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T-Mobile and Verizon Mobile Plans Change; Probably Not Better for Consumers

posted by on Wednesday January 11 2017, @09:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the unlimited-does-not-mean-unlimited dept.

Verizon Raises Upgrade Fee, Purges More Unlimited Data Users

takyon writes:

Verizon has raised its phone upgrade fee to "cover increased cost" of providing a 4G LTE network, despite its latest earnings report showing decreases in wireless capital expenditures. Verizon later "clarified" that it was referring to "ongoing costs to maintain and enhance the network".

Additionally, Verizon Wireless customers with grandfathered-in unlimited data plans will be disconnected or forced to switch to a limited plan if they use more than 200 GB of data a month on average. The company stopped offering the unlimited data plans in 2011. During Verizon's previous purge, customers using more than 500 GB of data per month were targeted.

T-Mobile eliminates cheaper postpaid plans, sells "unlimited data" only

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

T-Mobile USA will stop selling its older and cheaper limited-data plans to postpaid customers, shifting entirely to its new "unlimited" data plans that impose bandwidth limits on video and tethering unless customers pay extra. To ease the transition, T-Mobile will offer bill credits of $10 a month to customers when they use less than 2GB per month.

T-Mobile began its shift to unlimited data plans in August with the introduction of T-Mobile One, which starts at $70 a month. While there are no data caps, customers have to pay a total of $95 a month to get high-definition video and mobile hotspot speeds of greater than 512kbps.

The carrier said in August that the unlimited plan would be "replacing all our rate plans," including its cheaper plans that cost $50 or $65 a month. Nonetheless, T-Mobile kept selling limited postpaid data plans to new customers for a few months, but yesterday CEO John Legere said that as of January 22, T-Mobile One will be the "only postpaid consumer plan we sell."

Updated: AT&T is raising the price of grandfathered unlimited plans again

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @09:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @09:47AM (#452441)

    I'm not a gangster tonight
    Don't want to be a bad guy
    I'm just a loner baby
    And now you're gotten in my way
    I can't decide
    Whether you should live or die
    ..........

    Well now, I have a couple of unpaid SIM cards, and I have a sudden urge to stream ten hours of paint drying.

    Let me see which unSIM should I use, the T-Mobile unSIM or the Verizon unSIM.

    Makes no difference to me.

    Having no data plan gives me unlimited data with either one.

    So what if the carriers try to upsell me a plan, I ignore the upsell, and I download 10GB of video for free instead.

    Now that's what I call the unplan.

    Bypassing upsell servers for free data is so much more fun than phone phreaking ever was.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @10:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @10:54AM (#452453)

    http:/ /mimpre.t-mobile.com/upsell/mbb.do

    That's the way t-mo rolls, blunt, not classy.