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T-Mobile Just Ripped 8 Million Customers Off Their Grandfathered Plans – and Raised Their Bills (www.gadgetreview.com)
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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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[–] 3 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Anyone upset about this should consider prepaid service. I've been on prepaid service (a couple of different companies over the years) for almost 15 years and haven't had any serious issues.

I have, however saved serious money.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

    people won't go on pre-paid service because of the social stigma of it being for 'poor people'

    I've been on a 20-25$ cell plan my entire adult life... but it's Boost, and people think it is 'ghetto' due to the fact Boost was originaly marketed as 'urban' cell phone company. It's insane. I even got my mom to switch over to it when she retired to save money. but my sister found out and was RIPSHIT i put my mom on a 'phone plan for black people'... because she's racist AF, and she took my mom off the plan and put her back on a $100 Verizon plan again... and bought her a fancy iphone she had no clue how to use, because 'successful people use iPhones, poor losers use Android phones'.

    my plan on Verizon would be like 80 bucks a month. a lot of people take pride in throwing away money because it makes them feel they are 'not poor'. and marketing loves them.

    In other news, my nephew turned 18, wanted to get off the family plan and get his own phone and plan, and wanted Boost w/android because it's cheap and he can easily afford it. She was furious with him and basically told him he can't do it, because she'd lose the ability to track him via his iphone, which is precisely why he wants to get rid of being on the family plan... but she tells him he can't do it because 'people won't respect him' if he has an android and not using Verizon.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Lol like the respect of die hard apple users is worth anything. Something about people being snobby about the shittier option (though Google is doing what it can to catch up in that regard) is hilarious.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (4 children)

    Any adult who cares what kind of phone another adult has needs to grow up and get a life.

    Glad your nephew thinks for himself.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    thinking for yourself isn't very advantageous when everyone hates you for it.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Is it really everyone in your family or just a few busybodies who bully everyone else into conformity?

    In my family it's the latter but I've accepted being the odd one out and being happy instead of being approved of by people who don't respect my autonomy.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    no it's everyone. my family is small and hyper-conformist. they basically abused their children into conformity. anytime their kids ever wanted to do something 'weird' like, not play baseball, they basically abused them back into conformity.

    it's typical american suburbanite 'normal'. they think i'm a libertine degenerate because I am single and living in a city and drive a small car and eat vegetables.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I'm from small town Oklahoma. I understand the type of people that you describe.

    Some of my family is the same way. I, like you decided to live my own life and never had a close relationship with more than a couple of family members.

    Hope your nephew is strong enough to withstand the pressure and live his own life when he's an adult like you have.

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