paying for my phones each month. I'd like to see more 4g coverage and that means huge investments by tmo. Lower prices won't get us there.
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Verizon is pretty much out of control with their plans. Would cost me 109 a month with 5gb of data. They can take their share everything plans and go play in traffic
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Hopefully expansion on their network, that's what I want the most phones 80$ more then competitors is ok with me after all tmobile still got the best prices you still save more money at the end
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New CEO
http://www.tmonews.com/2012/09/t-mo...utube/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
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Holy crap he looks like Willem Dafoe
Bigjim1488 said:
Verizon is pretty much out of control with their plans. Would cost me 109 a month with 5gb of data. They can take their share everything plans and go play in traffic
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Yeah they are but their lte is as big as all the network combine which they take advantage of... And they are really reliable too, but I won't pay those prices tho, I'll stick with tmobile for now
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jgalan14 said:
Yeah they are but their lte is as big as all the network combine which they take advantage of... And they are really reliable too, but I won't pay those prices tho, I'll stick with tmobile for now
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How much is their unlimited LTE plan?
psykhotic said:
How much is their unlimited LTE plan?
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$1,000,000 a month
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Yeah, I left Sprint (w/15% discount) for TMO and saved $40 per month (w/15% discount). Verizon would have been $45 (w/25% off data) more and ATT (no discounts) would have been $80 more per month.
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Look at T-Mobile now!
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It's not just dollars and cents when compare providers, the coverage should be take in consideration and Verizon LTE just smokes Tmo most of the time.
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dito33 said:
It's not just dollars and cents when compare providers, the coverage should be take in consideration and Verizon LTE just smokes Tmo most of the time.
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Not for long.
Tmobile needs to get more coverage aswell as the other bells and whistles. My area doesn't even provide 3g from T-Mobile.
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I doubt anything will really change.
You have to remember, its not good customer service to alter or increase the price of plans, etc or anything just because you hire in a new person, even if said person is the CEO.
I mean, imagine how many people will jump ship, how many dollars is that lost? Millions.
actually a lot has changed.
In case you didn't notice, this thread was started last September.
Plans, pricing, contracts, HSPA+42, LTE, etc, etc, all have been influenced and changed by the new leadership in the company.
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DocHoliday77 said:
actually a lot has changed.
In case you didn't notice, this thread was started last September.
Plans, pricing, contracts, HSPA+42, LTE, etc, etc, all have been influenced and changed by the new leadership in the company.
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Literally LMAO!
Thanks for that, I needed a great laugh after fighting with T-Mobile all morning! :good:
How do you guys feel about this happening...now it really makes the contracts pointless now...just get it all on prepaid
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They should make em suffer with wimax.
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They're shifting everyone to LTE - I think - to try and start taking down WiMax in some of these markets. I'll be interested to see if any new devices will be able to use the Clear band anytime soon.
All in all will be an interesting year for Sprint. If the deals go their way they may be in nice shape for the rest of the CY.
Only devices using wimax now are the multi band hotspots and clears routers/hotspots. No new wimax phones are being produced, but older stock maybe rebranded a la the epic touch on boost and vm
I like to break stuff!
I used to work for boost.. To this day customer service sucks... Virgin is the worst though
Even my service provider cricket wireless is becoming 4G. And it started with the wackest phones 4 years ago while sprint. Was claiming they had it . And had better smartphones. Now cricket has the s3. And is going 4G LTE this year. Not even sprint is that Fast
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chuko303 said:
Even my service provider cricket wireless is becoming 4G. And it started with the wackest phones 4 years ago while sprint. Was claiming they had it . And had better smartphones. Now cricket has the s3. And is going 4G LTE this year. Not even sprint is that Fast
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Then again, I had Cricket not too long ago (switched from Cricket to Sprint when I got the Note 2 on opening day) with my EVO 3D and they make you pay for each GB of data per month.
I had 2GB and was paying 60 a month. It sucked when the data speeds slowed.
Think it was an extra ten for another GB.
In actuality, their data is not unlimited.
I called and complained to them stating I thought everything was unlimited and they said, "well, not that."
Lol.
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So if Virgin and Boost gets lte what's the point of staying with Sprint... Only to get the latest phones?
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So if Virgin and Boost gets lte what's the point of staying with Sprint... Only to get the latest phones?
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This!!!!! That's exactly what I'm saying right here!!!! I'll pass on the latest and greatest if I can spend possibly $40 a month (boost) and still get everything
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I guess it depends on the plan you have too. I have a family plan with 6 lines on a 1500min everything data account. So I pay $230mo after taxes for 2iphones,my GN2 and 3 dumb phones to get unlimited data, text and the shared minutes. I can't beat that on pre pay yet.
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Subsidized phones. That's the main difference.
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Is LTE authenticated through meid number?
If we use an Lte boost phone as a donor, will the note also have Lte enabled?
KB112 said:
I guess it depends on the plan you have too. I have a family plan with 6 lines on a 1500min everything data account. So I pay $230mo after taxes for 2iphones,my GN2 and 3 dumb phones to get unlimited data, text and the shared minutes. I can't beat that on pre pay yet.
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I thought the max number of lines you can have on a Sprint account is 5? But I can see your point.
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I thought the max number of lines you can have on a Sprint account is 5? But I can see your point.
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You can have as many lines as your approved for. In have seem unlimited on a few accts. Most accts are 10 though.
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I thought the max number of lines you can have on a Sprint account is 5? But I can see your point.
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Yes the limit is 5 on one plan. I got a supervisor to approve adding a 6th line for me.
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You can have as many lines as your approved for. In have seem unlimited on a few accts. Most accts are 10 though.
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Yes I am authorized for 10 plus lines on my "account". But the limit per "plan" is supposed to be only 5 lines. So you can have 2 plans with 5 lines each, but not 10 on one plan. Unless you open a business plan.
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Yes the limit is 5 on one plan. I got a supervisor to approve adding a 6th line for me.
Yes I am authorized for 10 plus lines on my "account". But the limit per "plan" is supposed to be only 5 lines. So you can have 2 plans with 5 lines each, but not 10 on one plan. Unless you open a business plan.
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I got ya. The post was a little misunderstood. I thought he was talking account, not share plan.
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Cricket wireless has the best plan then any cell phonw provider. There new plans include. $60 for 2gb+free tethering and $70 for 5GB of data and tethering is it worth an extra 10? I think so lol
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chuko303 said:
Cricket wireless has the best plan then any cell phonw provider. There new plans include. $60 for 2gb+free tethering and $70 for 5GB of data and tethering is it worth an extra 10? I think so lol
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What's the point of tethering without unlimited
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"if you don't like sprint (and or price changes that are stated to change at anytime in the contract THAT YOU SIGNED!!!!) then you can giiiit oouuutt"
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"if you don't like sprint (and or price changes that are stated to change at anytime in the contract THAT YOU SIGNED!!!!) then you can giiiit oouuutt"
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Lol, let me just own you in 3 points
1. re-read the title of my thread
2. Re-read the SPRINT part of my sign
3. Don't try to quote my sig without any knowledge or proper grounds of it
Now I'll quote my avatar for you
YOU LOSE!!! GOOD DAY SIR!
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Wallmart has a cellphone company fairly new, called FAMILY MOBILE. Bottom line... activation kit is only 27$. Uses T-Mobile towers and speeds seem to be 4G to me...I technically just pay 27$ a month and get a new number every month.(I dont pay the bill...no contract )
So what do you pay?
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My Family Mobile Speeds
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I pay $30/mo to T-Mobile and don't have to bother with weird work-arounds and new numbers.
I pay 150 a month for 3 lines unlimited everything w/ insurance and a tmobile at home phone line.
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I pay $60 for 2 lines unlimited everything with both having insurance as well
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notufatjesus said:
Wallmart has a cellphone company fairly new, called FAMILY MOBILE. Bottom line... activation kit is only 27$. Uses T-Mobile towers and speeds seem to be 4G to me...I technically just pay 27$ a month and get a new number every month.(I dont pay the bill...no contract )
So what do you pay?
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I don't think getting a new number every month can really be listed as a positive feature......lol.
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I don't think getting a new number every month can really be listed as a positive feature......lol.
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If you use Google voice, it doesn't really matter.
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Straight talk
I pay 45/month unlimited everything.T-Mobile towers and sim. I'm very happy.
Family mobile limits you to 500mb of data I just left them. They do have a 30$ T-Mobile Walmart exclusive prepay though where you don't have to change numbers. 100 min ultd text 5gb data.
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How are you all getting these cheap plans. I am on Tmobile unlimited everything value plan, under contract, still paying phone installments and my bill is like 90 bucks... with insurance. Please share the wealth.
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I don't think getting a new number every month can really be listed as a positive feature......lol.
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If you value privacy it is... theres plenty of reasons that may be positive. Doesn't necessarily mean it outweighes the inconvenience. But for 27$ Im real cool with that. No complaints. And if you were to be monitored by tyrannical government it helps. If a stalker is out to get you ir helps...avoid bill collectors lol ect.
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If you value privacy it is... theres plenty of reasons that may be positive. Doesn't necessarily mean it outweighes the inconvenience. But for 27$ Im real cool with that. No complaints. And if you were to be monitored by tyrannical government it helps. If a stalker is out to get you it helps...ect
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sgtmedeiros said:
Family mobile limits you to 500mb of data I just left them. They do have a 30$ T-Mobile Walmart exclusive prepay though where you don't have to change numbers. 100 min ultd text 5gb data.
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Add your 8Gs of Speed Boost of data (4g speeds ) during your call with the activation process. They add it. Problem solved...no cap. UNLESS YOU GONNA RUN THROUGH 10GB OF DATA....LOL....INTITIALLY YOU GET 2GB.
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durhamite said:
How are you all getting these cheap plans. I am on Tmobile unlimited everything value plan, under contract, still paying phone installments and my bill is like 90 bucks... with insurance. Please share the wealth.
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Go to Walmart. ...hit the electronic dept. ask the clerk for a FAMILY MOBILE START UP KIT. If you rooted your phone and your on XDA, then you probably able to follow the step by step instructions to activate the chip with the customer rep. Its 27$ to start....if you pay the bill, its like 44$ a month. I dont. I just get a new kit. Dont care for the number to stay the same.
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Verizon lied all along by telling me I can early upgrade today and when I try doing so they said not for the s4 and even offered to take money off termination. Any ex Verizon users? How much u guys pay total a mo?
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rizzo777 said:
Verizon lied all along by telling me I can early upgrade today and when I try doing so they said not for the s4 and even offered to take money off termination. Any ex Verizon users? How much u guys pay total a mo?
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I switched a long time ago, but back then i was paying 80 bucks for less then what i have now and am now paying 67 a month for T-Mobile service. Granted, I lost a lot of coverage, but for what i use it for, its perfect.
I pay $80.00 a month everything unlimited.
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for 4 lines I pay 120
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I made the switch from Sprint. IMHO I believe that T-Mobile has hit bottom and can only improve their standing at this point. Verizon costs too much to even consider.
I will be paying $240 plus taxes and fees since switching to the new plan style........oh yeah....that price is for 8 Phones!!!! All unlimited calls, texts. Tthen two of the lines with unlimited data and the rest get the free 500 mb cuz they don't use a lot.
What is the early termination fee if you have 4 lines, 2 of which have conctracts running this month and the other 2 after one year and you want to switch to the "no contract" plan tmo has introduced? Would tmo let you switch without any fees? How does it work?
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What is the early termination fee if you have 4 lines, 2 of which have conctracts running this month and the other 2 after one year and you want to switch to the "no contract" plan tmo has introduced? Would tmo let you switch without any fees? How does it work?
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800
If you want to switch plan to non contract you have to get a new phone and pay 100 extra. Wait for a month and cancel 2 for free and pay 400 fo4 rest cheaper for u man.
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What is the early termination fee if you have 4 lines, 2 of which have conctracts running this month and the other 2 after one year and you want to switch to the "no contract" plan tmo has introduced? Would tmo let you switch without any fees? How does it work?
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The last time they tried to tell me to change my plan to the non-contract one they said they could do it with no charges but i would still have to stay for the life of my contract seems kind of a catch 22 to me.
Is it true that T-Mobile will sometimes help/completely cover your ETF if switching from say Verizon? I believe i heard somebody talking about this in a different thread or forum
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Is it true that T-Mobile will sometimes help/completely cover your ETF if switching from say Verizon? I believe i heard somebody talking about this in a different thread or forum
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I cant say iv every seen anything like this but if you talk to the right supervisor i guess anything is possible.
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Is it true that T-Mobile will sometimes help/completely cover your ETF if switching from say Verizon? I believe i heard somebody talking about this in a different thread or forum
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They do that indirectly lile giving you $200 credit towards the purchase of the phones or something like that
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The last time they tried to tell me to change my plan to the non-contract one they said they could do it with no charges but i would still have to stay for the life of my contract seems kind of a catch 22 to me.
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Doesn't sound bad if true.
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I just came from VZW.. 2 lines... The only one paying my ETF is me, TMO isn't obligated to pay your ETF, nor should they be. ETF isn't part of plans, it's part of the customer agreement, and I read somewhere about that being a nono anyways of one carrier paying another carrier's fees. If they got caught doing that, they (or the employee doing it), could get into some serious trouble.
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I just came from VZW.. 2 lines... The only one paying my ETF is me, TMO isn't obligated to pay your ETF, nor should they be. ETF isn't part of plans, it's part of the customer agreement, and I read somewhere about that being a nono anyways of one carrier paying another carrier's fees. If they got caught doing that, they (or the employee doing it), could get into some serious trouble.
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No trouble at all. They do what they want with their money. Maybe you meant to say it is unethical yes, but there is no law to forbid that.
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What is the early termination fee if you have 4 lines, 2 of which have conctracts running this month and the other 2 after one year and you want to switch to the "no contract" plan tmo has introduced? Would tmo let you switch without any fees? How does it work?
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If you want to migrate to new plan, it depends on your uogrades not contract, they will let you ride remaning contract on new plan, if you did not do upgrades in last 18 months it free to migrate, if you did its 200 per line
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If you want to migrate to new plan, it depends on your uogrades not contract, they will let you ride remaning contract on new plan, if you did not do upgrades in last 18 months it free to migrate, if you did its 200 per line
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You are correct. Two lines total 250 migration fee(1year remaining) the other 2 lines 0 migration fee (less than 5 months remaining).
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