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nougatmachine posted:The other announcement from today's press event is that T-Mobile is letting people "test drive" their network on an iPhone 5s for a week. You give them a credit card, they put a hold on it, let you try it out for a week, and you return it and the hold is lifted. If you break the phone or lose it you pay full price. Minor damage is a $100 charge. It seems like this wouldn't be mutually exclusive with the pay-your-ETF offer, right? If so, I finally might dump Sprint.
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It's definitely a tricky situation, though - even if they aren't spinning it as such, they're effectively incenting their users to utilize the services that don't count against their bandwidth quotas instead of the services that do.
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Jun 19, 2014 17:54
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Anyone ever had trouble returning a test-drive iPhone early? I only needed two days on mine to figure out that yes, T-Mobile kicks the poo poo out of Sprint everywhere I go (including in my house with an Airvana) and I'd rather the iPhone not be my liability sooner than later. Tried to return it last night but they couldn't seem to get it to come up in their system.
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Mar 26, 2015 17:42
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Burden posted:You should be able too. We had some system issues yesterday. Call a store before you go and see if they can do it to save you a trip. They just need the IMEI # which you can get by dialing *#06#. They had that (pulled from the phone, back of the phone, and the box, which all matched) and still couldn't do it normally either then or on a second trip yesterday. At least that time they just took the phone off my hands and gave me a manual receipt.
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Mar 30, 2015 04:58
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Walrusmaster posted:You could port your current number to gvoice and go that way. This is exactly what I'm doing in a few days when my Sprint contract is finally over. Protip - if by any chance anyone is still using the Sprint/GV tie-in, disable that before you try to port it to GV.
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Apr 1, 2015 04:48
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Two questions. First, activated my Nexus 6 on the nerd plan last night. I got the $30 kit from Walmart that's supposed to include $30 worth of airtime credit out of the box, but it still made me buy another $30 via the website while I activated (and last I saw, my balance was just that $30 I bought). Do I need to do anything or just wait until it's been at least 24 hours for the $30 credit that came with the SIM to show up? Second, is there any reason to not buy these to refill?
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Apr 2, 2015 23:45
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As long as it shows up eventually, that's fine by me. T-Mo's site does seem to be pretty loving broken in a lot of regards, it puked all over the place when I tried to set my security questions. Just now it tells me it can't actually pull up my account. Phone still works, so who cares!
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Apr 3, 2015 00:00
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eddiewalker posted:It won't ever show $60 from what you did today That... makes total sense. First time ever dealing with a prepaid account and still getting used to it.
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Apr 3, 2015 00:24
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I decided to take a flying leap on one of those, and within half an hour I got this:quote:Free T-Mobile Msg: $100.00 has been added to your account. Your new balance is $130.00. Thanks for refilling! Not bad for $68, effectively making the $30/mo nerd-plan a $20.40/mo super-nerd-plan.
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Apr 7, 2015 22:28
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Mnemosyne posted:I just did a trial a few months back, and I believe mine started the morning after it was delivered. They send you emails during the trial that say when it ends. This was the case for me as well.
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Apr 27, 2015 04:20
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Is it normal to get texts about ensuring "no break in service" even though I have ~$130 on my account balance?
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May 1, 2015 18:20
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I think you have to return it no matter what, even if you do want to get a 5S for some reason.
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May 8, 2015 20:38
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"d[-.- posted:b" post="446331922"] Confirmed, I pulled down ~7-8GB last month but TMo only called it about 4GB due to Google Play Music.
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Jun 9, 2015 05:45
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Luceo posted:Jumping in here in support of the Nexus 6. I hate a Note II and was fed up with Samsung's poo poo software, so I went Nexus and it's incredibly good. Yeah, I'm coming from a Note II and a long string of HTC poo poo before that, and the Nexus 6 camera easily bests all of that. My wife's iPhone 5S camera might be better but not by much.
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Jul 19, 2015 05:38
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I think what this comes down to is they want to offer unlimited in a way that stops the tethering sperglords who insist that torrenting 24x7 is exactly what "UNLIMITED MEANS UNLIMITED" is supposed to cover. While whitelisting sites is not the most ideal solution, it does pretty much negate any possible end-runs around it to try and pass traffic off as if it was 'streaming'.
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Oct 30, 2015 06:09
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:Only thing I can think of is maybe you're on a limited bandwidth internet plan and you want to take advantage of free music streaming over lte That doesn't make sense because it's still just routing the data that your phone sees as LTE, over your wired broadband. So if you pay-per-GB on your home plan, that sucks, and this wouldn't let you do an end-run around that. It really does seem to only be a benefit to phones that can't work with wifi calling already.
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Nov 2, 2015 21:33
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Porting trip report: It took longer on the phone (about 15 minutes total, much of which was spent on account validation) than it did for the actual port process to put my wife's number on her phone. Inbound, outbound, text, all working already.
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Dec 16, 2015 08:06
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Sure does.
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Dec 16, 2015 14:38
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Your area must not be congested, since the way they have it structured is to only deprioritize you at that high of a usage level if the tower you're on is at capacity.
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Dec 19, 2015 23:08
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They announced it a while back - first hit on Google out of many, emphasis mine:quote:T-Mobile recently updated its disclosures about when customers on unlimited plans might see slower speeds. "Unlimited 4G LTE customers who use more than 21 GB of data in a bill cycle will have their data usage de-prioritized compared to other customers for that bill cycle at locations and times when competing network demands occur, resulting in relatively slower speeds," is the new fine print on T-Mobile's website for its plans.
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Dec 22, 2015 19:10
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Probably a good time to unlock and flash a full image, not an OTA? Might want to check through the Android thread if you haven't yet.
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Dec 27, 2015 18:00
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It's available to new lines only so you'd need to port out and back in. Or just port to Google Voice or something.
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Dec 28, 2015 22:11
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Long Francesco posted:The two largest data usages, music and video, essentially being free to use seems like a pretty big consumer benefit to me. Yup. You can look at it as a different form of every carrier's "unlimited*" where instead of having an arbitrary cap set on you by the carrier (i.e. 23GB) you choose your plan based on the cap you want. With the added bonus of there's not really much way you can argue that this "unlimited" should also include your torrented linux ISOs on your tethered home network.
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Jan 4, 2016 16:47
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Works great on my Nexus 6 and (yes it's not Android) my wife's iPhone 6S. Honestly goes a really long way to covering the gaps TMo has.
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Jan 17, 2016 08:02
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Astro7x posted:There is currently a family plan for 2 lines at $80/mo with 6GB Data for each. You could get in on a family plan with someone and cut your bill in half. Got a link to this? I had to bump my wife's postpaid plan from 2GB to 6GB and it would pretty much be the same (if not less) to put both of us on that plan, as it would to keep me on nerd plan and her on a single-line postpaid.
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May 25, 2016 20:12
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Seems like it loads the app fine, I haven't tried actually redeeming any of it. I have the option to turn on binge on but don't, because I just don't burn through enough mobile video data to want to gut the quality. Most of my mobile data ends up being Google Play Music which is also free.
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Jul 16, 2016 00:33
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Most music streaming services don't count towards your actual data allotment. Likewise, you can opt in to have TMobile compress most streaming video further, and have it not count towards your actual data usage either. It's basically a way for TMobile to offer something approaching unlimited, without having to spell out "yes, it's unlimited, but don't loving use it for torrenting 24x7".
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Jul 24, 2016 20:41
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Looks like it's still here to me: http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/other-prepaid-plans
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Aug 2, 2016 00:29
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Hmm. Looks like they force you into BingeOn for video, though.
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Aug 18, 2016 15:14
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Do they still do the 7-day iPhone loan?
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Oct 21, 2016 00:44
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FYI, Target's running 10% off on TMo refill cards, and if you have the Red Card it stacks another 5% on top of that. $80 of credit for $68.40.
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Dec 20, 2016 17:52
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That actually saves $1.81/mo for my wife's line by moving her from 6GB to unlimited, thanks to the fees that they used to break out separately. Still cheaper to keep my line on the nerd plan, though.
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Jan 5, 2017 21:21
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Yeah, it is very rare that my wife's post-paid TMO plan has service where my pre-paid TMO plan does not. Usually if I don't have data it's because I'm off in the desert with zero signal of any sort, not just roaming elsewhere. Once I burn up my TMO prepaid balance, if the two-for-$100 is still around I'll switch to it.
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Feb 28, 2017 00:19
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TMO doesn't do any postpaid plans except unlimited at $70 now. If you don't need much more than 100 minutes per month, you can do the nerd plan which is $30/no prepaid for 5GB full speed data, unlimited text, and 100 minutes voice. VoIP apps (GVoice, Messenger, etc) don't count against it at least.
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Mar 17, 2017 06:51
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Since I'm paying TMo about $100/mo anyway ($70 One plan for my wife, $30 nerd plan for me) and I've used up the balance in my prepaid account, I'm going to switch from prepaid to a 2-line postpaid plan. Anyone know of any promos or anything going along with this? I use Google Voice so I don't care about keeping the number on the prepaid plan.
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Jun 5, 2017 02:17
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repeating posted:I think the 2 for $100 (with AutoPay discount) T-Mobile One promotional pricing is still active Trip report: painless to switch at a store.
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Jun 18, 2017 01:11
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Free Netflix.  TMobile posted:Because this is the Un-carrier, getting Netflix On Us couldn’t be simpler. Starting Tuesday, September 12th, qualifying T-Mobile ONE customers can activate their Netflix subscription online, in-store or by calling T-Mobile’s award winning customer care. And, if you already have a Netflix subscription, T-Mobile will cover the cost of a standard subscription for you — meaning you’ll save nearly $120 every year.
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Sep 6, 2017 19:54
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Dammit, should've gone there when I converted from nerdplan to 2-for-100. Can Costco do all the promos? I was with Sprint before on SERO / EPRP so I'm used to "good" pricing meaning I was stuck with corporate store hell.
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Oct 10, 2017 22:46
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SeANMcBAY posted:What will it mean for T-Mobile costumers? Increased coverage? Is there anywhere these days that Sprint out-covers TMobile?
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I don't think I ever had a hosed up bill, but Phoenix got absolutely shafted on 4G coverage during the Wimax rollout, and the remaining 3G network was utterly decimated once the iPhone finally made it to Sprint. The in-store experience always sucked rear end, too. TMobile isn't quite as cheap but it actually loving works.
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